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9 1. Introduction Local Road Safety Plan Background A Local Road Safety Plan (LRSP) is a guide to understanding transportation safety issues citywide in San Leandro using an approach informed by collision data. The LRSP identifies San Leandro’s unique roadway safety needs and a corresponding suite of related safety enhancements. As those safety enhancements are implemented, they will move the City toward achieving its goal of zero traffic fatalities and severe injury collisions on San Leandro’s streets. These goals and policies are also consistent with the statewide California Strategic Highway Safety Plan and the United States Department of Transportation’s (US DOT’s) National Roadway Safety Strategy. The process of preparing an LRSP facilitates the development of local agency partnerships and collaboration, providing a road map of strategies to be implemented by a variety of departments and agencies. The LRSP offers a proactive approach to addressing safety needs and demonstrates San Leandro’s responsiveness to safety challenges. This LRSP will assist the City when it applies for safety infrastructure funding sources. For example, the statewide Cycle 11 Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) requires applicants to have an LRSP, and the US DOT’s Safe Streets for All (SS4A) funding cycle requires a comprehensive safety action plan, such as an LRSP, for an agency to be eligible to apply for funds. The Safe System Approach California is in the process of adopting the Safe System approach with a focus on equity as part of its Strategic Highway Safety Plan. This LRSP’s focus on the Safe System approach helps to provide alignment with current LRSP guidelines, but also sets the City of San Leandro up for success in recognition of emerging safety best practices and helping achieve the City’s Vision Zero goals. Through collective action on the part of all roadway system stakeholders – from system operators and vehicle manufacturers, to law enforcement and everyday users – we can use elements of the Safe System approach to holistically and effectively address the most pressing roadway safety issues in the City of San Leandro. A Safe System acknowledges the vulnerability of the human body – in terms of the amount of kinetic energy transfer a body can withstand – when designing and operating a transportation network to minimize serious consequences of crashes. According to the World Health Organization, the goal of a Safe System is to ensure that if crashes occur, they “do not result in serious human injury.”1 1 World Health Organization (2011). Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/ roadsafety/decade_of_action/plan/plan_en.pdf, p. 9