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September 23, 2026 • BY Reetu Pethani • IN News, Case Studies, Webinars
We’re encouraged to see more communities evolving their early-stage Vision Zero work to a more in-depth, systemic approach that focuses on upstream road safety solutions and institutionalizing change. This broader Vision Zero approach builds on initial plans, policy language and attention to high-injury hot spots toward a more holistic Safe System approach that identifies and […]
On a recent walk with transportation leaders in Durham, North Carolina, we discussed familiar Vision Zero priorities: slowing speeds, designing safer streets, and preventing traffic deaths and serious injuries. We also talked about how transit, land use, and development support that work. Durham’s approach connects three priorities: zero traffic fatalities, support for zero-car households, and […]
September 1, 2026 • BY Leah Shahum • IN News, Webinars
How do we identify and use the most effective, cost-efficient and equitable tools to make real and lasting road safety progress? This is the high stakes question we delved into during our August 2026 webinar, City Steps: Rightsizing the Role of Traffic Enforcement. We learned how Oakland, California and Minneapolis, Minnesota are actively assessing and, […]
September 1, 2026 • BY Reetu Pethani • IN News
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 […]
August 6, 2026 • BY Reetu Pethani • IN News, Webinars
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 […]
August 6, 2026 • BY Leah Shahum • IN News, People Behind the Progress
I imagine a lot of safe streets advocates around the country feel shaken in the wake of two safe mobility champions recently hit and killed within weeks of each other. In two different cities, each was doing the thing that they had committed their professional lives to – working to improve safe everyday mobility for […]
August 6, 2026 • BY Leah Shahum • IN News, Case Studies
Making Vision Zero commitments and developing robust plans are important, early steps for communities working to advance safe mobility for all. The next step to making meaningful, lasting gains in road safety – an ongoing series of steps – is to institutionalize the Safe System principles that underpin Vision Zero in a community’s everyday work. […]
July 7, 2026 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News, Webinars
In our recent webinar, we were joined by allies at the Policing Project at NYU Law and the ACLU to discuss ways to make traffic enforcement efforts more effective, cost-efficient, and equitable. Check out Vision Zero Network’s new report, Right-Sizing the Role of Traffic Enforcement, to find out more. We discussed important but often overlooked […]
July 7, 2026 • BY Leah Shahum • IN News
Please join us in welcoming Reetu Pethani as Vision Zero Network’s new Program Associate. Reetu has been part of our team as an intern over the past year, helping to grow local engagement with the annual event World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims and supporting research, program coordination and communications, including visual storytelling […]
June 1, 2026 • BY Tiffany Smith • IN News
Across the country, communities continue to step up their road safety work, starting with strong, people-centered plans. We’re excited to welcome three more to our official Vision Zero Network communities map: Jacksonville, Florida; Tigard, Oregon; and Indianapolis, Indiana. The Vision Zero Network Recognition Program uplifts U.S. communities that have made Vision Zero commitments backed by […]
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