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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents necessary to accept and administer $140,000 in additional grant funds from the Office of Traffic Safety to purchase additional vehicle speed feedback signs under the Interagency Pedestrian Bicycle Safety Program; and
Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund (CP) in the Department of Public Works (PW) by $140,000 for the aforementioned Program. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
In 2005, the Public Works and Police Departments applied for and received funding from the California Office of Traffic Safety to fund a variety of traffic safety-enhancing activities. The two departments were subsequently awarded funding for the Interagency Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program, a joint effort between the departments to enhance pedestrian and bicycle safety throughout the City.
As a part of this program, the Department of Public Works was awarded $80,000 for the purchase of up to 12 vehicle speed feedback signs. Vehicle speed feedback signs are devices which serve as a traffic safety educational tool. The feedback sign is intended to increase the awareness of the applicable speed limit on a given street by displaying the actual speed of the vehicle as it passes the sign. The statutory speed limit is posted adjacent to the dynamic readout on the feedback sign displaying the actual speed of the passing vehicle, allowing the driver to compare the actual speed at which he or she is driving to the posted statutory speed. If the speed of the vehicle is exceeding the posted speed limit, the actual speed at which the vehicle is traveling will be displayed to the driver in order to remind the motorist of the need to remain cognizant of the applicable speed limit on the given roadway and to reduce his or her speed accordingly.
The Department of Public Works subsequently applied for and received $140,000 in additional grant funds to purchase up to 20 additional vehicle speed feedback signs, for a total of ...
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