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The City of Seattle
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An ordinance relating to traffic safety; applying traffic safety best practices such as a Vision Zero Plan, 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; adding a new Section 11.14.716 to the Seattle Municipal Code; 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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The Council is considering CB 121296, CB 121297, and CB 121298, collectively called the SAFER (Safe Accountable Flexible Equitable Responsive) Streets bills, with the goal of increasing the safety, health, and equitable mobility of those who use Seattle roadways for walking, rolling, biking, using a micromobility device, using a wheelchair or other mobility device, riding a motorcycle or moped, or accessing transit. Therefore,
Be it ordained by The City of Seattle as follows:
Section 1. The City finds and declares:
A. A Vision Zero Plan is an effective strategy for significantly reducing traffic fatalities and severe injuries while increasing safety, health, and equitable mobility.
B. A Vision Zero Plan is both proactive and responsive, emphasizing infrastructure and policies that minimize the risk of severe traffic injuries or fatalities, education, and engineering solutions.
C. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) committed to Vision Zero in 2015 and set the goal of ending traffic deaths and serious injuries on city streets by 2030.
D. As a framework for its implementation of a Vision Zero Plan, SDOT has adopted a Safe System Approach which is centered on m...
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