12:50:46 From Jason Coffey (NMDOT) To Everyone: can't get my audio to work, working on it 13:00:23 From read.ai meeting notes To Everyone: Rey added read.ai meeting notes to the meeting. Read provides AI generated meeting summaries to make meetings more effective and efficient. View our Privacy Policy at https://www.read.ai/pp Type "read stop" to disable, or "opt out" to delete meeting data. 13:00:57 From Kim Kolody, Jacobs To Everyone: Kim Kolody, Jacobs 13:01:02 From Gerardo Fierro To Everyone: Gerardo Fierro - El Paso MPO 13:01:07 From read.ai meeting notes To Everyone: Groundwork Studio has started recording this meeting to their local computer or device. A copy of this recording will be available to them following the meeting. 13:01:09 From Liz Reed To Everyone: Liz Reed, Dona Ana County Community and Constituent Services Department 13:01:13 From AGuayante To Everyone: Anne Guayante, El Paso MPO 13:01:14 From Rep. Angelica Rubio To Everyone: Angelica Rubio, State Legislator, District 35, Las Cruces 13:01:20 From Jessica Griffin (she/her) To Everyone: Jessica Griffin, NMDOT Planning Division 13:01:22 From Mark Aasmundstad To Everyone: Hi! Mark Aasmundstad from Southwest Bike Initiative 13:01:24 From Donald Wilson To Everyone: Donald Wilson, Velo Cruces and VRUNM 13:01:26 From aevan01 To Everyone: Ami Evans PIO District One-Deming/Las Cruces 13:01:29 From Aaron NMDOT To Everyone: Aaron Chavarria, District One Engineer 13:01:30 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: Barbara Toth, founder and Executive Director, Vulnerable Road Users NM 13:01:33 From kprovenghi To Everyone: Kat Provenghi, Dominic Loya, and Andrew Wray from Mesilla Valley MPO here 13:01:34 From George Pearson, Las Cruces NM To Everyone: George Pearson, Velo Cruces 13:02:09 From JoAnn Garcia To Everyone: JoAnn Garcia , NMDOT, Planning Division 13:02:10 From susiec To Everyone: Susie Cordero, Constituent Services, Dona Ana County 13:02:19 From valerie.sherman To Everyone: Valerie Sherman, Urban and Regional Planner with NMDOT-Las Cruces 13:02:21 From Nicole Martinez MVCHope To Everyone: Nicole Martinez, MV Community of Hope, Las Cruces--nonprofit serving people experiencing homelessness 13:02:37 From Rosa Kozub (NMDOT) To Everyone: Please provide your name and agency in the chat, if you've not already done so. Thanks! 13:02:48 From Melgoza, Luis (FHWA) To Everyone: Luis Melgoza, FHWA NM 13:04:01 From Andrew G. To Everyone: Andrew Guerra, District 1, Traffic 13:04:09 From Olaf’s iPhone (2) To Everyone: Hello. My name is Olaf Kula. I’m a NM resident and wheelchair and handcycle user. 13:04:47 From Anne's OtterPilot To Everyone: Hi, I'm an AI assistant helping Anne Guayante take notes for this meeting. Follow along the transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/Z8QIyx2zD7Clt4-nMhzekZDIS4I?utm_source=va_chat_link_1

You'll also be able to see screenshots of key moments, add highlights, comments, or action items to anything being said, and get an automatic summary after the meeting. 13:05:03 From Fierro,'s OtterPilot To Everyone: Hi, I'm an AI assistant helping Fierro, Gerardo take notes for this meeting. Follow along the transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/gjHCtMtGtVlN7Gz5euA9-Oakkos?utm_source=va_chat_link_1

You'll also be able to see screenshots of key moments, add highlights, comments, or action items to anything being said, and get an automatic summary after the meeting. 13:05:14 From Shannon Glendenning-NMDOT To Everyone: Shannon Glendenning, NMDOT Planning 13:09:48 From Jason Coffey (NMDOT) To Everyone: We will be sending out the presentation and a handout with Dona Ana County crash statistics after the meeting! 13:14:07 From Tommy Myszka To Everyone: The PPT will also be posted to the project website @ https://newmexicodotshsp.com/ 13:16:41 From Anne's OtterPilot To Everyone: Hi, I'm an AI assistant helping Anne Guayante take notes for this meeting. Follow along the transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/Z8QIyx2zD7Clt4-nMhzekZDIS4I?utm_source=va_chat_link_2

You'll also be able to see screenshots of key moments, add highlights, comments, or action items to anything being said, and get an automatic summary after the meeting. 13:16:57 From Fierro,'s OtterPilot To Everyone: Hi, I'm an AI assistant helping Fierro, Gerardo take notes for this meeting. Follow along the transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/gjHCtMtGtVlN7Gz5euA9-Oakkos?utm_source=va_chat_link_2

You'll also be able to see screenshots of key moments, add highlights, comments, or action items to anything being said, and get an automatic summary after the meeting. 13:24:05 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: Husband nearly killed on bicycle. Obvious driver fault. No citation. Not investigation. Not termed serious injury, although it WAS 13:25:14 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: Since husband was hurt, conversations with law enforcement have been largely unsatisfactory. Rather a lot of victim shaming/blaming related to his episode and others in our community 13:26:49 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: Knowing that at least OUR situation not even represented as "serious injury" is galling. Broken back, partially severed spinal cord. 13:33:46 From susiec To Everyone: Avenida de Mesilla/Main St-Las Cruces 13:36:00 From George Pearson, Las Cruces NM To Everyone: Is High Injury Network map available online? 13:36:28 From Rosa Kozub (NMDOT) To Everyone: https://nmdotvru.altaplanning.cloud/ 13:36:28 From Krista Flynt | ALTA To Everyone: https://apd.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=4bb4dfd8e255490aa4044d5011ac3d79 13:36:41 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: Are all HA numbers all VRU or just pedestrians? 13:36:54 From Olaf’s iPhone (2) To Everyone: Many shared use roadways with an indicated bike lane, do not extend the bike lane through the intersection. 13:37:05 From Jason Coffey (NMDOT) To Everyone: You can also get to the HIN form the project website. https://newmexicodotshsp.com/ 13:39:51 From Nicole Martinez MVCHope To Everyone: Bike lanes on Amador! 13:40:00 From Aaron NMDOT To Everyone: enforcement 13:40:03 From George Pearson, Las Cruces NM To Everyone: Top priorities: Protected bike lanes. Education of both VRUs and vehicle drivers. 13:40:43 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: I'd like to see consistent use of the term VRU, inclusive rather than simply pedestrians 13:40:59 From Harrison Plourde To Everyone: adding (and regularly maintaining) striping/signage for crosswalks/bicycle lanes 13:41:01 From Liz Reed To Everyone: Education for VRUs and vehicle drivers. Have observed pedestrians walk into street, not looking both ways. Enforcement. Better engineering and lighting. 13:41:34 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: EDUCATION and raise awareness 13:41:48 From Donald Wilson To Everyone: Bike lanes are not maintained. Bike lanes often have broken pavement or other road hazards. 13:42:50 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: Enforcement - lack of citations is often referred to by folks who talk about VRUs 13:43:08 From Rep. Angelica Rubio To Everyone: In road/hwy planning, would be good to reevaluate how to improve infrastructure, and not just an add-on, but true inclusive design. 13:44:10 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: Bus is another issue. Some people mention going from bus to medical appointment and being forced to cross against traffic as the crosswalk is not near enough 13:44:53 From valerie.sherman To Everyone: Reduce speed and stronger enforcement on Elks Drive from the Elks Lodge heading north for approx. 1/2 mile. It's become a drag strip. A lot of the vehicles are running well over 90 to 100 mph on a continual basis, day and night. Very dangerous to walk or bike on Elks. 13:45:39 From Natalie Green- City of Las Cruces To Everyone: TIA is pending for that area hopefully we can identify improvements. 13:45:54 From Natalie Green- City of Las Cruces To Everyone: Co-location of Improvements and Affordable Housing, Improvements to Amador/Lohman especially near MVCoH, El Paseo Rehab, 13:45:58 From Liz Reed To Everyone: Does New Mexico law include that pedestrians in crosswalks have right a way? I'm originally from New York State and that is the law there. There is various signs in downtown areas where I'm from to remind drivers that pedestrians have the right of way if they are in the crosswalk. 13:46:24 From Donald Wilson To Everyone: Earlier today George talked about an approach that allows pedestrians a few seconds to enter the crosswalk before vehicles are given a green light 13:47:09 From Donald Wilson To Everyone: Are their any statistics about how many collisions are caused by cars turning right on red? 13:48:00 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: Do we have stats for motorists who turn in front of bikes, motorcyclists, etc.? 13:48:37 From Las Cruces To Everyone: Specific education for local governing bodies. For example the Doña Ana County Commissioners could benefit from a toolkit to understand these items. They have recently had problems understand roads and safety design and care more about industrial parks than communities and also want to pave dead end roads. The same is sometimes seen at Las Cruces City Council Meetings. 13:49:08 From Mark Aasmundstad To Everyone: Protecting pedestrian right-of-way through intersections. When vehicles turn across pedestrian traffic when peds have the right of way, it undermines confidence in marked crosswalks and signal effectiveness (including when right on red is permitted) 13:49:09 From Tommy Myszka To Everyone: Donald - that few seconds to allow pedestrian time to enter s driver's view is called Leading Pedestrian Interval at signalized intersections. It is a good countermeasure - research has shown it to reduce the number of VRU injuries. 13:50:14 From Liz Reed To Everyone: Thank you, Jason. 13:50:54 From Tommy Myszka To Everyone: Barbara - I do not believe the crash data indicates when a motorist turns in front of another party. It would have to be explicitly described by the officer in their narrative. 13:52:18 From George Pearson, Las Cruces NM To Everyone: RE: TIA by Community of Hope: Will lowering the speed limit be investigated. Currently 40mph (isn't flashing light for 30mph just advisory?) which is in the 80% to 90% fatality rate. 13:52:35 From Natalie Green- City of Las Cruces To Everyone: Reacted to "RE: TIA by Community..." with 👍 13:52:56 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: I understand that there are a few areas that are REQUIRING investigation if a VRU is involved. In some places it's specificly if someone is killed or seriously injured, sometimes anytime first responders were called, sometimes ANY VRU involvement. Lack of investigation is problematic 13:53:42 From Natalie Green- City of Las Cruces To Everyone: @George Pearson, Las Cruces NM… I will find out they should be starting traffic counts this month. 13:54:17 From Las Cruces To Everyone: I see the Chair for the County of Doña Ana might be on this call and City of Las Cruces staff. Does the county and city have a masterplan to prioritize pedestrian safety currently? 13:54:43 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: Consistent investigation would give much-needed info for addressing various issues 13:55:06 From George Pearson, Las Cruces NM To Everyone: Who identifies the 15% Pedestrian Error in the crash reports? Probably officer? This could tend to prejudice the reporting based on officers opinion. 13:55:45 From Donald Wilson To Everyone: How does the discussion we are having today interact with Vision Zero? Has the NM DOT adopted Vision Zero? Has Dona Ana County adopted Vision Zero? 13:55:46 From Rep. Angelica Rubio To Everyone: That is one of my questions, where does the 15% threshold come from? 13:55:57 From momoabed To Everyone: Dona Ana County just received $400K, grant money for SS4A, to create a Safety Action Plan, which includes all these items, but in the unincorporated areas. 13:57:03 From George Pearson, Las Cruces NM To Everyone: What I've seen of the UCR crash reasons was a large percentage of "Unknown". This seems like an area that needs to be identified (as just mentioned by Rosa). 13:57:07 From Las Cruces To Everyone: Replying to "Dona Ana County just..." But will the Chair and Commission support or will they fight against it and allow developers to do whatever they want at the risk of road/street safety? Did the Commission just not vote to not have to install lights and sidewalks in a community recently? It is unclear what their priority is. 13:59:23 From Rep. Angelica Rubio To Everyone: Lived experiences. Car culture is so prominent in our communities, that there is a lot of disregard for vulnerable road users. How can we educate and inform that is more effective? 13:59:45 From Donald Wilson To Everyone: There seems to be a clear bias that roads are primarily for ICE vehicles and that VRUs are rarely considered as equal road users 13:59:46 From Tommy Myszka To Everyone: George - I 100% agree. Blank entries or unknowns or NA are not very useful for us on any analysis tasks. Our analysis can't do much with that type of info. When we talk with LOEs, we always encourage them to fill out a complete report with no blanks or unknowns. 14:00:08 From Jonathan Macias To Everyone: Reacted to "Lived experiences. C..." with 👍🏼 14:00:17 From George Pearson, Las Cruces NM To Everyone: At the risk of offending a segment of the participants, staff resistance to implementing safety improvements or new programs. If it's not in the MUTCD, then it can't be done. This doesn't address where citizens have pointed out issues, but they can't be addressed until warrants are met, but warrants can only be met after a fatality. 14:00:28 From Natalie Green- City of Las Cruces To Everyone: Funding- Many intersections and corridors would cost significant $ 14:00:53 From Liz Reed To Everyone: Funding. People's behavior. Agreements among all stakeholders. 14:01:24 From momoabed To Everyone: Funding. Lack of education, lack of adequate enforcement, inadequate or outdated geometry of our roads and intersections, or lack of multi -use facilities. 14:02:27 From Mark Aasmundstad To Everyone: We need a walk-bike centric framework. The VRU framework is still structured on cars! (Vulnerable in relation to cars, right?). It is much safer for all to walk and bike! We need data on falls and crashes that don’t involve cars, we need to count walking and cycling so we understand exposure rates, not just per capita rates, we need to design transportation systems for walking and cycling. We need to take these modes as seriously, even more seriously (more primary) than cars. 14:05:12 From Ashleigh Curry To Everyone: Attitudes - from citizens, engineers, drivers - convenience for vehicle driver focused and "it's always been this way". 14:07:37 From Donald Wilson To Everyone: Overcoming resistance to change — roundabouts a less expensive than signaled intersections and result in fewer accidents but have not been widely implemented as an approach 14:08:52 From George Pearson, Las Cruces NM To Everyone: Speed, driver inattention 14:09:00 From Liz Reed To Everyone: Cell Phone Use 14:09:00 From Natalie Green- City of Las Cruces To Everyone: Speed, Lack of complete streets, aging or incomplete infrastructure. 14:09:05 From Donald Wilson To Everyone: Distracted drivers 14:09:11 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: Distracted driving 14:09:28 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: Lots of lack of respect on all sides! 14:09:50 From Richard Hanway To Everyone: Pedestrians crossing mid block because intersections are too far away. Crosswalks do not give enough time to cross at busy intersections. 14:09:54 From Ashleigh Curry To Everyone: Perceived right to the road, again, attitudes. 14:10:19 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: SHARED RESPONSIBILITY for one another's safety 14:10:27 From Donald Wilson To Everyone: Time of day is a factor — eyes cannot see as well at dawn and dusk because of the varying light levels, sky versus roadways 14:10:32 From Longino To Everyone: Road infrastructure encourages only vehicle use thus drivers feel only vehicles should be on roads. Distracted drivers. 14:10:35 From Nicole Martinez MVCHope To Everyone: Not great "share the road" adherence-- 14:11:04 From Liz Reed To Everyone: Weather 14:11:23 From Harrison Plourde To Everyone: changes in vehicle sizing - SUVs and pickup trucks have much worse sightlines than sedans 14:12:35 From Harrison Plourde To Everyone: automobile manufacturers have also engaged in a "horsepower war" to market the most powerful vehicles 14:12:37 From Donald Wilson To Everyone: Lack of facilities that are designed for VRUs versus cars/trucks. Develop a plan where certain roadways are specifically designed for VRUs and are separated from cars/trucks 14:13:40 From Mark Aasmundstad To Everyone: Land use planning definitely a structural factor. Distances based on car convenience, and ‘big streets’ make for alienating landscapes, and destinations being perceived as even further away. Need more village scale development, with destinations closer together, and smaller streets and pathways connecting us. 14:15:03 From Rep. Angelica Rubio To Everyone: I think it’s also important to note that while everyone is distracted these days, it’s more dangerous to be distracted when you’re behind the wheel of a large vehicle. We tend to equate the damage that a car causes with bike users, but it’s not the same. 14:16:51 From Ashleigh Curry To Everyone: Yes - I appreciate the opportunities that the school district has to be involved, and also the dedication of funding by NMDOT to programs such as Safe Routes to School. 14:17:13 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: Our organization, Vulnerable Road Users NM, is very new and not on too many people's radar. We are glad to be included/represented today and will be proactive on involving ourselves in these "big picture" discussions 14:17:54 From Donald Wilson To Everyone: Velo Cruces is an advocacy organization in Las Cruces and is glad to be involved in DOTs efforts to improve road safety for VRUs 14:18:08 From momoabed To Everyone: We are committed to make sure , not just safety now, but also the future developments have multi-use facilities, sufficient lighting and sidewalks, and wider road with shoulders. Not just worried about the bottom line. Let's take care of our citizens. 14:18:18 From Barbara@VRUnm To Everyone: We'd be happy to have insights from everyone on specific ways to become involved. 14:18:20 From Nicole Martinez MVCHope To Everyone: We're not always involved/invited, but thanks for bringing us in! 14:18:32 From Jason Coffey (NMDOT) To Everyone: Reacted to "We are committed to ..." with 👍 14:18:39 From Natalie Green- City of Las Cruces To Everyone: City Staff is represented but additional representation from Non-profits or Housing providers/ developers may be beneficial. 14:18:58 From George Pearson, Las Cruces NM To Everyone: NMDOT has been doing good outreach to the different areas, but then getting results in state policies seems to be a problem. Example, the NMDOT Ped Safety Plan recommends Complete Streets, but seems that plan is now just on the shelf. The bicycle related state laws need updating, but it's currently a very ad hoc process. The 5ft passing law has not been readdressed, for example. 14:19:04 From momoabed To Everyone: This is a great forum, and we are hoping to have you all help DAC, develop a workable action Plan. Thank you. 14:20:29 From Mark Aasmundstad To Everyone: When the system focus in safety, then we are all in the same interest group together. 14:20:54 From Richard Hanway To Everyone: As a transit agency here in Las Cruces, we participate in New Mexico Transit Association (NMTA), the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and NMDOT that coordinate with other agencies in the state. There could be more support for public transportation at the state level. 14:22:04 From Longino To Everyone: VRUNM is willing to help with any statewide planning. 14:23:03 From Rep. Angelica Rubio To Everyone: Thank you all for your work and hosting this event. Really appreciate it. 14:25:30 From Brandon Gonzalez, Alta Planning + Design To Everyone: While we'll be pulling input received so far at the end of day on the 13th, the webmap will remain open for you to see comments and add additional comments that may be considered as part of the Strategic Highway Safety Plan. So feel free to pass along to your networks! 14:25:40 From Jonathan Macias To Everyone: Thank you everyone for the great information. 14:27:38 From Jessica Griffin (she/her) To Everyone: Thank you!