Schatz Helps Secure Nearly $4 Million To Improve Pedestrian And Bicycle Safety

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) today announced Hawai‘i will receive two grants totaling more than $3.8 million in new federal funding to bolster pedestrian and bicycle safety on Oahu. The funding, which Schatz helped secure and comes from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All program, will be used to implement a safety demonstration program at high-injury locations across Oahu.  

“Everyone, including pedestrians and bikers, deserves safe sidewalks and roads and this new funding will help deliver that,” said Senator Schatz, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation.

A portion of the funding will also be used by the Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization to create a Comprehensive Action Plan to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety around schools and undertake additional planning efforts to improve transportation safety within designated School Walk Zones.

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