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Approve an amendment to the Solano Countywide Local Road Safety Plan
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The Department of Resource Management recommends that the Board of Supervisors approve an amendment to the Solano Countywide Local Road Safety Plan.
SUMMARY:
Federal regulations and the California Strategic Highway Safety Plan require local agencies have a Local Road Safety Plan in place in order to seek a variety of federal, State, and regional transportation grants. In 2021, the Solano Transportation Authority partnered with Solano County and the seven cities to create a Countywide Local Road Safety Plan (LRSP) to meet this requirement and provide broader funding opportunities to local agencies. The LRSP systemically identifies accidents, analyzes countermeasures, and prioritizes roadway safety improvements on specific roadway segments, highlighting opportunities to address unique safety needs in our local communities. The LRSP was completed and approved in 2022, which allowed Solano County to apply for the federal Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Cycle 11 grants, of which the County received $4.5 million in project awards.
The LRSP requires intermittent review and updates to adapt to changing traffic accident profiles, traffic flow patterns, and funding priorities. The latest accident data from the last few years indicated that a new analysis was necessary to address the sharp increase in the number of severe accidents on County operated roadways. The Department of Resource Management (Department) retained a traffic engineering consultant, TJKM, to analyze five years of accident data and provide updated project lists to address the changes in accident generation. TJKM has prepared amendments to Chapters 3 and 4 of the LRSP (Attachment A) which, upon approval, will replace the previous chapters and provide the Department with an updated...
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