Roadway design is also one of the state’s most powerful levers to help end the epidemic of traffic violence, given the state’s near total role in funding, designing, building and maintaining state highways. [...] At this time of disturbingly high traffic fatalities and injuries, increasing congestion, transit operating deficits, ridership that is increasingly skewed towards people with low incomes and people of color, we strongly recommend that the state increase its leadership to make roads work for all users. [...] Americans are far more likely to die in crashes than those living in other wealthy countries, and California has one of the highest rates of deaths and serious injuries from vehicle collisions in the entire country. [...] But absent new funding, the most logical funding program to expand the state’s safety and transit priority investments on the state highway system is the SHOPP program. [...] This source is not only independent of the General Fund, it is also the largest source of transportation funding for state highways in the state, and the amount of funding available has grown significantly in large part due to an infusion of 2 .
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