Vision Zero Chapel Hill

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Whether you're driving, walking, or cycling, your input is important.

“Vision Zero Chapel Hill” is a local initiative to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2031. Through traffic safety solutions and equitable mobility options for all, Vision Zero uses strategies informed by data to increase road safety to prevent serious injury and decrease crashes. These are the three main pillars of Vision Zero in Chapel Hill:

  1. Guiding town-wide policies for transportation planning, the design of streets and sidewalks, the maintenance of public rights-of-way, and traffic enforcement;
  2. Working with the community to create “Safe Routes to School”; and
  3. Prioritizing the safety of all road users in transportation decisions, with a special emphasis on vulnerable road users.

For additional information and data, the Town has created a Vision Zero Dashboard that shows bicycle and pedestrian-involved crashes between 2007-2024. Availability of data varies by year. Crashes include UNC Police and CHPD reports. Bicycle data begins in 2019.

Whether you're driving, walking, or cycling, your input is important.

“Vision Zero Chapel Hill” is a local initiative to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2031. Through traffic safety solutions and equitable mobility options for all, Vision Zero uses strategies informed by data to increase road safety to prevent serious injury and decrease crashes. These are the three main pillars of Vision Zero in Chapel Hill:

  1. Guiding town-wide policies for transportation planning, the design of streets and sidewalks, the maintenance of public rights-of-way, and traffic enforcement;
  2. Working with the community to create “Safe Routes to School”; and
  3. Prioritizing the safety of all road users in transportation decisions, with a special emphasis on vulnerable road users.

For additional information and data, the Town has created a Vision Zero Dashboard that shows bicycle and pedestrian-involved crashes between 2007-2024. Availability of data varies by year. Crashes include UNC Police and CHPD reports. Bicycle data begins in 2019.

  • Neighborhood Quick-Build Projects: What’s Happening Around Town?

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    Over the past two years, the Town has installed white bollard flex posts to support our Vision Zero goals to eliminate traffic crashes and deaths on our roads. While neighborhood streets are important, Town staff has prioritized Town transportation resources and research for high-traffic areas such as Franklin Street, Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Rosemary Street, Weaver Dairy Road, Estes Drive, and Country Club Road.

    Below, you will find commonly asked questions and updates on three of our neighborhood projects throughout the town:

    What are bollards for?

    • Bollards are flexible posts that are used to narrow the drivers' field of vision to encourage slower driving speeds. They also provide a visual barrier that allows for a more defined bike and pedestrian safeguard area.
    • When driving slower, your reaction time increases, making roads safer for all.

    Why are we using bollards?

    • Bollards are a quick, cost-effective tool that encourages slower speeds in communities.

    What are the current projects and what's next?

    Honeysuckle Road at Red Bud Lane

    • Town staff installed bollards (flexible posts) along the sides of a portion of Honeysuckle Road near Red Bud Lane in 2024 to address speeding drivers.
    • During the recent snow, these bollards were damaged during plowing.
    • This spring we’ll install new paint markings on both sides of Honeysuckle Road and install a few flexible bollards at the existing crosswalk near Booker Creek Road.

    N. Roberson Street at Hargraves Community Center

    • Town staff installed bollards (flexible posts) on N. Roberson Street in 2023 to address speeding drivers.
    • In 2025, staff determined that the quick-build installation did not achieve the desired traffic calming results and will remove the bollards in the coming months.
    • Staff will reassess the area and may install a different bollard configuration in 2025.

    Brookview Drive

    • Town staff installed bollards (flexible posts) along a portion of Brookview Drive in 2024 to address speeding drivers.
    • During the recent snow, these bollards were damaged during plowing.
    • Staff determined that the quick-build installation did not achieve the desired traffic calming results.
    • Staff will reassess the area and may install a different bollard configuration in 2025.

  • West Rosemary Street Crosswalk Gateways

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    Town staff installed crosswalk gateways using flexible posts this week on West Rosemary Street from Mitchell Lane to Pritchard Avenue to address speeding drivers and issues with drivers not yielding to people trying to walk in the crosswalk.

    What are crosswalk gateways for?

    • Crosswalk gateways use flexible posts or similar infrastructure to narrow the drivers' field of vision to encourage slower driving speeds. They work especially well when grouped along multiple blocks rather than placed at a single crosswalk.
    • When driving slower, your reaction time increases, making it easier to notice people crossing the street and yielding to them.

    What's next?

    • Staff will measure vehicle speeds and the rate of drivers that yield for people walking to determine whether the crosswalk gateways address these issues.
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