Wornall Road Plates

The other day the Water Department closed down Wornall Road just outside of Southwest High School to perform maintenance on a major water main line. They had to close down one of the south bound lanes after they placed three steel plates over the unfinished work site.

About a week after the road closure the plates began to shift with the heavy traffic on Wornall. Once I noticed that people had to veer into oncoming traffic to avoid the hole in the street I called 311. A day later a crew came out to remove the dangerous situation. They finished the job right before school started on Monday, August 15, 2011. I think they needed the extra lanes in order to allow school buses to line up outside...

Arbor Villa Park Speed Bumps

Last week I received a call from my neighbor who lives directly adjacent to the lead Main Street speed bump that slows traffic around Arbor Villa Park. Like many neighbors, there have been numerous complaints about cars catapulting across these bumps in the middle of the night. After all these years, there seems to be absolutely no learning curve for local drivers. I'll admit, even I sometimes have to break a little harder than my wife would prefer prior to a speed bump.

Luckily, this complaint came in right as I was wrapping up work on another project as City Liaison for the Armour Hills Homes Association to restripe local crosswalks (See Crosswalks Stripping Blog post) and speed bumps. With the line of communication already open to the Public Works Department, I asked them to asses these bumps. They came out and realized that additional signage was warranted, and that all three speed bumps on Main Street were about 2 feet higher then their guidelines permit.

So, they came out to ground them down, and about a week later they showed up to redo some signage, clear some brush and resurface the speed bumps. Finally, toady a seperate contractor showed up to redo all the stripping on the speed bumps. Now we wait for all the crosswalks in the neighborhood and around the park to be restripped...