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Committee adopts City of Milwaukee Vision Zero action plan, aims to cut traffic deaths on a 9% high‑injury network
Summary
The Public Safety and Health Committee voted to approve the City of Milwaukee Vision Zero Action Plan, a community‑driven blueprint with 100 actions targeting streets and systems changes to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries.
The Public Safety and Health Committee on June 12 approved the City of Milwaukee’s Vision Zero Action Plan, a community‑crafted strategy that sets a goal of eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries and prioritizes safety improvements on a compact high‑injury network.
Jessica Weinberg, the city’s Vision Zero policy director, told the committee the plan centers on seven goals and roughly 100 recommended actions — from redesigning streets on the high‑injury network to advocating for state authorization of automated traffic‑safety cameras and improving post‑crash medical care. Weinberg said about 9% of Milwaukee’s streets account for roughly 59% of the city’s serious injury and fatal…
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