Draft Minneapolis 2023-2025 Vision Zero Action Plan Comment Form

Draft Minneapolis 2023-2025 Vision Zero Action Plan Comment Form

The draft 2023-2025 Minneapolis Vision Zero Action Plan outlines key steps in the next 3 years to make progress toward the City’s goal to eliminate traffic deaths and severe injuries on our streets by 2027. Share your comments by December 11, 2022. This plan is an update building on the work of the 2020-2022 Vision Zero Action Plan.

Use this form to comment on the draft plan, including on four highlight areas:

• Making safety improvements on High Injury Streets

• Advancing street designs to reduce dangerous vehicle speeds

• Working to implement a speed safety camera pilot of automated enforcement

• Evaluating alternative approaches to staffing and implementing traffic enforcement while addressing discriminatory outcomes and building trust

Staff will review all feedback and consider potential adjustments to the plan before a final version is brought to the City Council for adoption in early 2023.

Making safety improvements on High Injury Streets

The City and partners will continue to proactively install traffic safety treatments on High Injury Streets, which are identified in this plan and had 66% of severe and fatal crashes in the last 5 years. We will also work to strategically upgrade less durable quick-build safety improvements to concrete and to improve maintenance of bollard improvements.

The full list of actions related to this are on pages 23-24 of the draft plan.

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Advancing street designs to reduce dangerous vehicle speeds

Lower traffic speeds save lives by reducing the likelihood of a crash and by making it less likely a crash that does happen will be deadly. Speeding has increased since 2020 and was involved in 65% of fatal crashes in 2021.The City will expand use of treatments that are working to support safe speeds on busier streets and pilot new measures. The City will also manage the neighborhood traffic calming program.

The full list of actions related to this are on page 23 of the draft plan.

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Working to implement a speed safety camera pilot of automated enforcement.

Automated traffic enforcement has proven effective at saving lives and it eliminates the need for officer interaction. The City is seeking legislative authority to implement a speed safety camera pilot program. Once there is legislative authority, we will develop details for a local pilot informed by significant community engagement.

Additional background and the full list of actions related to this are on pages 31-32 of the draft plan.

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Evaluating alternative approaches to staffing and implementing traffic enforcement while addressing discriminatory outcomes and building trust.

Due to a variety of factors, traffic stops in Minneapolis are down significantly in recent years. Also, the 2022 Minnesota Department of Human Rights investigation of the City and the Police Department found racial disparities in traffic stops. The City is working to evaluate alternative approaches to staffing and implementing traffic enforcement (summary of initial work) and to implement reforms to address racial disparities in traffic stops. The City will work to fairly and equitably enforce traffic laws to reduce the most dangerous behaviors.

Additional background and the full list of actions related to this are on pages 30-32 of the draft plan.

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