First City Vision Zero Initiative Launched
City of Leavenworth launches First City Vision Zero Initiative
News Release from City of Leavenworth
January 29, 2024
The First City of Kansas has long been committed to ending traffic deaths and serious injuries on our streets. The City of Leavenworth is beginning to seek public feedback on ways to reduce fatality and serious injury crashes through a new initiative called Vision Zero.
Vision Zero is a new approach to improving traffic safety, with the goal of eliminating all fatal and serious injury traffic crashes.
This global movement began in Sweden in the 1990s and is now endorsed by the U.S. Department of Transportation. More than 45 U.S. communities adopted the Vision Zero approach, and hundreds more are currently in the process of planning and making progress towards the Vision Zero goal.
To accomplish the goal of Vision Zero, the City of Leavenworth is creating the First City Vision Zero Action Plan.
This Action Plan is based on the Safe System Approach, and gathers broad community and stakeholder input to lay out actionable, measurable strategies, and emphasize design and policy solutions – designing complete streets and lowering speeds for safety.
This work is part of a grant-funded initiative. Once completed, the First City Vision Zero Action Plan could allow Leavenworth, Kansas, to become even more competitive when applying for federal and state grant dollars, for actions that support safety for vehicles, pedestrians and bicycles.
Many communities in the U.S. are working on Vision Zero planning and implementation efforts.
One national resource for this larger community of practice is the Vision Zero Network; a collaborative, nonprofit campaign helping communities set and reach the goal of Vision Zero — eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injuries among all road users — while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility.
Please join us in this commitment to safety for all First City residents.
Vision Zero is an approach to traffic safety where traffic deaths are acknowledged as preventable. We focus on eliminating serious and fatal traffic crashes, instead of all levels of vehicle collisions, and we accept shared responsibility for traffic safety among all transportation system users, designers, and operators.
Vision Zero is a global movement to end traffic deaths and a way to analyze and address traffic safety issues.
In most urban and many rural communities, there are areas where transportation infrastructure has been underfunded in the past. These may be in lower income, minority populations or other underserved areas, where sidewalks, roadways, traffic control, and other areas may not be as improved as other parts of the community.
Research has found that the chances of an individual to be involved in a fatal or serious injury crash are higher in these areas. Equity ensures the specific needs of underserved communities are taken into consideration to provide appropriate solutions that allow everyone the opportunity to live a safe and healthy life.
Incorporating equity into roadway safety should involve working with underserved communities to:
Some resources that can assist in applying Equity into Transportation Safety:
In addition to the Engagement Map above, as part of the First City Vision Zero Action Plan process, a Technical Advisory Committee has been developed to review data analysis and public input, determine safety focus areas, as well as filter, prioritize, and implement recommendations from the public.
The committee is made up of City of Leavenworth department staff, partnering agencies representatives, and members of community advocacy groups.
The committee's input is critical to the development of the First City Vision Zero Action Plan. They will convene Focus Area Working Groups to help identify specific recommendations related to addressing specific safety issues, that may include:
The Vision Zero Action Plan will be used to identify strategies, policies, countermeasures, and processes that will, over time, eliminate deaths and serious injuries on our roads.
These polices and processes:
This plan is focused on city streets in Leavenworth — it should be noted that interstate highways and other limited access highways are not part of the action plan.
This Vision Zero Action Plan covers all road users involved in fatal and serious injury crashes. This includes people driving and riding in vehicles, people walking, people biking, and any other person using the street. The Vision Zero Action Plan is not a bicycle and pedestrian plan.
City of Leavenworth launches First City Vision Zero Initiative
News Release from City of Leavenworth
January 29, 2024
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Article featured in The Leavenworth Times
January 31, 2024
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First City Vision Zero Action Plan seeks to improve traffic safety
First City Connection Newsletter
Winter Spring 2024 (pages 6-7)
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Julie McKeel, Community Development Coordinator, discusses the importance of community engagement
February 12, 2024
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Have questions or want to learn more, contact us below:
Phone | 913-682-9201 |
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firstcityvisionzero@firstcity.org | |
Website | www.leavenworthks.org/visionzero |
In writing | 100 N 5th Street |
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