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Springdale council adopts SS4A/Vision Zero safety action plan after engineering study
Summary
After a TEC Engineering presentation on a data‑driven crash analysis and project priorities, the Springdale City Council unanimously adopted Resolution R18‑2025, formally adopting the SS4A/Vision Zero Safe Streets action plan and directing staff to submit the plan to USDOT and pursue implementation funding.
Springdale city officials unanimously adopted a Safe Streets for All (SS4A) and Vision Zero action plan on Nov. 5 after a presentation by TEC Engineering that summarized a year of crash analysis and recommended countermeasures and candidate projects.
TEC Engineering’s Ed Williams and Andrea Hearth told council the study used a five‑year crash database to focus on fatal and serious‑injury crashes and to prioritize spots and segments for safety countermeasures. “We really are focusing in on those fatal and serious ones,” Williams said, while Hearth described the work as a repeatable, living action plan designed to generate projects and support future grant applications.
The consultants reported roughly 2,300 crashes in the city’s study period, about 24% of which resulted in injury or fatality. They presented high‑priority locations that emerged from a combined frequency and rate analysis, including corridors and intersections on Keer, Princeton/Keer, Springfield Pike, Chesterdale Road and other spots. Proposed countermeasures ranged from restriping and high‑visibility crosswalks to signal improvements and, in selected locations, single‑lane roundabouts.
Council members asked about local priorities and funding. TEC said multiple funding streams can support implementation: SS4A implementation grants (an 80/20 match), the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP, a 90/10 split through state DOT), and other federal and state programs. The consultants emphasized equity and repeatable evaluation: projects with active improvements should be revisited using the same method to measure safety benefits.
After questions about red‑light running, truck impacts and roundabout tradeoffs, Council voted to adopt Resolution R18‑2025, which directs the city administrator to submit the action plan to the U.S. Department of Transportation and authorizes staff to seek implementation funding identified in the plan. The resolution passed by voice vote with seven affirmative votes.
What happens next: city staff will carry the plan forward for grant applications and project programming. Council discussion indicated priorities will be set in later deliberations tied to available funding and intersections of community concern.
