Toward Zero Quick Build Projects 2025
Each year, Toward Zero Baltimore will identify neighborhoods that have higher-than-average injury crash rates and strategize an array of quick-build traffic calming projects to improve safety and accessibility in those areas. To learn more about the Toward Zero initiative, visit our Towards Zero Program webpage.
Learn more about the current projects and share feedback on neighborhood safety concerns below.
What are quick-build projects?
Quick-build refers to the process of using lower-cost, prefabricated structures to implement safer conditions more quickly at locations that need solutions now.
Quick-build projects are faster to implement because they do not require any modifications of structures in the Right-of-Way; this also makes these projects easy to remove or modify if they aren’t functioning as expected or if there is an opportunity to improve safety further.
Materials can include but are not limited to, signage, striping, flex-posts, and rubber curb-stops. Quick-build materials can be used to build any of the following proven traffic safety treatments:
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- Curb bump-outs
- Lane width reductions
- Travel lane reductions
- Bicycle infrastructure
- Bus lanes
- Chicanes
- Angled parking
- Speed limit reductions
- Stop-controlled intersections
- Crosswalks
In addition to quick-build treatments, we will also consider speed humps.
Current Projects
We used 2021 - 2023 crash data to identify "hot spots" or streets and intersections with high numbers of crashes resulting in injuries or fatalities. Considering equity and overlap with other planned projects, we then identified the following neighborhoods for systemic quick-build traffic calming improvements:
East Baltimore Neighborhoods
- Ellwood Park
- McElderry Park
- Madison-Eastend
- Milton-Montford
West Baltimore Neighborhoods
- Boyd-Booth
- Carrollton Ridge
- Mount Clare
- Union Square
The neighborhoods within each cluster are purposefully adjacent to each other to deliver systemic improvements. Selected locations are circled in yellow on the map:
Learn more about these projects below.
Ellwood Park, McElderry Park, Madison-Eastend, and Milton-Montford Safety Statistics
From 2020 to 2023, there were:
Fatal crashes occurred on Orleans Street, Monument Street, and Madison Street.
The intersections with the most crashes are Monument Street and Kenwood Avenue, Madison Street and Kenwood Avenue, and Orleans Street and Linwood Avenue.
Fatal and Injury Crashes 2020 - 2023
In the past three years, 311 requests for signs and signals have increased in the area.
There have been 100 requests for traffic calming, crosswalks, and pavement markings.
Many of the requests were on Orleans Street, McElderry Street, and Pulaski Highway.
311 Requests by Type 2022 - 2024 
311 Requests 2022 - 2024
Boyd-Booth, Mount Clare, Carrollton Ridge, and Union Square Safety Statistics
From 2020 to 2023, there were:
Fatal crashes occurred on Lombard Street, Monroe Street, and Pratt Street.
The intersections with the most crashes include Wilkens Avenue and Fulton Street, Pratt Street and Monroe Street, and Pratt Street and Fulton Street.
Fatal and Injury Crashes 2020 - 2023In the past three years, 311 requests have increased in the area, especially requests for streetlights, signs, and signals.
There have been 65 requests for traffic calming, crosswalks, and markings.
Many of these requests were on Pratt Street and Wilkens Avenue.
311 Requests by Type 2022 - 2024
311 Requests 2022 - 2024What’s Next?
Past Events
- Boyd-Booth neighborhood walk 11/12, 11am – 1pm, Bon Secours Community Resource Center
- Mount Clare neighborhood walk, 11/14, 3pm – 5pm, Wilkens Ave roundabout
- Eastside neighborhoods walk, 11/16, 1pm – 4pm, Patterson Park Library
- Livable Streets Coalition annual meeting, 12/4, 6pm - 7:30pm
- Union Square neighborhood walk 12/13, 12:30pm - 2pm, Lombard St and Stricker St
- Carrollton Ridge neighborhood walk 12/16, Samuel Morse Recreation Center
- City 4 All Forum 1/25, 10am - 2 pm, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Upcoming Events
All are welcome to attend the following events – just show up!
- Carrollton Ridge MONSE meeting 2/18, 6:30 - 8, Samuel Fb Morse Recreation Center (424 S. Pulaski St.)
- Milton-Montford neighborhood meeting 2/19, 6 - 7, 901 N. Milton St.
- Ellwood Park Association meeting 2/20 6:30 - 8, 2912 Pulaski Hwy
- Boyd-Booth meeting 2/27, 5 - 6, Bon Secours Community Resource Center
- Southwest Partnership Vibrant & Walkable Streets Committee meeting, in-person location TBD, zoom link: https://swpbal.org/events/
Add Your Input on our Community Maps!
Toward Zero Baltimore is our initiative to eliminate all fatalities and serious injuries on Baltimore City roadways.
The neighborhoods reflected on this map have some of the highest roadway injury rates in the City.
Please use these maps to tell us your experience on the roads and sidewalks in these neighborhoods. You can comment on existing 311 requests or log a new concern.
If you would like to contribute new information to an existing 311 concern, click the point on the map and then click the comment button. You can also like or dislike the 311 request.
If you would like to add a new concern to the map, select the "Log a Safety Concern" button, click "Community Information", and input the relevant information. It will then be added under the "Community Information" section for others to view and interact with.
Your input will help us identify vital safety interventions that will mitigate dangerous roadway behavior patterns.