Vision Zero: Reducing Injuries and Fatalities on Salinas Streets

Help Make Streets Safe-Share your thoughts and Examine the Data

What is Vision Zero?

Vision Zero Salinas is the City’s strategy to will build safety into our streets, protecting the people who travel about the City every day. The Vision Zero Salinas policy acknowledges that traffic deaths not inevitable but are preventable.

Why do we need it? Between 2009 and 2018 fifty-nine (59) lost their lives while traveling on Salinas’ streets. These deaths and serious injuries are unacceptable, and the City of Salinas is committed to preventing further loss of life.

What does it mean? The City adopted Vision Zero as a policy on February 11, 2020, committing to building safer streets, educate the public on traffic safety, enforce traffic laws, and to develop a Vision Zero Salinas Action Plan that save lives. The goal of the Vision Zero Salinas Action Plan is to create a culture that prioritizes traffic safety and to ensure that traffic related accidents on our city streets don’t result in serious injuries or death.

Share your input.

Take a quick survey using the Salinas Vision Zero Survey tool. Your input will be used to guide future traffic safety improvements in Salinas.

Link to Salinas Vision Zero Survey Tool: https://arcg.is/0PmLCz

VISION ZERO STATEMENT AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Traffic safety impacts our community, neighborhoods, health, and Salinas’ quality of life. No fatality or serious injury is acceptable on our streets because traffic collisions are preventable and can be addressed through education, enforcement and engineering.
Public safety is paramount and the top priority. Safety takes precedence over travel delays, speeds, congestion, and convenience.
Traffic deaths and serious injuries are preventable and unacceptable.
Actions towards Vision Zero is a culture change requiring a comprehensive, collaborative, and equitable approach through education, enforcement and engineering.
Data driven analysis will lead to influence actions towards Vision Zero
Vision Zero will be ongoing, and will routinely measure the performance against the Vision Zero Action Plan objectives.

SALINAS HIGH INJURY NETWORK (HIN)

The High Injury Network (HIN) is a data-driven approach to better understand where and why traffic collisions occur. The High Injury Network is composed of the corridors with the highest concentration of fatal and serious injury collisions. Knowing these facts will also help build understanding among decision makers of what is needed and where so that funds can be invested in areas that are most impacted by traffic related deaths and serious injuries.

Traffic data for the HIN was collected from the Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS), Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS) and local police records between the years 2009- 2018. The HIN focuses on corridors where the highest number of traffic fatalities and severe injuries occurred. In this, we have found that the Salinas HIN consists of 24% of the city’s roadway streets network.

High Injury Network

VISION ZERO NETWORK

The Vision Zero Network is a collaborative campaign helping communities reach their goals of Vision Zero -- eliminating all traffic fatalities and severe injuries -- while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all. As a nonprofit project, the Vision Zero Network is committed to defining, building momentum, and advancing Vision Zero in communities across the U.S. For more information, please visit https://visionzeronetwork.org

VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN

The city is currently collecting general public comments on traffic safety and on the Vision Zero Action Plan Maps: https://www.cityofsalinas.org/our-city-services/public-works/current-projects/vision-zero/help-make-streets-safe-share-your-thoughts-and-examine-data

Public comments on the Vision Zero Action Plan Maps can be submitted to the Salinas Public Works Department Traffic and Transportation Division by electronic mail: [email protected]; fax: (831)758-7935; OR mail: 200 Lincoln Ave, Salinas, CA 93901. Written and/or electronic comments received before December 31, 2020 will be integrated into the Vision Zero Action Plan.

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Help Make Streets Safe-Salinas Vision Zero Needs Your Input

Between 2009 and 2018, fifty-nine (59) lives were lost while traveling Salinas Streets. City Staff is requesting your input to help prioritize efforts to improve traffic safety in our community by taking a quick survey using the Salinas Vision Zero Survey tool . Participants taking the survey can place a pin on a map to the location or area of traffic safety concern with an option to provide a brief description of the...
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