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Providence planning staff present Vision Zero update, map 'high priority' streets for safety work
Summary
The city planning department presented a Vision Zero/Safe Streets update outlining a data-driven high-priority network, an infrastructure toolbox of interventions and a roadmap intended to reduce fatal and serious-injury crashes.
City planning staff presented an update to Providence’s Vision Zero and street‑safety work at the March 12 Energy & Resilience Committee meeting, outlining data analysis, community outreach and an action roadmap.
Alex Ellis, principal planner in the Department of Planning and Development, told the committee the update incorporates the federal Safe Streets for All grant and the city’s comprehensive plan and focuses on fatal and serious‑injury crashes rather than all collisions.
“The safe system approach ... really focus[s] on fatal and serious injuries, which is a change from traditional, track engineering, which focuses on all crashes,” Ellis said during the presentation.
What the plan contains - Data analysis and priority…
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