Sacramento City Council May Declare Emergency Over Traffic Safety
The city faces high and rising injury rates on its roads. The proposal to declare an emergency is appropriate, say advocates, but it needs to be much stronger.
Sacramento didn’t invest much in road safety. It paid $21 million for car crash lawsuits
It’s a bit of a disaster here. It seems we do not learn and the decision-makers keep making dog shit decisions. I am quite active in using 311 to request […]
Car crash death toll climbs as Sacramento pivots to a quicker safety strategy
Sacramento announced a “Vision Zero Transportation Safety Initiative” Wednesday and said the city would shift more focus to rapid street safety improvements amid an ongoing crisis of fatal crashes.
‘It’s time’: California leaders unveil biggest crackdown on drunk drivers in decades
Anatoly Varfolomeev addresses the media at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento during a press conference where lawmakers announced a series of bills aimed at reducing DUI fatalities and […]
Revamping the Roadmap to Safer Streets
The San Francisco Civil Grand Jury (“the Jury”) is a government oversight panel of volunteerswho serve for one year. Each Jury determines which San Francisco government entities orofficials it will […]
San Francisco set out to eliminate traffic deaths by 2024. Why has it failed?
Traffic fatality rates in the city remained basically unchanged despite a decade of work to end deaths altogether.
Experts say Vision Zero, SF’s failed attempt to eliminate road deaths, has zero vision
A vigil for the family struck by a driver in West Portal in March 2024. Photo by Eleni Balakrishnan.
The Vision Zero Pledge
The Vision Zero Action Strategy outlines the commitments and actions the City will take to eliminate traffic deaths. We will work together and in partnership with stakeholders to implement this […]
Explore: San Francisco’s 2023-25 budget
by Will Jarrett After months of political wrangling and intense number-crunching, the final budget for San Francisco’s coming two years was released by the Controller’s Office yesterday.
Maps & Data
Safety is our top priority Vision Zero SF adopts a data-driven approach to safety, following the models of the San Francisco Pedestrian Strategy and the WalkFirst program. By using over half […]