Regional Comprehensive Safety Action Plan
Project Timeline: 2025-2026
SECOG will receive $140,000 in federal Safe Streets for All grant funding to update its Regional Transportation Safety Action Plan for southeastern Connecticut. Action Plans are comprehensive safety plans aimed at reducing and eliminating serious-injury and fatal crashes affecting all roadway users. The SS4A grant program is guided by the Safe System Approach, which involves a paradigm shift to improve safety culture, increase collaboration across all safety stakeholders, and refocus transportation system design and operation on anticipating human mistakes and lessening impact forces to reduce crash severity and save lives.
SECOG adopted its first Regional Transportation Safety Plan in January 2021 in alignment with the Connecticut Strategic Highway Safety Plan. SECOG’s plan was amended in 2022 to reaffirm the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) Vision Zero Interagency Policy.
How will the Safety Action Plan be developed?
SECOG and its consultants will evaluate the region’s roadway conditions and historic crash data to determine where crashes are most likely to occur due to physical conditions or driver behaviors. SECOG will consult with its member municipalities and residents of the region to further identify areas of concern, determining high-risk corridors, intersections, or locations where bicyclists or pedestrians are particularly vulnerable to injury. SECOG will then propose actions/improvements to improve safety at those locations.
Why is the Safety Action Plan important?
Safety Action Plans document holistic, well-defined strategies to prevent roadway fatalities and serious injuries. SECOG’s Plan will recommend both location-specific improvements (for example, installing backplates to traffic signals to make them easier to see in all light conditions) and systemic approaches (for example, coordinating with partners to educate parents about car seat laws and hosting car seat clinics). The plan will also include a map of recommended projects as well as an implementation timeline. Adopting a Safety Action Plan will make SECOG and its member municipalities eligible for project implementation funds through the Safe Streets for All grant program and other sources.
How can I learn more?
Additional information about this project will be posted as it becomes available. A component of plan development will be the creation of an interactive mapping platform that will show high crash locations and roadway characteristics, such as speed and traffic volume.
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Staff Contact
Kate Rattan
Director, Transportation Planning
[email protected]
(475) 328-1346