Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Norman Yee

Supervisor Yee Wants to Expand Student Crossing Guard Program

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 15, 2015 | 1 Comment

Supervisor Norman Yee wants to see student crossing guards return to schools across the city, five years after the program folded. Yee re-launched the program as a pilot last year at three schools in District 7, which includes some of the city’s most suburban neighborhoods. Since last March, students at Commodore Sloat Elementary, Lakeshore Elementary, and Alice Fong […]

Supervisors Tang and Yee Propose New Measures to Curb Dangerous Driving

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 11, 2014 | 4 Comments

Supervisors Katy Tang and Norman Yee announced measures on Tuesday they say could help reduce dangerous driving on SF streets, bringing the city closer to Vision Zero. Yee called for a study into whether city-owned vehicles could have “black boxes” to record evidence in the event of a crash, and for banning tour bus drivers […]

Who’s Not Against Cars-First Prop L? Supes Tang, Farrell, Yee, and Mayor Lee

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 31, 2014 | 3 Comments

With only a few days left until the election, four elected officials have yet to take a stance on Proposition L, the Republican-crafted measure that misleadingly urges San Francisco to “restore transportation balance” by giving priority to private automobiles and free parking. Supervisors Katy Tang, Mark Farrell, Norman Yee, and Mayor Ed Lee apparently see no need to come out against […]

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Imagine No Deaths: Supes, Safe Streets Advocates Call for “Vision Zero”

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 14, 2014 | 14 Comments

A coalition of safe streets advocates, community organizations, and city supervisors have launched a campaign for San Francisco to join leading cities in adopting a “Vision Zero” goal — an end to traffic deaths on city streets within ten years. “We need a culture shift in San Francisco, and it has to start from the […]

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Residents Call for Safer Streets in Speed-Plagued District 7

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 5, 2013 | 10 Comments

District 7, one of San Francisco’s most suburban in character, has seen three of this year’s six pedestrian deaths so far. At a hearing yesterday called by D7 Supervisor Norman Yee as his first order of business after taking office in January, residents called upon city agencies to slow drivers on dangerous high-speed streets that […]

Drunk Driver Kills Hanren Chang, 17, on Sloat Boulevard

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 4, 2013 | 45 Comments

Updated 11:16 p.m. An allegedly drunk driver was arrested for hitting and killing 17-year-old Hanren Chang on Sloat Boulevard near Vale Avenue on Saturday night. According to CBS 5, 29-year-old Keiran Brewer was driving westbound on Sloat at about 11:20 p.m. when he hit Chang, who was crossing the street in the northbound direction, and dragged […]

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