New speed humps being installed to make KC streets safer. Here’s how to request one
City leaders behind the plan to make Kansas City streets safer are now taking aim at a common complaint — speeding in residential areas — by modifying select streets citywide with speed humps to get drivers to slow down without turning to enforcement.
The City Council late last month approved installing 100 new speed humps at about 50 locations around the city as part of its Vision Zero initiative, which aims to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2030, according to a news release.
On Sunday, the city touted the change in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying the 100 new speed humps are being put up across the city.
The traffic calming tool requires drivers to slow their vehicles to avoid a jarring bump as they go over the hump.
The speed humps are in response to traffic calming requests submitted through the city’s 311 system. The installation of the speed humps at the selected locations has already began, and is being coordinated with the city’s street resurfacing schedule.
The locations were chosen based upon several factors, including their proximity to the city’s high injury network and schools, and their classification of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Equitable Transportation Community.
Additional locations are under review. To request one for your neighborhood, go to Safer Streets Vision Zero on myKCMO (https://www.kcmo.gov/talk-to-us/mykcmo).
