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BACKGROUND In 2015, residents of Laurel Creek Drive contacted City staff to voice their concern regarding speeding along Laurel Creek Drive between Dublin Canyon Road and Foothill Road. Staff contacted the Police Department, and they conducted several speeding enforcement patrols along Laurel Creek. Staff collected speed data along Laurel Creek Drive, and the critical speed was 35 MPH with an average daily volume of 1500 vehicles. In May of 2015, Laurel Creek Drive was selected to receive the traffic calming program. In October of 2015 staff formed a Laurel Creek Traffic Calming Steering Committee and the Committee developed a plan that was presented and approved by the City Council in November of 2016. The Traffic Calming Plan included two radar speed signs and a peak hour turn restriction from Dublin Canyon Road to Laurel Creek Drive (3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday -Friday). These measures were installed in December of 2016. DISCUSSION In January and March of 2017, staff collected speed, volume and cut -through data on Laurel Creek Drive as part of the standard post Traffic Calming analysis. The post Traffic Calming analysis showed that traffic volumes in most cases were lower than before the traffic calming measures were installed, but still higher than expected. The video data and field observations showed that, although several signs are posted to prohibit right turns from Dublin Canyon onto Laurel Creek Way between the hours of 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., both residential and cut -through vehicles continue to make the right turn to use Laurel Creek Drive. Prior to the turn restriction, the right turn traffic volume was between 75 and 145 vehicles (3 p.m. and 5 p.m. respectively). Of these right turn vehicles, 10 to 15 were residents, leaving 65 to 130 vehicles per hour cutting through the neighborhood. In January of 2017, approximately one month after the turn restriction was installed video cut through analysis showed that the right turn volume, while not eliminated, was reduced to 20 to 30 vehicles per hour with about half cutting through the neighborhood. It should be noted that the Police Department was very active in the month of January educating drivers of the new turn restriction with officers patrolling the area on a daily basis. In March of 2017, approximately three months after the turn restriction was installed, staff conducted a second video cut through analysis. This data was collected on the Thursday and Friday before the Easter Sunday holiday and traffic conditions on the freeway for these two days were relatively heavy. Between 40 and 115 vehicles per hour were recorded making the illegal right turn. The maximum number of residents making this turn was 22 vehicles. All of the remaining vehicles were cut through, with more than 90 cut -through vehicles on Friday, April 14 between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. This Page 2of4