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Residents, Safe Streets groups press commissioners to fast-track Vision Zero-style measures after recent pedestrian deaths
Summary
Multiple public speakers told the commission that incremental steps have failed and urged a rapid, fully resourced push toward Vision Zero-style engineering and enforcement, including daylighting, red-light cameras, speed cushions and a cross-department task force to prevent more deaths.
Multiple residents and Safe Streets volunteers used the commission's oral-comment period to press officials for faster, more structural action after recent pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in Encinitas. Laura Van Dusen, a founding member of Safe Streets in Sanitas, said the city has had 14 pedestrian deaths since 2016 and urged the commission to "approach every death on our streets the way they'd want it approached if it were their own child." She urged the commission to recommend that council fully fund, enforce and fast-track street-safety infrastructure.
Other speakers described personal losses and called for specific countermeasures: lower neighborhood speed limits, expanded sidewalks, speed cushions (physical traffic-calming devices), daylighting at intersections, recorded public-education sessions and targeted enforcement. Jessica Dasher, who referenced recent local victims including Finn, said: "Please do more. Please do everything humanly possible to solve this very solvable problem." Commissioners acknowledged the urgency and folded many of the public requests into the FY26-27 work-plan items on safety education, e-bike outreach and engineering assessments.
