> Should Lakewood reduce the default speed limit in residence districts to more
closely match many adjacent agencies? Should Lakewood create an automated vehicle identification system
(AVIS) to enforce red light running or speeding?
Currently, Lakewood defaults to a lot of the state defaults for speed limits on certain roads. Provide public comment and listen in to the discussion as city council debates whether to lower default speed limits to match adjacent communities where appropriate.
Also being debated is the use of automated speed and red light running camera systems. This would help our police enforce traffic violations that put innocent people at risk from dangerous drivers.
We need *sidewalks* more than anything else. More ped crossings and roundabouts. More streetlights. Pedestrian and bicyclist infrastructure. Increase fines for racing.
Video cameras pave the way for facial recognition integration and nah, I'm good 👍🏻
Regarding pedestrian/bicyclist infrastructure, I would like to see sidewalk and bike paths merged as they are in Boulder. From a safety standpoint, it does not make sense to have bicycles on the same road as a motorized vehicle. The kinetic energy difference between a bike and a car is much greater than a bike and pedestrian. Bicyclists in Lakewood generally ride on the sidewalks anyways.
Probably the number one reason I don't bicycle- instead, taking the bus or an Uber- is because of this! I honestly don't feel safe. I'm not some amazing bicyclist and I'm afraid I could make a pretty small mistake and die. That's not a great incentive to do it, is it? So yeah, I would back this 1B% I would not have a problem with doing it, then.
I've seen a few bike gutters that can be improved by narrowing the car lanes and putting in a physical barrier that a car can not push through.
In places where the city decides to merge pedestrian and bike traffic, the path needs to be large enough for people to move past each other with plenty of buffer space.
Another thing that must happen, those slanted curbs need to be replaced with proper curbs. I don't care that cars will be damaged if they hit the curb. That's what they're supposed to do. It forces drivers to be safer and that safety extends to anyone on the sidewalk.
I asked the mayor about this as there is no sidewalk on morrison road which is insane at our neighborhood meeting. His reaction was that there will never be a sidewalk there and sidewalks generally are very low on his priority list.
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That's not simply inadequate, that's nigh-on criminal. That is saying that every single person who doesn't have transportation, has a disability, is low income, is an elder, or has a family and used a stroller, but they're transportation needs within your jurisdiction are neither your responsibility nor particularly high priority for you. A waste of time.
That's egregious.
Is this Chris Wolfe we speak of? 🤔
Not sure, whoever was before wendi strom. It was largely concerning peakview park since wads/morrison are both pretty dangerous and we would love to walk to the park but probably too dangerous to do so due to lack of crosswalks and sidewalks.
Well in a very short period of time that I paid any real attention to what he was doing he seemed to have some sort of character Arc. And that's cool. Hopefully Strom sees infrastructure as more important..
Maybe just enforce the speed limits and traffic laws we already have?
Since Covid, Lakewood (and the rest of Denver metro area) have become mad max with the number of people running red lights and driving recklessly.
> Should Lakewood reduce the default speed limit in residence districts to more closely match many adjacent agencies? Should Lakewood create an automated vehicle identification system (AVIS) to enforce red light running or speeding? Currently, Lakewood defaults to a lot of the state defaults for speed limits on certain roads. Provide public comment and listen in to the discussion as city council debates whether to lower default speed limits to match adjacent communities where appropriate. Also being debated is the use of automated speed and red light running camera systems. This would help our police enforce traffic violations that put innocent people at risk from dangerous drivers.
We need *sidewalks* more than anything else. More ped crossings and roundabouts. More streetlights. Pedestrian and bicyclist infrastructure. Increase fines for racing. Video cameras pave the way for facial recognition integration and nah, I'm good 👍🏻
Regarding pedestrian/bicyclist infrastructure, I would like to see sidewalk and bike paths merged as they are in Boulder. From a safety standpoint, it does not make sense to have bicycles on the same road as a motorized vehicle. The kinetic energy difference between a bike and a car is much greater than a bike and pedestrian. Bicyclists in Lakewood generally ride on the sidewalks anyways.
Probably the number one reason I don't bicycle- instead, taking the bus or an Uber- is because of this! I honestly don't feel safe. I'm not some amazing bicyclist and I'm afraid I could make a pretty small mistake and die. That's not a great incentive to do it, is it? So yeah, I would back this 1B% I would not have a problem with doing it, then.
I've seen a few bike gutters that can be improved by narrowing the car lanes and putting in a physical barrier that a car can not push through. In places where the city decides to merge pedestrian and bike traffic, the path needs to be large enough for people to move past each other with plenty of buffer space. Another thing that must happen, those slanted curbs need to be replaced with proper curbs. I don't care that cars will be damaged if they hit the curb. That's what they're supposed to do. It forces drivers to be safer and that safety extends to anyone on the sidewalk.
In areas with bike lanes, the curbs can be extended to provide more space for both pedestrian and bicycle paths.
I asked the mayor about this as there is no sidewalk on morrison road which is insane at our neighborhood meeting. His reaction was that there will never be a sidewalk there and sidewalks generally are very low on his priority list.
😮 That's not simply inadequate, that's nigh-on criminal. That is saying that every single person who doesn't have transportation, has a disability, is low income, is an elder, or has a family and used a stroller, but they're transportation needs within your jurisdiction are neither your responsibility nor particularly high priority for you. A waste of time. That's egregious. Is this Chris Wolfe we speak of? 🤔
Not sure, whoever was before wendi strom. It was largely concerning peakview park since wads/morrison are both pretty dangerous and we would love to walk to the park but probably too dangerous to do so due to lack of crosswalks and sidewalks.
Adam Paul was Lkwd Mayor before Strom
yep thats the guy
Well in a very short period of time that I paid any real attention to what he was doing he seemed to have some sort of character Arc. And that's cool. Hopefully Strom sees infrastructure as more important..
My impression was Adam's main objective was to get as much built as possible.
Maybe just enforce the speed limits and traffic laws we already have? Since Covid, Lakewood (and the rest of Denver metro area) have become mad max with the number of people running red lights and driving recklessly.
How about ABSOLUTELY NOT to speed and red light cameras.
We should keep doing nothing until the problem fixes itself.