Cincinnati Hires Dedicated In-House Crew To Build Pedestrian Infrastructure Should your city follow their lead?

Cincinnati’s investment into its walkers doesn’t just make safety sense; it also make fiscal and logistical sense, too.

Cincinnati is creating an in-house team to build safer streets for people who walk and roll, and vaulting over one of the most common roadblocks to saving vulnerable road users lives.

In what could be a model for cities across America, the City of Seven Hills is in the process of hiring a five-member crew dedicated exclusively to installing and upgrading pedestrian infrastructure, allowing the Ohio community to bypass the often-expensive and time-consuming process of soliciting outside contractors or waiting for overburdened city staff to do that critical work.

By Kea Wilson