The City of Tigard Wants to Improve Safety on Our Streets!

The City of Tigard is creating a Safe Streets Action Plan, a planning process that will guide the City’s actions and investments to improve safety on our streets for people walking, biking, taking transit, and driving.

This planning process relies on the input of community members (like you!) as the City develops strategies to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries in an equitable, climate-friendly, and accessible way for everyone.

The City of Tigard is creating a Safe Streets Action Plan through a Federal Safe Streets for All (SS4A) grant from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. In coordination with Metro and regional partners, the City seeks to chart a roadmap for the policies, strategies, and actions that will make Tigard’s streets safer for everyone through a Safe Systems Approach.

The Safe Systems Approach allows city planners to be proactive in making our streets safer. This approach has several key principles:

• Death and serious injuries are unacceptable.
• Humans make mistakes.
• Humans are vulnerable.
• Responsibility is shared.
• Safety is proactive.
• Redundancy is crucial.

By centering these principles, we can make effective safety interventions through multidiscipline activities, such as engineering, communications and messaging, education, enforcement, and evaluation.

For more information on the Safe Systems Approach, visit the US Department of Transportation.

What Will This Transportation Safety Action Plan Include?

A lot! For starters, this Safe Streets Action Plan will include:

• A review of the City’s current transportation safety policies and processes
• An equity analysis, to make sure we are serving our most vulnerable road users
• A series of safety analyses about:
  • The types of crashes on our roads
  • High-severity crashes
  • Streets with significant speeding concerns
• Snapshots of intersections and corridors for recommended improvements
• Methods for tracking progress towards safety

How do Equity and Safety Connect?

Marginalized communities are overrepresented in crash statistics across the nation. The places and people most likely to be impacted by crashes are those that have been historically underinvested. Recommendations in this planning process will go hand-in-hand with equity because safety improvements will focus on communities that face a higher risk of roadway crashes.

The planning process for Tigard’s Safe Streets Action Plan began in June 2024 and will wrap up fall 2025. After that, the City will work on implementing the plan. Project staff will seek public input during various stages throughout the project.