ADOT updating Arizona’s strategic plans to enhance highway safety

ADOT updating Arizona’s strategic plans to enhance highway safety

ADOT updating Arizona’s strategic plans to enhance highway safety

April 15, 2024

Public input sought through May 17

PHOENIX – The Arizona Department of Transportation is updating its Strategic Highway Safety Plan and creating the state’s first Active Transportation Safety Action Plan and is asking for the public’s input on safety concerns and priorities to help develop the plans.

Federal regulations require each state to have a Strategic Highway Safety Plan for reducing fatalities and serious injuries on public roadways and to update that plan every five years. ADOT leads development of this plan in partnership with local, state, federal and other stakeholders so that all highway safety programs can leverage resources and work together effectively to enhance safety.

The Strategic Highway Safety Plan establishes a statewide vision and strategies for improving safety, with a goal of reducing life-altering crashes by 20% by 2030. The plan is based on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe System Approach, which looks at all factors affecting safety and emphasizes a shared responsibility for improving safety on roadways.

Meanwhile, ADOT and its partners are developing Arizona’s first Active Transportation Safety Action Plan to address a rise in pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities in Arizona, the vast majority of which occur on local roadways. This plan will recommend location-specific projects to improve safety for pedestrians and bicyclists where they interact with the state highway system.

Information on both efforts is available at adotsafetyplan.com.

ADOT is holding public meetings to provide an overview of the plans and offer the opportunity for public input on safety concerns and priorities. The meetings will be held:

Phoenix
5:30-7 p.m., Tuesday, April 30
Gateway Community College, Copper Room
108 N. 40th St.

Flagstaff
5:30-7 p.m., Thursday, May 2
Flagstaff Aquaplex
1702 N. Fourth St.

Tucson
5:30-7 p.m., Tuesday, May 7
Ramada by Wyndham
777 W. Cushing St.

Virtual
6 p.m. Thursday, May 9
Registration link: https://bit.ly/ADOTSafetyMeeting

You also can provide input through Friday, May 17, in these ways:

Complete an online survey at: adotsafetyplan.com
Email: [email protected]
Call the bilingual phone line: 855.712.8530
Mail: ADOT SHSP & ATSAP, 1655 W. Jackson St., MD 126F, Phoenix, AZ 85007

For more information, please visit azdot.gov/SafetyPlan.

Public meetings slated for Kingman and Flagstaff to present Electric Vehicle charger plan

Public meetings slated for Kingman and Flagstaff to present Electric Vehicle charger plan

Public meetings slated for Kingman and Flagstaff to present Electric Vehicle charger plan

October 27, 2022

Two public meetings in northern Arizona have been scheduled by the Arizona Department of Transportation to share the details of its plan to develop a network of electric vehicle fast charging stations along interstate highways in Arizona.

The first meeting is in Kingman and will be held on Tuesday, November 1st from 5-7 p.m. at the Mohave County Administration Building, 700 W Beale Street.

In Flagstaff, the meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, November 2nd from 5-7 p.m. at the Flagstaff Aquaplex, 1702 N Fourth Street.

This is an open house format without a formal discussion; a recorded presentation with study details will be shown throughout the meeting and study team members will be on hand to provide information and answer questions.

Under the recently-approved plan funded through the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Program, Arizona’s Interstate highways including I-40, I-17 and I-15 in northern Arizona, will have improved or new charging stations placed in locations along the highway no more than 50 miles apart. That work is slated to begin in 2023.

The goal of the federal NEVI program is to encourage adoption of electric vehicles by improving the accessibility, reliability and equity of clean transportation options.

For more information about the EV plan, additional ways to provide input including an online survey, as well as details on upcoming meetings throughout the state, visit /planning/transportation-studies/arizona-electric-vehicle-program