SVBC News
Vision Zero San Jose hits the streets
Since last year, I have been working with a team from the City of San Jose as it begins implementing the city’s Vision Zero initiative. As some of our readers will recall, San Jose declared last May that it would begin the fight to reduce its roadway fatalities and major injuries to zero.The work to achieve this goal has been an enlightening experience. We have taken a close look at fatality and injury collisions along San Jose’s 14 Safety Priority Streets – the 3% of the roadway network that accounts for 50% of the city’s fatal crashes. Our recommendations thus far have consisted of the mundane – refreshing faded paint and upgrading signals to modern-day standards – to the progressive – constructing a two-way cycletrack between neighborhood parks.