FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, March 26, 2026
CONTACT: Luke Bornheimer, Executive Director, Luke@StreetsForward.org, 617-899-4487 (cell)

Streets Forward Statement on 2024 High-Injury Network

Proactive, systems-level solutions—like Streets Forward’s Intuitive Intersections Initiative—will address San Francisco’s systemic crisis of street safety and traffic crashes

The latest High-Injury Network tells us what we already knew: It’s dangerous to get around San Francisco, regardless of whether you walk, bike, use a wheelchair or skateboard, or drive. Over 90% of traffic injuries involve at least one car, and this is largely due to policy and infrastructure that encourage driving—it’s not safe, fast, and easy to walk, ride transit, and bike—and fail to mitigate roadway conditions that lead to fatalities and injuries for people in and outside of cars. We need proactive systems-level solutions to address our systemic street safety crisis, not reactionary bandaids that don’t address the underlying root cause.

That’s why Streets Forward is focused on policy and infrastructure improvements like the Intuitive Intersections Initiative: a suite of citywide improvements to paint every crosswalk, add bike and scooter parking in every daylighting zone, and implement No Turn on Red citywide. These citywide improvements will increase safety for all people—including those in cars—while making it easier to park a bike or scooter, decreasing the number of bikes and scooters on sidewalks, and increasing space for local businesses to add sidewalk seating and tables. The Intuitive Intersections Initiative will proactively improve San Francisco through systems-level solutions implemented citywide, making it safer for people to walk, bike, roll, and drive and helping people shift trips to walking, biking, and transit.

If Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors want to address our street safety crisis, they should support the Intuitive Intersections Initiative and help Streets Forward bring it to fruition, stewarding painted crosswalks, bike and scooter parking, and No Turn on Red to every intersection in the city. Proactive systems-level solutions like the Intuitive Intersections Initiative are what will address our city’s systemic crisis of street safety, and we look forward to working with Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors on implementing this suite of proven solutions to make San Francisco’s streets safer and better for everyone.

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Streets Forward is a nonprofit initiative making it safe, fast, and easy to walk, ride transit, bike, and drive in San Francisco through grassroots organizing, research, and advocacy focused on proven policy and infrastructure improvements. Streets Forward was founded by its Executive Director, Luke Bornheimer, who organizing and advocacy lead to Car-Free JFK Promenade being made permanent, Upper Great Highway being converted into a full-time, oceanfront park (Sunset Dunes), curbside protected bike lanes being installed on Valencia Street, the e-bike incentive fund being approved, and a citywide No Turn on Red policy being unanimously supported by the Board of Supervisors. Learn more at streetsforward.org.