San Francisco Pedestrian Advocates Push for New Traffic Safety Plan From Mayor - The Voice of San Francisco

San Francisco pedestrian advocates push for new traffic safety plan from mayor - The Voice of San Francisco

Since failing last year to reach a goal of achieving zero traffic fatalities in San Francisco, advocates for pedestrian safety are demanding that city officials adopt a new plan with a renewed commitment to street safety. So far this year, there have been six pedestrians killed in traffic crashes this year, including most recently a 47-year-old who was killed in a hit-and-run crash at Bayshore Boulevard and Jerrold Avenue. Five of the six people…

Dear Mayor Lurie: Be the safe streets leader San Francisco needs. - Walk San Francisco

Today, Walk SF, San Francisco Bay Area Families for Safe Streets, and Senior & Disability Action headed to City Hall along with activists in the name of safe streets. We built a temporary memorial with ten pairs of white painted ‘ghost shoes’ to honor the ten people who have been killed in traffic crashes so far this year. We also stood in protest to the fact that right now, San Francisco has no commitment to or plan for traffic safety. Then we …

Activists protested in front of the city of San Francisco for what they consider to be the lack of action to prevent the death of pedestrians, this after, in the year 2024, there was an increase in these accidents. The organization Walk San Francisco placed pairs of shoes at the entrance of the town hall to symbolize the amount of life that have been lost in the streets of the city. “The Zero Vision plan that seeks to end these kinds of deaths e…