PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Sen. Bob Casey introduced a $25 million funding bundle to make Philadelphia’s streets safer. In a press launch on Thursday, Casey wrote the funding is meant to make security enhancements to high-crash corridors in traditionally deprived communities and areas of persistent poverty.

“This can be a large funding for the Metropolis of Philadelphia, particularly communities which have traditionally been overlooked of infrastructure investments,” Casey mentioned in a launch. “By making these roads safer for drivers and pedestrians alike, we’re making neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia safer locations to stay, work and play.”

Every hall is designated as a Imaginative and prescient Zero visitors security precedence, a aim to lower visitors deaths considerably. It is also listed on the Metropolis’s Excessive Harm Community, which identifies essentially the most harmful roads in Philadelphia. 

In 2020, over 150 individuals died because of visitors crashes throughout the whole metropolis.

“This grant will fund the Nice Streets PHL program which reveals that the bipartisan infrastructure regulation is delivering on crucial investments to communities which have lengthy seen disinvestment,” Mayor Jim Kenney mentioned in a launch. “It would additionally assist create good-paying jobs for Philadelphians, particularly these too typically underrepresented in transportation and development.”

The funding will make enhancements alongside seven high-crash corridors: 

• Tioga Avenue from fifth Avenue to 15th Avenue in North Philadelphia 

• 11th Avenue from Grasp Avenue to Diamond Avenue in North Philadelphia

• Limekiln Pike from Medary Avenue to Haines Avenue in Higher North Philadelphia

• Longshore Avenue from Roosevelt Boulevard to Frontenac Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia

• Westminster Avenue from 40th Avenue to 52nd Avenue in West Philadelphia 

• Springfield Avenue from 51st Avenue to 57th Avenue in West Philadelphia

• North 57th Avenue from Upland Approach to Wynnefield Avenue in West Philadelphia.