Dozens of people shut down several blocks of Valencia Street in San Francisco's Mission District Friday, stopping traffic around 5 p.m. and calling for city officials to make the streets safer after the second fatal pedestrian death in just three weeks.
They marched in memory of a woman they don't know, but who was killed January 10th, a fellow pedestrian who was hit by a car while walking along the same paths these neighbors say they have walked every day.
"Oftentimes it is our elders, children, people who have disabilities, people who are vulnerable in other ways who get killed," said Aditya Bhumbla, another volunteer with Safe Street Rebel. "We're calling for a Mission transportation plan," said Kevin Ortiz, Co-founder of Mission Destino, a Latino transportation advocacy group which helped organize the vigil and march, "SFMTA tends to come in do very blanket policies. It's really top down top-down not really from the bottom up."Rosa Chen with the Chinatown Community Development Center also attended the vigil.
An SFMTA spokeswoman Erica Kato says there has been progress, focusing on areas of the city with the most high injury collisions.
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