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Submittal of Safe Street and Roads for All Grant Application to Department of Transportation for FY 2022 Grant Program, to Develop, Thinking Outside the Car: Hernando's Safe Streets for All Action Plan
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BRIEF OVERVIEW
The Office of the Secretary of Transportation, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT or the Department) is soliciting applications for Safe Street and Roads for All (SS4A) grants. DOT is making $1 billion available for the program in FY 2022. Funds for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 SS4A grant program are to be awarded on a competitive basis to support planning, infrastructure, behavioral, and operational initiatives to prevent death and serious injury on roads and streets involving all roadways users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, public transportation, personal conveyance and improbability users, motorists and commercial vehicle operations.
The purpose of SS4A grants is to improve roadway safety by significantly reducing or eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries through safety action plan development and implementation focused on all users.
The primary goal of the SS4A grant is to promote safety by supporting communities in developing comprehensive safety action plans based on a Safe Systems Approach and implementing projects and strategies that specifically reduce or eliminate transportation-related fatalities and serious injuries
Hernando County is requesting $333,000 to develop an Action Plan to develop low-cost high impact strategies that will improve user safety within the entire County. The County will consider options such as enhanced delineations, Safe Streets Criteria and Road Safety Audits on particular roadways, including other safety enhancements.
Developing the Action Plan will start with the Hernando County Commission adopting a goal for zero roadway fatalities or an ambitious percentage reduction.
The Commission will also establish the Stakeholder Committee with oversight of the Action Pla...
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