Lexington City Council heard a presentation on how to improve safety across its streets and roadways during a work session meeting Tuesday.
A presentation from the STREEET Safety Task Force included a handful of ideas presented to the city council. That includes a study for more roundabouts, education programs for roadway safety and automated traffic enforcement in more areas.
Councilwoman Liz Sheehan, who helped create some of those recommendations, called it a “data-driven process.”
“The intent of this is to really focus on intersections where we have seen a higher crash rate, and we'll be working with traffic engineering and the consultants that they work with to evaluate the ones that will have the biggest impact for safety,” Sheehan said.
The city reports more than 72,744 crashes from 2020 to 2024. That accounts for 198 fatalities and 530 injuries.
Councilwoman Emma Curtis says such improvements are an urgent need.
“I think that sometimes when we're in these rooms and we're talking a lot about policy and we're talking a lot about data, we see numbers, and we can forget that there's a person on the side of every statistic,” Curtis said.
The safety task force plans to further develop those ideas throughout this year.
