SCM 1002
Initials LM/KL Page 1 Transportation & Infrastructure
ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
Senate: PS DP 4-3-0-0 | 3rd Read 17-12-1-0
SCM1002: vision zero; transportation planning
Sponsor: Senator Werner, LD 4
Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure
Overview
Urges the President, and the Congress of the United States to eliminate Vision Zero and
instead promote transportation solutions that prioritize sound engineering methods, reliable
safety outcomes, flexibility and engineering innovation.
History
Vision Zero is a strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing
safe and healthy equitable mobility for all. It was first implemented in Sweden in the 1990s
and is now implemented in multiple cities across Europe and in some major American cities.
Vision Zero uses the Safe System Approach which involves:
1) preventing crashes;
2) improving human behavior;
3) controlling speeding;
4) sharing responsibility; and
5) reacting based on crash history.
Provisions
1. Urges the President and Congress of the United States to eliminate Vision Zero and the
safe systems approach to transportation planning and funding, and instead promote
transportation solutions that prioritize sound engineering methods, reliable safety
outcomes, flexibility and engineering innovation without compromising individual
freedoms or economic efficiency.
2. Urges the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona to transmit copies of this Memorial
to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and each Member of Congress
from the State of Arizona.
☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note