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Vision Zero Santa Barbara

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A Smarter Way to Approach Traffic Safety!

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About Vision Zero

Vision Zero is a strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries in Santa Barbara by 2030 while enhancing safe, healthy, and equitable mobility for all.

Vision Zero is about evolving our thinking about what causes traffic-related collisions and how to prevent them. Traditionally, traffic fatalities and severe injuries have been viewed as “accidents,” yet each traffic-related collision has a cause and can be prevented. Vision Zero regards traffic collisions as a policy problem addressed through focused evaluation, education, engineering, and enforcement.

Safety-First Four E's

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Serious and Fatal Collisions Heat Maps

Heat map of collisions resulting in serious or fatal injuries from 2018.
Heat map of collisions resulting in serious or fatal injuries from 2019.
Heat map of collisions resulting in serious or fatal injuries from 2020
Heat map of collisions resulting in serious or fatal injuries from 2021

The Serious and Fatal Collisions Heat Maps show the locations of all collisions resulting in serious injuries and fatalities over a ten-year period. The areas in red have the highest numbers of collisions, whereas the yellow and green represent lower numbers. The data represented and community feedback from the collision prone areas help City staff develop approaches to cool the maps over time, thus getting closer to zero fatalities and serious injuries.

Image with "Guided by core principals" typed over a large pink number 7. Seven icons are lined above the sentence, "Guided by 7 core principals. Seven core principles will guide transportation-related decision-making, planning, designing, and enforcement in Santa Barbara." A button reading "read more" is below the sentence.

What We're Doing

Light Up the Night!
MOVE Santa Barbara County is resurrecting its annual Iluminando La Noche (Light Up the Night) campaign. From Monday, November 3 through Friday, November 7, 2025, MOVE volunteers will host evening events across the South Coast to distribute…
What We've Done Since 2018 With Vision Zero
The Public Works and Police Departments created a preliminary list of actions in 2018 for the top priority corridors based on identified safety concerns included in the Santa Barbara Vision Zero Strategy that was adopted by City Council in…
Slow Your Roll to Stay Safe on State!
With the summer season and Old Spanish Days Fiesta attracting walkers, bikers, and drivers Downtown, the City encourages everyone to “Stay Safe on State” and “Slow Your Roll.”  By obeying traffic laws, slowing down, and yielding to…
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Planning Efforts

5 icons demonstrating Safe System Elements. Icons are captioned as: Safe Road Users (Person crossing crosswalk), Safe Vehicles (Bus and car), Safe Speeds (Car speedometer), Safe Roads (Car on a road), Post-Crash Care (First aid kit)
Safe Streets for All Action Plan
The City of Santa Barbara is developing a city-wide Safe Streets for All Action Plan (Action Plan). The Action Plan aims to make Santa Barbara’s streets safer by preventing traffic fatalities and serious injuries, and by increasing safe…

Projects

Castillo Undercrossing from afar.
Castillo Street Undercrossing Bicycle and Pedestrian Facility Improvements
The City received a Measure A grant to develop a concept design for bicycle and pedestrian facility improvements at the approaches to the Castillo Street undercrossing at U.S. Highway 101.
Crosswalk at the intersection of Mission and Chapala Street
Chapala Street Vision Zero Project
In 2018, City Council adopted the Santa Barbara Vision Zero Strategy, which aims to eliminate all traffic-related fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe, healthy, and equitable mobility for all. Most traffic-related deaths…
Cliff Drive road between Oliver and Meigs Roads
Cliff Drive Vision Zero Project
The City of Santa Barbara is developing a project to increase safety along the Cliff Drive corridor. A high number of repeat collisions in this corridor make safety modifications a high priority. Community feedback over the years has also…
Milpas Intersection, pedestrians in crosswalk as vehicles share the intersection.
Milpas Street Crosswalk Safety and Sidewalk Widening Project
Milpas Street is a busy arterial street in the Eastside neighborhood with five lanes of traffic carrying over 23,000 vehicles per day. Milpas ranks #2 in the City for the highest number of pedestrian-involved collisions. As a result, City…
Rendering of the design for the State Street Undercrossing - View of the roadway with bollards.
Vision Zero State Street Undercrossing Project
The U.S. 101 State Street Undercrossing (Undercrossing) has among the highest concentrations of serious injuries to pedestrians and cyclists in the City of Santa Barbara (City).The Vision Zero State Street Undercrossing Project (Project)…

Contact Us:
630 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
VisionZero@SantaBarbaraCA.gov