Longmont is confident it can use the shortcomings of Vision Zero in other communities to its advantage. “There’s a lot of sharing across communities, across the country, about what is working and what isn’t working and why,” said Longmont’s Vision Zero coordinator Cammie Edson. Vision Zero takes commitmentOne hundred and four people died in car crashes in Longmont from 2000-2023. “Making a commitment to Vision Zero doesn’t necessarily mean suddenly all of the internal processes and ways you’ve been doing this work are suddenly changed,” said Tiffany Smith, program manager for Vision Zero Network, the organization behind the global effort. “They made a lot of mistakes when they did Vision Zero early on,” Edson said.