The Keene Municipal Services, Facilities & Infrastructure Committee on [date not specified in transcript] unanimously recommended that the City Council adopt Resolution R2024‑44, the Keene Roadway Safety Action Plan of 2025. The recommendation followed a presentation by Public Works and consultants from VHB outlining the plan’s goals, data and project recommendations.

Don Lecia, the city’s public works director, introduced the plan and said the consultants had spent about 13 months assembling community input, crash data and technical analysis. Frank, a VHB consultant, described the plan’s Safe System approach and a target that “in 2035 to have 50 percent reduction” in fatalities and serious injuries, working ultimately toward zero by 2045. He cited the plan’s data analysis of 10 years of New Hampshire crash records and said the team identified about 4,500 crashes in Keene over that period.

“Sixty‑eight percent occurred at intersections,” Frank said, and he recommended focusing projects, lighting and education where vulnerable road users interact with motor vehicles. The consultants said the plan contains roughly 190 recommended projects, plus strategies for speed management, improved lighting and nonmotorized user safety, and an implementation section listing federal and state funding sources such as Safe Streets for All, Transportation Alternatives and congestion‑mitigation programs.

Committee members pressed the team on the availability of more granular crash reports tied to specific collision types (for example, right‑turn‑on‑red incidents). Frank said police crash reports contain that level of detail, but those elements were not available in the statewide database without requesting and redacting individual reports; Don Lecia described it as a state privacy and legislative issue that limits data sharing.

After a brief public‑comment period praising the plan, Councilor Jacob moved to recommend the City Council adopt the resolution; the committee seconded the motion and voted unanimously to forward the recommendation. The plan will go to the full City Council for final action.