Delaware General Assembly Candidate Survey

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1. In May the 151st Delaware General Assembly voted unanimously to approve the Everyone Gets Home resolution. SCR 94 called for reducing traffic fatalities in Delaware to no more than 100 people each year and tasked state agencies to meet that goal by 2025.
Government is already making significant efforts, and spending a lot of taxpayer dollars, to control/limit traffic fatalities. Large reductions in traffic fatalities in Delaware in the future are probably not possible without significant technological breakthroughs (e.g. self-driving cars).Progress in reducing traffic fatalities is possible and elected state officials have an important role to play in holding state agencies accountable for meeting traffic safety goals.Traffic safety should be DelDOT’s top priority. If traffic safety goals are unmet, DelDOT’s capital program should be reoriented and reprioritized in order to meet those goals.

2. There is significant disagreement among transportation professionals about how limited resources for government traffic safety efforts should be allocated.
Resources should be allocated to reducing all types of crashes (property damage, injury and fatal).All types of crashes need to be addressed but greater resources should be allocated to reducing fatal crash types compared to property damage and injury crashes.Government should focus on reducing fatal crash types.

3. Traffic safety professionals often describe their work in terms of the “3 Es” (education, enforcement and engineering).
All 3 “E”s - education, enforcement and engineering - are indispensable and we need to do more of each in order to make progress in solving Delaware’s traffic safety crisis.No infrastructure - no matter how cleverly designed - can be expected to prevent crashes in the face of reckless or stupid human behavior. Education and enforcement therefore are our most important tools for improving traffic safety.Everyone makes mistakes but in a well-engineered system good infrastructure both encourages safer behavior and also prevents human fallibility from turning into human fatalities.

4. Many of Delaware’s deadliest roads - including Dupont Highway, Coastal Highway, Kirkwood Highway and Pulaski Highway - have become deadlier over time as commercial development along those roads has increased the number of potential conflicts between vehicles, and between vehicles and pedestrians, entering and exiting driveways and changing lanes either to enter or after exiting driveways.
No new driveways should be permitted on busy, high-speed, multi-lane highways.DelDOT should use all of its available authority to consolidate driveway entrances and exits onto busy, high-speed, multi-lane highways.DelDOT should partner with counties to consolidate driveway entrances and exits onto busy, high-speed, multi-lane highways.

Is there anything else about your record as an elected official, your experience or your views that you think is relevant to improving traffic safety in Delaware for the people you wish to represent in the 152nd General Assembly?

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