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Vista adopts Vision Zero safety plan, directs grant push for Emerald Drive improvements
Summary
The Vista City Council unanimously adopted a Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) comprehensive safety action plan and the Vision Zero initiative, prioritizing projects and directing staff to pursue implementation grants for Emerald Drive and other high-ranking sites.
The Vista City Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a comprehensive safety action plan developed with a federal SS4A grant and endorsed the Vision Zero initiative, directing staff to pursue federal grant funding for priority projects including a major redesign of Emerald Drive.
The action plan, developed with consultant Chen Ryan Associates and city staff, analyzes five years of collision data and recommends 38 project areas and a set of near-term countermeasures. Mobility planner Dara Woods, who presented the plan, said it uses the “safe system” approach and was written to be eligible for federal SS4A implementation grants.
Why it matters: the report found 2,834 collisions in Vista from September 2018 through August 2023 and identified pedestrian- and bicycle-involved crashes as far more likely to cause injury or death…
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