Safe street planning and demonstration grants with a total dollar value of more than $5.4 million have been awarded for seventeen projects in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. The funding is coming through the federal Department of Transportation's Safe Streets and Roads for All program, which has just announced grant awards totaling $82 million for 235 projects across the country. The grants are designed to help such entities as cities, counties, metropolitan planning organizations, and Tribal governments plan and design safer streets. By so doing, according to a Transportation Department press release, those entities will be better able to "understand the safety challenges in their communities, and then begin to identify solutions to make our streets, roads, and highways safer for all road users." In Arizona, five rural-based projects are receiving a total of around $2.8 million in grant funding for the development of safe street action plans in the cities of Buckeye and Yuma and Yavapai County, along with two similar plans for the Hualapai Indian Tribe and the Navajo Division of Transportation. An urban-based grant of $260,000 is going to Pinal County, also for the development of an action plan. Colorado is in line for just under $1.8 million in grant funding for eight projects, with the cities of Colorado Springs, Durango, Rifle, and Woodland Park, along with the towns of Eagle and Minturn, and the counties of Huerfano and Summit, all getting action plan development support. New Mexico is receiving $680,000 for three action plan development projects, all rural based, belonging to Curry County, Las Cruces, and the Ramah Navajo Chapter. By Garry Boulard
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