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Health Commission hears Vision Zero action strategy and details of AB 342 automated speed enforcement pilot
Summary
DPH staff presented the Vision Zero action strategy, data showing 30 traffic fatalities in 2016 and concentrated risk on a high-injury street network, and described AB 342 (the Safe Streets Act of 2017), a proposed five-year automated speed-enforcement pilot with a $100 administrative fine for speeds 10+ mph over posted limits.
Megan Weir, program director for health equity and sustainability, told the Health Commission that San Francisco recorded 30 traffic fatalities in 2016 and that the city’s fatalities have remained relatively flat while national deaths rose. Weir said pedestrians account for roughly half of traffic deaths and that seniors comprised about two-thirds of pedestrian fatalities in the most recent year.
Weir presented DPH’s newly released Vision Zero action strategy, which emphasizes equity, targeted interventions on the city’s…
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