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Portland committee hears GPCOG Vision Zero plan, councilors weigh formal adoption
Summary
Greater Portland Council of Governments presented its Vision 0 action plan to the Portland Sustainability and Transportation Committee; committee members asked for local analysis and signaled support for a council resolution to adopt the plan, with staff to return with a draft.
Greater Portland Council of Governments (GPCOG) on Wednesday presented its Vision 0 action plan to the Portland City Council’s Sustainability and Transportation Committee, outlining a regional strategy to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2045 and recommending a menu of evidence-based roadway, speed and programmatic measures.
The plan’s authors said the initiative focuses on redesigning streets and lowering speeds to prevent deaths and severe injuries — not only on changing individual behavior. “Vision 0 is a strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all,” said Lucy Sinclair, data analyst at GPCOG. Rick Harvison, planner at GPCOG, described data tools used to identify “critical safety corridors and intersections” where countermeasures will yield the most benefit.
Committee members and city staff pressed for Portland-specific follow-up.…
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