Traffic Safety
Have a story from Church & Duboce? I know I do. Tell me yours?
If Hoboken can get it right, I bet we can too.
District 8 is one of the most walkable, bikeable neighborhoods in San Francisco. People can commute, walk their kids to school, and run errands without needing a car. That’s a huge asset, and we need street safety measures better designed to support it.
Over five years, 119 people were hit in D8 crosswalks. Guerrero has the highest injury rate in the district but gets almost no traffic enforcement. The city repaves over 100 miles of streets every year and puts them back exactly as they were. That’s a lot of missed opportunities to make things better with work we’re already doing.
Hoboken took this idea seriously; any time they update a street, they also make it safer, and they haven’t had a pedestrian fatality since 2016. I want to bring that same Safety Trigger approach here. Every repave and every utility cut becomes a safety upgrade. I also want to expand speed cameras to the corridors where people are actually getting hurt and give pedestrians a head start at the worst intersections. Why? The data shows these approaches work. Pedestrian intervals (the head starts), for example, cost as little as $200 each and cut crashes 13%. None of this requires a bond measure or a ten-year planning process. They just require us to coordinate better and create streets residents can be excited to use.
In the meantime, if you know something I should know, tell me. I personally read every submission.
Prefer to talk about this in person? I hold regular office hours and am also happy to meet one-on-one.