THE STORY FOR ZERO TRAFFIC DEATHS IN LOS ANGELES
ADOPT NEW POLICY AND LEGISLATION TO STRENGTHEN SAFETY
• Pursue legislation to enhance speed enforcement.
• Develop a state legislative strategy with the Mayor, the Los Angeles City Council, and the Los Angeles – area state delegation to strengthen laws related to moving violations that contribute to fatal and severe injury collisions.
• Pursue legislation to prevent traffic collisions with people walking in crosswalks and at other controlled intersections.
RESPOND TO RELEVANT DATA
• Include Vision Zero principles in the 2017 LAPD Traffic Plan.
• Update the High-Injury Network with 2014 – 16 data. Continue to expand data sharing among the Departments of Transportation, Water and Power, City Planning, Los Angeles Police and Fire, and the Bureau of Public Works.
• Work with local trauma hospitals to include Emergency Medical Services data in our database to identify magnitude and locations of underreporting of collisions that result in deaths or serious injury.
We will measure our progress of the success with the following benchmarks:
2017: 20-percent reduction in traffic deaths( compared with 2016). 2020: 50-percent reduction in traffic deaths( compared with 2016). 2025: Elimination of traffic deaths Citywide.
We all pay the price— financially, emotionally, socially— when someone gets hurt on our streets. Rather than live with this consequence, we instead can invest in making our roads safer so that severe injuries do not happen. Redesigning our streets, enforcing traffic laws, and changing behavior is a multimillion dollar endeavor. We will need sufficient funding to meet our ambitious goals. This plan will inform how the City will budget, allocate, and reallocate resources to achieve Vision Zero.
12 VISION ZERO LA | ACTION PLAN 2017