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From YouTube: County Board Wrap-Up: Vision Zero
Description
ATV's monthly conversation with Arlington County Board members on the major issues discussed at July's Board meeting
A
B
It's
not
futuristic,
but
it
is
European
at
least
that's
where
it
started.
It's
something
that
began
in
Sweden,
but
it's
an
international
approach
to
traffic
management
and
safety
in
40
localities
across
the
United
States,
including
our
neighbors
Alexandria,
Montgomery
County
and
the
district
have
become
a
part
of
the
vision,
zero
community
and
adopted
the
framework
that
says.
B
A
B
So
we
think
that
we're
very
much
in
the
spirit
of
vision,
zero,
but
what
we
hope
to
gain
from
it
are
the
best
practices
from
those
40
communities
in
the
country
and
many
more
around
the
world
where
we
can
figure
out
how
to
do
even
better,
because,
quite
frankly,
we
should
get
to
the
point
where
any
severe
injury
or
death
on
our
public
roadways
are
too
many.
And
that's
where
we
can
always
do
better.
And
we
should
do
better
and.
C
One
of
actions
that
we
took
was
not
just
adopting
this
resolution
and
the
board
policy
level
commitment
to
it,
but
we
tasked
the
manager,
the
county
manager
and
staff
to
come
up
with
an
implementation
plan
which
they'll
be
working
on
over
the
next
12
to
18
months,
with
a
draft
completion
date
in
fall
of
2020.
The
goal
is,
of
course,
to
engage
our
citizens,
but
also
to
engage
interdepartmental
II.
C
There
was
a
lot
of
community
push
to
adopt
vision,
zero,
for
example,
as
part
of
the
bike
element,
update
of
the
master
transportation
plan
and
one
of
the
things
that
we
heard
loud
and
clear
from
our
experts
and
a
number
of
well
informed
citizen
stakeholders
was
that
if
you
make
it
a
bike
priority,
then
that
really
limits
all
of
the
interdepartmental
folks
and
all
of
the
different
types
of
stakeholders
that
need
to
be
involved
in
the
conversation.
So
that
is
the
conversation.
C
C
A
B
That's
excellent
and
we
don't
exactly
know.
We
suspect
that
it's
gonna
be
a
lot
of
what
we
do
now,
but
may
be
refined
and
under
a
better,
more
comprehensive
focus.
So
I
think
we
have
some
of
the
best
roadway
design
and
engineering
folks
who
work
in
local
government
anywhere
around
I
think
they
do
a
tremendous
job
accommodating
all
of
our
various
uses.
Users,
but
there's
still
probably
work
that
they
can
do
the
biggest
piece
that
I
at
least
see
coming
from.
This
is
a
public
awareness
approach
to
this.
B
You
know
when
we
typically
hear
from
people
about
traffic
issues,
it's
about
a
spot
issue.
You
know
here's
a
problematic
intersection
or
here's
an
area
where
I
don't
feel
safe.
Can
you
fix
that
area?
Part
of
I
think
what
vision
zero
is
going
to
do
is
to
figure
out
how
we
can
better
engineer
those
design,
those
roadways,
but
also
how
we
can
better
edge
people
s
to
the
hazards
and
the
concerns
and
to
to
see
that
there's
different
behavior
from
them.
C
C
It
recognizes
that
there
gonna
be
people
who
are
distracted
on
their
cell
phones
tending
to
a
passenger,
we're
talking
to
a
passenger,
and
so
how
do
you
create
again
to
use
that
example
of
the
intersection
that
has
the
visual
cues
or
the
physical
Clues
cues
that
slow
that
vehicle
down,
so
that
if
there
is
an
interaction
on
an
unexpected
interaction
or
distracted
driver,
the
speeds
are
slow
enough.
The
visual
cues
are
enough
that
you
know
that
those
brakes
can
be
tapped
fast
enough
to
avoid
a
collision,
because.