We’re excited to share news that another round of Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) funding is open for submissions with a deadline of June 26, 2025. This popular federal grant program supports local, regional and Tribal initiatives to prevent roadway deaths and serious injuries. This is an important and exciting opportunity to invest in your community’s safety work, no matter what size it is.
A map of awarded SS4A projects. These awards include 640 Planning and Demonstration Grant awards totaling $434,890,481 and 70 Implementation Grant awards totaling $806,600,340, as shown in the map.
According to a statement shared by the U.S. Department of Transportation on March 31, 2025: “More than $982 million is made available by this NOFO, and a similar amount is expected to be available next year in a future funding round.” The NOFO, or Notice of Funding Opportunity, is posted on Grants.gov.
Funding will again be available for the following categories:
- Planning and Demonstration Grants to develop, complete, or supplement a road safety Action Plan, as well as carry out demonstration activities that inform an Action Plan.
- Implementation Grants to implement strategies or projects that are consistent with an existing Action Plan and may also bundle funding requests for supplemental planning and demonstration activities that inform the Action Plan.
A few facts from SS4A awards over the past 3 years (shared by USDOT) include the following:
- Awards will improve roadway safety planning for around 75 percent of the nation’s population.
- About half of communities awarded are new direct Federal funding recipients to USDOT.
- Almost half of communities are in rural areas.
- 44 percent of communities receiving funding have populations under 50,000.
- Over 97 percent of first-year award recipients have grant agreements in place and over 57 percent of second-year award recipients have grant agreements in place.
Visit USDOT’s updated SS4A website for additional information on how to apply, frequently asked questions and resources for filling out applications.
We encourage you to check out resources from the Local Infrastructure Hub, a national program designed to connect cities and towns with the resources and expert advice they need to access federal infrastructure funding.
And read about how SS4A is impacting communities here.