DENVER (KDVR) — Site visitors-related deaths proceed to climb within the metropolis of Denver and nationwide.
Jill Locantore with Denver Streets Partnership mentioned they’re nonetheless ready on ultimate numbers, however know greater than 80 folks died on Denver streets in 2023.
Knowledge from the Denver Streets Partnership exhibits a gentle enhance through the years, besides in 2020 in the course of the pandemic.
Complete site visitors deaths in Denver, in response to Denver Streets Partnership:
- 2022: 84
- 2021: 84
- 2020: 57
- 2019: 71
- 2018: 64
- 2017: 51
This all comes six years because the metropolis introduced its Imaginative and prescient Zero Motion Plan to get rid of site visitors fatalities by 2030.
“We’re seeing a seamless development of alarmingly excessive charges of site visitors fatalities,” Locantore mentioned. “It’s heartbreaking. Each single one that was a part of a site visitors crash was any individual’s guardian, little one, neighbor, good friend, colleague, and all of us endure this loss.”
In Could 2023, Denver’s Division of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI) launched a number of updates to its Imaginative and prescient Zero Motion Plan.
“We have to refocus on making it simpler for folks to get round with out driving,” Locantore. “We have to redesign our streets to bolster protected driving behaviors, going the velocity restrict, and we have to take area on our streets and make it obtainable for folks strolling, biking and utilizing different modes apart from driving.”
A metropolis spokesperson advised FOX31 they’re specializing in intersections alongside most important arterial roads like Broadway and bettering road design to implement protected speeds and shield these utilizing different modes of transportation.
With a number of enchancment tasks full and extra underway, Locantore mentioned she’s optimistic, however there’s nonetheless a lot to be achieved.
“Now we have an excellent Zero Imaginative and prescient Plan and now what we’d like is the implementation and once more, it’s the velocity of implementation,” Locantore mentioned. “On the present tempo, we aren’t going to get there by 2030. We will if we scale up the scope of what we’re doing.”
A metropolis spokesperson mentioned this yr they’ve pedestrian security and journey enchancment tasks kicking off on West Colfax Avenue and Mississippi Avenue.
