Letter: Vision Zero Revisited
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Vision Zero pledge car magnet. Photo credit: Ronni Newton
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To the Editor:
West Hartford’s Vision Zero initiative has dramatically changed the landscape of the town’s streets and roads, resulting in slower driving speeds, safer streets, and better protection for our most vulnerable road users: pedestrians and cyclists. It’s a big step forward.
For more than half a century, however,the most successful traffic safety programs have been built around the Three Es: Engineering, Education, and Enforcement. The town should be proud of its traffic engineering successes, but engineering alone will not solve this problem. We need a more holistic view of road safety and a much stronger commitment to the other two E’s: Education and Enforcement.
A new advocacy group, SafeStreetsWestHartford, is taking this message to the people of West Hartford. Our message of better public safety Education and Enforcement has resonated with many thousands in our community. To validate our policy beliefs, we’ve launched two online public safety surveys, one for pedestrians and the other for bicyclists.
If you care about the safety of Pedestrians and Bicyclists in our community, please complete one or both of these surveys. They only take a moment and will provide invaluable feedback to our town leaders in shaping the direction of public safety in West Hartford. No personal information is collected except an optional email address and each survey only takes a minute to complete.
PEDESTRIAN SURVEY: https://forms.gle/
BICYCLIST SURVEY: https://forms.gle/
Sherm Schlar
West Hartford
