Organizer Luke Bornheimer and data analyst Stephen Braitsch on SF's ineffective traffic law enforcement.
. Every four hours, someone is hit and injured by a car in our city. With each of these deaths and injuries, countless people — friends, family members and neighbors — have their lives altered forever, and many of them live in a constant state of fear as a result.
The most effective solutions to our street safety crisis involve getting more people out of cars and redesigning our streets, the latter of which is best accomplished through road diets, separated bike lanes, protected intersections, traffic diversion and expanding the city’s, among other physical infrastructure improvements.
Unfortunately, the San Francisco Police Department’s enforcement of the five most dangerous driving violations — speeding, running a stop sign, running a red light, not yielding to a pedestrian in the crosswalk, and not yielding to oncoming traffic — is dangerously low, asof more than 64,200 traffic citations issued by the San Francisco Police Department over the past five years, which we obtained through a public records request, SFPD has issued only 10 traffic citations per day on average in...
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