The Leesburg Traffic Safety Commission met on September 15, 2026, to discuss traffic safety concerns, review enforcement data, hear public comments, and receive a presentation on a new traffic signal project. The meeting focused on speeding issues in residential neighborhoods, pedestrian safety improvements, and data-driven decision-making.
September 14th and 25th. Thank you very much. Now we're gonna move into the public comments motion of the meeting. First we have Mr. Chris Peters. And you're gonna ask you to keep your comments to a three minute. Three minutes of okay. Please uh so I am the um president of the HOA for Kincaid Forest. Um I know Kincaid Boulevard is on the agenda for today. Um it's been a concern for a long time, and we've talked with many, many people about uh mainly the speed on Kincaid. Um it is a 25 mile an hour zone. There are many blind corners on Kincaid. Um at the very bottom of the very first hill is a very busy crosswalk. Um it goes from the majority of the homes over to the pool area, the uh tennis court, which is also now is a pickleball court, so it's highly used. It's also a route over to Cool Springs Elementary, so it is used pretty much year-round. Um we do have flashing lights at the bottom. We do have a uh I call it a high speed board. It's basically the board that shows you your speed as you come down the bottom of that hill. Does not matter on the regular basis. People are hitting 40 plus miles an hour down that hill. Um I know that you know, having people say, well, this thing happened, you know, I almost got hit. I understand that those are, you know, uh not necessarily hard evidence, but I was one of those where my children were almost hit uh on a July 4th at night when the lights were flashing, when a car came screaming down the hill. And the only reason my kids weren't hit is because I happened to be at the intersection section and yelled at them to stop, uh, you know, blaring my horn and and getting that them to skid through the intersection and come to a stop beyond it. Um I'm fairly confident my children being children and not paying attention, they were in line to be hit. And um the the major concern is that um while we've called the police and they have come out every once in a while and had a presence, usually they're up wide out in the open and it just slows people down for the maybe hour or two hours that they're there. Um and I the real concern I think from everyone that I've talked to at many of our board meetings is that it's going to take someone getting seriously injured or killed before a major thing is done for it. Um my you know, my ask would be that uh perhaps at that intersection where it's highly highly used, that we can get some form of device that would make people slow down, a speed hump, a speed bump, something of that sort. Um, a concern that I've heard that a reason why it can't be done is because it's a through road, but this road stops it at battlefield and stops at Compass Creek or uh at um not roughly cross trails. Cross trail. Um it's it's not really a three road, it is a very residential area, and um we're just we're very concerned that something major is going to happen, and that's what it's gonna take. So I know it's on the agenda for tonight, but uh that's our our major concern. Thank you very much. Well, yeah, like I said, like you said, it is on a agenda, so it's gonna be discussed a little further now. Thank you very much. Um Mr. Craig. Did I put on its name right? L A N E last name. Yeah, that's here. I I don't have anything to meet today. Well, you you have the support body guard. Um signing us up to know who was here. Very well. Oh, I would love to. Okay, yes. HP over um Mark Hunter. Yeah, I mean I uh Mark Hunter. Um I live in Taviston. I've just been coming to join you guys past a couple months, um, just to stay on the pulse of the efforts of this commission. Um pretty great work what you're doing.