The bipartisan infrastructure law BIL section 24112 created the safe streets and roads for all SS4A grant program to support local initiatives to prevent deaths and serious injuries on roads and…

The Federal Highway Administration awarded $1.85 million to the Rapides Area Planning Commission under the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program (CFDA 20.939) on August 3, 2025, for implementation through August 2, 2029. The funding supports the Vulnerable Road Users Safety Improvement Program in Alexandria, Louisiana, enabling the awardee to develop or enhance a comprehensive safety action plan and conduct supplemental planning and demonstration activities. Deliverables under this award include road safety audits, data collection and analysis, stakeholder engagement initiatives, feasibility studies, quick-build strategy implementations, engineering studies, and pilot programs addressing behavioral, operational, and technology-based safety interventions for all road users including pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, and motorists.

As a regional planning organization, the Rapides Area Planning Commission will leverage these federal funds to advance transportation safety across multiple parishes in Louisiana. The award reflects the SS4A program's emphasis on competitive, locally-driven initiatives to prevent roadway fatalities and serious injuries through strategic planning and demonstration projects. The four-year project timeline provides a structured framework for completing comprehensive safety assessments and implementing targeted infrastructure and behavioral strategies within the Alexandria area.

The bipartisan infrastructure law BIL section 24112 created the safe streets and roads for all SS4A grant program to support local initiatives to prevent deaths and serious injuries on roads and streets. Planning and demonstration grants provide federal funds to eligible applicants to develop or complete a comprehensive safety action plan. These grants may also fund supplemental planning and demonstration activities to support or enhance an existing action plan. Supplemental planning activities could include but are not limited to developing additional complementary safety plans road safety audits conducting data collection and analysis updating existing action plans and stakeholder engagement and collaboration. Demonstration activities could include but are not limited to feasibility studies using quick build strategies various mutcd engineering studies and pilot programs for behavioral and operational activities, as well as for new technologies. The project contained herein provides SS4A grant funds to support or enhance an action plan and or conduct supplemental planning and or demonstration activities in support of an action plan. IT is presented to the rapides area planning commission, LA for the project vulnerable road users safety improvement program UEI LN41C7XLL7Q1