Board adopts US‑287 Vision Zero safety and mobility study, clearing path for median barriers and multimodal projects

Boulder County commissioners unanimously adopted the US‑287 Vision Zero Safety and Mobility Study on Jan. 7, endorsing a corridorwide package of engineering, operational and multimodal improvements intended to reduce serious injuries and fatalities on the highway between Broomfield and the Larimer County line.

County transportation staff and partner agencies designed the study to identify immediate countermeasures and longer‑term projects. Staff emphasized that adoption is a milestone enabling coordinated design, funding and implementation with the Colorado Department of Transportation and the corridor cities and towns.

"People are dying on US 287, and it is our primary motivation to ask for adoption and as soon as possible to begin implementation of the safety countermeasures," Landon Hilliard, senior transportation planner, said during the presentation. The study documented roughly 1,083 crashes a year on the corridor with a disproportionate number of severe and fatal crashes in recent years and identified a set of recurring crash types such as left‑turn and crossing (median crossover) collisions, red‑light crashes, and pedestrian and bicyclist collisions concentrated in downtown…