Senate District 6 includes Milton, Lewes, Rehoboth Beach and Dewey Beach. (If you are not 100% sure whether you live in Senate District 6, you can search here using your address.) If you live in this district your choice on November 5 to represent you in the Delaware Senate is between the incumbent Senator Russ Huxtable and Kim Stevenson. We asked these candidates to share their views on four questions related to traffic safety in Delaware. Here are their answers:
1)I voted for, or agree with, the Everyone Gets Home resolution (SCR 94 in the 151st Delaware General Assembly), which called for reducing traffic fatalities in Delaware to no more than 100 people each year by 2025 and also affirmed support for the Delaware Strategic Highway Safety Plan goal of no more 60 annual traffic fatalities by 2035.
Huxtable: “Strongly Agree”
Stevenson: “Strongly Agree”
2) I voted for, or agree with, the Everyone Gets Home Act (HS 1 for HB 247 in the 152nd Delaware General Assembly) – Delaware’s first-ever anti-“stroad” law – which authorized DelDOT to acquire property rights along busy, high-speed, multi-lane highways to consolidate commercial entrances or to create new commercial interconnections if DelDOT determines such consolidation or interconnection would likely reduce serious and fatal crashes.
Huxtable: “Strongly Agree”
Stevenson: “Strongly Agree”
3) support Delaware establishing a clear public policy that requires that every street, road and highway in the state be assigned to a specific functional category with clear design requirements to either facilitate safe and smooth traffic flow or safe direct access to properties (but not both) in order to help Delaware meet its goal of no more than 60 annual traffic fatalities by 2035.
Huxtable: “Strongly Agree”
Stevenson: “Agree”
4) I support the construction of multimodal roundabouts that are safer than signal- or stop sign-controlled intersections for people driving, cycling and walking in order to help Delaware meet its goal of no more than 60 annual traffic fatalities by 2035.
Huxtable: “Agree”
Stevenson: “Neither Agree or Disagree”
5) Is there anything else about your record as an elected official, your experience or your views that is relevant to improving traffic safety for the people you wish to represent in the 153rd General Assembly?
Huxtable: “I was happy to be a sponsor of HS1 for HB247 and look forward to ways we can make sure everyone gets home safe.”
Stevenson: “I live on the JB Trail. I support more signage for people to understand the safest ways to use our trails. In the past our company has financially supported the buying of helmets for summer students working at the beach. I’d be interested in working on innovative ways to fund and staff with volunteers, trail maintenance.”
