Vision Zero Chapel Hill

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Whether you're driving, walking, or cycling, your input is important.

“Vision Zero Chapel Hill” is a local initiative to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2031. Through traffic safety solutions and equitable mobility options for all, Vision Zero uses strategies informed by data to increase road safety to prevent serious injury and decrease crashes. These are the three main pillars of Vision Zero in Chapel Hill:

  1. Guiding town-wide policies for transportation planning, the design of streets and sidewalks, the maintenance of public rights-of-way, and traffic enforcement;
  2. Working with the community to create “Safe Routes to School”; and
  3. Prioritizing the safety of all road users in transportation decisions, with a special emphasis on vulnerable road users.

For additional information and data, the Town has created a Vision Zero Dashboard that shows bicycle and pedestrian-involved crashes between 2007-2024. Availability of data varies by year. Crashes include UNC Police and CHPD reports. Bicycle data begins in 2019.

Whether you're driving, walking, or cycling, your input is important.

“Vision Zero Chapel Hill” is a local initiative to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2031. Through traffic safety solutions and equitable mobility options for all, Vision Zero uses strategies informed by data to increase road safety to prevent serious injury and decrease crashes. These are the three main pillars of Vision Zero in Chapel Hill:

  1. Guiding town-wide policies for transportation planning, the design of streets and sidewalks, the maintenance of public rights-of-way, and traffic enforcement;
  2. Working with the community to create “Safe Routes to School”; and
  3. Prioritizing the safety of all road users in transportation decisions, with a special emphasis on vulnerable road users.

For additional information and data, the Town has created a Vision Zero Dashboard that shows bicycle and pedestrian-involved crashes between 2007-2024. Availability of data varies by year. Crashes include UNC Police and CHPD reports. Bicycle data begins in 2019.

  • West Rosemary Street Crosswalk Gateways

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    Town staff installed crosswalk gateways using flexible posts this week on West Rosemary Street from Mitchell Lane to Pritchard Avenue to address speeding drivers and issues with drivers not yielding to people trying to walk in the crosswalk.

    What are crosswalk gateways for?

    • Crosswalk gateways use flexible posts or similar infrastructure to narrow the drivers' field of vision to encourage slower driving speeds. They work especially well when grouped along multiple blocks rather than placed at a single crosswalk.
    • When driving slower, your reaction time increases, making it easier to notice people crossing the street and yielding to them.

    What's next?

    • Staff will measure vehicle speeds and the rate of drivers that yield for people walking to determine whether the crosswalk gateways address these issues.
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