ORDINANCE NO. 240987
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Sponsor: Councilmember Eric Bunch
Appropriating funds in the amount of $500,000.00 for Vision Zero from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Mass Transportation Fund; directing the City Manager to engage a consultant to review and recommend necessary infrastructure improvements for the top 20 high injury streets; directing the City Manager to develop and implement a crosswalk compliance campaign; and recognizing this ordinance as having an accelerated effective date.
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WHEREAS, City Council adopted Vision Zero through Resolution 200019 on May 24, 2020; and
WHEREAS, the goal of Vision Zero is to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries on Kansas City's streets by 2030 while increasing safe, healthy, and equitable mobility for everyone; and
WHEREAS, 50 to 100 people are killed in traffic crashes in Kansas City each year and hundreds more are seriously injured; and
WHEREAS, pedestrians and other vulnerable road users are significantly overrepresented among those killed or seriously injured in traffic crashes; and
WHEREAS, serious traffic crashes and injuries are entirely preventable through better street design and data-driven enforcement; and
WHEREAS, streets are the public realm and should be designed to a higher standard as safe and comfortable places for all people, in order to equitably support the common good; and
WHEREAS, appropriately funding projects and methods contributing to the elimination of traffic fatalities and serious injuries advances established Vision Zero goals ; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That the sum of $500,000.00 is hereby appropriated for Vision Zero from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Public Mass Transportation Fund to the following account:
25-2080-897080-B-89008896 Vision Zero $500,000.00
Section 2. That t...
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