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Good afternoon everyone. Um, today is Wednesday, June 10th, and uh, it is now
5:08 p.m. and I call this meeting to order. Welcome everyone to the Vision
Zero uh, community advisory committee meeting. Our
second agenda item, that's a call to order. Second agenda item, um, we'll do
a roll call. Uh, street transportation department staff leazison is uh, Jamie
Buttermore. Um, Jamie, will you please conduct the roll call for this meeting,
please?
Thank you, Madam Chair. Sorry for the delay. I will begin roll call. Uh first
member, uh chair Kandur here. Vice Chair Dipper
» here. >> Member Yuas.
Member Edington >> here.
» Member Malcarin,
member Malarin.
Member Ventura present.
Can you guys hear me online? >> Thank you. Member Burns here.
» Member Hayes.
Member Haynes.
» [laughter]
» And we uh no longer have active student members so I won't announce any names
but we have attendance completed and we do have quorum. Thank you.
Thank you Jamie. Um
our lawyer is not here. Do we just skip that section Jamie?
Thank you. Uh we'll move to agenda item number three. Um is item number three is
posted for discussion and possible action to approve the minutes from April
15, 2026 meeting. Can I have a motion to approve the
minutes? >> Motion to approve as written.
» Can I have a second, please? Thank you. Um, I have a motion by committee member
Steve Burns to approve the minutes and second by
u member Joseph to um second it. All those in favor please say I
» I. >> Any opposed?
The motion passes unanimously. U Jamie, can you please um take the call?
Item number four um is for information only and this is the road safety
education minute. Um at the beginning of each meeting uh we take a minute to
highlight an important message related to road safety action plan. Today we
will view a summer safety video about driving during monsoon storm. I'll now
turn it over to Jamie to play the message please.
Monsoon season is upon us. There's a few things we need to remember as we drive
through the monsoon season. First of all, storms can come upon us at any
time. One of the concerns we always have is hydroplaning, and that's when the
tire surface does not touch the road. As we drive through that, speed is a key
factor. If we find ourselves in a storm, we have to drive slow down. When it
comes to hydroplaning, speed is one of the major factors. That plus the amount
of tread on the tires and the amount of water in the roadway. But remember to
slow down and maintain control of your vehicle. That's important. Also, as we
talk about monsoons, let's talk about dust storms. Dust storms can come upon
us. Usually, we see them coming. Sometimes we don't. If you find yourself
in a dust storm and you have to drive, pull off to the side of the road, turn
off your lights so that the vehicle behind you doesn't follow you following
your tail lights. The rule number one when it comes to storms is if you don't
have to drive, don't drive and be safe.
» Thank you, Jamie. Appreciate that. Um item number five is the director's
update. Um we'll have um item number five is the director's
update is an agenda for street transportation department director um
update for post posted for information only. Um at this time I will introduce
uh Matt Wilson to provide this update please. Looks like Brianna is not here
today. Oh there she is.
Yep. I I'll proceed. Thank you, uh, Madam Chair, members of the committee,
uh, to share with you some updates for the Street Transportation Department in
the last two months. Um, we'll give just a moment for the presentation to come
up.
» All right. Thank you. So to give an update on our photo safety
program which continues uh the citation period for this program began on March
25th. In the time since then up through earlier this week we had issued 19,200
citations across the city through all cameras which consist of the 17 portable
tower units. Nine of those are on major arterial corridors. Uh the number
includes the eight school zones which operated on a weekly basis throughout
the school year and some of those units have been relocated to arterial
corridors during the break in summer school.
Uh we'll be providing more of an update on this here uh with Denise giving a
presentation shortly, but we did wanted to just acknowledge our staff's hard
work in submitting a grant for the safe streets and roads for all that was
recently um advertised for funding opportunity. We submitted for 27th
Avenue Campbell and Northern which overlaps with the community safety plan
published by the by the city. This is the final no year of the SS4A program.
We're optimistic that additional funding will become available from the federal
government, but for now that's up in the air and as I mentioned, we'll be
providing more detail on this uh later in the meeting. Another grant that our
team uh was was able to submit for was a railroad crossing elimination
grant um through the Federal Rail Administration. This was a partnership
uh with BNSF railroad um where we partner on the local match aspect and
then work together through the study if we're awarded. Um the study area is
generally Grand Avenue. We'll look at 31 uh crossing locations and then identify
five top priority locations. The requested funding amount for this
project was 1.2 million. uh to update you on two projects that we
are just beginning uh here at Street Transportation. One is our 35th Avenue
safety corridor project. Uh this was a build grant. Uh construction is
anticipated to start end of the month this month or just after the 4th of
July. Uh we're ready to get going here. Contract award was uh several months ago
in the spring. Uh you can see some of this information which includes uh
corridor improvements uh hawk additions uh technology for managing speed
modulation as well. The second project we want to highlight
was our 56 street Thomas to Camelback um complete streets improvements. This was
a committee communitydriven project contract award just occurred. So we look
for construction to begin uh this summer.
With that, I uh will conclude my updates here. Thank you for the attention.
» Thank you, Matt. I appreciate that. Um item number six is uh on the agenda is
the police update posted for information only. Um at this time, I will introduce
um Sergeant Wood and Sergeant Dro from Community and Employee Resources Bureau.
Sorry, trying to fit a gun belt in the chair. Doesn't work so well. All right.
Good evening, uh, Madam Chair, members of the Vision Zero Committee. Um, just a
little update on what the Phoenix Police Department has done so far this year.
We've conducted 17 bicycle safety rodeos throughout the city of Phoenix. Um, we
have participated with the Deer Valley Unified School District in talking and
educating newer about to be drivers through the driver's education program.
We have three more classes scheduled to assist that school district with their
driver's ed program coming up this summer.
We currently are participating in the West Valley Speed Enforcement Task Force
where we travel to different jurisdictions and cities and help them
uh combat speed and dangerous driving behaviors in their dangerous speed
quarters and they come to Phoenix and help us out. We tend we do that twice a
month and on average we issue between the entire task force members two to 300
citations for dangerous driving behaviors including speed, reckless
driving and distracted driving. Uh we have a couple of holidays coming
up including the fourth of July holiday in which we are going to be working
several DUI related enforcement task force programs. Uh we will be bringing
in supplemental officers uh to work these programs that are supplemented by
funding from the Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety.
And on a regular day-to-day basis, we conduct traffic enforcement programs
throughout the city of Phoenix targeting again highspeed corridors and dangerous
driving inter excuse me, high collision intersections that uh have been
identified with the help of this uh Phoenix Streets department.
Uh currently we are working along Greenway from roughly 51st Avenue to the
Scottsdale border, Scottsdale Road, 7th Street South from Poria to Mcdow and
along Broadway from 19th Avenue to around 35th Avenue and a little bit west
of there. We are current also deploying our radar
trailers to help gather data on speed corridors throughout the city of Phoenix
to identify locations to best deploy our traffic enforcement officers.
We are working with the Poria Police Department to conduct an enforcement
program on weekends for the ebikes and uh electric motorcycles that are
predominantly along Happy Valley Road. So that will be
a partnership with the Prior Police Department and we are looking to expand
this type of an enforcement and education program throughout the city of
Phoenix.
Believe our next enforcement program for that will be in the Desert Horizon and
Desert Horizon precinct around uh Desert Ridge Marketplace. And
that's all that I have for an update.
Thank you, Sergeant Broadman and Sergeant Ro. Appreciate it.
Moving on to item number seven, uh, road safety action plan 2025 annual updates.
Uh, this item is posted for information and discussion. Here to present are uh
Reed Henry from Street Transportation Department's traffic services division
and Yanka from Y2T Engineering.
» Good evening. Thank you chair and members of the committee for this
opportunity to present the findings of the 2025 vision zero road safety action
plan and the report.
Although the report isn't finalized yet, we want to share with you some of our
findings.
Today, we will present the updated crash facts, which shows the latest trends
through the end of 2024. We will present an updated high injury network, which
highlights locations concentrated with severe injury and fatal crashes
citywide. We will discuss the performance measures that track our
progress towards our safety goal. We will highlight a few of our safety
initiatives for 2026 and then wrap up our presentation with a few questions
that you may have.
So, as most of you may recall, the vision zero road safety action plan was
approved and adopted by city council in September 2022. The plan identifies
specific safety focus areas and strategies to improve traffic safety
with the ultimate goal to reduce fatal and serious injury crashes to zero by
2050.
There are over there are 41 strategies over five focus areas with input
received from multiple multiple departments, stakeholders, and the
community at large that specifically address fatal and serious injury
crashes. The general strategies focus area focuses on data analysis, process
improvements, and stakeholder communication.
The behavior related focus area addresses strategies to modify user
behavior. With with 50% of the reported fatal
crashes and RSAP being pedestrian bicycle related, the pedestrian bicycle
focus area was established. And the last two focus areas
specifically address collisions, intersections, and roadway segments.
to measure our progress. Performance measures were established for each focus
area and Young will share will be sharing those with you in a moment. But
before she does that, she will be discussing updated crash facts and the
high injury network.
» Good evening. Good evening, chair and members of the committee.
In looking at the crash facts, we evaluated a 5-year period from 2020 to
2024 uh of post-planned conditions compared to the road safety action plan
baseline. There were 830 fatal and serious injury crashes occurring on city
of Phoenix roadways per year on average. This is a 1.7% decrease from the
previous annual report and this is a 15% decrease from the road
safety action plans. baseline 5-year annual average from 2016 to 2020. So
overall, we're trending in a positive direction.
When we look at crashes, the KSI crashes that involved
killed and seriously injured persons, we're seeing that 23% of those crashes
are speed related. This is an increase compared to 20% of the baseline.
At signalized intersections, um 42% of all KSI crashes have occurred there,
shifting some of the share from the segments. This represents a slight
increase from 40% at baseline and the remaining share of 58% of all KSI
crashes occurred on roadway segments, which includes unsalized intersections.
This represents a decrease compared to 60% at the baseline.
When we consider u the fatal crashes that occurred in that 5-year period,
the proportion of fatal crashes that involve pedestrians or was 41%.
This proportion has decreased compared to 45% of the baseline.
The pro the proportion involving of fatal crashes involving bicyclists is
5%. This is a slight increase compared to 4% at the baseline. And the share of
fatal crashes involving motorcyclists was 19% which represents an increase
compared to 18% at the baseline. The chart on the screen illustrates the
serious injury crashes with the blue bars and the fatal crashes with the
orange bars. So, what this is illustrating is that over the past
several years, the trend of serious injury crashes is trending downwards.
However, the fatal crashes have risen by 21% compared to baseline data due to the
peaks in the years 2021, 2022, and 2023. Preliminary data indicates a potential
future decline in fatal crashes.
This slide is showing our frequency of those fatal and and serious injury
crashes. The frequency for the evaluated period
are generally lower than the baseline. So the maroon bar is the baseline and
the blue bar below it is from the analysis period of 2020 to 2024.
The fatal crash frequency is higher as I mentioned because of those peaks in
2021, 2022 and 2023.
We have seen the greatest um frequency reductions in the areas of intersection
segments and impaired driving.
Based on feedback that we received from this body last year, we conducted a
statistical test of the five crash categories that you see on the screen.
So a statistical trend test was applied to the annual crash data and essentially
the test asked a simple question. Is the overall direction of the data whether it
is going up or down over time strong enough that it is unlikely to have
occurred by chance? So when we look at serious injury crashes and seeing it
trending downwards, yes, this is statistically significant
with the pedestrian KSI crashes showing a trend downwards. This is showing that
it's not statistically significant. It may be by chance.
Bicycle KSI crashes are showing a decreasing trend and this is marginally
significant. Fatal crashes have shown an increasing trend and this is significant
and fatal crashes involving motorcycles is showing an increasing trend and this
is also significant.
Every time that there are two new years of available crash data, the high injury
network in the city of Phoenix is updated. So that occurred
with this year's annual report. The high injury network was updated with new
crash data um which totaled 4,347 crashes in the period of 2020 through
2024.
This overall resulted in um fewer intersections and segments than in past
high- injury network evaluations. for signalized intersections. Um, this
represents 4% fewer signalized intersections
or sorry, excuse me. The signalized intersections that are identified on the
high injury network represents less than 4% of all of the city's signalized
intersections. However, um, contain 23% of the KSI crashes that
occur at signalized intersections. for the segments. This group represents
less than 1% of all of Phoenix's roads um yet contain 11% of all KSI crashes.
We also had 11 unsalized intersections on the high injury network, but you will
notice that many of these are contained within high injury network segments as
well.
Since the injury network was developed for the
original road safety action plan 2022 and comparing it to the updates in 2024
and 2026, they each had the same criteria for
signalized intersections. These intersections need to have six or more
KSI crashes to reach the threshold. So what we're
seeing is a decrease in the number of signalized intersections that appear on
the list for the high energy network segments. These segments need to have a
minimum of 3 ksi crashes and a rate of 12 ksi crashes per mile. We did see the
the linear number of miles slightly increase in this year's update
for unsalized intersections uh which was added to the analysis the last time that
it was done. We did see an increase of identifying um 11 unsignized
intersections compared to five the first analysis period.
And for the unsalized intersections, they would have
four or more KSI crashes.
Moving on to performance measures.
Looking back in 2025, there were 78 traffic safety projects completed,
including 35 new traffic signals, 25 traffic signal modernizations, which
involve upgrades or rebuilds of aging traffic signal infrastructure,
eight traffic signal modifications, which may be updates to operations or
left turn arrows, for example, and 14 signals.
The map on the right on the screen illustrates where the locations of these
projects were in comparison to the high injury network which has a fairly strong
correlation.
Also in the past year, the city of Phoenix and Valley Metro completed the
South Central light rail extension. The city developed a plan to implement
high visibility crosswalk markings and stop bars citywide. And the city of
Phoenix installed over 40 miles of new bike lanes and approximately 18 miles of
existing bike lanes were enhanced with buffer protection.
As you heard a little bit earlier in the evening, um the fire department
community risk education section um enhanced and relaunched its teen safe
driving program, survive the drive. So this includes free monthly community
classes. The street transportation staff
participated in a series of 12 bike rodeo events providing bike helmets and
professional helmet fittings to the community. Uh there were additional
events held that were attended by other city staff.
In 2025, there was a $10 million budget for road safety action plan related
projects um for the 2026 fiscal year, July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026.
The lion share of this went to construction of 11 projects. uh they
were designed over the past several years. Uh but there are still some
projects advancing through scoping and design. Uh the proportion for planning
which helps uh fund the annual update that's being presented today and then
additional monies for education and evaluation.
In the 2025 cycle of the Safe Streets and Roads for All grant, the city of
Phoenix was awarded over $24 million to fund a project uh identified on Dunlap
Avenue and 19th Avenue. And you'll hear more about uh
this year's grant application later
based on feedback we received from this body. uh in last year. This year's
annual report also included benefit cost evaluations. There were sign there were
enough projects to review um that were completed.
We looked at three different types of projects.
We looked at signal modernization projects that were funded with local
monies. We looked at signal modernization
projects that were federally funded. and we looked at uh the Hawk projects that
were fedally federally funded through highway safety improvement program
monies. When we looked at these projects,
um each project was assigned a benefit cost ratio which compares the estimated
safety benefits of a project to its cost. We used crash modification factors
published in FHWA's CMF clearing house. And a ratio above one means that
estimated safety benefits from the reduced crashes exceed the project
costs. And projects in this evaluation averaged a BC ratio of over 15,
indicating that for every dollar invested, nearly $15 in safety benefits
are expected in return through the estimated crash reductions.
From a performance measure standpoint, there were 28 tracked performance
measures uh that were identified and tracked um as part in in 2025. 26 of
those are either complete or in progress.
What those measures are telling us is that traffic safety projects are
continuing to be delivered, including hawk signals, signal upgrades, bike
facilities, and pedestrian improvements. We're also seeing the intended expansion
of behavioral safety efforts through enforcement partnerships, bike rodeos,
and teen driver education. There were several crashbased measures
that are showing improvement, including an improvement in the positive
direction. So, a reduction in serious injury crashes, nighttime crashes,
impaired driving crashes, and intersection related crashes.
the pedestrian related fatal crashes remain above the established safety
reduction targets. So that does make uh pedestrian safety a continued priority
and focus area for future investments. The height injury network uh
identification and prioritization tools have been updated and completed and are
helping to guide where those investments should occur.
I'm gonna turn it back to Reed to provide the look ahead into 2026.
» Thank you, Y. In 2026, the city remains committed to improving safety for all
road users through continued investments and implementation efforts. The city
will be investing in a five-year update to the road safety action plan as it is
our intent to update the plan every five years.
The city is pursuing additional funding opportunities such as tribal grant
opportunities for tribal gaming agreements have set aside
funds for community improvements and the 2026 safety SS4A grant opportunity that
Denise will will be presenting later this evening.
Construction of several bond projects which include new traffic signals, new
box and traffic signal modization projects are scheduled to occur this
year. As Matt mentioned, construction of the
35th Avenue safety quarter project will begin uh this month and includes hawks,
modernized traffic signals, and raised medians.
And we will see the expansion of the leading pedestrian intervals program at
signalized intersections. So those are just a few of our RAP initiatives for
this year. And Young and I are happy to answer any questions you may have.
Thank you, Jen. Thank you, Reed. Questions? Can I You want to go? Can I
go? Yeah, go ahead.
I'm I'm baffled by the stat that says even though we've had fewer accidents,
we've had more fatalities. I I I I can't get my head around that. I mean,
intuitively, you would think automobiles are getting safer.
Um, and that could be a contributing factor
to the fewer crashes, but they're also safer from a
passenger standpoint, too. I I I don't understand it. And can you you a couple
times you mentioned, you know, during that there was that peak over that
three-year period, but what why I mean, how do you have any thoughts about
why that's the case.
» I think you're correct in that uh vehicles are getting safer. However, we
still have behavioral issues in terms of speeding. So, when we have higher speeds
in a collision, we have the forces are actually squared the
faster someone's going. So that can result in more serious injuries and the
pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists that don't have the
protection of a vehicle are more vulnerable and they tend to result in
more fatal crashes involving those vulnerable road users. We've um at last
year's presentation, we talked a little bit about uh some of the laws related to
motorcyclists that may be contributing to higher risk in that area. Um you're
probably well aware of um ebike use and you know this new newer availability and
technology again higher speeds is higher risk. So those are all contributing
factor. So, so are you saying we may be having fewer accidents, but they're
worse, more a higher likelihood that they'll
that they could be fatal because the accidents themselves are more
catastrophic. >> That's the way that it's trending.
Overall, the number of when like when you add the fatal and serious injury
crashes, that total number is going down because those serious injury crashes are
are going down. Um however there is a greater share of and and
frequency of of the fatal crashes um that has been occurring.
» And while overall those crashes are random
in occurrence again the outcomes are largely predicted by the mass
differences between the motor vehicle and a person for example. Um and then
this and the velocity the speed >> regarding motorcycles. Are are you
seeing anything and you just mentioned it mentioned it quickly about there's
laws affecting motorc Okay. So I'm going to get right to the point. Is the term
lane lane splitting? Is that what >> are you seeing anything where that's a
contributing factor? that appears to be a contributing factor as we're seeing
higher um numbers of of motorcyclists that are
being involved in collisions. And what we're seeing is the motorcyclists get in
in advance of a vehicle platoon and now they can get ahead and they're no longer
in the platoon and now they're in between platoon and the opposing
vehicles making left turns are not seeing them, not looking at them and and
either they are striking the motorcyclists or the motorcyclists are
striking those turning. >> Yeah. Can I I don't want to assume
everybody knows what what we're talking about. Can you explain what lane
splitting is? Lane splitting is when uh vehicles are stopped at a traffic
signal, motorcyclists are allowed to proceed in between vehicles to the front
of the queue. >> And that's a new recent [clears throat]
law, a recent change in the law >> two, three years ago. Yes.
» Yeah. Madam Chair, just one other question.
The just curious, what are you seeing on the federal level
in terms of grant opportunities? Are they becoming more competitive? are they
becoming more difficult to obtain funding cuts, whatever. I'm just kind of
curious to what degree will we have to step in locally to fund projects that in
the past may have been the beneficiaries of federal programs.
» So, as mentioned earlier, this is the um the fifth of five years that was
officially authorized by the US Department of Transportation for the
safe uh safe streets and roads for all program. We are hearing that the program
will continue in some form or fashion. Um currently as it's drafted in the
draft reauthorization of what's called bill 250, uh there may be overall um
less money but a lot more set aside for implementation and a reduction in in the
funds available for planning which wouldn't affect the city of Phoenix as
you already have your plan. >> Thank you.
» Thank you. Um I have a question. Um
on slides 7 through nine you presented uh KSI crash facts and there's also
presentation on high injury network. So first on the crash facts um there are
increased fatal bicycle crashes. There are
increased signalized intersection crashes. But then in the high injury
network, the trends show that there's a decrease in signalized intersection
crashes and the increase in the segment crashes. What's any
um have you seen anything that is actually contributing to this? What is
going on? What's the anomaly between uh what the KSI facts that we are seeing
and high injury network? >> Sure. I will I think the differentiator
is is how the data is being evaluated. So when we provide these crash facts for
fatal crashes, this is looking at all fatal crashes in the city of Phoenix
during the five-year period. So it's one whole population and we're illustrating
the percent of that population that um involve pedestrians or involve
bicyclists or involve motorcyclists. When we look at the high injury network,
um the difference is that the high injury network is identifying locations
that meet a threshold of concentration. So
while the number of crashes, it's essentially saying that the crashes may
be getting more distributed and not as concentrated. if they were being
concentrated, we would start seeing more of them on the high injury network. But
we but we use the Hyundai network as a tool because we know that it has the
highest concentration of KSI crashes. So we know that the investments on those
areas are going to have the greatest benefit in the community.
» Um I know we talked about motorcycle crashes, but I want to touch on the
bicycle related crashes. Is there any more research done on where is this
happening? Why is the why are the fatalities increased for bicycle related
crashes? Is it areas where there's no bicycle lanes or is it areas where there
is bicycle lanes but still crashes are happening? Is there any more research
done on that? >> That level of detail was not conducted
in the annual report. However, it would likely be conducted in the uh five-year
update of the road safety action plan that re mentioned
» and and we also, [clears throat] excuse me, we also looked at the pedestrian
high-risisk network. I think we talked about that at last last our last meeting
um where we did look for risk factors associated with pedestrians as well as
bicyclists. So, we have done a little deeper dive into into that. But I think
when we're talking about the bicycles, I think you're right about four or five
percent of the total fatal crashes. >> So it went up from four to five, I
think, in the percentages. So it went up a little bit over this time period. But
yeah, we are trying to look to see if there's is there something we can do
specifically for cyclists as well as what can we do for the pedestrians.
» Yeah. Um I have one more question, Randy, and then I'll turn it over to
you. Um on the speed related crashes um there's a increase in speed related CA
crashes as reported here. Um the speeding cameras are deployed. I know it
takes time for us to see the aftermath or what's going on there but did this
contribute to the locations where the speed cameras were deployed um where
speed related crashes are increasing?
A lot of the data that we showed here regarding crashes is a four or five year
period. So a lot of the stuff we're looking at here occurred prior to the
implementation of photo cameras that are currently in place.
» Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead, Randy.
» Thank you. >> Thank you, Madam Chair and Bre Young.
Thank you very much. Great presentation. Some really, really good information
there. And I especially appreciate um the up the uh uh willingness to
incorporate some of our comments from previous uh sessions too. So thank you
very much. Really really good information. I have just a couple
questions. Um, [clears throat] can you is there a way to maybe verbally
just describe what sort of changes have you observed in the HIN
as you're updating the numbers of crashes over time? Are we seeing say 90%
of the intersections are the same from one year to the next and there's a
handful of new ones or is it you know most of the intersections are now moving
to different locations and I'm I'm asking because I know that the city is
spending a lot of resources targeting safety improvements on the HIN and if
the HIN is changing a lot every couple years then that kind of complicates
matters. So, I just wanted to maybe get your thoughts on that.
» Yes, I appreciate that comment. And while I don't have the details in front
of me, we have developed and updated the GIS story map that will be published
online. And in the updated story map, we have um included a comparison of all
three years. So, we do have that number. I will say that the locations of the
hydra network are not shifting vastly. So we have recorded exactly which
locations have stayed on for all three years uh or all three evaluation
periods. We have um basically all the data of what dropped off, what got added
and we have that mapped visually that will be available when the annual update
is published. >> That's great. Thank you. Um, and I guess
[clears throat] maybe that kind of leads into another question, which is, um, I
know you said that you're in the process of
wrapping up the annual update, and so is that something that is going to come to
this group like it has in previous years to to review as well?
Vice Chair Durner, um, members of the, uh, CAC, um, I know I believe it was
last year was the first year we did provide you guys an opportunity to
review the draft before we made it public and I don't have any concerns
with doing that this year as well. So, we will make sure um, we get you guys
all um, Jamie will make sure she gets that sent out um, so that you guys can
review before we make that. >> Okay. Thank you. And would that be
coming soon or or is it still got a ways to go yet?
» Okay. Yeah, soon. It'll be very soon. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. Um that's my
questions. Thank you. >> Um Amanda, um Ventura has a question.
Amanda. >> Yeah, thank you so much. Um I listening
to you guys talk about um how some of the increase in cycling crashes are
related to ebikes. I'm really curious if this group is thinking about breaking
that out because they kind of exist in this space between motorcyclists and you
know manually pedled bicycles. Um, and I know we're looking at this as like a
long-term uh, you know, study, so it's hard to
break out an entirely new vehicle type, but just would be really interested to
know if if that's being discussed. Um, as we kind of look at, you know,
educational materials and other things that are going to come from this kind of
work. uh how seriously should we be taking the ebike situation based on your
guys' data or like is there kind of a like a subreport or like a you know just
a readout from the last couple years to understand
um the situation with with with those vehicles in particular and their impact.
» Yeah, thank you for that question. Um currently it is difficult to disting
dist distinguish in the crash data that distinction. Um the Arizona Department
of Transportation is making updates to the crash report form. So, in future
years, we will start seeing that crash data likely show up maybe starting in
2027 where they'll have a breakout of um bicyclists, ebikes, and then
motorcyclists in the upcoming um road safety action
plan updates. That could certainly be a focus area where those could be reviewed
manually. Regionally, there are numerous cities
that are evaluating ebike ordinances. The city of Phoenix was one of the first
to implement one, but maybe with um the increased attention that could always be
reviewed.
But overall, the data was showing from a fatal crash perspective, uh the change
from 7 to 11. So, it's a very it's a still a very small number and a small
quantity to evaluate overall. >> Got it. Thanks.
» Committee member Yuas has a question. Go ahead. I
» I assume that that ebikes are currently in the the bicycle category. Is that is
that fair to assume? >> It gets complicated. Um if you Google
know your ride, there are numerous websites now that will help um people
identify maybe what they're riding. Um ebikes come in three different classes,
class one, class two, and class three. and it's based on uh this maximum speed
that they can go. There are also now electric motorcycles that have come into
the market, sirons, and people may refer to them as ebikes, but they don't have
pedals. Um so there's kind of some slight nuance as to what gets
classified. The e- motorcycles are classified as motorcycles and um
golf carts fall into like uh fall into a motorcyclist category in crash reports.
ATVs fall into into the motorcyclist category. So, there's some nuance there.
Um, and police departments valleywide, you know, are
they they follow the Arizona revised statutes on those classifications for
the ebikes versus the motorcycles. I'm sure that you you you probably all agree
that the suggestion is a good one, you know,
um but it also just makes sense. All right, so ebikes are still in their
infancy. It's fair to assume that ebike use is
growing at a higher rate than than bicycles are. So all the more reason why
yes, this trend is going to continue for the foreseeable future. All the more
reason why that it ought to be segmented out in order to give accurate data. It's
certainly something worth monitoring es especially with the um increasing
availability um direct to the consumer. >> Right.
» Thank you. >> Any other questions?
» Anyone online?
Thank you Reed. Thank you. Appreciate the presentation. It was very uh
informative. Moving on to uh the next agenda item um SS4A grant update. Uh
this item is posted for information and discussion. Uh presenting this is Denise
Lee with the street transportation department division design and
construction management division. Denise,
» good evening and thank you for the introduction.
Um, it is great to be here to discuss our exciting plan for the 27th Avenue.
Today we are focusing on transforming 27th Avenue, a project aimed at creating
safer streets and stronger communities. The initiative is part of our safe
streets and roads for all effort for which we have applied a grant for in
2026. Our ultimate goal is to achieve vision
zero where traffic fatalities are a thing of the past. In alignment with
vision zero, we are committed to making 27th Avenue a model of safety and
accessibility for everyone. Whether you are a pedestrian, cyclist, or driver.
Remember, this is not about just about infrastructure. It's about building a
community where everyone feels safe and valued.
The Safe Streets and Roads for All grant or the SS4A is a federal initiative
designed to help local communities like ours make impactful changes to road
safety. The program focuses on funding regional
and local projects with ultimate goal of achieving zero traffic fatalities.
Phoenix is committed to this vision by ensuring the safer streets for all all
roadway users. In efforts to implement the strategies
in our road safety action plan, we identified 27th Avenue as one of the
high injury networks needing transformation and applied for 24
million in federal funding this past May.
As mentioned earlier, my colleagues In FY22, Phoenix was awarded an SS4A
grant to conduct a pedestrian risk um network study. This data along with the
high injury network data was selected um for the 27th Avenue Campbell Road to
Northern Avenue corridor. A 3.52 mile corridor with nine
signalized intersections. If you look here at the bottom of the
page, you'll see that this data was acquired from the US dot fatility
analysis reporting system. And what it is showing is that out of 1,086 total
crashes occurring between the years of 2021 and 2025, the corridor had 18 fatal
crashes and 31 serious injury crashes.
The city of Phoenix community safet safety action plan directly supports the
SS4A federal grant requirements by aligning localized crime prevention with
infrastructure safety fi um frameworks. Most recently, our city council
allocated 6.5 million um to for the establishment of the real-time
operations center aimed at surveillance and crime reduction,
installation of street lights on local cross streets of the 27th Avenue
corridor.
The proposed safety improvements are rebuilding traffic signals, one signal
head over each traffic lane, leading pedestrian interval, retroflective back
plates, passive pedestrian detection with fiber optic optic connection.
Also, ADA compliant sidewalks, landscaping and shade improvements.
creating a safe routes to school for all schools within a quarter mile corridor
of um 27th Avenue,
expanding street lighting and improving nighttime visibility.
Coordinating with GCU's college arts, college of arts and media students for
corridor art beautifification. And lastly,
um, speed, I'm sorry, speed management, increasing vehicle speed enforcement.
And lastly, midblock crossings, implementing hot crossings to increase
pedestrian and crossing opportunities.
This map is an example of the is a actually a a map that we created and
submitted with the grant and it shows the showcases the enhancements made
along the corridor. So we are proposing three hawks here at
Montabelloo Avenue and another at Missouri and the Orangewood Avenue.
You can also see where the proposed street lights will be implemented.
Glendale to Northern Avenue and Coulter to Missouri Avenue.
You can see how close the GCU college students are to the corridor and our
elementary school age children. And there are several elementary schools
along this corridor. I'll give you a minute to review the
map.
» Thank you, Denise. >> Okay. In April CAC meeting, Simon Ramos
presented on the evidence-based high impacts IT strategies.
We will implement several of the IT strategies along the corridor.
Passive pedestrian detection, crosswalk illumination, Hawk passive detection,
walk time extension, vehicle VUR detection, connected vehicle mobility
and safety.
This picture at the top is 27th Avenue in Campbell where signal upgrade an
upgrade is needed. Below and the right is a picture of the sidewalk um sidewalk
improvements as well as ADA compliance need needed improvements needed. And in
the left you'll see that there's shade. So we need shade upgrades along the
corridor.
Again focusing on what is needed to transform 27th Avenue. The city of
Phoenix and May applied for 24.8 8 million in SS4A funding and 6.2 million
will be the local match local matching funds. If awarded, a total of 30.1
million will be invested into the transformation of 27th Avenue.
As we look forward to the timeline for the SS4A, there are a few key date key
dates to keep on our radar. Award notices are planned for December
2026 or possibly early January 2027. This is a significant milestone as it
determines it'll receive the funding to push our init initiatives forward. If
awarded, the team will begin to meet with the Federal Highway Administration
around spring through probably summer 2027.
Thank you for your time today. Our team put a lot of effort into preparing this
grant application and we are truly grateful for your
support.
Thank you Denise. Um first we'll see if there's any uh anyone public comment.
No. Thank you. Um really informative presentation Denise. I know this is uh
last no so good luck with it. >> Thank you.
» Any questions? Go ahead, Randy. >> Thank you, Denise. Thanks very much for
your work in putting this application together and for being here today and
sharing it with us. It's great information. I just have maybe a big
picture question. How did the city decide on this segment of 27th Avenue?
» Yes. So, we as we actually looked at the um high injury network. We use that data
and then we also looked at the pedestrian high injury network. high
injury network and we reviewed that data and so that's when we decided to
actually walk the corridor in the heat and we actually walked the corridor. We
gathered um Reed's team, Simon Ramos's team. We reviewed the data. We walked
the corridor. We took notes um and we use the data to determine if this would
fit for the grant and looking at the criterion in the grant, it it was a good
fit. >> Okay, great. Thank you. Anyone else?
Jamie, anyone online? Um I have one question. Um this is u
very urbanized and um looks a very highly traveled corridor. Um forgive me.
I are there bike lanes already on this corridor. So there are some bike lanes
on the side streets of the corridor but on the corridor I didn't see we didn't
see as we walked it we didn't see any bike lanes at all. The reason I'm asking
is for the proposed improvements I haven't seen anything relating to bike
lanes. Um and the previous presentation we saw there are increased bicycle
related crashes. Was there any consideration of that for the proposed
improvements on this corridor when applying for the grant?
I think one of the criteria this in the grant was not to have any reduction in
lane capacity and therefore we weren't really able to look at that on the main
line but I think there's there may be some consideration for providing some
more facilities along the frontage roads and connections to to the intersection
so you can continue continue along. >> Thank you.
That's all from me. Um, >> all right. Thank you, Denise. Again,
appreciate it. And like I said, good luck with the funding. Um, next agenda
item, item nine, uh, is request for future agenda items. Um, I will turn it
to our members to see if there's any request
for future agenda items. Go ahead, Randy.
Do we have Okay, I'll go next. Okay. Um, Madame Chair, at at a future
meeting, I would like to um discuss further the issue of funding for
safety improvements. And in particular, I'd like to put forth a resolution, a
draft resolution for consideration by the vision zero committee um that would
provide some feedback to the city about um use of
safety funding.
» Thank you, Randy. Um, Committee Member Yuans,
» Madam Chair, I, it doesn't have to be at the next meeting by any means, u,, but
at some point in the near future, I would hope to have on the agenda a
conversation about Arizona's new state of the right law. Um, last
February, HB 2235 was introduced in the legislature, passed by the legislature
in June, signed into law. It's now state law that motor vehicles in in on streets
that have multiple lanes, it's illegal essentially to stay to to to ride in the
left lane when you're not going with the flow of traffic. Uh obviously there's a
variety of reasons why the the law was was was enacted. Convenience,
frustration on the part of drivers, but there must be some safety reasons as
well. So, I'm kind of curious to know what, if anything,
um, we're doing to inform motorists of this new law, what impact it's having on
road safety, uh, flow of traffic, um, just anything at this early stage. But
I'm particularly interested in knowing if we are actually enforcing it. Um
there's an interesting court case surrounding this too where there was an
enforcement action where the car was searched and it turned they pulled over
and the car was searched and it turned out to be this major drug bust. So it's
become a little controversial now too. Um but I but I am c personally I think
it's it's long overdue. Law should have been on the books years ago. But I am
kind of curious to know what what if anything is the city's posture on this
and is it being enforced? What are the plans to make voters aware that this is
now state law?
» Thank you member Yuas. Appreciate that. Any other solutions on future agenda
items by the committee members? Jamie, anyone online?
Thank you. Uh moving on to item 10, public comment.
Um this is the time for public comment. According to state law, members of the
committee may not discuss items as mentioned by a lawyer during the
previous meetings. Um action taken as a result of public comment will be limited
to directing staff to study the matter. Um respond to any criticism or
scheduling the matter for further consideration at a later date.
Jamie, do we have any speakers? >> Madam Chair, we do not have anybody
signed up for public comment in person or virtual.
» Thank you.
We do not have a lawyer here to talk about public comments, but we don't have
any public comments. So, moving on. Um, item 11 journment. Thank you all for um
attending and the public who have attended online or here um and the
committee members, staff and um support staff in attendance today. Seeing other
items on the agenda, this meeting is adjourned at 6:10 p.m. That's the
record. >> Thank you, Madam Chair.