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The previous policy was to refer cases to the district attorney without making an arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has also stopped referring to these types of crashes as accidents because they are preventable, said Suhr. Instead, the department officially calls them collisions. \"Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of the time there can be a determination as to who's at fault,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the hearing, a number of people, including some who have been hit by drivers, urged the city to take stronger action to prevent pedestrian deaths and injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Only 20 percent of the trips in San Francisco are made by foot,\" said Natalie Burdick of \u003ca href=\"http://walksf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Walk San Francisco\u003c/a>. \"Yet 50 percent of the traffic deaths are pedestrians. That's an injustice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She played a documentary that tells the story of Jikaiah Stevens, who was hit by a driver in a crosswalk last year. 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These companies have been designated by the California Public Utilities Commission as “transportation network companies” or TNCs, which allow ordinary car owners to offer rides to paying customers through a phone app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, we notice spiking right now in terms of web traffic: our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-share-driver-crashes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation into the insurance issues for ride-service drivers\u003c/a> like the one from UberX. TNCs are now required to offer $1 million per incident liability insurance policies, but one assumption might be those would not apply to a driver operating his vehicle for personal use. Complicating matters: the insurance industry says that in order to be covered, any driver using his vehicle for TNC work must buy commercial insurance, even when on personal time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, insurance may be the least of Muzzafar’s problems. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Susan Fahey said he was booked into custody early Wednesday morning and was released after posting bail at about 11 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco cab industry, which has been losing customers to TNCs like UberX and opposes the CPUC’s decision to legalize them, has argued that the public is at risk as an influx of new quasi-professional drivers has hit the road. The CPUC’s decision requires TNCs to comply with the following safety standards:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>TNCs shall obtain each TNC driver’s driving record before the driver begins providing service and quarterly thereafter.Drivers with convictions for reckless driving, driving under the influence, hit and run, or driving with a suspended or revoked license shall not be permitted to be a TNC driver.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Drivers may have a maximum of two points on their driving records for lesser offenses, e.g., equipment problems, speeding, or child safety seat violations. TNCs shall establish a driver training program to ensure that all drivers are safely operating the vehicle prior to the driver being able to offer service. This program must be filed with the Commission within 45 days of the adoption of this decision. TNCs must report to the Commission on an annual basis the number of drivers that became eligible and completed the course\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Hansu Kim, owner of San Francisco’s DeSoto Cab and a board member of the Taxicab Paratransit Association of California, told KQED that ride-service companies “have skirted all the rules that have applied to safety and that have been in place for decades. Sadly, I predict there will be more tragedies until regulators wake up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in another fatal pedestrian accident earlier Tuesday, 86-year-old Zhen Guang Ng was struck at about 3:30 p.m. at Naples and Rolph streets in the city’s Crocker-Amazon neighborhood. He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giampaolo Boschetti, a 69-year-old San Francisco resident, was arrested following the collision and was booked into custody on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and failure to stop at a stop sign, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fahey said Boschetti was released early Wednesday morning after also posting bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Examiner has put up a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/two-fatalities-close-out-high-year-for-pedestrian-deaths/Content?oid=2663416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story up\u003c/a> on the rise of pedestrian fatalities in the city:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The two deaths on the last day of 2013 brought the pedestrian fatality count to 20 for the year, according to Walk San Francisco, the highest number since 24 were killed six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a new year with all the sadness, a wake-up call to The City that we need to prioritize pedestrian safety,” said Walk SF Executive Director Nicole Schneider. “Twenty people dying last year alone should be a cause for concern that this is a public health and public safety crisis that The City needs to take responsibility for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedestrian fatalities in 2013 surged from the previous five years, which saw between 13 and 17 each year, despite a pedestrian strategy released early last year. The Police Department had also launched a campaign in late 2012 focusing on the five leading causes of collisions.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: Two more San Francisco pedestrians, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24836648/san-francisco-pedestrian-seriously-injured-after-being-struck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one on Thursday evening\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Pedestrian-hit-in-S-F-s-Lower-Nob-Hill-5111539.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one on Friday morning\u003c/a>, have been injured after being struck by cars. The Contra Costa Times reported yesterday that a man hit Thursday at Bush and Leavenworth is “fighting for his life.” Details on the other accident have not been made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Interview: Walk San Francisco director Nicole Schneider on pedestrian safety\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\">\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fw.soundcloud.com%2Fplayer%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fapi.soundcloud.com%252Ftracks%252F127614808%26auto_play%3Dfalse%26show_artwork%3Dtrue%26origin%3Dtwitter&src_secure=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fkqed%2Fsan-francisco-among-the-most&image=http%3A%2F%2Fa1.sndcdn.com%2Fimages%2Ffb_placeholder.png%3Fd53bf9f&key=6c6e02c8c9d111e0ba664040d3dc5c07&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=soundcloud\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly/code?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fkqed%2Fsan-francisco-among-the-most\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">via \u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://soundcloud.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SoundCloud\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\n",
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Sheriff’s spokeswoman Susan Fahey said he was booked into custody early Wednesday morning and was released after posting bail at about 11 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco cab industry, which has been losing customers to TNCs like UberX and opposes the CPUC’s decision to legalize them, has argued that the public is at risk as an influx of new quasi-professional drivers has hit the road. The CPUC’s decision requires TNCs to comply with the following safety standards:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>TNCs shall obtain each TNC driver’s driving record before the driver begins providing service and quarterly thereafter.Drivers with convictions for reckless driving, driving under the influence, hit and run, or driving with a suspended or revoked license shall not be permitted to be a TNC driver.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Drivers may have a maximum of two points on their driving records for lesser offenses, e.g., equipment problems, speeding, or child safety seat violations. TNCs shall establish a driver training program to ensure that all drivers are safely operating the vehicle prior to the driver being able to offer service. This program must be filed with the Commission within 45 days of the adoption of this decision. TNCs must report to the Commission on an annual basis the number of drivers that became eligible and completed the course\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Hansu Kim, owner of San Francisco’s DeSoto Cab and a board member of the Taxicab Paratransit Association of California, told KQED that ride-service companies “have skirted all the rules that have applied to safety and that have been in place for decades. Sadly, I predict there will be more tragedies until regulators wake up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in another fatal pedestrian accident earlier Tuesday, 86-year-old Zhen Guang Ng was struck at about 3:30 p.m. at Naples and Rolph streets in the city’s Crocker-Amazon neighborhood. He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giampaolo Boschetti, a 69-year-old San Francisco resident, was arrested following the collision and was booked into custody on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and failure to stop at a stop sign, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fahey said Boschetti was released early Wednesday morning after also posting bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Examiner has put up a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/two-fatalities-close-out-high-year-for-pedestrian-deaths/Content?oid=2663416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story up\u003c/a> on the rise of pedestrian fatalities in the city:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The two deaths on the last day of 2013 brought the pedestrian fatality count to 20 for the year, according to Walk San Francisco, the highest number since 24 were killed six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a new year with all the sadness, a wake-up call to The City that we need to prioritize pedestrian safety,” said Walk SF Executive Director Nicole Schneider. “Twenty people dying last year alone should be a cause for concern that this is a public health and public safety crisis that The City needs to take responsibility for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedestrian fatalities in 2013 surged from the previous five years, which saw between 13 and 17 each year, despite a pedestrian strategy released early last year. The Police Department had also launched a campaign in late 2012 focusing on the five leading causes of collisions.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: Two more San Francisco pedestrians, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24836648/san-francisco-pedestrian-seriously-injured-after-being-struck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one on Thursday evening\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Pedestrian-hit-in-S-F-s-Lower-Nob-Hill-5111539.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one on Friday morning\u003c/a>, have been injured after being struck by cars. The Contra Costa Times reported yesterday that a man hit Thursday at Bush and Leavenworth is “fighting for his life.” Details on the other accident have not been made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Interview: Walk San Francisco director Nicole Schneider on pedestrian safety\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\">\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fw.soundcloud.com%2Fplayer%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fapi.soundcloud.com%252Ftracks%252F127614808%26auto_play%3Dfalse%26show_artwork%3Dtrue%26origin%3Dtwitter&src_secure=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fkqed%2Fsan-francisco-among-the-most&image=http%3A%2F%2Fa1.sndcdn.com%2Fimages%2Ffb_placeholder.png%3Fd53bf9f&key=6c6e02c8c9d111e0ba664040d3dc5c07&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=soundcloud\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly/code?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fkqed%2Fsan-francisco-among-the-most\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">via \u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://soundcloud.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SoundCloud\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Zusha Elinson, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/car-king-street-design-detriment-pedestrians-4441\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Jose Flores Miguel, 65, was killed in 2010 crossing a busy Concord boulevard, city officials took action: They scraped off the crosswalk where he took his last steps and installed a metal gate with a sign warning walkers not to cross there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t solve the problem. With the next crosswalk 460 feet away, people still cut across the five lanes of Clayton Road at Barbis Way, where Flores is remembered with a wooden cross decorated with rosaries and surrounded by yellow tulips. The draws are a bus stop and shopping center on the north side of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This Center for Investigative Reporting video examines the prosecution of drivers who kill pedestrians:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RJMKk6NmHM?rel=0]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores’ daughter, Maria Banjos, said the city should have improved the crosswalk, perhaps with signs or lights, instead of getting rid of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I was going to sue the city, it wouldn’t have been for money – it would have been for injustice and so that there wouldn’t be so many accidents like the one with my father,” Banjos said. “We have seen people crossing there so many times since then.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds-4420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why motorists rarely face prosecution for killing pedestrians\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/map-bay-area-fatal-pedestrian-crossings-4439\">A map of pedestrian deaths in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/how-we-analyzed-pedestrian-fatalities-4421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How the Center for Investigative Reporting analyzed pedestrian deaths\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The stretch of Clayton Road embodies many of the ways American street design can be hostile to pedestrians: wide roadways with fast-moving traffic and long stretches between crosswalks at traffic signals. Such thoroughfares are particularly dangerous for the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In retirement, Flores, a punctual man, relied on public transit. He would cross the street nearly every day to catch the bus or pick up groceries – as he was doing the evening he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each of the Bay Area’s five largest counties, the roads with the most pedestrian deaths were multilane thoroughfares where traffic reaches 35 mph or more, according to a Center for Investigative Reporting review of fatalities from 2007 through 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Route 82, the historic El Camino Real that runs from San Jose to San Francisco, was the most deadly in the Bay Area, claiming 18 lives in five years. San Jose’s Capitol Expressway saw six deaths. Five people died on Fremont’s Mowry Avenue, another suburban thoroughfare with long stretches between crosswalks. In San Francisco, Geary Boulevard, 19th Avenue and Mission Street were the most deadly streets. Three pedestrians died on Clayton Road, the most of any street in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95775\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/wooden-cross/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95775\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95775 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/wooden-cross.jpg\" alt=\"A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"219\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area also stands out from the rest of the country in pedestrians being killed in crosswalks. More than a third of the 434 who died during those five years were hit in legal crossing spots, CIR found – about three times the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a third of those deadly crosswalks are marked only with paint on the pavement, lacking any additional warning for drivers, such as a stoplight, stop sign or flashing lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Streets sometimes favor cars in subtle ways. CIR found that some crosswalk signals where pedestrians were killed were not timed to federal standards – and therefore not giving people enough time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic engineering for so many years was just not mindful of pedestrians; for so many years, it was just about moving cars,” said Michelle Ernst, lead author of “Dangerous by Design,” the national pedestrian fatality study by research and advocacy group Transportation for America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, the urban Bay Area is better designed for walkers than more suburban parts of the country where sidewalks are rare and crosswalks even rarer. But officials are reluctant to make improvements even after fatal crashes, CIR found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After repeated deaths in Atherton, Councilman Bill Widmer implored the California Department of Transportation to add flashing lights at some crosswalks on El Camino Real. He said a state official told him it could happen – in three to six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought he was joking,” Widmer said. “There is a mile-and-a-quarter stretch where there are no lights, so the vehicles speed up to make up some time. It’s residential there, so people are trying to get across – it’s a mess that needs to be fixed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans spokesman Robert Haus responded in an email that his agency is working with cities to improve pedestrian safety along El Camino Real: Signs will be installed and white triangles painted on the pavement to warn drivers of upcoming crosswalks. Some crossings also will get pedestrian-activated flashing lights, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to provide the safest facilities and are always looking for ways to improve them,” Haus wrote. “Every life lost is serious to Caltrans whether caused by an impaired, inattentive or inexperienced driver. Every road is only as safe as the drivers who use them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On city streets, local leaders have let crosswalks fade and failed to reset crosswalk signals to the slower federal standards. And by removing the crosswalk in Concord where Jose Flores Miguel died, along with another crosswalk 800 feet away with no traffic signal, the city might have made things worse on Clayton Road, some experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city did add a new traffic light down the road at the same time, but the gap between lights is now nearly one-third of a mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too often, the spacing of the walks with better controls are too far apart,” said Michael Moule, a transportation engineer with the San Francisco-based consulting firm Nelson\\Nygaard. “The question should not be to mark or not to mark, but the question should be, ‘How do we best help pedestrians to cross?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95776\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/seniors-crossing-the-street/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95776\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/seniors-crossing-the-street.jpg\" alt=\"Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"209\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting) \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Kuzbari, Concord’s transportation manager, said the changes made the road safer for walkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s safer to direct pedestrians to cross at the signalized intersections,” Kuzbari said. “There’s many arterials where the distance could be more than half a mile between traffic signals. I think, to the contrary, this is a very walkable distance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six pedestrians were hit along that stretch from 2007 to the day Flores was killed, Feb. 15, 2010. Crash data since then is incomplete, but at least one more pedestrian has been hit there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Risk Rises With Speeds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speed kills. The odds of being killed by a car traveling 40 mph are more than five times greater than by a car going 30 mph, according to a 2010 study by the London Department for Transport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60 percent of pedestrian deaths in the United States between 2000 and 2009 took place on roads with a speed limit of 40 mph or more, according to “Dangerous by Design.” Meanwhile, 1 percent of the deaths in which the speed limit could be determined happened on roads with a 20 mph limit or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Concord, Marie Judy Jensen told police she was traveling about 40 mph on Clayton Road as she approached Barbis Way in the lane closest to the center around 6 p.m. The speed limit there is 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen, a retired bus driver, told police she saw a “shadow or blur” of a white jacket – but it was too late. The right side of her 2003 Buick slammed into Flores and sent him about 50 feet into the farthest lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banjos, Flores’ daughter, ran out of the family’s home a half-block away. She saw traffic stopped and her father on the ground, his shoes and groceries scattered in the street. Banjos rushed to Flores’ side and heard him take a last breath, full of blood, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact fractured Flores’ skull, sternum, ribs and tibia, the coroner found. It caused his brain to hemorrhage. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. The cause of death: “blunt force head and chest injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed limit on El Camino Real as it passes through Santa Clara also is 35 mph. Kim Chinh Wilson was in that zone, driving between 27 and 36 mph, when she hit Santosh Racherla, 22, as he crossed the thoroughfare Jan. 16, 2009, police later would conclude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Indian exchange student entered the third lane, witnesses said he “put out his right hand in an attempt to deflect” Wilson’s Chevrolet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racherla flipped into the air, his head hit the windshield, and he was carried on the hood for 51 feet before the car stopped and he rolled to the ground. Racherla suffered major head trauma and brain swelling. He was pronounced brain dead within an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans should find ways to lower the speed on El Camino Real, said Dan Burden, a former Florida Department of Transportation official who runs the Washington state-based nonprofit Walkable and Livable Communities Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that the biggest factor to look at is the dominant speed,” Burden said. “The higher speed, the more likely the fatality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haus, the Caltrans spokesman, said any speed limits under the maximum 65 mph for freeways and 55 mph for conventional highways must be supported with engineering and traffic surveys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Further, the American Automobile Association published a study that says an artificially-low speed limit can actually increase the accident rate,” Haus wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a 2011 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety report on pedestrian fatalities also found that the risk of death increased markedly with speed, rising from 10 percent at 23 mph to 25 percent at 32 mph and up to 90 percent at 58 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Marking Crosswalks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The erased crosswalk in Concord illustrates the ongoing debate about the safety of crosswalks without traffic lights or signs to stop traffic. Some traffic planners say they pose more of a danger to pedestrians than no crosswalks, giving a false sense of security amid swift-moving traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study on the subject for the Federal Highway Administration found no difference between crash rates at marked and unmarked crosswalks on two-lane roads. But on streets with more than two lanes, the study found that a marked crosswalk “was associated with a higher pedestrian crash rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the federally funded study, Charles Zegeer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wrote that simple improvements such as raised medians could “significantly lower pedestrian crash rates on multilane roads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flashing lights on the sides and middle – and embedded in the roadbed – are potential improvements missing from many crosswalks in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking those, pedestrians sometimes take matters into their own hands. Millbrae resident Jean Escobar, who was hit in an El Camino Real crosswalk with her 13-year-old son last fall, has taken to carrying glow sticks to alert motorists during the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even at crossings with full traffic lights, pedestrians don’t always have enough time to cross the street. In 2009, the federal standard for crosswalk signals was changed from 4 feet per second to 3.5 feet per second to give people more time to cross. But compliance is uneven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morena Torres, 59, was killed in 2010 while crossing Tasman Drive at Calle Del Sol near a shopping center, a long walk across seven lanes and two light-rail tracks in Santa Clara. CIR found that the length of that crosswalk, 127 feet, would require more than 36 seconds to cross. But on a recent afternoon, the crosswalk signal allowed less than 32 seconds – the out-of-date rate of 4 feet per second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators concluded that the pedestrian was at fault for walking on a “don’t walk” signal, but it is unclear if the signal changed too quickly that day because authorities don’t make full collision reports available in cases in which no charges are filed or arrests are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Laigo, a Santa Clara traffic operations engineer, acknowledged that the timing there was not set at the new slower standard. He said the city is in the process of updating all its intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 500 – or about half – of the city’s intersections have been updated, according to Paul Rose, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. In San Jose, public works crews have retimed 600 of the 900, said Lily Lim-Tsao, a program manager for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inconvenient Bus Stops\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because cars are given priority in street design, bus stops can land in inconvenient locations – far from crosswalks or traffic lights. And, CIR’s analysis shows, transit-dependent senior citizens tend to suffer most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresita Malixi, 68, was on her way to catch a bus in San Jose when she was hit and killed by a Land Rover in 2008. The following year, Thalia Hsiung, 74, was walking to another San Jose bus stop when she was struck and killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roads in San Jose’s Alum Rock corridor are in poor condition. Many of the seniors who visit the Eastside Neighborhood Center on Alum Rock Avenue for meals and activities are immigrants who come on the bus. For years, the closest bus stop was midblock on the opposite side of the street, across four lanes of traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew what was going to happen,” said Milton Cadena, who runs the center for Catholic Charities. “That’s such a temptation. They just jaywalk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, a senior citizen who had come to the center for a meal was seriously injured while cutting across the street to the bus stop. The seniors protested, and the city moved the bus stop closer to an intersection with a stoplight and slowed the crosswalk signal to allow more time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last May, Trinidad Cruz, 63, was killed nearby, on Jackson Avenue as it approaches Alum Rock Avenue. Cruz’s death reignited the outcry from seniors, who Cadena said now are pushing to lower area speed limits, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say thank you for the change,” Cadena said, “and we say hopefully we will see other changes, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I was going to sue the city, it wouldn’t have been for money – it would have been for injustice and so that there wouldn’t be so many accidents like the one with my father,” Banjos said. “We have seen people crossing there so many times since then.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds-4420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why motorists rarely face prosecution for killing pedestrians\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/map-bay-area-fatal-pedestrian-crossings-4439\">A map of pedestrian deaths in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/how-we-analyzed-pedestrian-fatalities-4421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How the Center for Investigative Reporting analyzed pedestrian deaths\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The stretch of Clayton Road embodies many of the ways American street design can be hostile to pedestrians: wide roadways with fast-moving traffic and long stretches between crosswalks at traffic signals. Such thoroughfares are particularly dangerous for the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In retirement, Flores, a punctual man, relied on public transit. He would cross the street nearly every day to catch the bus or pick up groceries – as he was doing the evening he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each of the Bay Area’s five largest counties, the roads with the most pedestrian deaths were multilane thoroughfares where traffic reaches 35 mph or more, according to a Center for Investigative Reporting review of fatalities from 2007 through 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Route 82, the historic El Camino Real that runs from San Jose to San Francisco, was the most deadly in the Bay Area, claiming 18 lives in five years. San Jose’s Capitol Expressway saw six deaths. Five people died on Fremont’s Mowry Avenue, another suburban thoroughfare with long stretches between crosswalks. In San Francisco, Geary Boulevard, 19th Avenue and Mission Street were the most deadly streets. Three pedestrians died on Clayton Road, the most of any street in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95775\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/wooden-cross/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95775\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95775 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/wooden-cross.jpg\" alt=\"A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"219\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area also stands out from the rest of the country in pedestrians being killed in crosswalks. More than a third of the 434 who died during those five years were hit in legal crossing spots, CIR found – about three times the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a third of those deadly crosswalks are marked only with paint on the pavement, lacking any additional warning for drivers, such as a stoplight, stop sign or flashing lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Streets sometimes favor cars in subtle ways. CIR found that some crosswalk signals where pedestrians were killed were not timed to federal standards – and therefore not giving people enough time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic engineering for so many years was just not mindful of pedestrians; for so many years, it was just about moving cars,” said Michelle Ernst, lead author of “Dangerous by Design,” the national pedestrian fatality study by research and advocacy group Transportation for America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, the urban Bay Area is better designed for walkers than more suburban parts of the country where sidewalks are rare and crosswalks even rarer. But officials are reluctant to make improvements even after fatal crashes, CIR found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After repeated deaths in Atherton, Councilman Bill Widmer implored the California Department of Transportation to add flashing lights at some crosswalks on El Camino Real. He said a state official told him it could happen – in three to six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought he was joking,” Widmer said. “There is a mile-and-a-quarter stretch where there are no lights, so the vehicles speed up to make up some time. It’s residential there, so people are trying to get across – it’s a mess that needs to be fixed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans spokesman Robert Haus responded in an email that his agency is working with cities to improve pedestrian safety along El Camino Real: Signs will be installed and white triangles painted on the pavement to warn drivers of upcoming crosswalks. Some crossings also will get pedestrian-activated flashing lights, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to provide the safest facilities and are always looking for ways to improve them,” Haus wrote. “Every life lost is serious to Caltrans whether caused by an impaired, inattentive or inexperienced driver. Every road is only as safe as the drivers who use them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On city streets, local leaders have let crosswalks fade and failed to reset crosswalk signals to the slower federal standards. And by removing the crosswalk in Concord where Jose Flores Miguel died, along with another crosswalk 800 feet away with no traffic signal, the city might have made things worse on Clayton Road, some experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city did add a new traffic light down the road at the same time, but the gap between lights is now nearly one-third of a mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too often, the spacing of the walks with better controls are too far apart,” said Michael Moule, a transportation engineer with the San Francisco-based consulting firm Nelson\\Nygaard. “The question should not be to mark or not to mark, but the question should be, ‘How do we best help pedestrians to cross?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95776\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/seniors-crossing-the-street/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95776\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/seniors-crossing-the-street.jpg\" alt=\"Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"209\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting) \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Kuzbari, Concord’s transportation manager, said the changes made the road safer for walkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s safer to direct pedestrians to cross at the signalized intersections,” Kuzbari said. “There’s many arterials where the distance could be more than half a mile between traffic signals. I think, to the contrary, this is a very walkable distance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six pedestrians were hit along that stretch from 2007 to the day Flores was killed, Feb. 15, 2010. Crash data since then is incomplete, but at least one more pedestrian has been hit there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Risk Rises With Speeds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speed kills. The odds of being killed by a car traveling 40 mph are more than five times greater than by a car going 30 mph, according to a 2010 study by the London Department for Transport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60 percent of pedestrian deaths in the United States between 2000 and 2009 took place on roads with a speed limit of 40 mph or more, according to “Dangerous by Design.” Meanwhile, 1 percent of the deaths in which the speed limit could be determined happened on roads with a 20 mph limit or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Concord, Marie Judy Jensen told police she was traveling about 40 mph on Clayton Road as she approached Barbis Way in the lane closest to the center around 6 p.m. The speed limit there is 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen, a retired bus driver, told police she saw a “shadow or blur” of a white jacket – but it was too late. The right side of her 2003 Buick slammed into Flores and sent him about 50 feet into the farthest lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banjos, Flores’ daughter, ran out of the family’s home a half-block away. She saw traffic stopped and her father on the ground, his shoes and groceries scattered in the street. Banjos rushed to Flores’ side and heard him take a last breath, full of blood, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact fractured Flores’ skull, sternum, ribs and tibia, the coroner found. It caused his brain to hemorrhage. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. The cause of death: “blunt force head and chest injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed limit on El Camino Real as it passes through Santa Clara also is 35 mph. Kim Chinh Wilson was in that zone, driving between 27 and 36 mph, when she hit Santosh Racherla, 22, as he crossed the thoroughfare Jan. 16, 2009, police later would conclude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Indian exchange student entered the third lane, witnesses said he “put out his right hand in an attempt to deflect” Wilson’s Chevrolet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racherla flipped into the air, his head hit the windshield, and he was carried on the hood for 51 feet before the car stopped and he rolled to the ground. Racherla suffered major head trauma and brain swelling. He was pronounced brain dead within an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans should find ways to lower the speed on El Camino Real, said Dan Burden, a former Florida Department of Transportation official who runs the Washington state-based nonprofit Walkable and Livable Communities Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that the biggest factor to look at is the dominant speed,” Burden said. “The higher speed, the more likely the fatality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haus, the Caltrans spokesman, said any speed limits under the maximum 65 mph for freeways and 55 mph for conventional highways must be supported with engineering and traffic surveys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Further, the American Automobile Association published a study that says an artificially-low speed limit can actually increase the accident rate,” Haus wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a 2011 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety report on pedestrian fatalities also found that the risk of death increased markedly with speed, rising from 10 percent at 23 mph to 25 percent at 32 mph and up to 90 percent at 58 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Marking Crosswalks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The erased crosswalk in Concord illustrates the ongoing debate about the safety of crosswalks without traffic lights or signs to stop traffic. Some traffic planners say they pose more of a danger to pedestrians than no crosswalks, giving a false sense of security amid swift-moving traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study on the subject for the Federal Highway Administration found no difference between crash rates at marked and unmarked crosswalks on two-lane roads. But on streets with more than two lanes, the study found that a marked crosswalk “was associated with a higher pedestrian crash rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the federally funded study, Charles Zegeer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wrote that simple improvements such as raised medians could “significantly lower pedestrian crash rates on multilane roads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flashing lights on the sides and middle – and embedded in the roadbed – are potential improvements missing from many crosswalks in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking those, pedestrians sometimes take matters into their own hands. Millbrae resident Jean Escobar, who was hit in an El Camino Real crosswalk with her 13-year-old son last fall, has taken to carrying glow sticks to alert motorists during the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even at crossings with full traffic lights, pedestrians don’t always have enough time to cross the street. In 2009, the federal standard for crosswalk signals was changed from 4 feet per second to 3.5 feet per second to give people more time to cross. But compliance is uneven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morena Torres, 59, was killed in 2010 while crossing Tasman Drive at Calle Del Sol near a shopping center, a long walk across seven lanes and two light-rail tracks in Santa Clara. CIR found that the length of that crosswalk, 127 feet, would require more than 36 seconds to cross. But on a recent afternoon, the crosswalk signal allowed less than 32 seconds – the out-of-date rate of 4 feet per second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators concluded that the pedestrian was at fault for walking on a “don’t walk” signal, but it is unclear if the signal changed too quickly that day because authorities don’t make full collision reports available in cases in which no charges are filed or arrests are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Laigo, a Santa Clara traffic operations engineer, acknowledged that the timing there was not set at the new slower standard. He said the city is in the process of updating all its intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 500 – or about half – of the city’s intersections have been updated, according to Paul Rose, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. In San Jose, public works crews have retimed 600 of the 900, said Lily Lim-Tsao, a program manager for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inconvenient Bus Stops\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because cars are given priority in street design, bus stops can land in inconvenient locations – far from crosswalks or traffic lights. And, CIR’s analysis shows, transit-dependent senior citizens tend to suffer most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresita Malixi, 68, was on her way to catch a bus in San Jose when she was hit and killed by a Land Rover in 2008. The following year, Thalia Hsiung, 74, was walking to another San Jose bus stop when she was struck and killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roads in San Jose’s Alum Rock corridor are in poor condition. Many of the seniors who visit the Eastside Neighborhood Center on Alum Rock Avenue for meals and activities are immigrants who come on the bus. For years, the closest bus stop was midblock on the opposite side of the street, across four lanes of traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew what was going to happen,” said Milton Cadena, who runs the center for Catholic Charities. “That’s such a temptation. They just jaywalk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, a senior citizen who had come to the center for a meal was seriously injured while cutting across the street to the bus stop. The seniors protested, and the city moved the bus stop closer to an intersection with a stoplight and slowed the crosswalk signal to allow more time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last May, Trinidad Cruz, 63, was killed nearby, on Jackson Avenue as it approaches Alum Rock Avenue. Cruz’s death reignited the outcry from seniors, who Cadena said now are pushing to lower area speed limits, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say thank you for the change,” Cadena said, “and we say hopefully we will see other changes, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Zusha Elinson and La Toya Tooles, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/transportation/interactive/pedestrian-safety-survey/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With dense, lively neighborhoods, San Francisco is often ranked as one of the top U.S. cities for walking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/BayCitizenLogo4.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-74529\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/BayCitizenLogo4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>But a new Bay Citizen survey shows that many pedestrians don’t feel safe crossing the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city scored an average of 4.6 on a scale of 1 to 10 for pedestrian safety, according to the online poll. The Bay Citizen conducted the unscientific survey after reporting the city was on pace to have more pedestrian fatalities this year than each of the previous two years. 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Several said they’d like to see the city ban right turns at red lights, while others suggested lowering speed limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Increase enforcement of traffic laws for cyclists and drivers alike,” said Andre Morand in his response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey also asked people which intersections they feel are dangerous for pedestrians. More than 20 percent of respondents said that intersections along three of the city’s major thoroughfares – Market Street, Van Ness Avenue and Masonic Avenue – were the most perilous for pedestrians. About 15 percent mentioned the South of Market area, with its long blocks and fast-moving traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, there were 807 accidents involving pedestrians who were injured, the most since 2003, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Already this year, 11 pedestrians have been killed on the city’s streets. 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The city has since adjusted the countdown clocks at 400 out of 1,200 intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police are also targeting areas with high rates of pedestrian injuries and deaths, said San Francisco Police Department spokesman Albie Esparza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve increased enforcement in corridors where there have been serious or fatal collisions,” Esparza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the city lowered the speed limits on four South of Market streets – Howard, Folsom, Harrison and Bryant – from 30 to 25 mph. But the survey indicates that pedestrians believe drivers are still going too fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I walk and ride those streets every day and have noticed no change in motorist speeds (and no enforcement either),” Caryl Gay said in her response. “Not that surprising though – if you design a street like a freeway, people will treat it as one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza said that SoMa residents concerned about speeding should bring their complaints to community meetings at the police station in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gay and other SoMa residents like Katy Liddell say the numerous freeway entrances contribute to the problem, with cars blocking intersections and speeding onto the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liddell, who lives near Main and Harrison streets, said that she walked home for lunch one day only to see a body under a tarp at the intersection. It was her neighbor, Beverly Kees, a longtime newspaper editor, who had been hit by a big rig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight years after the fatal collision, the intersection is still “a hotbed for road rage and dangerous pedestrian issues,” wrote Liddell, who is the president of a neighborhood association in the South of Market area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day I was crossing and a young man blew me a kiss as he almost ran me over … making a left turn,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liddell gave the city a 3 for pedestrian safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city earned high marks from a handful of poll respondents, including a recent Chicago transplant, Jerad Weiner, who wrote that he was pleased to see drivers in San Francisco stop to let people cross the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just moved from Chicago where drivers rarely stop for pedestrians in crosswalk,” said Weiner, who worked as a transportation planner in the Windy City. “They treat it more as a yield and will aggressively accelerate if you do not clear the intersection quick enough for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey also asked if the city had improved pedestrian safety in any areas. Joseph Steinberger said that Valencia Street is safer, thanks to new, wider sidewalks and lower speed limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bike lanes, expanded sidewalks, parklets and bulbouts make the street and traffic seem calmer,” Steinberger wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the survey, readers were quick to point the finger at drivers, cyclists or pedestrians themselves. But Doug Broussard said in his response that he’s tired of blaming one group or another for the city’s pedestrian safety woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each group of people (car drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists) who use the road feels utterly entitled to their behavior,” Broussard wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pedestrians could put down the phones and look both ways before entering the intersection. 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