Welcome to the Salina Safety Action Plan Website
People should be able to get around Salina safely, whether they are on foot, using a mobility device, riding a bike, on a bus, or driving a car.
Our Comprehensive Safety Action Plan (CSAP) efforts will help to make that happen.
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About the CSAP
The City of Salina began development of the CSAP in the summer of 2024, and we aim to adopt a Safety Action Plan in mid-2025. The Safety Action Plan will include the following components, as outlined by the USDOT:
Leadership commitment and goal setting that includes a goal timeline for eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries.
Planning structure through a committee, task force, or similar group charged with oversight of the Action Plan development, implementation, and monitoring.
Safety analysis of the existing conditions and historical trends provides a baseline level of crashes involving fatalities and serious injuries.
Engagement and collaboration with the public and relevant stakeholders, including the private sector and community groups.
Equity considerations developed using inclusive and representative processes.
Policy and process assessments of the current policies, plans, guidelines, and/or standards to identify opportunities to improve them.
Strategy and project selections that identify a set of projects and strategies that will address the safety problems described in the Action Plan.
Progress and transparency methods that measure progress over time after the Action Plan is developed.
Project Background
Safe Streets for All (SS4A)
Each year, more than 40,000 people die on America's roads. Over 400 of these deaths occur annually in Kansas.. These shocking statistics led the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to create a new National Roadway Safety Strategy to totally eliminate these roadway deaths. In support of that strategy, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) established the SS4A program to fund roadway safety projects across the country. The SS4A program funds regional, local, and Tribal initiatives through grants to prevent roadway deaths and serious injuries. Over $2 billion is still available for future funding rounds.
Vision Zero
The zero deaths vision acknowledges that even one death on our transportation system is unacceptable and focuses on safe mobility for all road users. Vision Zero recognizes that people will sometimes make mistakes, so the road system and related policies should be designed to ensure those inevitable mistakes do not result in severe injuries or fatalities. Vision Zero is a multidisciplinary approach, bringing together diverse and necessary stakeholders to address this complex problem. Vision Zero efforts should follow the Safe System Approach as outlined by USDOT.
Safe System Approach
The US Department of Transportation Safe Systems Approach centers the following objectives, which are incorporated into SS4A projects:
Safer People - Encourage safe, responsible driving and behavior by people who use our roads and create conditions that prioritize their ability to reach their destination unharmed.
Safer Roads - Design roadway environments to mitigate human mistakes and account for injury tolerances, to encourage safer behaviors, and to facilitate safe travel by the most vulnerable users.
Safer Vehicles - Expand the availability of vehicle systems and features that help to prevent crashes and minimize the impact of crashes on both occupants and non-occupants.
Safer Speeds - Promote safer speeds in all roadway environments through a combination of thoughtful, equitable, context-appropriate roadway design, appropriate speed-limit setting, targeted education, outreach campaigns, and enforcement.
Post Crash Care - Enhance the survivability of crashes through expedient access to emergency medical care, while creating a safe working environment for vital first responders and preventing secondary crashes through robust traffic incident management practices.
