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Bothell staff brief council on Transportation Safety Plan and near‑term projects
Summary
Bothell staff presented the city's Transportation Safety Plan, emphasizing a safe‑systems approach, a data‑driven prioritized project list and near‑term work such as speed cushions, radar feedback signs, school RFB upgrades and an HSIP grant application; staff urged residents to file customer action requests to log near misses.
City transportation staff presented Bothell's Transportation Safety Plan and an implementation update at the March 10 council meeting.
Cam Zabo, the city's Transportation Operations Engineer, described the plan's safe‑systems framework (safe road users, safe vehicles, safe speeds, safe roads and post‑crash care) and explained how the plan uses crash data and community input to prioritize safety projects. She described a high‑injury network showing that 54% of traffic injuries and fatalities occur on approximately 12% of city streets and said vulnerable road users are overrepresented in fatal or serious collisions (they account for a small share of collisions but a much larger share of serious outcomes).
Zabo listed completed and planned projects: LED edge‑lit stop signs, radar speed feedback signs, speed cushions on collectors, enhanced school crossings (including RFB installations at several crossings), and a recent application for a state HSIP grant covering several collector and corridor projects plus a street lighting review. She said enforcement remains a necessary complement to engineering changes.
Council asked how residents can report near misses and escalate safety concerns. Zabo said the city logs customer action requests for near misses, maintains petition forms for neighborhood traffic calming, and conducts fresh counts and targeted data collection when requests arrive. She encouraged council to direct residents to the city website and noted staff will work with communications to refresh online forms.
Council members also asked about coordination with state projects (WSDOT overlays on Maltby/228th), low‑cost protective treatments (delineators, armadillos), maintenance tradeoffs for flexible separators, and the project list's prioritization criteria. Staff replied that some low‑cost pavement and striping changes can be done in coordination with overlay projects, that armadillo‑style products can be expensive or sole‑source, and that maintenance/clearing implications are part of project selection.
No council action was required. Staff said they will continue to advance the prioritized project list, pursue grants, and return with updates on grant awards and implementation timelines.
