Based on public records reviewed Oct. 13, 2026<\/p>\n
The last public meeting on the greater Havre area’s road safety plan is this Thursday, Oct. 15, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Havre City Hall. The City of Havre, Hill County and the Montana Department of Transportation are writing the plan under the federal Safe Streets and Roads for All program, with the goal of cutting serious crashes for drivers, people walking and bicycling, and everyone else on the road.<\/p>\n
Public Works Director Trevor Mork announced the date at the Havre City Council’s regular meeting, Hi-Line Today reported Oct. 9. The project’s website lists the meeting as Public Meeting #4, a presentation of the draft Safety Action Plan.<\/p>\n
A safety action plan sets priorities. It is not a list of funded construction projects. Some recommendations may need grants and engineering work before anything gets built, and others could move on a different timeline.<\/p>\n
The plan is paid for with a federal Safe Streets and Roads for All grant. That money is for the plan. It shouldn’t be read as a construction budget for whatever the plan ends up recommending.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s meeting comes near the end of the process. The project team set up a booth at the Great Northern Fair in July, where people could look over proposed safety improvements and help rank them, and it ran an online Havre Safety Survey. After Thursday’s meeting the draft will be posted online for public comment. The final plan is expected to go to the Havre City Council for adoption in early December. Implementation dates have not been published.<\/p>\n
City, county and state staff have the crash data and the engineering methods. They know the budget limits. Residents know other things. They know which intersections are hard to cross, where winter driving gets bad and which routes people use when they don’t have a car. Near misses don’t show up in crash statistics, and a meeting like this is one of the few places to put them on the record.<\/p>\n
One trip can cross city, county and state roads without the driver noticing who is responsible for which piece. Ask the partners who owns each priority corridor.<\/p>\n
The plan covers the greater Havre area. People in Box Elder and on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation who drive into Havre for work, school, shopping or appointments use those roads too. Whether any routes Box Elder commuters rely on fall inside the project boundaries has not been confirmed. A labeled project-area map would settle it.<\/p>\n
Specific comments carry more weight than general complaints. Name the intersection, the time of day and what goes wrong there.<\/p>\n
Questions worth asking Thursday:<\/p>\n
The meeting is in the City Council Chambers at Havre City Hall, 520 4th Street. People who can’t attend can join on Zoom after registering through the project website. It opens with a short presentation of the draft plan, then questions and comments. Call the City of Havre before you head over with any questions about accommodations, especially if you’re driving in from out of town.<\/p>\n
After the meeting, watch for the partners to publish what they heard and how it changed the plan.<\/p>\n
When is the meeting?<\/strong> Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Havre City Hall, according to Hi-Line Today.<\/p>\n Does the plan mean construction starts soon?<\/strong> No. Planning, adoption, funding, engineering and construction are separate stages.<\/p>\n Can Box Elder residents weigh in?<\/strong> Anyone who uses the greater Havre road network may have useful information. Check the project area and comment options with the organizers.<\/p>\n KHEW News based this story on the public records and reporting listed above. No one was interviewed for it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Havre, Hill County and MDT hold the last public meeting on their road safety action plan Thursday, Oct. 15, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Havre City Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[20,17,19,21,18],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-news","tag-havre-city-hall","tag-havre-safe-streets","tag-hill-county-road-safety-plan","tag-montana-department-of-transportation","tag-safe-streets-and-roads-for-all"],"khew_art":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khew.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khew.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khew.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khew.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khew.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/khew.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/khew.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khew.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khew.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khew.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khew.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Sources<\/h2>\n
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