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"Emergency Streets" concept: staff proposes temporary post-crash interventions to slow traffic and raise awareness
Summary
Staff presented the Emergency Streets concept: deploy temporary traffic-calming and awareness measures within 48 hours of a traffic fatality and leave them for about two weeks to slow speeds and prompt follow-up quick-build improvements. The commission supported further study but raised operational and outreach questions including traffic control plans, snow-removal compatibility and potential rerouting impacts.
City staff introduced the Emergency Streets concept: a tactical public-safety program that would deploy temporary traffic-calming and awareness treatments at the site of a traffic fatality within 48 hours and maintain them for approximately two weeks to slow speeds and generate public attention and follow-on improvements.
"We are still in the midst of a traffic safety crisis," John Snyder said, reporting that the city had recorded 21 traffic fatalities and…
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