Project Summary
In 2018, the Contra Costa Transportation Authority approved the Countywide Bicycle & Pedestrian Plan (CBPP), which included recommendation to develop a framework for a countywide Vision Zero policy and implementation program. Subsequently, in 2019, the Contra Costa Transportation Authority crafted a Transportation Expenditure Plan (TEP) to extend the existing 30-year countywide 1/2-cent sales tax, called Measure J, which was originally approved by county voters in 2004. The purpose of seeking this measure extension was to create significant, reliable funding for on-going and future programs and projects to meet the evolving mobility demands of a growing county and Bay Area region.

Among other innovative initiatives, the Draft TEP sought to include innovative policy and programs for a safer mobility network, including Vision Zero. My role was to write the mobility Vision Zero policy language to be included in the TEP, from which drew upon successful research and implementation championed by the Vision Zero Network and the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO). In anticipation of placing the TEP on the March 2020 General Elections ballot for voter review and approval, I was subsequently involved in scoping the Vision Zero Framework & Systemic Safety Approach study.

While the TEP did not pass by the required supermajority (67%) to extend the Measure J sales tax measure, the Authority continued to act on the CBPP recommendation to develop Vision Zero policy and has successfully published several policy and programming documents to facilitate safer countywide mobility, now and into the future (see below).