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Sun Corridor MPO presents 2024 update to Pinal County safety plan after review of 22,000 crashes
Summary
Sun Corridor MPO, ADOT and local partners updated the countywide strategic transportation safety plan, identifying priority hotspots, nearly 100 candidate projects and opportunities to pursue federal Safe Streets and Roads for All and HSIP funding.
Irene Higgs, executive director of the Sun Corridor Metropolitan Planning Organization, and consultants presented a 2024 update to the Pinal County strategic transportation safety plan at the Board of Supervisors’ Jan. 22 special session.
The update covers crash data from January 2018 through December 2022 and identifies more than 22,000 reported crashes in the region over the five-year period, including about 360 deaths. The study lists nearly 100 candidate projects, 38 of them located in areas the report flags as disadvantaged, and highlights federal funding opportunities the county and its cities and towns can pursue.
Why it matters: the plan creates a countywide framework for targeting fatal and serious-injury crashes, aligns local agencies for competitive grant applications and identifies projects that could qualify for large federal implementation awards.
The report’s authors said the numbers represent people, not abstract statistics. "These aren't numbers. These aren't statistics, these are people, people's lives, their families, their friends, their neighbors that are impacted by these crashes that we're going to be talking about," Michael Blankenship of Greenlight Traffic…
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