Upcoming Gainesville Vision Zero Open House will discuss safer streets
Press release from City of Gainesville
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The City of Gainesville Transportation Department is hosting a Vision Zero open house where the public can learn about ongoing efforts to improve roadway safety from fellow public safety agencies and community partners.
When: 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 20
Where: Regional Transit System (RTS) Administration Building, 34 SE 13th Road
In 2018, the Gainesville City Commission adopted a Vision Zero policy with the goal of eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries in the city by 2040.
The public is invited to ask questions, share concerns, and speak with the Gainesville Vision Zero Group, including members of the Gainesville Department of Transportation; Gainesville Police Department, Gainesville Public Works, Gainesville Fire Rescue, Alachua County Growth Management and Public Works, UF Health, the Florida Department of Health in Alachua County, the Florida Department of Transportation, the University of Florida, and Santa Fe College.
Neighbors can also share ideas for safer streets through an online survey.
BS! The City nor the Transportation Department is doing anything to improve roadway safety. If they were, they would do something about the ever-increasing panhandling problem and the out of synch traffic signals that impede the flow of traffic rather than providing for an efficient flow of it.
Lard-arsed Harvey and the rest of those idiots need to get out and see the city sometime.
Maybe they do see it, and they’re just happy with what they’ve done to the place.
Well the city sure has midtown clogged up. Construction barrels, speed tables, lane changes, and enough signs to confuse Einstein. Not to mention the pock marked road surface and traffic signals that are purposely timed to cause gridlock. Current thinking is that if cars can’t move, no one will get hit.
Coordinated traffic signals were promised decades ago. Where are they? Going south on Main to Depot
is stop-start-stop-start.
Yeah and the single lane north and sounth really did NOT help traffic fluidity.
How about actually punishing criminals? That might deter crime a bit.
You mean Zero Vision, right?
Cars and bikes dodging pot holes and broken pavement.
Pathetic coordination of traffic lights and signals.
Increased number and aggression of panhandlers.
Let’s start there!
It’s a nice idea, but to avoid accidents, you’ll also need to get pedestrians to look where they’re walking instead of looking at their phones when they’re on the street.
It is flabbergasting how many UF students step into the street without even looking, or pass cars on the right with their bikes, even when cars are turning right. They seem so oblivious to sharing the road with vehicles.