The Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization told the City Commission that its Broward Regional Safety Action Plan (BSAP), funded in part by a $5,000,000 Safe Streets for All grant, identifies priority corridors and project concepts to reduce fatal and serious crashes across the county.

James Cromer, deputy executive director of the Broward MPO, and consultant staff presented concepts for three corridors that run through Fort Lauderdale: Sistrunk Boulevard (20th Avenue to Andrews Avenue), Broward Boulevard (Interstate 95 east to the downtown area) and Northwest 30th Avenue (portion within Fort Lauderdale). Officials said the MPO seeks the commission’s resolution of support to include those corridors in the MPO’s metropolitan transportation plan and position them for federal and state funding for design and construction.

Presenters said the safety plan is data‑driven and focused on places that account for a disproportionate share of serious crashes. The MPO’s maps show a high injury network where 77 percent of fatal and serious injury crashes occur on just 6 percent of road miles. The plan proposes a layered “safe system” approach combining speed management, improved lighting, raised crossings, refuge islands, protected intersections, bus‑stop alignment and signal‑timing changes. On Sistrunk Boulevard the Plan recommends speed management, lighting upgrades and raised intersections; on Broward Boulevard the plan proposes lowering posted speeds approaching downtown and improved pedestrian and transit treatments; on Northwest 30th Avenue it proposes speed management and protected crossings.

Commissioners asked technical questions about timing, permitting and design standards and asked the MPO to return a resolution for formal endorsement. The MPO said it is collecting resolutions of support by November 10 so the projects can be considered for programming in the next funding cycle; county partners have pledged in‑kind match and the MPO indicated some project funding pools already exist for the local road network.

No formal vote was taken at the conference session; commissioners were asked to consider a resolution on the evening agenda.