Denver wants to end traffic-related deaths by 2030. This is their plan
Denver unveiled preliminary plans Friday to eliminate traffic-related deaths in the city by 2030, an ambitious goal that includes addressing high-risk corridors through speed reductions, better lighting, median alterations and promoting a culture of safety.
“All of Denver deserves safe streets,” Mayor Michael Hancock said at a morning event downtown to promote the initiative called Vision Zero. “… Our community has stepped forward and has been very clear about the need to take action.”
Since January 2016, there have been more than 100 traffic-related deaths on Denver’s streets, and as part of an action plan officials have already identified areas of the city — like Federal Boulevard and Colfax Avenue — in the most dire need of fixes.
On Federal alone this year — which has a fatality rate 20 times higher than other Colorado urban roadways — 10 people have been killed, six of them pedestrians, according to Crissy Fanganello, Denver’s director of transportation and mobility.
Early Friday morning, officials noted, a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and seriously hurt in a collision on South Federal Boulevard near West Arizona Avenue.
Read the full story at The Denver Post.
Denver wants to end traffic-related deaths by 2030. This is how the city plans to do it. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)
Denver wants to end traffic-related deaths by 2030. This is how the city plans to do it. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)
