Watch NPR host Korva Coleman’s Sept 28th short video on Instagram to learn how Hoboken, New Jersey used simple, affordable street changes to achieve #VisionZero. Hoboken, a community with a population the size of West Hartford, has had 0 traffic fatalities in the past 4 years, during the same timeframe when these fatalities grew significantly elsewhere across the nation. Strategies such as reconfiguring intersections, retiming crosswalk signals, and educating the community has yielded major improvements. The positive impact of these changes have the Hoboken community demanding more improvements from their city leaders. Also, read or listen to the Aug 25th companion story on NPR.
