The next meeting of the City Club of Eugene will feature an update on the city’s Vision Zero effort to reduce fatal crashes.

The meeting begins at noon Friday, Nov. 13, at the WOW Hall, 291 W. Eighth Ave. City Club of Eugene meetings are open to the public and free to attend.

Two speakers, Logan Telles from the city of Eugene and Rob Zako of the nonprofit group Better Eugene-Springfield Transportation, known as BEST, will focus on traffic safety and efforts to reduce fatal and serious injury crashes.

Telles, transportation planner with the city, will discuss the increase in traffic deaths that started after the COVID pandemic and the work to reverse that trend.

Zako, executive director of BEST, will discuss how efforts to reduce crashes will require collective efforts across the public, private, nonprofit and academic sectors.

Friday’s meeting will be livestreamed and available on the club’s YouTube channel. Club meetings are rebroadcast Mondays at 7 p.m. on KLCC 89.7 FM and are available later as a podcast. 

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