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Charlottesville staff outline immediate fixes and long‑term plan after pedestrian death on Elliot Street
Summary
City transportation staff told the Bike & Pedestrian Advisory Committee they ordered rapid fixes at the Elliot Street crossing after a pedestrian fatality, will pilot rapid‑flashing beacons and speed cameras, seek capital funding for sidewalks, and begin scoping a comprehensive transportation plan with short‑, medium‑ and long‑term milestones.
Charlottesville transportation staff on Thursday told the city’s Bike & Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) they are moving quickly to make streets safer after a pedestrian was struck and killed at the Elliot Street crosswalk last month. Ben Chambers, the city’s transportation planning manager, described immediate, short‑term measures already in motion and a year‑long effort to design a comprehensive plan to reduce deaths and serious injuries.
“We started immediately that Monday morning trying to come up with a design that we could put on the ground as soon as we possibly could so that people knew that this was a place that we needed to have a safe crossing,” Chambers said. He told the committee staff had measured the roadway, planned lane‑narrowing treatments, installed reflectors and ordered a rapid‑flashing beacon for the Elliot crossing; that device is expected to take several months to install as it requires procurement and utility coordination.
Chambers framed the response as three overlapping efforts: (1) near‑term, tactical fixes at specific…
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