This is great news! The City announced the award of $2.8 million for a Vision Zero plan and Twenty is Plenty program.
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| Speed Radar on Sunnyside SE (2018) |
The grant will help fund various components of the Vision Zero program, including:
- Salem Vision Zero Plan – A strategic blueprint focused on implementing safety measures and fostering responsible road behaviors.
- Residential Neighborhood Speed Limits: Install 20-mph speed limit signs in residential neighborhoods, aiming to create safer transportation for all.
- Speed radar enhancements – Purchase speed radar devices and trailers to inform drivers of new speed limits.
- Public Education Campaign – Initiative to educate the community on road safety behaviors and responsible driving, walking, and biking practices.
Here's the complete list of awards in the Safe Streets and Roads for All grant program.
Back in June the City announced they were applying for these. On October 30th our Federal Electeds announced the first round of winners.
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| via Sen. Weyden's release |
Salem was not on the list, and it was hard to say whether Salem would make the second round.
They did!
Clackamas County also won $330,000 in this latest round.
But as you can see, the amount for Salem is much larger and represents a more ambitious slate of projects. Hopefully the speed reductions will not be limited to residential streets, but will also be on collector and arterials, stroads with higher posted speeds, where most of the deaths occur. The education and PR elements will be of limited utility.
This is a great news dump for a Friday afternoon!
More to come.
5 comments:
How much did Keizer get? Let me guess $0.00.
Maybe. It requires grant writing and from what I've heard the keizer city council doesn't like asking for funding
Hopefully they decide to change their decision on union. With the 3/2 conversion on capitol from center to market it would make a much more intuitive and safer connection for getting to the high school/ middle school on bikes from those forum apartments by taking the promenade along the railroad tracks to union, rather then making kids mix with the underground parking garage traffic on chemeketa
What even are you talking about, Don?
This seems to be a continuation of the criticism of Chemeketa as a bikeway you made here, but it's still not at all clear what you mean, and why we shouldn't have both Chemeketa and Union as bikeways.
In any case, there is in fact a plan with funding for Union Street east of Summer and around the elbow to connect with the intersection of Marion and 12th and then the Esplanade.
This is great news. The disappointing piece is that cops can just disregard all safety measures, kill citizens, and get away with it: https://www.salemreporter.com/2023/12/21/judge-says-dea-agents-duties-could-justify-dropping-charge-in-fatal-cyclist-collision/
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