Tiffany Smith
November 1, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, Webinars
Santa Rosa, California offers a promising model to advance Vision Zero in a (mostly) suburban environment. Like many American cities, Santa Rosa (population 170,000) boasts a challenging mix of road designs and land uses, with some roads originally designed for higher speeds than needed. Santa Rosa’s team analyzed safety issues while developing its Vision Zero […]
November 1, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News
Takeaways from the Vision Zero Cities Conference Many U.S. communities are increasingly eager to prevent traffic violence without unintentionally perpetuating biased traffic enforcement, which is particularly harmful to people of color and people in low-income communities. We explored strategies to re-assess and right-size the role of enforcement in a recent panel at the 2024 Vision […]
October 9, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, Webinars
(Steal this Idea!) Wondering how your State Highway Safety Office (SHSO) can meaningfully support local Vision Zero efforts? Check out North Carolina’s impressive model of leveraging readily available funds (yes, available in every state - more below) to foster collaboration and advancement of the Safe System approach. In a recent webinar, hosted by the Governors […]
September 5, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News
Urge Governor Newsom to Support First-in-Nation Law California lawmakers passed a first-in-the-nation bill (SB-961) to require all cars and trucks manufactured or sold in California to give an audio and visual alert to drivers when they’re going more than 10 mph above the speed limit, starting in 2030. Given that at least one-third of traffic […]
September 3, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, Webinars
It’s important to celebrate the progress that some U.S. communities are making to prioritize health equity in their Vision Zero work. Examples include Oakland, CA implementing the majority of safety investments and improvements in the communities experiencing the greatest burden of safety risks; Philadelphia, PA ending pretext traffic stops for non-safety related offenses because of […]
September 2, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, People Behind the Progress
Leah Fisher, a Built and Natural Environment Analyst, for Clackamas County, OR. Leah has been in this shared public health and transportation and land use role at Clackamas County for just over one year. She works collaboratively with the Department of Transportation (DTD) to incorporate health and equity into the County’s long-range plans and projects. […]
July 3, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News
The next time someone tries to challenge your investment in proven Vision Zero strategies for being too expensive, share these jaw-dropping findings with them: New York City saved $90 million in healthcare costs over the first five years of its Vision Zero changes. This comes from a recent study in the American Journal of Public […]
July 2, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News
You’ve probably heard about the tremendous number of road safety improvements being planned and implemented in more than 1,000 communities across the nation thanks to new federal Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) funding. This includes new bikeways, sidewalks, pedestrian-scale lighting, traffic calming, safe speed strategies, safe routes to schools and parks, projects to […]
June 5, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, Webinars
What does it mean when you hear that “Vision Zero is more than a goal? And more than just a slogan?” It means that advancing Vision Zero is not about working harder or caring about safety more – it is about doing things differently. Vision Zero – and the underlying Safe System approach – is […]
May 6, 2024 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, Webinars
While transportation is most often thought of as how we get from one place to another—it's also about access and opportunity and our sense of place and community. So, efforts to advance Vision Zero is not just about the work that planners and engineers do, it’s an opportunity for everyone who uses the transportation system […]
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