Plan for safer streets in Port St Lucie
safe streets
Families of accident victims in Port Saint Lucie have been calling for safer streets for years. City officials say they have a plan, which involves spending hundreds of thousands on new sidewalks.
In just two years, 104 people have been hit by cars and most incidents are blamed on a lack of sidewalks. The city of Port Saint Lucie increased funding on sidewalks from $250,000 to $800,000 this year.
On Thursday, crews installed a brand new walking bridge on Darwin Boulevard just feet from where police say a child was struck and killed by an impaired driver a few years ago.
City officials say dozens of other roads are scheduled to get the same treatment with new sidewalks built or dead ends connected. Including on Tiffany Avenue, where a boy was struck and killed while riding his bike to school in 2013.
