Date: June 22, 2023
Author(s): Michael Rosen
Abstract
In 2015, then-Mayor Eric Garcetti signed Executive Directive 10, launching Los Angeles’s Vision Zero initiative and setting the goal of reducing traffic fatalities to zero by the year 2025. While Los Angeles still has time to reach this goal, it appears near-impossible today: Last year, traffic fatalities hit their highest mark in the last two decades (Smith, 2023). Given the lack of concrete results from Vision Zero to date, this capstone considers one of the primary tools that the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has at its disposal for improving safety outcomes: the traditional road diet.
About the Project
This capstone project was completed in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Urban & Regional Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.