Regional planning council outlines Safe Streets for All safety action plan and 25‑mile bike network for Greenacres

Kim Delaney and Tom Lanahan of the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council presented a high‑level Safe Streets for All safety action plan to the Greenacres Planning & Zoning Board on June 12, describing crash patterns, priority corridors and a catalog of engineering and transit measures the council recommends the city adopt or pursue.

Delaney, division director for the council, said the plan grew from a five‑year crash analysis that the council used to identify hot spots and corridors for improvement. “The goal of a safety action plan…is to eliminate roadway fatalities and serious injury crashes for all users of the road,” Delaney said, describing the plan’s Vision Zero‑oriented approach and a suite of design, transit and speed‑management tools.

Delaney told the board the regional analysis shows roughly 1,500 crashes a year on Greenacres’ transportation network and about 7,500 crashes over the past five years; some crashes were minor, others serious or fatal. The presentation emphasized vulnerable users — pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders and schoolchildren — and tied safety objectives to the city’s land‑use character:…