Some Traffic Statistics for Magnolia Avenue

From an email sent to Kim Dunne by Lt. Richard Hetherington, Patrol Division Commander, Frederick Police Department:

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Good morning. I have been copied on several e-mails regarding the issues surrounding Hood College. I understand that the issues were brought up at the most recent NAC meeting and that Hood College is going to try and address the issues that they can. We will make every attempt to address the parking and speed issues and I recall that Chief Dine made you aware of our speed enforcement efforts througho ut the City. In additon to that I wanted to share some other numbers with you. As you may or may not know we have portable speed signs that we post around the City in response to speed complaints in an effort to get traffic slowed down. Those signs were placed around Magnolia Ave. on several occasions and I wanted to share with you the results of that effort.

Between July 23 and July 27 there was a speed monitoring device set up in the 500 block of Magnolia Ave. viewing traffic northbound. There was a total of 3,642 vehicles observed. The average speed was 23.6 miles per hour with 85% of the vehicles traveling less than 29 miles per hour. Of the 3,642 only 20 were observed traveling in excess of 39 miles per hour. Of the 3,642 vehicles observed 2,321 were traveling below 25 miles per hour. The most highly traveled time period was between noon and 1:00 p.m.

Between July 23 and July 25 there was a speed monitoring device set up in the 500 block of Magnolia Ave. viewing traffic southbound. There was a total of 2,509 vehicles observed. The average speed was 24.1 miles per hour with 85% of the vehicles traveling less than 29 miles per hour. Of the 2,509 only 5 were observed traveling in excess of 39 miles per hour. Of the 2,509 vehicles observed 1,505 were traveling below 25 miles per hour. The most highly traveled
time period was between 5 and 6:00 p.m.

Between July 30 and August 22 there was a speed monitoring device set up in the 500 block of Magnolia Ave. viewing traffic northbound. There was a total of 2,879 vehicles observed. The average speed was 23.2 miles per hour with 85% of the vehicles traveling less than 29 miles per hour. Of the 2,879 only 5 were observed traveling in excess of 28 miles per hour. Of the 2,879 vehicles observed 1,900 were traveling below 25 miles per hour. The most highly traveled time period was between noon and 1:00 p.m.

Between July 30 and August 15 there was a speed monitoring device set up in the 500 block of Magnolia Ave. viewing traffic southbound. There was a total of 6,452 vehicles observed. The average speed was 24.1 miles per hour with 85% of the vehicles traveling less than 29 miles per hour. Of the 6,452 only 26 were observed traveling in excess of 29 miles per hour. Of the 6,452 vehicles observed 3,822 were traveling below 25 miles per hour. The most highly traveled time period was between noon and 1:00 p.m.

Between August 27 and September 13 there was a speed monitoring device set up in the 500 block of Magnolia Ave. viewing traffic northbound. There was a total of 6,313 vehicles observed. The average speed was 23.0 miles per hour with 85% of the vehicles traveling less than 28 miles per hour. Of the 6,313 only 21 were observed traveling in excess of 39 miles per hour. Of the 6,313 vehicles observed 4,395 were traveling below 25 miles per hour. The most highly traveled time period was between 5 and 6:00 p.m.

Between August 27 and September 16 there was a speed monitoring device set up in the 500 block of Magnolia Ave. viewing traffic southbound. There was a total of 5,413 vehicles observed. The average speed was 22.8 miles per hour with 85% of the vehicles traveling less than 28 miles per hour. Of the 6,313 only 21 were observed traveling in excess of 39 miles per hour. Of the 6,313 vehicles observed 3,748 were traveling below 25 miles per hour. The most highly traveled time period was between 3 and 4:00 p.m.

We will continue to monitor and enforce traffic violations in this area in an effort to address your concerns about speed and safety. If you have any questions about the above date or would like to discuss this further please do not hesitate to contact me.

Lt. Richard Hetherington
Patrol Division Commander
Frederick Police Department
100 West Patrick St.
301-600-1228
rhetherington@fredco-md.net
Web: www.cityoffrederick.com/police