(Credit: City Councilman Mike Bonin's office)
We're fighting this Vision Zero "Road Diet" nonsense hard. Here's the Orwellian lie Vision Zero tries to sell the people of Los Angeles:
"We should be able to move freely and feel safe on our streets. That is what Vision Zero is all about.
Every year, more than 200 people are killed while trying to move throughout our city. Nearly half the people killed on our streets are those who were walking or bicycling, and an alarming number of them are children and older adults. In fact, traffic collisions are a leading cause of death for children in Los Angeles.
Vision Zero Los Angeles is our city’s commitment to eliminate all traffic deaths by 2025. As directed by Mayor Garcetti, this citywide effort brings together transportation engineers, police officers, advocates, and policymakers to work together towards creating safer streets. Our focus will be protecting our most vulnerable road users, including children, older adults, and people walking and bicycling.
We’ve already begun the work. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation has identified a network of streets, the High Injury Network (HIN), where strategic investments will have the biggest impact in reducing deaths and severe injuries. Despite making up only six percent of our city streets, nearly two-thirds of all deaths and severe injuries involving people walking occur on the HIN. This is where we will focus our initial Vision Zero actions.
Vision Zero initiatives have a proven track record in major cities and countries throughout the world. It is time for our Los Angeles vision: zero traffic deaths on our streets by the year 2025."
Vision Zero is Gridlock Garcetti's plan to get everyone out of their cars. Him, Councilman Mike Bonin, and the other boneheads we have running this city think we have too many roads. They want less roads, less lanes.
What kind of craziness is this?!
Today we talked with Susanne Madden, who launched the One Lane Madness in Playa del Rey Change.org petition.