Vision Zero Strategy

Overview

Vision Zero Strategy – Ending Road Death and Life-Changing Injury on Greater Manchester’s roads

Almost 10,000 people have been killed or suffered life-changing injuries on Greater Manchester’s roads in the last 10 years. Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has now endorsed a draft Vison Zero Strategy for the city-region. It aims to eliminate road death and life-changing injury by 2040, with a target to achieve a 50 per cent reduction by 2030. The intention is to increase safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.

Development of the Greater Manchester Vison Zero Strategy and Action Plan is being led by Safer Roads Greater Manchester Partnership, made up of the GMCA, the 10 Greater Manchester local authorities, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Police, Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service and National Highways. Your views can help to further shape the Vision Zero Strategy and Action Plan

About Vision Zero and the Safe System approach

Image credit: Agilysis (2023) building on models from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Loughborough University

• Vision Zero is a strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and life-changing injuries, while increasing safe, healthy and equitable mobility for all. First implemented in Sweden in the 1990s, Vision Zero has been adopted in other areas across Europe, the United States and the UK. In the UK, Vision Zero has been adopted in several local authority areas, including regions neighbouring Greater Manchester like West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Lancashire and the Liverpool City Region.
• Greater Manchester’s Vision Zero Strategy looks to adopt the Safer System approach to road safety. A Safe System is one where people, vehicles and the road infrastructure interact in a way that secures a high level of safety for all. While it is inevitable that there will always be road traffic collisions, adopting the Safe System approach means that the impact of a collision can be minimal, saving lives and preventing life-changing injuries.

To read the draft Vision Zero Strategy for Greater Manchester in full please click here:

Vision Zero Strategy - Greater Manchester Combined Authority (greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk)

Why your views matter

Sharing your experiences and suggestions will help us to get a better understanding of what we need to do to achieve the ambitions set out in draft Vision Zero Strategy. Further engagement will take place on the Vision Zero Action Plan later in the year.

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