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City of Norwalk and NPS Recognized for Vision Zero Practices

City of Norwalk and NPS Recognized for Vision Zero Practices
NPS Communications

On behalf of the Vision Zero Council, Garrett Eucalitto, the commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Transportation, recognized the City of Norwalk on Sept. 13 for its commitment to Vision Zero practices in collaboration with Norwalk Public Schools.

The Vision Zero Council is an interagency work group tasked with developing state-wide policy to eliminate transportation-related fatalities and severe injuries involving pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, motorists, and passengers.

Through the City of Norwalk’s Safety Action Plan, Norwalk’s Department of Transportation, Mobility and Parking (TMP) is working on planning, developing, and implementing projects and activities that will improve safety, reduce traffic and positively impact fuel consumption and air pollution in the vicinity of schools.

TMP has worked in collaboration with Norwalk Public Schools and the CT Department of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School Office to conduct walk audits at Fox Run Elementary School and Cranbury Elementary School. The goal of these walk audits was to engage faculty, staff and students in those school communities to identify and help plan improvements to ensure students can travel safely to and from school using accessible pedestrian walkways, proper safety mechanisms and road safety education that encourages children to walk and bike to school.

Thanks to the city’s commitment to Safe Routes to School, more students can travel safely to and from school using these accessible modes of transportation.

Norwalk’s commitment to safe, accessible transportation for everyone is a reflection of the city’s shift toward a more inclusive and equitable future that expands safety for different modes of transportation.

The City of Norwalk and Norwalk Public Schools give special thanks to Jim Travers and Garrett Bolella, the director and assistant director of TMP, respectively, who have developed Norwalk's Safety Action Plan that targets crucial areas with expanded pedestrian, cyclist and driver safety improvements. Thank you as well to Jill Kress, NPS Wellness Committee chair, and Johanna Zanvettor, NPS Transportation, who have assisted in the planning and volunteering for many Safe Routes to School events and activities.

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