California's Office of Traffic Safety announced it will award a record amount of money in grants this year. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law included a "once-in-a-generation investment in highway safety," and that means significant increases in funding to California from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration's (NHTSA) highway safety grant programs.
$2.2 million for UC Berkeley SafeTREC (Safe Transportation Research and Education Center), which conducts walking and biking safety assessments and training for local jurisdictions. See more about those programs here.
But by far the lion's share of the money ($73.6 million) will go to law enforcement agencies throughout the state for "enforcement and education programs." Many of these grants go towards specific enforcement operations such as impair
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