Safety for Walking and Rolling at MWACT Thursday

Our Area Commission on Transportation, a tri-county board advisory to the Oregon Transportation Commission, meets tomorrow on Thursday the 7th.

With a greater tri-county coverage area, there's a lot of highway expansion and rural projects outside of Salem, so we don't regularly make notes on MWACT agendas and meetings.

But on Thursday they'll hear an update from ODOT and talk a little about safety for people walking and rolling, including Salem area projects.

"Urban design verification" is a terrible name!

You may recall the survey this summer on some key downtown stroads. It was one of these "urban design verification" project areas.

The street/highway segments

Presumably they'll talk about some of the early findings and concepts.

A barrier might be the refusal to understand safety for those outside of vehicles, accounting for the asymmetry in lethality. One member of the commission at the last meeting was perplexed by the increasing deaths in our "time when vehicles have never been safer with the safety features."

Safety for those in cars - what about those outside?

Significantly, at least according to the meeting minutes, no Staff from ODOT or for the commission pushed back on this.

Maybe later there will be more to say about tomorrow's meeting.

See previous notes on MWACT here.