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MEETING SECTIONS:

Part 1 (Video ID: JwLVAGHn2Ec):
- 00:00:02: Vision Zero Action Committee: Introductions and Project Overview
- 00:05:43: Defining Vision Zero and the Safe System Approach
- 00:14:55: Action Plan Development, Certification, and Data-Driven Process
- 00:20:28: Gardner Crash Data Analysis: Fatalities, Injuries, and Trends
- 00:24:10: Visualizing Gardner's Crash Data and Injury Hotspots
- 00:26:59: Building upon the Monachus Regional Vision Zero Plan
- 00:28:26: Public Comment Slot #1: Questions and Feedback on Data
- 00:30:08: Lisa's Comments About Pedestrian Data
- 00:30:46: Public Outreach Strategy: Website, Map, and Engagement
- 00:35:32: Public Comment Slot #2: Social Media and Involvement
- 00:36:41: Public Comment Slot #3: Master Plan Public Session
- 00:37:31: Public Comment Slot #4: Walmart Idea
- 00:38:03: Public Comment Slot #5: Market Basket Locations
- 00:38:35: Public Comment Slot #6: Health and Wellness Fair
- 00:39:13: Public Comment Slot #7: Council of Aging Location
- 00:40:36: Next Steps, Public Meeting Dates, and Contact Information


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Federal Highway Administration for developing a safety action plan. Um, and you've been asked to be part of the vision zero action committee. Um, and this is our first meeting. Um, I know that Lisa uh, and Bill from

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Kimley Horn and Liam as well, um, they've done a lot of work on this already. They're at the city's consultant on this project. Um, so up in front of you is the agenda. Um, we're going to go around and introduce everybody. I'll start with myself if you don't know me. There's a few people here

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I don't know. Um, I'm Rob Oliva. I'm the city engineer for the city of Gardener. Uh, managing this project. Um, although I do believe the heavy lift is coming from Kimley Horn. Um, so if we want to go around um maybe I don't know how we introduce ourselves in a a timely manner. Maybe I'll call call your name

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out and introduce yourself. >> Um, I'm just going to go down the list of participants how I see them. Um, Angela, you're up first. >> Uh, Angela Dep Prima, assistant director of public health. And I invited Lauren, who is our new director of public health. >> Did she start today or is she starting

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next week? >> She is on this meeting, Rob. >> Oh, hey Lauren. >> Hi. >> Um, okay. Next on the list is Becky McAffrey. >> Can you guys hear me? >> Yes. >> Okay. Um, I'm Becky McAffrey. I'm the

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school health services director for Gardener Public Schools and I'm here because Mark Pelgro assigned me to be here. >> Okay. Thanks, Becky. Um, George. >> Yes, I'm George Snow for Monus Regional Planning Commission and I'm looking

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forward to being on this committee. it uh a vision zero action plan is uh a really vital plan to have for for every community and uh so I'm looking forward to this. I'm I'm glad we have

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already have some experience quite a bit of experience behind behind us and I know Horn does too with doing these plans. So so I think this will be a super plan you know by the time it's done for gardener. So,

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>> thanks George. Um, Jacob Cormier, you're next. >> I am Jacob Cormier. I am the president of Gardener Square 2. Um, also owner and third generation of Bouche Tuner Home um here in Gardener. So, have a longevity

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within Gardener and um yeah, looking to see what everyone's thinking here. >> Great. Thanks, Jacob. Uh Jason, >> hi everyone. Jason Stevens, director of community development and planning as well as executive director for

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Gardener's Redevelopment Authority here. Uh looking forward to to working with this. Um currently I'm overseeing the city's uh development of its own hazard mitigation plan, master plan. um couple others as well that might not have as much overlap with this, but looking forward to seeing, you know, how we can

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kind of take those goals and opportunities uh from those plans and, you know, see what kind of uh overlap we might have with the safety action. >> Thanks, Jason. Lisa, you're up. Hi, I am Lisa Juan and I am a a traffic engineer

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at Timborn and working closely with Rob and my partners on this. >> Lauren, >> hi. Can you hear me? >> Yep. >> Okay. Just got set off like five minutes ago, so just making sure everything's working. I am Lauren Saunders. It's I've

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been working for two hours here again today. I worked here previously three years ago and now I'm back. So, I don't know what's going on, but I'm sure I'll get cut off real quick. >> Thanks, Lauren. Glad to have you back. >> Um, Liam.

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>> Yeah. Hi. I'm Liam Maher, transportation analyst with Kimley Horn. >> Thanks, Colby. >> Hi, Colobby Rousell. Uh, degree mascot. I'm I work in the traffic section and I'm filling in for Barry.

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Thanks for helping out with this, Colby. Um, and finally, Bill. >> Hi, uh, Bill Scully with Kimley Horn, uh, transportation and engineer planner and, uh, managing the project for, uh, Kimley Horn on this.

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>> Thanks, Bill. Um, I I've got one more actually. He's not on the list because he's sitting right lurking right behind me, but I'll let him introduce himself. >> I feel like stepb brotherther sitting behind Rob. Uh, I'm Dane Arnold, the DPW director. All right, I think that's everyone. If I

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didn't say your name, just yell at me. Um, all right. So, as part of this project, your role in the safety action plan is, um, we're planning on about five of these meetings, um, during the life of the project, which is looking to be about 10 to 12 months. Um

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hopefully what you can do um we have a kind of a varied um representation of folks here but we hope we can help identify potential problem areas um that either you have institutional knowledge, you've been a resident, you work in the city. Um so we're we're hoping that

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provides some valuable feedback. Um provide key input and feedback on the project and and where it's headed and and what we're looking to do. uh be an advocate and assist in getting stakeholders engaged. I think that's probably a big part of this project is

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the public engagement um in in getting people involved in in getting input from other than just us. Um as part of the committee hope you know hope to recommend priorities and then finally participate in implementation in

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tracking um progress of the project. um the vision zero overview and the safe system approach. I guess we'll talk a little bit about that. >> Yep. And I'll give it to Bill. >> All right, Bill, you're the guy. >> All right. Thanks, Rob, Lisa. So, um so

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welcome to everyone. And as you can see, there's a real mix of people on the meeting today, both from engineering planning kind of technical sides as well as the health, the schools, you know, being involved in it. And really uh as

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we develop the safety action plan for the city, you'll you'll hear and and see over the course of the months that we keep bringing in it's it's not just fixing an intersection. It's a mindset. It's behavioral, it's promotion, um to

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get everyone really on the same page. Um so, uh what is vision zero? So, it's a concept. It it really started overseas, but uh maybe 10 15 years ago. And essentially, it's uh something that we

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said there shouldn't be any fatal crashes, no serious injury crashes on our transportation system. So, vision zero is just that, get it, get everything down to zero. And when we say severe or uh injury related crashes, we

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mean really the life-changing ones where you really have become incapacitated. You may still be alive, but you're not doing the things that you always were doing prior to that. So the goal is really to implement actions

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again a wide range with the goal of getting down to zero. Um this project uh can you go to the next slide please? Um, so as Rob said, the city was awarded a grant to prepare its own safety action

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plan and it's really building off of and supplementing the regional plan that Montuset uh regional planning uh prepared uh over the last year or two. uh where where they had a a very regional level analysis uh and and they

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got 20 uh George correct me if I'm wrong but 28 or 26 communities that are members of MRPC you know all had to uh you know they all got addressed in some form of fashion from uh the regional

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plan and what we're doing is really zeroing in on on pretty much every street every inch of the streets uh in the city of Gardner and trying to come up with some city specific actions uh that can uh

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build off of that. So anyways, the safe streets and roads for all program was initiated back in 22 and um it's for planning, engineering, demonstration um and and implementation of projects.

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Uh it's been really successful over the last 5 years. Um a lot of the communities in the state all pretty much all the regional um planning agencies have received uh funds through the program. The program does

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allow for the city specifically to apply to federal highway um to receive funds for again planning or implementation. And that's what came about in the last year or two uh when the city got awarded. It just took a while to go

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through some paperwork to get the thing uh going, but uh now we are. So, next slide. >> Uh before George, did did you want to add something? >> Oh, yes. I just wanted to mention uh that uh there's 22 MRPC communities in

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but there's 28 communities in the study and six of the communities are M communities that are outside the MRPC region and they were included because M is was a was was joined with us to do to

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do the plan and so I mean we don't for those six communities we don't we're not we don't have any like uh you know solid plans. What we looked at in those for those six communities was strictly the transit related

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uh safety issues. So so because those communities are all like in two of those communities were in CMRPC, four were in the MAPC. So they they were they were creating plans for uh plans for those communities. But uh so I just wanted to mention that there

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was were 22 communities six and six were six other additional communities were marked communities. >> All right. Excellent. Well, thank you George. Um so uh you know the other thing I I want to mention too is that the funds while we can while we can

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identify and look at state DOT related and and owned roads um we really are focusing on the city streets. So, um, while problems and and we'll go through it in a little bit, but, uh, you

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know, everyone thinks of Route Two and and the interchanges and all that. Uh, again, that's at the regional level too, the DOT level, but what uh what Safe Streets for all uh allows for and really focuses on is is the community's own

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needs. So, what is safe system approach? Okay. So again, what you'll hear from us over over the year will be we're trying to be proactive, not reactive. So the old days, you know, we we looked at

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historical crash data, identified a problem after all of them had occurred, and then maybe programmed an improvement. What we're trying to do with the safe system approach is get ahead of things. Yes, we are going to be looking at a lot of data and a lot of

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crash history, but if we see trends and actions that could apply across the system, even if a problem hasn't or a serious crash hasn't occurred, but the characteristic of that location

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is similar to ones that they have occurred, you know, we'll try to get ahead of it and recommend whether it's striping signage, um, or other actions, you know, just trying to be proactive and reduce uh again fatalss and serious

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injury crashes. What we'll be focusing on is inside the circle you can see Oh, can you go back? So, inside the circle, you can see five main categories. Safer vehicles, safer speeds, safer roads,

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safer people, and postc crash care. Um to pro post postc crash care would be trying to get the emergency responders there efficiently and quickly and get treatment really quickly to

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the uh to the uh people involved in the crash and then get them to medical treatment again efficiently and and uh safely. Um what we'll be really focusing on in this city plan will be the safe speed, safe roads, safe uses. We don't

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have a ton of control over safe vehicles and the industry certainly has been working towards uh making things uh happen that that really warn us of oncoming events like you know rear rear cameras on your car backing up all of a

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sudden you're notified that a car is uh crossing your path. So, but that's industry and and the uh federal agencies working with them. So, as I said, we'll focus on speeds, roads, and users um as

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we develop the plan. Next slide. So, again, just like I said a minute ago, the traditional approach was sort of going, well, you know, fatal crashes, they happen, they're inevitable. um

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you know the individual's responsible, saving lives costs us a lot of money, you know, type of thing. Well, we've changed that sort of mindset and we're saying, well, traffic deaths are preventable. We pay attention. We get out ahead of it. Um and and take that

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take that uh mindset that, you know, every human life is important. Saving lives is not that expensive. and and we can integrate. We know humans aren't perfect, so we do make mistakes, but

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what can we do to try to get ahead of that again as being proactive? And I think with that, I'm turning it over to Lisa. >> Thanks, Bill. >> And I and I would say that if anyone has a question as we go through, just pipe

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up and uh this is really a dialogue, you know, meant to be. No, Bill, thanks for the reminder. So, we went we went over the roles. We went over what is vision zero, the safe system approach. We're going to go into a little bit detail of the plan. As

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George mentioned, there is a regional plan. And as Bill just alluded to, like we want this to be a dialogue. We want to make sure that you all have answers to those questions that you all are thinking of, especially as we are developing this plan. So let's go over

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the action plan developments. Uh in the beginning we were kind of going over the um there is a no. So there is a second grant applica. There is another grant application um for the safety action for SS4A. So one thing we need to make sure

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is that when we are developing the safety action plan it needs to be selfcertified and there's seven components. It goes all the way from leadership commitment in the sense of having city of gardener city council members committing to and eventually a

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goal of zero roadway fatalities and serious injuries and a target date to actually achieve those goals. So just all the way from there and then all the way at the end of just the progress and transparency just really making sure that how are we tracking these

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implementations these counter measures and reducing that number of those roadway fatalities and serious injuries. And as Rob mentioned at the beginning was like as part of your your role we would love your help in making sure this

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plan lives on. We want to make sure that we are monitoring progress as part of this study process. It's going to be data driven. There's going to be a lot of crash data which we're going to show you in a couple of slides. We're going to have traffic and we're going to have speed data um using

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replica data and that is using mobile location data, connected vehicle data and it also includes ground troops counts to simulate those transportation patterns. So, we're going to have a lot of data. Um, as George and we kind of

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alluded to is that we are going to be accounting for the MRPZ vision zero action plan. This data, this plan, we are really heavily intensive on the public input because we really want to understand what is actually being

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experienced by the community with the hard data. Um, we're going to be identifying a high injury network, understanding the issues of where crashes have been occurring in those hot spot areas, ultimately setting a goal of a vision

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zero by a certain date and really tracking that that um that goal and then identifying and evaluating those potential actions. So, there's three different components and as Bill was alluding to, it's not always just like

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those infrastructure um or engineering or physical behaviors. It's really about the behavioral which is like the human factor, the promotion really having that public awareness and education and then operationally it's like those system

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management and those enforcement. So we do need to make sure that we when we're thinking about counter measures all of these come in play. It's not just like changing the road. We need to change uh human factors. We need to be educating. We need help with the system management

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and enforcement. So we're really excited that we have such a multidisciplinary group today. So let's go over the study process or the um the project schedule. Sorry about that. So this is about 10 to 12 months. We do separate it out by different

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quarters. So right now we are in the midst of the existing data review. We're in that midst of the safety analysis really identifying those high injury network um conducting field reviews. And then moving along to the next quarter, we do

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have our upcoming public meeting which we'll share more in a couple of um slides and really identifying what are those counter measures based on those high injury network. As part of this grant, we also um have a demonstration

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project if we're proceeding. A demonstration project is really identifying locations. It could be, you know, structure of a corridor. It could be at intersection. Identifying what that action is, such as maybe um

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installing like curb extension in the sense of that if there is a crosswalk, it could be a shorter crosswalk and then when vehicles need to do a turn, a right or a left turn onto another street, they would need to slow down. So, as part of

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this application, we are going to see if we are proceeding with the demonstration project. And then in Q3, um that's going to be the counter measures and prioritization and we're going to have our second public uh meeting in September. And then ultimately, we're

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going to have our plan adoption before the end of the year. Moving along is why is this so important for gardener? And we looked at the most five years of crash data um 2021 to 2025

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just really wanting to make sure that we're capturing those recent crash years. We are obtaining it from Masso crash portal and the years after 2022 are subject to change because it's not yet. So what our team what we have been

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doing is that we have been periodically looking at the crash portal just to really understand did the number of fatal injuries did the number of um crash uh serious injuries fatal injuries if that changed. So right now um it's

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about 2500 crashes that were reported 12 fatal injuries that means like people died and then those suspected serious injuries those are crashes that it ultimately changed someone's lives. So

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that's 35 serious injuries. So when we're thinking about those fatal and serious injuries in this fiveyear time period it's 47. So, we're we're always tracking right now just to really make sure that the fatal and serious injury numbers has not changed. The total

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number has changed when um when we're when we're updating the crash data, but we're not going to change it until the um right now we're just really concentrating on the fatal and serious injuries. So, then on the other side, it just shows the percent of crashes, which

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is about.5% of the crashes were fatal injuries, 1.4% 4% were those serious injuries. Going in a little bit more closer of the uh of the crash data, when we're looking at pedestrians, there were 44 crashes that were reported

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in the last five years. Of those, there were four fatal injuries and then there were seven serious injuries. Then looking at the flip side of bicyclists, there were 23 total crashes. There were one fatal injury that was

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reported and then there were zero serious injury crashes. So as we are going through the safety analysis, the report, the visualization, those are the items that we're going to be taking a look at as what were the road users? Was

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it all motor vehicles or were they vulnerable users and so forth. So we noted that there were 2500 crashes that were reported. So it's about 500 crashes per year. Um 47 fatal and serious injury crashes

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they were reported. The blues are those serious injury crashes and then the fatal injuries are those in red. and about what's interesting is that in 20 in 2025 there were no fatal fatalities but there were an increase in those

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serious injuries. So we that's why we have been tracking just to really make sure and period periodically check the crash portal to make sure that fatal number has not changed. Then we're also taking a look at the

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crash type of how did the crash actually occur in the sense of was it a single vehicle a crash was it a side swap same direction was a was it a rear end crashes was it a headon and so forth.

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So, we are delving into more of the type of crashes. It could be like the roadway surface. It could be daylighting conditions, especially when we're looking at those fatal and serious injury crashes.

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And I will move this to Liam. >> Thanks, Lisa. So, as Lisa mentioned, as part of the safety action plan, we developed key visuals um showcasing the data. Uh in this slide we focus on the total amount of crashes with an emphasis

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on the fatal injury crashes uh shown in the red circles and the suspected serious injury crashes as shown in the yellow circles. Um so as part of our visuals, we showed an overall view of the city of Gardener as well as a more zoomed in downtown view uh as seen on

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the right. And just some key takeaways um from the information we noted that there were three serious injury crashes along route two. Um understanding that in order to develop potential countermeasures along route two as mentioned before coordin coordination

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with mass dot uh would need to be take place um as well as three fatal injuries along west Broadway. Uh and we noticed there was a high concentration of crashes uh specifically serious injury crashes along the intersection at the

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intersection of West Street, Oak Street, and Parker Street. Uh continuing on, we had four serious injury crashes and one fatal injury crash along Elm Street and four serious injury crashes and three fatal injury crashes along Route 140 as seen by the

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maps. uh as well as the total crashes focusing on fatal and serious injury crashes. We also chose to look at total crashes involving vulnerable road users. So similar setup um as you can see in

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the legend area we have the collisions the crashes collisions involving cyclists um showcased in that scion color square as well as collisions with pedestrians in the red color.

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And uh for these data points we noticed a collection majority of the data was in that downtown area. Uh specifically when we looked at hip pedestrian clusters uh based on the mass dot data a large collection of those uh were were in or

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in close proximity to those areas. Um other things to note we noted that were five pedestrian crash along Pleasant Street. uh five total vulnerable user crashes along Tany Boulevard and five vulnerable user crashes uh along Central

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Street and Pine Street. And specifically, if you look at the Elm Street, we noticed that there were a lot of crashes along that street, specifically focused uh when approaching that Pearson Boulevard area.

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And as part of our development of our own safety action plan, we are building upon the Monaches regional planning commission re region vision zero action plan uh where they took a look at some historical crash data trends uh from the last 10 year or a 10-year period. So

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from 2014 to 2023 um and did more detailed crash data analysis in their five-year period which was 2019 to December 2023. Uh and then in this they were focusing on the fatal and serious injury crashes

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as it relates to trends um annually as well as uh crashes involving vulnerable road users that we also talked about uh and as part of the MRPC region re region v vision zero action plan um more

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specifically in the city of gardener they they've noted key intersections uh as their high injury intersections in the city of Gardner uh as shown on the map on the right. So out of these seven intersections, two were signalized and five were unsalized. And as part of our

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own safety action plan, we will continue to develop uh along these intersections as well as develop our own uh network as mentioned previously. Before we go into the next slide, um are

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there any comments, questions, anything surprising to you all >> and we've we're still in the midst of all this data analysis. We just we didn't want to like just overwhelm you with a lot of lot of it but we are still

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digging in looking at the trends looking at maybe what the ages are the lighting conditions you know all related to uh when those fatals and serious injury a and so and that's you know again we do

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want to get ahead of a lot of things but keep in mind like the goal is to eliminate all them so we would be focused on that once we've identified and confirmed all of that. Um I don't think anyone from the police

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department's on the call right on this meeting. Rob, I know they're they're they're invited. So we'll be we'll be touching base with them. Um and Lisa, if she didn't already mentioned, you know, the PowerPoint will be circulated to the members and be up on the web page as

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well. But we'll circle back. We want to make sure we didn't miss anything. and or see something differently than you all see. So that's that's one reason of having these meetings. Um in a and I'll

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stop there. >> I I just wanted to add um looking for input and feedback on it. To me, the number of pedestrian accidents um downtown is a little surprising. And then what's so interesting is that

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like when you have um geospatial data like we have the data of like if there are crosswalks and then you can look at transit stops then you can look at where are those destinations is that there's just a lot of data out there and as we were analyzing the high injury network

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and those potential counter measures it's like we're taking into those for consideration. All right. Um, okay. So, let's talk about the public outreach. So, we do have multiple components. The main thing that we really wanted to

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share with you today is um other than the project website, we do have an interactive comment tool. We really want to make sure that you're sharing this out with folks to really obtain input. Um Liam in uh in the next slide he will go into detail of it of the interactive

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map. We also have the project website which includes um all of the general information as Bill was mentioning about the the about the slide deck. That's something that we're also going to put online and we'll also follow up in an email as well as a meeting summary

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um in the project schedule and earlier slides. We will have two public meetings throughout this project. Um, we also will have periodic press releases. Most recently, there was a press release about this project that came out uh a

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week ago. And then also just really being engaged on the city's um Facebook page as well. So, we do have multiple components when we're thinking about public outreach. I will hand this off to Liam and he can

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start sharing the website and the public engagement tool. >> All right. Yeah. So, as Lisa mentioned, this is the public website that we set up sort of giving a general overview of the project um the goals we're trying to achieve um as well as an overview of the

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vision zero and safe system approach. Um talks about commute opportunities for the public to participate um with community engagement wise and then um the vision zero act action committee um

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as well in the project website we have an embedded interactive map that Lisa was also mentioning in this map um we have a brief introduction uh in the project info section and it sort of gives intro

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instructions on how to use the map uh they can the public can change the map style depending on what their preference is. Uh as well as change the language if English is not the first spoken language. Um as well on the project

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website we have our project timeline and uh we encourage everyone uh to send our mailing list to get information about the project uh because it's really important to get as much feedback as possible. uh sort of going more in depth. Uh we

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also have a public view um sort of overall public coordinate phase of the project. Um so similar to the embedded map, it it gives a project overview at the top here. An an option to change the language at the top right uh and similar map style

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change features. Uh we just wanted to show on a broader scale sort of how people would interact with the map. So, as you can see here, we have various icons related to what the public wants to talk about. So, the crash icon would

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be where someone has either seen a crash or seen a near crash or experienced it themselves. And we also have opportunities for them to input um different safety improvement ideas whether it be for a bicyclist, driver, pedestrian, transit rider, uh or a

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wheelchair or mobility device user. and they would input this uh icon and as you can see we've already got some responses. Um so they would input the icon and sort of describe what their potential idea is as well as someone can

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go in and like the comment to provide further emphasis on the same idea that someone else may have had um and provide a reply as well just to continue conversation about the specific issue that was brought up. Um

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and as well we just want to get as much information from the public as possible uh in terms of what they're seeing because the data shows one thing but we could also um have some experiences where the public in certain areas where data might not be shown uh in terms of

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what Bill was mentioning before about predicting the future and sort of preventing uh instead of being being proactive instead of reactive uh sort of understanding uh where potent potential issues might arise

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and I'll hand it back over to Lisa. >> Any questions on the um on the project website, the interactive mapping, but the call to action is really for you all like want you to share the project website. You want to have a lot of

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public input, especially identifying those locations of where crashes or near crashes have occurred and of course those safety improvements as well. So, we have about less than um less than 10 comments so far and it's been active

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for um about half a month now and we've been actively on the city's Facebook page just really sharing the project website and interactive. I guess for members of the committee it would be helpful um if you're active on

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um Facebook or if you can even share it on your X account or um I know a lot of you have um you know lots of contacts online on social media so it' be helpful if it we all share it um that'll help

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get word out even talking to people and letting them know this is happening because a lot of people won't have any idea um and I I think a lot of you have a lot of reach So that would be helpful. >> I know it's still early. We do have our upcoming um we have the full draft

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together for the master plan. We have a public uh info session taking place currently planned for Mackie Park. Um and as a backup location, uh the Haywood Library if if weather uh isn't permitting. So that's going to be on April 15th uh from 4 to 6. Um, so if you

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guys over at Kimley Horn or Rob um, want to get like a little flyer together or like a QR code with like a little stand for us to have at that event, you know, we'd be glad to to have that. We're hoping we usually get probably about a dozen to two dozen people, at least historically for the other events we've

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had in the past. So, if that's something that you want to have directly linking to this page or the the comment matrix uh, for putting uh, comments on this page, um, you'd be glad to have that there. What locations are you going to go to? Sorry. Uh, >> it's Mackie Park.

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>> Oh, you going to do any any >> How about like south of the city like with that at at the Walmart maybe or something like that? >> I I was actually George just thinking we can if we do develop a flyer we can put at the library. We could put it different places. We can, you know,

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maybe on bulletin boards at Walmart, places like that. Um, also, you know, see if we can put something up. So that yeah would probably generate a lot more interest. Yeah, I think you know doing that I mean we did a lot of that you know actually the consultant did but you

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know they went we uh ask them to do a lot of that type of outreach go to the go to market basket you don't have any market basket in Ghana but I mean places like that where people uh and you know those are really I think really get the

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public cuz that's where the public is you know >> they they're at the stores you know so I would encourage you to really do that kind of outreach. It really helps people. >> We can certainly work on that, Angela. >> Yeah. So, we have the health and

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wellness fair coming up on May 7th at the Gardener Community Center. I think that'd be a great place to be able to speak to people, uh, get the word out more. >> Yep. Great. >> And that's on May 7th, Angela. You said >> May 7th at the Gardener Community Center

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on Waterford Street from 5 to 7. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> I don't think uh is Council of Aging on this meeting. >> Um he was invited. He's not here. I thought he was going to be. Um but certainly that's another location senior

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center. >> Yeah, definitely. >> And the Waterford Center. So >> y >> and we can kind of coordinate on those, Lisa, Phil. um and get a listing going and um I can certainly um facilitate that.

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>> And then and then everyone who's on this meeting, I mean, if you've had some experience um of something in the city, you don't have to hold back. You can jump on the public coordinate and uh you know, we

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want all everyone's input. So um and it doesn't matter where the location is. It's really easy to use. Um, and this will be up for several months. So, so what we'll do periodically is is

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ask Rob to push something out on Facebook again just to remind people and in the flyer obviously, you know, posted, we'll keep doing that. So, so we won't shut it down even if we've sort of completed our hard data analysis. we

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tend to leave it up just and periodically just check in to see if we've got some stragglers and uh um all the information ends up being pretty helpful. >> Cool. Thanks. Thanks, Liam, for the

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website and the tool. So when we're thinking about next steps, we will be continuing with the data mining and analysis of looking into more of the crash details, coordinating with the police chief and then also conducting field reviews to really understanding

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those high injury network others than looking at the hard data and then Google Street View. We want to actually experience it ourselves. Um encourage those public input. So today this has been great just knowing that there's upcoming meetings on April 15th. It would be great to have a flyer flyers at

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different locations and those are the things that we are prepared to do and then ultimately the main goal is to really identify a high injury network. MRPC does have a high injury network for the region identify seven locations as

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we are doing our plan. It's going to be more detailed in the sense of what Bill was saying. We're going to look at all the streets inch by inch and so forth. So, it's going to be a lot more detailed than the region, but we're building upon the region's plan. Um, we do have our

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first public meeting scheduled and we will send a a hold date on your calendars just so you all have that, but it's on April 29th um at 6:00 p.m. at the community meeting room at the police departments. That's our first public um

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information meeting. So, we're trying to get that out. And then our next BSAC meeting, it will be virtual Microsoft Teams and it's going to be on Tuesday, May 13th at 10:00 a.m. So, we'll send a

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a calendar invite for the VSAC meeting and then we'll send the um the public information meeting so you all are aware of this and you can feel free to forward this invite along for the public information.

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We will send the the meeting summary. We'll have the slide deck. We'll note um any of the action items, but please do not feel like feel free to contact Rob, myself, Bill, Liam. Like we're all here to really to develop the safety action

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plan when we're really excited to get this started. >> Hey, Rob, anything uh to add? Yeah. No, I I again I' I'd offer what Lisa just said is if you have questions, you have any input you think of outside of these meetings, please let me know. Um email

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me, call me. Um I'm always available. Um and just going back to the public engagement, if you have thoughts on, you know, as we're sitting here thinking, I was also thinking, you know, community um organizations, churches, other places

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where we can get a flyer out. Um, if you have any thoughts on that, you know, let let us know. Um, and and again, use the website, the interactive mapping website yourself. Um, tell your friends, get the word out. Um, because the more input we

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get, the better plan we can develop. Um, and outside of that, I just want to thank you all for taking part. Um, I'm hoping I can get some of uh our safety personnel on the next meeting. Um if not, you know, I'll be talking to the police chief and the fire chief because I think their their insights on some of

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the stuff will be invaluable and uh you know, get that on that. But uh again, thanks all for be taking part in this and you know, you're continuing um work on it with us. >> And the fire chief is on, I think. >> Did he join?

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>> Gregory. >> Yes. Can you hear me? >> Oh, hey, you are here. Hi. Sorry, I was late to the party. Um, and then camera issues. I can't get my camera working either. So, I'm I'm listening in. I I caught the the last 15 minutes or so, so I apologize for being

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late. >> Nope. I Greg, I think you caught the uh the the the important part of the public engagement and input. So, again, um if you saw that website and and the mapping app to the interactive map, um that's an

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important one. So, but yeah, and as we move forward, I'm sure we'll be seeking more input. >> Yep. >> Yep. >> All right. Well, we'll go ahead and share that on our Facebook page as well, too. >> That's great. That's good. >> So, uh how many uh 1hour meetings? We're

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done in 10 minutes. You got 10 minutes to spare. So, you you're all good. and the next one might not be that that efficient, but uh everyone have a great uh rest of the day and uh and like Rob and Lisa said, don't hesitate to reach out. You got all of our contact

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information and uh and we'll be circulating all that information as well. And with that, >> we'll sign off. Thank you. See you everyone. Bye now. Thank you. Thank you everybody. Thank you.