West Hollywood shows draft Vision Zero crash dashboard; commissioners press for more archival and export features
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City staff demonstrated a draft Vision Zero crash dashboard built from the statewide TIMS database and commissioners and commenters pressed for archival records, street‑level filters and export functionality, and clearer classification of e‑bikes and scooters.
David Fenn, a senior planner with West Hollywood’s Transportation and Mobility Division, demonstrated the city’s draft Vision Zero (Lisonbee) crash dashboard at the Public Safety Commission meeting on March 20, 2026. The in‑house tool uses statewide TIMS data and displays crashes by severity, location and vulnerable user, with filters for years and time of day.
Fenn told commissioners the dashboard shows crashes from 2014 through 2024/2025 as reported in the TIMS feed and cautioned that the statewide data can lag the sheriff’s local reports: “the underlying data is all coming from the statewide TIMS database…so when you’re using this, just put a little caveat on the most recent year of data,” he said. The dashboard highlights high‑injury corridors such as Santa Monica Boulevard, Sunset, Fountain and Melrose and lets users toggle clusters versus individual crash points, color‑coded by severity.
Commissioners and public commenters asked for additional functionality. Vice Chair Blau and Commissioner Pulaski urged staff to explore whether crash data prior to 2014 can be archived and included; Kyle Brazil, a resident and data professional, said longer historical periods are needed to understand long‑term trends and asked that the city preserve any available archive. Kevin Burton, a public commenter, recommended linking the dashboard to the sheriff’s monthly reports because TIMS can be a year or more out of date and the sheriff’s reports include context not present in TIMS.
Several commissioners requested export and street‑level filtering so residents and staff can reproduce the city’s counts. Commissioners also asked how e‑bikes and rental scooters are classified in TIMS; Fenn said those modes are often recorded as bicycles in the statewide database and that the city will check with sheriff reporting practice.
Fenn and staff said future additions could include traffic volume layers and an optional memorial or incident page, but noted IT capacity constraints and that some features will require time. Staff emphasized the dashboard’s intent as a planning tool to show long‑term trends rather than immediate incidents.
