From 2020 to 2025, Lexington has had nearly 88,000 collisions, according to state and local data, including 1,752 in 2025 alone and 41 fatal incidents, with 15 pedestrians and one bicyclist killed.
A city task force has spent the last year researching actionable, short-term solutions to make Lexington’s roads safer. The STREEET (Shared Travel Requires Engineering, Education and Enforcement of Traffic) Task Force, made up of members of the Urban County Council, the city’s police department, traffic engineers, community members and more have completed their final report with recommendations to bring those collision numbers down. The task force made recommendations Tuesday.
“These aren’t just numbers,” said 10th District Legislative Aide Alyssa McKenzie as she presented the task force’s recommendations in a Tuesday work session. “These are individuals whose lives and health and families have been affected by completely preventing their crashes, continuing to center people who were impacted.”…