Kaysinger Safe Streets for All Safety Action Plan

Building safer roads, streets, and communities across the Kaysinger region

Kaysinger Basin Regional Planning Commission is developing a Regional Safe Streets for All (SS4A) Safety Action Plan for Bates, Benton, Cedar, Henry, Hickory, St. Clair, and Vernon counties. This effort will identify roadway safety needs, gather public input, and develop a data-driven action plan to reduce fatal and serious injury crashes throughout the region. The completed plan will help guide future safety investments and strengthen opportunities for additional funding.

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What is the Safe Streets for All Grant?

The Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program is a U.S. Department of Transportation initiative that provides funding to local, regional, and Tribal communities for planning and implementation activities that prevent roadway deaths and serious injuries. Planning and Demonstration Grants support the development of Comprehensive Safety Action Plans and related activities that help communities identify needs, set priorities, and build a pipeline of future projects.

What does a Planning Grant do?

Planning and Demonstration Grants provide funding to develop, complete, or supplement a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan. These plans help communities create a clear, data-driven strategy to improve safety for everyone using the transportation system, including drivers, passengers, pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, and people with disabilities. Planning grants can also support supplemental planning and demonstration activities that help build a pipeline of future projects.

Why this matters for our region?

For Kaysinger, this planning effort is about identifying real safety needs in our rural communities and creating a regional action plan that can guide future investments. An adopted Safety Action Plan can help position communities for future SS4A implementation funding and other transportation safety investments.

Planning Process

The Kaysinger Regional SS4A Safety Action Plan will be developed through a collaborative, data-informed process that includes local governments, stakeholders, and the public. The process includes stakeholder engagement, public input and surveys, identification of high-injury or close-call locations, committee review of data, project scoring, development of a proposed action plan, public comment, and final adoption of the regional plan.

  1. Stakeholder Engagement
    Kaysinger will work with local governments, partner organizations, and regional stakeholders to identify transportation safety issues and priorities.
  2. Public Input and Survey Collection
    Public input is an important part of the planning process. Community members will be invited to share concerns about walking, biking, driving, and other roadway safety issues in their area.
  3. Identify High-Need Safety Locations
    The planning team will review crash trends, high-injury corridors, and close-call concerns to better understand where safety improvements may be needed most.
  4. Review and Score Potential Projects
    The SS4A Committee will review data and score potential projects in each county based on whether they are evidence-based, high-impact, low-cost, and innovative.
  5. Develop the Draft Action Plan
    Kaysinger Basin RPC staff will prepare a proposed Regional SS4A Safety Action Plan based on data analysis, stakeholder input, and public feedback.
  6. Public Review and Final Adoption
    The proposed plan will be presented to the SS4A Committee, TAC, and the public for comment before the final Regional Action Plan is completed and adopted.

The Safe System Approach
The SS4A planning effort is guided by the Safe System Approach, which recognizes that death and serious injuries are unacceptable, people make mistakes, people are vulnerable, responsibility is shared, and safety should be proactive.

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Help Shape the Regional Safety Action Plan

Public input is essential to this process. If you have concerns about walking, biking, or driving in your community, we encourage you to complete the Kaysinger Safe Streets for All survey. Your feedback will help shape the Regional Safety Action Plan and identify transportation safety priorities across the seven-county region. In 2025, Missouri recorded 128 pedestrian deaths, and 39 traffic-related deaths were recorded in the Kaysinger region, underscoring the importance of local input and proactive safety planning.

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Your voice matters. Survey responses will help identify transportation safety issues and guide future safety improvements across the Kaysinger region.

Counties Served

  • Bates County
  • Benton County
  • Cedar County
  • Henry County
  • Hickory County
  • St. Clair County
  • Vernon County

Expected Outcomes

By completing the Regional SS4A Safety Action Plan, Kaysinger expects to produce:

  • a Regional Safety Action Plan
  • a prioritized project list
  • stronger eligibility for future federal funding
  • a roadmap to reduce fatalities and serious injuries

Questions?

Contact Regional Planner, Teresa Heckenlivley, at (660) 885-3393 or via email at [email protected]