Healey-Driscoll Administration Celebrates $25 Million in Federal Funding for Roadway Safety Improvements
LYNN – Today, Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll joined
US Deputy Secretary of Transportation Polly Trottenberg, Congressman Seth
Moulton and Mayor Jared Nicholson of Lynn to celebrate that Massachusetts
communities and two entities have won $25 million to improve roadway safety.
The awards include $9.5 million for Lynn to implement low-cost street design
changes to reduce the risk of crashes.
The awards are part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant
Program, which was established through the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and includes approximately $5
billion in appropriated funds to be awarded over the next five years. Grants were made to 10
municipalities across the state, as well as the Massachusetts Bay
Transportation Agency (MBTA) and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC.)
“Improving roadway safety for drivers, bikers and
pedestrians is critical for improving quality of life across our state. These
grants will help our communities do the work that is most needed to keep
residents and visitors alike safe on their streets,” said Governor Maura
Healey. “I want to thank our partners in the Biden-Harris administration
for granting these awards and congratulate the awardees for their hard work to
secure these funds.”
“As a former Mayor, I know how critical these federal awards
are to supporting our communities and making our residents safer,” said Lieutenant
Governor Kim Driscoll. “We are continuing to compete aggressively to bring
more federal dollars home to advance these important initiatives. Thank you to
our partners at USDOT for these awards and the continued support of
Massachusetts transportation needs.”
“I am pleased to join Massachusetts leaders to celebrate
that a dozen awardees including Lynn are receiving $25 million from the
Biden-Harris Administration to make their streets safer for everyone,” said U.S.
Transportation Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg. “We are proud to have
found a formula that works for a large Federal program that is helping solve a
national safety problem by working at the local level, in partnership with
local leaders and community members.”
“Making our streets safer for all users is a key part of our
mission to deliver an equitable transportation network for the residents of
Massachusetts,” said Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt. “We
are grateful to members of our congressional delegation who helped secure this
Safe Streets and Roads for
All funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation, and we look forward to
supporting municipalities as they advance safety improvements in their
communities.”
"The Safe Streets for All program has been a key
focus of the Federal Funds and Infrastructure Office. We know that SS4A is
invaluable to advancing our goals to make roads safer everyone while
prioritizing community collaboration and have worked diligently to ensure that
Massachusetts communities benefit from this program," said Director
of Federal Funds and Infrastructure Quentin Palfrey. "Thank you to the
Biden-Harris administration, Secretary Buttigieg and all of our federal
partners for these historic investments, and we look forward to seeing their
impact across Massachusetts."
“Lynn sits only ten miles from Boston, yet it has
historically missed out on the same investments in high-quality transportation
and infrastructure afforded to its regional neighbors," said Congressman
Seth Moulton (D-MA-06). "I’m thrilled that Lynn, Peabody, and so many
other deserving communities across Massachusetts will receive this federal
funding -- made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – to enhance road
safety. I'm grateful for the continued partnership of the Governor and
Lieutenant Governor, Senators Markey and Warren, leaders in Lynn and Peabody,
the state delegation, and USDOT.”
“We are incredibly grateful to receive this funding from our
partners in Washington,” said Mayor of Lynn Jared C. Nicholson. “This
grant will allow us to perform critical improvements that will benefit all
drivers, pedestrians and cyclists who use our roads.”
The SS4A program funding awards can be used to improve
roadway safety by supporting communities in developing comprehensive safety
action plans, conducting data analyses, and implementing projects and
strategies that seek to significantly reduce or eliminate
transportation-related fatalities and serious injuries. Additionally, awarded
funding can also be used to support stakeholder engagement to ensure that all
community members have a voice in developing plans, projects, and
strategies.
The Massachusetts recipients of this round of SS4A funding
are the following:
- Lynn:
$9,586,487 - to implement low-cost street design changes throughout 17
miles on high-injury routes to address systemic crash risks.
- Abington:
$301,804 - to conduct supplemental planning and demonstration
activities. The supplemental planning activities will consist of a traffic
calming devices and corridor studies. The demonstration activities will
consist of traffic calming and crossing treatments.
- Boston:
$3,520,577 - to update the City's Vision Zero Plan and conduct
demonstration projects to pilot ways to improve safety on Meridian Street
and Border Street in East Boston, including tightening turning radii at
key intersections, creating separated bicycle lanes, adjusting
striping, adding colored bus and bicycle lanes, and adjusting signal
phasing.
- Fitchburg:
$423,795 - to develop a comprehensive safety action plan; develop an
ADA transition plan; and deploy high-visibility crosswalks, curb
extensions with flex posts, pedestrian scale lighting, and ADA curb ramps
along priority roads lacking infrastructure for vulnerable road users.
- Haverhill:
$743,778 - to implement temporary safety measures and analyze the most
effective solution to meet the goal of zero deaths in the
community.
- New
Bedford: $237,267 - to conduct two demonstration projects in areas
with a high prevalence of pedestrian-involved crashes. The projects will
inform the local Regional Safety Action Plan. The first project will
restrict parking near intersections and utilize temporary materials to
implement curb extensions and other crosswalk visibility enhancements. The
second project will explore the feasibility of converting wide one-way
corridors that encourage high speeds instead to two-way streets.
- Peabody:
$223,360 -to test safety interventions by altering the geometry of
approximately 1.3 miles of Lynnfield Street and of key intersections along
the corridor. A pop-up shared-use path will be added, the road will be
restriped to narrow motor vehicle lanes, marked crosswalks at key
intersections will be installed, and two intersections will be
straightened and their corner radii reduced.
- MBTA:
$2,155,020 - to retrofit 175 MBTA buses with the Mobileye
technology, a collision avoidance system that provides real-time alerts
and is designed specifically for buses with extended blind spots operating
in crowded urban environments. The results of adding the technology, will
inform future updates to the MBTA’s comprehensive safety action
plan.
- MAPC:
$7,509,376 - to update their comprehensive safety action plan;
conduct a series of walkability and bike-ability audits in shortlisted
high-risk locations, along with various activities to engage residents who
live near those locations or pass through them frequently; and implement
quick-build traffic calming projects.
- Quincy:
$126,400 - to conduct demonstration activities to inform the local
MPO's comprehensive action plan.
- Clinton:
$356,204 - to develop a comprehensive safety action plan and conduct
demonstration activities.
- Watertown:
$806,192 - to conduct a Safe System Approach Educational Campaign and
Citywide Speed Limit Study. Demonstration activities will include the
deployment of traffic calming, pedestrian safety, and bicycle safety
treatments near a school for the blind and visually impaired.
The Safe Streets and Roads for All award is the latest
example of how the Healey-Driscoll administration is aggressively competing for
federal funds. At the beginning of the administration, Governor Healey
established the Federal Funds and Infrastructure Office (FFIO) to help lead the
state's whole-of-government strategy for pursuing federal dollars. Since
January of 2023, Massachusetts has successfully brought more than $7 billion
from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act, and CHIPS and
Science Act to further priorities related to transportation, climate
resiliency, job creation, and economic development.
As of Friday, September 6, IMPACT was reporting year to
date: a total of 80,630 crashes in Massachusetts, 225 fatalities from those
crashes, 1,021 crashes involving pedestrians, and 840 crashes involving
bicyclists. The IMPACT portal is a tool to support research, raise awareness
about road safety, and support public safety initiatives. An interactive
dashboard allows the user to look at data by municipality, by region, by mode
of travel, (such as motorcycle), and to also learn about safety analysis
tools.
For data on Massachusetts crashes, visit the MassDOT data
crash portal, IMPACT: https://apps.impact.dot.state.ma.us/cdp/home.
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