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SFMTA, DPH and SFPD present Vision Zero update as pedestrian deaths rise, advocates demand faster quick builds
Summary
SFMTA staff, the Department of Public Health and the San Francisco Police Department reported that 2022 traffic fatalities rose to 37 with 20 pedestrian deaths. The board heard plans for grants and corridor work but residents and advocates pressed for faster quick‑build engineering and automated enforcement to lower speeds.
SFMTA staff, the Department of Public Health and the San Francisco Police Department delivered a quarterly Vision Zero update Wednesday that showed traffic fatalities in San Francisco rose in 2022 to 37, the highest total since 2007, driven by a jump in pedestrian deaths to 20.
Emily Ngo, acting Vision Zero program manager at SFMTA, said the agency secured a $17 million USDOT Safe Streets for All grant to fund intersection signal upgrades, radar speed signs and additional quick builds in the Western Addition. Ngo said SFMTA has installed hundreds of 20 mph signs under state law and is evaluating their effect, but that the signs alone have produced limited reductions in some corridors.
Iris Su, the Vision Zero epidemiologist at the Department of Public Health, presented preliminary numbers showing 62 percent of 2022 fatalities occurred on the…
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