The National Award for Innovative Practice in Metropolitan Transportation Planning by the Association of Metropolitan Planning Associations (AMPO) is presented to the Cheyenne MPO for their Transportation Safety Management Plan. The MPO has taken a leadership role as one of the first MPOs in the country to develop a regional transportation safety plan. The mission of this Plan is to eliminate preventable traffic-related deaths and injuries and the goal is to reduce fatal and injury crashes by 10 percent by 2020. To achieve this, the Cheyenne region needs to eliminate an average of 3.5 fatal and injury crashes every year for the next 13 years. A key step in the development of this plan was a Transportation Safety Summit, convened by the MPO earlier this year, where participants reviewed current safety strategies, identified nationally proven strategies for consideration, and developed new safety approaches. As a result of this Plan, the MPO is seeking grants to implement three strategies of the Plan. The first is for a summit on safety belt enforcement, the second is for prioritization of hazardous locations and road safety audits, and the third is for saturation patrols to reduce DUI crashes.

Cheyenne Transportation Safety Management Plan

Local resident Bill Breeden and Assistant
City Engineer Nathan Beauheim discuss
their concerns regarding pedestrian safety
at the Safe Routes to School and Cheyenne Pedestrian Plan Workshop last Tuesday evening. For more information about the
plan visit www.walkcheyenne.org

Last addition 6/18/2009

County Planning Commission
June 11, 2009 at 3:30 p.m. held in the County Commissioner’s Third Floor Meeting Room, 310 W. 19th Street

City Planning Commission
June 15, 2009, 6:00 p.m., will meet at 3:00 p.m., 2101 O’Neil Ave., Council Chambers.

MPO Policy Committee
June 23, 2009 in the Mayor's Conference Room, Room 308, 2101 O'Neil, to approve the TIP/ POP.

Commuting