Daley Park Neighborhood

Broadway Road Masonry Screen Wall

Mar 04, 2000

A Broadway Road Masonry Screen Wall like the one on Rural Road would provide additional safety, lower the noise level and improve our image along our southern boundary. The blight of traffic noise, pollution and accidents along Broadway Road is a stubborn neighborhood deterioration problem. We are the last residential neighborhood fronting on Broadway Road from Maryvale to Mesa. Lined with strip commercial development and apartments, Broadway is one of the busiest high-speed, six-lane arterial streets through town creating a literal wall of traffic during peak commute times. The orange tree buffer between Broadway Road and Broadway Lane has had little effect on protecting our single-family home neighborhood. Several years ago our neighbors rejected an Improvement District mechanism to pay for a portion of a wall. Last year we asked the city to fund it as a Capital Improvement Project (CIP) that would benefit the entire neighborhood. Our thanks to Maryann Kisiel (a DPNA past-president) who has agreed to lead the Neighborhood Action Group (NAG) on the Broadway Wall. She has scheduled a meeting about CIP budget with J.R. Pooler. Manager of Municipal Engineering Services.