Travel with Care

Overview

Bellingham conducts a Protecting Mobility for All public safety campaign. The City of Bellingham, in partnership with the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, has taken measures to reduce collisions and increase responsible behavior on city streets. In just one month, five collisions (all in marked crosswalks) involving vehicles and pedestrians and a cyclist resulted in serious injuries and two deaths. Even one avoidable collision is one too many.

Bellingham is a community that cares about walkability, cycling safety and one another. We know that ensuring safety on the streets is everyone’s responsibility. It’s a responsibility we take seriously.

“Travel with Care” is an ongoing education and enforcement campaign intended to:

  • foster safe driving, walking and cycling behaviors utilizing social norming;
  • educate all users (motorists, pedestrians, cyclists) on safe behavior and rules of the road;
  • enforce rules of the road.

The goal is to have zero collisions between pedestrians and motor vehicles. To achieve that goal, we seek to increase responsible behavior and reduce distractions and other avoidable causes of collisions.  

References

Starting in 2023, Travel with Care messaging in English and Spanish was added to traffic signal boxes around Bellingham to increase awareness about traffic safety. Some examples are below:

Traffic signal box in Spanish on Lakeway Drive.

Traffic signal box at the pedestrian crossing on Lincoln Street.

Traffic signal box at F Street and Girard Street.

Traffic signal box at Lakeway Drive and King Street.

Contacts

Justin Taylor, transportation technician
City of Bellingham – Public Works
(360) 778-7825

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