Thursday, May 1, 2025


San Francisco is still trying to create safer streets. So far this year four seniors, walking, have been killed by cars, so when I was asked to speak for Senior and Disability Action at a safe-streets-Vision Zero event Supervisor Melgar called at City Hall, of course I mentioned that. I also mentioned the concern many seniors express about not feeling safe on sidewalks because of bicyclists and scooters whizzing by them even though they're supposed to be in bicycle lanes. I related my experience with courteous bicyclists in Golden Gate Park too, and afterwards three bicyclists from the Bicycle Coalition told me that pedestrians often expressed surprise to them too that they were courteous, and they were definitely making an effort to make all cyclists aware of the importance of obeying rules and being courteous. Others who spoke were Supervisor Melgar, former Supervisor Norman Yee, Supervisor Mahmood, Robin Pam, and Jodie Medeiros.

 

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