ATAC narrows RSA shortlist to El Paseo, Lomodor corridor and University Avenue; staff to add traffic counts

The Active Transportation Advisory Committee discussed nine candidate locations for Road Safety Audits (RSAs) and agreed to narrow the list to three corridors to be considered at the August meeting.

Andrew Ray, MPO staff, set the scope: "we do ask that the committee confine its dialogue this evening to these nine particular projects" so that staff can prepare a focused application and return with an action recommendation. Miss Pinki presented five years of crash data (2020–2024), separating fatalities and injury classes and flagging bicycle‑ and pedestrian‑involved crashes.

Committee members debated timing and data sufficiency. Vanessa Morales Romero asked staff to consider removing sites where construction is planned or recently completed, such as Valley Drive/Amador and Main Street, so the RSA would reflect current conditions. Jim Wilcox pressed for additional traffic‑count data and clearer crash‑type detail, saying the committee cannot calculate crash rates without counts and that remedial cost and feasibility should factor into prioritization.

By consensus the committee identified three corridors to bring forward as an August action item: El Paseo (University to Maine), the Lomodor corridor, and the University Avenue corridor. Staff will add traffic counts and crash concentration analysis and present those data at the August meeting so the ATAC can winnow segments or intersections as needed before recommending a final RSA site to the governing board.