BY ANNA MANESS & DARCY SPRAGUE
City sets goal of zero tra c deaths by 2050 Georgetown City Council adopted a Vision Zero statement on March 25, which sets a goal of eliminating tra c deaths by 2025. What it means Vision Zero is a strategy adopted by cities and counties, including Austin, Williamson and Travis Counties, and other neighboring cities, to eliminate tra c fatalities. Georgetown’s statement set a goal of reducing fatalities and serious injuries by half by 2035 and to zero by 2050. The city may partner with Williamson County to utilize Safe Streets and Roads for All funding from Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, according to the city’s presentation.
Georgetown area toll under consideration Williamson County commissioners are pushing forward with a study for the Ronald Reagan Boulevard corridor. The details On April 15, county commissioners approved a resolution asking the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority to conduct a tra c and reve- nues study for the corridor, which is expected to eventually become an eight-lane controlled-ac- cess roadway. The roughly 30-mile project has ve total seg- ments and stretches from RM 1431 in Cedar Park to I-35 in Georgetown. The roadway also travels through Leander and Liberty Hill. Williamson County is considering a design that includes the addition of two managed—or tolled—lanes in each direction and two free general purpose lanes in each direction to create the future
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eight-lane roadway, per county documents. A two-part Mobility Authority study would help determine if the corridor is toll-viable and would cost $600,000 combined, Precinct 2 Commissioner Cynthia Long told Community Impact. The study would be funded by the authority, which collects money from toll revenue.
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