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Neighborhood survey highlights safety hotspots on 118th and 119th streets; county traffic program could fund fixes
Summary
A neighborhood traffic committee presented a survey of about 30 responses showing concentrated pedestrian, bicycle and vehicle safety concerns on 118th and 119th streets and nearby corridors. County staff said a neighborhood traffic program now before the council could provide grant funding if approved.
At a meeting of the Flight Community Neighborhood Association, the neighborhood traffic and road safety subcommittee presented results from a community survey that show concentrated safety concerns on 118th Street and 119th Street and nearby corridors.
“We developed a survey… and we received about 30 responses,” said Brandon Erickson, who represented the committee. Erickson said respondents pinpointed overlapping vehicle, pedestrian and bicycle problems on the same blocks and at several intersections.
The survey mapped individual reports as a heat map, with clusters along the two corridors and a notable concentration near a commercial node and school locations, Erickson said. The survey asked residents for their two top locations and for a description of the safety issue; it did not collect time-of-day information.
“Neighborhoods can bring forward proposals for grants” if Clark County adopts its neighborhood traffic program, said Merrilee McCall, Clark County Neighborhood Outreach Coordinator. McCall said the county program has been through work sessions and is expected to go to county council for review; if adopted it would use a grant and ranking process similar to the city’s to fund neighborhood traffic projects.
Committee members said the next steps are to share the raw survey data with county advisory boards and technical staff so that it can inform projects and funding requests. Erickson said the group will give the data to the county’s pedestrian–bicycle advisory body and the parks advisory board and that the county’s transportation and planning processes will be used to request capital projects.
County staff in the meeting also noted existing public-review opportunities: Clark County updates its Transportation Improvement Plan and Parks Capital Improvement Plan annually and opens drafts to public comment during the capital-plan process.
Residents raised lighting, vegetation blocking sightlines and localized speeding as top concerns during the discussion. The committee said some near-term responses — for example, movable speed-feedback signs — have appeared after earlier engagement, but most mitigation will require design work and funding.
The committee requested accident/stop data from the sheriff’s office to overlay with the survey points; meeting speakers said the sheriff’s office previously provided a dataset that included more than 5,500 stops over a year for the broader area.
The subcommittee urged neighbors to submit sidewalk, crosswalk or other capital requests during the county’s capital-plan public-review window and to follow the neighborhood grant process if the county council adopts the proposed program.
