Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee getting $4.4 million federal grant to improve safety on streets
MILWAUKEE — Lots of of cities and counties throughout the U.S. will obtain a share of over $800 million in federal grants to enhance the security of streets and intersections, below funding introduced Wednesday by U.S. Division of Transportation.
That features $4.4 million going to the Metropolis of Milwaukee.
The aggressive grants embody almost $590 million to hold out 37 initiatives making bodily security enhancements to roadways in 22 states. A further almost $213 million is being distributed in smaller increments for a whole bunch of visitors security planning efforts throughout the nation.
The grants are the primary below the Protected Streets and Roads for All program, which finally will present $5 billion over 5 years. This system was a part of the federal infrastructure regulation handed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in 2021.
Grants typically are meant to advertise security for a number of roadway customers, together with motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians.
How will Milwaukee’s cash be spent?
View Milwaukee’s accepted pitch for the grants beneath or learn on-line (web page 42).
“Applicant: Metropolis of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
SS4A Award: $4,400,000
Venture Description
The Metropolis of Milwaukee will deal with security considerations for all street customers, particularly pedestrians and cyclists, in a venture that implements multimodal security enhancements at roughly 26 intersections alongside 5 corridors within the Metropolis’s high-injury community.
Crashes at these intersections resulted from excessive speeds, reckless driving, disregard of visitors management, or different harmful driver behaviors. Dated pedestrian amenities, skewed intersections, intersections with five-plus legs, and lack of accessible pedestrian indicators create high-risk options.
The venture’s security countermeasures embody putting in high-visibility markings, upgrading visitors sign tools, making intersections ADA-compliant, realigning skewed intersections, closing approaches on five-plus-legged intersections, making use of street diets, and putting in accessible pedestrian indicators.”
The place will the cash go?
The checklist of 37 initiatives receiving multimillion-dollar implementation grants will be discovered right here. The initiatives are in these states:
California
Florida
Georgia
Iowa
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Maryland
Michigan
Montana
North Carolina
North Dakota
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Texas
Washington
Wisconsin
The cities of Atlanta and Philadelphia will obtain the biggest grants of $30 million every.
Atlanta’s grant will assist fund enhancements to Pryor Avenue and Central Avenue and join a south aspect path to downtown. The venture contains roadway reconfigurations, medians, bicycle lanes, crosswalk lighting and flashing beacons.
Philadelphia’s grant will fund enhancements alongside North Broad Avenue and Cecil B. Moore Avenue. The venture contains raised medians and pedestrian crossings, intersection modifications and visitors sign enhancements.
What are the opposite grants?
An inventory of native governments receiving planning grants for roadway security measures will be discovered right here.
The 473 planning grants vary from $6,263 for Mekoryuk, Alaska — inhabitants round 200 — to greater than $6.3 million for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
California leads the best way with 43 planning grants totaling greater than $25 million, adopted by 34 planning grants totaling $19 million in Florida and 25 such grants totaling almost $17 million in Texas.
Significance of visitors security
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has mentioned the U.S. faces a “nationwide disaster of fatalities and critical accidents on our roadways.”
Almost 43,000 persons are estimated to have died in car visitors crashes in 2021 — a rise of almost one-third over the previous decade, in keeping with information from Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration.
Knowledge for the whole thing of 2022 isn’t but accessible, however estimates for the primary 9 months point out that deadly visitors crashes seem to have leveled off or declined barely. Nonetheless, they’re considerably increased than ranges that existed earlier than the coronavirus pandemic.
Amongst states, estimated visitors fatalities within the first three-quarters of 2022 rose by the biggest proportion in Hawaii, Delaware, Nebraska, Washington and Alaska. Visitors fatalities have been down by the best fee in South Dakota and Rhode Island.
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