Vision Zero: Monthly Highlights

Vision Zero: Monthly Highlights
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freshly painted bike path on Valencia

Vision Zero SF is the City’s road safety policy that will build safety and livability into our streets, protecting the one million people who move about the City every day.

From education to traffic engineering, from enforcing traffic laws to changing public policy, Vision Zero SF is driving an agenda to change the way we think and act on San Francisco streets.

This month, we’re featuring some improvements to benefit motorcyclists, bicyclists and pedestrians. Here is a list of what we’ve been working on this past month:

New daylighting treatments
Speed enforcements on the High Injury Network
New bike lanes for the Indiana Street Bikeway Project

Published February 01, 2020 at 12:24AM
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