Boulder to Improve Alerts at 3 Excessive-risk Intersections for Safer Journey Starting in March

The City of Boulder is starting building on a set of grant-funded tasks to cut back site visitors fatalities and severe accidents at three key intersections: Baseline Road and Broadway, Baseline Road and Mohawk Drive, and Folsom Street and Pine Street. Travelers can count on one-lane closures for automobiles and detours for folks biking and strolling, with impacts posted to Cone Zones. Work is weather-dependent and scheduled via spring 2026, with most impacts anticipated for April and May.

Compared to the remainder of the town, these places have both a better threat for crashes general or a historical past of great or deadly crashes, particularly for folks strolling and biking. The upgrades will primarily enhance indicators. Changes fluctuate by location and embrace:

• Protected left-turn and right-turn phasing.
• Dedicated flip lanes.
• Smart indicators that function primarily based on multimodal site visitors situations.
• Adjusted crossing occasions for folks to cross the road in a single sign cycle.
• Accessibility enhancements to curb ramps.

Grants are an important supply of funding for native transportation tasks and help reaching the Boulder neighborhood’s Vision Zero aim to eradicate all deadly and severe damage crashes, scale back different forms of crashes, and enhance journey security and luxury. Some places even have further deliberate work sooner or later as a part of the Core Arterial Network (CAN): a citywide roadway redesign effort to make key streets safer, extra snug and extra related.

The tasks are funded by a Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) grant awarded to the town in 2021. HSIP grants are administered domestically via the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT). Learn extra on the metropolis’s HSIP tasks webpage.