{"id":21801,"date":"2025-06-16T17:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/city-of-durango-to-install-speed-control-devices-on-animas-view-drive\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:09:09","slug":"city-of-durango-to-install-speed-control-devices-on-animas-view-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/city-of-durango-to-install-speed-control-devices-on-animas-view-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Durango to install speed control devices on Animas View Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ae86052-600e-55bd-b0dc-a3144fc06eb8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1663\" height=\"1049\" alt=\"A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle while walking north on Animas View Drive on Thursday. The speed limit is 25 mph, but at least one resident said vehicles sometimes go 45 mph to 50 mph on the narrow, winding road. (Shane Benjamin\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle while walking north on Animas View Drive on Thursday. The speed limit is 25 mph, but at least one resident said vehicles sometimes go 45 mph to 50 mph on the narrow, winding road. (Shane Benjamin\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Traffic on Animas View Drive will be reduced to one-way alternating traffic on Tuesday while the city of Durango installs five speed cushions.<\/p>\n<p>Speed cushions serve a similar purpose as speed bumps, but differ in how they affect passenger vehicles versus larger vehicles, such as those used by emergency services or public transportation. Speed cushions feature cutouts that allow wide vehicles, like buses or ambulances, to pass unaffected while slowing down passenger vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The speed cushions are being installed as a short-term solution to improve safety by slowing vehicles on the narrow road in north Durango. The effort is part of the Animas View Drive Improvements project, which ultimately aims to make long-term safety improvements.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b7661d68-b7ee-509a-9d19-25cf5fde6f1f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1330\" height=\"1288\" alt=\"The city of Durango has placed flags on the speed limit signs on Animas View Drive in an effort to get drivers to slow down. (Sophia McCrackin\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The city of Durango has placed flags on the speed limit signs on Animas View Drive in an effort to get drivers to slow down. (Sophia McCrackin\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The installation follows several injuries on the road, including a pedestrian fatality in 2023, according to the city\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>The speed cushions will remain in place through the fall, after the road\u2019s peak traffic season. Next spring, the city will decide whether to reinstall the cushions based on their effectiveness this summer.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-13fae50e5dadd8134a0eb93eba9219a2\"><a href=\"mailto:sedmondson@durangoherald.com\">sedmondson@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-4c41927b8f4def1a35f4998873ae1a9c\">An earlier version of this story erred in saying Animas View Drive would be closed during installation of the speed cushions. Traffic will be reduced to one-lane alternating traffic<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Cushions\u2019 are part of long-term plan to improve safety on narrow road<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,1310,557],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-safety-of-citizens","tag-traffic"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77465,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801\/revisions\/77465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21801"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}