Bar Harbor wants to hear from you about how to make Bar Harbor's streets safer!

There were 5 fatal crashes and 17 incapacitating injury crashes in Bar Harbor between 2019 and 2023; even one fatal or incapacitating injury crash is too many.

The Town of Bar Harbor is embarking on a process to develop a Safety Action Plan which will identify
safety risks to people traveling on Bar Harbor’s streets and then formulate a plan to mitigate those risks.
The Plan will be developed over the course of 2024 and 2025, and as we begin the process now, we are
seeking community input on the state of safety in Bar Harbor today.

Please take the Safety Action Plan survey! It will only take a few minutes! https://bit.ly/BHSS4A

In the survey we invite you to provide comments and ideas about traveling around Bar Harbor, whether by walking, driving, or biking! This input will inform the selection of priority safety corridors for the Safety Action Plan and potential projects to improve safety on those corridors. The survey includes an interactive web map where you can point out specific streets where you experience unsafe conditions.

The survey results will be layered with crash data from the Maine Department of Transportation as well as a “systemic analysis” which will look at risky roadway conditions that may contribute to crashes. The traffic count and video data we collected in August, during peak season, will show us how people are traveling today and reveal potential locations of near-miss incidents.

Check the project website for ongoing updates, including in-person events later this month where we want to hear from you: https://www.barharbormaine.gov/666/Safe-Streets-for-All-SS4A.