Reducing local traffic deaths and injuries through a national initiative [Video]

RELEASED HIM UNTIL HIS NEXT HEARING IN SEPTEMBER. HAPPENING NOW A PROJECT DESIGNED TO REDUCE PEDESTRIAN DEATHS IN ALBUQUERQUE. PEYTON SPELLACY JOINS US IN STUDIO HERE. SO, PEYTON, THIS IS PART OF A BIGGER PUSH TO PROTECT PEDESTRIANS NATIONWIDE. IT IS TAUGHT IN ROYALE. CONSTRUCTION STARTED ON LOUISIANA FROM CENTRAL TO GIBSON TWO WEEKS AGO. IT’S A PART OF VISION ZERO, WHICH IS A NATIONAL INITIATIVE TO REDUCE ALL TRAFFIC DEATHS BY 2040. ALBUQUERQUE ADOPTED THE PROGRAM BACK IN 2019. THE CITY HAS A TOOL THAT USES DATA ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY MORE DANGEROUS ROADS IN ALBUQUERQUE. ABOUT 41% OF FATALITIES HAPPEN ON 24 MAJOR ROADS, ACCORDING TO VISION ZERO LOUISIANA. FROM CENTRAL TO GIBSON IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THREE DEATHS IN NEARLY 400 INJURIES FROM 2017 TO 2021. HERE IS HOW THEY ARE CHANGING THE STREET TO LOWER THOSE NUMBERS. SO WHAT WE’RE DOING HERE IS KIND OF A MULTIFACETED APPROACH, …