Outside Yuma's city limits, the regional planners want to know which roads worry you

Everybody has that one intersection. The one where you hold your breath a little, or the stretch of county road where the speed limit seems more like a suggestion to everyone but you.

If yours is outside the City of Yuma, somebody is finally asking about it.

What's being planned

The Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization, the regional agency that coordinates transportation planning, is developing what it calls a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan, the Yuma Sun reported Oct. 28. The plan is meant to identify and rank safety improvements for everyone on the road: drivers, people walking, people on bikes.

Its stated goal is to eliminate fatal and serious-injury crashes in the region and help create a regional Vision Zero policy. It also has a practical purpose. A finished safety plan helps local governments justify road spending and qualify for federal safety grants.

Who it covers

The plan covers Cocopah tribal lands, San Luis, Somerton, Wellton and unincorporated Yuma County. It leaves out the City of Yuma, because the city already has its own road safety plan. We wrote about that one earlier this month: it counted 104 fatal crashes, and it made clear that writing a plan and paying to fix the roads are separate decisions.

That's worth keeping in mind here, too. A plan is where fixes start, not a promise that they'll happen.

How to weigh in

The first round of public input is open now. On the project website, you can:

• take a survey about which transportation needs should come first, and
• drop pins on an interactive map at specific places that need improvements.

The map is the useful part. Planners have crash data, but they don't drive your road every day. A pin that says "kids cross here to get to the bus stop and there's no crosswalk" is the kind of thing that doesn't show up in a spreadsheet.

The Sun's report didn't list a deadline for this round. YMPO plans a public meeting, in person or online, in December, with details to come.

Sources

• Yuma Sun, YMPO seeks input on a developing safety action plan, Oct. 28, 2026.
• YMPO, Comprehensive Safety Action Plan project page.