Title
Briefing on the Street Safety Plan
Recommended Action
Information only. No action requested.
Report
Issue:
Briefing on the City’s Street Safety Plan
Staff Contact:
Joey Jones, PE, Senior Engineer, Public Works Transportation, 360.753.8307
Presenter(s):
Joey Jones, PE
Background and Analysis:
City staff have recently updated the Street Safety Plan. Having this plan helps City staff understand where we need to build safety improvements, and it is a requirement to qualify for the state’s City Safety grant program.
The Street Safety Plan takes a systemic approach to improving safety on Olympia’s streets, focusing on collisions involving pedestrians and bicyclists. We have identified the locations where these collisions occurred and where they are likely to occur in the future, based on the characteristics of the locations where the collisions have happened.
We analyze five years’ worth of collision data each time we update the Plan. For this update, we analyzed collisions that happened in 2020-2024. The collision data comes from WSDOT, and it is all collisions reported to law enforcement agencies on public street within the city limits.
City staff will give an overview of the Street Safety Plan and share what we learned from the most recent collision analysis.
Options:
None - briefing only.
Financial Impact:
None from this briefing. Projects identified in the Street Safety Plan are included in the Capital Facilities Plan, where their financial impact is shown.
Attachments:
Link to Street Safety Plan