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Charlottesville identifies 34 quick-build safety projects after fatality at First and Elliot
Summary
City transportation staff presented a phased 'safer streets' strategy and a first package of roughly 34 low-cost quick-build projects to deploy this year; engineers flagged site-distance and ADA constraints at a contested Elliot Avenue crossing.
City transportation staff on June 2 outlined a multi-phase "safer streets" strategy and a first tranche of urgent, low-cost projects the city can deploy quickly to reduce pedestrian and bicycle risk following a fatality last fall.
Ben Chambers, the city's transportation planning manager, told Charlottesville City Council staff identified roughly 34 projects they believe could be completed within the current calendar year for about $500,000. "As we were working through this 7 months of identifying what projects we thought would be useful, for this purpose, we came up with about 34 projects that we could do for a half million dollars," Chambers said.
The proposed quick-build measures…
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