LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The Las Vegas City Council approved lowering the speed limit on portions of Centennial Parkway as part of the city’s Vision Zero effort to reduce deadly and serious-injury crashes.
The city’s Transportation Engineering Division conducted a speed study on Centennial Parkway between Shaumber Road and Centennial Center Boulevard ahead of the change.
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Vision Zero is a traffic-safety strategy aimed at eliminating traffic deaths and severe injuries, while improving safe and equitable travel for everyone.
The idea is that while drivers make mistakes, streets can be designed and managed to keep those mistakes from turning deadly.
City leaders say crashes in Las Vegas have been rising due to distracted driving, speeding, impairment, construction impacts, and failure to obey traffic signals and signs. The city averages about one traffic fatality and three to four serious injuries each week.
Las Vegas’ Vision Zero Action Plan includes strategies to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2050.
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