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Traffic Safety Board

Chemung County Traffic Safety Board

The three E's of Traffic Safety guide ECTC safety related activities: enforcement, education and engineering. The MPO process encompasses many of the needed engineering and educational components, but enforcement is not part of the normal transportation planning process. The ECTC has partnered with the Chemung County Traffic Safety Board (CCTSB) to progress a wide range of safety related activities. The ECTC Director currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the CCTSB.

The stated functions for the Safety Board include the following:


  1. To promote and encourage street and highway traffic safety.

  2. To formulate countywide highway safety programs and coordination of efforts of interested parties and agencies engaged in traffic safety education.

  3. To cooperate with local officials within the County in the formulation and execution of traffic safety programs and activities.

  4. To promote safety education for drivers, pedestrians and all users of the road and street system.

  5. To study traffic conditions on streets and highways within the County, study and analyze reports of accidents and causes thereof, and to recommend to the appropriate legislative bodies, department or commissions such changes in rules, orders, engineering, regulations and existing law, the Board may deem advisable.

  6. To obtain and assemble accident data, and to analyze, study and consolidate such data for educational and informational purposes.

  7. Raise the public's awareness about the laws and regulations related to bicycle and pedestrian travel.

  8. Promote helmet usage and insure that all young bicyclists and in-line skaters have access to bicycle helmets.

  9. Promote the proper use of child safety seats and provide them to all parents who do not have the financial means to purchase them.

  10. Decrease the rate of automobile, pedestrian and bicycle accidents in Chemung County.

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Driver feedback sign on 2nd St.

Each year the ECTC helps to develop emphasis areas for the CCTSB and compiles grant applications to the Governor's Traffic Safety Committee (GTSC).

GTSC funding has been used to:

  • Develop the GIS Crash Reporting System (see Smart Maps/GIS);
  • Purchase and distribute 1,000's of bicycle helmets and safety strobes;
  • Purchase equipment for bicycle rodeos and pay police overtime to stage them;
  • Develop and distribute the SAFETY TIPS brochure;
  • Pay police overtime related to enforcement of child safety seat and bicycle helmet use laws;
  • Purchase Driver Feedback signs for Clemens Parkway that show motorists how fast they are going.

For more information about the Traffic Safety Board contact the ECTC or the Chemung County Sheriff's Office at (607) 737-2929.