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Residents press council for quick pedestrian and bike‑lane fixes after crashes; administration says budget includes measures
Summary
Multiple residents urged immediate, low‑cost safety fixes at Hilliard Triangle and other Lakewood intersections. City officials said the budget and project planning include safety measures and Councilmember Bullock signaled he will propose additional funding for rapid interventions.
Residents on Jan. 6 urged Lakewood City Council to make immediate, low‑cost changes to make streets safer for pedestrians and people who bike, citing recent crashes including one in which a local resident was struck in a bike lane.
Why it matters: several speakers described repeated collisions at specific intersections and urged the council and administration to adopt short‑term physical separations (bollards, flex posts, rubber curbing) and signal improvements while longer capital projects proceed. Councilmembers and the administration said public safety is a budget and planning priority and indicated they will pursue near‑term fixes as well as larger projects.
What residents said A series of public commenters described crashes in the Hilliard Triangle area and at Madison/Hilliard and other spots. One resident, who identified himself as a…
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