Vision Zero Recommitment

The problem

Every Tampa family has a street they fear — the crossing their kid can't make safely, the intersection where a neighbor was hit. Too many of our worst crash corridors are state roads, which means the city has talked about safety while the deadliest streets sat outside its control. Residents deserve a mayor who commits to zero deaths and says plainly which streets take partners to fix.

The plan

The administration formally recommits Tampa to Vision Zero — the public goal of eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries — with a published action plan that names the highest-crash corridors, assigns an owner to each, and reports progress on a fixed cadence.

Where corridors are state roads, the plan names FDOT as the required partner and carries corridor-specific asks into that relationship: slower design speeds, protected crossings, and signal fixes — tracked publicly whether or not the state agrees.

How you’ll know it’s working

• Published Vision Zero action plan with named corridor owners
• Annual reduction in traffic deaths and serious injuries on city-controlled streets
• Public log of FDOT asks and responses on state-road corridors
• Fixes completed at the highest-crash intersections

From the Blueprint

• Intersection Simplification Task Force: Public Works leads design; TPD supplies crash data; Planning aligns land use.
• Within 90 days the task force names the highest-injury intersections by severity, frequency, and pedestrian involvement.
• Top 10 intersections identified in 3 months; quick-build interventions deployed in 6-12 months.
• Public High-Injury Network Dashboard goes live within 6 months, built by the City Insights Office.
• Quick-build toolkit: painted curb extensions, temporary medians, refuge islands, daylighting corners.
• Applies for Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) federal grants; proven fixes folded into the CIP.

I want Tampa to be a city where getting home is not the most dangerous part of someone's day.