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Bakersfield updates multimodal and street‑safety work; Public Works lists completed striping, radar signs, beacons and school improvements
Summary
City staff and Blue Zones Project Bakersfield briefed council on multimodal transportation progress, including completed striping, radar feedback signs, RRFBs, speed humps, and demonstration projects. Council discussed funding, outreach and implementation capacity and voted to receive and file the report.
Bakersfield city staff and the Blue Zones Project on Oct. 8 presented a multimodal transportation and safety progress report that summarized completed striping and bike-lane work, installation of radar feedback signs, rectangular rapid flashing beacons (RRFBs), speed humps and demonstration projects, and listed planned corridor and school-focused improvements.
Karina Funes, public policy manager for Blue Zones Project Bakersfield, said Blue Zones is in year three of a five‑year partnership sponsored locally by Adventist Health and California Resources Corporation. She listed outreach efforts that included an active transportation summit, multilingual education videos (English, Spanish and Punjabi), walking audits, a…
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