Patrol will help but does not have lasting results. Years of traffic engineering and design have shown that streets are either designed to move traffic or to slow it down. Suburban expressways and collector streets are designed to move large volumes of traffic fast and efficiently--local residential streets are designed to slow traffic.

Unfortunately, the city's policy for central city streets does not consider residential streets "local" although they are designated as such. The city's policy has been of the mindset to design and use our local streets as one-way expressways to move traffic fast through both residential and business neighborhoods, which discourages use of public transit and pedestrian mobility--not to mention causing vehicular accidents and pedestrian hazards. It is this policy that results in Sacramento ranking high in pedestrian injuries and fatalities.

Many businesses too believe that large volumes of fast moving vehicles provide them with customers when experience in other cities have actually shown that slower moving traffic enables motorists to see what businesses are located along those streets and stop to shop if products and services meet their needs.

Just stand for awhile along J Street for example and watch motorists charging pell mell ahead, like horses with blinders, neither looking to the right or left. Drivers have only one goal in mind: "get out of town."

Many residents buy into a similar mindset of "we are a city and lots of fast, noisy polluting traffic must be accepted because it is exciting and makes for an urban feel. Move if you don't like it." That too has been shown to be a destructive and uninformed attitude, discouraging residents with or without children from moving into such areas and shopping at local businesses.

Vehicular and pedestrian accident costs to the city PD, Fire and ambulance also soar in such areas. For years insurance companies charged higher vehicle insurance rates to individuals who lived in such areas with the false assumption that the density and local residents were the cause when in fact the largest number of accidents were commuter.

It is true that speed enforcement is needed but is extremely expensive since the revenue from tickets does not go exclusively to the city.

Intersections like 20th & K Street would benefit from better lighting at night. Also, a four-way stop might be helpful.

Why bother when there's a really easy place to watch and make revenue - south end of Alhambra - caught me out anyway and gave me a $270 fine. My own fault I know but I suspect the motives behind the location of this radar check site.