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Lane County updates Transportation Safety Action Plan work, identifies high-priority network and outreach schedule
Summary
Staff updated the board on the Transportation Safety Action Plan (TSAP) and the Fatal Crash Investigation Team—s work to identify high-priority corridors. The county is using federal SS4A funding to update the plan and will return in November for plan adoption; outreach meetings are scheduled across priority corridors.
Lane County staff updated the Board of Commissioners on progress to update the county—s Transportation Safety Action Plan (TSAP) and on work by the Fatal Crash Investigation Team (FCIT). The update described a data-driven process to prioritize corridors for infrastructure investments aimed at reducing fatal and serious-injury crashes.
Project and funding: Becky Taylor (senior transportation planner) said the TSAP update uses the latest five-year official crash data to identify high-priority stretches of roadway and that the county secured federal Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) funding to support plan development and future grant competitiveness for construction funding. The update emphasized a dual approach: behavior change (speeding, impaired driving) and infrastructure changes to reduce lane-departure and intersection crashes.
High-priority network and outreach: staff identified a high-priority network that includes stretches of Marcola Road, Camp Creek Road, Jasper-Lowell Road, Hangar Road and others. Staff described targeted outreach meetings in July for residents along those corridors (Coburg Grange meeting, Elmira Elementary School meeting and an upcoming Creswell meeting) to solicit local input on feasible engineering changes and neighborhood impacts.
Next steps and timeline: staff expect to return to the board in November with an updated TSAP and to ask the board for an explicit policy commitment toward a zero-deaths goal as part of the plan adoption. Commissioners asked for more-current crash-notification figures; staff said the county receives immediate notification of fatal crashes and will include the most recent fatal-crash data in the next report.
Why it matters: the plan update is designed to prioritize projects for future federal grant applications and to focus limited funds on locations with the greatest potential to reduce fatal and serious-injury crashes.
