The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded the City of Minneapolis a $20 million Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant to address the highest priority unfunded safety projects on streets in Minneapolis.
The federal grant will be used to deliver safety improvements on high priority projects and actions in the City’s 2023-2025 Minneapolis Vision Zero Action Plan, which outlines priorities for the next three years to advance the City’s goal of ending traffic deaths and severe injuries by 2027.
This significant award of federal funds will allow Minneapolis to implement safety improvements on nearly all high-injury streets (streets with the highest percentage of severe and fatal crashes) that don’t already have a plan for safety-focused investment.
Safety improvements along 25 miles of high-injury streets (see map) include: Safety islands; protected bikeways; protected intersections; crosswalk signing and striping; pedestrian flashers; road diets; street lighting; mobile-speed wagons to reinforce speed limits; traffic signal improvements at 526 intersections; and additional safety planning work, such as evaluating the speed limit change and quick-build safety treatments.
Upon full execution of the grant agreement, the City has five years to spend SS4A grant funds. The City will be working to install these improvements over the coming years and anticipates planning work to start immediately following the grant agreement, with the majority of improvements in the street occurring between 2026 and 2029.