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ACCESS RAMPS
Transportation & Curb ramps are a small but important
Street Infrastructure part of making sidewalks, street
crossings, and the other pedestrian
routes that make up the public right-
c o n t i n u e d of-way accessible to people with
disabilities. They are also physical and
visual cues for everyone, including
VISION ZERO pedestrians and those in vehicles, that
indicate safe pathways. While the City
Since the inception of this program in constructs access ramps with projects
FY16 through this FY23 Proposed for new or modified traffic signals,
Budget, the City has committed $261 sidewalk repair, or other capital
million to this life-saving initiative. The projects, this budget includes an
first year of the program received a additional $9.7 million dedicated to
total of $648,000 in funding. In 2022- increase access ramp construction for
23, the program’s eighth year, we are safer streets.
providing $38.5 million, and includes –
for the first time – funding for an ADDRESSING COPPER WIRE THEFT
A LIVABLE & SUSTAINABLE CITY
Independent Program Evaluation and
maintenance funding for the This budget allocates nearly $5 million
treatments we have put into the for the Bureau of Street Lighting to
street over the past seven years. address copper wire and power theft
incidents throughout the city.
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