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Home My WebLink About10/04/2011 03B Traffic Safety CorridorCity of Yakima 200 S. 3.d Street 'VEY pp ti�xM� Police Department Yakima, Washington 98901 N Telephone (509)575 -6200 Fax (509)575 -6007 N A Memorandum 10/4/2011 TO: YAKIMA CITY COUNCIL FROM: S. BOYLE 44618 SUBJECT: TRAFFIC SAFETY CORRIDOR The purpose of this memorandum is to introduce a traffic safety project which has been presented to the Yakima County Target Zero task Force. The project is a Traffic Safety Corridor which is primarily in the City of Yakima with a small portion in the City of Union Gap. During the last couple of years, Edica Esqueda the Yakima County Target Zero Manager had contacted the Washington State Traffic Safety Commission about bringing a Traffic Safety Corridor Project to Yakima County. In the spring of 2011, Angie Ward from the Washington State Traffic Safety Commission and Matt Enders from Washington -State Department of Transportation came to the Yakima County Target Zero Task Force wanting to implement a traffic safety corridor in Yakima. The collision data identified 1St Street from I -82 to Highway 97 and Nob Hill from K -Mart to 64th Ave as streets which had a high volume of injury, serious injury and fatality collisions. The traffic safety commission offered to utilize federal funding to create the traffic safety corridor in order to reduce the number of collisions on approximately twelve miles of roadway. Similar projects throughout the state have seen reductions in collisions up to 33 %. The initial estimates for funding are $400 - $500,000 for Engineering, $120,000 for Enforcement split amongst YPD, UGPD, WSP and LCB (Liquor Control Board), and $60;000 for Education/Media. The project if supported will begin with initial meetings in November 2011 with a start up target timeframe of late summer 2012. Thank you for your attention to this matter. < .�J 1 YV► IJ SGT Shawn Wyle Yakima PD (509) 728 -4541 About the Yakima Traffic Safety Corridor Project The Washington Traffic Safety Commission(WTSC) and the Washington State Department of Transportation(WSDOT) coordinate and fund projects to help communities improve traffic safety in high crash corridors. Traffic Safety Corridor projects are locally led and typically include community, business, engineering, enforcement and emergency services organizations. Traffic Safety Corridor projects typically run for 18 months to two years from the public kick -off, with a ten to twelve month planning period preceding kick -off. What is a corridor? A corridor is defined as a section of road(or set of roads) that has an unusually high number of fatal and serious injury crashes. How is a corridor selected? The criteria are: 1. Washington State Department of Transportation(WSDOT) statistics must show that a roadway(or set of connected roadways) has a significant fatal and serious injury crash problem 2. The community and local agencies must be re\ Ito lead a corridor safety project. v Where would the Yakima Traffic Safety G�orrid& -p ojec�be? The project runs down 1St Street in Yakima from US 12 on the north end, through Union Gap (Main Street) down to US 97�on the south end. The project also includes Nob Hill Blvd in Yakima fr�om1 1 -82 on the eadt end to 64th Ave on the west end. How is a Traffic Safet Corridor ro'ect funded? • The WTSC provides'fu'nding- for/law enforcement overtime and for all education efforts (i.e., printingpromotional materials, small media buys), as guided by the project action plan. • The WSDOT will enter into an agreement with the City of Yakima Engineering 46ppartment\to, and the low -cost engineering improvements as guided by the oroiect action\olan. What are the ,goal /for a Traffic Safety Corridor project? 1. Reduce�serious injury and fatal collisions on a particular roadway 2. Implement low cost, near term solutions 3. Partner with community groups, businesses, engineering, enforcement, education and emergency services to maximize project impact What benefits have been realized on Traffic Safety Corridor projects? 5% reduction in total collisions 11 % reduction in total injuries 15% reduction in alcohol - related collisions June 23, 2011 Yakima Traffic Safety Corridor Project Page 2 • 34% reduction in fatal and serious collisions • Carryover of working relationships • Roadways identified for long term future development $25: $1 benefit/cost ratio What are the key components of a Traffic Safety Corridor project? Successful projects are built around a focus on the 4 E's: 1. Engineering Ho, I M I o serving as- tne,meaia poKesperson Mayor Cawley has agreed-to-serve in this capacity for the Yakima Traffic Safety Corridor project. X\ 0 -cement and education) between task force meetings Attend all meetings June 23, 2011 Boyle, Shawn From: Ward, Angie (WTSC) [Award @wtse.wa.gov] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 11:31 AM To: Edica Esqueda; Boyle, Shawn Cc: Enders, Matthew; clsawyer253 @earthlink.net Subject: Yakima Traffic Safety Corridor Attachments: Aurora Task Force Invite Ltr FINAL.pdf; 100308 Aurora Task Force Agenda.pdf; ACTS Public Task Force Roster.xls; ats_finaldraftplan.pdf Hello Edica and Shawn: It was great seeing you both this week. Thanks for setting up our time with both the Union Gap City Council and the Public Safety sub - committee of the Yakima City Council. After those meetings I feel like we're well on our way! As promised I have attached copies of documents created and used by our Aurora Corridor project lead, Jim Curtin, who is with the City of Seattle DOT. You will find the roster of people invited to participate in the project, the initial invitation letter, the agenda for the first meeting, and a PDF of their action plan. Please use these as you see fit to craft your list of participants, your invitation, and first agenda. As we discussed, I think it would be great to have the invitation come out under Mayor Micah Cawley's signature if we can make that work? We'll defer to your decision about that. One of probably a couple things you'll need to modify in your invite is our decision to meet every six weeks as opposed to once a month in the beginning stages of the project in order to adjust for the engineering schedule, as opposed to the "every month" mentioned in the Aurora letter . One other thing we didn't discuss is that each of our breakout groups will need a "lead." This person is responsible for facilitating the creation of the action plan for that area (engineering, education, or enforcement), guiding the group discussions, and for keeping their area of the plan on track for the duration of the project. It would be good to have those leads chosen before our first meeting (to be held the first week of November.) Enforcement seems like a no- brainer (Shawn!), education might fall to you Edica (and Carla always plays a key role in this group too), but for engineering I'm not so sure? Joan seems like a good fit, but it sounded yesterday as if she might be passing off her responsibilities to someone else in public works? Matthew of course will be key to that group, but one or both of you should approach whoever you think fits this role best and have them secured by the time the meeting arrives. Most importantly you'll want to make sure they will be at that first meeting and beyond. There are a handful of key players we'll want to be sure can attend that first meeting. Can we plan on having your list (and of course you'll be gather all their email addresses as you create it) by Friday October 7? And would it be possible for you to email the invite out by October 10? If you can get it done before that, all the better, but I don't think we should send an invite for an early November meeting any later than October 10. Is that feasible? You guys had also asked for the amount of funding set aside for the life of the project. It breaks out this way for the two -year project: Engineering $400 - 500,000 Enforcement $120,000 (split amongst YPD, UGPD, WSP, LCB) Education/Media $60,000 TOTAL $580- 680,000 You also asked Matthew for the total # of crashes on the corridor in the last 5 years (2006- 2010.) That number is 1,974. The total number of serious injury and fatal crashes for that same time period is 30. To recap everything we discussed yesterday you will: By October 4 - Present to the full Yakima City Council or at least include flagged information in their packets explaining the project. By October 7 (or before) - Nail down the date, time and location for the first meeting of the corridor group (to be held in the first two weeks of November.) By October 7 (or before) - Send your participants list to Matthew and me for review. By October 10 - Send the invitation email /agenda/sample action plan to the group, on behalf of Mayor Cawley (or whomever you finalize as your corridor lead.) We will gladly review and assist with these documents as necessary. And, as we discussed the kick -off for this project will happen in early fall of 2012. What did I forget? Please don't hesitate to call Matthew (360 705 6907) or me to clarify any of this. We look forward to working with you both on this project over the coming years! Angie Angie Ward Program Manager Washington Traffic Safety Commission PO Box 40944 Olympia, WA 98504 -0944 Phone 360 725 9888 Fax 360 586 6489 awardgwtsc.wa.gov www.wtsc.wa.gov www.targetzero.com 2 From: Grace Crunican [mailto: Grace.Crunican@Seattle. Gov] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:50 PM To: alohainn @alohainn.org; Richard King; Dic Selin; Dale Johnson; fawn seattle @comcast.net; Tim Porter; Tim Moran; Rebecca Deehr; Lisa Quinn; John Todd; Michael Cornell; Chris Dalton; Cindy Potter; Bob Ferguson; Deanne Boisvert; Larry Phillips; Victor Obeso; Mary Sullivan; Karen Peck; Althea Bradshaw; Beth Pflug; Brian Kemper; Charles Bookman; Dawn Schellenberg; Dianne Newsom; Eric Widstrand; Gary English; Grace Crunican; Heather Marx; Jodie Vice; Michael Fann; Mike MorrisLent; Nicholas Metz; Nicole Franklin; Paul Fischburg; Pierre Davis; Reiner Blanco; Robert Robbin; Tim Durkan; Valerie Lee; Kimberly Kinzer; Richard Staudt; Susan McCloskey; Tom Bishop; Beth Ebel; Matthew Enders; Ward, Angie (WTSC) Subject: INVITE ATTACHED: Aurora Traffic Safety Corridor Project Dear Stakeholder- The City of Seattle, Washington Traffic Safety Commission, and Washington State Department of Transportation are partnering on a corridor safety project along Aurora Avenue North. We would like to invite you to sit on the task force that will guide the project. Please read the attached letter for more details. If you are interested in participating, please contact Jim Curtin, SDOT's project lead, at jim.curtingseattle. ov or call (206) 684 -8874. I look forward to working with you. Thanks, Grace Crunican, Director Seattle Department of Transportation