The aim will be to provide federal cash to communities that pledge to promote safety for the multiple users of a roadway, particularly pedestrians and bicyclists.
About $5 million to $6 million for the grants is included in President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law.
The latest U.S. guidance Monday invites cities and localities to sketch out safety plans in their applications for the federal grants, which are to be awarded late this year. Buttigieg was traveling to Germany on Monday for the International Transport Forum to discuss the best approaches to achieve a U.N. goal of halving the world’s traffic deaths by 2030. Around 1.25 million people are killed worldwide on the road each year. The U.S. has been mostly an outlier in seeing traffic deaths climb during the pandemic even with fewer cars on the road, due in part to higher U.S. rates of speeding and not wearing seatbelts.
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