Great Streets Mountain View and Safe Mountain View met with Sgt. Saul Jaeger (@SgtJaeger) and Ofc. Chris Goff of the Mountain View Police Department today to learn more about traffic enforcement in Mountain View. We learned that Mountain View has 5 officers in the Traffic unit (out of about 95 total sworn-in officers) and they are recognizable about town because they are riding motorcycles. Also, we learned that all serious injury accidents (when someone goes to the hospital) are investigated and reported. In the case of fatalities, MPVD will close down the scene to conduct a 3D scan of the area and study the incident by trying to recreate the event from all perspectives. All traffic-related injuries are reported to the California Highway Patrol and data is publicly available through the SWITRS system.
We also had a chance to share our ideas for adopting Vision Zero in Mountain View as well as our proposals for making California Street and Shoreline Boulevard safer for cyclists and pedestrians. Thanks for Sgt. Saul and Ofc. Chris for spending the time to talk to us and give us your thoughts on our proposals. And special thanks to Pat Moore of Safe Mountain View for organizing and hosting the meeting!
Jennifer talks to Sgt. Jaeger about the plans for lane reconfiguration of Castro Street in front of Graham Middle School.
Greg shares ideas for how to get Mountain View to adopt Vision Zero, an initiative with the goal of no traffic deaths
Sgt Jaeger and Ofc. Goff talk about how traffic collisions are investigated and reported by MVPD