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CORAL RIDGE COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES HOA

Message from the Mayor

John P. ‘Jack’ Seiler

Mayor

Safer Streets; Safer City

Fort Lauderdale leading the way to fatality free roadways

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ith spring upon us and summer on the way, now is an opportune time to remind
everyone about the importance of traffic and pedestrian safety. This is a

national issue affecting cities of all sizes across the U.S.A.

Recognizing that traffic deaths and severe injuries are preventable, Fort Lauderdale is
making safe streets a top priority. We are implementing Complete Streets projects
across our City with our partners from the Broward Metropolitan Planning Organiza-
tion (MPO), Broward County, and the Florida Department of Transportation that incor-
porate bike lanes, wider sidewalks, ADA accessible sidewalk ramps, painted
intersections, pedestrian lighting, and enhanced crosswalks. We are right-sizing our
roads by reallocating vehicle lanes to provide space for bicyclists and pedestrians,
narrowing travel lanes, and implementing an array of traffic calming measures to im-
prove safety and make streets more walkable, bikeable, and connected. Our City cur-
rently has more than $60 million earmarked for new Complete Streets projects, and
has worked with our partners to leverage even more funding for projects targeting
county and state roadways.

Expanding our efforts to enhance safety, Fort Lauderdale re-
cently became the first city in Florida and the first city in the
southeastern United States to adopt Vision Zero, a community
action plan that promotes safety on our streets through the
five Es – education, encouragement, engineering, enforce-
ment, and evaluation – in an effort to ultimately achieve fatal-
ity-free streets.

Through Vision Zero, we are elevating awareness and visibility with public education
and outreach initiatives. We recently partnered with FDOT to host an Alert Today Alive
Tomorrow event at Broward Boulevard and Andrews Avenue which educated mo-
torists, pedestrians and bicyclists about proper roadway safety.

The City’s Police Department is supporting Vision Zero through a High Visibility En-
forcement traffic and safety campaign which is currently underway, targeting high
crash corridors with a focus on changing unlawful traffic behaviors through visibility
and public education. 

In addition, our Transportation and Mobility Department is partnering with local or-
ganizations to offer bicyclist and pedestrian-focused outreach and educational events
such as Family Fun Rides and Open Streets Fort Lauderdale. 

On May 18, Fort Lauderdale will host our 5th Annual Transportation Summit which
will bring together industry experts to share ideas and present best practices on walk-
ability, pedestrian safety, street design and Vision Zero. Following the Summit, a di-
verse group of Vision Zero champions will connect to create a comprehensive work
plan with clear goals and measureable strategies to reduce traffic-related deaths and
severe injuries on our streets.

The progress our City is making in this area has not gone unnoticed. Earlier this year, at
the “Safe Streets Summit,” the Broward MPO recognized us with two awards for our