Omaha reconfigures Ames Avenue lanes to reduce crashes on one of the city’s most dangerous corridors

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – The city of Omaha is taking a step toward its Vision Zero initiative, which calls for eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries on Omaha streets by 2045.

The latest plan calls for redrawing lane lines on what officials call one of the most dangerous corridors in the city.

The city of Omaha has identified Ames Avenue between Fontenelle Boulevard and 16th Street as a high injury network. Officials recorded 85 serious injury crashes along that stretch from 2017 to 2024. Six of those crashes involved fatalities…

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