Spokane Launches Safe Streets Initiative

The Spokane, Wash­ing­ton City approved a res­o­lu­tion to “direct the Pub­lic Works to imple­ment adap­tive design strate­gies for infra­struc­ture with­in the City of Spokane to be paid through the Traf­fic Calm­ing Mea­sures Fund,” reports Vin­ny Saglim­beni for KREM. 

The res­o­lu­tion focus­es on “ tem­po­rary improve­ments that quick, low-cost solu­tions for real­lo­cat­ing street to address an oppor­tu­ni­ty or to mit­i­gate an con­cern.”

The res­o­lu­tion will sup­port new streets infra­struc­ture and traf­fic calm­ing mea­sures. Projects will be fund­ed through a $9.6 mil­lion fed­er­al Safe Streets grant. Accord­ing to the city, “ would allow traf­fic calm­ing mea­sures to be imple­ment­ed quick­ly across the city, espe­cial­ly in his­tor­i­cal­ly exclud­ed com­mu­ni­ties that lack cur­rent traf­fic mea­sures.”

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