2024-019 - Santa Ana Vision Zero Plan

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safe walking, bicycling, and other non -motorized forms of transporta- tion through community participatory design. • Policy M-3.9 Neighborhood Traffic: Develop innovative strategies to calm neighborhood traffic, increase safety, and eliminate collisions, while also maintaining access for emergency response. • Policy M-5.1 Enhanced Street Design: Improve the beauty, character, and function of travelways with amenities such as landscaped park- ways and medians, bike lanes, public art, and other amenities. • Policy M-5.5 Street Design: Design and retrofit streets based on their combined land use context and road function to achieve safety ob- jectives. • Policy M-5.8 Traffic Safety: Prioritize the safety of all travelway users when designing transportation improvement and rehabilitation proj- ects. Strategies to Adopt It is the recommendation of this plan, aside from the aforementioned policies, that the City of Santa Ana also focus on the following strate- gies and concepts: • Identification of roadways with motorist speeding behaviors. Add au- tomated enforcement of speeding at problematic locations • Identification of roadways with motorist red light running behaviors. Add automated enforcement of red light running at problematic in- tersections • Implementation of safety interventions citywide/systemically • Pedestrian -focused engineering countermeasures to reduce vehicle versus pedestrian collisions • Bicyclist -focused engineering countermeasures to reduce vehicle versus bicycle collisions • Left turn tight radius, bulb -outs, Leading Pedestrian Interval signal timing • Pedestrian refuge curb/bollards to slow left turns • Turn calming • Speed humps to reduce speed • Roundabouts and traffic circles • Senior zones for increased safety • Pedestrian signals, lighting, crosswalks • Lane re-allocation/road buffets/road diets Adding continuous sidewalks or speed humps at driveways to miti- gate conflicts from vehicles turning on and off of driveways Adding hardened centerlines, both including tubular markers along centerlines and small rubber humps in front of crosswalks to enforce, through design, slower left turn movements and reduce pedestrian exposure to turning traffic Hardened Centerlines, Source: Seattle Department of Transportation • Adding "Intersection Daylighting" systematically across the City of Santa Ana. Daylighting is the simple concept that safety is improved by removing parked cars within 20 feet of crosswalks. By keeping the area next to crosswalks clear of parked vehicle obstructions, people walking and people driving/biking on the street can see each other better, thereby significantly increasing safety in a cost-effective man- ner. Because only paint and tubular markers are involved in tactical urbanism forms of daylighting, it is considered highly cost effective and a "tried -and -tested" way to increase safety in cities. The newly published December 2023 edition of the MUTCD has, for the first time, a section sanctioning Daylight of intersection using just paint and tubular markers. It is the recommendation of this Plan that the City of Santa Ana utilize the MUTCD to use tactical urbanism to chan- nelize intersections city-wide where daylighting is feasible. As seen in the Consistency Review from Section 1.4, multiple agencies within Orange County adjacent or overlapping with the City of Santa Ana have also advanced Vision Zero goals and actions. This literature review illustrates the depth of actions and additional potential ideas for consideration in the City of Santa Ana 16