JERSEY CITY — A 77-point action plan aimed at eradicating traffic fatalities by 2026 won unanimous approval from the City Council on Thursday.

The city’s “Vision Zero” action plan was crafted after neighborhood groups pressured City Hall to take action on pedestrian safety. Ten of the county’s 23 traffic fatalities in 2018 were in Jersey City. That’s up from seven in 2008.

The plan recommends the city prioritize traffic safety projects on the “high injury network,” a collection of street segments identified as the most dangerous in the city. The network, which comprises 31 miles of city-controlled streets, was home to 38 fatalities and at least 125 serious injury crashes in the last decade.

The network includes the entirety of Montgomery Street, Communipaw Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive, plus long stretches of Baldwin, Central, Ocean and Summit avenues. Other stretches of roadway identified as the city’s most dangerous include the county-owned Kennedy Boulevard and state highways Routes 440 and 1&9.

Kara Hrabosky, president of Safe Streets JC, sat on the task force that helped create the action pan. Hrabosky said it was a “robust” process that she’s hopeful will lead to the city making meaningful change.

"My concern, as always, is it is so great they are focused on this and it's getting a lot of attention but how fast can we get things going?” she said.

Some of the other recommendations in the plan are adding more traffic calming measures to the city's speed hump program, like traffic circles and forced-turn barriers; developing "slow zones" that cap speed limits at 20 mph in some neighborhoods; and doubling the staff of the traffic safety unit of the police department, to 12 people.

The council in May approved a $189,429 contract to Boston-based Toole Design Group to consult with the city on the creation of the Vision Zero plan.

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