It is always fun to write about good news related to road safety in San Francisco. That joy comes this week, as the San Francisco municipal transportation agency reported that Muni bus accidents in the year 2010, dropped 50 percent below the previous year. The improvement is attributed to a new camera installed in all Muni buses in November 2009, the cause of the Muni accidents, and monitor to capture dangerous ride Muni operators. The 50 percent reduction in the bus accident is a note that the DriveCam positive road safety will have a serious on San Francisco.

Interesting on the statistics is that inevitably bus a whopping 57 percent below 2009 figures, accidents dropped much impressive decline than the 33 percent reduction in avoidable accident. This indicates that another factor - in addition to the DriveCam - bus and pedestrian safety in the entire San Francisco must have contributed to an overall increase in. While a significant improvement of 964 in 2009, always far more is it than would be ideal is 483 Muni accidents in the year 2010, and I would like to even delete the numbers you see more in 2011.

"DriveCam works also as a training tool and disciplinary measure," said Director Reginald Mason SFMuni of the security and safety. "The operators are aware for the camera of their actions, and they remain better training, on the basis of the information we have collected from past accidents." "If the operator, to watch them having big brother know, makes it they would like to do the right thing."

It is an odd 1984 reference. And I hope that will San Francisco Muni operators already out of their way to drive safely. But it sounds like the DriveCam Ernst forward is, reduce the number of the San Francisco Muni accidents, so I'll stop by Mason's choice of words. Reduction of the Muni accidents at work has a double advantage: saving lives and saving the city a bunch of pedestrian accident claims to avoid.

So Kudos to the San Francisco MTA for this great plan, which already has been roads to improve safety in San Francisco!

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