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Recommendation to request City of Long Beach to adopt the goal of Vision Zero to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries among all road users, including those walking, bicycling and driving by 2026 through the following recommendations:
• Request analysis of corridors and intersections with high
bicycle, pedestrian, and vehicle injury crash rates to
understand traffic safety issues and to help prioritize
resources based on geographic areas and issues of the
greatest need within 180 days.
• Request City Manager form a Vision Zero Task Force made
up of relevant City departments (LBPD, Public Works,
Health and Human Services, Development Services),
Long Beach Transit, Long Beach Unified School District
and community members with mobility or urban planning
expertise to develop an action plan with clear strategies,
"owners" of each strategy, interim targets, timelines, and
measurable goals.
• Request an (biannual or annual) update be made available to
the City Council and community members on the progress
made toward each interim target and/or goal.
• Request the preparation of a highly graphic and inspiring
Vision Zero document stating the City's intent and providing
and providing context and background for Vision Zero within
180 days.
DISCUSSION
Vision Zero got its start in Sweden in the 1990's after decades of above average fatality and injury rates from crashes between vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians. Since setting the goal of eliminating fatalities and injuries by 2020, Sweden has cut its traffic fatalities in half, despite the increase in vehicles and miles of road constructed in the same amount oftime (The Economist, Feb 2014).
Vision Zero is a data-driven initiative that seeks to unify infrastructure design, public education and enforcement efforts around the goal of zero traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe and healthy mobility for ...
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