JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) – The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Thursday that Arkansas would receive more than $32 million in federal grants to improve safety on the state’s roads and streets.

The grants will go directly to nine communities and counties to improve roadway safety and prevent deaths and serious injuries on rural and urban roads, according to a USDOT news release.

Those receiving the grants include:

• City of Batesville: 616,024 to study the safety and efficiency benefits of pedestrian blinker sign deployments with automatic thermal sensors at three locations; GPS/C-V2X emergency vehicle preemption equipment at three high-response locations; traffic signal synchronization on two high accident corridors; C-V2X enabled pedestrian/bicycle/vehicle sensor detection equipment at two traffic signals; and a bike/ped demonstration using quick-build materials.
• Izard County: $120,000 to develop a comprehensive safety action plan.
• City of Searcy: $400,000 This award will be used by City of Searcy to develop a comprehensive safety action plan.
• Columbia County Road Department: $280,000  to develop a comprehensive safety action plan.
• Drew County: $260,000 to develop a comprehensive safety action plan.
• City of Russellville: $463,680 to develop a Safety Action Plan and implement two demonstration activities. The demonstration activities consist of two initiatives: installing artistic painted crosswalks near Crawford Elementary School and implementing a temporary roundabout adjacent to Oakland Heights Elementary, both of which are in historically disadvantaged areas with a higher prevalence of active transportation users.
• Marion County: $120,000 to develop a comprehensive safety action plan.
• City of Little Rock: $25 million for the Little Rock Safe Streets for All project to make improvements to five major corridors along its high-injury network.
• City of Springdale: $5,187,280 for the Dean’s Trail Phase IIIB project to construct a multi-use trail segment.

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NATE OLSON

Nate Olson has covered prep and college sports in Arkansas since 1998. He has managed several newspapers and magazines in The Natural State and has won numerous awards for his work. Nate, who also has six years of public relations experience, has appeared statewide on radio and television throughout his career, and currently co-hosts a high school football postgame radio show. 

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/KARK) – Arkansas lawmakers are cracking down on pharmacy benefit managers for violating medication pricing standards.

According to content partner KARK, a law was passed that fines PBMs up to $5,000 per violation.

State law says no PBM can pay a pharmacy below their cost to buy a drug and below a fair and reasonable rate.

You can read more about the initiative on KARK’s website.

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