REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: SCOTT L. MOZIER, PE, Director
Public Works Department
BY: JILL M. GORMLEY, TE, Assistant Director
Public Works Department, Traffic & Engineering Services Division
ANDREINA AGUILAR, Chief Engineering Technician
Public Works Department, Traffic & Engineering Services Division
SUBJECT
Title
RESOLUTION - To Adopt the City of Fresno Vision Zero Action Plan (Citywide)
Body
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends City Council adopt the Resolution of the City of Fresno Vision Zero Action Plan.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City of Fresno Vision Zero Action Plan (Action Plan) establishes a comprehensive, data-driven framework to eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries on city streets by 2050 through a Safe System Approach that prioritizes human life, anticipates human error, and prioritizes safety in transportation decisions. Fresno is facing a traffic safety crisis, with 217 fatalities and 629 severe-injury crashes between 2019 and 2023, with crashes disproportionately impacting vulnerable road users. The Action Plan responds to this crisis with coordinated policies, programs, and strategies that will have the greatest impact particularly on high-collision corridors and priority locations.
Adopting the Action Plan will formalize the City's commitment to work towards eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries, align safety goals, maintain eligibility for state and federal grant funding, and establish clear measures for implementation and progress tracking measures. Staff recommend the City Council adopt the Action Plan to reinforce its commitment to proactive, citywide traffic safety.
BACKGROUND
Vision Zero is a nationally, and internationally, recognized approach that acknowledges traffic deaths and severe injuries are preventable and unacceptable. The United States Department of Transportation (US DOT) has declared traffic safety as a crisis and calls for the need of an "all-of-America response to address the...
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