The White Plains Common Council on June 10 accepted a Vision Zero Action Plan that sets a long‑term goal of eliminating fatal and serious injury crashes on city roadways by 2050 and establishes an implementation strategy to pursue federal Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) funding.

City staff and consultants from VHB described a data‑driven plan that identifies 12 improvement projects, site‑specific recommendations for 25 intersections, and a high‑injury network of about 15 miles — roughly 10% of city‑ and county‑owned roadways — that accounted for roughly 76% of fatal and serious injury crashes in recent crash analyses.

Consultants said the plan’s draft arose from 10 years of crash data (2014–2023), during which the city recorded about 19,300 crashes; the team flagged 907 crashes as focal for Vision Zero work, including nine fatalities and about 300 serious injuries. Ryan (VHB) summarized mode involvement: about 50% of those 907 crashes involved motor‑vehicle to motor‑vehicle collisions, 27% involved pedestrians and 7% involved bicyclists.

The plan groups projects into priority tiers and estimates initial capital costs of about $23 million for the high‑injury network improvements. The action plan sets interim targets of a 50% reduction in fatal/serious crashes by 2035 and a 75% reduction by 2045, leading to the Vision Zero goal by 2050.

Consultants said the planning work was funded by a SS4A planning grant and that an adopted action plan is a prerequisite for applying for implementation grants; VHB noted a federal SS4A program pool of approximately $580 million and the city’s need to file implementation applications by a June 26 grant deadline cited in the presentation. The consultants emphasized a multi‑disciplinary “safe system” approach promoted by the Federal Highway Administration that pairs roadway design, speed management, enforcement, education and post‑crash care.

Council members praised the level of community engagement used to develop the recommendations. A member of the council’s Vision Zero advisory committee called the plan “very thorough” and urged prompt work to secure implementation funding. Mayor and council speakers highlighted recent city steps that align with the plan, including adoption of a citywide 25 mph speed limit and deployment of automated enforcement tools.

The council moved and seconded acceptance of the Vision Zero Action Plan; a roll call vote recorded the resolution as adopted.