This week, surveying will begin for a project to improve safety along a busy Lexington Corridor. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, in partnership with the City of Lexington, is gathering data along Lexington’s number one Priority Safety Corridor – Northeast New Circle Road.
Over the next month, contractors will survey New Circle Road to collect data to develop plans to improve safety for all road users, including pedestrians, cyclists and drivers.
This commercial and residential corridor experienced the highest number of Lexington’s fatal and serious injury crashes from 2015-2021. There were 34 fatal or severe crashes during that period. Nearly half of those were people walking or bicycling, with no access to sidewalks, bike facilities, few ADA accessible transit stops, and limited safe pedestrian crossings.
This project is managed by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and funded by a Safe Streets and Roads for All grant that was awarded to the City of Lexington by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The award will provide $21.7 million for three significant efforts to reduce fatal and serious injury crashes:
- A reconstruction of New Circle Road between Boardwalk and Bryan Station Road to address intersection related crashes and bicycle/pedestrian and transit access and safety.
- A robust public safety campaign to target safe driving behaviors.
- Establishing a vision zero coordinator position within the City to implement the recommendations of the Lexington Area Safety Action Plan.
Preliminary project plans are anticipated to be available for the community to review in the summer of 2025.
