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Vision Zero: Eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries

Program
Public Works
Through the Vision Zero program, Portland Bureau of Transportation and our partners are working to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries on our streets.
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Featured content

Adults and caregivers — one wearing a reflective Vision Zero safety vest — walk ahead of and behind a group of elementary students.

About Vision Zero

A black and white image of an adult using a wheelchair ready to cross a busy street using a marked crosswalk with orange overlaid.

How we are making streets safe through Vision Zero

A line of yellow safety bollards between opposing lanes of vehicle traffic lanes.

Sign up for email updates on Vision Zero

Map of Portland including the borders of council districts and noting the first names of victims in the approximate location of 2025 deadly crashes.

Annual Deadly Traffic Crash Report

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Portland Vision Zero Action Plan

Two elementary school aged girls walk across a crosswalk with a woman and a black dog on a sunny day.

Annual Vision Zero Action Plan Progress Report

A sign reading "CAUTION High Crash Intersection SLOW DOWN" is posted ahead of one of the high crash intersections on 122nd Avenue. Photo by PBOT.

High Crash Network streets and intersections

The legs of three pedestrians with long pants and Converse and Vans shoes walking on a sidewalk abutting greenery.

Vision Zero data

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Vision Zero’s Safe System approach

A map highlighting Vision Zero projects in Portland, Oregon.

Guide to the Vision Zero dashboard

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Speed and intersection safety cameras

A large GMC pickup truck dwarfs the size of a 5' 10" adult in a parking lot at night.

Top contributing factors to traffic deaths

Updating speed limit signs on a Portland street.

Speed limits

A person bicycling in the green protected bike lane, adjacent to a yellow and black bus platform and red Rose Lane for buses on SE Hawthorne Boulevard, east of Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard.

Evaluating traffic safety projects

Kids and an adult playing on a street at a street fair.

Personal safety on our streets

Variable message sign protected by orange and white cones placed on the side of a four lane street with the message "Traffic Death 11/18/19" displayed.

Deadly traffic crash response

The aftermath of a traffic crash on a two-way four lane street. A pedestrian crossing sign and signal push button are destroyed and on the ground.

Resources for traffic crash victims and family members

Intersection on NE Alberta Street with crosswalks and people walking

Report non-urgent traffic safety concerns

A pile of white and orange Vision Zero pins.

Request free Vision Zero stickers, pins, brochures, and fliers

A photo of two SLOW DOWN Vision Zero yard signs in a green lawn.

Pick up a free Vision Zero yard sign at the Portland Building

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Take the Vision Zero pledge

Contact

PBOT Vision Zero

visionzero@portlandoregon.gov
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News

News Release: Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day responsibly with PBOT’s Safe Ride Home program

Discounts on taxi, Uber & Lyft rides March 13-17

Updated Press release

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Events

Safe Ride Home St. Patrick's Day Weekend 2026

Safe Ride Home - Get up to $20 off a taxi ride with paper coupon or $10 off an Uber or Lyft ride with digital coupon for rides starting in Portland. Valid Friday, March 13 through Tuesday, March 17. Valid times are 6 p.m. through 2:30 a.m. each day. While supplies last.

– 6:00 pm – 2:30 am
Community event
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