The city aims to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2025.
The Omaha, Nebraska city council approved the city’s Vision Zero plan, reports Christopher Burbach in the Omaha World-Herald. “The Vision Zero Omaha Action Plan has the stated end goal of eliminating traffic fatalities in Omaha by 2045, with strategies and projects meant to begin reducing deaths and serious injuries right away.” The city, which hired a Vision Zero coordinator in 2021, hopes adopting a Vision Zero plan will also help the city access federal street safety grants.
The plan includes recommendations for improved road design such as roundabouts and speed bumps and identifies 117 ‘priority projects’ targeting areas with the most serious crashes and safety issues such as “older infrastructure, fewer sidewalks and bike lanes, narrow and congested streets.”
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