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LOCAL ROADWAY SAFETY PLAN
City Council
December 13, 2022
Public Works Department
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2 On November 2, 2022, the Transportation Board
unanimously recommended that the City Council
approve and adopt the proposed Riverside LRSP
document
TRANSPORTATION BOARD REVIEW
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3 • Project Overview
• Case Study Locations
• Emphasis Areas
• Countermeasures Identified
• Recommendations
• Next Steps
BACKGROUND
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4 What is a Local Road Safety Plan (LRSP)?
A statewide data-driven traffic safety plan that coordinates the efforts of a wide range of organizations to reduce traffic accident fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads.
An LRSP:
• Creates a framework to systematically identify and analyze safety problems and recommend safety improvements.
• Offers a proactive approach to addressing safety needs and demonstrates agency responsiveness to safety challenges.
• Is a program organized and funded by Caltrans
• Is necessary to receive Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) funding and makes City competitive for other grant funding opportunities
PROJECT OVERVIEW
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5 • Understand the factors
that contribute to
collisions
• Develop strategies to
reduce traffic injuries
• Develop an action plan
to prioritize safety
improvements
• Increase the City’s
competitiveness for
safety funding
PROJECT PURPOSE
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6 GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
Highway Safety
Improvement Program
(HSIP)
Safe Streets 4 All
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7 PROJECT PROCESS
Plan Update
Monitoring
Final Plan
Draft Plan
Counter-
measure
Identification
Preliminary
Collision
Analysis
Stakeholder Engagement*
Stakeholder Meeting #1: August 4, 2022 Stakeholder Meeting #2: September 1, 2022 *This technical/ data‐driven analysis & engagement builds on the 40+ community meetings held for the Riverside PACT and is a precursor to engagement that will be held for the General Plan Circulation Element Update
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8 EMPHASIS AREAS
1. Vulnerable Road Users (Pedestrians & Bicyclists)
2. Impaired Driving
3. Intersection Improvements
4. Aggressive Driving
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9 COUNTERMEASURES FOR EMPHASIS AREA #1- VULNERABLE ROAD USERS (PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS)
• Implement Leading
Pedestrian Interval (LPI)
signal timing
• Install continental
crosswalks (high-visibility)
• Install bike lanes
• Install audible pedestrian
push buttons
• Install curb extensions
• Convert intersection to
mini-roundabout
Install audible pedestrian
push button (hands‐free)
Install continental crosswalks
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10 COUNTERMEASURES FOR EMPHASIS AREA #2- IMPAIRED DRIVING • Authorize, publicize,
and conduct sobriety
checkpoints programs
• Implement an
impaired driving
education campaign
Additional sobriety checkpoints
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11 COUNTERMEASURES FOR EMPHASIS AREA #3- INTERSECTION
IMPROVEMENTS
• Install retroreflective
backplates
• Provide advanced
dilemma zone
detection system
• Install flashing stop sign
beacons at un-
signalized locations
Install retroreflective backplates to
increase visibility of signals
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12 COUNTERMEASURES FOR EMPHASIS AREA #4 - AGGRESSIVE DRIVING • Install curve warning
signs
• Install speed feedback
signs
• Install/Extend raised
median improvements
• Install striping to
delineate parking and
travel lanes
Install speed feedback signs
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13 Strategic Priority 6 - Infrastructure, Mobility, & Connectivity Goal 6.2: Maintain, protect and improve assets and infrastructure within the City’s built environment to ensure and enhance reliability, resiliency, sustainability, and facilitate connectivity
Cross-Cutting Threads
STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT
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14 RECOMMENDATION
That the City Council adopt a Resolution to approve the proposed City of Riverside Local Roadway Safety Plan.
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15 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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16 STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
• Partners Include:
– Riverside Police Department
– UC Riverside
– Riverside Unified School District
– Riverside Community Health Foundation
– Center for Environmental Research and Technology (UCR
CE-CERT)
– Riverside Downtown Partnership
– Riverside Bicycle Club
• Engagement augments the 40+ Community Meetings
held for the Riverside PACT
• Findings from LRSP to be integrated into General Plan Circulation Element
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17 CASE STUDY LOCATIONS
1. Market Street & 6th Street
2. Mission Inn Avenue: Redwood Dr to
Bridge
3. Main Street: Spruce St to Poplar St
4. 14th Street & Olivewood Avenue
5. Victoria Avenue & Lincoln Avenue
6. Washington Street & Lincoln Avenue
7. Van Buren Boulevard & Wood Road
8. Tyler Street & Hemet Street
9. Tyler Street & Magnolia Avenue
10. Van Buren Boulevard & Arlington
Avenue
11. Van Buren Boulevard & Jurupa Avenue
12. Central Avenue: Fremont St to
Wilderness Ave
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18 HSIP CYCLE 11 GRANT APPLIACTION
• Applied for funding in HSIP Cycle 11: $9+ mil grant
– Mission Inn Ave median improvements
– Leading Pedestrian Interval and Retroreflective Backplates at signalized intersections
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