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DDOT narrows scope on South Dakota Avenue to five spot‑improvement priorities amid $600,000 budget
Summary
DDOT presented spot safety concepts for a three‑mile South Dakota Avenue corridor, prioritizing five high‑injury areas and proposing treatments such as medians, left‑turn restrictions, rapid‑flashing beacons and signal studies. Staff said roughly $600,000 remains in the project budget and additional funds will be required to complete all five priorities.
DDOT officials on the South Dakota Avenue project presented targeted, lower‑cost safety treatments and a truncated scope after budget shortfalls left the agency with about $600,000 remaining for the corridor.
Christine Mayer, associate director for the multimodal safety engineering division, said the team collected more than 2,000 public comments and recent crash data and then prioritized five high‑injury locations where spot treatments can reduce conflict points. "We only have $600,000 left in our budget," Mayer said; construction and design estimates for the top five locations total $1.15 million to $1.6 million, leaving a shortfall of at least $550,000.
Why it matters: DDOT originally studied a road‑diet across the full three‑mile corridor; protected bike lanes and a full…
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