Vision Zero Santa Monica

March 26, 2018 10:35 AM
by Jason Kligier

Santa Monica is serious about the safety of all who live, work and play here, including users of our roads, sidewalks and bikeways. The City has been making improvements to enhance user comfort and reduce conflicts. For example, speed limits adjacent to four schools were reduced in January to protect our youth, with changes coming to other schools soon.

Despite our best efforts, there were nine roadway fatalities in 2017, the most since 2006. The City is taking proactive steps to prevent future traffic collisions by committing to Vision Zero, which aims to bring the number of fatal and severe injury crashes down to zero.

Joining cities across America in this pledge, Santa Monica will strive to make these tragic incidents a thing of the past by redesigning our roads, reducing unsafe speeds, educating the public, and focusing enforcement efforts on the behaviors and locations most commonly involved in serious collisions.

On February 27, the City Council reviewed a series of actions to begin making progress on Vision Zero. Please do your part by following the rules of the road and treating one another with courtesy and compassion as you travel, because we all deserve to arrive at our destination safely.

For more information, please visit smgov.net/visionzero.

Authored By

Jason Kligier
Chief Planning Officer