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Council adopts Weatherford Comprehensive Safety Action Plan funded by SS4A grant
Summary
The council adopted the Comprehensive Safety Action Plan, a six-chapter, SS4A-funded strategy that targets high-injury corridors and lists 13 action items to reduce fatalities and severe injuries on Weatherford streets.
The Weatherford City Council voted to adopt the Weatherford Comprehensive Safety Action Plan, a six-chapter blueprint for reducing serious and fatal crashes across the city.
"It's funded by a grant program that's called Safe Streets and Roads for All, also known as SS4A," Monica Lucia, project manager for Kimley-Horn, told the council as she presented the plan that was developed beginning November 2024. Lucia noted the project combined crash-history analysis with community engagement to generate countermeasures and implementation steps.
The plan analyzes five years of crash data (2019–2023) and identifies a high-injury network comprising about 7% of the roadway network that accounts for roughly 72.2% of the city's fatal crashes. It applies a Safe Systems and Vision Zero approach and recommends corridor-level countermeasures, spot intersection improvements and non-infrastructure actions. Lucia said the plan contains 13 total action items and recommended time frames and partner roles for implementation.
Council staff recommended adoption and the council approved the resolution formally adopting the plan. Councilmembers said they supported funding and grant-seeking to implement prioritized countermeasures and noted that having the plan in hand helps leverage programs such as TxDOT's Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP).
The council's adoption authorizes the city to use the plan to seek implementation funding and coordinate with state partners and local departments to pursue short- and medium-term safety projects.
