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[COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR] RESOLUTION NO. 230618
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Sponsor(s): Councilmember Eric Bunch, and Mayor Quinton Lucas
RESOLUTION - Directing the City Manager to conduct a citywide road diet analysis and produce preliminary design implementing safety improvements of each existing undivided street with four or more lanes to determine the suitability of converting one or more of these streets into three-reduced lane streets via a restriping and/or resurfacing program.
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WHEREAS, Resolution No. 110069 expressed the Council's support for the concept of "Livable Streets" as a means to promote great neighborhoods, healthy and active people, and a thriving community; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 170949 codified a Complete Streets policy that requires streets to be improved for all users during all phases of street maintenance, improvement, and construction; and
WHEREAS, Resolution No. 200019 directed the City Manager to draft a Vision Zero action plan and established Council's goal to eliminate traffic fatalities through a systems change approach; and
WHEREAS, Resolution No. 220660 approved the City's Vision Zero Action plan which renewed Council's goal to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2030 and made recommendations for Road Diet criteria, citywide; and
WHEREAS, the City has updated its Major Street Plan with a citywide traffic model which can be used to determine the feasibility of road diets; and
WHEREAS, a road diet is a vehicle lane reduction that often involves adding a facility for other modes, including but not limited to, transit only lanes, bike lanes, multi-modal lanes and that can lead to improved roadway safety with no or minimal impacts to automobile operations; and
WHEREAS, streets with four or more lanes in Kansas City have a disproportionate share of fatal and serious injury crashes; and
WHEREAS, the City has prioritized critical safety improvements on streets identified within th...
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