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Safe Streets & Roads for All

Background

The Safe Streets & Roads for All (SS4A) program aims to identify and implement solutions for the most significant roadway safety concerns in every community. For planning grants, the goal is to develop a comprehensive safety action plan by developing a holistic, well-defined strategy to prevent roadway fatalities and serious injuries. Once a comprehensive safety action plan is in place, SS4A implementation grants can be pursued to fund projects and strategies to address the identified problems.

In 2022, the jurisdictions of the APO approached APO staff and asked if the APO could do one regional SS4A plan rather than each individual jurisdiction doing their own plan.

And so, the goal of this planning effort is to create a comprehensive regional SS4A safety action plan that any of the five cities with over 5,000 population within the APO’s planning area could use to submit SS4A implementation grant applications.

Our expectations are that:

  • The planning process will conform to any and all requirements for completing an SS4A comprehensive safety action plan, including the SS4A Self-Certification Eligibility Worksheet: https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2023-03/SS4A-Self-Certification-Eligibility-Worksheet-FY23.pdf;
  • The action plan will identify top safety issues in each of the five cities;
    • Identification of top safety issues will consider all modes of transportation;
  • The action plan will consider not only discrete, location-specific safety issues, but also systemic safety needs and/or policies;

This planning effort will concentrate on the urban area within the APO’s planning area. County and state roads and highways within the urban area boundaries will be included in the effort, but, in general, areas outside of the urban area will not be analyzed.

Goals

The goals of this effort are to:

  1. Create a regional SS4A comprehensive safety action plan for the Saint Cloud urban area that any of the five cities with over 5,000 population or any county could use to submit SS4A implementation grant applications.
  2. The plan shall include a comprehensive set of projects and strategies to address the safety problems in the action plan, time ranges when projects and strategies will be deployed, and an explanation of the project prioritization criteria.

SS4A Grant Application Narrative

The APO submitted an SS4A grant application in July 2023. You can read our grant application narrative by clicking the blue button below:

Narrative

What’s Happening Now?

The APO completed it’s grant agreement with USDOT to secure the SS4A funds. We have also contracted with consulting-firm Bolton & Menk to complete the study.

How Can I Participate?

We are taking public input about places where people feel transportation safety could be improved.

You can provide your input here:

People are encouraged to provide their experiences and insights through the public survey and an interactive comment map at: