Explainer
Growing up and growing old in a city designed for drivers
Vision Zero starts with supporting people most excluded by car dependence - children and seniors
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What does success look like with a Vision Zero approach?
A member of our Vision Zero community posed a great question recently: "what other cities of comparable size have a zero-death record?" This got us thinking - what does success actually look like with Vision Zero and what can we learn from other cities that have achieved it?
Call to Action
What gets counted matters: Road safety, reporting, and the enforcement gap
Over 160 reports suggest that dangerous driving is normalised on HRM streets, while too many incidents remain absent from official road safety data.
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Vision Zero without a goal is not Vision Zero
‘Business as usual is a business of death’ was the grim but accurate assessment of global road deaths by the UN’s Special Envoy for Road Safety, Jean Todt, at the first General Assembly meeting on road safety, where members voted to halve road deaths by 2030.
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Challenging the assumption that road deaths are the price of mobility
Words matter. The language we use to describe traffic crashes shapes how the public understands road safety, who is held accountable, and what solutions are considered possible.
Vision Zero
The price tags we notice and those we ignore
Two multi-vehicle crashes on Highway 102 show why the high cost of collisions must be considered when governments decide that road safety investments are too expensive.
Call to Action
Before the Crash: The First 100 responses to our Incident Report Form paint a worrying picture
On April 10, 2026, Vision Zero Kjipuktuk-Halifax launched an online incident safety report form for people who walk, cycle, roll or use other modes of micromobility or mobility aids to report any close calls or near misses they experience in the HRM. We did this because these road safety
Call to Action
Two More Preventable Deaths in under one week
Vision Zero Kjipuktuk/Halifax asks: Why do our streets continue to allow simple human mistakes to kill people?
Call to Action
Two serious pedestrian incidents in two days raise questions
Two serious crashes in two days are reported to have resulted in significant injury to pedestrians, one a child aged 14, the second a senior aged 72. Overall, 22% of fatal and injury crash victims in the HRM are vulnerable road users, despite being involved in only 4% of overall
Vision Zero
Why Vision Zero?
2025 was the deadliest year on the roads of Kjipuktuk (Halifax) in a decade, with 20 people confirmed to have been killed as of August 2025. This is unacceptable. Our elected officials have a moral and legal imperative to act in the public interest with public money and prevent avoidable