Transportation advocates in the city highlighted a 2011 proposal to improve safety in the area where Javsicas was killed. That year, the Mayor's Office of Transportation and Utilities, a precursor to OTIS, and the Center City District proposed a redesign for Market Street and JFK Boulevard that would reduce the roads to three-lane thruways. The fourth lanes on both roads would be converted into a protected bike lane on the north side of Market Street and one on the south side of JFK, which would not interfere with buses. The project also proposed curb bump outs to make bus stops easier to use and to improve conditions for pedestrians. It was a Vision Zero kind of approach years before the city's formal adoption of the philosophy.