“I commend and feel proud that we have such an engaged and caring local presence,” said Mayor Becky Daggett.
The Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Asphalt Art program is geared toward “helping cities use art and community engagement to improve street safety and revitalize public space.”
MetroPlan will work with its partners on a program called Cheshire Neighborhood Slow Street, which will eliminate two travel lanes on a wide neighborhood road (N. Fremont Blvd.) and enhance crossings to encourage drivers to slow down, increase pedestrian and bicycle comfort, and improve connections to parkland, a school and trails. Neighbors and supporters have wanted to address the traffic speeds in Cheshire for the past few years. The project will bring together FALA students, traffic engineers and the general public to design traffic calming through art.
“I commend and feel proud that we have such an engaged and caring local presence,” said Mayor Becky Daggett. It is this spirit and action that makes Flagstaff so special. My administration supports and is open to piloting this project in hopes that it will calm traffic and increase comfort and sense of community, in addition to connecting the local students with an art project that both serves the community and nurtures artistic practice among the youth.”
“We are excited that MetroPlan is successfully seeking and obtaining varied kinds of funding for transportation projects in our region and look forward to seeing the outcomes of the Cheshire Slow Street project,” said City Councilmember and MetroPlan Board Chair Jim McCarthy.
MetroPlan’s mission is to leverage cooperation to maximize financial and political resources for a premier transportation system and is responsible for coordinating transportation planning and federal grants in the greater Flagstaff region. MetroPlan is a partnership of the City of Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and Mountain Line. FBN
