Resident urges short-term pedestrian safety PSAs, cites 14 'pedestrian strikes' in fiscal 25

Steve Policastro of 650 Trace Drive used the committee's public-comment period to push for immediate pedestrian-safety steps and to thank the council for forming a bike-and-pedestrian committee following an August meeting. "October is pedestrian, National Pedestrian Safety Month," Policastro said, and recommended short-term PSAs if the city's longer yield-to-pedestrians campaign isn't ready in time.

Policastro pointed to data in the city's 2026 strategic plan and said, "there were 14 pedestrian strikes," noting that last year's target had been 11 and adding that the ideal target would be zero. He suggested specific countermeasures—eliminating right turns on red downtown and adding leading pedestrian intervals where feasible—and praised a planned program to install 119 speed bumps over four years as a step to slow vehicle speeds and improve safety.