Pinehurst School Traffic Safety

Pinehurst School Traffic Safety MeetingJanuary 27-28, 2015

SDOT’s mission & vision

Mission: delivering a first-rate transportation system for Seattle.

Vision: a vibrant Seattle with connected people, places, and products.

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SDOT’s core principles

Keep it safe

Focus on the basics

Build healthy

communities

Support a thriving

economy

Provide great

service

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Our goalZero traffic fatalities and serious injuries by

2030

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Presentation overview

• Background• Outreach Summary• Proposals• Budget• Next steps• Q&A

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Background –Safe Routes to School

• Safety improvements on the walking and biking routes to school

• Education and encouragement for kids to walk and bike safely to school 6

Helmet fittings

Background – Pinehurst Safe Routes to School

• Goal: Make it safer for everyone

• Leverage school investments• Make it safer for kids to cross

busy streets• Make it easier for kids to walk

and bike in the neighborhood• Short and long-term solutions • Provide many opportunities

for community input• Begin implementation this

year

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Public outreach summary

• Two “Issue Identification” meetings (May 2014)• Presented to community council (2014)• School district coordination (2014)• Two “Design Review” meetings (January 2015)• Business outreach (February, March 2015)• Outdoor Drop-In Sessions (spring and summer 2015)• Booth at Pinehurstfest (July 2015)

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Issue identification meetings

• Build more sidewalks!• Make it easier to cross

Roosevelt Way NE• Make Pinehurst Way NE safer• Reduce speeding• Improve safety at Pinehurst /

115th / 12th

• Improve safety at Pinehurst / 117th / 15th

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Proposal overview

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• New sidewalks• Restriping Pinehurst Way

NE to be one lane in each direction

• School zone flashing lights• New marked crosswalk on

Roosevelt

Proposal – New sidewalks

Planned by SDOT

Planned by school district 11

Proposal – School Zone Lights

NE 65th StreetDelridge Way SW

Proposal – 15th Avenue NE (North Segment)

• 2-hour all-day parking

• Two-way left turn lane

• One general purpose travel lane in each direction

• Buffered bicycle lanes

• No changes at intersection of NE 125th Street and 15th Avenue NE

Safeway

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Proposal – 15th / Pinehurst (Central Segment)

• School bus load zone

• All day parking• One general

purpose travel lane in each direction

• Bicycle lanes

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Proposal – Roosevelt / Pinehurst (South Segment)

• One general purpose travel lane in each direction

• Two-way left turn lane

• Protected bicycle lanes

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Safety Benefits• Improves pedestrian environment through school zones• Eliminates “multiple threat” collision• Allows SDOT to considered installing additional marked

crosswalks• Improves sight lines• Provides buffer between pedestrians and vehicular traffic

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Safety Benefits

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Small investment with high safety yieldStone Way Nickerson St NE 125th

Street

Change in speeding

n/a -64% -11%

Change in speeding more than 10 mph over speed limit

-75% -94% -69%

Project Budget

School Speed Zone Lights

$25,000 1%

Paint and signs $100,000 6%Sidewalks $1,500,000 93%TOTAL $1,625,000 100%Funding provided by school zone safety camera revenue

Next stepsMay 13-14, 2014 Feedback Sessions

Summer, 2014 Community meetings

Fall, 2014 Design process underway

January 2015 Design alternatives meetings

Summer 2015 Additional community meetings

Fall 2015 Project implementation begins (signs and markings)

Summer 2016 Project implementation continues (capital projects)

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Questions?

brian.dougherty@seattle.gov | (206) 684-5124http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/ped_srts_Pinehurst.htm

Thanks!

http://www.seattle.gov/transportation

VolumeAverage Daily Traffic Volume

Pinehurst Way NE=9,400

NE 115th=1,050NE 115th=1,830

12th Ave NE=600

5th Ave NE =12,000

Roosevelt Way NE=3,400

NE 125th=16,800

Non-arterial street

Arterial street

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Speed

Pinehurst Way NE 85% drive 40-41 mph or less90% exceed the speed limit15% exceed the speed limit 10 or more mph

NE 115th 85% drive 27-28 mph or less

NE 115th 85% drive 26-27 mph or less

12th Ave NE 85% drive 28-29 mph or less

Non-arterial street

Arterial street

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