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Supe Wiener: Dangerous Upper Market Intersections Need Safety Upgrades

4:17 PM PDT on April 10, 2012

Castro at Market and 17th Streets

D8 Supervisor Scott Wiener today pointed to the need for pedestrian safety upgrades at dangerous, high-speed intersections along Upper Market Street in light of the recent bicycle-pedestrian collision at Market and Castro that killed 71-year old Sutchi Hui.

"We have a city that, despite all the work we've done, is still in large part designed for cars," Wiener said at today's Board of Supervisors meeting. "Castro and Market, for those who cross it -- and I cross it multiple times every day -- is incredibly wide."

Fixing "disastrous" intersections "all along the Upper Market corridor," he said, "requires investment, it requires prioritizing making these kinds of expenditures, because it does save lives when you reduce crossing distances, when you increase visibility for all users of the road."

Hui's death, he added, is "another reminder that we need to keep moving forward with enforcement, with education, and with the investments to make our city the pedestrian-friendly place that we know it needs to be."

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