San Diego City Council Improves Street Safety in San Diego by Adding Funding to #FixTheFatal15

Throughout this year’s budget process, Circulate San Diego and our Vision Zero Coalition allies have highlighted the worst intersections in San Diego, the Fatal 15. We have urged cost-effective recommendations for their improvement.

Road safety is an intractable problem that kills around fifty San Diegans per year. San Diego committed to Vision Zero years ago, but deaths remain stubbornly high. The City Council showed strong leadership today by adding funds for road safety. But the intractable problem of pedestrian and cyclist deaths will continue without strong leadership from all of our elected officials.

The Vision Zero coalition was pleased ...

Throughout this year’s budget process, Circulate San Diego and our Vision Zero Coalition allies have highlighted the worst intersections in San Diego, the Fatal 15. We have urged cost-effective recommendations for their improvement.

Road safety is an intractable problem that kills around fifty San Diegans per year. San Diego committed to Vision Zero years ago, but deaths remain stubbornly high. The City Council showed strong leadership today by adding funds for road safety. But the intractable problem of pedestrian and cyclist deaths will continue without strong leadership from all of our elected officials.

The Vision Zero coalition was pleased to see eight intersections slated for rehabilitation in Mayor Gloria's proposed budget. But we were disappointed that this meant “Seven Deadly Leftovers” were not included in the proposed FY2025 budget from Mayor Gloria’s office. Without a change, they would have remained in their dangerous condition for another year.

Over the past month Circulate and our Vision Zero allies have called for additional funding to fix the “Seven Deadly Leftovers.” Family members of victims and other activists held press conferences and rallies at dangerous intersections, wrote policy letters, and organized direct communications from community members to city elected officials.

Tonight, all nine City Councilmembers showed leadership by banding together to #FixTheFatal15 and adding additional funds to the transportation budget for road safety. Said Circulate Policy Counsel Will Moore, “Circulate and our Vision Zero allies thank all of the members of the City Council for finding the funds for Vision Zero and to #FixTheFatal15.”

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Dear Mayor Gloria and City Council:

Thank you for including funding to Fix the Fatal 15 in Fiscal Year 2025 Budget.

As a member of the Vision Zero Coalition, we are activists that support safer walkable and bikeable streets in San Diego.  That is why we urged the Mayor and City Council to Fix all of the Fatal 15 by not only fixing those intersections that were due for repair under existing Transportation Department programs, but also to add funding to repair the Seven Deadly Leftovers in the FY2025 budget.

As articulated by Circulate San Diego and its partners in the Vision Zero Coalition, the Fatal 15 are the intersections that have proven the deadliest to pedestrians and cyclists in the past five years.

This week, our faith in our leaders was justified when the City Council passed just such a budget, with the Mayor's pledge to sign that budget without changes quickly thereafter.

Thank you for your continued hard work. With your leadership and effort we can get San Diego closer to Vision Zero.

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