Investing in Safe Streets and Roads for All

April 29, 2025

Explore key resources to strengthen your Safe Streets for All grant application, including a 2025 program overview with funding eligibility, federal policy alignment tips, and important updates for applicants. Access detailed materials developed for training prospective applicants on submitting a high-caliber proposal, a U.S. Department of Transportation webinar series covering the types of grants offered, and a case story showcasing Tampa’s successful traffic safety initiatives. Use these tools to drive meaningful roadway safety improvements for your residents.

Resources

Safe Streets and Roads for All: What’s New in the 2025 Grant Program: This overview details eligible uses for 2025 grant funding, recommendations for aligning municipal applications with federal administration policy priorities and key program updates that successful applicants will reflect in their applications.
2025 Safe Streets for All Bootcamp Resources: This detailed slide deck provides municipal leaders with in-depth information and tools to support leaders in developing a strong grant application tailored to your jurisdiction. Provided is a grant program overview, instructions for application submission, budget guidance and tools to strengthen core components of your grant application.
U.S. Department of Transportation Safe Streets for All Grant Program Webinar Series: The U.S. Department of Transportation hosted a series of webinars on the Safe Streets for All grant program. The series focuses on implementation grants, action plans, and supplemental planning and demonstration activities. Watch these webinars to learn more about the grant program and what type of funding your municipality should apply for.
Quick Builds, Lasting Change: Tampa’s Bold Approach to Traffic Safety: Learn more about how The City of Tampa, Hillsborough County, and their MPO have secured over $50 million in Safe Streets for All (SS4A) grants to implement innovative traffic safety improvements through the Quick Build Program, enabling rapid deployment of low-cost safety measures. In partnership with state and local agencies, Tampa is leading its largest-ever roadway safety investment, already seeing a decline in pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities less than three years into the program.

Other Resources

How to Build a Strong Safe Streets Grant Application Webinar Recording and Summary

This virtual event offered municipal government leaders an opportunity to gain in-depth technical insights for submitting a strong Safe Streets and Roads for All grant application.

Using Data To Strengthen Infrastructure Applications and Grow Investment Webinar Recording and Summary

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is investing billions in communities across the country and while we know many infrastructure projects were sorely overdue, it is important that cities can demonstrate that their projects are both necessary and successful. The way to do this is through timely collection of data throughout the project lifecycle, using it both as a way to make improvements and a way to demonstrate impact.

Strategies for Measuring the Impact of Your Infrastructure Project

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), has funded billions of dollars in roads, bridges, public transit and other critical infrastructure across the country. Taking an outcomes-driven approach to these...