For the next about month to month-and-a-half, you have a chance to state your case for how to make transportation in Vermilion County safer. This could be driving, on a bike, on a motorcycle, as a pedestrian, or whatever applies to you. Danville is participating in the Vermilion County Safety Action Plan. And as City of Danville engineer Sam Cole explains, if there’s ANY place where you feel unsafe in ANY kind of transportation, they want to hear from you.
AUDIO: Whether that be a curve in the road somewhere, a signalized intersection, or a spot where they have to walk across the road and they believe it’s dangerous. We’re taking all of that data, all that input; and we’re also looking at data relating to how many crashes there are, how severe the crashes are.
And Cole says it’s important to note, this is not just Danville. It’s anywhere in Vermilion County.
AUDIO: So if you’re in Hoopeston or Westville, Georgetown or Catlin, or Rankin, wherever; Oakwood. We’re looking at the data countywide and partnering with the county through the Danville Area Transportation Study, the transit agencies and other agencies, to try to put together a plan that’s actionable and will serve everybody’s needs.
So whatever concerns you have from anywhere in the county, go to the city of Danville website to find the survey; or just scan the q-code in this flyer, and it will take you to the survey:
They hope to have data finalized in July as far as where the trouble spots are, what is needed, and what grants Vermilion County can apply for.
