Title
Adoption of Resolution Establishing a Vision Zero Policy to Work Towards Zero Traffic Deaths and Severe Injuries. (Transportation 4227287)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
On September 3, 2019, the City Council adopted a Council referral that included a call for a Vision Zero policy declaring safety to be the priority in designing and managing the City of Alameda's (City) roadways. Previously adopted City plans that also call for Vision Zero include the Transportation Choices Plan and the Safety and Noise Element of the General Plan. In addition, the recently awarded consultant contract for development of an Active Transportation Plan included the development of a Vision Zero Plan.
Vision Zero is a traffic safety strategy to reduce and eventually eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries using a data-driven, multi-disciplinary, and safe systems approach that also increases safe, healthy, and equitable mobility for all. In the City, between 2011 and 2018 an average of two people died and 10 suffered severe injuries per year; and over half of the fatalities were older people walking. The recommended Vision Zero Policy (Exhibit 1) aims to reduce those numbers by declaring Vision Zero as the City's guiding principle for transportation planning, design, and maintenance, and directing specific implementation actions. It recognizes that while human error will always occur, a combination of education, enforcement, and engineering measures can reduce collisions and prevent collisions from causing death or severe injuries.
The Transportation Commission, at its September 25, 2019 meeting, unanimously recommended that the City Council adopt the Vision Zero Policy, with one small change: they specified that the annual Vision Zero progress report should be brought to the Transportation Commission each year. The policy now includes this addition.
BACKGROUND
Vision Zero is an international movement that provides a f...
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