Safe Streets for All
Teton County, ID, USA
USDOT
Safety Action Plan for Teton County, ID
Services
Community Planning
Public Outreach
About the project
Harmony Design & Engineering partnered with Kittelson & Associates to complete a county-wide Safety Action Plan under the USDOT Safe Streets and Roads for All program. The Safety Action Plan, combines strategies to reduce roadway fatalities and serious injuries, evaluating crash trends, roadway conditions, and future travel demand to identify priority safety risks. Public engagement and the Study Advisory Team (SAT), made up of community stakeholders, helped shape strategies focused on lane departure crashes, intersections, risky driving behaviors, and vulnerable road users. The Plan also highlights the need to address system deficiencies with a countywide transportation strategy to improve safety and accommodate growth. It integrates data-driven technical analysis with extensive community engagement to identify priority safety risks, establish emphasis areas, and guide targeted, coordinated investments to make roadways safer for all users. With a robust implementation plan and focus on funding, including grant readiness, Teton County was positioned to move recommendations from plan to reality.
How we did it
Harmony Design & Engineering acted as the project lead, managing schedule, budget, and coordination among the project team and client. Harmony also acted as community liaison, convening the Study Advisory Team and conducting several meetings with Idaho Transportation Department to ensure that the plan was on track with the Department’s goals and capacity. Harmony designed and implemented a substantial public outreach program, including two online surveys, public open houses, and pop-ups, as well as a dedicated project website. The public outreach campaign resulted in over 400 responses, a significant number in a County of approximately 12,000 residents.
From these data and technical traffic data analysis, Harmony created meaningful conclusions, recommending a priority list of improvements, systemic treatments, and future planning efforts, focused on pragmatism and realistic results. Preliminary engineering for select projects, funding and grant opportunities, responsible parties, as well as prioritization criteria for implementation completed the plan. The resulting document is an attractive and accessible decision making tool, endorsed by the Board of County Commissioners and the Idaho Transportation Department. The Plan was adopted in March 2026.
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