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West Allis committee adopts Vision Zero resolution and local safety action plan
Summary
After a presentation by engineering staff, the West Allis committee voted unanimously to adopt the county-aligned Vision Zero resolution and a 19-strategy Safety Action Plan to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2037.
The West Allis licensing committee unanimously approved resolutions to adopt Vision Zero and the West Allis Safety Action Plan, aligning the city with a countywide effort to eliminate traffic-related deaths and serious injuries.
Tracy, a city engineer who led the presentation, described Vision Zero as a policy that prioritizes preventing fatalities and serious injuries rather than focusing solely on crash counts. “This is an initiative aimed at eliminating all traffic related deaths and serious injuries,” Tracy said, summarizing the safe-system approach that layers protections — safe streets, safe speeds, safe vehicles and safe people.
Tracy outlined the county-led process that led to the local plan: Phase 1 included public engagement (22 meetings with four held in West Allis); Phase 2 produced a county action plan that identified corridors and hundreds of candidate projects (with a subset identified as critical); Phase 3 allows municipalities to develop local safety action plans. The West Allis plan lists 19 strategies, including a citywide traffic safety campaign, improvements to intersection and crossing visibility for vulnerable users, and using data and technology to prioritize projects.
Committee members raised funding and jurisdictional questions, noting that many severe incidents occur on local streets and that some high-priority locations involve state highways such as Highway 100 or major county facilities. Staff said the city’s adoption provides a stronger basis when requesting assistance from county or state partners and that sidewalk policy and roadway projects are decided through separate project hearings and budgets.
A motion to approve items 30 and 31 — to adopt Vision Zero and the West Allis Safety Action Plan (resolution 20254581) — was moved, seconded and approved by voice vote. Staff said the plan is a living document that the city will revisit to track achievements and update priorities as funding and projects are identified.
Committee members and staff closed the discussion by thanking Tracy and other staff for the presentation; the committee then adjourned.
