City will match Safe Streets for All $10 million grant, bringing total investment to $12.5 million

Kansas City, Mo – Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas will unveil details of the $10 million Safe Streets for All federal grant to make traffic safety improvements on Prospect Avenue between Linwood Boulevard and Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard at a press conference on Monday, September 9 at 3:15 p.m. The funding is being awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation and is made possible through the Biden-Harris Administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The City of Kansas City will provide a 20% local match of $2.5 million, bringing the project’s total investment to $12.5 million. This effort is part of Kansas City’s larger Reconnecting Kansas City program in partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau.

Kansas City has the fourth highest fatal crash rate in the country and Prospect Avenue is one of the most dangerous corridors in the area, leading in fatal and serious injury crashes in Kansas City.

• Between 2017 and 2021, Prospect Avenue was the site of four fatal crashes, 11 crashes with serious injuries, 216 crashes with minor injuries, and 296 incidents of property damage resulting from crashes.
• Eighteen percent of the fatal and serious injury crashes on Prospect Avenue from 2013-2024 involved a driver aged 15-20 years old.
• Kansas City’s fatal crash rate is 16.9 per 100,000 residents, but on Prospect Avenue it is nearly double at 30.7 per 100,000 residents.