Los Angeles City Council members have a message for drivers and pedestrians more focused on sipping lattes, texting friends and reapplying mascara than on getting home safely: Knock it off. A routine vote Wednesday on whether to accept a $500,000 grant to promote Vision Zero turned into a passionate discussion of the dangerous habits of drivers and pedestrians. Vision Zero is a citywide campaign to reduce traffic fatalities to zero by 2025. About 225 people die on Los Angeles city streets every year, said Seleta Reynolds, general manager of the Department of Transportation. The grant from the state Office of Traffic Safety will be used to develop a Vision Zero awareness campaign.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 21, 2016 22:52 UTC