PHOENIX – The Arizona Department of Transportation has completed a five-year update of its plan for enhancing safety on all public roadways. 

The Strategic Highway Safety Plan for 2025-2029 establishes statewide goals, objectives and “key emphasis areas that allow highway safety programs and partners to align goals and leverage resources for engineering, education, enforcement and emergency medical services,” state transportation officials stated in a release.

The plan also focuses Arizonans’ responsibility to help reduce crashes on local roads and state highways. 

The update project included public meetings and thousands of comments and suggestions, according to the release.

During the process, ADOT also created the state’s first Active Transportation Safety Action Plan, which aims to reduce pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities where those activities are along or intersect with the state highway system. 

Both plans are posted at azdot.gov/SafetyPlan. 

“I’m grateful to the many partners who collaborated on these critical blueprints for reducing life-altering crashes on roadways across Arizona,” ADOT Director Jennifer Toth said.

“Wherever drivers are traveling, everyone has a role to play by making safety their top priority every day. We will take these findings and engage the public further, working with partners on a campaign to inform the community about ways that simple actions can save lives.”

Arizona’s Active Transportation Safety Action Plan stems from a rise in pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities in Arizona, the vast majority of which occur on local roadways, state transportation officials said.