What is Vision Zero?
Vision Zero is a strategy being used around the world to eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries while also increasing safe and equitable transportation options. The City of Longmont adopted Vision Zero in 2023 with the goal of reducing traffic deaths and severe injuries on city roadways to zero by 2040.
Improving traffic safety positively affects everyone who walks, bikes, drives or takes public transportation on our sidewalks, streets, and trails. It’s important that we all work together to make our transportation system as safe as possible.
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How will Longmont achieve Vision Zero?
Longmont will use The Safe System Approach, which aims to eliminate fatal and severe injuries for all road users by:
- Planning for human mistakes
- Keeping impacts on the human body at tolerable levels
- Creating a culture of safety
The 5 elements of the Safe System Approach:
There are 5 Safe System elements which work together to create layers of protection from fatal and sever injury crashes.
- Safer People
- Safer Speeds
- Safer Vehicles
- Safer Roads
- Post-Crash Care