Today the city of San Diego adopted Vision Zero (video), a zero tolerance plan to reduce the number of traffic related fatalities to zero by 2025. Like New York, San Francisco and Seattle before it, San Diego is taking steps to reduce traffic fatalities caused by collisions between motorists, cyclists and pedestrians to zero in 10 years.
The zero tolerance measure was requested as a budget measure in a memo to the mayor and Council members in January. In a state of the city address Mayor Kevin Faulconer said "We are going to fix our streets".
Steps to meet zero tolerance include road improvements costing $15 million to get started. A challenge to $120 million more in bond financing was defeated preserving the additional financing.UPDATE: Latest story here from City of San Diego.
These graphs show the number of fatalities from auto collisions for 10 years 2002 - 2012 for PCH (San Diego City Hwy 5) for San Diego compared to Laguna Beach.
The zero tolerance measure was requested as a budget measure in a memo to the mayor and Council members in January. In a state of the city address Mayor Kevin Faulconer said "We are going to fix our streets".
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| Credit: Circulate San Diego |
These graphs show the number of fatalities from auto collisions for 10 years 2002 - 2012 for PCH (San Diego City Hwy 5) for San Diego compared to Laguna Beach.
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| San Diego 153 Fatalities |
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| Laguna 15 Fatalities |
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