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City studies whether longer yellow reduces red-light running BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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hoenix and the University of Arizona are conducting a study aimed at answering what some city officials call a profoundly complex question: Can adjusting the time that a traffic signal stays yellow reduce the thousands of incidents of red-light running that occur throughout the city on a daily basis?
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Those incidents have proven costly in many ways, city Street Transportation officials told council’s Transportation, Infrastructure and Planning Subcommittee Jan. 18 and in memos submitted to Council by the department and Deputy City Manager Mario Paniagua. During a study of 12 Phoenix intersections between Sept. 1 and Nov. 1, “a total of 144,795 RLR (red light running) incidents were observed,” they said.
Between 2014-20, red-light running crashes in Phoenix took 113 lives and injured 9,320 people. An Insurance Institute for Highway Safety report showed that in 2020 alone across the nation, red-light runners caused 928 deaths and 116,000 injuries to pedestrians, passengers and motorists. Data so far derived from special sensors installed at 12 of the most dangerous insee
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Ahwatukee ‘founding fathers’ honor one of their own BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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t was a time to learn about Ahwatukee’s history from some of the people who made it and, in one poignant moment, a time to honor and thank one of the community’s most influential “founding fathers.” About 200 people turned out Jan. 21 at the Ahwatukee Recreation Center for the first of three presentations on Ahwatukee’s history that the ARC is offering to the public free of charge as it celebrates its 50th anniversary. With Ahwatukee historian Marty Gibson narrating, the group was enthralled by stories of the community’s early years by three significant contributors to its growth: Mark Salem, who owned
Ahwatukee first gas station; Rick Savagian, who as founder-owner of Mountainside Martial Arts Center owns the community’s oldest single-owner business; and Bruce Gilliam, president of Presley Development Company of Arizona – which built the community’s first subdivisions. But the afternoon also became a celebration and a time to thank one of Ahwatukee’s most influential early settlers – Clay Schad, founder and longtime owner of the Ahwatukee Foothills News. With his wife Jackie Schad at his side, Schad was surprised by an award from the ARC thanking him “for his tremendous support in establishing the community of Ahwatukee.” see
Ahwatukee Realtor Chad Chadderton presented Ahwatukee Foothills News founder and longtime owner Clay Schad with an award from the Ahwatukee Recreation Center that thanked and praised him “for his tremendous support in establishing the community of Ahwatukee.” A longtime friend of Schad, Chadderton made the presentation during the first of three sessions on the history of Ahwatukee that are being offered for free to the public by the ARC in commemoration of its 50th anniversary. (David Minton/AFN Staff
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