“To amend title 23, United States Code, with respect to the highway safety improvement program, and for other purposes.”
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This section expands eligible highway safety improvement projects under the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP; i.e., formula funding to states for projects correcting roadway safety problems and reducing fatalities and serious injuries) by adding (1) connection of two or more segments of existing bicyclist or pedestrian infrastructure and (2) reduction of safety risks to vulnerable road users (i.e., pedestrians, cyclists, and others) through projects or strategies in a state program of projects developed under HSIP planning requirements; allows up to a 100 percent federal share for such projects; revises flexible financing for certain surface transportation block grant projects to permit up to a 100 percent federal share, calculation of non-federal share on a project, multiple-project, or program basis, and crediting of HSIP funds toward the non-federal share if the project includes a Proven Safety Countermeasure for bicyclists or pedestrians (as determined by the Federal Highway Administration), the state strategic highway safety plan emphasizes vulnerable road users, or the project was described in an HSIP program of projects or identified in specified safety plans (e.g., pedestrian safety plans, Vision Zero Action Plans, comprehensive safety action plans); and adds Proven Safety Countermeasures for bicyclists or pedestrians to projects eligible for increased federal shares under 23 U.S.C. §120(c).