Safe Streets Petaluma
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Petaluma is pursuing important goals for climate, public health and safety, economic vibrancy and social equity. Reaching these goals demands that we quickly transform our transportation system.
“Complete streets” means that our system of public rights of way and transit accommodates everyone. It means “we will enjoy peaceful streets because everyone has a piece of the street.”
We created Safe Streets Petaluma in spring 2022 to rally the community in support of complete streets projects and policies. The goal: to build Petaluma's Complete Streets network in years rather than decades. We're making progress:
Safe Streets has topped the lists of Council’s two-year goals (in 2022 and 2024)
The N. McDowell project provided major upgrades to sidewalks and crosswalks. At our request, protective pylons were added to the new bike lanes.
“Slow The Fast Down” street banners and yard signs are everywhere.
The Safe Streets Nomination Program: empowers neighbors to get prompt traffic calming fixes for the most dangerous conditions.
D Street and 5th Street: Intersection and crosswalk safety improvements will be built this summer, along with test bike lanes on D Street.
The Safe Routes to Schools Task Force, a City/Schools partnership, is focusing on the high priority hazards that prevent our kiddos from walking or biking to school.
We got advice from other American cities who have been successful at this. They told us we must build a coalition of everyone who will benefit from complete streets. That, as it turns out, is everyone in Petaluma!
That's why we ask you to take a few minutes to read and sign the Declaration: We Support Complete Streets for Petaluma. We’ll publish your name (and logo) on our website, and, if you opt in, send you no more than two emails a month with updates on progress and key votes.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us, info@safestreetspetaluma.org, if you have questions or suggestions.
City Council votes to slow down speeding cars and trucks on D Street and 5th Street.
After sixteen years in the making, it’s finally going to happen! On Monday April 8th, the Petaluma City Council voted to build the 5th Street Neighborhood Greenway. They also approved pilot test bike lanes on D Street, as part of the traffic calming project. More information to come.
We respectfully acknowledge that we reside on the unceded ancestral lands of the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok peoples.