Three grants in the amount of $2 million have been accepted by the City Council of Bellevue that will support the Vision Zero efforts of the Department of Transportation to make the streets of the city safer for people, particularly those who are rolling and walking.
A grant of $628,000 was issued by the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) through its Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) to pay for improved mid-block crossings, protected bike lanes, and reconfigurations of lanes to reduce speeding between 156th and 164th Avenues along Northeast Eighth Street. Another grant of $1 million will go towards the design and construction of high-visibility crosswalk markings at 56 intersections controlled by stop Signs or traffic signals.
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The Safe Streets Corridor program of the city analyzed findings of road safety assessments and the traffic impacts and feasibility of the solutions from these assessments and led to the improvements for Northeast Eighth Street. In addition, the FHS considers high-visibility crosswalk markings as a safety countermeasure that has been proven to reduce injury crashes for people walking by up to 40 percent.
The state Department of Transportation has also awarded the city a grant of $540,000 to collect data about road user behavior and traffic volumes at 79 intersections in the city to inform the implementation of future safety projects.
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