People behind me our mayor number one priority is our roads are safety i cant do that without our partners board of supervisors and other on this remedying and the mta and our Community Partners walk sf and the bicycle coalition. When i became chief the mayor and i spoke about Public Safety early on. In february we had the second time in 50 years with no homicides yet some padded pedestrian was killed on the street weve had more People Killed on the streets of San Francisco by vehicles than by homicide. We intended to attack this trying to get a handle on gun violence and Violent Crime in San Francisco and thats through smaet strategy and will deployment and combirs our community. Weve been successful so far but focusing on the 5 most dangerous intersections and our confliction factors and using our data for realtime deployment and redeployment we can get a handle at least for the enforcement piece but as far as as education were going to need community and partnership were looking bot
Thank you all im so honored to be here standing beside our mayor and the board of supervisors who have is shown their leadership and many how more this is a dream for pedestrian advocates to be standing beside so many leaders who are an advocate. This is a change i want to draw attention to the city staff i want to give them a really big round of applause clapping walk first is a way for us to get to vision zero, zero traffic fatalities in one year this year as others have said our dangerous street are 6 percent of our injuries. We can strategically focus our money to those dangerous you are dangerous streets walk first helps to address those through the lowcost treatment and were excited to see those following supervisor jane kims lead on 6th street and market street. Too many lives have been lost and im really excited to hear the mayor talk about not saying sorry anywhere and really doing what we can to prevent the injuries. Vision zero and walk first are about real people like you a
Pedestrian was killed on the street weve had more People Killed on the streets of San Francisco by vehicles than by homicide. We intended to attack this trying to get a handle on gun violence and Violent Crime in San Francisco and thats through smaet strategy and will deployment and combirs our community. Weve been successful so far but focusing on the 5 most dangerous intersections and our confliction factors and using our data for realtime deployment and redeployment we can get a handle at least for the enforcement piece but as far as as education were going to need community and partnership were looking both ways to cross the street now look both ways and make eye contact with the driver before you cross the street. You are our populations is over 8 hundred thousand and growing and twice as many bicyclists in the city and more construction in the country and at the same time everybody cant wait 60 seconds longer to be on their cell phone were at a crisis level in San Francisco we ex
And i spoke about Public Safety early on. In february we had the second time in 50 years with no homicides yet some padded pedestrian was killed on the street weve had more People Killed on the streets of San Francisco by vehicles than by homicide. We intended to attack this trying to get a handle on gun violence and Violent Crime in San Francisco and thats through smaet strategy and will deployment and combirs our community. Weve been successful so far but focusing on the 5 most dangerous intersections and our confliction factors and using our data for realtime deployment and redeployment we can get a handle at least for the enforcement piece but as far as as education were going to need community and partnership were looking both ways to cross the street now look both ways and make eye contact with the driver before you cross the street. You are our populations is over 8 hundred thousand and growing and twice as many bicyclists in the city and more construction in the country and at
Walkable city without worrying about getting hurt or killed. At the top of that primer is our chief collective who has brought people together to solve problems. I think what were going to talk about today is the epitomize any so its my enclosure to welcome to the mike mayor ed lee. clapping. thank you, ed for that introduction. Of course, i prefer being outside somebody said it might rain but id love to be drenched by rain its good for our city i want to thank you all the board of supervisors who have been with the Pedestrian Safety strategic with me. Not only myself and personal resident and residential leaders of Different Community each supervisor a has given me the personal accounts of the dangerous intersection of the people who were lost of severely injured its personal. I want to say today rather than having years where all of us in office are saying were sorry for something to happen well rather be saying thank you for you for yielding and not running the red lights and thank