We wrote that yesterday about the new "dangerous by design" report by transportation for America, that pedestrian accident found, represent the deaths of 51 percent of all San Francisco road deaths, more than four times the national average. The husband of the victim of an accident 2010 Mission Street bus was an action wrongful death Monday against San Francisco Muni, say, that the driver a 14 mission was a candy bar unpacking bus if they failed to cross the road of 49-year-old Scott Whitsett you under. When the operator, Kimberly Faye Johnson, Whitsett saw them beat to allegedly the accelerator instead of the brake accidentally have led to the conflict. This incident marked the latest in a series of serious injuries and wrongful death lawsuits, which show a clear, to improve the road need security for San Francisco.

This action is particularly worrying for Muni, since San Francisco has the duty to protect of its citizens from avoidable accidents Government vehicles but some current high-profile failure stand. Earlier this year agreed the agency such as a personal injury lawsuit a pedestrian injured by the cable car deal Powell-Mason line 2008 for $2 million. These high costs indicating that use it in everyone's is the reduction of accidents on city streets, including Muni, pedestrians and taxpayer - San Francisco.

Earlier this month, the San Francisco municipal transportation agency approved a $20 million street redesign to slowly city traffic speeds and Masonic Avenue reduce accidents. Although this is an encouraging step, the SFMTA should press for similar measures at other high speed to implement high-traffic arterial roads throughout California. Just yesterday, for example, a pedestrian was hard in a marina district injured pedestrian accident on Pierce and Lombard Street.

Until San Francisco transport agencies important steps to reduce avoidable bus accidents and implemented stronger measures to reduce the speeds on arterial roads take, should pedestrian streets continue to extra precautions when crossing or wait for buses in high-traffic areas take.

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