This project will improve safety through the purchase and installation of bollards, tactile strips, speed humps, street benches, and design purchase and fabrication of crosswalk stencils.

Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN) is a community experiencing growth in population (Members and Non-Members, leasehold residents), business, and traffic. While TFN members are aging, we also have a significant young population. This project will improve safety for vulnerable road users through the installation of some interventions designed to support active transportation and to protect people walking and rolling in the community. This Vision Zero Road Safety Grant will help fund some specific interventions that are part of a larger comprehensive Community Area Plan being advanced by the TFN such as crosswalks, bollards, signage, installing street benches for people to rest, or tactile strips. To support community placemaking while promoting safety, this project will design, fabricate, and purchase crosswalk stencils using Coast Salish design.

The Falcon Way Pedestrian and Streetscape Design initiative is envisioned to enhance the streetscape within the TFN Community Area Plan, balance pedestrian and vehicular traffic with traffic calming measures, resolve parking concerns, introduce street trees, banners, benches and increase a sense of belonging for the membership. Member engagement and education about road safety, enhanced pedestrian connectivity, safety of vulnerable members, and sense of belonging due to placemaking by highlighting our unique cultural identity are among the anticipated results. This initiative will focus on improving safety and reducing injuries to our vulnerable members like elders, children, and the physically challenged, but these interventions will also improve safety of all residents and visitors to our community.