All are welcome to develop conceptual solutions to safety issues for a city block bounded by Broadway, Caroline Street, Hodgeman Street, and Lake Avenue.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY January 3, 2025 – In partnership with the City of Saratoga Springs, the Capital Region Transportation Council (the Transportation Council) is hosting a public workshop on Wednesday January 15, 2025 from 4PM to 7PM at Whitman Brewing Company located at 20 Lake Avenue, Saratoga Springs NY 12866. The purpose of the workshop is to work collaboratively with the public to identify transportation safety issues and develop conceptual solutions to improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists, transit users, and motorists in downtown Saratoga Springs. The workshop will focus on the following roadways:
- Broadway (US 9) from Lake Avenue (Route 29) to Caroline Street;
- Caroline Street from Broadway (US 9) to Hodgeman Street;
- Hodgeman Street from Lake Avenue (Route 29) to Caroline Street; and,
- Lake Avenue (Route 29) from Broadway (US 9) to Hodgeman Street.
The public workshop will be held on the first floor of Whitman Brewing Company in the lobby space adjacent to the Maple Avenue entrance. Community members are welcome to stop by the workshop anytime between 4PM and 7PM. While there will not be a formal presentation, the public is invited to participate in guided walking tours of the roadways listed above to gain a firsthand understanding of safety issues and potential improvements. The walking tours will leave from the Maple Avenue entrance to Whitman Brewing Company at 4:30PM and 5:30PM.
Public parking is available at the City of Saratoga Springs High Rock Avenue Parking Lot, located across Lake Avenue from Whitman Brewing Company. On-street parking is also available along Lake Avenue, Pavilion Row, and Caroline Street. Coming by bus? Visit: www.cdta.org.
Input gathered during the public workshop will inform the development of the Transportation Council’s Capital Region Vision Zero Safety Action Plan, which focuses on reducing fatal and serious injury crashes to an eventual goal of zero on all public roadways in the Capital Region.
The Transportation Council welcomes all at this public workshop and understands that accessible meetings benefit people with and without disabilities. If you require any assistive technologies, language translation, American Sign Language interpretation, and/or adaptive strategies to attend and engage at this public workshop, please contact Liz Podowski King with Highland Planning at 585-649-1210 or liz@highland-planning.com at least three (3) business days in advance of the public workshop.
The development of the Capital Region Vision Zero Safety Action Plan is a collaborative effort between the Transportation Council and the Cities of Albany, Saratoga Springs, Troy, and Watervliet, as well as the Village of Green Island and was made possible by a $1.15 M grant from the Federal Highway Administration through the Safe Streets and Roads for All Program with additional support from the New York State Department of Transportation. This effort includes all roadways within the Transportation Council’s planning area of Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, and Schenectady Counties (except the Town of Moreau and Village of South Glens Falls). The Plan will result in area speed limit recommendations and a prioritized listing of actionable projects including capital transportation projects.
Vision Zero is a multidisciplinary approach, bringing together diverse and necessary stakeholders to address fatal and serious injuries. Vision Zero acknowledges that many factors contribute to safe mobility — including roadway design, speeds, behaviors, technology, and policies — and sets clear goals to achieve the shared goal of zero fatalities and severe injuries. This effort will be guided by the Safe System Approach, which focuses on building multiple layers of protection to both prevent crashes from happening in the first place and also minimizing the harm caused to people when crashes do occur. This approach shifts away from conventional thinking about safety because it focuses on both human mistakes AND human vulnerability, designing a system with many redundancies in place to protect everyone.
For more information about the Capital Region Vision Zero Plan and to provide feedback via an online comment form and interactive map, please visit: www.CapitalRegionVisionZero.org
For more information about transportation planning activities at the Capital Region Transportation Council, visit the Transportation Council website at www.capitalmpo.org. If you have questions or comments, email the Transportation Council at info@capitalmpo.org. Follow and like the Transportation Council on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
About the Transportation Council
The Capital Region Transportation Council is the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the geographic area of Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, and Schenectady Counties (except the Town of Moreau and Village of South Glens Falls). The Transportation Council facilitates a transportation planning process as required by federal law and supported with federal funding.
The Transportation Council is committed to ensuring that no person is excluded from participation in, or denied the benefits of, its metropolitan transportation planning process on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, economic status, or sexual orientation.
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