35 people, safer vehicles, safer speeds, safer roads, and postcrash care. “We must do everything in our power to make our roads safer for everyone, regardless of how you travel,” said Louisville mayor Craig Greenberg in a statement. “Vision Zero is a new way of thinking, and it is achievable.” With projects in place to construct safer roads, Vision Zero Louisville next focused on safer speeds. “We identified and filtered the highest posted speed limits and evaluated them for crash reduction,” Yates said. A preliminary audit identified seven stretches where the posted speed limit was above 35 miles per hour. From 2016 to 2022, four people were killed and 27 people were seriously injured on those stretches. The city is now going through the process of reducing speeds on those roadways. As transportation safety advocate Janet Heston of Matthew’s Bridge noted at Louisville’s inaugural commemoration of World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, “No reset button can be pressed to bring back those killed. The best way to honor them is by making our streets safer.” Equity and Social Justice Map analysis reveals where fatal and serious injury crash density (2013–2017) corresponds with USDOT disadvantaged census tracts. Louisville identified 10 project corridors in disadvantaged census tracts in need of traffic safety attention.
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