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Update on Vision Zero Action Plan Development and Crash Data Analysis
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To: Honorable Chair and Members of the Transportation Commission
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City of Alameda ("City") is preparing a Vision Zero Action Plan ("Action Plan") to reduce severe injury and fatal crashes, and help the City achieve its goal of zero severe or fatal crashes. As required by the Vision Zero policy that the City Council ("Council") adopted in late 2019, a multidisciplinary Vision Zero Task Force comprised of community members and staff is helping guide development of the Action Plan. Staff expect to release this plan for public review in July 2021; seek Transportation Commission approval in September; and seek Council adoption by the end of the year.
The Action Plan will be informed by an analysis of 2009-2018 crash data, which delineated Alameda's High Injury Corridors, the behaviors most associated with severe and fatal crashes, the street and location types associated with injury crashes, and more. Even while planning is underway, the City is already undertaking a number of street safety efforts, such as major street safety capital projects, Slow Streets, the High Injury Corridor Daylighting Project, and public communications about Vision Zero.
This informational agenda item is intended to provide a progress update to the Transportation Commission in advance of the Action Plan public engagement period, as well as share the crash data analysis findings. No action is needed.
BACKGROUND
In November 2019, the City Council adopted a Vision Zero policy that set a goal to reduce and eventually eliminate traffic deaths and severe injuries, and made safety the highest priority in transportation efforts. The Transportation Commission reviewed this policy prior to adoption. The policy requires the City to convene a multidisciplinary Vision Zero Task Force to guide the development of an Action Plan. It calls for the Action Plan to be data-driven, implemented equit...
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