Buckeye presents Monroe pilot data showing fewer crashes, small travel delays as council weighs permanent redesign

Brian Craig, the development services director for the City of Buckeye, presented results of the Monroe Demonstration Project and the Downtown Specific Area Plan (DSAP) to a public workshop, saying the pilot has produced lower speeding citations and fewer crashes while causing only modest increases in travel time through downtown.

Craig said the restriping that created the demonstration section took place in June 2024 and that the city has studied roughly nine months of post-implementation data. "We've determined that it did not have a negative impact on the response times for priority 1 calls," he said, describing police and fire response as continuing to perform "excellently." Craig also summarized police and traffic data: 14 speeding citations were recorded in the first nine months of fiscal 2024 compared with 11 in the same nine-month window in fiscal 2025, and reported crashes in the study corridor fell from 30 to 18 in those comparable periods.

The presentation positioned Monroe as the principal street for realizing the DSAP vision, which the city adopted in 2023 after a roughly 12-month community process. Craig described the DSAP as an "action plan" with several dozen short- and long-term strategies and said staff intends to package public feedback from…