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AARP urges Vermont to update state road standards, highlight winter maintenance and village center reclassification
Summary
AARP Vermont testified to the Senate Transportation Committee in support of updating the Vermont State Standards in H.488 to improve pedestrian safety, incorporate winter-maintenance guidance, and make it easier for small towns to adopt Complete Streets in village centers.
Kelly Stoddard Poor, associate state director for AARP Vermont, told the Senate Transportation Committee that Vermont should update its 1997 state roadway design standards and incorporate Complete Streets guidance to address safety and access for older Vermonters and other road users.
Stoddard Poor said pedestrian deaths have risen in recent years and pointed to data she provided the committee: 27 pedestrian deaths in 2013–2017 and 31 in 2018–2022. “Cars are going too fast. Our roads are too wide,” she said, urging the committee to use a level-of-traffic-stress metric and to include winter-maintenance guidance in standards revisions.
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