REMARKS
Council Member Amanda Farías on jaywalking
1:28:25
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Council Member Farías expresses concerns about pedestrian safety and jaywalking enforcement.
- She appreciates data analysis showing jaywalking enforcement in an area with high pedestrian fatalities
- Farías notes that jaywalking is very common behavior
- She suggests the city is failing to properly educate the public on pedestrian safety
Amanda Farías
1:28:25
And then I just have some follow-up questions for the PD on the J.
1:28:28
Walking Bill.
1:28:35
So I really appreciated the analysis that you came with today on the 115th precinct stats.
1:28:42
I think that's an a component and an aspect that we don't typically get to see in terms of analysis of data and, you know, overlapping that with the DOT data we see versus the year before its data and how the the precinct is trying to respond locally.
1:29:03
To actually answer for public safety.
1:29:06
Like, that is they're targeting that area with tickets to say, stop j walking, people are dying here, which I think is really important to highlight.
1:29:14
The The level of education, I think, in the public, both this comment is both for Department of Transportation, and the PD is just not real.
1:29:25
I mean, we can all commonly agree that everyone J.
1:29:28
W.
1:29:28
At some point in their life throughout the year, if not throughout the week.
1:29:32
So just make Crossing Street easier, getting to the Bodega faster, whatever it is.
1:29:37
And I think we probably as a city are failing and trying to encourage people at what safety really means in the public.
1:29:45
And that is actually how they walk throughout the street and their relationship as pedestrians to cyclists, people on bicycles and people in cars.