Missoulians advocate for safety study on Reserve Street – Let’s Improve Missoula’s Reserve Street Meets Tuesdays at 9AM on Zoom.

Reserve Street is one of the busiest streets in all of Montana, which makes it one of the most dangerous.

In 2021 alone, there were over 2,500 crashes on Reserve. The same year, the top five most dangerous intersections, based on city-wide crash numbers from the Missoula Police Department, were on Reserve Street.

A group of Missoulians have spent the last four years persuading the city to pass legislation and allocate money to improve the safety on Reserve. Within this group, almost everyone has their own, or knows of someone with a close call on the road.

The Let’s Improve Missoula’s Reserve Street was founded in 2018 by Kevin Davis, a local business owner in Missoula. He hosts weekly zoom meetings with various public speakers, including city officials, local residents and even people experiencing houselessness. Those are held on Tuesdays at 9 a.m. (Won’t meet on the 4th of July)  Register here and contribute to the discussion

If the Reserve St. Public Working Group weekly Zoom meetings moved to Fridays from 9-10am (instead of Tuesdays), could you attend?

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Why are there NO Roundabouts on Missoula’s Reserve Street?: An Informational Guide 2nd Edition – US Dept. of Transportation

A roundabout is an intersection that uses a circular junction instead of stoplights or stop signs to manage traffic flow. Instead of every car stopping, they enter the roundabout slowly, and traffic moves almost continuously.

Volunteers wrap up after removing 40 tons of trash under Missoula’s Reserve St. Bridge – Missoula ‘s Reserve St. Public Working Group Meets Every Tuesday at 9:00

“We thought we might come down for a day and clean up this area like we have in years past, but it was more than we thought,” said Kevin Davis, organizer of the cleanups and head of the Reserve Street Public Working Group.

Starting to hate cars — even if you drive one? There’s an online community for you. The end of “Carcatecture”

These groups teach members how to fight for safer streets.

“Dangerous by Design” – American roads are designed to be deadly – The top 4 dangerous intersections in Montana are on Reserve Street in Missoula

“Dangerous by Design,” a recent report by the advocacy group Smart Growth America, lays major blame on the way those roads are designed.