Florida receiving millions to help improve roads, address deadly crashes

To assist save lives and make our streets safer, the federal authorities is awarding communities throughout Florida about $67 million to plan for the longer term and work on infrastructure.

That is a part of $800 million in federal funding that’s been awarded to a whole bunch of communities throughout the nation.

Transportation officers say the tendencies are heading within the unsuitable route, and roads are getting extra harmful.

Aside from final 12 months, the variety of lethal crashes in Florida has been on the rise since 2018, in line with the Florida Division of Freeway Security and Motor Automobiles.

That’s roughly 3,000 a 12 months, and the state has already reported 124 lethal crashes only one month into 2023

In our area, the town of Palatka is getting one of many greater items of the pie, $960,000. Town plans to make use of the cash to develop a complete security motion plan.

Town of Jacksonville is getting considerably much less cash to do the identical work.

Jacksonville’s objective is to haven’t any bicycle or pedestrian deaths by 2030.

In 2022, there have been 289 bicycle crashes in Duval County, and 527 pedestrian crashes, in line with the Florida Division of Freeway Security and Motor Automobiles.

The federal authorities can be awarding $8 million for the town of Gainesville, which incorporates the College of Florida.

One other $262,000 will go to Alachua, $280,000 to Columbia County, and $320,000 to Flagler County.

Georgia can be getting $36 million, which is about half of Florida’s take, however none of these tasks are in our space.