CRTP: Sign the Broadway Petition!

Sign the Broadway Petition!

Colin Fiske, Executive Director

The following is a petition sponsored by the Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities, along with the Northcoast Environmental Center, EPIC, Humboldt Baykeeper, and Keep Eureka Beautiful. Hundreds of local residents have signed already, but we need your name too, and time is limited! If you haven’t signed yet, go to the link below and sign today.

Eureka is experiencing a traffic safety crisis. That crisis is concentrated among people walking, biking and rolling on Broadway. Broadway is extremely dangerous and experiences a very high level of collisions resulting in serious injury or death. It is not safe or comfortable to walk, bike or roll on or across Broadway, but many people have no other choice. Because of the way Broadway was designed, vulnerable people are regularly being killed on the roadway. In the last decade alone, at least 10 people have been killed and at least 14 people severely injured while walking or biking on Broadway.

As local residents and street users, we are united in our belief that saving lives, improving local quality

of life, and increasing sustainable transportation should be prioritized above maintaining or increasing travel speeds. We are encouraged by Caltrans’ recent commitment to developing complete street features along Broadway from Herrick Avenue to Truesdale Street, as well as a new pedestrian crossing at the Village Pantry. We urgently need Caltrans to extend this commitment to making near-term safety improvements to the rest of Broadway as well, from Truesdale Street to 4th Street.

We ask that Caltrans take the following actions as soon as possible throughout the entire Broadway corridor: 1. Build additional safe pedestrian crossings. 2. Improve the safety of signalized intersections with new infrastructure and signal reprogramming. 3. Build protected bike lanes. 4. Provide raised medians and landscaping. 5. Support the City of Eureka’s efforts to improve pedestrian-scale lighting.

Sign the petition at: www. transportation priorities.com/ broadway

A bouquet laid on Broadway where local community member Thomas Burns was killed by a driver while biking in Oct. 2020.