USDOT Awards $250 Million in Safe Streets and Roads for All Grants to Cut Traffic Fatalities

WASHINGTON, DC — The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced the award of $250 million in competitive grant funding through the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program, delivering capital to 120 municipal city councils and county transportation agencies across 38 states.

Engineering Safe Streets to Protect Pedestrians and Cyclists

The funding packages provide direct grants to fund the physical redesign of high-crash arterial corridors—including roadway reconfigurations (road diets), pedestrian refuge islands, high-intensity activated crosswalk (HAWK) beacons, protected bicycle lanes, and modern roundabouts. USDOT safety data indicates that speed-calming road diet reconfigurations reduce fatal pedestrian and multi-vehicle crashes by 47% along urban and suburban commercial boulevards.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg affirmed that roadway deaths are not an inevitable cost of modern mobility, emphasizing that engineered safety redesigns save lives in every community.

City Mayors and Road Safety Advocates Praise

Mayors for Road Safety and Families for Safe Streets praised the awards for accelerating municipal Vision Zero roadway transformations.

National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) commended the focus on systemic pedestrian safety redesigns in underserved neighborhoods.

Construction Phase Schedule

Municipal engineering design and complete street roadway construction will begin across all 120 recipient cities in spring 2027.