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Auburn reviews active transportation and safety plans, seeks public input before draft
Summary
City staff and consultants presented updates on the Active Transportation Plan and Comprehensive Safety Action Plan, summarizing crash patterns and a draft network of separated bikeways, sidewalks and intersection countermeasures and asking the council to continue public outreach.
City staff and consultants briefed the Auburn City Council on the Active Transportation Plan and Comprehensive Safety Action Plan and asked the council to accept the presentation and continue public outreach.
Jonathan Wright, Auburn’s economic development director, said the city awarded a contract to Farr & Piers about a year ago to update the bicycle master plan and prepare a companion safety plan. Rob Hanonocchi, senior associate with Farr & Piers, told the council the work is funded by a federal Safe Streets for All grant and is intended both to produce a prioritized list of projects and to satisfy grant requirements, including adoption of a measurable safety goal.
Hanonocchi summarized crash data the team analyzed for 2017–2023: roughly 100–150 reported injury crashes per year in the Auburn planning area, with about 20 crashes per year meeting the KSI (fatal or severe injury) definition. He…
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