ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

Senate: PS DP 4-3-0-0 | 3rd Read 17-12-1-0

SCM1002: vision zero; transportation planning

Sponsor: Senator Werner, LD 4

Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure

Overview

Urges the President, and the Congress of the United States to eliminate Vision Zero and instead promote transportation solutions that prioritize sound engineering methods, reliable safety outcomes, flexibility and engineering innovation.

History

Vision Zero is a strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe and healthy equitable mobility for all. It was first implemented in Sweden in the 1990s and is now implemented in multiple cities across Europe and in some major American cities.

Vision Zero uses the Safe System Approach which involves:

1) preventing crashes;

2) improving human behavior;

3) controlling speeding;

4) sharing responsibility; and

5) reacting based on crash history.

Provisions

1. Urges the President and Congress of the United States to eliminate Vision Zero and the safe systems approach to transportation planning and funding, and instead promote transportation solutions that prioritize sound engineering methods, reliable safety outcomes, flexibility and engineering innovation without compromising individual freedoms or economic efficiency.

2. Urges the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona to transmit copies of this Memorial to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.

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