Lewis Leff, city of Austin transportation safety officer, sits down with FOX 7 Austin's John Krinjak to talk about Vision Zero, its accomplishments so far, and what more needs to be done in this FOX 7 Focus.
Yeah, as the program first got launched and started, it was really focused on intersections. That's where we see a lot of the crashes that result in serious injuries and fatalities on city owned roadways. And so we've focused on improving those intersections, looking into the data to understand what kind of questions were happening. Understanding what kind of treatments might make the most sense to do there.
Despite some of those improvements, we have seen kind of an overall increase, I understand, in fatality crashes and serious injury crashes citywide. What do you think is behind that and what more needs to be done?We've definitely seen an increase in the past few years, and there's a lot of theories behind that. That's a national trend. That's a statewide trend, and it's happening here locally as well.
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