Vision Zero: Zero Traffic Deaths?

Some interesting reading on the subject of traffic safety.

http://www.postwritersgroup.com/archives/peir070923.htm

VISION ZEROFOR TRAFFIC DEATHS:
WILD DREAM OR CRITICAL GOAL?

By Neal Peirce

Vision Zero-- no more deaths from highway accidents.
The idea was born in Sweden, where its had spectacular success in reducing traffic fatalities. Now zeroing out all traffic fatalities must become an explicit U.S. and worldwide goal. Otherwise we have no prospect of taming the appalling roadway death toll -- 42,000 lives lost yearly in the United States, close to 1.2 million worldwide....