Engineering -
Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP)

In response to citywide citizen concerns about traffic safety and neighborhood livability, the City Council took action to address traffic issues by approving a community-based Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP).

The goal of the NTMP is to improve safety and the quality-of-life for residents by reducing the impacts from speeding vehicles, cut-thru traffic, and careless drivers on residential streets. The NTMP strives to meet the goal by: (1) providing neighborhood residents with the education and information necessary to become active participants in addressing their neighborhood-identified traffic issues through a traffic calming plan, (2) implementing traffic calming techniques and effective engineering principles, and (3) targeted police enforcement.

How Your Neighborhood Can Become Part of the NTMP

For a neighborhood to be included in the NTMP, a resident must complete the NTMP Request Form which includes questions about the neighborhood boundaries, traffic issues that concern residents in the neighborhood, and a petition. Ten residents at least 18 years of age and from separate households within the neighborhood boundaries described in the NTMP Request Form must sign the petition. The completed form/petition must be submitted to the Public Works Department/NTMP.

NTMP Request Forms are received continuously, and neighborhoods are placed on the waiting list within the appropriate city quadrant (northwest, northeast, southwest, southeast) in the order received. The goal is to select the two highest ranking neighborhoods from each quadrant each year to participate in the NTMP based on available funding.

Getting the Process Started

City staff kicks off selected NTMP areas by inviting all neighborhood residents to learn more about the NTMP at a neighborhood meeting. At this meeting, interested residents can volunteer to participate on the Traffic Calming Committee. Committee members meet monthly and develop a proposed traffic calming plan for their neighborhood.

Depending on the traffic calming program chosen at the kick-off meeting (Full Program or the faster Speed Humps and Speed Lumps Program), it could take three to six months to develop the traffic calming plan.

Traffic Calming Plan - Full Program

Neighborhoods begin by developing a traffic calming plan aimed at changing driver behavior through five types of traffic calming measures:

• Non-physical measures such as enforcement, radar trailers, lane striping, signage, botts dots, and high visibility crosswalks;
• Narrowing measures such as bulbouts, chokers, narrowing/refuge islands;
• Horizontal measures such as traffic circles and chicanes;
• Vertical measures such as speed humps and speed lumps; and
• Diversion measures such as half and full road closures.

Full Program traffic calming plans require a neighborhood advisory vote. A simple majority of all votes cast must be in favor of the plan to move forward to the design/construction phase. Every household and business is allowed one vote.

Depending on the types of measures selected and the cost of construction, Full Program plans may be presented to the City Council for approval and funding.

Traffic Calming Plan - Speed Humps and Lumps Program

The Speed Humps and Speed Lumps Program traffic calming measures include:

• Speed humps;
• Speed lumps;
• Speed cushions; and
• Non-physical measures such as lane striping, signage, botts dots, and high visibility crosswalks.

Speed Humps and Speed Lumps Program traffic calming plans also require a neighborhood advisory vote. A simple majority of all votes cast must be in favor of the plan to move forward to the construction phase. Every household and business is allowed one vote.

Speed Humps and Speed Lumps Program plans do not require approval by the City Council and will be constructed under an annual speed hump and speed lump project awarded by the City Council.

For more information, please see the following publications:

Traffic Calming Guidelines

Guidelines for Installation of
Speed Humps and Speed Lumps

Street Design Guidelines

Pedestrian Safety and
Crosswalk Installation Guidelines

For additional information, please contact:

Susan Gregory, NTMP Coordinator
susan.gregory@ci.stockton.ca.us, (209) 937-8613
City of Stockton
Public Works Department
22 E. Weber Avenue
Stockton, CA 95202-2317