Policies that govern things like stop signs, crosswalks and speed humps are complex and highly technical. Even deadly intersections sometimes fail to meet the city's criteria for safety improvements.
The San Diego City Council wants to make it easier to install traffic safety measures like crosswalks and speed humps. KPBS metro reporter Andrew Bowen has more.
The San Diego City Council is preparing to update city policies around crosswalks, stop signs and other traffic safety measures to make them easier and faster to implement. The council on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution declaring safety is the city's top priority when it comes to transportation. The resolution also directed the Office of the Independent Budget Analyst to prepare a report with options for how to better instill safety into the highly technical policies that govern traffic engineering.
The vote came after several residents complained of the difficulty convincing city traffic engineers that safety improvements are needed in their neighborhoods. San Diego's"When I hear from community members that they can't get a traffic safety measure implemented on their street because it does not satisfy some specific scoring criteria, it bothers me," Elo-Rivera said.
Earlier this year, Whitburn asked city staffers to make an exception to their official policy and install stop signs at an intersection in North Park where a pedestrian was struck and killed last year. The exception was required because despite the man's death, city traffic engineers determined stop signs were not warranted.I cover local government — a broad beat that includes housing, homelessness and infrastructure.
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