Fremont Roads And Cyclists: Do Those Green Poles Save Lives?
Originally published on Patch.com
Vision Zero has been Fremont's guiding traffic safety policy since 2015. Fremont's streets are beginning to show its results.
Fremont's Vision Zero action plan converts space used for cars into bike lanes and puts up barriers between cars and bikes.
Green poles separate the car and bike lanes on Fremont Boulevard.
A protected intersection under construction at Fremont Boulevard and Mowry Avenue, which removes the right-turn lane and puts up an island between turning cars and bikes.
Fremont has had eight traffic fatalities in 2021, one of which involved a cyclist.
Fremont's Vision Zero policy, adopted in September 2015, set the goal for zero fatal and life-altering injuries by 2025.
Cars going straight through the intersection at Fremont Boulevard and Mowry Avenue now share a lane with cars going straight.