About the Initiative

Vision Zero is a holistic strategy that seeks to eliminate avoidable loss of life by promoting health, safety, and mobility equity.

The City of Toledo, in partnership with the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments and the Ohio Department of Transportation, will work to reduce roadway fatalities to zero by the year 2031.

Read the Action Plan

See the Presentation

High Injury Network

What We Are Doing

The City of Toledo incorporates various countermeasures in our street construction projects to encourage slower speeds and reduce chances of fatal and serious injury crashes. We are focused on speed management, pedestrian and bike safety, access management, and intersection safety.

Things we always include:

1. High visibility crosswalk bars
2. Shorten pedestrian crssing by repositioning pedestrian ramps
3. Repair existing sidewalks and add new sidewalks to the network

Things we include whenever we can:

1. Add parking bump-outs to shorten crossing distance, calm traffic, and protect on-street parking
2. Add median islands for pedestrian refuge, traffic calming and access management
3. Encourage slower speeds by appropriately sizing lane widths
4. Add bike lanes and milti-use paths
5. Add mid-block crossings
6. Redesign roadways, allocating space for multi-modal uses
7. Add other traffic calming elements like roundabouts, raised crosswalks, and street trees
8. Speed limit reduction

Vision Zero Committee

In 2024, the City created a Vision Zero Committee with four sub-committees including Equity, Safety, Data, and Culture Change.