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Ames MPO policy committee approves draft safety action plan targeting high-injury corridors
Summary
The Ames Area MPO policy committee approved a draft Comprehensive Safety Action Plan that applies a safe-system approach, identifies a high-priority network based on 2017–2023 crash data, recommends project and policy strategies (including systemic low-cost countermeasures), and opens the plan for public comment with a Sept. 23, 2025 hearing.
The Ames Area Metropolitan Planning Organization policy committee on July 29 voted to release a draft Comprehensive Safety Action Plan (CSAP) and scheduled a Sept. 23, 2025 public hearing for the plan.
John (HDR consultant and the CSAP point of contact) told the committee the plan adopts the Safe System approach and analyzes fatal and serious injury crashes using complete crash data from 2017 through 2023. The analysis produced a High Priority Network that aligns with where fatal and serious injuries are most concentrated while covering a limited amount of roadway mileage under local jurisdiction.
The CSAP pairs that mapped…
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