Louisville High Injury Network To Help Guide Transportation Decisions

Officials in Louisville, Kentucky have a new tool to assess which local roads are in need of safety improvements as part of its Vision Zero effort to elimiate traffic deaths, reports Jacob Munoz for Louisville Public Media. “More than 900 people died in Louisville from surface road crashes from 2016-23, and nearly 4,200 others were suspected to have been seriously injured in collisions.”

“Louisville Metro Government’s Vision Zero initiative, which aims to strengthen traffic safety, released its first High Injury Network map in January. The tool provides a priority list of 53 corridors that officials can consider for safety improvements.” The roads in the network make up 5 percent of non-interstate miles in the city, but experience over half of fatal and serious injury crashes. “Most of the high-risk roads identified on the map are state-owned, meaning the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet would need to sign off on improvement projects,” Munoz adds. The city says the map is already helping guide decisions on infrastructure improvements.