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GOOD AFTERNOON. WELCOME TO THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICORKS. AM YOUR CHAIRPERSON, COUNCILWOMAN[Roll Call]
DONNA PURVIS AND I'M DRAWING TODA BY MY CCHAI COUNCMA NGLE. COUNCIL WOMAN, BETSY ROY COUNCILMAN BRIT ECKERSON. UH AND COUNCILWOMAN JENNIFER CHAPO. UH WE WILL NOT HAVE ANY LEGISLATION TODAY. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A DISCLAIMER THAT NEEDS TO BE READ. IF SO. UH, MS CHERYL, CAN YOU PLEASE? THIS MEETING'S BEEN HALF PURSUANT TO KRS, 61.826 AND COUNCIL FIVE, A READY IN FOUR. THANK YOU, MA'AM. UH, WE ALSO JOINED BY COUNCILWOMAN MADONNA FLOOD AND TODAY WE HAVE A DISCUSSION ON VISION ZERO LOUISVILLE AND WHO DO WE HAVE[1. ID 24-0197 VISION ZERO LOUISVILLE ANNUAL REPORT – Claire Yates, Public Works]
HERE TODAY TO SPEAK ON THIS? PARDON ME. CLAIRE YATES, TRANSPORTATION PLANNER WITH LOUISVILLE METRO PUBLIC WORKS. THANK YOU, MS. YA FOR BEING HERE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO START YOUR PRESENTATION FOR FREE TO DO SO. THANK YOU. SO FIRST OF ALL, WHAT IS VISION ZERO? WELL, VISION ZERO IS UM IS A IS A PARADIGM SHIFT. IT BEGAN IN SWEDEN IN THE 19 NINETIES, AND INSTEAD OF THINKING OF TRAFFIC FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES AS MORE OF A MOVING TARGET AND THINKING THAT, UM AS LONG AS YOU, UM UH, BASICALLY INSTEAD OF INSTEAD OF THINKING OF TRAFFIC FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES, AS QUOTE UNQUOTE, THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS OR BAKED IN TO A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM. THE THINKING BECAME, UH, RATHER TO ELIMINATE THEM. THAT THAT FATALITIES ARE SOMETHING THAT CAN BE PREVENTED. AND SO VISION ZERO IS A MOVEMENT OR INITIATIVE TO ELIMINATE TRAFFIC FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES WHILE INCREASING SAFE, HEALTHY AND EQUITABLE MOBILITY FOR EVERYONE. REGARDLESS OF HOW YOU TRAVEL. AND SO HERE IN LOUISVILLE IN 2022, LOUISVILLE METRO COUNCIL VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE IN SUPPORT OF VISION ZERO UH, CITIES CAN ESTABLISH THEIR OWN BENCHMARKS BASED ON THEIR OWN UNIQUE NEEDS AND[00:10:02]
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS. LOUISVILLE'S GOAL IS TO ELIMINATE TRAFFIC FATALITIES BY 2050, WHICH ALIGNS WITH THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION NATIONAL ROADWAY SAFETY STRATEGY. AND UH, LIKE IN MOST US CITIES, UM THIS GOAL EXCLUDES FATALITIES THAT OCCUR ON INTERSTATES AND PRIVATE PROPERTY , SUCH AS PARKING LOTS. THE ORDINANCE ALSO REQUIRES AN ANNUAL REPORT TO BE PUBLISHED DOCUMENTING THE NEEDS AND PROGRESS OF OUR CITIES VISION ZERO INITIATIVE. ZERO IS THE GOAL AND A SAFE SYSTEM APPROACH IS HOW WE GET THERE. SO THINK OF THE SAFE SYSTEM APPROACH AS A BIT OF LIKE, UM, I. I LIKE TO THINK OF IT AS A BUNCH OF, UM, SLICES OF SWISS CHEESE. AND WITH THE SWISS CHEESE MODEL, YOU'RE TRYING TO REDUCE RISK THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM SO THAT THAT MEANS THINGS LIKE DESIGNING, UM, ROADS FOR SAFETY OVER SPEED. THAT MEANS, UM, MANAGING SPEEDS. WHERE MAYBE IN, UM CERTAIN HIGH PEDESTRIAN AREAS LIKE DOWNTOWN. UH, YOU WANT TO MANAGE SPEEDS TO BE LOWER AND IN CERTAIN KIND OF MORE RURAL AREAS , IT MIGHT YOU MIGHT MANAGE THAT SPEED AND IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT MORE ACCEPTABLE TO BE A BIT HIGHER. YOU ALSO WANT TO ENGAGE, UM, SAFER PEOPLE AS WELL. SO THAT MEANS HAVING A ROBUST, UM, BIKE. HELMET USAGE. UM AND WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS LIKE MAD KENTUCKY ON REDUCING DRUNK IMPAIRED DRIVING, WORKING WITH LP D AS WELL AND THEN, UM, IMPROVING POST CRASH CARE, UH, WORKING WITH OUR PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT, WHICH I'LL SPEAK MORE ABOUT IN A MOMENT AND SUPER VEHICLES AS WELL DOING, YOU KNOW , UH, PUSHING FOR NS TO, UM, TO ADD THINGS LIKE, UH, IN THE N TSB BOARD TO ADD THINGS LIKE, UM, PEDESTRIAN. WARNING SYSTEMS ON ON VEHICLES. SO WHAT HAVE WE ACHIEVED IN 2023 LAST YEAR IN THE CALENDAR YEAR? UM, I THINK A LOT. UM WE WON TWO FEDERAL SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL OR SS FOUR A IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS TOTALING OVER $28 MILLION. WE DEVELOPED LOUISVILLE'S FIRST EVER HIGH INJURY NETWORK TO GUIDE VISION ZERO LOUISVILLE SAFER ROAD STRATEGY, WHICH I'LL DISCUSS MORE IN A MOMENT. WE KICKED OFF DEVELOPMENT OF LOUISVILLE'S FIRST SPEED MANAGEMENT PLAN. AND DEVELOPED A PROGRAM PROPOSAL TO GUIDE VISION ZERO LOUISVILLE'S POST CRASH CARE STRATEGY. TALK MORE ABOUT BOTH OF THOSE IN A MOMENT, TOO. WE CO HOSTED ALONG WITH COMMUNITY GROUPS. LOUISVILLE'S SECOND ANNUAL WORLD DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR ROAD TRAFFIC VICTIMS. WE WERE RECOGNIZED BY THE NATIONAL VISION ZERO NETWORK AS A VISION ZERO COMMUNITY. WE WON A SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN GIS AWARD FROM EZRI FOR VISION ZERO LOUISVILLE'S USE OF EZRA APPLICATIONS. INCLUDING OUR STORY MAPS AND DASHBOARDS. AND WE PUBLISHED THE FIRST EVER INVENTORY OF MID BLOCK CROSSINGS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. THAT'S A PICTURE OF ME WITH THE EZRI PRESIDENT JACK D, JAMON. SURE.JUST TELL ME WHEN IT'S OK. OK, THANK YOU. OK? NEXT FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES BY TRAVEL MODE. UM, SO THESE ARE, UM THIS CHART REPRESENTS TRAFFIC FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES BY TRAVEL MODE THAT OCCURRED LAST YEAR IN 2023 ON SURFACE STREETS, SO THIS EXCLUDES EXPRESSWAYS, INTERSTATES FREEWAYS, UM, LIKE THE GENE CENTER, FREEWAY, THE WATERSON AND PARKING LOTS WHICH ARE OUTSIDE OF OUR SCOPE. UM AND I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT PEDESTRIAN CRASHES MAKE UP ABOUT 2% OVERALL OF ALL CRASHES, YET ACCOUNTED FOR ABOUT 20% OF FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES, AND THAT SHOWS THE VULNERABILITY OF A HUMAN BEING. SO THINK OF THINK OF A FIGHT. THINK OF A FIGHT, AND THE TWO PARTICIPANTS ARE £250 OF SKIN AND BONE AND A £4000 VEHICLE, PARTICULARLY WITH A HIGH PROFILE. UM AT SPEED, UM, THAT THAT'S AN UNFAIR FIGHT TO BEGIN WITH AND AT SPEED, SAY, 4045 MILES AN HOUR. UM, IT'S A LOSING BATTLE. SO THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO DESIGN OUR ROADS TO PROTECT OUR MOST VULNERABLE CITIZENS. THESE NEXT TWO SLIDES
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SHOW SOME NATIONAL SAFETY PERFORMANCE MEASURES. UM, THESE ARE UM, THESE ARE THESE ARE SAFETY PERFORMANCE MEASURES THAT ARE RECOMMENDED BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. SO YOU'LL SEE HERE ON OUR FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES CHARTS. YOU'LL SEE THAT OUR FATALITIES, UM, HAVE GONE UP. WHILE OUR SERIOUS INJURIES HAVE HAVE SLIGHTLY GONE DOWN UH, THOSE YEAH, THEY BOTH EBB AND FLOW A BIT, UM, FROM YEAR TO YEAR. UM BUT I WOULD POINT OUT THAT, UM YOU KNOW? SOME TRANSPORTATION PROFESSIONALS THOUGHT THAT THE SPIKE IN TRAFFIC FATALITIES THAT BEGAN AT THE START OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC WOULD WE BASICALLY BE A BLIP, UM OR AN ABERRATION AND THEY WOULD FALL BACK DOWN. ONCE VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED, RETURNED TO AND TRAFFIC PATTERNS. I RETURNED TO PRE PANIC LEVELS. UM BUT UNFORTUNATELY, WE'VE LEARNED THAT THAT'S NOT HAPPENING. UM UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS THE NEW NORMAL, SO 2020 WAS NOT AN ABERRATION. UM, WE ARE AT, UM THE HIGHEST FATALITIES. I THINK THAT WE'VE EVER BEEN, UM AND IT'S SHOWING NO SIGNS OF EASING. OUR NON MOTORIZED FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES. UM, SO I THINK PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS THOSE HAVE ALSO INCREASED AS WELL. UM AND AGAIN AS I MENTIONED, UM CYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANS ARE THERE'S A THERE'S A NATURAL VULNERABILITY FOR HUMAN BEINGS, RIGHT. THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA THAT THAT THE HUMAN BODY CAN WITHSTAND. UM, BEFORE YOU'RE KILLED, UM, NOW ADD ON TO THAT THINGS LIKE COMORBIDITIES SO THINGS LIKE MAYBE, UH, WITH AGE, UM OR CERTAIN OTHER PRE EXISTING CONDITIONS. UM AND THE CHANCES OF SURVIVAL, UM OF BEING STRUCK BY A VEHICLE AT UM, AT 3545 MILES AN HOUR, I GOES DOWN EVEN MORE SIGNIFICANTLY. AND THE FATALITY AND SERIOUS INJURY RATES. UM, THOSE ARE 2018 TO 2022. I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT , UM, DUE TO A LAG TIME OF AVAILABILITY OF THE VEHICLE, MILES TRAVELED OR VMT DATA. YOU'LL SEE THAT THE FATALITY RATE SPIKED DURING 2020. BUT HAS NOT BUT HAS BEEN PERSISTENTLY HIGH. AND WHAT ARE WE DOING? TO ATTACK THIS WELL, UM TO DESIGN SAFER ROADS, WE HAVE TO IMPLEMENT PROVEN SAFETY COUNTER MEASURES. THESE ARE THESE ARE TOOLS THAT WE CAN THAT METRO PUBLIC WORKS AND KYTC CAN USE THAT RESEARCH PROVES THAT THEY REDUCE FATAL AND SERIOUS INJURY CRASHES. SO THINGS LIKE HAVING A SIDEWALK ON THE SIDE OF YOU KNOW , INSTEAD OF SOMEONE JUST WALKING IN THE ROADWAY, UH, THINGS LIKE RIGHT SIZING WHERE YOU, UM REDUCE THE NUMBER OF TRAVEL LANES AND, UH, FOR LEFT TURN POCKETS. UM AND THE PHOTO HERE, UM THE TWO PHOTOS HERE. ONE OF THEM IS OF A NEW SIDEWALK BEING CONSTRUCTED ON BERNHEIM LANE. UM I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, CELEBRATE THE PUBLIC WORKS INSTALLED OVER A ONE MILE OF NEW SIDEWALK DESPITE HAVING NO DEDICATED FUNDING SOURCE FOR NEW SIDEWALKS ON METRO ROADS. AND THEN THE, UM THE OTHER PHOTO ON YOUR RIGHT IS OF SEVENTH STREET ROAD. SEVENTH STREET. EXCUSE ME AT HILL STREET, UM, WHICH IS ONE OF THE DEADLIEST INTERSECTIONS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. AS PART OF OUR SAFETY REPORT THAT WE RELEASED IN 2021. WE SET OUT CERTAIN ANNUAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES. OF THE 10 PERFORMANCE MEASURES THAT WE, UM ARE ARE TRACKING, UM PUBLIC WORKS IN KYTC MET SIX OF THOSE 10 PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND CALENDAR YEAR 2023 COMPARED TO ONLY ONE IN 2022. UM SO IN MOST OF THESE PERFORMANCE MEASURES WERE ACTUALLY ACHIEVED THROUGH REGULAR OPERATIONS, SUCH AS INSTALLING RETRO REFLECTIVE BACK PLATES. UH, DURING, UH, SIGNAL WORK, SO IF A CREW IS ALREADY OUT THERE DOING THE WORK, THEN THEY CAN INSTALL VIR REFLECTIVE BACK PLATES, ASSUMING THAT IT, UM MEETS CERTAIN, UM INSTALLATION CONDITIONS LIKE, UM LIKE WIND AND THINGS LIKE THAT. WIND SPEED. UH, A LOT OF FOLKS SIMPLY HAVE NOT HEARD OF VISION[00:20:04]
ZERO LOUISVILLE EVEN THOUGH WE ARE THE CITY'S TRANSPORTATION SAFETY INITIATIVE, AND SO, UM PART OF THE JOB IS TO GET THE WORD OUT. SO AS I MENTIONED WE CO-HOSTED, LOUISVILLE'S SECOND ANNUAL WORLD DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR ROAD TRAFFIC VICTIMS, ALONG WITH SOUTHWESTER TEAM, AND, UM MATTHEWS BRIDGE WE HOSTED, UM A PUBLIC TASK FORCE MEETING EVERY MONTH. PUBLISHED UM MONTHLY E NEWSLETTERS TO KEEP FOLKS APPRISED OF WHAT'S GOING ON. UM, WE WERE ABLE TO TABLE AT THREE EVENTS. INCLUDING CLIA IN SEPTEMBER, THERE IN GERMANTOWN. AND WE DELIVERED, UM SIX PRESENTATIONS OR PANEL DISCUSSIONS. UM INCLUDING, UM AT, UM THE KENTUCKY LIFESAVERS CONFERENCE, A STATEWIDE CONFERENCE. SO NOW I'M GONNA TAKE A MINUTE AND DIVE INTO OUR FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENTS FOR THE FOR A FEW OF THE SAFE SYSTEM APPROACH STRATEGIES. SO THE HIGH INJURY NETWORK. IS THE FOUNDATION OF OUR SAFER ROAD STRATEGY. SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THAT OVERLAPPING UH, STRATEGY WHEEL? UM, THE SAFE SYSTEM APPROACH. ONE OF THOSE FIVE OVERLAPPING STRATEGIES, A SAFER ROADS. AND SO WHAT WE DID WAS WE DEVELOPED A HIGH ENTRY NETWORK. THAT IDENTIFIES SORT OF THE WORST OF THE WORST ROADWAYS SO THAT WE CAN PRIORITIZE LIMITED RESOURCES AND ATTACK THOSE WITH THE GREATEST BANG FOR THE BUCK. SO LOUISVILLE'S HIGH INJURY NETWORK IS FIVE MILES. UM 5% EXCUSE ME OF NON INTERSTATE MILES IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, BUT ACCOUNTS FOR OVER HALF OF ALL NON INTERSTATE FATAL AND SERIOUS INJURY CRASHES. UM. 85% OF THOSE MILES ARE OWNED BY THE STATE. UM, SO THEY ARE CRITICAL PARTNER. AND IN FACT, UM THE HYDRA NETWORK PROJECT WAS ACTUALLY FUNDED BY KC UM AND EVEN THOUGH UM THE, UH, THE EAST END DOES NOT ESCAPE THE WRATH OF FATAL AND SERIOUS INJURY CRASHES . UM RESIDENTS AND JUSTICE 40 AREAS ARE, UM, KIND OF, UM, DISPROPORTIONATELY BURDENED WITH LOUISVILLE'S HIGH INJURY NETWORK. MILES. WE SEE THIS, UM IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT PUBLIC HEALTH. UM AND, UH, TRANSPORTATION. UH, INEQUITIES. UM, AND IT'S UM IT'S THE SAME HERE AS IT IS FOR A LOT OF OTHER UM PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES LIKE MORTALITY RATES AND ASTHMA RATES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, UM, SO THE SOUTH END AND WEST END SEA, UM EXPERIENCE A DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF THESE, UM, REALLY DANGEROUS ROADWAYS. BUT PUBLIC WORKS AND KYTC ARE ALREADY WORKING TOGETHER ON SAFETY PROJECTS ON MANY, MANY OF THESE ROADS THAT YOU SEE HERE, INCLUDING BROADWAY. UM CAMERON ROAD AND TAYLOR BOULEVARD. SO ON THE SAFER SPEEDS STRATEGY. THE SPEED. MAY OUR SPEED MANAGEMENT PLAN THAT WE'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW WILL BE THE FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENT FOR OUR SAFER SPEEDS STRATEGY. IT'S TOUGH TO SAY TOO QUICKLY. UM THAT ALSO IS FUNDED BY THE STATE OF KENTUCKY TRANSPORTATION CABINET, SO WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THEIR SUPPORT. UM, THAT PROJECT WILL BE COMPLETED BY THE END OF THE YEAR, AND IT'S EXPECTED TO INCLUDE POLICY, PROGRAMMATIC AND INFRASTRUCTURE RECOMMENDATIONS AS WELL TO MANAGE SPEEDS ON SURFACE STREETS THROUGHOUT JEFFERSON COUNTY. I INCLUDED, UM, EVEN THOUGH THE SPEED MANAGEMENT PLAN IS, UM, IS UNDER UM YOU KNOW, UNDER WORK RIGHT NOW. I INCLUDED THIS GRAPHIC BY NHTSA NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION, UH, TO HIGHLIGHT AND REAFFIRM THAT, UM PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS AS WELL ARE THE MOST VULNERABLE OF OUR ROAD USERS. AND SO THIS IS WHY WE MUST MANAGE SPEEDS. UM, IS TO IS TO SAVE LIVES. POST CRASH CARE IS ANOTHER OVERLAPPING, UH, STRATEGY OF THE SAFE SYSTEM APPROACH. AND, UM WE HAVE WORKED WITH PUBLIC HEALTH FOR OVER A YEAR TO DEVELOP A PLAN THAT WILL GUIDE OUR POST CRASH CARE STRATEGY. UH, WE HAVE ALREADY ENGAGED. UM, SEVERAL SUPPORTIVE PARTNERS, INCLUDING U OF L. NORTON CHILDREN'S LNPD. U OF L SPEED SCHOOL RESEARCH ENGINEERS AS WELL, ALL OF WHOM ARE, UM ARE EAGER TO WORK WITH US. ONCE WE HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DO SO. THE[00:25:02]
POST CRASH CARE STRATEGY REALLY? REALLY EXEMPLIFIES. UM, HOW JUST HOW VISION ZERO IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY MULTI AGENCY APPROACH TO TRANSPORTATION SAFETY. IT'S NOT JUST SIMPLY ENFORCEMENT. IT'S NOT JUST SIMPLY ROADWAY DESIGN. IT'S ALL OF THE ABOVE. YOU CAN SEE ON THIS SLIDE THAT, UM UNDER THE LOCAL HEADING THAT, UH, ONE OF THE LEADING CAUSES OF INJURY OR THE LEADING CAUSE OF INJURY IN 2021 AND 2022 FOR U OF L HOSPITALS, UH, TRAUMA CENTER WAS ACTUALLY A MOTOR VEHICLE. MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISIONS, WHICH INCLUDE MOTOR MOTORCYCLE CRASHES AND PEDESTRIANS AS WELL, EVEN MORE THAN, UM, GUN GUN VIOLENCE AND STABBINGS AS WELL. SO WHAT'S OUR GOALS FOR THIS YEAR? WELL THEY ARE ARRANGED BY THE SAFE SYSTEM APPROACH STRATEGIES UNDER THE POST CRASH CARE STRATEGY. UM WE'RE WORKING TO SECURE FUNDING TO HIRE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST IN METRO PUBLIC HEALTH. THAT WOULD REALLY KIND OF KICK START IN. AND, UM THIS POST CRASH CARE STRATEGY. UM WE'VE DEVELOPED A PROGRAM PROPOSAL FOR IT AS I MENTIONED, BUT WE JUST DON'T HAVE, UH, THE BANDWIDTH TO GET IT OFF THE GROUND. UH, IT'S A FULL TIME JOB, AND, UH, WE ALREADY HAVE OUR OWN FULL TIME JOBS, SO WE'RE LOOKING TO SECURE FUNDING TO HIRE THAT FULL TIME EMPLOYEE. UM WE'RE ALSO LOOKING TO HOST UM, OUR THIRD ANNUAL WORLD DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR ROAD TRAFFIC VICTIMS AS WELL, UM, THAT'S UM IT'S BEEN A REALLY , REALLY POWERFUL ANNUAL EVENT TO KIND OF HOLD SPACE, UH, FOR FOLKS WHO HAVE LOST LOVED ONES, UH TO, UM TO TRAFFIC FATALITIES.UM, UNDER THE SAFER SPEEDS. OVERLAPPING STRATEGY. WE REALLY WANT TO COMPLETE THAT COUNTY WIDE SPEAK MANAGEMENT PLAN AS WELL. AND THEN AS A FROM AN UMBRELLA PERSPECTIVE. UM WE ARE WORKING TO EXPAND OUR EXISTING VISION. ZERO LOUISVILLE SAFETY REPORT FROM 2021 INTO AN OFFICIAL ACTION PLAN THAT WILL FORMALIZE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS UNTIL 2050. THAT CONCLUDES MY FORMAL PRESENTATION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH CHAIR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AT THIS TIME. I'D LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE COUNCILMAN KRAMER BEEN IN THE CHAMBERS. UM I DON'T KNOW. IF ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTIONS. I'M JUST GONNA MAKE A FEW COMMENTS. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, JUST FEEL FREE TO JOIN IN. I'M SORRY. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU FOR BEING ON YOUR JOB. UM CURIOUS ABOUT, UM SPEED REDUCTION, AND I'M SURE YOU'RE AWARE THAT A LOT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS UM ASK FOR SPEED HUMPS. AND THEY ARE BECOMING VERY COSTLY. I AM LIKE SPEED HUMP POOR UM SO I WANT TO KNOW IF YOU WERE WORKING TO, UH COULD YOU WORK TO INTRODUCE ALTERNATE SPEED REDUCTION METHODS? UH BESIDES THE COSTLY SPEED HUMPS.
UH, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT YOU DO, OR YOU COULD DO? YEAH. SO PART OF MY TEAM. UM, ACTUALLY, DOES THAT, UM SO I THINK THAT THE SPEED MANAGEMENT PLAN WILL RECOMMEND, UH, SOMETHING THAT WE ALREADY UH THAT METRO PUBLIC WORKS ALREADY HAS IN THE WORKS. UM EXCUSE THE VERY BAD PUN, UM, WHICH IS BASICALLY TO DEVELOP A NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAM. UM, AS YOU MENTIONED RIGHT NOW, UM, WE DO HAVE SPEED HUMPS, BUT IT'S SORT OF THE ONLY TOOL IN OUR TOOLBOX. AND SO WE'RE REALLY LOOKING TO EXPAND THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, WHAT ARE SOME OTHER OPTIONS THAT WE COULD THAT WE COULD, UM, INSTALL ON OUR ROADS, PARTICULARLY OUR LOCAL ROAD, FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION, ROADS OR SORT OF RESIDENTIAL OR NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS. WHAT? WHATEVER YOU WANNA CALL THEM? BASICALLY, THESE ARE ROADS. THAT ARE RESIDENTIAL. PRIMARILY RESIDENTIAL USE, AND YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE REALLY DRIVING OVER 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE ARE NOT YOUR, UM THESE ARE NOT YOUR YOUR MAJOR ROADS. AND SO, UM, THAT NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAM, UM IS ALREADY UNDER DEVELOPMENT BY PUBLIC WORKS. UM AND I CAN ABSOLUTELY SHARE MORE INFORMATION. WITH YOU ON IT, UH, WELL, I CAN FOLLOW UP WITH YOU ON THAT. YEAH. THANK YOU. AGAIN.
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IF ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, FEEL FREE TO JUMP IN AND ASK. UH, THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. UH, CLARIFYING POINTS AND THEN TWO QUICK QUESTIONS. FIRST OF ALL, IT'S PRETTY CLEAR ABOUT THIS WHEN WE VOTED. IT WAS UNANIMOUS. UH, THE ONLY REASON I VOTED FOR IT, AND I SAID IT AT THE TIME. I'M VERY SKEPTICAL OF PARTS, NOT OF ALL THE PARTS OF THE VISION ZERO CONCEPT. UH, BUT THE WAY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WORKS IS TO GET SOME OF THIS MONEY TO ASSIST IN SOME OF THESE MEASURES. YOU HAVE TO VOTE ON A PLAN, WHICH I HATE THAT SORT OF GAMESMANSHIP THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOES, BUT I DID CAVEAT MY VOTE WITH I DID IT TO GET SECURE, MORE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR TRANSPORTATION, BUT I'VE GOT SOME CONCERNS. UH, AS AN EXAMPLE . UH I'VE I'VE LOOKED. I'VE LOOKED HEAVILY AT THIS WHEN WE FIRST VOTED ON IT. SOME OF THE IDEAS ENVISION. ZERO INCLUDE TAKING LIKE SHALL BE VILLE ROAD IN MY DISTRICT AND MAKING IT ONE LANE EACH WAY. THE TRAFFIC JAM WOULD BE SO BAD, LIKE HOURS LONG THAT TRULY NOBODY WOULD EVER GET INTO AN ACCIDENT OR IF YOU DID, IT WOULD BE A FENDER BENDER AND NOBODY CARES. AND THAT'S ONE OF THE TENETS OF VISION ZERO TO MAKE IT SO THAT PEOPLE CAN'T GET ANYWHERE IN ANY RE REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME. BECAUSE SPEED REDUCTION IS SO SEVERE THAT YOU REDUCE DAMAGE, BUT YOU ALSO DESTROY WHAT IS A VIBRANT COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR. SHALL WE GO AROUND? UM THEN, BUT WHAT I WHAT I DO LIKE ABOUT IT IS SOME OF THE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY MEASURES. I THINK SOME OF THOSE ARE VERY GOOD, AND WE'RE WE'VE TRIED TO IMPLEMENT SOME OF THOSE IN MY DISTRICT AS WELL. SO I, I JUST WANNA SAY SOME AREAS. I THINK VERY GOOD. SOME AREAS. I'VE GOT SOME DEEP CONCERN WITH, UH AND WE'LL SEE HOW THIS MANIFESTS ITSELF. UM I DO WANT TO BRING UP AGAIN. TWO QUESTIONS. FIRST ONE IS GOING TO BE ENFORCEMENT. I'M GONNA CITE AN ARTICLE. N PR? UH IT WAS PUBLISHED LAST YEAR ALMOST A YEAR AGO. TODAY AMERICA'S ROADS ARE MORE DANGEROUS AS POLICE PULL OVER FEWER DRIVERS AND IT SITES. IT SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED ON SEATTLE, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THE DATA IS VERY SIMILAR TO LOUISVILLE. UM THEY TALK ABOUT, UH, HOW HIGH DEATHS ARE, UM, AND THEY TALK ABOUT THE PULLBACK IN POLICING RELATED TO ENFORCEMENT. ENFORCEMENT SPECIFICALLY, AND THEY SAY THE RESULT AND THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT SEATTLE AGAIN, BUT I THINK THE DATA IS GOING TO BE SIMILAR HERE. TRAFFIC CITATIONS BY POLICE OFFICERS ARE DOWN TO 86% FROM 2023 TO 2019 PRE PANDEMIC. UM EVEN THE ORIGINAL VISION ZERO PLAN THAT I HAD LOOKED AT AGAIN RESEARCH FROM THE SWEDEN MODEL FROM HOW IT WAS IMPLEMENTED IN OTHER CITIES. THEY TALK ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT ENFORCEMENT ARE. WHERE ARE WE WITH ENFORCEMENT AND INCREASING TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT, UH, WITHIN THE CITY. SURE WELL TO THAT I WOULD DEFER TO LNP D'S TRAFFIC UNIT. OK THAT'S FINE, AND I'LL ASK THEM, BUT I WOULD SAY THAT IF WE'RE GONNA THINK ABOUT THIS COMPREHENSIVELY, I THINK THE VISION ZERO FOLKS SHOULD KNOW THIS RIGHT? LIKE YOU KNOW BOTH THINGS RIGHT AND WHAT THE INFRASTRUCTURE BUT ALSO BE PARTNERING WITH L MP D AND KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO INCREASE THE ENFORCEMENT SIDE OF IT. AND MY OTHER QUESTION IS, UM I KNOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AND I THINK IT WILL BE IN THE MAYOR'S PROPOSAL. I'M GUESSING I TRULY HAVE NO INSIGHT INTO IT. UH, THIS CONCEPT OF A DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION VERSUS THE CURRENT PUBLIC WORKS MODEL WHERE WE MAINTAIN ROADS AND A REACTIONARY ON DEVELOPING NEW ROADS, RIGHT? UM DO YOU KNOW OR DO YOU HAVE ANY VISION IN HOW THIS WILL BE INCORPORATED INTO A POTENTIAL DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE CITY? UM TO THAT I WOULD DEFER TO OUR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS. UM I WILL ALSO MENTION ON THE ENFORCEMENT SIDE. UM WE ARE PARTNERING WITH LNPD TRAFFIC UNIT. UM, AND THEY HAVE BEEN A PHENOMENAL PARTNER. UM BECAUSE ENFORCEMENT. UM IT'S A PIECE OF THAT SAME PUZZLE. RIGHT SO YOU KNOW, PART OF IT IS REDESIGNING OUR ROADS, UM, TO IMPROVE SAFETY . PART OF THAT IS THEN YOU ENFORCE. UM, THAT HIGHER SAFETY STANDARD. UM AND THEN YOU YOU KEEP ADDING THOSE SORT OF OVERLAPPING SAFETY MEASURES UNTIL YOU ACHIEVE YOUR DESIRED OUTCOME, WHICH IS, UM NO FATAL CRASHES. UM ON THE SHOP, PEOPLE ROAD ON YOUR, UM, POINT ABOUT SHOP OF ROAD. I MEAN, I. I THINK THAT'S A GOOD POINT. YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT'S WHERE THE OPERATIVE WORD IN THE SPEED MANAGEMENT. UM STRATEGY BECOMES MANAGEMENT BECAUSE I THINK THAT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S JUST ALL ABOUT TRADE OFFS. YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THIS MIGHT BE AN EXAMPLE OF[00:35:03]
WHERE DOWNTOWN, WHERE THERE'S MUCH HIGHER PEDESTRIAN VOLUMES, YOU MIGHT SAY OK, WELL, WE'RE WILLING TO, UM TRADE OFF MORE FOR SAFETY RATHER THAN SPEED, WHEREAS, UM AND, UH, MORE OF OUR, UM OUTER RINGS OF THE COUNTY. WE MIGHT BE WILLING TO TRADE OFF A LITTLE BIT MORE SPEED FOR SAFETY, SO IT IT. IT'S UM IT'S ABSOLUTELY, UM, A, UM UM A TRADE OFF, I AGREE. AND AGAIN.I WANT TO COME BACK TO THIS ENFORCEMENT THING I THE EIGHTH DIVISION HAS TWO TRAFFIC OFFICERS FOR THE ENTIRE EIGHTH DIVISION. THE EIGHTH DIVISION IS GARIN NOMS IN ROAD MILES TRAVELED, AND, UH, THAT'S A TECHNICAL TERM GINORMOUS FOR ALL THOSE THAT ARE WATCHING. UM IT MEANS A LOT OF MILES. AND SO, UH , YOU KNOW, WE WE'RE NEVER I CAN TELL YOU I HAD A CONSTITUENT WHO GOT A SPEEDING TICKET. HE WAS SO SHOCKED. THAT HE WAS ACTUALLY LIKE, OH, MY GOD. DO WE ACTUALLY HAVE COPS ENFORCING THE SPEED NOW, LIKE I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT IN YEARS LIKE THAT'S HOW BLOWN AWAY HE WAS BY GETTING PULLED OVER FOR SPEEDING. UM BUT I MEAN IT. IT IS THERE ARE, UH, CRAZY THINGS GOING ON. ON OUR ROADS BECAUSE WE ARE NOT INFORMED. LIKE THERE IS ZERO EXPECTATION AT THIS POINT, AT LEAST WHERE I LIVE THAT ANYBODY'S GONNA PULL YOU UP WITH SPEED BECAUSE THE SECOND WE PUT SOMEBODY ON TRAFFIC, WE HAVE TO TAKE THEM OFF. THE BEATS, AND WE ONLY HAVE TWO OFFICERS PER BEAT. SO ANYWAY , UH, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY NEED TO PUSH WITH LNPD, CERTAINLY, BUT I WOULD SAY IT. IT CAN'T BE DETACHED FROM THIS. WE CAN'T BE JUST DOING INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGE AND NOT BE SEEING THAT ASPECT OF IT. IT'S CRITICAL. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CHELSEA. COUNCIL THANK YOU ALMOST HAD CHANCELLOR CHAPPELL THAT HAS A BETTER RING TO IT. FOR WHATEVER REASON, UM I WANNA THANK YOU, CLAIRE FOR BEING HERE, BUT ALSO FOR, UH, MENTIONING CYCLOPIA. THAT HAPPENED IN THREE POINTS, BECAUSE IF ANYONE WAS LISTENING TO THE MEETING, UM, PUBLIC PLANNING AND ZONING, I ALSO MENTIONED THREE POINTS SO TO HAVE THAT OBSCURITY SHOUTED OUT TWICE IN ONE DAY IS REALLY DANDY. UM, AS YOU POINTED OUT, FATALITIES AREN'T GETTING ANY LOWER AND I. I DON'T WANT THAT TO SEEM LIKE IT'S ANY ASIDE TO THE WORK THAT YOU ARE DOING. I WANT TO URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO GO ON FRIDAYS TO YOUR, UH, VISION.
ZERO MEETINGS. YOU THE INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE IS REALLY, REALLY HELPFUL AS WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THIS PROBLEM , BUT OUR OUR ROADS GETTING WORSE ARE FATALITIES INCREASING BECAUSE POPULATIONS ARE INCREASING. UM OUR PEOPLE JUST GETTING DUMBER. UM WHAT YOU KNOW, LIKE WHETHER DRIVING A CAR OR WALKING OUT IN THE TRAFFIC WHAT COULD WE I. I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T WANNA BLANKET A TRIBUTE SOMETHING. UM BUT WHAT'S KIND OF TIPPING THE NEEDLE AND THEN I GUESS A WAY TO MAYBE ANSWER THAT IS AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THE BUDGET SEASON. HOW CAN WE INVEST IN THIS PROBLEM AND GETTING RID OF THIS PROBLEM, OR AT LEAST DECREASING THAT NUMBER. IS THAT A POSSIBILITY? MM. I THINK IT'S AN A. I THINK IT'S ABSOLUTELY A POSSIBILITY TO SAVE LIVES TO FORCE THIS NUMBER DOWN. UM SO AND THEN TO SORT OF. ANSWER YOUR QUESTION REGARDING THE, UM YOU KNOW WHAT'S CAUSING THAT SPIKE? THAT'S A LOT TO PARSE OUT. AND UH FOLKS WHO ARE FAR FAR SMARTER THAN ME. COULD PROBABLY, UM, UH A PINE BETTER, BUT, UH, I'LL TAKE A STAB AT IT. SO LOUISVILLE IS NOT UNIQUE IN THAT, UM, WHAT WE SEE HERE. ON, UM, A LOCAL LEVEL. TYPICALLY RUNS NATIONAL AS WELL. UM AND THAT RING RINGS TRUE FOR TRAFFIC SAFETY. UM YOU KNOW, I. I THINK IT'S A IT'S A SQUISHY MIX OF UM THE AVERAGE VEHICLE NOWADAYS, UM HAS HAS GONE FROM, SAY. MORE OF LIKE A, UM, A COMPACT OR A SUBCOMPACT CAR. UM MAYBE EVEN A SEDAN TO MORE OF AN SUV, UH OR PICKUP TRUCK. UM AND WHAT HAPPENS WITH THAT IS THAT THOSE HAVE HIGHER PROFILES SO VEHICLES WITH HIGHER PROFILE, SO THEY SIT UP HIGHER. RIGHT OFF THE ROAD. WELL WHAT HAPPENS WITH THAT IS WE IF YOU STRIKE A PRODUCT PEDESTRIAN OR A CYCLIST AT. AT A REASONABLE SPEED OF 35, MAYBE OR OR MORE THAN THAT. WHAT TYPICALLY HAPPENS IS THAT THE PEDESTRIAN OR CYCLIST ACTUALLY ROLLS UNDER THE VEHICLE, SO THAT SO THAT PEDESTRIAN, UM IS ACTUALLY RUN OVER SO THEY'RE THEY'RE STRUCK
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IN THE HEAD OR NECK AREA. AND THEN THE RUN OVER. UM AND SO THAT'S THE TRADE OFF WITH HAVING MORE AND MORE HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES IS THAT, UM, THEY THEY'RE SAFER FOR THE OCCUPANT OF THE VEHICLE, BUT OR ANYONE OUTSIDE THE VEHICLE. THEY CAN ACTUALLY BE MORE DANGEROUS, AS OPPOSED TO THINK OF A HONDA CIVIC. IT HAS A LOWER PROFILE, AND SO IT WOULD TYPICALLY STRIKE A PEDESTRIAN. IN THE LEG AREA, OR MAYBE BELOW THE HIPS RIGHT FOR SOMEONE OF QUOTE UNQUOTE AVERAGE HEIGHT AND THEN THAT THAT PEDESTRIAN COULD FLY UP ONTO THE HOOD. UM, THERE MIGHT STILL BE SEVERE INJURIES, BUT, UM IT COULD BE MORE LIKELY THAT THAT PERSON MIGHT SURVIVE. SO THAT I THINK THAT THAT'S PART OF IT. UM YOU KNOW, I THINK, UM PART OF IT, TOO, IS, UM SINCE COVID. YOU KNOW? A LOT OF FOLKS HAVE BECOME PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS. UM BY NEED. RIGHT, SO UM IF YOU'RE UNHOUSED, UM YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT YEAH. YOU MIGHT VERY WELL BE A PEDESTRIAN OR YOU MIGHT BE A CYCLIST OF NEED. AND SO YOU ARE EXPOSING YOURSELF. YOU ARE MORE VULNERABLE MORE OFTEN. UM, THROUGH DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE DAY. UM AND SO IF YOU NEED TO GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B AND THE SHORTEST WAY TO DO THAT IS TO CROSS A SEVEN LANE ROAD. AND IT'S AT NIGHT. THEN.THAT MIGHT JUST BE WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO, AND SO WE TYPICALLY UM I. I THINK THAT THAT CAN PLAY A FACTOR AS WELL. SO I THINK IT'S A, UM UM A DIFFICULT COMBINATION OF FACTORS. RIGHT. AND I'M SORRY, I GUESS. THE PURP. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY BECAUSE THE VISION IS ZERO. BUT UM, I DIDN'T KNOW IF THEY'RE AS WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS ANYTHING LIKE IS IT REALISTIC TO CUT THAT NUMBER IN HALF? AND THEN WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO AS LEGISLATORS TO DO THAT? IS IT POLICY? DO WE OUTLAW BIG TRUCKS IN THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE? NOT ACTUALLY SUGGESTING THAT CALM DOWN, KEVIN , BUT, UM, IS IT DO WE INVEST MORE IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND PUBLIC WORKS? DO WE, UM UPDATE OUR TRAFFIC CODE. DO WE INVEST MORE IN TRAFFIC? L MP D, UH, TO DO TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT. I MEAN, I'M SURE THAT IT'S A WRAPAROUND APPROACH. BUT AS WE BEGIN TO SAY , LET'S SHOOT FOR DECREASING THAT NUMBER BY 10. HERE'S OUR PATHWAY TO GETTING THERE OVER THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR. UM I, I JUST WANNA KNOW WHERE OUR MONEY AND OUR EFFORTS WOULD BE MOST IMPACTFUL. SO WHETHER THAT'S SOMETHING TO ANSWER NOW OR SOMETHING YOU COULD LIKE, GET BACK TO US. BUT AGAIN AS WE GO INTO BUDGET SEASON, OBVIOUSLY. UM OUR ROADWAYS ARE, UM, AN ISSUE. AND SO HOW CAN WE, UM, MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING POSITIVE WORK IN THAT AREA. YEAH. COUNCILMAN FOR A WEEK.
THANK YOU. UM SO, UM I NOTICED, LIKE, REALLY STUCK IN MY MIND THAT 5% OF THE ROADWAYS ARE KYTC . AND YET THAT'S WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THE FATAL ACCIDENTS ARE HAPPENING. OH NO. MAYBE MY NUMBERS ARE NOT EXACTLY RIGHT. BUT IT'S A LOT OF KYTC ROADWAY. UM AND I KNOW THAT'S A CHALLENGE. DEALING WITH THEM HAVE HAS IT GOTTEN ANY BETTER WORKING WITH KYTC TO MAKE SOME OF THE CHANGES THAT WE FEEL NEED TO BE MADE? UM I PERSONALLY HAVE A WONDERFUL WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH A LOT OF MY COLLEAGUES AT KENTUCKY TRANSPORTATION CABINET, AND I THINK THEY'VE BEEN A FANTASTIC PARTNER. UM AS I MENTIONED, THEY FUNDED THEY'VE ALREADY FUNDED SEVERAL OF, UM SEVERAL SAFETY PROJECTS THAT DIRECTLY SUPPORT VISION. ZERO LOUISVILLE SO, I, I THINK THAT, UM I THINK THAT THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY WILLING AND ABLE TO HELP STEM THE STEM THE TIDE OF, UM A FATAL CRASHES. YEAH, I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT. DOES IT FEEL LIKE THEY'RE UNDERSTANDING MORE? THE STRATEGIES AND HOW THEY WORK ? I JUST THINK THAT THAT WAS A COMMENT. I HEARD EARLIER THAT THEY DIDN'T NECESSARILY UNDERSTAND. WHERE WHY THINGS WERE THE WAY YOU ALL WERE DESIGNING THEM OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. MM. NO I THE COLLEAGUES THAT I WORK WITH AT AT KENTUCKY TRANSPORTATION CABINET, WHETHER THAT BE, UM AT OUR LOCAL DISTRICT DISTRICT FIVE OR IN CENTRAL OFFICE IN FRANKFURT, I. I THINK ALL OF THEM ABSOLUTELY UNDERSTAND. UH AND, UH, AND GET IT. YEAH I'M VERY HAPPY TO HEAR THAT NOW SPECIFIC QUESTION. AS WE KNOW. NEW CUT ROAD TAYLOR
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BOULEVARD SOUTHERN PARKWAY. ARE CLOSE TO MY HEART. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHEN THE ROAD DIET AND REST STRIPING ON SOUTHERN PARKWAY IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE LAST I SAW THE PLANS I BELIEVE HAVE BEEN SENT TO KYT STEVE AND WAITING FOR APPROVAL. SO SOUTHERN PARKWAY BETWEEN UM WOODLAWN AND, UH TAYLOR NEWCO, UH, THAT THAT'S ACTUALLY A METRO ROAD. UM BUT I CAN, UM, ASK THE PROJECT MANAGER TO FOLLOW UP WITH YOU AND GET YOU, UH, A STATUS UPDATE. OK, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THE NEIGHBORS HAVE BEEN ASKING OK, THANKS. COUNSELING KRAMER. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. UM MY COLLEAGUES HAVE ASKED QUESTIONS THAT I THOUGHT WOULD ANSWER MINE BUT ACTUALLY THEY JUST CHANGED THEM A LITTLE. UM MY FIRST QUESTION WAS AROUND. I'M LOOKING AT THE MAP THAT YOU PERIOD IT CLEAR IT'S UM SAFER ROADS, HIGH INJURY NETWORK. UM ON THE MAP. YOU SEE, SUGGEST THAT 68% OF THE INJURY NETWORK MILES ARE I'M SORRY. YEAH 68% OF THE INJURY NETWORK.MILES UM ARE IN AN AREA WHERE I ONLY 40% OF THE CITY'S POPULATION LIVES. UM SO MY ORIGINAL QUESTION WAS, YOU KNOW WHAT IMPACT DOES, UM, DRIVER BEHAVIOR? HAVE YOU KNOW IT'S IT? I THINK IT COMES DOWN TO THAT. AND THEN I HEARD COUNCILMAN PINI'S QUESTION. AND SO I'M GONNA ADJUSTING THAT JUST EVER SO SLIGHTLY, AND THAT IS, UM IT. IS THERE. WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF BECAUSE DRIVER BEHAVIOR HAS TO MATTER? IT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME WHERE YOU'RE DRIVING. UM BUT MY QUESTION WOULD BE. IS THERE SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROADS IN THIS PORTION OF THE COMMUNITY WHERE DRIVER BEHAVIOR WHERE POOR DRIVING DECISIONS EXACERBATE THE LIKELIHOOD OF A PROBLEM, RIGHT.
LIKE IF I MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE IN THIS PART OF TOWN, AS I MAKE IN THIS PART THIS MIGHT RESULT IN A FATALITY, WHEREAS IN THIS IN THIS OTHER PORTION AND IT MAY NOT, AND I'M CURIOUS WHAT THAT WOULD BE LIKE, WHAT WOULD WHAT? WHY WOULD THAT HAPPEN? I THINK YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. I MEAN, ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE SAFE SYSTEM APPROACH THAT'S RECOMMENDED BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IS THAT SAFETY IS A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY. RIGHT SO DRIVER BEHAVIOR IS ABSOLUTELY A PIECE OF THAT OVERLAPPING STRATEGY. UM BUT I THINK YOU'RE ALSO ABSOLUTELY ON THE MONEY THAT YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES. SOMETIMES, UM THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT CAN SORT OF ENCOURAGE CERTAIN OUTCOMES. RIGHT SO TYPICALLY WHAT WE SEE A LOT OF IS RESIDENTIAL ON ONE SIDE OF A MAJOR ARTERIAL AND COMMERCIAL ON THE OTHER, RIGHT LAND USE SEGREGATION, ZONING. RIGHT SO THAT SEGREGATION OF USES MEANS THAT IF YOU'RE NOT IN A VEHICLE, YOU HAVE TO WALK OR RIDE YOUR BIKE ACROSS A MAJOR ARTERIAL ROAD. WELL OUT IN THE SUBURBS, THE SIGNAL SPACING IS REALLY FAR APART. AND SO, UM SOMETIMES. SOMETIMES UH UH, ENCOURAGING THAT GOOD BEHAVIOR OF, UM, OF WALKING 10 MINUTES UP TO A SIGNAL. UM ASSUMING THAT THERE'S A SIDEWALK ON THAT SIDE OF THE STREET CROSSING. TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET AND ASSUMING THAT THERE'S A SIDEWALK ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET. WHERE YOU DOUBLE BACK, UM, TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION. I THINK A LOT OF TIMES, UM WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING IS THAT FOLKS JUST TAKE THE SHORTEST ROUTE FROM POINT A TO POINT B? UM AND ANOTHER ONE OF THE SAFE SYSTEM.
APPROACH PRINCIPLES IS THAT HUMANS MAKE MISTAKES. I THINK ALL OF US WILL SEE A POINT A TO POINT B AND TAKE IT. UM AND SO I THINK THEY'RE ONE OF THE ANOTHER. ANOTHER. PRINCIPLE COULD BE THAT MISTAKE SHOULDN'T SHOULDN'T KILL YOU. YOU KNOW, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE, UH, TO MAKE A MISTAKE. AND YOU YOU YOU MIGHT VERY WELL HAVE TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES. BUT YOU WOULD IDEALLY LIVE. UM BUT I THINK IN THE SOUTH END AND WEST END I THINK THAT YOU YOU DO TEND TO SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THOSE SORT OF QUOTE UNQUOTE OVERBUILT ROADS SO ROADS THAT MIGHT HAVE FOR TRAVEL LANES, BUT ONLY NEED TWO. AND SO THEN THAT'S WHAT WE CALL RIGHT SIZING. UM AND SO WE'LL BE DOING A LOT OF THAT THROUGH ONE OF OUR SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL GRANTS. UM, ACTUALLY, IT'S 10 CORRIDORS DO NOT ALL IN THE SOUTH AND WEST END. UH, THERE'S ONE IN RIVER ROAD. ONE OF THE SON AVENUE, BUT BUT, YEAH, YEAH, IT'S ABSOLUTELY KIND OF RIGHT SIZING THAT TO KIND OF ENCOURAGE THAT BETTER BEHAVIOR. AND KIND OF ENCOURAGE DRIVERS NOT TO WEAVE IN BETWEEN
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TRAFFIC AND THINGS LIKE THAT, RIGHT? UM, AND MY SECOND QUESTION IS A FOLLOW UP TO, UH, COUNCILMAN CHAPELS. AND UM, YOU KNOW, IN YOUR RESPONSE TO COUNCILMAN CHAPO YOU MENTIONED YOU KNOW, THE INCREASED NUMBER OF FOLKS, UM, WHO ARE WHO ARE FINDING THEMSELVES, EITHER WALKING OR USING BICYCLES AS A AS THEIR PRIMARY MODE OF TRANSPORTATION. UM WHICH THEN BEGS THE QUESTION AGAIN WHEN I'M LOOKING AT THIS MAP, UM IS THAT ARE ARE YOU GUYS PROPOSING OR SUGGESTING THAT IN SOME WAY THAT THAT REALITY IS PART OF THE REASON WE'RE SEEING THIS HERE.IN OTHER WORDS, ARE WE SEEING MORE PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLES IN ONE PART OF THE COMMUNITY THAN WE ARE IN OTHERS, AND IT WOULD STAND TO REASON. TO YOUR POINT IF THEY'RE IF THIS IS THEIR PRIMARY MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION, WE ASKED, MY QUESTION IS, IS THAT ARE WE SEEING AN INCREASE IN IN EITHER PEDESTRIAN OR BICYCLES AS PRIMARY TRANSPORTATION IS AT A CROSS METRO LEVEL. ARE WE SEEING THAT MORE EXCLUSIVELY IN THESE AREAS WHERE YOU'RE SEEING 68% OF THE ACCIDENTS? ONLY 40% RESIDENTS. EXACTLY YEAH, YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK I THINK, UM WHAT ARE THE MOST POPULAR TALK ROUTES? BROADWAY PRESTON DIXIE. AND, UH, I THINK MAYBE PORT ON ROAD UM AND SO, YEAH, THAT THAT'S UM UH, YOU YOU TEND TO SEE. UM UH HIGHER PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY. UM ON ON, SAY, UH UH, A KEEN RUN ROAD THEN, UM MAYBE PART OF, UM US 42, AND SO THEN THAT, UM, RISK OF VULNERABILITY GOES UP AS WELL. WITH EACH INTERACTION BETWEEN A VEHICLE AND A PEDESTRIAN. AND EVERY TIME I THINK I'M FINISHED. UM SO ONE LAST FOLLOW IF I MAY, UM SO ARE I THINK I'M HEARING YOU SAY THAT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE NUMBER OF FATALITIES. IS IT A SAFE BET THAT WE'RE SEEING MORE FATALITIES WHEN IT'S CAR VERSUS EITHER PEDESTRIAN BICYCLE VERSUS HIGH IMPACT? UH, BETWEEN MOTOR VEHICLES WHERE A PERSON IN THAT 11 OR THE OTHER OR BOTH OF THOSE MOTOR VEHICLES PASSES, LET ME UH, LET ME CHECK MY UH, EXCUSE ME. WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO WRAP THIS UP. PRETTY SORRY. THAT WAS MY LAST QUESTION. I PROMISE. I WAS JUST CURIOUS IF IT'S MORE ABOUT PEDESTRIANS, OR IT'S MORE ABOUT CARS AND THANK YOU. CHAIR AND TO YOUR POINT COUNCIL MEMBER, KRAMER? UH, YES. THE UH THE NON MOTORIZED FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES HAS ACTUALLY GONE UP. UM, SINCE 2019 AND SO THAT COULD TRIBUTE. A PART OF THAT, UH, BECAUSE THERE'S JUST SUCH A DISPROPORTIONATE RISK ASSOCIATED WITH GETTING HIT BY A CAR AS A PEDESTRIAN AS OPPOSED TO CAR ON CAR. UM WHICH TYPICALLY DOESN'T RESULT IN A FATAL OR SERIOUS INJURY CRASH UNLESS IT'S AT PARTICULARLY HIGH SPEEDS. UM SO I THINK MAYBE, UM INTERSTATE CRASH WHERE YOU'RE AT SUCH HIGH SPEED THAT IT MIGHT END UP, UM IGNITING SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND YOU ACTUALLY DO MORE FROM THE BURNS? YEAH. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE IF THERE ISN'T ANY FURTHER BUSINESS
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, THIS MEETING IS NOW ADJOURNED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.