HONOLULU (KHON2) -- More than $3 million in federal grant funding is heading to Oahu to help address an island-wide demand for safer streets and crossings.
The initiative is part of the Safe Streets and Roads for All program, helping more than 250 communities fund planning and demonstration projects to prevent deaths and injuries on America's roads.
City and County officials hope to use the funds to help end traffic violence on the island with Oahu's Vision Zero Action Plan.
Funds will be used for "safety demonstration improvements at 59 uncontrolled crosswalks and signalized intersection locations that experience the highest number of crashes."
It will also install scalable safety interventions and help identify safety improvements for future investments in permanent infrastructure upgrades.
Our residents island-wide demand safer streets and safer crossings. Through the initiative of our DTS team who applied for and brought this money home to the City and County of Honolulu, we will implement immediate safety solutions to reduce injurious crashes at our most critical intersections and roadways.
Jon Nouchi, Department of Transportation Services Deputy Director
Additionally, the Department of Transportation Services will "improve pedestrian and micro-mobility safety at high-injury locations" through the Complete Streets program.
Crews will install solar-powered rectangular rapid flashing beacons, pedestrian refuge islands, curb extensions, raised crosswalks and more.