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USA, take a look at Canada’s Road Safety Strategy 2025; A Towards Zero Approach

What might the U.S. learn from Canada’s vision for having the safest roads in the world?

Check out some of their plans: Canadian Road Safety Strategy 2016

Canadian Road Safety Strategy 2025

Vision Zero in North America

“‘In short, don’t educate—or hector or threaten—for safety’s sake: design for it. After all, as [Neil] Arason [author of No Accident] is fond of quoting from a New England Journal of Medicine editorial, safety caps on prescription medication have saved more children’s lives than endless exhortations to their parents.

“When the life-saving potential of drivers and roads are exhausted, turn to what Arason considers the most important leg of the tripod, the vehicles themselves. They have been getting safer for decades for those inside them, at a steady if slow pace. In 1950,Popular Mechanics magazine was already campaigning for the seat belts that would not become mandatory for decades, urging its readers to order the belts from aircraft manufacturers and install them themselves. Helpful measures now would include banning the bull bars so deadly to pedestrians.

“Above all, governments should mandate the safety features already offered as options on higher-end cars, prompting new economies of scale that would force down prices. . .

“’I really think we are at a golden moment, a turning point,’ Arason says. ‘The technology is here, and only getting cheaper. They are doing these things in Europe. If we start with what Canadians can buy into—better regulations, safer roads, getting higher-risk drivers off the road—we can change things by 2035.

“‘I know in my heart we can get there: Zero fatalities.’”  http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-cure-for-killer-cars/

 

Towards Zero–People on the streets of Melbourne are asked how they feel about crash deaths.

Towards Zero–Street Interviews: People on the streets of Melbourne are asked how they feel about deaths on our road. See how their responses change when the issue changes from an anonymous road toll number to the personal.
Transport Accident Commission Victoria.
http://www.tac.vic.gov.au

Please sign & share our Vision Zero Petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/417/742/234/save-lives-not-dollars-urge-dot-to-adopt-vision-zero-policy/