Anti-expansion campaign continues: Registered voters receive mailing from citizens’ group
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National Road Safety Expert Predicts Dire Consequences if Street Expansion Goes Through
This came in your mail today, if you are a Sioux Center resident and a voter. Here’s a PDF version if you need to print some extras. “You are going to see more crashes, and more severe crashes. Bottom line? You’re going to see more blood on the pavement if you convert Highway 75 to […]
Top Highway Safety Expert Says Lane Expansion “Will Increase Both the Number and Severity of Crashes on US-75.”
The following information was provided to Sioux Center Citizens for Responsible Growth by Tom Welch, an internationally recognized safety expert who was the head safety engineer of the Iowa DOT and the project manager on the nationally acclaimed “road diet” for Sioux Center, when Sioux Center reduced Main Street from 4 lanes to 3, reducing […]
5 lanes will kill 6 times as many people
The Portland, Oregon Metro Regional Government issued a Safety Report in 2012 showing that 5 lane arterial streets have an injury crash rate 10 times higher than 3 lane arterials, and the fatal or incapacitating injury rate is 6 times higher with 5 lanes. (See page 30 of the report.) Streets with more lanes have an […]
Reducing Main Street from 4 to 3 Lanes Was Applauded. Did We Forget?
When Main Street was expanded to 4 lanes, people got killed. When it returned to 3 lanes, injuries fell back to ZERO. When Sioux Center expanded Main Street to 4 lanes in the past, it was a safety disaster, averaging about one fatality a year over a ten year period. The street was reduced to […]
