Vision Zero News

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  • August 2025 Newsletter

    This month, we are featuring our work towards Transportation Equity in Vision Zero. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health has partnered with Vision Zero to produce an Underserved Community metric to better understand where fatal and serious injury crashes occur and who is exposed to them.

  • July 2025 Newsletter

    The City of Philadelphia and Vision Zero Philadelphia mourn Latanya Byrd’s passing. Latanya was a staunch advocate for street safety and Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE). We honor her by continuing to pursue the work she was so deeply committed to.

  • June 2025 Newsletter

    Designing safer streets is an integral part of Philadelphia’s Safe System approach. Read this month’s newsletter to learn about completed and upcoming roadway safety improvement projects.

  • Ongoing & Upcoming Bicycle Projects

    Each May, we celebrate National Bike Month – a nationwide event that promotes cycling and draws attention to the benefits using a bicycle for both recreation and transportation. During May, the City organizes and participates in many events while also continuing to move forward key multimodal infrastructure projects.

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    May 2025 Newsletter

    Bike Month 2025 is in full swing. The Vision Zero team and Vision Zero ambassadors have been across Philadelphia celebrating biking and sharing information about biking safely. Read about it in this month’s newsletter.

  • Updating the Priority Corridors for Automated Speed Enforcement Expansion Using New Crash and Speed Data

    Last year, the City of Philadelphia Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (OTIS) released its Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) Expansion 2024: Corridor Scoring and Methodology report in a May 2024 press release. Following further analysis, the new data confirmed that State Route (SR) 611 and SR 13 remain the top two corridors that would benefit…

  • April 2025 Newsletter

    This month we are highlighting Indego and the Department of Fleet Services, critical components of the City’s Safer Vehicles strategy towards reaching zero fatalities on our roadways.

  • What We’ve Learned from the Washington Avenue Year 2 Evaluation Report

    In 2023, the City completed work on the Washington Avenue Repaving and Improvement project, which aimed to improve traffic safety and implement better curbside management, primarily between Broad Street and 4th Street. The City is committed to accountability and uses a data-driven approach in these project assessments. The Washington Avenue Year 2 Evaluation Report will…

  • Vision Zero Conference PHL 2025 Explores the Costs of Traffic Safety

    Last week, the Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (OTIS) and Office of Multimodal Planning (OMP) participated in the Vision Zero Conference PHL 2025 – a day-long event hosted by the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia (BCGP) and featuring local and nationally-recognized speakers and panelists at Temple University.

  • Philly Stat 360 Vision Zero Dashboard

    Philly Stat 360 and the City’s Vision Zero program recently launched a new Vision Zero dashboard, showing how the City of Philadelphia is working to reduce traffic deaths across the city and makes our roads safer.

  • March 2025 Newsletter

    Vision Zero Roundtables are in full swing. We are excited to be out and about gathering your input for the Vision Zero Action Plan 2025-2030.

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    February 2025 Newsletter

    This month we are excited to share our open Vision Zero Ambassador application, the announcement of our Safe Routes Philly Spring Training event, and of course GO BIRDS!