Traffic Safety Report to be Presented This Week

Pasadena transportation and police officials will brief the Transportation Advisory Commission on Sept. 24 on traffic safety in the city, presenting collision data, recently completed and planned street-safety projects, and an update on police education and enforcement.

The Citywide Traffic Safety Update is an information item; the commission will receive the briefing without binding action and advises the City Council, which holds final authority. The update is tied to the city’s adoption of a Safe System Approach and to the City Council’s goal — set when the council adopted the Focused Local Roadway Safety Action Plan on Oct. 27, 2025 — of eliminating roadway fatalities by 2035.

The presentation, prepared by the Department of Transportation and the Pasadena Police Department, will lay out collision trends. Pasadena recorded four traffic fatalities in the first half of 2026 — two pedestrians and two vehicle occupants — after three deaths in 2025 and eight in 2024, according to the department. Over the five years ending June 30, the city logged 409 collisions involving pedestrians and 2,636 involving motor vehicle occupants.

Recently completed work includes enhancements at the Metro A Line Allen Avenue station and centerline hardening on Orange Grove Boulevard at Lincoln Avenue. The Pasadena Police Department’s Traffic Section began a 30/60/90-day directed enforcement operation in July, and officers issued 5,563 traffic citations citywide through August.

Need to Know: The Transportation Advisory Commission meets Thursday, Sept. 24, at 4 p.m. in the Grand Conference Room S038, in the basement of City Hall, 100 North Garfield Avenue, in Pasadena. The meeting is open to the public. For more, call (626) 744-7311 or visit https://www.cityofpasadena.net/commissions/agendas/.