Transportation Safety Plan

The Destination Safe Comprehensive Safety Action Plan (CSAP) will replace the 2022-2027 Transportation Plan. View the 2022-2027 Transportation Plan.

The U.S. Department of Transportation established the Safe Streets and Roads for All grant program through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The program aims to improve roadway safety by supporting safety action plans, implementation projects for all users and travel modes, and tools that strengthen community approaches to roadway safety.

In fiscal year 2023, MARC received SS4A funding to develop a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan and complete additional planning activities. This funding represents a key step toward improving transportation safety across the Destination Safe region. The goal is to ensure everyone can travel safely, whether walking, using a mobility device, biking, riding transit or driving. MARC and the Destination Safe Coalition are committed to advancing safety through coordinated regional planning.

Each year, more than 40,000 people die on America's roads, and more than 200 of those fatalities are in the Destination Safe region each year. Statistics like these led the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to create a new National Roadway Safety Strategy to reach a goal of zero roadway deaths. Focusing on safety and the elimination of fatal and serious injuries on our roadways is paramount within the mission, principles, and strategies established by the Destination Safe Coalition and CSAP. 

Continued fatalities and serious injuries on our roadways are unacceptable.  

The Destination Safe region, a combination of the MARC and the Pioneer Trails Regional Planning Commission (PTRTC), began developing an update to the region’s Comprehensive Safety Action Plan (CSAP) in late 2024.

The SS4A CSAP will include the following components, as outlined by the USDOT:  

• Leadership commitment and goal setting that includes a goal timeline for eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries.
• Planning structure through a committee, task force or similar group charged with oversight of the Action Plan development, implementation and monitoring.
• Safety analysis of the existing conditions and historical trends provides a baseline level of crashes involving fatalities and serious injuries.
• Engagement and collaboration with the public and relevant stakeholders, including the private sector and community groups.
• Policy and process changes of the current policies, plans, guidelines, and/or standards to identify opportunities to improve them.
• Strategy and project selections that identify a set of projects and strategies that will address the safety problems described in the plan.
• Progress and transparency methods that measure progress over time after the plan is developed.