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Paulding County staff present comprehensive safety action plan; board asked to consider 5% annual reduction target for fatal and serious crashes
Summary
County staff and consultants presented a federally funded Comprehensive Safety Action Plan developed under the Safe Streets and Roads for All program and discussed a draft resolution to adopt a goal of a 5% annual reduction in fatal and serious-injury crashes; no formal adoption vote is recorded in the transcript.
Paulding County commissioners heard a presentation of the county's Comprehensive Safety Action Plan and discussed a draft resolution that would set a 5% annual reduction target for fatal and serious-injury crashes on county roads.
The plan, developed by VHB with funding from a Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, examines crash data from 2019—2023 and identifies location-specific and systemic strategies to reduce fatal and serious injuries on Paulding's roads. "What it is is it's a targeted strategy to help guide the county and its transportation partners, to help really focus on reducing the overall number of traffic crashes across the county, but really targeting and focusing in on fatal and serious injury crashes," said Reagan Hammond, a planner with VHB, during the presentation.
The consultant team reported that from…
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