Increase in traffic, speeding, near miss pedestrian incidents

Several residents have reached out to the Marda Loop Communities Association mobility committee with concerns over increased traffic and speeding vehicles in our neighbourhood. The traffic volumes will continue to increase with all the new development and increased business traffic now that Marda Loop Main Street is finally complete.

If you have concerns about traffic volumes, speeding, pedestrian or cycling safety in our community please take a few moments to note the issue and submit your requests and incidents to the City of Calgary 311 system. Submitting a requests or incident with 311 is the fist step to get the issue resolved. The City uses the data from this system to help decide which locations have most pressing concerns and how work gets prioritized. You can make more than one request and it takes less than five minutes.

To report Traffic Safety issues or requests: go to the following address and click the link to the 311 “online form” link highlighted below in yellow.

https://www.calgary.ca/roads/safety.html

You can put your address as the location (or wherever you are witnessing the issue) and choose “Traffic Calming Measures” as the nature of concern.  You can provide any details regarding the request but an example might be something like the following:

“Please look into lowering the speed limit or some type of traffic calming on 20^th Street between 31^st and 28^th Avenue, up and over the blind hill cresting at 29^th Ave.  This street has become a busy thoroughfare for vehicles from Crowchild Trail and the Marda Loop business area going to and from 26 Avenue and Bankview, often with large construction vehicles speeding thru the neighbourhood.”

To request a new crosswalk you can do that at this link, then scroll down the page and click on “Request a new painted crosswalk location” as highlighted in yellow below.

https://www.calgary.ca/bike-walk-roll/request-crosswalk.html

Again you can put your address as the location (or wherever you are witnessing the issue). You can provide any details regarding the request but an example might be something like the following:

We need to have a crosswalk and low profile speed humps on 20^th Street and 30 Ave. There are 2 school buses dropping kids at 29^th Ave but the crosswalk on the crest of the blind hill is unsafe. Speeding traffic cannot see pedestrians in time when they are driving up and over the blind hill.”

 

Submitting Requests from the main 311 screen:

If you go to Google or any Search engine and type in “Calgary 311” it will take you to a page like below. Click on the arrow beside 311 online request as in yellow below.

You will then need to page down to select the Roads – Safety and Education category for your request.

Similar if you have concerns about: construction vehicles or bins, blocking your street, tripping hazards on sidewalks such as the new “tactile strips” becoming dislodged or similar issues, those should also all be reported to the Calgary 311 system.

There is also a Calgary 311 App that you can download to your phone to report items to the City that way.

You can also submit a service request by phone by calling 311 within Calgary or 403-268-2489 from outside the city.