The Active Transportation Committee hears that the city’s traffic safety crisis is likely related to bigger and heavier vehicles, speed, and the city’s housing, substance abuse, and behavioral health crises.
Presenter: Transportation-related deaths hit an all-time high in Eugene in 2024, with 22 fatal traffic crashes. The dead included 10 pedestrians and one bicyclist. Eugene has now recorded the highest number of fatalities for any three-year period, with 50 deaths from 2022-2024. At the Active Transportation Committee Aug. 14, Transportation Planner Logan Telles:
Logan Telles (Eugene, transportation planner): And you know, some years prior, it was more normal for us to have like five or six in a given year. So a really dramatic increase: 22 in the Eugene urban growth boundary.
[00:00:39] If we want to get into the fatal crash report, you can kind of see how fatal crashes for peds and also fatal crashes for people driving have seen the most significant increases, particularly the pedestrians…