The New Orleans Safety Action Plan begins with a bold commitment: 15 YEARS to ZERO. That is, by 2041 the City and its transportation partners will eliminate death and serious injuries on New Orleans Streets. Accomplishing this goal will require a fundamental shift in local priorities to a Safe System Approach that values safety over speed, reflected in decision-making and actions on land uses, transportation planning, design, operations, and maintenance.
This Plan examines the problem of traffic safety and emphasizes the changes needed to improve the everyday experiences of people traveling to and through New Orleans. More than that, however, this Plan is a blueprint for action: a roadmap for effecting change for greatest impact, identifying highest-priority corridors, effective countermeasures, and strategies to create a culture of safety, encompassing infrastructure and policy, design and engineering, planning and funding. As a roadmap, it is also a living document: as actions are taken, this Plan must be dynamic to continue to effectively address safety. This Plan is a starting point, not an exhaustive list.
The chapters that follow provide the background, strategies, and first steps. Carrying this forward rests with all of New Orleans: its elected officials, stakeholders, local government staff, and the many committed residents and community members that call it home.
Full Safety Action Plan
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Individual Chapters can be found below:
Project Updates
The City of New Orleans Safety Action Plan Fact Sheet can be found here.