Safety & Complete Streets

Safety is the cornerstone of transportation planning. Planners and engineers are tasked with making the transportation system as safe as possible.

The Transportation Council led the development of the Capital Region Vision Zero Safety Action Plan with the goal of eliminating fatalities and serious injuries in the Capital Region. The plan used crash data analysis and regional data to prioritize locations for safety improvements. The data analyzed within the plan is available for viewing in the Crash Data Viewer. This Vision Zero priority locations map shows serious crash hot spot Priority Safety Network locations, priority locations for Safe Routes to Transit and Safe Routes to School, and locations with risk factors for severe crashes.

The Vision Zero Safety Action plan was built upon the Local Road Safety Action Plan (2019).

Complete Streets are roads, streets, and systems that are designed to enable safe, convenient, and community context informed travel that is accessible for users of all ages and abilities. Complete Streets design concepts specifically emphasize the importance of designing to encourage slower motorist speeds and human-scale design to facilitate the improved experience of travel for pedestrians, bicyclists, and public transportation users. The Capital District Complete Streets Design Guide is available to fill in gaps where the context of local streets differs from that of state highways.

The Transportation Council has held a number of Educational and Technical Workshops to improve local municipal communication and coordination, training and education.