Hey Denver, it's time for this biweekly meeting of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of Denver City Council.

Join us for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee starting now.

Good afternoon.

My name is Chantel Luz, and welcome to the Transportation Infrastructure Committee.

Today is Wednesday, February 18th, 2026, and I'm honored to represent the constituents in District 8.

With that, I would love to do a round of introductions, and we can maybe start virtual if we have any folks online.

Not yet.

Okay.

I'll start with you, Councilman of Joseph.

Good afternoon, Flora Titres with Lucky District 7.

Good afternoon, Paul Cashman with Fortune at District 6.

Alright.

Good afternoon, Kevin Flynn's Southwest Numbers District 2.

Great, thank you.

And with that, we have an action item as well as a briefing.

And so we can get started with our first action item from Dottie.

You all can introduce your presentation yourselves and get started.

Thank you, Council Chair Lewis.

My name is Elena McCorder.

I'm Dottie's strategic advisor.

I'll be running through the Mississippi Vision Zero Project today.

And I have my colleague, Molly Lanfier joining us.

Molly, you want to introduce your speech?

Oh sure.

I am also with Dottie, the strategic strategic communications liaison, and I will be addressing some questions we received last time about the Alameda Lane Repurposing Project.

So together, I think you all know that we are your points of contact for all things communications around projects and programs at Dottie.

So we're excited to present some updates today around both the Mississippi Vision Zero Project as well as the Alameda Lane Repurposing Project.

Both are in Lucky District 7.

So, Councilmember Alvidrez, we appreciate your support and your feedback through this process.

Mississippi Vision Zero Project, this is resolution request 260121.

And today we'll run through kind of the project history and background, how we got to today, what the goals of that project are, and how we plan to uh implement safety enhancements along this corridor, and then timeline and next steps for what to expect in the community and on the ground.

Over on the right, you can see the project limits of the Mississippi Avenue Vision Zero Project, and we're talking about the Mississippi Corridor between Elliott Street and Quivas.

So this is between the larger intersections of Federal Boulevard and South Platte River Drive down here by Ruby Hill and Athmar Park.

So this project came out of the state's Safer Main Streets program.

So this was a state program to invest in creating pedestrian and bicycle safety infrastructure along commercial and residential corridors to create those vibrant communities across our city.

And so we applied for this grant back in January of 2020, almost a different world six years ago.

This corridor, this section of Mississippi Avenue, is on Denver's high injury network.

I know you all are aware, but the high injury network is the uh the roadways in Denver that have a disproportionate rate of serious bodily injuries and fatalities.

So we want to target safety improvements to mitigate some of those concerns and challenges.

As part of the grant application for the CDOT Safer Main Streets grant, we had to do an existing condition safety assessment where we looked at crash data along the corridor, traffic volumes and speeds, field observations of general behaviors, and really then tied that to proposed safety improvements that we thought could mitigate some of the top challenges that we saw, and then really tied that to what our anticipated safety outcomes are.

So we're gonna go through a little bit more of what each of those entails.

Really, this is the morning hours between 7 and 9 a.m., and then in the afternoon between 4 and 6 p.m.

What you'll see in this graphic here in these black boxes kind of in the middle along Zunai.

Westbound traffic volume is about 7500 on peak hours of the day.

Eastbound, it's a little under 6,000.

When you go further to the right there, closer to Quivas, the volumes are a little higher westbound at 7800 and a little higher eastbound as well at 6800.

What you'll see in the boxes just below there are the 80th percentile of speed that we saw.

So 85% of the people were going eastbound 27 miles per hour or less, westbound 29 miles per hour or less.

So 16 different intersections where we really wanted to take a close look at the interplay between pedestrians, bicyclists, and vehicular traffic.

And then I also just you saw on there, just highlighting for you that we've got Goldrick Elementary and the Athmar Park public library right there as well, where we have a lot of pedestrian traffic on the corridor.

So what did the conditions outlook find?

First, if you look at the table on the bottom, in a four-year time span, there were a total of 109 crashes between Elliott and Quivas along Mississippi.

If you look at figure one here on the top right, the crash types from Elliott to Quivus, what we see is 45% of the crashes were broadside and sideswipe collisions.

So T-bones or side-to-side interactions between vehicles.

What we also saw in the bottom right pie chart is crash types focused at the intersections around Dale and Clay.

And there we saw again a high frequency of broadside crashes.

We also looked into a closer look at the pedestrian crashes on the corridor.

And what we found was that of the five pedestrian crashes, all five were in the vicinity of Raritan and Quivas, which are just one block apart from each other.

So it's a very high pedestrian crossing between the neighborhoods and the commercial hub of the community.

And three of those five pedestrian crosses were mid-block at unsignalized.