Following a devastating traffic incident that killed a family of four, we're asking the candidates: What can SF do to prevent traffic deaths?
The family, Matilde Ramos Pinto, Diego Cardoso de Oliveira and their two young children were standing at the bus stop at Ulloa Street and Lenox Way. It was the day of their wedding anniversary and they were waiting for the bus to go to the zoo.
For Boschetto, City Hall and Vision Zero — the city’s 2014 plan to eliminate all traffic deaths within a decade — have been ineffective in addressing public safety. He promised that as supervisor, he would work with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to identify all danger zones in District 7 and “take precautions to make sure we avoid tragedies like this,” though, in 100 words, he did not specify exactly how.
And lastly, Melgar pointed to both enforcement and slowing down cars, alongside physical protective infrastructure like bollards. She also went further by suggesting that certain areas around public transportation hubs should be fully pedestrianized and closed to cars altogether.I will be in your district on Monday, March 25 at 1 p.m. at Ballast Coffee
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