Pinellas Residents Can Add Safe Streets Ideas To Interactive Map

PINELLAS COUNTY, FL — How can we make streets safer? Where do you see problems? Forward Pinellas wants to know what you think during its Virtual Safe Streets Campaign.

“Safe Streets Pinellas” is the Vision Zero initiative to work toward the goal of zero deaths and serious injuries on Pinellas County streets. Pinellas County residents can view a “Story Map” to see where people have been killed or severely injured and then tell Forward Pinellas what problems they are seeing by dropping pins, placing pictures and drawing on the interactive map.

“Over 4,000 collisions in the past five years resulted in death or serious injury. We all know of near misses or places we avoid because we feel they are unsafe, and people who have experienced crashes and not reported them. So, we know that the data can only tell us so much. We need help from our residents to ensure we’re seeing the full picture,” said Sarah Caper, principal planner at Forward Pinellas.

Here’s how you can get involved:

• Watch the Video
• Explore the “Story Map”
• Comment on the Interactive Safe Streets Map
• Check out the Safe Streets website
• Follow Forward Pinellas on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for information on how to enter contests & giveaways.

Over the next eight weeks, residents can earn prizes with fun trivia questions, art contests, online pledges and more. There will be many opportunities for you to tell us why #SafeStreets matter to you and where you’re seeing transportation issues.

Your feedback will directly help develop and implement an Action Plan to identify areas of concern and provide tools to help make our community safer while traveling.