ASK MS TRAFFIC : RESIDENTS CAN HELP PUT AREA'S SPEEDING PROBLEM OVER THE HUMP.

I'm concerned about speeding motorists who barrel along the 11500 block of Baird Avenue between Asuncion Street and Brasilia Drive in Northridge.

Numerous accidents at nearby Baird and Nau avenues in the past two years, which resulted in the death of a dog and the destruction of a brick mailbox, showed residents from the neighborhood just how serious speed-related accidents are along this street.

We found our trash cans three houses away after a speeding car dragged them away from the front of our home.

A general consensus among the neighbors is that speed humps should be installed to prevent our children and property from harm done by speeders.

Can you help us try to get a speed hump on our street?

- L.W., Northridge

Your complaint was forwarded to Crystal Killian, a transportation engineering associate with the Department of Transportation's Speed Hump Section for consideration.

Killian said that the location has been accepted as one of the 30 locations in designated sectors of the city of Los Angeles for speed hump installation during the 1996-97 fiscal year.

An information packet, which includes a formal petition to be signed by at least 75 percent of the street's residents, has been mailed to L.W. in order to be approved for installation.

Those interested in requesting speed humps may write to the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, 221 N. Figueroa St., Room 300, Los Angeles, CA, 90012.

Include the street address and nature of the problem and a department representative will investigate the situation.

Moorpark Street between Vineland Avenue and the Hollywood Freeway in North Hollywood feels like a washboard with the many lengthy cracks and potholes that motorists have to contend with when driving through the area.

I have asked the city Transportation Department on numerous occasions in the past decade to resurface the street but nothing has happened.

When can the many motorists who use this stretch of road expect to have a smoother ride?

- D.C., Studio City

Motorists will have to wait at least one year to reap the benefits of a newly paved street, said Abe Navarro, the East Valley street maintenance superintendent.

Navarro said Moorpark Street between Vineland and Bellflower avenues is tentatively scheduled to be included in the department's 1997-98 Annual Resurfacing Program.