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After Seattle touts success from rolling out LPIs, citing a 48% reduction in pedestrian turning collisions at the 300 locations where they've been installed, Bellevue follows suit.
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Testing new Leading Pedestrian Interval intersections in Bellevue. They give pedestrians a slight head start to enter the crosswalk in some scenarios, but signal priority seems to still be given for cars turning left.
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At intersections where Bellevue installed the pilot program a few months back, they found a 42% reduction in ped-vehicle conflicts. Some Bellevue intersections have tech that can also detect near-misses, so that doesn't just include collisions.
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