South Golden Road has become a loud, congested, and dangerous freeway. With significant growth, including a new, large Pleasant View Development and another on Johnson Road, we can expect current issues to worsen significantly. Our group's focus area is South Golden Road between the Johnson Road roundabout and Golden High School.
South Golden Road is the only entrance to the city without traffic calming or speed-reducing measures. The posted speed limit of 35 miles per hour is among the highest in the city. Drivers frequently exceed the posted speed because the road is an open straightaway between the roundabouts.
Due to high speeds and a lack of crosswalks, this section of road through our community is dangerous for anyone not in a car or truck. If you want to use public transportation, you have to either walk out of your way to cross the road or run across it without a crosswalk.
Noise from South Golden Road comes from vehicles moving at relatively high speeds, drivers accelerating after the roundabouts into the straightaway, and people intentionally revving vehicles, often motorcycles, in order to produce sounds.