Safe Streets

ABOUT THE PROJECT

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PROJECT LIBRARY

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About the Project

The Safe Streets project was initiated by City staff in the Fall of 2016 to make LFP's streets safer for everyone. This includes providing safe connections to transit, the Town Center, the Burke-Gilman Trail, Interurban Trail, parks, and schools. To identify community priorities, the City led a public outreach process to accomplish the following:

1. Address key conflicts between pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists​
2. Develop an enhanced Capital Improvements Program (CIP), including prioritized specific projects
3. Conduct a robust public engagement process to ensure the community has ownership of identified solutions
4. Increase safe connections to transit and amenities​ ​

Project Status

 The final Safe Streets report was adopted by City Council in July of 2017. In November 2017, City Council approved a second phase focused on ways to improve safe access for people walking and cycling to areas within a half-mile of the Town Center, or roughly a 10-minute walk. For this portion of the project, we set up an interactive web map that allowed you to share ideas from December 2017 through January 2018. A final report summarizing this effort can be found in the Project Library.

How are Safe Streets and Safe Highways connected?

Safe Highways is a concurrent project looking at how to make Bothell Way NE and Ballinger Way NE safer, more accommodating to transit, and more walkable and bikeable. Safe Streets is looking at all other surface streets in Lake Forest Park.