In 2025, 15 people have died in crashes in San Francisco, putting the city far behind its goal of eliminating traffic deaths by 2024.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a new Street Safety Act that replaces the city’s Vision Zero plan, which expired last year. Despite the city’s efforts, it fell short of its goal of eliminating traffic deaths by 2024, when 43 people were killed in crashes.
As Nadia Lopez reports in Axios, “The plan calls for upgrades like hardened daylighting on high-risk corridors, adding curb extensions and islands to dangerous intersections and creating a faster system for installing speed humps.” The plan also calls for the creation of a public dashboard to track collisions, new red light and speed cameras, and a redesign of the city’s most dangerous streets. It requires further action in the form of “follow-up ordinances, work plans, or a potential mayoral executive order” to become mandatory for city agencies.
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