Vision Zero Madison Releases New Progress Report
The City of Madison released the 2023-2024 Vision Zero Madison Progress Report, providing an update on the community's efforts to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries on Madison streets while creating safer travel for all road users.
The report outlines key accomplishments, emerging trends, and areas requiring continued attention as the City advances its Vision Zero commitment through engineering, education, enforcement, and community engagement strategies. Traffic fatalities on City-Controlled roadways declined by 58% since the launch of Vision Zero Madison in 2020, but ongoing safety challenges remain.
“Every serious crash represents a real person, family, and community impacted," said Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway. “This report helps us understand where progress is being made and where continued investment is needed to make our streets safer for everyone who walks, bikes, drives, rolls, or uses transit in Madison."
Highlights of the upcoming report include:
- Progress on speed management and traffic calming initiatives
- Improvements to pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure
- Public education and outreach efforts
- Updated crash and safety trend data
Like the previous progress report, this report includes crash data for all roadways within City of Madison boundaries (Citywide). However, due to diverging data trends, this report also separates fatal and serious injury crash data within the City of Madison into two subsets:
- City-Controlled: crashes that occur on roadways fully-controlled or partially-controlled by the City of Madison, and
- Not-City-Controlled: crashes that occur on roadways controlled by partner jurisdictions
Fatal crash rates in the City of Madison (Citywide) are decreasing. Looking at these two subsets independently, we see that the rate of decrease is much more pronounced on city-controlled roadways, while fatal crash rates on not-city-controlled roadways are actually increasing.
While our overall goal to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries on all Madison streets has not changed, this subset data provides strong evidence that the City's Vision Zero efforts are effective, making roadways safer for all users. We hope to work closely with our partner jurisdictions to implement some of these effective strategies on all roadways within the City.
Since adopting Vision Zero, Madison has implemented a variety of safety-focused initiatives designed to reduce crashes and encourage safer travel behaviors. These efforts include neighborhood speed reductions, enhanced pedestrian crossings, protected bicycle infrastructure, intersection improvements, and public awareness campaigns focused on dangerous driving behaviors.
These efforts are only possible through continued collaboration among City agencies, public safety partners, stakeholders, and community members.
The full Vision Zero Madison Progress Report is available on the
Community members are encouraged to review the report and stay engaged in ongoing efforts to improve transportation safety throughout Madison.