Vision Zero for Portland • What is Vision Zero? • Progress on Vision Zero • Vision Zero Action Plan
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Vision Zero in Sweden
Vision Zero is the elimination of traffic deaths and serious injuries from our roadways.
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Vision Zero in Sweden Swedish VZ Philosophy
• The death or serious injury of even one person is one too many. • Human error is inevitable, thus street design must be forgiving. • Responsibility for fatal and serious crashes rests not just on users, but on the system design.
• In roadway design, either lower speeds or separate users.
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Vision Zero in Sweden Adopted: in 1997 Goal: Zero deaths & serious injuries by 2020 Roadway fatalities per 100,000 people City
Fatalities per 100,000
Stockholm
1.1
New York (lowest in U.S.)
3.9
San Francisco
4.0
Seattle
5.2
Portland
6.2
United States
11.6
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Why Vision Zero for Portland? Portland Traffic Fatality Trend by Mode Bicycle
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Traffic Fatalities: Annual Average in 5-year Increments 50
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Why Vision Zero for Portland? •
Where? Arterials are a pressing problem
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Why? DUII & Speeding are top factors
Metro-area data from Metro’s 2012 State of Safety Report
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Why Vision Zero for Portland? Crashes are expensive, 2.5x higher than the cost of congestion $1,200 per person, per year $2.7b for the larger Portland Metro area per year
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VZ: Progress on Policy Director Treat commits PBOT to achieving Vision Zero in 2yr Workplan (February 10, 2015) Sets out ambitious target of achieving Vision Zero in 10 years
Vision Zero resolution passes unanimously at City Council (June 17, 2015) City Council resolves “No loss of life is acceptable on our city streets” Mayor Hales co-sponsors Vision Zero resolution at the U.S. Conference of Mayors (June 22, 2015) Resolution declares “Traffic fatalities are not inevitable” 9
VZ: Progress on Policy Governor signs HB 2621 authorizing the City of Portland to pilot fixed speed cameras on our most dangerous streets (July 20, 2015) Bill authorizes speed cameras on Portland’s 10 High Crash Corridors First cameras to go live in July of 2016
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VZ: Progress on Funding City Council approves FY15/16 budget with unprecedented General Fund investments in safety (May 27, 2015) $4.7 million for safety improvements on 122nd Avenue $2.6 million for safety improvements on East and West Burnside $300,000 for Safe Routes to Schools services to middle/high school students
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VZ: Progress on Funding Vision Zero planning grant from ODOT authorized (June 17, 2015) $150k grant will fund our multi-agency VZ planning effort State Legislature allocates $17 million for Outer Powell (July 3, 2015) $3 million additional commitment from Portland City Council Will fund safety improvements on SE Powell from 122nd to 136th 12
VZ: Progress on Project Installation of an additional 24 Rapid Flashing Beacons underway in East Portland (beginning in July 2015) Two Safe Routes to School crossings recently installed 22 additional to be installed and activated over the next year Focus on getting pedestrians across our busiest multi-lane corridors
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VZ: Progress on Communications VisionZeroPortland.com with 10 years of crash data mapped in interactive format goes live (March 30, 2015)
Vision Zero Safety Pledge campaign goes live on portlandoregon.gov and at tabling events (June 20, 2015) Multi-lingual Rapid Flashing Beacon outreach campaign kicks off in East Portland (July 9, 2015) Communications consultants under contract to design Vision Zero graphic identity and shape messaging (July 17, 2015) 14
