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Safe Streets Athens

Enhancing Roadway Safety in Athens, TN: A Comprehensive Plan for All
Users Prioritizing Improvements for Vehicles, Bicyclists, and Pedestrians,
Bike Lanes, Crosswalks, and Sidewalks.

What's the Plan?

The Safety Action Plan will meet the requirements of the United States Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program. The goal of the Safety Action Plan is to improve roadway safety by significantly reducing or eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries focused on all road users. This plan focuses on enhancing safety for motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians alike, with particular attention to improving bicycle lanes, crosswalks, and sidewalks.

This website provides more information about Safety Action Plans and provides opportunities to submit valuable input for informing the City of Athen's Safety Action Plan.

Contact Us

(423) 744-2745

CITY OF ATHENS | 815 N. JACKSON STREET 37303

DISCLAIMER

23 United States Code Section 407
Discovery and admission as evidence of certain reports and surveys

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, reports, surveys, schedules, lists, or data compiled or collected for the purpose of identifying, evaluating, or planning the safety enhancement of potential accident sites, hazardous roadway conditions, or railway-highway crossings, pursuant to sections 130, 144, and 148 of this title or for the purpose of developing any highway safety construction improvement project which may be implemented utilizing Federal-aid highway funds shall not be subject to discovery or admitted into evidence in a Federal or State court proceeding or considered for other purposes in any action for damages arising from any occurrence at a location mentioned or addressed in such reports, surveys, schedules, lists, or data.