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The City of Seattle
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An ordinance relating to traffic safety; applying traffic safety best practices, guiding principles or successor policies in exercising traffic administration authority; establishing study, reporting, and prioritization standards; and aligning rulemaking and project delivery with proven safety countermeasures; renumbering Sections 11.14.714 and 11.14.715 of the Seattle Municipal Code as Sections 11.14.720 and 11.14.725; and amending Sections 11.16.120, 11.16.180, 11.16.200, 11.16.220, 11.16.340, and 15.70.040 of the Seattle Municipal Code.
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A traffic safety program is an effective strategy for significantly reducing traffic fatalities and severe injuries while increasing safety, health, and equitable mobility.
A traffic safety program is both proactive and responsive, emphasizing infrastructure and policies that minimize the risk of severe traffic injuries or fatalities, education, and engineering solutions.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) committed to traffic safety and set a Vision Zero goal in 2015 of ending traffic deaths and serious injuries on city streets by 2030.
As a framework for its implementation of a Vision Zero Plan, SDOT has used a Safe System Approach which is centered on multiple, redundant layers of protection to help prevent crashes and to reduce severity when crashes do occur.
SDOT’s periodically updated Vision Zero Action Plan, which describes the ways in which the department is working towards the City’s 2030 goal, incorporates both traffic safety principles and the Safe System Approach.
In 2016, there were 25 fatalities on Seattle city streets, including six pedestrians and four bicyclists. In addition, there were 55 serious injury crashes involving pedestrians and 21 involving bicyclists. These numbers are a subset of the total 11,603 crashes on Seattle str...
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