Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Vision Zero

Safe streets advocates staging a die-in on the L.A. City Hall steps this morning. All photos by Joe Linton.

Safe Streets Advocates Stage Die-In to Protest Garcetti and City Council Lack of Vision Zero Progress

By Joe Linton | Dec 3, 2019 | No Comments

What will it take for Los Angeles' Mayor Eric Garcetti and the L.A. City Council to take hundreds of annual traffic deaths seriously?

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Walk SF Urges Public to Push for Strong Recommendations on Setting Speed Limits

By Melanie Curry | Nov 27, 2019 | No Comments

Zero Fatalities Task Force report due soon, but since it has been meeting in closed-door sessions it's anyone's guess what its recommendations will be

L.A. traffic deaths have increased since the mayor's 2015 Vision Zero directive. Photo: Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Vision Non-Zero: the Human and Financial Toll of Los Angeles’ Dangerous Roads

By Ryan P. Dalton | Oct 29, 2019 | No Comments

Traffic in Los Angeles is also notoriously deadly — and it’s getting deadlier.

KTLA screenshot showing the aftermath of the Koreatown crash in which a driver killed a 4-year-old and injured the child's mother

Driver Killing Koreatown 4-Year-Old Sparks Protest Push For Vision Zero

By Joe Linton | Oct 18, 2019 | No Comments

As traffic deaths rise, L.A.'s Vision Zero program survives in name, but as a hollow shell robbed of its early promise

The intersection at 98th and Vermont where 58-year-old Anna Graves was killed Tuesday night. [Source: Google maps]

Paint Is Not Protection: 58-year-old Woman Killed in Horrific Hit-and-Run at Vermont and 98th

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 23, 2019 | 17 Comments

Paint and signage suggesting a pedestrian can expect a safe crossing where drivers regularly hit well above 40 miles an hour is not just negligence, it's criminal. Especially at night.

New rainbow halo installations commemorate victims of traffic violence. All photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

L.A. Installing Rainbow Halo Memorial Art At Traffic Death Sites

By Joe Linton | Aug 16, 2019 | 3 Comments

Los Angeles dedicated the first of its planned 100 "Rainbow Halo" memorial markers for victims of traffic violence.

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