FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 16, 2025

‘Look Out for Each Other’ Road Safety Campaign Launched

KINGSTON, NY – Mayor Steven T. Noble is pleased to announce that the City of Kingston’s Complete Street Advisory Council has launched a road safety campaign, Look Out for Each Other.

As part of the Look Out for Each Other campaign, which aims to create awareness of general traffic safety and the urgent need for awareness of pedestrians, yard signs will be displayed across the city.

Mayor Noble said, “I want to thank the Complete Streets Advisory Council for their efforts in helping to further our traffic safety education efforts. The campaign is geared toward everyone who could use a reminder about the vulnerability of humans in streetscapes and the responsibility that we all share for their safety. Along with the creation of KPD’s Traffic Safety Unit, infrastructure improvements, and speed limit reduction, we are working to improve safety for our residents and it’s gratifying to have this support from one of our boards.”

Kingston’s Common Council created the Complete Streets Advisory Council in 2010.  The group is charged with advising the city on ways Complete Streets principles can be implemented in planning, design and construction activities. Complete Streets is a term used to describe city streets that are designed to encourage people of all ages and abilities, by any mode of transportation, to use them.

Paul Stankus, Chair of the Complete Streets Advisory Council said, “In light of recent fatalities, injuries and crashes across the City, the Complete Streets Advisory Council sought to use existing grant money to create these signs, originally designed by and with the cooperation of the Seattle Department of Transportation. We hope all road users will take the message to heart and remember that each and every one of us is vulnerable and that we all deserve to get where we're going safely.”

The Look Out for Each Other campaign is funded by the Creating Healthy Schools and Communities grant program, which is supported with funds from the State of New York. One of the strategies of the Creating Healthy Schools and Communities (CHSC) is the Connecting Activity-Friendly Routes to Everyday Destinations strategy, under which the yards signs were created. Additional projects funded by the grant under this strategy are the landscape design of Post Office Park, the Greenline Wayfinding Signage Plan, Greenline enhancements including message boards, bicycle shelter, and bicycle fix-it stations.

More about the Complete Streets Advisory Council can be found at https://kingston-ny.gov/CompleteStreetsAdvisoryCouncil.