More Vision Zero failure

Traffic death in SF

Turns out that San Francisco had an average year in 2019 with 29 traffic deaths on city streets. 

From the Director of Transportation:

It was a challenging year, with an increase in fatalities as compared to the two previous years. 29 fatalities were accounted for on city streets in 2019, with pedestrians and seniors disproportionately represented. In 2020, the SFMTA will continue our commitment to quick-build projects, including the upcoming Market Street vehicle prohibitions in January.

That is, the city will continue to change city streets with "improvements" that have zero affect on reducing traffic deaths, including a "World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims"! 

Vision Zero is essentially a jobs program, particularly for the  bloated SFMTA bureaucracy.

Checking the last---final?---Collisions Report (page 7) issued by the city confirms what the graph above shows: 29 fatalities is a typical year on city streets.

The city has never come close to eliminating traffic fatalities, which makes Vision Zero essentially a City Hall public relations/political strategy that includes a MTA Art Project! (see below)

Who do they think they're fooling?