Safety Solutions

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The Safety Solutions for the Jefferson County TSP consists of projects to reduce crash frequency and severity.

Some of the issues and crash history the draft safety solutions aim to address include:

• Between 2013 and 2017 (most current data at time of analysis), a total of 963 crashes were reported in Jefferson County, outside of the Madras UGB area.

• Roadway departure crashes and rear-end crashes were the most common.

• Among the fatal and severe crashes only, the most common crash types were fixed object and head-on, and the most common contributing factor reported was excessive speed.

• The section of US 97 south of Madras has experienced several fatal or severe crashes in recent years. Between 2013-2017, there were 17 fatal or severe crashes on US 97, south of Madras.

• The Project Advisory Committee identified several intersections with safety concerns due to sight distance constraints, intersection geometry, or other experiences.

The draft solutions in the TSP for US 97 focus on near-term safety improvements that can be implemented to reduce crash risk without closing accesses or intersections, changing the existing traffic control, or modifying the movements permitted at each intersection. The TSP also recommends a focused corridor analysis of 20-year safety improvements on US 97, south of the Madras UGB (Project S-1).

The proposed solutions are shown in the INTERACTIVE MAP provided in the link. Please open the map and provide comments or thoughts related to the project locations. Additional or general pedestrian comments can be submitted by clicking "Safety Plan Map".