Colorado Springs-area leaders reveal Transportation Safety Action Plan on Thursday
Scott Harrison
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A two-year, $280,000 project to improve safety on streets and roads was released to the public on Thursday morning.
The Transportation Safety Action Plan is designed to benefit drivers, motorcyclists, pedestrians, and bicyclists.
Local leaders provided more details in a 10:30 a.m. news conference at the City Administration Building downtown.
To formulate the plan, officials received a grant from the federal Safe Streets for All program, which provides funding to communities to reduce traffic-related deaths and injuries.
The plan has four main objectives: Reduce motorcycle crashes; prioritize infrastructure projects to focus more on safety; take advantage of existing community partnerships; and develop a list of safety projects from existing planning efforts.
“In our opinion, we believe it will improve safety for all users, and will have some impact on your driving,” said Todd Frisbie, the city’s chief traffic engineer.
City officials also want to highlight some of the improvements they’ve already made and are currently making.
Among them: Better lighting and visibility at intersections, using a neighborhood traffic calming program with roundabouts and other measures to reduce speeding, and increasing safety in school zones, at trail crossings, and in left-turn lanes.
Frisbie referred to a 2021 list from the city that ranked the most dangerous intersections.
“I’m happy to report that in mid-2025, we have implemented almost all of those (safety) changes at those intersections that we had identified,” he announced.
The plan’s main objective, Frisbie added, is to reduce traffic deaths and fatalities by 35% over the next decade.
“53% of our crashes occur on 5% of our roadways,” he said. “In the southeast part of Colorado Springs, there is a disproportionate number of those types of roadways.”
Trish Trent-Iaquinta, who represents Drive Smart Colorado and the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments, explained what everyone can do to promote safety.
“Parents teaching their young kids, starting at the elementary school age, and modeling that behavior,” she said. “They see it if mom and dad don’t buckle them up. Don’t have your phone. Really pay attention to pedestrians.”
To view the link to the plan, visit: https://coloradosprings.gov/SafetyActionPlan.
Included on the page is a dashboard with crash statistics used by planners to help formulate the action document.