The city and county of Denver won $576,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) last week to help implement safety improvements on nine stretches of road.
“Our goal is to create a safer and more comfortable environment for people to travel in and around our city, and this funding will supplement the work we’re doing every day to adjust street designs to anticipate human error and reduce crash risks,” Adam Phipps, executive director of the Denver Department of Transportation & Infrastructure (DOTI), said.
As a result of the award given under the Safe Streets and Roads for All program, DOTI will use this funding to hire an independent, multidisciplinary team to examine the affiliated roads and identify ways to reduce safety issues through a Road Safety Audit. Such audits utilize systematic processes to evaluate the safety of all road users and human factors that could add to unsafe road conditions to recommend safety countermeasures for them.
In this case, that audit will cover the following:
- Alameda Avenue from Kearney Street to Fairmount Drive
- Broadway from E. Colfax Avenue to 29th Street
- Colorado Boulevard from Mississippi Avenue to Iliff Avenue
- Speer Blvd from Federal Blvd to Elitch Circle
- University Blvd from Iowa Avenue to Yale Avenue
- W. 38th Avenue from Federal Blvd to Fox St
- Evans Avenue from Colorado Blvd to Quebec St
- Tower Road from 45th Avenue to 56th Avenue
- Tower Road from 56th Avenue to 71st Avenue
So far, eight other corridors in Denver have been studied with Road Safety Audits. Improvements related to these are either currently in design or have completed design.