City of Philadelphia - File #: 100734

• File #: 100734
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: LAPSED
• File created: 10/28/2010
• In control: Committee on Streets and Services
• Title: Authorizing the Council Committee on Streets and Services to hold a hearing to investigate traffic safety and the needs for additional traffic controls on the North 5th Street Corridor.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Sanchez

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/28/2010	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced, Read, Adopted & Referred	Pass

Title

Authorizing the Council Committee on Streets and Services to hold a hearing to investigate traffic safety and the needs for additional traffic controls on the North 5^th Street Corridor.

Body

            WHEREAS, North 5^th Street is dynamic urban corridor with a tremendous variety of uses; and

WHEREAS, Retail businesses, residential houses and recreational and institutional services exist side by side; and

WHEREAS, North 5^th Street is an important traffic arterial, but frequently has cars and trucks traveling at a speed that endangers the dense pedestrian activity on this Street; and

WHEREAS, The lack of a traffic control at the North end of the Ramonita Rivera Recreation center at 5^th Street and Westmoreland Street means that children crossing the street and frequently exposed to the hazards of speeding cars; and

WHEREAS, Additional residential developments such as the HACE Lawrence court project will only bring more pedestrian and car traffic to this area and increase the need for traffic controls; now therefore be it

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the Committee on Streets and Services is authorized to hold hearings explore the traffic dangers present on North 5^th Street and the need for additional traffic controls to protect the pedestrians who utilize North 5^th Streets businesses and recreation centers.

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