Raleigh unveils Vision Zero safety plan and seeks adoption to pursue federal implementation funds

Sean Driscoll, the city’s Vision Zero program manager, presented a comprehensive safety action plan during a City Council work session, saying the plan will help the city prioritize investments to reduce and ultimately eliminate serious and fatal traffic crashes.

Driscoll told council members the plan is built from a decade of crash data and public input and includes two mapped approaches: a reactive high‑injury network and a proactive high‑risk network. "About 20 to 25,000 reported crashes happen every year in the city; of those, roughly 250 are serious or life‑altering and about 40 are fatalities," he said, calling those roughly 290 incidents the focus of the plan.

The plan identifies nine priority improvement projects — five corridor projects and four intersection projects — and a set of 38 safety countermeasures for engineers and planners, including leading pedestrian intervals, accessible pedestrian signals and positive offset left turns. Driscoll said the city has worked with NCDOT…