WARNING: Your community’s Vision Zero Plan is likely missing an important component: Improving vehicle safety. But it’s not too late to add (or strengthen) it. Many people assume that improving vehicle safety is out of locals’ control, but that’s not the case. Local and state agencies can influence the safety of vehicles on their streets […]
Many agencies are taking encouraging, early steps to adopt the Safe System approach. What comes next, though, is even more important to make meaningful and lasting Vision Zero progress: institutionalizing Safe Systems, so that safety is the default, not the exception, in all plans, policies and practices going forward. This was the emphasis of our […]