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Santa Clara presents Vision 0 plan with $100M near-term package to cut traffic deaths
Summary
City staff outlined a Vision 0 draft plan that targets eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injuries by 2050, highlights pedestrian and cyclist vulnerability, maps a High Injury Network, and proposes roughly $93M in capital projects plus program and staffing costs to start implementation.
Nicole Hee, senior engineer in Santa Clara's Public Works Department, presented a draft Vision 0 plan on Nov. 25 that aims to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries in the city by 2050. Hee told the City Council the plan grew from an eight-year collision analysis, community outreach with about 1,300 survey responses and multiple pop-up events, and consultant work by Kimley-Horn and Associates.
The study found about 190 KSI (killed-or-severely-injured) collisions across the eight-year period, consisting of roughly 51 fatalities and 139 severe injuries, and that pedestrians and cyclists account for about 35% of those KSI…
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