Tag: vision zero

July 31, 2024

Study confirms that a safer street design doesn’t slow emergency vehicles

Making a street safer does not increase emergency response times, a recent study published in the peer-reviewed journal Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives found. It is the first significant study on the topic, according to the journal article. Specifically, the study looked at the actual change in emergency response times on streets in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,…
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tagged: Cara J. Hamann, Joseph E. Cavanaugh, Michelle L. Reyes, Nicole Corcoran, road diets, Stephanie Jansson, vision zero
July 19, 2024

Study: Seattle Vision Zero projects do not harm local businesses

Seattle’s Vision Zero road safety redesign projects have not had a negative impact on local businesses, according to a study by University of Washington researchers published in the peer-reviewed journal Injury Prevention (PDF) earlier this year. “Results suggest that road safety improvement projects such as those in Vision Zero plans are not associated with adverse…
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tagged: andrew l dannenberg, daniel r osterhage, injury prevention, paul a fishman, sdot, vision zero
May 31, 2024

Greenways: 6 people killed in Seattle traffic in a single week as Council considers street safety funding

Traffic deaths in Washington State reached a high in 2023 that the state has not seen in 33 years. That number of deaths in 2023 increased 10% over 2022. King County leads the way with 167 people killed in traffic, more than double the number in 2014. These are all the big numbers on a…
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tagged: deaths, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, vision zero
March 14, 2024

A transportation funding ballot measure that inspires

Over the next 8 years, Seattle will improve safety on every high-injury street in the city. That’s the kind statement I would love to see Seattle make when selling the transportation funding measure it will send to voters later this year. This is a high-turnout Presidential election year, and higher turnout should make it easier…
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tagged: 2024 transportation funding measure, bruce harrell, sdot, vision zero
November 16, 2023

‘Your neighbor was killed in a car crash here.’ 200+ yellow memorial silhouettes installed around Seattle

If you see a yellow silhouette attached to a pole or sign around town, it’s there because a person was killed in a traffic collision near that spot in the nearly nine years since Seattle first approved it’s Vision Zero goal in 2015. The sheer number of these yellow memorials, numbering over 200, provides a…
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tagged: eric mackres, gordon padelford, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, vision zero, world day of remembrance, world day of remembrance 2023
October 2, 2023

Pause the Denny Way repaving project until it is safe and aligns with Seattle’s transportation policy

People are injured and killed in preventable traffic collisions on Denny Way every year, yet Seattle is planning to invest more than $5 million in the street without addressing its dangerous street design. Instead, the project is moving forward without regard for the city’s Vision Zero goals and without addressing needs specifically called for in…
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tagged: complete streets, denny way, pedestrian master plan, ryan packer, sdot, traffic operations division, transit master plan, vision zero