Mayor Lurie’s Street Safety Initiative reaches 100-day milestone
Yesterday marked 100 days since Mayor Daniel Lurie signed his executive directive on traffic safety: the Street Safety Initiative.
The Street Safety Initiative included a range of actions for city agencies with deadlines of 100 days, 6 months, and one year and beyond to accelerate progress in traffic safety.
The 100-day actions lay a crucial foundation for future actions. We’re glad to see things are on track, especially:
1. Mayor Lurie launched the first-ever traffic safety task force within the Mayor’s Office, which had its first meeting on March 10.
This is a key element of the most successful Vision Zero cities around the world. It brings agency accountability directly under the mayor to drive results. Walk SF advocated for this for many years, and is grateful to Mayor Lurie for being the first mayor to do this here in San Francisco.
2. The 2024 High-Injury Network (which includes data from 2020-2024) was released by the Department of Public Health.
This analysis of where the highest numbers of crashes are occurring hasn’t been updated since 2021, and is an essential piece for the city in preventing crashes in a data-driven way.
The SFPD will put the new 2024 High-Injury Network into practice in terms of where they will focus traffic enforcement; the SFMTA will use it to determine where to prioritize safety projects given limited resources; the DPH will do additional analysis including crash trends.
We’ll be taking a deeper look at the 2024 High-Injury Network ourselves and will report back. Because speed cameras launched a year ago, the results of these aren’t reflected in the new 2024 High-Injury Network. However, after a quick review it’s good to see there are high-injury streets which have had significant safety improvements and are no longer on the High-Injury Network, like California Street from Arguello to 18th Street.
Mayor Lurie’s press release today points out the incredible success of San Francisco’s speed safety camera program, which has dramatically changed driver behavior at the 33 locations where cameras are installed. We applaud Mayor Lurie for embracing lifesaving and proven automated enforcement technologies.
Walk SF is eager to win legislation allowing many more speed cameras in San Francisco and also for San Francisco to dramatically expand the use of red light cameras, which it has no limits in doing (New York City is installing five red light cameras each week!).
The heavy lifting within the Street Safety Initiative is yet to come, especially in terms of getting city agencies like the SFMTA, SF Public Works, SF PUC, and SF Fire Department to coordinate and deliver safer streets more efficiently and effectively. We’re glad to see that things are off to a strong start, especially when we have mourned so many pedestrian tragedies recently.
Photo by Fiona Yim from Mayor Lurie’s press conference on December 15, 2025 announcing his Street Safety Initiative
