How Safe Do You Feel on Arlington's Streets?
Level of Effort: 15 minutes, at home, in your PJs
Deadline: Wed 4/30 11:59pm
Campaign: A Vision for Zero Deaths & Serious Injuries on our Streets

As Arlington approaches the end of its initial Five-Year Vision Zero Action Plan, it is time for another annual safety feedback check-in.  This is our yearly opportunity to tell Arlington's Vision Zero team how things are going and what you'd like to see more or less of as part of the Vision Zero Program.

We'd like to see more proven facility improvements like protected bike lanes and more frequent signal-assisted crossings of arterial roads, as well as increased enforcement targeted at fake temporary license plates and photo-reflective plate covers that our most dangerous drivers use to evade automated enforcement.

Suggested Feedback

First Two Pages: Answer per your own personal experience.

Page 3 "Use the space below to tell us how we can make traveling in Arlington safer for you."

More protected bike lanes.

More signal-assisted crossings of arterial roads.

More enforcement of traffic laws, prioritizing those offenses that are most likely to harm other, as well as targeting those who are attempting to evade automated enforcement via fake license plates and reflective plate covers.

Page 4 Interactive Map

The most effective requests that we have seen with these maps in the past is for the following types of issues, and so we recommend prioritizing reporting them on this map:

  1. Long stretches of arterial road that need additional safe crossings, like with a rapid flashing beacon
  2. Bike/Bus conflicts at protected bike lanes where the protection goes away at the bus stop rather than having a bus island
  3. Protected bike lanes that are blocked because the protection is insufficient or disappears for a stretch
  4. Missing stretches of sidewalk in commercial areas or near schools
  5. Poor visibility at crossings due to parking being allowed too close to the crosswalk
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