Safety by Design

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Vision Zero can be achieved through safer and livable streets in Edmonton. This safe systems approach combines engineering, education, engagement, enforcement, and evaluation to create safe, livable streets for everyone. Safe Mobility Engineering looks to build new streets or improve older ones with features that help prevent or reduce the severity of mistakes.

Safe Crossings Dashboard

Use the Safe Crossings Dashboard to explore current and future projects to improve street safety and livability for all road users.

Safe Crossings Dashboard

Safe Crossings Program

Safe crossings are essential to community connectivity, safety, and livability. Since Vision Zero was adopted in 2015, over 375 crossings have been upgraded.

To achieve safer streets for all residents, Safe Crossings Program selects crossings in need of improvement and upgrades them using proven, effective and innovative tools.

Use the Safe Crossings Dashboard to explore planned upgrades. Use the Safe Streets Map to explore this and other programs that improve street safety.

What’s new about the Safe Crossings Program?

The Safe Crossings program is expanding with approximately 400 crossing locations scheduled to be upgraded over the next four years from 2023-2026.

There are 100 safe crossing projects confirmed for 2023.

How can I report a crossing that feels unsafe?

Please call 311 to report your experience or concerns about unsafe crossings.

There are a number of programs available that you might be interested in to help make streets, and crossings, safer! Visit Get Involved for more information.

How can I help make roads safer for people who are walking, rolling, and riding?

Aggressive driving behaviours such as speeding, following and passing too closely, and distracted driving are top safety concerns to Edmontonians.

Be aware, patient, predictable, and kind to make roads safer for everyone.

Learn more at Side by Side.

Speed Humps and Speed Tables

Each year, as part of Vision Zero, the Safe Mobility Engineering team selects locations for projects to use proven traffic calming measures to upgrade existing streets across the city.

This year, the City is introducing a new program to install speed humps or speed tables along priority corridors where there is a need to encourage safer speeds. Projects will be installed from 2023 to 2026. About 8 of those projects will be implemented in 2023.

How do speed humps and speed tables help improve safety?

On select roads, speed humps and speed tables help to curb excessive traffic volume and risky speeds increasing community safety and livability for all.

Speed humps also:

Have been shown to reduce speeds between 6 and 13km/h and reduce traffic volumes between 15% and 27%. (Source: Canadian Guide to Traffic Calming)
Encourages safe driving behaviour including slow driver speeds and less shortcutting

Don’t speed humps cause damage to vehicles?

Speed humps do not cause damage to vehicles that are travelling at safe speeds.

Will speed humps and speed tables affect parking on my street?

Speed humps do not impact parking as drivers can park on top of the speed hump. Parking is not expected to change as a result of these projects.

How was my street chosen to have speed humps or speed tables installed?

Speed hump and speed table locations have been identified based on a number of different factors:

Public inquiries
The roadway was identified as a high-speed, high traffic volume or high crash area
Other areas were identified originally through the Vision Zero Street Labs program
Some were identified through previous assessments for other safety measures

Safety at Schools

The City of Edmonton and the Edmonton Police Service work together with Edmonton’s school boards to encourage safe behaviours around schools using enforcement, road design and engineering, community activation and engagement, and more.

From 2015 to 2022, through the School Safety Program, roads near all elementary schools were assessed and improvements were implemented. The Safe Routes to School program, funded for 2023-2026, will improve safety along the routes to schools beyond the immediately surrounding roads.

Schools can also work with the City to encourage safe behaviours around their school using the Vision Zero School Kit.

What Safe Routes to School projects are planned for 2023-2024?

This year, routes to 5 schools are being assessed and upgraded. This will improve students’ and their families’ safety as they walk, bike and roll to school, and community safety around playgrounds and park space used by any nearby residents.

How many schools have been upgraded through the School Safety Program?

Since Vision Zero was adopted up until 2022, the City was able to review elementary schools and implement safety upgrades through the School Safety Program.

In 2021, 49 schools were upgraded to help increase safety and livability with zebra crossings, stop signs, pavement markings, retro-reflective sleeves, and flashing beacons.

Source: Vision Zero 2021 Report

How were school streets upgraded through the School Safety Program?

From 2015 to 2022, streets around schools were upgraded with zebra crossings, stop signs, pavement markings, retro-reflective sleeves and flashing beacons.

How are school safety improvements funded?

These projects are funded through the Traffic Safety Automated Enforcement Reserve, which uses automated enforcement funds to invest in safe and livable streets.

Vision Zero Street Labs

Vision Zero Street Labs create an opportunity to trial temporary traffic safety solutions on your streets by combining the expertise and power of Edmontonians and City of Edmonton staff to creatively address neighbourhood safety and livability concerns.

Each Street Lab is tailored to the unique needs of the community. You could convert a block to a shared street, add a parklet to narrow sections of the road and slow traffic, install curb extensions to shorten a crossing distance, or paint a crossing to capture the attention of drivers.

Street Lab Installations

Street Labs use adaptable traffic calming measures that address specific traffic safety concerns on your street. Some of these measures may be installed in your neighbourhood!

Curb Extension
Parklet
Vibrant Crosswalk
Wayfinding Signs
Shared Street
Two Stage Crossing
Center Median
Speed Bump

Wolf Willow Community Traffic Calming Measures

Safety is the City’s priority. We want to improve safety while maintaining equitable access to the River Valley. Adaptable safety measures, speed humps and no parking zones are being explored for installation this summer. Wolf Willow residents have the opportunity to share their insights on the proposed solutions to help inform next steps via an online survey from May 2 to May 16 at engaged.edmonton.ca/WolfWillowInstallations.

For More Information

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