Members of our Community Editorial Board, a group of community residents who are engaged with and passionate about local issues, respond to the following question: Boulder’s Vision Zero Innovation Program has used cost-effective, quick-build projects to try to make streets safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. After two years of implementation, the city wants to know how ‘safe and comfortable’ the community feels walking and biking in Boulder. Your take?
The Vision Zero plan is designed to meet Boulder’s laudable goal of reducing “the number of traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries to zero.” The multi-faceted plan includes implementing countermeasures at high-crash locations, improving signal timing practices, employing innovative intersection and street designs, installing signs and pavement markings, and education. According to the city’s website, feedback for the overall plan has ended, although citizens can always submit transportation feedback to the city’s online engagement platform.
One subset of the city’s Vision Zero work is the Vision Zero Innovation Program, which used $250,000 of the city’s Vision Zero funding to try out twenty “innovative, quick-build projects” at specific locations. These projects are designed to “reduce vehicle speeds and improve safety and comfort of people walking and biking.” The projects were initiated in 2020, and the city currently is seeking comment on its preliminary recommendations to keep 11 of the projects, remove 5 and modify 4, based on data, observations and feedback the city has received. The city is recommending keeping certain projects in place where an actual decrease in speeding or other […]
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