The City of Belton received a Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop a transportation safety action plan. This grant will develop a clear, data-driven plan to improve roadway safety for all users and reduce serious accidents and fatalities in Belton. To do this, we'll take a close look at Belton's crash data, contributing factors, road and traffic conditions, community input, and existing policies.

The Belton Transportation Safety Action Plan will help identify strategies, policies, and solutions to reduce roadway deaths and serious injuries. This could include changes to street designs, how funding is allocated, education efforts, and improving emergency response systems. The plan will also identify future projects and large safety programs to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries. Once the plan is complete, Belton can apply for grant funding to put the strategies into action, turning the community's ideas and the plan's recommendations into real improvements. That's why community participation is so important - because the strategies in this plan will directly impact your community.

Your Voice Matters!

We want to hear from you to understand your vision for roadway safety in the City of Belton. Here are ways to get involved and receive updates:

1. Sign up for emails on the right-hand side of this page. Future engagement opportunities and project updates will be shared via email throughout this process.
2. Take the survey.
3. Add comments to the map.

There will also be public meetings and pop-up events occurring throughout the process to gather diverse input and perspectives that will shape the plan. Public participation helps inform final recommendations, provide information that may not be available through data, support data findings, and foster greater community support for the final adoption of the plan.

What is the SS4A program?

SS4A is a grant program to improve roadway safety by significantly reducing and eventually eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries. The program provides funding to develop tools that strengthen a community's approach to roadway safety, saves lives, and prevents serious harm. The Safe Systems Approach is used as a framework to meet program goals.

• What is the Safe System Approach?

The Safe System Approach focuses on both human mistakes and human vulnerability and designs a system with many redundancies in place to protect everyone. In support of this approach, safety programs are focused on infrastructure, human behavior, responsible oversight of the vehicle and transportation industry, and emergency response.

Safe System Approach Objectives

• 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 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 Roads: Design roadway environments to mitigate human mistakes and account for injury tolerances, encourage safer behaviors, and facilitate safe travel by the most vulnerable users.
• 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.