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Pasco MPO launches Safe Streets Pasco safety action plan to reduce fatalities and severe injuries
Summary
The MPO presented the scope and schedule for Safe Streets Pasco, a countywide transportation safety action plan funded by a Safe Streets and Roads for All grant. The plan will identify a high‑injury network, engineering and non‑engineering countermeasures, and prioritized short‑ and long‑term safety projects.
The Pasco County Metropolitan Planning Organization presented an overview of Safe Streets Pasco, a transportation safety action plan funded through a Safe Streets and Roads for All grant, at the June 25 board meeting. Catherine Tellez, principal planner with Farron Piers, said the plan will analyze crash data, identify a high‑injury network and recommend both quick‑build and longer‑term engineering and non‑engineering countermeasures to reduce fatalities and severe injuries.
"We've developed a preliminary network and we're finding that over half of the fatal and severe injury crashes in the county happen about 2 percent of the roads," Tellez told the board. She described a work program that includes public engagement, a task force, technical reviews, policy benchmarking, and a prioritized action plan to be presented for board adoption in the spring. Tellez said the project schedule accounts for the grant requirement to complete the work by June 30 of the grant year.
The plan will identify a high‑injury network — road segments with the greatest concentration of fatal and severe crashes — and recommend context‑appropriate interventions. Tellez said that interventions will follow a "safe system" approach that includes safer road design, appropriate speeds, safer vehicles and post‑crash care, and that the plan will explicitly consider both engineering solutions and programs such as education and enforcement.
Tellez and MPO staff said the plan will include quick operational fixes where appropriate, such as signal timing changes and trimming sight‑line obstructions, alongside more costly measures like grade separations or underpasses where needed. The project team will present preliminary crash‑trend analysis to a task force in mid‑July and begin policy benchmarking and countermeasure development in the fall. Board members asked about coordination with FDOT and local jurisdictions; staff said the plan will be shared with district FDOT offices and incorporated into longer‑range planning documents when appropriate.
