Late last week, was injured by a drunk driver to Masonic Avenue and Turk Street 61-year-old James Hudson, San Francisco, deadly. The suspect, San Francisco County Sheriff's Department Cadet José Jiménez, was arrested on charges of astronaut homicide, influence, and the attempt to flee the scene drive under the. The pedestrian accident marked a worrying trend that Masonic Avenue is dangerous and the city must contain steps to improving pedestrian safety show. The San Francisco municipal transportation agency meeting on Friday discuss a popular $20 million plan to make safer Masonic Avenue.

The behavior of the driver on the Masonic Avenue in the last year to two pedestrians dead and many more injured contributed. In August last year, Yannick was killed by a drunk driver, 22-year-old tourist Nils left in a bicycle accident on Freemasons and Turk. And even since last Friday fatal accident pedestrians, Masonic Avenue finds instead two traffic accidents. Tuesday morning a driver ran a red light on the Masonic and Hayes, accident, causing both drivers with minor injuries. And on Saturday May 7, a driver ran a red light and a motorcycle accident at 60 miles per hour. As an eye-witness bike Europe said "The motorcycle ran directly into the side of the car, and flew over 15 metres into the air." His shoe actually flew, and all about the intersection, landed right by me. The bike only exploded, amounted to a total. "

One of the problems is Masonic Avenue width that feel driver makes easily from more than 25 miles per hour speed limit and treating the city street as a highway. On Friday, the San Francisco MTA discuss the 20 million dollar Boulevard plan, developed with the help of safety organizations and neighborhood residents, to the reduce speeds and Masonic Avenue is narrower. Visit the SFMTA Masonic Avenue Street redesign study [PDF] for more information about the Boulevard plan.

San Francisco has undertaken to address increasing pedestrian accidents for years, but progress has been slow. "We are very frustrated with the progress in the Masonic Avenue," said North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association President Jarie Bolander. "It just seems certain not to the focus of the city on the things for pedestrians on Freemasons."This is why people were so the Boulevard plan to support neighborhood. Officials of the city including police captain Dennis O'Leary, city Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, District 1 supervisor Eric Mar and district 5 supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, have approved the Boulevard plan for Masonic Avenue.

Calling of Masonic "tragically unsafe", Elizabeth wrote Stampe, executive Director of the pedestrian safety organization WalkSF a passionate letter to the SFMTA to support the proposal of the Boulevard. "In our city, 100 people seriously injured or killed each year," she wrote. "One of the most powerful things we can do, to change this is to reduce traffic speeds on our arterial roads such as Freemason." "This wide fast roads are where the worst crashes occur and where we have the greatest potential to save lives."

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