Walking and Biking Plan Opens for Comment Under a Zero-Traffic-Deaths Goal

From PasadenaNow.com

Federally funded engagement runs into 2028 and folds four earlier plans into one citywide strategy

Pasadena’s Department of Transportation has opened public comment on a citywide Active Transportation Plan, a long-range blueprint for walking, biking, rolling and connecting to transit that would go to the City Council for adoption in 2028.

A hard target sits underneath it. The City Council has adopted a goal of zero traffic fatalities by 2035, set out in the Focused Local Roadway Safety Action Plan, and the department describes the Active Transportation Plan as “a mechanism to help achieve that goal.”

The work is paid for through the Federal Highway Administration’s Safe Streets and Roads for All program and must satisfy all of that program’s Action Plan requirements, according to the city’s request for proposals. The plan consolidates four earlier efforts — the 2006 Pedestrian Plan, the 2015 Bicycle Transportation Action Plan, the 2021 Greenways Feasibility Study and the 2024 Pedestrian Transportation Action Plan — and builds on the Mobility Element of the General Plan, adopted in 2015.