Safe Streets for All

Final Approved Safety Action Plan

Lyons, Colorado, has a rich history of planning and implementing initiatives that aim to enhance vibrancy, accessibility, and safety for residents and visitors.

Building on these plans, the Town has developed a holistic, equitable, and achievable Strategic Safety Action Plan. This plan goes beyond being a mere planning document with talking points about crash reductions; it is a “force multiplier” aimed at fostering a safe-systems culture through context-sensitive engineering, education, and enforcement. The plan identifies high injury networks, develops appropriate strategies and objectives, and positions the town for capital projects designed to secure SS4A implementation grant funding for initiatives such as roundabouts, enhanced bicycle infrastructure, and new sidewalks/upgraded pedestrian crosswalks.

Read more:>>Safe Streets for All Safety Action Plan 

Background Information

Improving pedestrian safety continues to be a priority for the Town of Lyons. While the Town is only 1.3 square miles, we are intersected by US-36 and also have SH-7 and SH-66 which go through our small town.

This federally funded  project seeks to identify, understand, and reflect the community’s needs and desires for safer streets and access within Lyons, including improvements to traffic operations, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, lighting, access to schools and businesses, parking, and streetscape design.

The Town has many areas where vehicular speeds feel too fast, pedestrian crosswalks feel unsafe or inadequate,  locations where sidewalks do not exist and other challenges and concerns related to safety for all.

This Safety Action Plan will gather community input, as well as professional recommendations, providing a comprehensive analysis and inventory  of  local safety concerns. Recommendations will identify future improvements and funding opportunities. The project team will lead a public engagement process that seeks to reach all potential stakeholders, including residents, property owners, schools, businesses, public agencies, corridor users, and walking and biking advocates. The goals are to engage with stakeholders, utilizing both in-person and virtual strategies in order to collect the most impactful and meaningful input.

Project Goals

•    Give residents interested in improving safety on streets and trails ample opportunity to weigh in and give input and feedback

•    Ensure that the Safety Action Plan:

•    Identifies a high-risk network

•    Addresses vehicle speeds and multimodal safety and accessibility

•    Develops a holistic, equitable, and achievable strategy

•    Creates a safe systems culture through context-sensitive engineering, education, and enforcement

•    Develops appropriate capital projects for design or future Safe Streets for All implementation grant funding

Promise to the Public

We will work with the public to better understand concerns and solutions for the Town’s streets and trails. We will use community feedback and a safety analysis to develop emphasis areas such as pedestrian safety, speeding, enforcement, and bicycle safety. We will prioritize locations and resources for the development of safety countermeasures and develop specific concept design plans for up to five locations. We’ll use community feedback to ensure that the final Safe Streets Action Plan reflects a broad range of community perspectives and then help the Town identify funds to implement the improvements in a timely manner.

If you have questions regarding this important planning project, please contact Justin Doles, Town Engineer or Molly North, with the consultants, Mead and Hunt.