Today (Tuesday), the Iowa Transportation Commission approved $7,930,800 in total funding for 44 separate projects from Iowa’s Traffic Safety Improvement Program. The program was created in 1987 for the purpose of increasing traffic safety on all of Iowa’s roadways. This funding is available for use on city, county, or state roads through an annual application process.

In this area:

Under Site Specific Projects:

• Montgomery County received a requested $500,000 for County Road H-34 edge treatments. The total project cost is estimated at $1.265-million.

Under the Traffic Control Devices category:

• The City of Griswold received $8,000 toward a project cost of $18,075 for pedestrian improvements.
• The City of Council Bluffs received $50,000 toward the $78,930 cost of signal head updates.