Tempe has designated four streets as part of the city’s Vision Zero safety effort, and drivers can expect to see strict enforcement in the areas through March.

The corridors are:

Rural Road – 6th Street to Playa del Norte Drive.
University Drive – 52ndStreet to Hardy Drive.
McClintock Road – Baseline Road to Guadalupe Road.
Elliot Road – Interstate 10 to Kyrene Road.

 The corridors will be changed every three months unlike the past where they remained in place for a full year.

The safety corridors are selected based on analysis of streets with the highest amount of injury collisions, including serious physical injuries or fatalities, according to a release.

“In 2023, there were 50 serious physical or fatal collisions on the streets of Tempe; of those, 24 people died from their injuries,” Lt. Michael Hayes, traffic investigations with the Tempe Police Department, said.

“We know that 18 of those collisions resulted from excessive speeds.”

The program is focused on limiting to zero the number of fatal and serious injury crashes.
 
Catherine Hollow, principal civil engineer for Tempe,  said traffic engineers review each active safety corridor for updates such outdated signs, faded pavement markings or “necessary adjustments to traffic signal timings.”

People traveling the designated corridors will see yellow banners lettered in black reading “Safety Corridor – Strict Enforcement.”

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