Planning department. Weve had a lot of which the smarter mind but last but not least the staff of the mta the sustainable street staff a lot of the bright minds in the city working together to analyze this data that will help us use our resources enforcement and education and when it comes time to pitting things in the ground the department of public works and Mayors Office on disability and Carmen Johnson and tom from our building inspector were working he together to put this stuff in the ground and that finally at the sfmta were led had by a board of directors theyve identified safety as the number one priority so i want to acknowledge sheryl bringing man here strongest voice advocating for bicycle and Pedestrian Safety and all the road users with all the folks standing behind me and all the staff work and everybody in San Francisco a taking on the challenge and responsibility to slow down and be aware and get around the city safer we can make this a great place so thanks to the fol
To promote the walk First Program in San Francisco. Its literally taking the highest percentage of intersections and streets and kindergartners and putting some designs of safety idea in plays play. For example, ill give you a few examples that represents across the city of the locations. Sutter street throughout sutter street signal timing changes and continental contractions and on folsom street and improved at the City Clerks Office ton and striping changes on silver across the town and many trrnz claiming gary and palm and 6th and 16th and moo sonic and specifically by request i wasnt the first one to think of this were going to put the 13 at the yorba and that speeding is unacceptable awhile were waiting for the 13 ive specifically asked our chief and hes responded with a specifics officer to catch people so were going to make the city safer. This is our mandate were tired of saying were sorry. Were putting money serious money behind this are i know the group as identified over 27
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