CONTINUED EFFORTS TOWARDS
SAFER STREETS
Sustainable City pLAn
LA Mobility Plan 2035
LADOT’s Strategic Plan
Crossing Guard Program
Plan for a Healthy Los Angeles
Hit & Run Alert System
On April 8, 2015, Mayor Eric
Garcetti released Los Angeles’
first-ever Sustainable City pLAn.
The pLAn is both a roadmap to
achieve “back to basics” shortterm results while setting the
path to strengthen and transform
our City in the decades to come.
The pLAn is made up of short
term (by 2017) and longer term
(by 2025 and 2035) targets in 14
categories that will advance our
environment, economy and equity,
including specific goals relating to
safe, vibrant, well-connected, and
healthy neighborhoods. The pLAn
mentions Vision Zero specifically
as a key sustainability strategy.
As the City’s General Plan
Transportation Element, Mobility
Plan 2035 provides the policy
foundation for achieving a
transportation system that
balances the needs of all road
users. The Plan emphasizes
“safety first” and “streets as
places” for people, including
goals, objectives, and policies
around roadway user vulnerability,
complete streets design, safe
routes to schools, and other key
arenas influencing street safety. It
sets a goal of zero traffic deaths
by 2035. The Mayor’s Citywide
Executive Directive No. 10, Vision
Zero, will accelerate this to zero
deaths in ten years— by 2025.
The Strategic Plan for LADOT,
Great Streets for Los Angeles,
is an unprecedented vision for
creating great streets throughout
Los Angeles. Great Streets for Los
Angeles includes key objectives
and timely milestones to enhance
our City’s safety, livability,
sustainability, and prosperity.
Vision Zero, a key strategy
of the Great Streets Plan, will
bring together city and regional
agencies to advance toward the
goal of zero deaths in ten years.
The Crossing Guard Program
serves school-age children
walking and bicycling to and
from school. LADOT deploys
approximately 400 crossing
guards at Los Angeles Unified
School District schools within
the City of Los Angeles each day
of the school year. The success
of this program is credited
to LADOT’s commitment
to working together with
department employees, school
administrators, teachers and
parents. These crossing guards
do so much more than just
assist with crossing elementary
school age children through
neighborhood streets and busy
roads—they are the “eyes and
ears” of our neighborhoods,
reporting back to LADOT on
safety issues. LADOT Crossing
Guards ensure that students, as
well as parents and caregivers,
are visible in our neighborhoods
and encourage all road users to
follow traffic laws and practice
safe behaviors.
The Plan for a Healthy Los
Angeles is a new Health and
Wellness Element of the
city’s General Plan. The Plan
elevates health as a priority in
the city’s future growth and
development. The Health Atlas,
a data-driven analysis of health
outcomes in Los Angeles,
supports and prioritizes the
goals, objectives, and strategies
outlined in the Plan. The Health
Atlas data highlights the
geographic concentration of
health disparities throughout
Los Angeles, underscoring a
key issue: the neighborhoods
that Angelenos live in
influence their health and
well-being. A Community
Health and Equity Index
combines demographic, socioeconomic, health conditions,
land use, transportation,
food environment, crime, and
pollution burden variables into a
single index to compare health
conditions across Los Angeles.
About 20,000 hit-and-run
collisions occur in the City of Los
Angeles per year, many involving
deaths and severe injuries. The
City of Los Angeles has launched
a hit-and-run alert system that
will notify followers of various
social media platforms about
vehicles and drivers involved
in fatal and other severe highand-run collisions. The system
will alert the public to critical
information that could allow for
the identification and location of
people driving who are involved
in hit-and-run incidents.
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