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Lancaster traffic commission opens plan to centralize safety requests using mapped intake and crash-priorities

Traffic Commission, City of Lancaster · January 14, 2026
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Summary

Staff proposed funneling traffic-safety requests into a single mapped intake and prioritizing them against the city’s high-injury network. Commissioners supported clearer website guidance, written comment options and staff-packaged priority lists for commission review.

City of Lancaster traffic planners outlined a plan on Jan. 13 to centralize how residents submit traffic-safety requests and to prioritize work by crash risk. Emma Hamm, transportation planner, told the Traffic Commission staff wanted more consistent records and asked residents to submit safety complaints to the city’s street safety mapper on Engage Lancaster so requests are geocoded and include contact information.

"We're now up to over a 100 issues reported on that street safety mapper," Hamm…

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