John W. Hickenlooper
John W. Hickenlooper
12/09/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 12/09/2024 23:37
Hickenlooper, Bennet Welcome $28.6 Million to Improve Colorado Road Safety
Funding for Colorado projects comes from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet celebrated $28.6 million in new funding from the Department of Transportation's Safe Street and Roads for All (SS4A) program for 11 Colorado cities and municipalities to improve roadway safety and prevent deaths and serious injuries on rural and urban roads across the state.
"As our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is building new roads and investing in our nation's infrastructure, we're also hard at work to make our local Colorado roads safer for families," said Hickenlooper.
"The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is the most significant investment in America's roads, bridges, and essential infrastructure since President Eisenhower built the interstate highway system," said Bennet. "This funding will help Colorado meet the needs of our growing population, fuel our local economies, and improve the safety of our roadways."
The SS4A program provides grants directly to communities for implementation, planning, and demonstration projects aimed at preventing deaths and serious injuries on the nation's roadways. The program was established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which Hickenlooper helped negotiate and write.
Click HERE for more information on the SS4A program. For details on the FY24 Colorado awards, see below:
| County/Municipality | Project Description | Total Amount |
| Denver Regional Council of Governments | This award will be used by Denver Regional COG for activities that include a multi-lingual public safety dashboard and updating a Vision Zero Action Plan. | $400,000 |
| City and County of Denver | This award will be used by City and County of Denver to conduct temporary activities in the downtown area where 20% of fatal and serious injury crashes occur. Improvements include hardened centerlines, painted/pre-cast concrete pedestrian refuges, bike corral bumpouts for daylighting, re-timing of pedestrian countdown signals to increase walk times at key intersections to/from high ridership transit stops, increased signal visibility, and protected left turns. | $6,755,619 |
| City of Longmont | This award will be used by the City of Longmont to develop a comprehensive safety action plan. | $1,200,000 |
| City of Fort Collins | This award will be used by the City of Fort Collins to conduct two supplemental planning and one demonstration activity. They will conduct an audit of align standards and policies to identify those that do not with City's Action Plan. A study will look at a four- to six-lane, 45 to 55 mph arterial with bikelanes that is a high priority project under the City's Action Plan and develop concepts to mitigate speed related risks and reduce severe crashesinvolving vulnerable road users. A demonstration project will occur on a street near a college, evaluating modifications to reduce the motor vehicle use and create safer and more predictable travel for those who require access to the street. | $1,739,944 |
| Town of Telluride | This award will be used by Town of Telluride to develop a comprehensive safety action plan. | $312,000 |
| County of Gunnison | The County of Gunnison is awarded funds to implement safety improvements along State Highway (SH) 135 to address pressing safety issues. SH 135 is a rural 2-lane highway that serves as the main travel corridor for public bus services throughout Gunnison Valley. Gunnison County's traffic fatality rate is nearly three times higher than the State of Colorado and US rates. The safety problems include high vehicle speeds, turning vehicle conflicts, a lack of roadway departure countermeasures, poor driver lines of sight, and lack of safe crossing infrastructure. The project will boost safety for all roadway users, mitigate traffic congestion, improve the accessibility of bus transit, foster connections to affordable housing and job opportunities, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Improvements include adding center- and edge-line rumble strips, extending guardrails, speed-limit modifications, sidewalk enhancements, installation of roundabouts, a pedestrian underpass, transit bus pullouts, and upgrades to Gunnison Valley's emergency service provider capabilities. | $15,265,600 |
| City of Pueblo | This award will be used by the City of Pueblo to revise their Roadway Classification Design Standards and Policies and conduct an additional dditional safety analysis and expanded data collection and evaluation of a corridor, using integrated data from the in-progress Action Plan. | $959,559 |
| City of Loveland | This award will be used by the City of Loveland to update and consolidate their comprehensive safety action plan, evaluate and enhance safety planning for active transportation, conduct public engagement, deploy a temporary lane reduction on a major road, install at least one small roundabout, and deploy new traffic camera technology that may allow the automated collection of near-miss data. | $396,000 |
| City of Colorado Springs | This award will be used by the City of Colorado Springs to create a City-wide comprehensive Safety Action Plan. | $1,048,800 |
| Chaffee County Government | This award will be used by Chaffee County Government to develop a comprehensive safety action plan. | $440,000 |
| Kersey | This award will be used by Kersey to develop a comprehensive safety action plan. | $120,000 |
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