1.A Reference the National Association of City Transportation Officals Design Guides, MnDOT Bicycle Facility Design Manual, or Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks when designing corridor improvements to provide safe and connected walking and biking facilities for All Ages and Abilities. Prioritize projects that meet or exceed guidance in these or other references.

1.B Continue to evaluate the impacts of regional safety investments. Connect with residents, businesses, and other users to understand if investments are meeting the expected results and needs of the community. If expected results are not being met or the investments result in unintended negative transportation safety outcomes, project sponsors should identify follow up actions needed.

1.C Provide technical assistance on the benefits and impacts of proven and emerging transportation safety strategies. Encourage local agencies to include them in their transportation planning work.

2.A Prioritize projects that improve safety for all modes of travel and have the potential to reduce deaths and serious injuries from crashes. When evaluating projects, consider regional and local safety action plans, high injury streets, and systemic risk factors.

2.B Form a regional traffic safety technical working group. Facilitate regional coordination and reporting on the impacts and results of local safety projects.

2.C Continue to maintain, track, and analyze crash data by transportation mode and severity to identify priorities for investments. Coordinate this data with local, regional, and state planning efforts. Include a safety analysis of crash trends, data, and needs by mode and crash severity in comprehensive plans, including at least the five most recent years of data. Identify high priority transportation corridors and locations to reduce fatalities and serious injuries.

2.D Update state aid standards to allow for more flexible designs that could enhance safety along roadways and manage speed in urban and suburban contexts. Allow state aid roads to use alternative design guidelines.

2.E Continually study and evaluate advancements in safety technology. Identify opportunities to implement safety technology on the regional transportation system. Provide technical guidance on best practices as they arise.

2.F Build agency skills and understanding of transportation safety and the Safe System approach. Continue research, presentations, training, and technical assistance to expand the Safe System approach in planning and project development.

2.G Ensure the region is distributing competitive regional Highway Safety Improvement Program funds for pedestrian and bicyclist safety-focused transportation projects in proportion to the percent of all pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities and serious injuries.

2.H Work with transportation partners to study the benefits and impacts of speed safety enforcement including equitable enforcement strategies. Implement all recommendations and required legislative changes.

2.I Encourage the state to participate in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Section 1906 Grant Program to prohibit racial profiling in traffic stops, acknowledge harms caused by racial profiling in traffic enforcement, and help reduce negative impacts of racial profiling and policing throughout communities.

3.A Support local planning efforts with safety-focused programs for pedestrians and bicyclists like Safe Routes to School and Safe Streets and Roads for All.

3.B Prioritize projects that improve safety, comfort, and ease of use for pedestrians and bicyclists, with a focus on areas that are over-represented in negative safety outcomes. This may include intersection designs that reduce pedestrian crossing exposure or adding bicycle safety elements like protected intersections.

3.C Research local or regional measures which could address increased vehicle weights and sizes that negatively impact safety outcomes and maintenance needs.

3.D Develop and implement a Safe Routes to Transit program to ensure safe and year-round access to transit for people walking, rolling, and biking.

4.A Plan and design transit corridors and transit facilities to reduce conflicts with bicycles and pedestrians. Provide adequate space for transit users and other modes of travel that move through and access the facilities (bike facilities, pedestrian space, and crossings). Balance corridor safety and transit improvements.

4.B Coordinate with public safety agencies to provide a collaborative approach to safety and security. Expand resources for additional security services, other staffing to support police, and health and human services. Work with communities to identify other ways to meet safety needs. Ensure staff and operator safety during transit operations.

4.C Design for maintenance and operations needs at new or reconstructed transit facilities. Evaluate new investments to ensure misuse of facilities does not affect positive customer experiences. When designing transit facilities, review designs and material choices for ease of maintenance, durability, and reducing vandalism.

4.D Fund transit safety and security activities that are not tied to ridership growth.

5.A Promote investment in active transportation modes with a focus on disadvantaged and suburban and rural communities.

5.B Prioritize and implement transportation projects that reduce the six common air pollutants to meet the Environmental Protection Agency’s primary air quality standards. When the region does not meet these standards, prioritize investments that help reach the standards for any of the six common air pollutants.

5.C Emphasize travel demand management strategies on unhealthy air quality days to reduce emissions from single-occupant vehicle travel that contribute to poor air quality and health impacts.

5.D Preserve or install additional natural features like shade trees and native plants and grasses at, along, or near pedestrian, bicycle, and transit facilities.

5.E Prioritize and invest in noise walls, natural buffers like berms, and other noise mitigation measures.

5.F Prioritize projects that include green assets and shade cover in the transportation right-of-way with an emphasis in environmental justice areas. Use extreme heat analysis tools to evaluate needs.

5.G Convene and support internal and external groups to evaluate and address health and safety issues related to transportation facilities, with an emphasis on communities overburdened by transportation infrastructure.

5.H Work with partners to find assistance for those displaced from transportation rights-of-way. Work to create more housing options to ensure appropriate housing is available.

5.I Provide multimodal connections to essential destinations, including cultural and social community gathering places and grocery stores.

5.J Coordinate with regional partners in health, transportation, and human services to provide and administer public services and information at regional transportation centers, such as (but not limited to) public health supplies and information, and connections to public services.

5.K Define, inventory, and map essential destinations to aid local and regional partners to connect communities to these destinations and improve public health outcomes. Expand the accessibility analysis to include essential destinations when defined and inventoried.

6.A Include elements in transportation projects that support community connections and identity. Prioritize projects that elevate the role in defining transportation within a community’s context and the project’s ability to enhance or highlight that identity.

6.B Identify opportunities and funding to incorporate public art or other livability efforts in or on transportation facilities, including transit stations and stops, transit vehicles, highway over/underpasses, noise walls, and other large structures.

6.C Activate underutilized transportation infrastructure and transportation rights-of-way in urban service areas as defined by Community Designations. Consider amenities, lighting, alternative uses, and community collaboration opportunities.

6.D Consider and incorporate local neighborhood context, identities, and goals into project design and transportation infrastructure. Consider local partnerships with community groups to enhance context sensitive design and foster community identity.