RALEIGH — More than $8 million in federal funding has been awarded to 12 North Carolina municipalities — including Fayetteville — to plan strategies to help reduce traffic deaths, according to the N.C. Department of Transportation.
The 12 grants total $8.15 million and are part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets for All Program.
“Preventing deaths on North Carolina roads is our top priority,” state Transportation Secretary Eric Boyette said in a news release. “We’re grateful anytime our federal partners can assist with funding to help protect our citizens.”
Fayetteville will receive nearly $405,000 for its Safe Streets for All Action Plan, the release said.
Grants also will go to Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, Kannapolis, Raleigh, Boiling Springs, Knightdale, Leland, Clemmons, the Land of Sky Regional Council, and Triangle J Council of Governments, according to the release.
Eleven of the communities will develop plans to reduce traffic fatalities by making road designs safer, educating people about traffic safety and enacting safety-focused policies. Charlotte’s grant will enable it to implement an existing plan, the release said.
The plans will reinforce NC Vision Zero that is underway in some communities to eliminate road deaths and injuries using data-driven strategies.
“Road fatalities are a big problem in North Carolina and nationwide,” Mark Ezzell, director of the N.C. Governor’s Highway Safety Program, said in the news release. “These grants will help communities solve this crisis by giving local community groups the resources they need to make roads safer for all users,
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