The funding is aimed at helping cities plan and implement safety improvement projects to reduce road deaths and major crashes.
The Biden administration announced a new $1 billion round of federal grants targeted at road safety projects, reports Daniel C. Vock in Route Fifty.
The funding from the Department of Transportation (USDOT) will support 345 safety projects. “The list of projects funded through the grants include nearly $10 million to provide telemedicine services to emergency responders in rural Minnesota, $8.1 million for a new roundabout near the campus of Mississippi State University, and $25 million to add ‘complete streets’ features—such as separated bike lanes, curb extensions, raised intersections and extra time for pedestrians to cross—to a major thoroughfare in Milwaukee.”
The grants will fund 70 implementation projects, while the rest are still in the planning stages. According to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, “a lot of communities are now receiving federal funding to write the safety plans that will help to identify and address their most pressing needs, and as they do that, build out that pipeline of projects for the years ahead.”
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