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Safe streets advocates staging a die-in on the L.A. City Hall steps this morning. All photos by Joe Linton.

 Note: Metropolitan Shuttle, a leader in bus shuttle rentals, regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog Los  Angeles. Unless noted in the story, Metropolitan Shuttle is not consulted for  the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content.  ust over thirty people gathered for a die-in demonstration on the steps of  L.A. City Hall this morning. Safe streets advocates urged the city of Los J Angeles to make good on its Vision Zero commitment to ending traffic deaths by 2025. Recently Posted Jobs Though L.A. drivers are on track to kill more than 200 people in 2019, speakers emphasized the especially horrific deaths of Marlene and Amy Lorenzo, and of NACTO, Senior Communications Associate (New York) 1 week ago Alessa Fajardo – all kids on their way to school. In a crosswalk near Exposition Park in April, a driver killed sisters Marlene (14) and Amy (12) while they were NACTO, Program Manager to walking to school. In a Koreatown crosswalk in October, a driver killed Alessa Senior Program Manager, (4) as her mother walked her to nursery school. Design Education (New York) 1 week ago Speakers criticized L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and the L.A. City Council for lacking courage and conviction to put their leadership behind the Vision Zero NACTO, Director of Engagement (New York) 1 week ago policies they approved. In attendance were three pro-Vision Zero candidates hoping to be elected to the City Council in 2020. Project Manager, Station Access, BART (San Francisco) 2 weeks ago Safe streets advocates convening in front of City Hall this morning

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POST A JOB SEE MORE JOBS This morning’s Vision Zero die-in on the steps of L.A. City Hall

MOST RECENT SBLA wrote this Vision Zero recap in October – and sadly the situation remains

unchanged: Today’s Headlines

Vision Zero is an international effort to end all traffic deaths. The city of Los There is Still Structural Racism in Transportation: Report Angeles has a Vision Zero initiative, which debuted as an Eric Garcetti mayoral directive in 2015 and was later that year adopted as an official city Bay Area Air Quality Board Member Rides a Bike policy in the city’s Mobility Plan. Vision Zero was to be a multi-departmental to Meeting. Why Is this Newsworthy? initiative, led by the department of Transportation (LADOT) in collaboration Today’s Headlines with the LAPD, Cultural Affairs, Public Works, and others. Initial city Vision Red States Help U.S. Miss Climate Targets Zero efforts were spotty, poorly funded, and blocked by several pro-car councilmembers, including Gil Cedillo, Paul Koretz, Paul Krekorian, Mitch O’Farrell, Curren Price, and David Ryu. After Playa Del Rey safety improvements sparked a driver backlash in 2017, the city further watered down its already-weak efforts, shelving numerous planned life- saving improvements. As traffic deaths rise, the program survives in name, but as a hollow shell robbed of its early promise.

What will it take for Los Angeles’ Mayor Eric Garcetti and the L.A. City Council to take traffic deaths seriously?

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Garcetti Signs Vision Zero Directive to Vision Zero or Zero Vision? L.A. Needs Andres Perez Death Shows Need for End L.A. Traffic Deaths by 2025 to Change the Way It Thinks About North Figueroa Safety Improvements By Joe Linton | Aug 24, 2015 Safety By Joe Linton | Dec 16, 2015 Today, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signed a directive By Damien Newton | Mar 24, 2014 Tragedy has struck again on North Figueroa Street. [PDF] that commits city departments to Vision Zero. Cyclist John Philips was cycling in heavy traffic in the San Yesterday, traffic violence claimed the life of 17-year-old Specifically, the City of Los Angeles is committed Fernando Valley when he was hit from behind by an Andres Perez. Perez was walking to school, apparently not to reducing traffic fatalities to zero by the year 2025. A impatient driver. While the driver did try to run, heavy aware that local schools had been closed on account of a little over a year ago, it was difficult to find Los Angeles traffic allowed witnesses to photograph both him and his terror threat. He was in the crosswalk, crossing North agency staff, elected officials, or even individuals who […] vehicle. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) WAS Figueroa Street at Avenue 60 in Highland Park, when a summoned and a report was quickly taken. […] large Los […]

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