Thread by @SamThePol

Phoenix Action Alert: Vision Zero

Tomorrow, the Phoenix City Council will vote on implementing the "Vision Zero" framework city wide.

What is Vision Zero?

*Reduce speed limits to 25mph
*Eliminate travel lanes from roads & replace with bike lanes
*Speed Cameras everywhere
*Make driving impossible, force people to use public transit

Vision Zero is sold as a way to reduce traffic deaths, but in reality it is - according to its own website - really a method to force people out of cars.

And it doesn't work

Vision Zero is directly responsible 4 creating the conditions that have taken our biggest coastal cities from really difficult places to get around, to impossible ones.

The result has not been more people riding public transit but total gridlock and a wave of people moving out

Mayor Gallego and the Council majority, once again, don't care about whether these programs actually work or not, they care about two things:

1) Slavishly imitating the policies of their progressive coastal peers, regardless of how badly those policies are failing, in the certainty they will get a bunch of fawning coverage from our local media.

2) They believe they know best how you are supposed to live - and are perfectly willing to make your lives less livable to force you to behave the way they want you to. This is also directly referenced in the Vision Zero framework

Vision Zero is intended as a social engineering program, to "reprogram" your behavior.

In short, it's a bad and totalitarian policy, authored by academic elites who have little or no connection to the real world.

There is a path to improving roadway safety - more cops & a return to enforcement of traffic and jaywalking laws - that doesn't tie this city in knots. But this council thinks pedestrians have zero responsibility for their own safety, and that enforcing the law is discriminatory

Rather than doing the right things, they will do whatever gets them the best press.

Contact your Council office and ask them to ditch Vision Zero