Lafayette Local Road Safety Plan
Final Local Road Safety Plan Document (August 2023)
The final version of the Lafayette Local Road Safety Plan is now available.
City Council adopted the Lafayette Local Road Safety Plan at the August 28, 2023 City Council meeting.
Lafayette Local Road Safety Plan
A Local Road Safety Plan is a plan that provides a framework for identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing roadway safety improvements on Lafayette's roadways. The Local Road Safety Plan development process and content are tailored to local issues and needs, resulting in a prioritized list of issues, risks, actions, and improvements that can be used to reduce traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries.
The intent of the LRSP is to:
- provide a proactive collision analysis of Lafayette’s road network
- engage with the Lafayette community to better understand the factors that impact traffic safety
- identify high risk locations and collision patterns
- develop a list of systemic low-cost and longer-term countermeasures to address the collisions
- inform a prioritized list of engineering projects that can be submitted for future grant application processes
- develop a safety plan to help secure funding to address key safety issues.
The Plan included input from a stakeholder Task Force, community members, and a detailed crash data analysis. The results of a detailed crash analysis contributed to the production of a location profile for each of the high priority collision locations across the city, and an effort to identify safety issues and profiles. The result of the Plan is a broad range of recommended safety treatments that have been identified that, collectively, can help to reduce and eliminate the numbers of traffic-related crashes that result in death or serious injury.
The LRSP has been prepared in support of Vision Zero. For more information on this initiative, please see the City’s Vision Zero webpage. To learn more about the Vision Zero approach to making our streets safer for all users, visit the national Vision Zero Network.
Project Updates
The LRSP was prepared with the guidance of a multi-disciplinary Task Force. A total of four Task Force meetings, and a joint meeting between the Task Force and the Transportation & Circulation Commission were conducted as part of the development of the LRSP. The following include the presentations and documents that were prepared throughout the LRSP process.
Task Force Meeting #1 Presentation (9/22/2022)
Task Force Meeting #2 Presentation (10/25/2022)
Task Force Meeting #3 Presentation (2/1/2023)
Task Force Meeting #4 Presentation (3/22/2023)
View the recording of the Task Force Meeting #2: https://youtu.be/vaaLh94Lf3g
LRSP Public Workshop Presentation (12/1/2022)
View the recording of the LRSP Public Workshop Presentation: https://youtu.be/r827t6L5cXo (NOTE: the recording only includes the final segment of the workshop due to a technical error in Zoom).
Task Force meeting information and materials can be viewed under Local Road Safety Plan (LRSP) on the city’s Meeting webpage.
Transportation & Circulation Commission Meeting Presentation (6/19/2023)
Lafayette City Council Presentation (7/24/2023)
Online Webmap Survey Results
One of the ways in which Lafayette residents provided input towards traffic safety was via an interactive webmap survey, which was hosted online from October to December 2022. When visiting the survey page, respondents could:
- Read a brief overview of the LRSP effort and learn more about the project via a link to the project webpage,
- Take a survey to provide information on their travel behaviors and feedback about roadway safety, and
- Participate in a mapping exercise to identify and provide comment on specific locations across Lafayette where respondents reported they feel unsafe, safe or where they have a specific safety idea.
Over 1,800 pins were dropped on the map, including over 1,200 pins identifying locations that felt unsafe, about 300 pins identifying locations where respondents felt roadway conditions felt most safe, and over 300 pins dropped for location-based solutions.
Click here to view the results of the webmap survey. Click on any point on the map to view the specific comment provided at that location. Results can be further filtered by comment type by using the filter option located along the column along the left-hand side of the page.