Vision Zero Initiative
What is Vision Zero?
Vision Zero is an approach to transportation safety that seeks to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries by creating a safer transportation system for everyone. Vision Zero recognizes that people make mistakes and that transportation systems should be designed and managed to prevent those mistakes from resulting in death or serious injury.
Learn more about Vision Zero and the Safe System Approach:
Monroe County Vision Zero Initiative
Monroe County is committed to making transportation safer for everyone - people who walk, bike, use mobility devices, take transit, drive, and use other modes of transportation.
The County's Vision Zero Initiative brings together existing and new safety efforts under a coordinated approach. It emphasizes data-driven decision-making, safer roadway design, appropriate speeds, education and enforcement, and collaboration across jurisdictions and agencies.
The initiative builds on Monroe County's ongoing transportation safety work, including the Countywide Active Transportation Plan, the Community Traffic Safety Team, Safe Routes to School, traffic safety programs, and regional and local road safety plans.
Mission
To work collaboratively across agencies and communities to prevent traffic deaths, serious injuries, and create a safer transportation system for everyone in Monroe County.
Goals
Improve Safety: Identify and address locations, behaviors, and systemic factors associated with fatal and serious injury crashes.
Coordinate Efforts: Strengthen collaboration among County, municipal, state, regional, public safety, transportation, and community partners.
Support Safe System Strategies: Promote roadway designs, speeds, policies, and practices that reduce the likelihood and severity of crashes.
Expand Education and Awareness: Increase public awareness of safe transportation behaviors and shared responsibility for roadway safety.
Use Data to Guide Action: Use crash data and other information to identify priorities, evaluate strategies, and track progress.
Advance Local Safety Efforts: Support municipalities and partner agencies in developing and implementing transportation safety strategies.
Vision Zero Task Force
Member Agencies
The Task Force includes representatives from County departments, City Vision Zero, Town and Village representative, community partner organizations.
Member agencies include:
- Monroe County Department of Planning and Development
- Monroe County Department of Transportation
- Monroe County Department of Public Safety
- Genesee Transportation Council
- New York State Department of Transportation
- City of Rochester
- Local municipalities and transportation partners
- Law enforcement and emergency response partners
- Public health and community organizations
- Advocacy Groups and Citizen Member
- Other agencies and organizations with a role in transportation safety
Click to view the full member list as of October 2026
Member agency list will be updated as the Task Force develops.
Role of the Task Force
- Coordinate transportation safety initiatives and identify opportunities for collaboration.
- Share information, data, and best practices among participating agencies.
- Identify and discuss significant traffic safety challenges across Monroe County.
- Help align safety planning, education, engineering, enforcement, and other strategies.
- Identify opportunities to leverage existing programs and resources.
- Support implementation of Vision Zero and Safe System strategies.
- Help identify gaps and opportunities for future transportation safety initiatives.
- Provide a forum for ongoing communication among agencies working to improve roadway safety.
The Task Force is intended to complement—not replace—existing transportation safety programs and agency responsibilities.
Meetings
The Vision Zero Task Force will meet periodically to discuss transportation safety priorities, ongoing initiatives, data and trends, and opportunities for collaboration. The Task force will help guide the County's Vision Zero Initative.
Kick-Off Meeting: October 22, 2026
Transportation Safety Projects & Programs
- Countywide Active Transportation Plan
- Local Road Safety Plan
- Community Traffic Safety Team
- Child Walk Bike Education Program
- School Bus Safety Program
- Monroe County Traffic Safety Board
- ROC Vision Zero
Community Traffic Safety Team (CTST) Story Map - Uniting for Safer Streets
This series of stories highlights the conditions that led to the formation of the CTST, summarizes community-reported concerns, and showcases how coordinated efforts are improving roadway safety and informing future action.
