Sandy Springs unveils Safe Streets action plan with goal of zero fatalities by 2050; short‑term projects prioritized

City transportation staff and consultant Gresham Smith presented a draft Safe Streets and Roads for All safety action plan to the Sandy Springs City Council on March 18, outlining a prioritized program of infrastructure countermeasures and recommending a city goal to reduce fatalities and serious injuries on city‑owned streets to zero by 2050.

Kristen Wescott, who led the city’s Safe Streets work, told the council the plan pairs communications, enforcement and education strategies with physical countermeasures targeted to locations with the highest rates of serious crashes. “Addressing places that lead to serious injury or death on our roads… is going to take a lot of different ways,” Wescott said, and staff coordinated the plan with police, fire, communications, community development and GIS staff.

Nathan Gomez, project manager for Gresham Smith, described the plan’s data‑driven process: staff assembled crash and…