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Chinatown Group Analyzes Pedestrian Safety, Offers Plan for Improvements
Chinatown's crowded sidewalks, unsafe crosswalks and poor pedestrian signage are not likely to be among the endearing physical characteristic featured in any tourist brochure. Yet in a recent study -- the San Francisco Chinatown Pedestrian Safety Needs Assessment [pdf] and Safety Plan [pdf] conducted by the Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC) -- those issues were identified as several of the highest priority concerns for tenants, merchants and visitors to the popular area.
November 30, 2010
Driver of UCSF Shuttle Bus Hits and Kills Pedestrian in Tenderloin Crosswalk
Surveillance video from a Tenderloin market shows that a 65-year-old woman was in the crosswalk on Geary Boulevard and Leavenworth Street Wednesday afternoon and clearly had the right-of-way when the driver of a UCSF shuttle bus loaded with passengers struck and killed her.
November 17, 2010
SFPD Seeks Help Indentifying Suspect in Pedestrian Hit and Run
The San Francisco Police Department is asking the public for help in identifying a suspect from an alarming hit and run incident from early August, when a vehicle slammed into a pedestrian and carried him on the hood of the car, before fleeing the scene.
October 28, 2010
CA Pedestrian Groups Gather For Conference on Improving Data and Advocacy
Pedestrian advocates, public health professionals and transportation planners and engineers will gather in Berkeley from Sunday through Tuesday to discuss how to improve pedestrian trip and injury data collection, both to inform pedestrian safety campaigns and influence the targets for walkable communities under California's SB 375.
October 1, 2010
New Route Chosen for Walk SF’s Sixth Annual ‘Peak to Peak Walk’
The organizers of Walk SF's annual "Peak to Peak Walk" October 16th have mapped out a new "North by Northwest" route this year that will take participants from the heart of the Mission to Land's End, a 13-mile trek along some of San Francisco's hidden stairways, paths and streets. In all, the walk will span 10 peaks.
September 29, 2010
APTA Report Prescribes Public Transport to Improve Public Health
Transit use is correlated with decreases in the number of traffic crashes. Image: “Evaluating Public Transportation Health Benefits” A new report written by the Victoria Transport Policy Institute’s Todd Litman for the American Public Transit Association [PDF], the trade organization for the nation’s transit agencies, reminds us that one of the most valuable benefits of … Continued
August 20, 2010
Advocates Argue San Francisco Must Improve Pedestrian Safety
Though San Francisco has been getting a lot of attention recently for its trial pedestrian plazas and "parklet" sidewalk extensions in former parking spaces, which has drawn interest from cities around the country and even spawned a copycat in New York City, the Big Apple has raised the bar considerably on improving pedestrian safety with the release this week of the NYCDOT's groundbreaking Pedestrian Safety Study and Action Plan.
August 19, 2010
NYC Releases Landmark Ped Safety Study, Will Pilot 20 MPH Zones
To make walking safer, New York City will re-engineer 60 miles of
streets per year and pilot the use of neighborhood-scale 20 mph zones, the city's top electeds and transportation officials announced this morning.
The commitments are among several street safety measures unveiled
today, accompanying NYCDOT's release of a landmark report analyzing the
causes of serious pedestrian injuries and deaths, which affect thousands
of New Yorkers every year.
August 17, 2010