LOS ANGELES—Citing an increase in traffic fatalities on Los Angeles streets, the city council requested an audit by the controller into the city’s Vision Zero Initiative, which aims to eliminate traffic deaths in the city by 2025.
“The city’s Vision Zero Initiative is without question well-intentioned. It sought to stem the overwhelming number of traffic collisions that take the lives of pedestrians and cyclists every year in our city,” said Councilman Paul Koretz before the vote on April 29. “At the time of its implementation, pedestrians and cyclists accounted for more than half of fatal traffic collisions, and children and seniors were five times more likely than drivers to be killed or severely injured.”
