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SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Residents of Sandy Springs are singling out dangerous intersections and roadway segments across the city in an effort to secure federal funds for improvement projects.

The city held two public meetings in mid-November to gather feedback on its Safety Action Plan, aimed at reducing roadway crashes.

Kristen Wescott, Sandy Springs Transportation and Traffic manager, said eliminating fatal and serious injury crashes may be challenging, but experts believe the city can reach the goal.

“Traffic crashes are the leading cause of unintentional injury deaths in the United States,” Wescott said. “We understand there are many factors that contribute to fatal injury crashes, and we need to work together to create safe streets.”

With the passing of the U.S. Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2021, the Safe Streets for All discretionary program laid out $5 billion to prevent roadway deaths and serious injuries nationwide.

The U.S. Department of Transportation says around $2 billion is still available.

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Before Sandy Springs can secure implementation grants for projects, it must complete a Safety Action Plan. The idea is to have the plan come to the City Council before February or March for final approval, setting up the city to be eligible for another round of funding opportunities in the spring.

Last year, the DOT awarded a $360,000 planning and demonstration grant to the city for the Safety Action Plan. The city’s contribution was $90,000.

At an Oct. 1 work session, city staff went over proposed safety targets as a part of the Safety Action Plan.

The goals include adopting the goal of zero fatal and serious injury crashes on city-owned streets by 2050 and working with the Georgia Department of Transportation to reduce major crashes on state routes by 5 percent annually.

To achieve these goals, the city plans to allocate 50 percent of funding to projects that are proven countermeasures and 30 percent to underserved communities, while creating a timeline for improvements along Roswell Road (Ga. 9).

The federal grant allowed the city to contract with an engineering and design firm to finalize the plan, which is required before Sandy Springs can pursue implementation grants for projects.

Nithin Gomez, transportation engineer with consultants Gresham Smith, went over the analysis of crash data in Sandy Springs.

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“When [motorists] do make mistakes, we want to make sure that those mistakes are not resulting in deaths or serious injuries,” Gomez said. “We’ve gotten feedback on several of the problem areas that the residents feel are safety issues.”

The top three concerns are lack of protection for pedestrians and cyclists, inadequate signage and intersection or turning-related issues. Other problems include speeding, ignoring roadway signage, ingress and egress safety and visibility obstructions.

Most crashes in the city occur at signalized intersections along Roswell Road, interchanges along I-285 and Ga. 400 and busy city streets like Mount Vernon Highway, Peachtree Dunwoody and Abernathy roads.

Other focuses of Gresham Smith’s crash analysis were causes and conditions.

Interestingly, fatal and serious-injury crashes jumped 50 percent from the 2013-17 to 2018-22 reporting periods, with the most overrepresented factors involving distracted driving or texting, large trucks and impaired drivers.

More than two-thirds of car crashes in Sandy Springs occur on state routes or interstates. In fact, only 34 percent of the 27,502 crashes occurred on city streets.

Gomez said the crash analysis identified a two-tiered high injury network in Sandy Springs.

“As most people would expect … some of these high injury roadway segments are along Roswell Road or some of our highly traveled arterial facilities,” he said. “We also looked at several intersections … to identify some of the most crash prone.”

Feedback from residents is crucial for ensuring the city’s Safety Action Plan addresses problems within the city’s transportation network.

Residents identified Long Island Drive’s intersections with Roswell Road (Ga. 9), Lake Forrest Drive and Mount Vernon Highway as safety concerns.

While the city has improvements planned at Long Island Drive and Mount Vernon Highway, the input helps identify projects for upcoming federal disbursements.

The three-way intersection, Long Island Drive and Roswell Road, becomes a four-way traffic jam with vehicles turning into the apartment complex across the state route.

Several residents identified the intersection during an online comment period this summer and asked for a stoplight.

The Sandy Springs Public Works Department has already completed some roadway safety projects. Recent examples include the mid-block crossing on Roswell Road at the North Fulton Government Center and widening Mount Vernon Highway.

Gomez said implementation is a multi-faceted approach to roadway safety, revolving around education, enforcement, evaluation, emergency response and engineering.

Implementing the city’s Safety Action Plan will involve most, if not all, city departments.

For education, participants were asked to rank three ideas, safe routes to school, state and national safety campaigns and active engagement with local communities, based on what they think would be most helpful.

In each category of roadway safety implementation, participants leaned toward school zone enforcement, walkability audits and equitable investment across the city.

After running through the specific projects and initiatives for each category, Gomez asked respondents to rank them.

Respondents prioritized engineering investments in roadway safety, followed by enforcement, emergency response, education, evaluation and encouragement.

Gomez also asked residents for ideas to help improve roadway safety.

They said filling sidewalk gaps around the City Springs district and installing mid-block crossings should be a priority where pedestrian activity is already high, especially during city-sponsored events.

Other suggestions included speed limit reductions, enforcement of existing laws, traffic calming at entrances to neighborhoods and speed-conscious design of roadways.

“There’s nothing more important than making sure that people who want to walk have that ability in the city,” Gomez said.