Comprehensive Safety Action Plan

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Our Goal: Reduce serious injuries and traffic deaths on Renton’s streets.

Share your experiences and help shape safer streets in Renton

The City of Renton is creating a Safety Action Plan to make it safer and easier for everyone to get around, whether walking, rolling, biking, taking transit, or driving. This plan will guide long-term decisions and investments that aim to prevent serious injuries and deaths on Renton’s streets.

Your input will help identify potential safety issues, highlight everyday travel experiences, and shape actions that protect all road users across the entire city.

What’s happening?

Renton is developing the Safety Action Plan with support from a federal Safe Streets for All (SS4A) grant. The plan will use data, community insights, and proven strategies to work towards a transportation system where fewer crashes happen.

This work supports establishing a lasting culture of safety in Renton, grounded in awareness, accountability, and care for our neighbors.


Why a Safety Action Plan matters

Serious crashes affect families, neighborhoods, and the entire community. Understanding where and why crashes occur helps the city take proactive steps to improve roadways and prevent future tragedies.

Everyone has a role in keeping our streets safe. Simple actions—slowing down, staying alert, watching for others—can help save lives.

How the Safety Action Plan will improve safety

The plan uses the Safe System Approach which recognizes everyone is vulnerable in traffic and that mistakes happen. Rather than expecting perfect behavior, the city will work toward safer street design, clearer information, and better systems with redundancies that protect people.

In Renton, where major corridors like Rainier Avenue, Sunset Boulevard, and Grady Way serve both local neighborhoods and regional traffic, this approach means designing streets that better manage vehicle speeds, improve visibility at intersections, and provide safer crossings near schools, transit stops, and commercial areas.

By building in layers of safety—such as traffic-calming measures, protected spaces for people walking and biking, and coordinated education and enforcement—the Safety Action Plan aims to make Renton’s streets safer and more predictable. These improvements will help support a growing and diverse community, reduce serious injuries and fatalities, and ensure that Renton’s transportation system works safely for everyone who uses it.

The Safety Action Plan will:

  • Identify where safety improvements are most needed using crash data and community input.
  • Recommend safer street designs to prevent severe crashes.
  • Support safe travel choices through education, outreach, and partnerships with local agencies, community groups, organizations and residents.
  • Strengthen emergency response practices to reduce harm when crashes occur.

How you can get involved

Your voice matters. Renton residents know their streets best and your experiences help guide solutions that reflect real community needs.

Here’s how to stay involved throughout the project:

  • Sign up for project updates to hear about new engagement opportunities.
  • Take the survey to share your travel experiences and safety concerns.
  • Participate in events and conversations happening around the city. These will be listed on the sidebar.

Your feedback will shape how Renton invests in safer streets today and in the years ahead.


Our Goal: Reduce serious injuries and traffic deaths on Renton’s streets.

Share your experiences and help shape safer streets in Renton

The City of Renton is creating a Safety Action Plan to make it safer and easier for everyone to get around, whether walking, rolling, biking, taking transit, or driving. This plan will guide long-term decisions and investments that aim to prevent serious injuries and deaths on Renton’s streets.

Your input will help identify potential safety issues, highlight everyday travel experiences, and shape actions that protect all road users across the entire city.

What’s happening?

Renton is developing the Safety Action Plan with support from a federal Safe Streets for All (SS4A) grant. The plan will use data, community insights, and proven strategies to work towards a transportation system where fewer crashes happen.

This work supports establishing a lasting culture of safety in Renton, grounded in awareness, accountability, and care for our neighbors.


Why a Safety Action Plan matters

Serious crashes affect families, neighborhoods, and the entire community. Understanding where and why crashes occur helps the city take proactive steps to improve roadways and prevent future tragedies.

Everyone has a role in keeping our streets safe. Simple actions—slowing down, staying alert, watching for others—can help save lives.

How the Safety Action Plan will improve safety

The plan uses the Safe System Approach which recognizes everyone is vulnerable in traffic and that mistakes happen. Rather than expecting perfect behavior, the city will work toward safer street design, clearer information, and better systems with redundancies that protect people.

In Renton, where major corridors like Rainier Avenue, Sunset Boulevard, and Grady Way serve both local neighborhoods and regional traffic, this approach means designing streets that better manage vehicle speeds, improve visibility at intersections, and provide safer crossings near schools, transit stops, and commercial areas.

By building in layers of safety—such as traffic-calming measures, protected spaces for people walking and biking, and coordinated education and enforcement—the Safety Action Plan aims to make Renton’s streets safer and more predictable. These improvements will help support a growing and diverse community, reduce serious injuries and fatalities, and ensure that Renton’s transportation system works safely for everyone who uses it.

The Safety Action Plan will:

  • Identify where safety improvements are most needed using crash data and community input.
  • Recommend safer street designs to prevent severe crashes.
  • Support safe travel choices through education, outreach, and partnerships with local agencies, community groups, organizations and residents.
  • Strengthen emergency response practices to reduce harm when crashes occur.

How you can get involved

Your voice matters. Renton residents know their streets best and your experiences help guide solutions that reflect real community needs.

Here’s how to stay involved throughout the project:

  • Sign up for project updates to hear about new engagement opportunities.
  • Take the survey to share your travel experiences and safety concerns.
  • Participate in events and conversations happening around the city. These will be listed on the sidebar.

Your feedback will shape how Renton invests in safer streets today and in the years ahead.


  • Safety on Renton’s Streets: What you told us and what we heard from you!

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    An update on Renton’s Safety Action Plan

    Over the past few months, hundreds of Renton community members shared how it feels to travel on Renton’s streets. They told us where they feel safe, where a sidewalk or crossing is missing, and how they get to work or school. At the same time, the city evaluated and analyzed the past six years of crash data. Thank you to everyone who weighed in and participated. The takeaway is clear: what the community is experiencing and what the data shows point to the same priorities.


    What the community shared

    Over the past several months, we've connected with residents where they live, work, and gather. From Safety Fest and Bike Everywhere Day to tabling at the Senior Center, presentations and listening sessions with the City of Renton's Equity Commission, Consejo Counseling and Referral Services, the North Renton Neighborhood Association, and other community partners.

    Across these conversations and our community survey, a consistent picture has emerged: Renton's residents encounter difficulties getting around on foot and unsafe driver behaviors. 38% of survey respondents said they feel uncomfortable or very uncomfortable getting around the city. The concerns they raised, from vehicle speeds to missing sidewalks and unpredictable intersections, point to clear shared priorities.

    Key safety concerns and priorities from the community

    • Speed is a top concern. 88% of survey respondents said they’ve experienced vehicles traveling at high speeds on Renton streets.
    • People want to feel safe walking. Making it safer to cross the street and more comfortable to walk was the number one improvement noted by 58% of survey respondents.
    • Intersections feel unpredictable. 77% of respondents have experienced drivers running red lights or stop signs.
    • Residents pointed to missing or narrow sidewalks, incomplete bike connections and crossings that don’t feel safe, as safety issues they’d like to see the city address.


    What the data shows

    • Serious crashes are going up.
      • Over the last decade, Renton has seen a steady increase in crashes that cause deaths or life‑changing injuries.
    • Most severe crashes happen in a very small part of the city.
      • About two‑thirds of all fatal or serious‑injury crashes happen on just 4.5% of Renton’s roads and at only 1% of its intersections. This tells us that only a small number of streets are responsible for most of the harm.
    • Angle crashes are the biggest problem.
      • Side‑impact or “T‑bone” crashes make up 43% of all severe crashes — more than any other crash type.
    • Failure to yield is the top driver mistake.
      • One out of every four severe crashes involves someone not yielding the right-of-way.
    • Pedestrian crashes are rare, but especially dangerous.
      • While pedestrian collisions make up only about 3% of all crashes, they account for a full 25% of crashes involving deaths or serious injuries.
    • Many pedestrian crashes happen exactly where people think they’re safest.
      • Half occur at intersections, and 40% involve someone walking in a marked crosswalk.


    What’s next

    Over the coming months, the project team will turn these findings into a set of priority locations and recommended strategies. This plan will help Renton compete for future funding to build safety improvements on our streets.

    Stay involved

    Our community survey will remain open through the summer

    Please help us share the survey with your friends and neighbors!


    An update on Renton’s Safety Action Plan

    Over the past few months, hundreds of Renton community members shared how it feels to travel on Renton’s streets. They told us where they feel safe, where a sidewalk or crossing is missing, and how they get to work or school. At the same time, the city evaluated and analyzed the past six years of crash data. Thank you to everyone who weighed in and participated. The takeaway is clear: what the community is experiencing and what the data shows point to the same priorities.


    What the community shared

    Over the past several months, we've connected with residents where they live, work, and gather. From Safety Fest and Bike Everywhere Day to tabling at the Senior Center, presentations and listening sessions with the City of Renton's Equity Commission, Consejo Counseling and Referral Services, the North Renton Neighborhood Association, and other community partners.

    Across these conversations and our community survey, a consistent picture has emerged: Renton's residents encounter difficulties getting around on foot and unsafe driver behaviors. 38% of survey respondents said they feel uncomfortable or very uncomfortable getting around the city. The concerns they raised, from vehicle speeds to missing sidewalks and unpredictable intersections, point to clear shared priorities.

    Key safety concerns and priorities from the community

    • Speed is a top concern. 88% of survey respondents said they’ve experienced vehicles traveling at high speeds on Renton streets.
    • People want to feel safe walking. Making it safer to cross the street and more comfortable to walk was the number one improvement noted by 58% of survey respondents.
    • Intersections feel unpredictable. 77% of respondents have experienced drivers running red lights or stop signs.
    • Residents pointed to missing or narrow sidewalks, incomplete bike connections and crossings that don’t feel safe, as safety issues they’d like to see the city address.


    What the data shows

    • Serious crashes are going up.
      • Over the last decade, Renton has seen a steady increase in crashes that cause deaths or life‑changing injuries.
    • Most severe crashes happen in a very small part of the city.
      • About two‑thirds of all fatal or serious‑injury crashes happen on just 4.5% of Renton’s roads and at only 1% of its intersections. This tells us that only a small number of streets are responsible for most of the harm.
    • Angle crashes are the biggest problem.
      • Side‑impact or “T‑bone” crashes make up 43% of all severe crashes — more than any other crash type.
    • Failure to yield is the top driver mistake.
      • One out of every four severe crashes involves someone not yielding the right-of-way.
    • Pedestrian crashes are rare, but especially dangerous.
      • While pedestrian collisions make up only about 3% of all crashes, they account for a full 25% of crashes involving deaths or serious injuries.
    • Many pedestrian crashes happen exactly where people think they’re safest.
      • Half occur at intersections, and 40% involve someone walking in a marked crosswalk.


    What’s next

    Over the coming months, the project team will turn these findings into a set of priority locations and recommended strategies. This plan will help Renton compete for future funding to build safety improvements on our streets.

    Stay involved

    Our community survey will remain open through the summer

    Please help us share the survey with your friends and neighbors!


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