The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission has taken the lead on coordinating a federal initiative that seeks to reduce injuries and fatalities from vehicular crashes. The Move Safely Blue Ridge project will create a formal plan to guide public investment in road improvements and other mitigations.
“The Safety Action Plan is a part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All Discretionary Program and will center on safety improvements for multi-modal means of transportation,” reads a press release.
To inform the plan’s creation, the TJPDC is seeking input through a survey that has a heavy visual component. People are asked to look at a map of the six localities in the TJPDC and identify areas where there are unsafe intersections, places prone to unsafe driver behaviors, inadequate infrastructure and other concerns.
So far there are only a handful of comments and those left by others are visible.
The written survey asks questions on transportation safety and should take between five to eight minutes to complete. Both components of the survey are open through June 25.
There will also be a series of community meetings with one in each locality. Details are on the website at movesafelyblueridge.com.
According to data on that website, there were 18 pedestrian fatalities in the entire TJPDC region between 2018 and 2022 and 157 people driving or riding in vehicles died. Of the latter, 90 people were not wearing a seatbelt and 75 people died in crashes where speeding was a factor.
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