Local Roadway Safety Plan

The City of Newark was awarded $45,000 in State funds to assist in developing its first Local Roadway Safety Plan. The Local Roadway Safety Plan provides a framework for organizing stakeholders to identify, analyze, and prioritize roadway safety improvements within the City of Newark.  

The plan includes an analysis of historic vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian collision data to systemically identify collision trends and safety issues, and recommends effective, nationally proven countermeasures that can be applied to address these trends.  The plan also identifies priority safety improvement corridors based on collision density and community verification and provides a framework for the prioritization and implementation of infrastructure safety improvements, with the goal of reducing the number and severity of traffic collisions in Newark.

Newark’s Local Roadway Safety Plan supports and contributes to the success of the State of California Strategic Highway Safety Plan, which is a statewide data-driven traffic safety plan that coordinates the efforts of a wide range of organizations to reduce roadway fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads.  The Local Roadway Safety Plan is also necessary for Newark to be competitive for transportation funding programs such as the California Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission One Bay Area Grant Program (OBAG). 

If you have any questions, please contact Jayson Imai at (510) 578-4671 or jayson.imai@newark.org.