Vision Zero (New York City)

Vision Zero is a program that was passed into law by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2014. It was sponsored by former council member David G. Greenfield. Its purpose is to eliminate all traffic deaths and serious injuries on New York City streets by 2024. On January 15, 2014, Mayor de Blasio announced the launch of Vision Zero in New York City, based on a similar program of the same name that was implemented in Sweden. The concept has been adopted by other countries, including Canada, the Netherlands, India, and the United Kingdom.The original Swedish theory hypothesizes that pedestrian deaths are not as much "accidents" as they are a failure of street design. Traffic-related injuries and crashes in New York City increased from 2014 through 2018, though traffic-related deaths decreased.

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