EDMONDS– The City of Edmonds is inviting the public to an online Open House this Wednesday, September 10, covering the details of its Comprehensive Safety Action Plan, which aims to make travel safer for all modes of transportation throughout Edmonds.
In 2024, as part of a joint application with the Puget Sound Regional Council and other cities, the City of Edmonds secured federal funding from the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program to develop a Safety Action Plan – a vital step toward making our streets safer for everyone. All jurisdictions are working independently to complete their plans. Safety action plans are comprehensive plans aimed at reducing and eliminating serious injury and fatal crashes affecting all roadway users.
The SS4A program is a Federal Initiative that provides funding to support regional, local, and tribal efforts aimed at preventing roadway deaths and serious injuries. In this grant program, Safety Action Plans are the basic building block to significantly improve roadway safety. They use data analysis to characterize roadway safety problems and strengthen a community’s approach through projects and strategies that address the most significant safety risks. The SS4A grant program is guided by the Safe System Approach, which involves a paradigm shift to improve safety culture, increase collaboration across all safety stakeholders, and refocus transportation system design and operation on anticipating human mistakes and lessening impact forces to reduce crash severity and save lives. The Plan will demonstrate the City’s support for and general consistency with the Washington State Target Zero initiative.
The completion of the Safety Action Plan will then make the City eligible to apply for future SS4A funding in order to implement those identified projects. A stakeholder committee will be involved in the development of this Plan. It will include the following key components:
• Establishment of vision statement;
• Planning structure;
• Safety analysis;
• Engagement and collaboration;
• Policy and process changes;
• Strategy and project selections; and
• Progress and transparency.
Community input is essential to understand the most challenging locations in Edmonds for getting around safely. Do you feel safe walking, biking, driving, and rolling around Edmonds? What areas, intersections, or streets feel unsafe?
General information about the project is shown in the following link (Edmonds SAP | Alta Planning + Design). The public can also identify location(s) provided in this link to highlight where safety issues have been encountered.
If you live, work, or visit Edmonds, you can complete the on-line public survey here – https://qualtricsxmn22whq9qz.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3Cw7dupntsUbM1w. By sharing your transportation safety concerns, you will help shape Edmonds’ transportation future! The survey and map links will remain open through August 31, 2025.
Comprehensive Safety Action Plan Online Open House meeting information
The online open house is scheduled for Wednesday, September 10, from 6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
The consultant team, members of the stakeholder committee and city staff will be present to answer your questions.
To join this meeting, please register at the link to below receive the Zoom meeting link:
A recording of the meeting will be available on the project website:
Source: City of Edmonds
Author: Lynnwood Times Staff
