The Keystone Avenue Corridor study will evaluate the options for reconfiguring the avenue into a Complete Street which accommodates all modes of alternative transportation. This transformation will benefit all users of the corridor by lowering traffic speeds, providing better sightlines, and lowering the level of stress of travelers. These users include pedestrians, wheelchairs, baby joggers, high school and university students, runners, dog walkers, skateboarders, bicyclists and motorists.

The community will benefit from the reduction in car crashes and improve safety for children and residents with vision and mobility disabilities. Previous road conversion projects in Reno have shown a dramatic 40% reduction in car crashes. These crashes cost our community substantially in time, money and human suffering.

The Keystone neighborhood will also benefit from the economic and social improvements derived from a safe and livable community. Accommodation of residents who travel by alternative means improves real estate values and profits for local businesses.

In short, for those of us who live by and use the public right-of-way in our cars, on our bikes and on our feet, we request that the Regional Transportation Commission make Keystone Ave safer and more usable for all our citizens.

Please attend the RTC Open House at Reno High School on February 6 at 5 pm and personally submit comments to Make Keystone Safer!