Nantucket County staff outline Vision Zero safety plan, seek public review starting July 29

Nantucket County staff presented an overview of a federally funded safety action plan that draws on five years of crash data and sets targets to reduce fatal and serious-injury crashes by 50% by 2030 and 75% by 2040, with a long-term aim of eliminating such crashes.

Mike, a Nantucket County staff member, told the commission the draft plan uses a “safe system” approach and that the project team will present a fuller consultant briefing next month. He said the county gets “about 4 of these serious and fatal crashes a year” and summarized a proposed timeline that would open a public review period starting July 29 and run through the commission’s August meeting, subject to the commission authorizing that review at the next meeting.

The plan is based on an analysis of five years of crash statistics and includes monitoring to track progress and any changes in crash types, locations or severity.…