October 16, 2025
The Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is releasing draft 2026 safety targets. The 15-day public comment period for these draft targets starts on October 16, 2025 and will end on October 31, 2025.
2026 Safety & Transit Safety Targets
Safety measures include: the number of fatalities and serious injuries, rate of fatalities & serious injuries per 100 million Vehicle Miles Traveled, and the number of non-motorized fatalities & serious injuries.
Transit Safety measures include: the number of fatalities, injuries & safety events, rates of fatalities, injuries, safety events per 100 thousand Vehicle Revenue Miles, and system reliability (vehicle revenue miles/failures)
These targets will come before the MPO Policy Board for approval on November 20, 2025. Following MPO Policy Board approval targets will be incorporated into Transportation 2050 .
The draft targets can be accessed online at: www.lawrenceks.gov/mpo/t2050.
Written comments may be emailed to mpo@lawrenceks.gov or mailed Lawrence-Douglas County MPO, PO Box 708, Lawrence, KS 66044.