Traffic Safety
Our Traffic Safety team helps make the transportation network in unincorporated Adams County safer and more efficient for everyone, whether you’re driving, walking, biking, or taking transit. We manage traffic signals, signs, pavement markings, streetlights, and guardrails, and we respond to traffic concerns from the community. We strive to make transportation in unincorporated Adams County safe and efficient for everyone.
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Adams County Comprehensive Safety Action Plan
This project created a community shared vision for safer streets for eight local agencies – Adams County, Arvada, Aurora, Brighton, Commerce City, Federal Heights, Northglenn, and Westminster. Each safety action plan reflects the needs, concerns, and opportunities for the respective agency. The Adams County Comprehensive Safety Action Plan material can be viewed below. For details regarding the other partner agency’s plans, please refer to that agency directly.
Adams County Government is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience and advancing technology accessibility in all our county information and communication technology (“ICT”). We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our ICT in accordance with Colorado Laws For Persons With Disabilities, HB 21-1110, as amended, and the Rules promulgated by the Office of Information Technology of the State of Colorado, 8 CCR 1501-11. Documents which are exclusively for reference, research, or recordkeeping and which are not altered after their creation are archived content under the Rules. If an accessible version of any County document is needed, please let us know. To view our accessibility statement for more information, please click here.
Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program
Traffic in residential areas is a concern throughout Adams County as well as in most other communities across the nation. Traffic in neighborhoods can affect the quality of life for residents, bicyclists, pedestrians, and drivers.
For these reasons, the Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program (NTCP) was developed to help residents work with the county to implement various traffic calming elements. The program emphasizes the partnership between residents and the county and is set up to objectively respond to reports of speeding or excessive volumes on residential and collector streets. Under this program, traffic calming implies the use of education, enforcement, and/or visual and physical engineering.
- Program Overview – English | Spanish
- Appendix A – NTCP Toolbox – English | Spanish
- Appendix B – Typical Speed Table and Speed Cushion Design
- Appendix C – Frequently Asked Questions – English | Spanish
- NTCP Brochure – English | Spanish
- Shareable Neighborhood Postcard – English and Spanish
- For roadway classifications, please reference this web map
- Fillable Application – English | Spanish
The Public Works Department does not enforce traffic laws.
Contact The Sheriff’s Office for Traffic Enforcement Issues – 720.322.1114.
Cautionary Sign Program
Cautionary signs are non-standard warning signs that are intended to raise awareness of roadways users with increased needs. Adams County will install specific cautionary signs in locations that meet the eligibility criteria described in the Cautionary Sign Program requirements.
Accessible Parking Program
Adams County Public Works Department will place accessible parking signs on the public right-of-way of unincorporated Adams County in residential neighborhoods and business districts for people with mobility impairments meeting the adopted standards. The County is committed to providing equitable access to the maximum available parking for all persons using the public right of way. Signs may only be placed by Adams County Public Works where approved. All other parking restrictions are still in effect where accessible parking signs are posted.
Veterans Memorial Sign Program
Adams County is highly invested in showing support for residents who are currently serving or are veterans of the United States military services. As part of this commitment, the Public Works Department has implemented the Veterans Memorial Sign Program. This program is intended to allow residents of Adams County who are family or friends of military veterans killed in the line of duty to request the dedication of a street in Adams County to the memory of their departed veterans.
Roadside Memorials
Roadside memorials can help grieving families and friends deal with the loss of a loved one. They can also alert drivers to the very real and serious consequences of unsafe driving. Adams County’s policy on roadside memorials is intended to accommodate these important interests, while at the same time helping to avoid legal challenges that can sometimes be presented when memorials are installed without approval or regulation.
Traffic Signal Resources
Interactive Map of Traffic Signals in the Denver Region
Adams County Traffic Signal Project Specifications (Revised 2017)
Colorado Department of Transportation M Standards
Colorado Department of Transportation S Standards
Colorado Department of Transportation Standard Specifications for Road & Bridge
Traffic Volume Counts
Interactive Map of Adams County Traffic Volume Counts
Adams County Traffic Volume Counts Data
Denver Regional Council of Governments Traffic Counts
Street Light Outages
To report a streetlight outage, please contact the power company serving your neighborhood. A map of power companies can be found here.
- Xcel Energy or 800-895-4999
- United Power or 303-637-1300
- CORE Electric Cooperative or 833-267-3349