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New dashboard details crashes in Mesa County Brandon Leuallen The Business Times
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esa County has launched a new public crash data dashboard designed to help residents, planners and law enforcement better understand where crashes are occurring, what factors are contributing to them and how future safety improvements may be prioritized. The interactive dashboard, developed by Mesa County’s Regional Transportation Planning Office using Colorado Department of Transportation crash datasets, allows users to filter crashes by year, severity, location, age group, roadway type, weather conditions and other factors. Users can also zoom into specific corridors, intersections or neighborhoods and analyze trends across the county. Rachel Peterson, senior transportation planner with Mesa County’s Regional Transportation Planning Office, said the tool grew out of Mesa County’s Safety Action Plan, which was formally adopted in November 2024 after the county received federal-grant funding to study crashes more holistically. “We wanted to be transparent with our community first and foremost,” Peterson said. “But we also wanted to kind of humanize the data. Sometimes you’ll see just numbers pushed out into the community, and I think this dashboard helps serve as a visual acknowledgement for victims and their families.” See story Page 5
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New hair salon with clever name looks to make the cut in Palisade— See Page 2 Hailey Moya stands in the middle of her hair salon, CurlUpNDye, which she opened in Palisade in February. She wants her salon to be a friendly place for customers to gather, and she doesn’t want anyone to feel intimidated and shy away from asking for the hair style they want. She speaks from experience on that, saying, “Because me, personally, in the past I would ask for certain things, and I would be shamed for it. Or they didn’t want to do it, because they thought it would be ugly.” As a result, she welcomes creativity and wants to be “the person that can bring that to life and make you feel confident.” Photo by Tim Harty.
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