Western Australia has embraced Vision Zero. What about the US?
Towards Zero is Western Australia’s road safety strategy for 2008-2020.
Towards Zero aims to improve road safety through four cornerstones:
- Safe Road Use – Improving road user behaviour.
- Safe Roads and Roadsides – Improving road infrastructure improvements.
- Safe Speeds – Ensuring speed limits and travel speeds are appropriate for the safety of the road infrastructure.
- Safe Vehicles – Improving the safety of the vehicles on the road.
A vision can serve to direct decisions and actions. What are we waiting for?
Do it, President Obama, for We the People of this United States of America! #VisionZero
Hi Marianne, there are VisionZero initiatives in the US. Have a look at this one for City of LA: http://visionzero.geohub.lacity.org/
Thanks, Len. I hope to see these kinds of groups with citizen involvement on a nationwide basis — networked together to raise awareness and bring about safer roads through many means.