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Resident calls for sight‑distance, illumination fixes after pedestrian death on Ann Arbor street
Summary
During public comment, resident Kathy Griswold urged the council to address sight‑distance and illumination at crosswalks and crash sites, citing a recent pedestrian fatality and noting prior council goals to eliminate pedestrian deaths by 2025.
Kathy Griswold spoke during public comment at the March 24 work session and urged council action on pedestrian safety after a local fatality.
Griswold said the city previously adopted a resolution in 2015 establishing a goal of zero pedestrian deaths by 2025 and that a pedestrian had already been killed this year at a location that residents and engineers had earlier identified as a problem. Griswold thanked two council members who visited the crash site with an engineer and said they had identified improvements she hopes will be funded this year.
Griswold pressed the council to consider improved illumination at crosswalks and to incorporate federal sight‑distance standards into street and two‑way cycle track designs. She warned against oversimplifying complex safety problems and urged staff to account for residential driveways and sight lines in street design.
“Documentation. The 2 way cycle track description does not mention the driveways, the residential driveways. Those are critical to the design of the street,” Griswold said, and she said the city must design for proper sight distance.
Griswold said she intends to continue advocating and to escalate the issue as necessary to protect pedestrians.
