Transportation

Chicago's Ambitious Plan for Zero Traffic Fatalities

Can a city reduce the number of deaths to zero?
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What would happen if a United States city decided it was going to reduce the traffic deaths within its borders not by 10 percent, or 50 percent, or even 80 percent, but by 100 percent – all the way to zero. What would happen then?

In Chicago, we’re about to find out.