The Town of Brookhaven adopted a Vision 0 Action Plan and authorized a federal grant application to fund safety improvements at high‑injury road locations across the town.

Highway Superintendent Dan Losquadro — who led the town’s Vision 0 effort — told the Town Board the $380,000 planning grant the town accepted funded a study of crash data from 2021–2023 and public outreach that identified 26 locations with concentrated serious injuries or fatalities. “We did a three‑year lookback period through DMV records, looking at accident data, injury data,” he said, and added that public input and local media coverage helped prioritize sites.

NV5 project manager Bill Nicole, the town’s consultant on the effort, outlined the program’s five safety elements — safer speeds, safer people, safer roads, safer vehicles and enhanced post‑crash care — and said the town used pandemic‑era and demographic data to factor underserved communities and pedestrian/bicyclist risks into prioritization. Nicole said the first federal grant package would target eight projects at locations including Mastic Road, Union Avenue, North Country Road and Old Town Road, with a total estimated construction cost of about $12.2 million and an 80/20 federal/town funding split.

Nicole framed the proposal as an 80% federal match requiring a local share of roughly $2.4 million if fully funded. He emphasized this is an application authorization: the town is not yet obligated to construct projects unless and until grants are awarded. “This program includes 80% funding from the federal government with a 20% town share,” Nicole said.

Losquadro and the consultants also described non‑construction efforts in the action plan: speed‑feedback trailers and enforcement to reduce speeds, public education on road safety and vehicle features, continued child car‑seat checks, and training for first responders and bystanders on bleeding control and trauma care. The team noted collaboration with Stony Brook University Hospital and REMSCO for post‑crash care training.

Board members welcomed the plan as both a large grant opportunity and a tool to guide smaller, routine safety upgrades during future resurfacing work. One council member said earlier planning and pilot projects helped the town secure state cooperation on road projects by providing engineering designs the state could incorporate at little or no cost to the town.

The board unanimously adopted the Vision 0 Action Plan and authorized submission of the federal Safe Streets and Roads for All grant application. Suprervisor and council members praised the town’s progress and urged rapid application to meet federal deadlines.

If awarded, the projects would be phased and require further design, environmental review as needed, and coordination with state or county agencies for work on non‑town roads.