SPOKANE, Wash. — A person was hit by a car in downtown Spokane hours before the City Council will vote on how to approve funding for various street safety improvement projects.
On Monday afternoon, a person was hit by a car while walking in a crosswalk between 2nd Avenue and Sprague.
The pedestrian was taken to a hospital. As of Monday evening, no update on their condition has been provided.
The ‘Safe Street for All’ funding under consideration by Spokane City Council would go to seven traffic calming projects across Spokane. The vote will also approve the consideration of applications for 10 projects in 2026.
One of those projects would install stop lights near Regal Elementary on Wellesley Avenue in Northeast Spokane.
“There’s a lot of students whose parents just don’t feel like it’s safe for them to cross where the students themselves don’t, and so they don’t cross and sometimes they don’t come to school,” said Spokane City Councilmember, Michael Cathcart.
Other projects would include crosswalks, lights and traffic signals in East Central, Northwest Boulevard and the Audubon Downriver neighborhood.
Erik Lowe is an advocate for ‘Safe Streets for All’ and is asking City Council to implement traffic calming measures immediately after someone is it and killed somewhere.
“It would direct public works within 48 hours of any traffic fatality, whether it be a pedestrian, motorist or passenger, to ensure adaptive traffic control measures at the site of those fatalities, because that’s definitive proof that the location is unsafe,” he said.
Spokane City Council will meet Monday at 6 p.m.
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