One of the most popular events at our annual Designing Cities Conference, the Meet the Cities poster session gives every NACTO member agency the opportunity to share their projects, successes, and works-in-progress with their peers. New Braunfels prepared the content below for its 2025 Meet the Cities poster.

In New Braunfels, speeding concerns are the most common traffic request received each year. The city has seen a 400% increase in resident requests for traffic calming since 2020.

In March 2024, the City of New Braunfels adopted its Street Safety Action Plan and became a Vision Zero city, committing to improving safety for all modes and encouraging safer speeds through design, education, and enforcement. The Plan called for updating the 1999 speed hump policy to a comprehensive traffic calming program. The old policy, which was limited to speed humps, relied on rigid criteria that were not data-driven or safety-oriented. The updated policy expands traffic calming options beyond speed humps and specifies objective and context-sensitive evaluation criteria.

Below are three recent traffic calming installations that resulted from utilizing the criteria established in the Neighborhood Traffic Calming Policy for resident requests.

Lakeview Boulevard: Radar Feedback Signs

Context: Residential collector with large-lot residences and a sidewalk on one side

Target speed: 30 mph

Target volume: 5,000 vpd

85th Percentile Speed

Before: 39 mph

After: 34 mph

Volume

Before: 2,331 vpd

After: 2,220 vpd

Willowbrook Avenue: Speed Humps

Context: Residential collector with single-family residences fronting the street and sidewalks on both sides

Target speed: 25 mph

Target volume: 1,000 vpd

85th Percentile Speed

Before: 30 mph

After: 23 mph

Volume

Before: 2,893 vpd

After: 2,391 vpd

Howard Street: Sidewalk Extensions

Context: Neighborhood street with single-family residences and an elementary school, with sidewalks on both sides

Target speed: 20 mph

Target volume: 1,000 vpd

85th Percentile Speed

Before: 24 mph

After: 25 mph

Maximum Speed

Before: 44 mph

After: 36 mph

Volume

Before: 2,250 vpd

After: 2,138 vpd

Check out all of the posters from Meet the Cities 2025.