{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.bennet.senate.gov/2024/09/13/press-releases-id-9db7e940-8b36-46a3-8ab5-11b2b209252a/", "Bennet, Hickenlooper Welcome $28.6 Million from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Improve Road Safety in Colorado", "2024-09-13", "2024", "2024-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "CO", "Michael F. Bennet", "B001267", "www.bennet.senate.gov", "bennet", "https://www.bennet.senate.gov/news/page/", "scraper", "The County of Gunnison is awarded funds to implement safety improvements along State Highway (SH) 135 to address pressing safety issues. SH 135 is a rural 2-lane highway that serves as the main travel corridor for public bus services throughout Gunnison Valley. Gunnison County\u2019s traffic fatality rate is nearly three times higher than the State of Colorado and US rates. The safety problems include high vehicle speeds, turning vehicle conflicts, a lack of roadway departure countermeasures, poor driver lines of sight, and lack of safe crossing infrastructure. The project will boost safety for all roadway users, mitigate traffic congestion, improve the accessibility of bus transit, foster connections to affordable housing and job opportunities, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Improvements include adding center- and edge-line rumble strips, extending guardrails, speed-limit modifications, sidewalk enhancements, installation of roundabouts, a pedestrian underpass, transit bus pullouts, and upgrades to Gunnison Valley\u2019s emergency service provider capabilities.\n\nThis award will be used by City and County of Denver to conduct temporary activities in the downtown area where 20% of fatal and serious injury crashes occur. Improvements include hardened centerlines, painted/pre-cast concrete pedestrian refuges, bike corral bumpouts for daylighting, re-timing of pedestrian countdown signals to increase walk times at key intersections to/from high ridership transit stops, increased signal visibility, and protected left turns.\n\nThis award will be used by the City of Fort Collins to conduct two supplemental planning and one demonstration activity. They will conduct an audit of align standards and policies to identify those that do not with City\u2019s Action Plan. A study will look at a four- to six-lane, 45 to 55 mph arterial with bike lanes that is a high priority project under the City\u2019s Action Plan and develop concepts to mitigate speed related risks and reduce severe crashes involving vulnerable road users. A demonstration project will occur on a street near a college, evaluating modifications to reduce the motor vehicle use and create safer and more predictable travel for those who require access to the street.\n\nThis award will be used by the City of Pueblo to revise their Roadway Classification Design Standards and Policies and conduct an additional safety analysis and expanded data collection and evaluation of a corridor, using integrated data from the in-progress Action Plan.\n\nThis award will be used by the City of Loveland to update and consolidate their comprehensive safety action plan, evaluate and enhance safety planning for active transportation, conduct public engagement, deploy a temporary lane reduction on a major road, install at least one small roundabout, and deploy new traffic camera technology that may allow the automated collection of near-miss data.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.bennet.senate.gov/2024/09/13/press-releases-id-9db7e940-8b36-46a3-8ab5-11b2b209252a/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7733870297670364, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}