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SFMTA highlights Vision Zero gains, urges continued grants and evaluation; neighborhoods push for lighting and crossing improvements
Summary
The SFMTA’s pedestrian program manager updated supervisors on Vision Zero progress and data showing older pedestrians and high‑injury corridors (Tenderloin, SoMa) face the greatest risk; agency seeks continued grant funding for outreach, evaluation and demonstration projects while community advocates asked for more pedestrian‑level lighting and school crossing guard expansion.
Hava (Chava) Cronenberg, SFMTA pedestrian program manager, briefed the committee on Vision Zero priorities and data showing the city’s most severe injuries and fatalities are concentrated on a small high‑injury network of streets and disproportionately affect older pedestrians.
“When you're asked about pedestrian safety, the reason we talk about Vision Zero is because 70 percent of the people who will die are…
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