What is Vision Zero? | PedNet Coalition

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Vision Zero is a transportation policy goal and data-driven strategy to achieve zero traffic deaths or serious injuries on our roadways. Vision Zero challenges the belief that traffic deaths are just the unavoidable price we pay for modern mobility. These crashes are preventable and ethically unacceptable.

Vision Zero is comprehensive: it considers all road users and values the safety of people walking, biking, using a wheelchair or public transit just as much as people driving. This approach looks at how different types of road users interact, and prioritizes the safety of vulnerable road users, such as people walking, because they are the most likely to be killed or injured if there is a crash.

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What is Vision Zero? | PedNet Coalition

MoBikeFed comment: This is an excellent summary of Vision Zero from the PedNet Coalition, which is working to implement Missouri's first Vision Zero policy in cooperation with the City of Columbia.

Find out more about Vision Zero in Missouri and how to implement Vision Zero in your community at:

http://mobikefed.org/VisionZero