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Traffic engineering reports Vision Zero progress; city fatalities on municipal roadways fall 50% since 2020
Summary
Traffic Engineering updated council on Vision Zero initiatives, Safe Streets Madison projects and a city rollout of '20 is Plenty'; city-controlled roadway fatalities declined from 12 in 2020 to 6 in 2025, and more than 237 safety projects have been funded through the new program.
Traffic Engineering told the Common Council that Vision Zero strategies and targeted safety projects have produced measurable reductions in serious crashes on city-controlled roadways.
Yan Tao, director of the city’s traffic engineering division, reviewed the Vision Zero framework — safe streets, safe people, safe vehicles, safety data and enforcement — and described a sequence of initiatives since 2019 including…
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