0:00Yeah, I just see some incongruency there.
0:06I did the celebrity cross guard at Valverde two years ago, and a lot of the people are walking and finding their way across, but um it is still very scary for them, and so I don't know how that them doing that makes them safer, um, I guess is where I'm confused, and so uh it seems like there's a more need for infrastructure than necessarily mode shift that and I don't know what the strategy is to get the mode shift.
0:34There's also ways that you can think about encouraging and educating and thinking about um alternative modes of training.
0:40So carpool is always an option.
0:42Um I like to think about the concept of park a grade away.
0:45So as child, you know, if you must drive to school, um, you can park one block away for your first grade or two blocks away for your second, and so on and so forth.
0:54That'll be your kind of um decoupling some of the um challenges that occur when you know you have a hundred families all trying to access one parcel of land um at a 15 minute window, both in the morning and the afternoon.
1:08Um, there are ways that you can kind of disperse some of that tension that we can think about that don't always necessarily mean that uh you have to travel across to you know major roadway or high injury network roadway or core far co-core focus of the SIF routes to schools program is infrastructure safety so that you can facilitate people walking and biking as well as driving to the schools, so it's safe movement management and much of what which much of what John was talking about were those improvements on how we do that lights, sidewalks, crossings, etc.
1:41And um, and then education.
1:43Okay, that's helpful to know.
1:45Um if speed seems to be such a problem, why are we not aggressively lowering speeds on the high injury corridors?
1:56So we've got a combination of things, and we're all feel free to to to add into this.
2:00So uh we are in in many, so as you know, citywide we've lowered speed limits uh to 20 on all neighborhood streets, other than those what we call collectors or arterials.
2:11Those collectors and arterials we also collaborate with in many cases, as you're aware, they are also state highways, and so we collaborate with our partners at CDOT and others, you know, and how we can make requests to think about how we lower down speed limits.
2:25You have speed limits in a space that is about safe speeds and the travel of safe speeds.
2:29As you know, we do speed studies on what is the average speed in those corridors and then how you appropriately set the speeds there, and then how you monitor and let people know when they are speeding, which is why you have reflective speed signs and others.
2:41And so uh those are things that we are exploring, and uh, I don't know if we have instances of HI high injury networks where we actually uh Alameda is an upcoming example where we will be lowering the speed limit along Alameda in our favorite area where we've been talking about for the last you know few months.
2:57Um so that speed will be coming down in that particular corridor.
3:01And um and actually uh you probably could list some others where we've been doing it.
3:05We have a few others that we can provide you that list, and particularly we're very much interested in those excessive speeders doing 10 or more mile an hour over the posted speed limit and bringing those down.
3:17Um but yeah, we can get you a uh a list of I might add just real quickly on this question of automated speed cameras, which is always this delicate balance of how we think about it and the impacts of community and where we go and what it is in a crash reduction factor.
3:31And it as you know the state carefully crafted legislation to allow it.
3:34Um it is for excessive speeders, so it's basically 11 and over for those excessive speeders.
3:40Um you have these proven crash reduction factors when it comes to speed, and there's a pretty significant factor of you know upwards of 45 to 50 percent.
3:48You see some dramatic impact in cities and others.
3:51We've been following San Francisco's recently as they've been just implementing theirs.
3:55You're seeing speed reductions in these corridors by upwards of 70 percent.
3:59I mean, it's been very high.
4:01Why do we care about speed?
4:02I mean, you use the example of let's say a federal, and just happened we had a young man who was crossing on a uh on a scooter and crossed federal and was hit and killed.
4:11Um similarly when uh with 38th and Tejon, um, speed was a factor potentially in both of those, and let's say that there is a mistake that is made and how people are traveling as we're as they go.
4:21The speed does not allow you the chance to respond to a mistake.
4:27And that that is why we care so much about speed, because it reduces the human factor for us to be able to respond to adapt to something that maybe is happening in the corridor that that we could otherwise prevent.
4:39And that's why we care.
4:40That's why we care as much as we do about speed, and um and that's why one of the reasons that we'll be focusing again on these automated speed cameras too, and we are seeing we just nationally and otherwise, we are seeing the effect of those and what it does to have people start caring about how they drive in the behavior and about how it cares for the people around.
5:00Um my last question, and then I'll um hand it over to committee chair, is just I know you talked about researching fatal crashes.
5:08I've asked for the reports on the fatal crashes in my district.
5:12I've never gotten them or gotten briefed on them.
5:15Is there a report at the end of this investigation?
5:18And are there changes made?
5:19And I think including us in that conversation would be very helpful.
5:25We could do that, and we can provide that report.
5:27Um we can we can provide that report in that summary report.
5:32Just just awareness, it takes some time sometimes uh for us as we go through that process.
5:36We absolutely can do that.
5:37Yeah, I like how long because I've been asking for reports for years, and I don't know if they're not done yet.
5:43Like, how long does it take to complete one of these?
5:48Well, you're talking about the rap response.
5:50Yes, report okay, yeah.
5:52Um yeah, it sometimes it it depends if it is a hit and run, we're still waiting for our DPD is waiting for evidence, um, for example, and then we're dependent on their timeline and their analysis.
6:05Um, and then we bring in kind of our experts and work with them on determining that.
6:10But uh if I guess it sounds like you have been waiting for the 2023 when I was first elected was the first step in my district on Santa Fe in Mississippi, and I never got the right records on the way.
6:23Don't get about that too.
6:24We can we can absolutely do that.
6:29I really appreciate just a quick time check.
6:31We have about 20 minutes.
6:32We have Councilman Flynn.
6:34Um Flynn in the queue, and then I have Councilman Cashman after.
6:39Thank you, Madam Chair.
6:40I'll be uh uh as concise as as I always am.
6:45Uh thank you for mentioning speed, by the way, because lowering the speed limit doesn't result in lower traffic speeds.
6:53In fact, sometimes raising speed limits lowers speeds.
6:58You might remember this on on highways.
7:00Uh because at T Rex that segmented through the tech center.
7:04And on Sixth Avenue, when CDOT raised the speed limit on Sixth Avenue to 65, it literally lowered the average speed.
7:12Because the lower speed limit was causing backups that people were speeding around, so you had excessive speeds.
7:18It brought in the the margins.
7:20So anyway, excuse me, on slide uh uh 28.
7:25Uh uh data uh information requests, so you don't need to answer here because you probably don't have the answer here.
7:31Uh I have been asking for consideration of crosswalk at some a couple locations and uh beacons at uh Sabin Elementary on Dartmouth.
7:40Uh there's a mid-block traffic signal there, uh and there's a static signage on either end, school zone seven to nine, uh two to four, whatever it is.
7:52Uh the parents there have been asking me for years, why don't we have the beacon?
7:59Dartmouth is pretty major, I don't know if it's classified as an arterial or a collector.
8:04It might just be a collector.
8:06Uh but on Florida, and I think on Jewel, Johnson Elementary, uh Gust, I think Gust has one, and uh Force Elementary on Florida all have uh the the flashing beacons and the folks at Sabin would like to join the club.
8:22So the could you could you find out, Elena, maybe if that's where is that is it like oh Flynn asked for you know Southwest Denver, we don't care.
8:32We can we can have John go through that and I suspect uh and I don't mean this flippantly by any stretch.
8:37I I anticipate that all council members have exactly what you just said.
8:42They all ask for Saban Elementary.
8:44There is a there is a school, a district, a location where they say where you all have said, I need a light here, I need a crossing here, and we need a such and such there.
8:52And um and we take those as you know, put them into the pool, into the queue, analyze it, say yes, it could be a value, et cetera.
8:59But we will absolutely follow the colour.
9:02In my briefing, Elijah, I'm just trying to move along.
9:05So at uh Dennison Montessori DPS charter at um Yates and Jewell.
9:15Significant issue there is the offset of Yates between the Marley subdivision and Harvey Park.
9:22But there is an opportunity to do kind of a weird crosswalk there.
9:25Maybe weird crosswalk isn't a good thing to say, but uh for the kids who try the parents who try to walk their kids across Jewel there, uh there's an opportunity to do a kind of a different kind of crosswalk that would go from the uh I think it would go from the southwest corner of Yates and Jewel to the northeast corner, right?
9:46Uh something responsive on Evans, there's a mid block cros uh mid block signal there on Evans uh that I've never really seen utilized.
9:56But here where kids are trying to cross Jewel to get to the school that's right there.
10:00So please let me know where that or that is.
10:02And then maybe just generally tell us where the pedestrian crossings are that are in design, the 15 locations.
10:08Maybe the one at uh Jewel and Yates is is one of them.
10:12We will absolutely send you that breakdown list.
10:14Two quick questions just to clarify for my my own edification, not for anyone else's.
10:20On the uh slide 16, deeper dive where and why you've broken out the uh uh KSI events 24 and 25 by the type of roadway.
10:30Tell me uh state highway, is that all state highways in Denver, or are some state highways in the arterial category?
10:40Because Federal Boulevard is a state highway.
10:44Uh you know, Wadsworth is a state highway, Sheridan in my district federal.
10:50Uh so you want to state highway exclude all does that include all state designated highways like Colfax?
10:58Uh to the best of my knowledge at this time, and I'll go back and triple check this for you, Councilman.
11:03Um, it uh includes all state highways in the city and county of Denver, um, which I I I believe are functionally classified as arterials, but any one of those that is owned and maintained by CDOT.
11:15Are our are our relations with C DOT uh friendly right now?
11:22Because I found them really hard to deal with on some issues.
11:25I don't know how you can reset re-time a signal on a state highway as quickly as you say, because when we tried to change the uh protected and prohibited versus protected and permissive left signals at Yale and Sheridan, it took months because we they said, well, once we made one adjustment, we had to do another, and then we had to wait, and blah, blah, blah.
11:46So I'm hoping that things are better.
11:48It's good to hear that.
11:49We're working on it.
11:50And so we manage some of the signals like on federal, as an example.
11:54You know people in the bandit.
11:56Put my old C dot on.
11:58Uh last question on slide 14.
12:00In every year where it's fatalities by mode, I'm really curious about uh 2025 at the very top of it that says two other.
12:10So we have people walking, people biking, motorcycles, bicycles, scooters, and then at the top, in 2025 only, there it is.
12:18There's a category of two.
12:21I don't see that in any other year.
12:22What is do we know what that is?
12:24I'll triple check for you, but I believe this involves two crash incidents that resulted in fatality.
12:30One of them that occurred at Denver International Airport, involving uh load vehicles that were being operated by two different individuals, two different vehicles involved.
12:39And I believe the other one is a crash incident that involves a person who is operating an ATV with a snowplow attachment on the front of it, tried to go up a curb cut and uh was um ejected from that vehicle.
12:55I'm glad that that didn't happen in any other year.
12:58That's one I'm sure.
12:59Um just a reminder to keep it concise.
13:01Uh Councilman uh Cashman, and then I have Council President Zandeval.
13:05Thank you, uh Madam Chair.
13:07Uh is your weird sidewalk just for weird people or um and so um one of your slides talked about 56 percent of the fatalities uh people are tested positive for at least one drug.
13:24Um I'm guessing the vast majority of those were alcohol.
13:28I I'd love to know that.
13:32Um you mentioned when you were talking about uh Wes Colfax work, uh, that what I read you said a new program uh would be evaluating these projects.
13:47What do you mean a new program?
13:49I would assume we always evaluate the projects we put in place.
13:54Do you want to go ahead, John?
13:56Uh we do have an evaluation initiative.
13:58We do always go back and of course take a look at our projects after they have um been completed.
14:03Um what I would say is we've pivoted to be um a lot more data focused on what our evaluate evaluation initiative will do moving forward.
14:13So we've always gone back and evaluated projects for the goals that we set, uh whether it was safety or mode shift or um capacity opportunities or transit opportunities along corridors, but our evaluation initiative that we've now um annually funded through the programs will go back and uh look at speed cushions.
14:35Um not just from a quantitative way.
14:37I think maybe the flag here is that we're also looking at qualitative, so we're doing surveys.
14:41We're asking members of the community, you know, did this make you feel did uh for for both maybe a bicyclist and a driver in a car.
14:48Uh did these speed cushions make you feel safer?
14:51Um do you do you feel that the roadways um are harder to navigate as a result of X, Y, or Z?
14:57Yeah, uh that probably wouldn't work in District Six as we don't have any speed cushions.
15:00Yeah, that probably wouldn't work in District 6 as we don't have any speed cushions, but that's another discussion we need to have.
15:05Um we really as as a city, we've we've got to look at our budget.
15:15Um I am not a defunder of our safety budget.
15:26But what's more valuable?
15:28How much are we spending to be sure that our bicycles are safe in our garage when we obviously need money for safe routes to school and all your other programs?
15:42What is the safe routes to school budget for 2026?
15:49I could go back and pull up your notes that you sent me when I had to answer that question before.
15:53But I think it's extra 1.6 million.
15:57Approximately I I I think it's about 2.5 million approximately.
16:00We just and I voted for it.
16:02We voted what I'm referring to is 70 million dollars of capital funds for a soccer stadium.
16:12I can justify that vote, but we gotta figure out when we make these investments where such other critical areas are not being funded.
16:28Let's take some of that money that's supposedly coming back from the economic uh uh uh dollar generation projects like uh the soccer stadium uh are going to generate and make sure it goes into these critical areas that are not being adequately funded.
16:49Two point something for safe routes to school is ludicrous when you compare it to the need.
16:56And the need is obviously in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
17:00Um there is expensive.
17:03Just to give you clarity, it is uh two million dollars, 1.3 of it was from city sources, 1.1 of it for what grants we've secured from the state.
17:11Uh, and then you all additionally added 1.6 million into that.
17:15So we're at a total of 3.67 right now for this year.
17:20And that does so little that when we're talking sidewalks and widening things and uh all that.
17:27Um so I guess my my last question was uh probably most important.
17:35Um where is the failure?
17:39What why did those numbers go up?
17:41And this is coffee table.
17:43You know, like what are we missing?
17:46Are we not spending enough on speed cushions?
17:48Should we be narrowing roadways?
17:53That's what we're gonna be sitting and also doing some additional thought and analysis on why we do these rapid responses.
17:59So, you know, there's there's three elements, I think, when we sit and we look at this.
18:03There's behavior, the the behavior of the people traveling in the system who are driving it, walking it, riding it, et cetera, and sort of their behavior, impairments, distracted driving, et cetera, and sort of those behaviors and how those fit together.
18:15Um there is the infrastructure that we could and should be doing, and how do we change the infrastructure to make it as safe as we possibly can.
18:22I'll use hopokenness.
18:23I'm there quite a bit as my son's in New Jersey, so I'm in Hoboken a lot.
18:26They have it's an old community, very old, very narrow, very packed with cars, very very close parking.
18:33So people cannot speed, they cannot walk, they have to keep their eyes peeled with when you see people around walking, riding, biking, and they are not going fast.
18:40And so even if you have an incident where a pedestrian crosses in front of a vehicle, that that vehicle might be going 20 or less uh in a corridor, which enhances the survivability.
18:49Just gonna say it like that, it's very blunt.
18:51So how we continue to address our infrastructure questions from crossings to protected environments to how we reduce speeds and corridors, etc.
19:00are all part of our approach in when we do this.
19:02And then the last piece is actually services and and and how those fit.
19:06Not one person died riding an RTD bus.
19:09From a mobility choice perspective, I'll just mention that.
19:12When we talk about things like load choice and otherwise, you know, so there are other elements that you can think about about how people travel or how they get from point A to point B, and how we think about how we improve safety.
19:22This last year you sit and you look, we had an increase in our scooters uh by a significant amount.
19:27We also know that the ridership has gone up significantly in Denver, as you were aware.
19:32Actually, proportionally, our fatalities are are still down and our injuries are down because of the increased amount of ridership that we have.
19:40So proportionally it's down, but nonetheless, it was a number that went up and it was uncomfortable.
19:45This question of the eight red uh eight pedestrians on the interstates was shocking in many ways, and shocking that you had that many pedestrians dying on interstate, and what are people doing in that interstate?
19:56How do you treat that a behavioral piece on it frankly on that?
20:03I'd appreciate seeing is we know I'd appreciate the chart, numbers going up on people we've lost, but um I'd like to see that uh per thousand residents because our our population changes and I'm wondering I just love to see that if we can provide that together.
20:24We can absolutely thank you very much.
20:29Council president Sandoval.
20:36Thank you, Madam Chair.
20:40Um so some questions for Dottie.
20:44When we're looking at the um safe routes, all the not certain safe rhetorical school, sorry.
20:53When we're looking at all of the data, you keep referencing DPD.
20:57Do you reach out to FIRE, Denver Fire as well to see what their um what their analysis is?
21:07Usually we focus on DPD and uh we can focus, you know, we can include Denver fire as well as part of the rapid response.
21:16John, do you keep remind me sometimes with our road safety audits or first responders?
21:24I'd have to go back and look at the invite list for those, yeah.
21:28Yeah, usually with a rapid response particularly, um, it is the investigating officer that participates in in those uh field visits and has the latest information uh you know from first responders, so consolidate.
21:44And I don't necessarily mean that, I mean number slide 15.
21:48Um oftentimes our fire department is first on scene because they have a requirement according to what we um our fire standard, they have to be there within four minutes, and so it's usually within four, maybe five, six minutes, and they're often the ones taking the first initial um responses and are actually looking at what happened and getting um um testimony first, and then oftentimes it's the police that show up second.
22:25So I I wish that it was more of a holistic approach with fire, they're so essentially.
22:32Um they not saying that police officers don't ride around, but they our fire departments ride around in bigger rigs, and so they see things in a very different um from a very different vantage point.
22:45So I would, if you could please.
22:47I've I've done an analysis when I've looked at 32nd Avenue.
22:51I've gotten data from DPD and I've gotten separate data from FIRE, and they don't match up.
22:57And fire has a very different look at things, and so when I um put the information together and then parsed it out, it tells a very different story.
23:08So um for the fatality on 38th in Tihone, it was two blocks away from a fire station.
23:14They were right there.
23:15They literally got in their rig and were right there.
23:18So to not have fire part of the analysis is concerning.
23:24I think also along federal.
23:26I know I have a fire station in my council district, councilman of I can't remember if one of the 23.
23:33Yeah, 23s, and that's a really busy station major.
23:38So to not have them have an analysis and say, hey, what do you all see along 26th and federal, just in your life of living in a fire station for 24 hours, I think is a miss.
23:50So if you could start including the fire department, I would really appreciate that.
23:56The next question I have is some of these Denver moves, everyone um slide 20.
24:05Um we're looking at major pedestrian intersection projects, slow safe slow networks and bikeways.
24:15Along 41st and um low, I have a protected bikeway or a bikeway.
24:22It's like one of the bikeway streets of 41st, and it has a rapid fire beacon, a flashing beacon.
24:28Um, and a young gentleman got hit going to um Skinner on his bike, and then on 41st on Federal, a young person got hit going to Centennial on their bike.
24:43Um so we're pushing these bikes on to 41st, which is working, but we're not looking at the other intersections like federal and um Irving and Lowell.
25:00And those speed limits on Lowell are so fast.
25:04And what's interesting about my council district is I 70 has an off-ramp.
25:09I've talked to the director Ford about this.
25:11And people get off on I-70 to circumvent um federal or Sheridan and they just speed.
25:18So I would really I have a registered neighborhood organization who and the advocate in Northwest Denver who's been asking for a response on looking at low.
25:28And I don't see it on the map.
25:30So I would just love if that could be updated and add lull.
25:34And then another um just thought I have is when we do these improvements, um, such as 29th Avenue Bike Lane, it has pushed um traffic on to 20 to 32nd and to 26th.
25:55And I keep telling my residents that's because that's what we want.
25:58We want 29th Avenue to be safe for um the bikes to go on there.
26:03That's the infrastructure that we pushed out onto.
26:07But it takes so long to do an analysis of the other impacts.
26:12I just don't know how an answer for that.
26:14So I don't, that's like a longer conversation, but how do we do the analysis of the impacts that the intended impact of pushing traffic on to 32nd and 26th?
26:27Um because we have schools on 26th Avenue and we have Sloan's Lake.
26:33So that's just a problem we're gonna have to put for another day because it's it we're late and I already know that we're running out of time.
26:42And then for the rapid fire beacons, which are the flashing beacons.
26:51I in the 2021 bond, I went to Dottie and I said, how do you need me to support you?
27:00Where should I put money?
27:02And I got money for beacons in my neighborhood, and it's 2026 and they're not even installed.
27:11So it's like part of the you part of it, it's like, oh, we don't have the money and we don't have the resources.
27:18And then when I got you the money, they're like, oh well, now we need to redo analysis and we don't we haven't put them in.
27:27And one of them isn't going in that I got on 26th and Tennyson for Sloan's Lake.
27:33And I no one's telling me where it's gonna go in replacement being moved because we're reevaluating that intersection at Sloan's Lake, and we're gonna make it better.
27:43I do believe we're gonna make it better, but then that beacon should go somewhere else in council district one because we have such high need that I work diligently to get that.
27:54And it so I I know that you all in the city are doing more with less, and I realize that we all in the city are doing more with less.
28:04I don't think one city council person here on their aid are not doing more with less.
28:10I just want to make sure that the as you all have lost a lot of employees, the communication.
28:18I've I've talked to you about this, Amy.
28:20The communication is it's a little like um, it's so change because you got all change the structure of who's communicating and who's not.
28:30So I just hope that we can get some of these answers because in my career of being at the city since 2012, I've never had so many complaints about Dottie.
28:40And I feel disappointed because you have a lot of really dedicated hard working employees who work for that agency who are not getting the recognition they deserve because of some of the miscommunication and some of the um non-coordination that we're experiencing.
29:00So if you could follow up with me on those issues, I don't we don't have time for uh response right now.
29:08Um, but those are just things, and thank you, madam chair, for bringing this.
29:12This slide deck is really important.
29:14Um, and maybe we could even have in like a couple months have a follow-up with a little bit more time to uh maybe an early start time to have this um necessary conversation.
29:25Thank you, and we'll do that follow-up.
29:27Yeah, when we do our next one on one on maybe neighborhood streets, we can pull some of these details back into discussion as well.
29:36Um we have council uh pro tem Romero Campbell and then you councilman Hines.
29:43Thank you, Madam Chair.
29:44Um, and thank you for this presentation.
29:47Um I really appreciate it as um the the data pulled in all the different ways is is so incredibly helpful to be able to you know um to see what we're thinking about for this larger network.
30:03Um I have a few questions, and I know that we're um up against time, so I'm just gonna go real quickly through my questions and then hopefully we can uh follow up.
30:14But I was interested um on the slide for the schools that are part of the travel plan um for the safe routes to school, and is this an ongoing program?
30:23And you know, kind of what are the schools that are participating, and is this something that uh more schools will participate in the future?
30:31Um I'm also uh concerned about you know, Hampton Avenue is a high injury network or high injury um corridor, and um I hear a lot from students and families going to Thomas Jefferson High School.
30:46Um, the kids who are waiting on Hampton and Monaco.
30:49Um it's very unsafe.
30:52And then also um they're waiting for the bus.
30:56Um oftentimes if the bus is late or they miss it, or whatever the case may be, they will walk down Hampton over 25 and go up to um TJ, and it's incredibly safe.
31:09But for those who are driving on Hampton, um making a left-hand turn on Holly and Ivanhoe.
31:15Um, we get constantly complaints about um the turn light, and I know that this is kind of a dotty C dot conversation, but I'm hoping that we can um work on that together.
31:26Um also we have uh a number of scooters and high-speed electric bikes.
31:33Um we're seeing them more and more in bike lanes and sidewalks, residential streets on the um the paths, and I don't know if there's a study that's been conducted or looking at do we have a policy, do we, you know, what is the incidence?
31:49Because I also um in my district get a lot of um concerns of people um of um scooters and bikes that are on trails and then go on uh the parks.
32:02Um they'll go up and down um the the grass and it's just um there's that's why we need a skate park.
32:10That's why we're gonna get a skate park is we needed a place for um young people to go and to be able to have that recreation, but um they are just very high speed up and down um a lot of the streets, and um it's becoming a hazard for a number of like I'm worried about the kids, but I'm also um I'm worried about the young people, but I'm also really worried about um some of the residents, the cars, and what kind of situation that's creating.
32:37And then just finally, um the beacon lights, uh I too uh was so excited as a community member and resident, and that was something that um my predecessor, Councilwoman Black, had advocated for as well.
32:52Um, but those flashing beacon uh lights um uh on the Highline Canal on Yale um between Monaco and Quebec.
33:03Um I've heard that those have gone out to bid a number of times and that we weren't able to find um a vendor to be able to do it, but it is such a high need, high use area.
33:16Um, and there are you know, I've seen people uh like near misses almost daily um when I go through there.
33:24But I'm just really uh would like to see what we can do to get those installed um and if it has to be bundled or what the case may be.
33:33Um what's a little disappointing is that um there's another area on Quebec that we share the um the border with unincorporated Arapahoe County and Arapahoe County started talking about this with the Highline Canal about a year and a half ago.
33:50Um it's already been installed.
33:55Um and it's beautiful, and it's you know, it's something that it's on the same trail.
34:00But I just wanted to ask about those um four things, and we can hopefully follow up after this meeting.
34:06I don't know if we have time to um if you have time to answer any of those questions now.
34:13We'll pull all that information so that we can start pushing on all of those and give you guys updates about those, if they are or not on this, et cetera.
34:21And the new class of bikes that you're seeing come in called eMotos, which are a little different than e-bikes, and you all are seeing them, they're very popular right now.
34:30I think we will come back.
34:31Maybe we can just do in the portion of the announcements just to be able to answer some of these questions.
34:36Yeah, and then you can also send the answers to the entire committee as well in writing.
34:41Um, Councilman Heinz.
34:42Thank you, committee chair.
34:43Thank you for uh to everyone here and uh to channel eight for being um over time.
34:49I have notes, so I'll be uh as efficient as I can.
34:52Um I thank you for the presentation.
34:54Uh your vision zero slide, which was slide four.
35:00Um you might have said this verbally.
35:01I in my opinion, the text of the slide misses the most important part of vision zero.
35:07It says crashes uh the the slide says crashes have predictable and preventable causes.
35:13Um vision zero, if you go to vision zero.org, it says the road system and related policy should be designed to ensure those in better inevitable mistakes do not result in severe injuries or fatalities.
35:25So the the mode shift is it's not an accident.
35:29A driver just didn't have, you know, like um have a brain fart, and uh it ended up in a if the the idea is that the system and policies can be changed, um, that the street can be designed in a different way.
35:44So I would encourage um at least the text to be massaged to talk um I think that is the crux of the the mode shift.
35:53Um slide 14, you talk about people walking, there are people in wheelchairs who are also vision zero statistics, so I'd suggest pedestrians instead of people walking.
36:02Slide 15 um shows that district 10 is basically a higher energy network, the entire district.
36:08And a council member LB addresses point.
36:10Um we have many, many uh constituents who don't own cars at all.
36:14Um, you know, uh third of households in Catpill, a third of households in Uptown, 37% of uh City Park West residents don't own cars at all, so they have to be a pedestrian.
36:24Um safety adjacent to schools, safe rides to schools.
36:28Um you mentioned teller elementary, so great to hear.
36:32Um the slide talks about a bike lane.
36:34Um I had before you started, I had asked Dotti to fund a traffic study around Teller.
36:40Uh it didn't happen, so I funded uh traffic study around Teller.
36:44Uh there are some suggestions that uh that they've recommended that haven't been implemented.
36:50So as you're considering um teller, we already have used a vendor that Dottie is has as an on-call vendor.
36:58Um and uh so you know we we we used a tried and true Dottie vendor.
37:03Um the speed program, I want to make an offer.
37:07Um I want to understand how I can help you achieve your uh your vision zero statistics on it.
37:13I think Director Ford in the budget conversation for the 2025 budget, you said you wanted a 50% reduction in vision zero by the end of 2026.
37:22On those corners, yes.
37:23Um I heard, so I see on slide 22 that you had a 50% reduction on two streets.
37:31It maybe I misheard.
37:33I thought your commitment was 50% division zero.
37:37So, but either way, uh it's a hundred percent reduction by 2030, and with our current direction, we're um moving in the in the wrong direction.
37:46So um if there's anything that I can do to help you do that, I I'd um I'd love to do that.
37:53And you mentioned a map of DOTI safety data and construction plans.