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KITTITAS COUNTY <br />DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS <br />PUBLIC WORKS — BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />STUDY SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />STUDY SESSION DATE: May 8, 2017 <br />TOPIC: Kittitas County Road Safety Plan 2017 <br />ACTION REQUESTED: Provide Comment Prior to Adoption by Resolution <br />LEAD STAFF: Lucas Huck <br />BREIFING SUMMARY: <br />• A Road Safety Plan was adopted for Kittitas County in 2014 by Resolution <br />Number 2014-106 <br />• Public Works received a $54,000 Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) <br />grant to update the County Road Safety Plan <br />• Public Works is nearing completion of the new County Road Safety Plan which <br />prioritizes projects for safety improvements <br />• Public Works seeks adoption of the new plan by May 22, 2017 to allow HSIP <br />grant application submittals for safety project funding prior to the May 31, 2017 <br />deadline <br />BACKGROUND: <br />HSIP is a core Federal -aid program with the purpose to achieve a significant reduction in <br />traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads. Washington State has adopted <br />Target Zero — a goal to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries on Washington's <br />roadways to zero by the year 2030. WSDOT administers HSIP funding to local agencies, <br />adopted safety plans allow local agencies to apply and receive funding for safety <br />improvement projects. <br />DISCUSSION: <br />Many different strategies were used to generate the 2017 Safety Plan. Projects were <br />identified and prioritized by using real data such as accident history, known roadside <br />hazards within clear zone, and substandard geometric designs. Following the data <br />collection and ranking efforts the engineering staff took a different approach prioritizing <br />and grouping proposed improvement projects. Rather than focusing on one road at a <br />time, we are looking at high risk, big benefit, spot improvement projects that occur in <br />various locations county wide, this is reflected in our top two prioritized projects. <br />Additionally there are nearly 200 Bridges County wide with deficient traffic safety rail. <br />This is a high priority for Public Works to address but includes a large amount of safety <br />rail retrofit and associated financial burden. The 2017 Safety Plan identifies deficient <br />bridge rail as our third priority, lumps projects together by maintenance district, and then <br />ranks the phases by the highest benefit/need. <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />PUBLIC WORKS BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />