The Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is releasing draft targets for the 2020 safety measures. Safety measures include: the number of fatalities and serious injuries, rate of fatalities and serious injuries per 100 million VMT, and the number of non-motorized fatalities & serious injuries.
These annual targets are federally required performance measures under Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act – FAST Act.
The 15-day public comment period for these draft targets starts on October 11, 2019 and will end on October 25, 2019.
These targets will come before the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Policy Board for approval on November 21, 2019. Following MPO Policy Board approval these targets will be incorporated into Transportation 2040 Appendix F and the FFY19 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP).
The draft targets can be accessed online at: www.lawrenceks.org/mpo/t2040.
Written comments may be emailed to amyers@lawrenceks.org or mailed to Ashley Myers at the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Office, PO Box 708, Lawrence, KS 66044-0708.