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Pursuant to Charter Sections 2.103 and 3.100(7), and Administrative Code, Section 2.11, the Mayor shall answer the following eligible question submitted by Supervisor representing District 8. The Mayor may address the Board initially for up to five minutes. Discussion shall not exceed five minutes per Supervisor.
1. In many neighborhoods across the city, our sidewalks don't have the capacity to ensure safe and comfortable pedestrian flow, which squeezes pedestrians into tight areas and forces people to step onto the street. While infrastructure improvements like widening our sidewalks and creating bulb-outs can dramatically alleviate pedestrian congestion issues, these improvements are expensive and resources are limited. A less expensive solution is to improve placement of street furniture, such as surface utility boxes, news racks, bus shelters, advertising kiosks, public toilets and other fixtures on the sidewalk, which individually and in the aggregate impede pedestrian flow and restrict visibility of pedestrians at corners. With so many pieces of sidewalk furniture competing for scarce sidewalk real estate, how will you work with the various Departments that authorize placement of these items to ensure that we are doing everything we can to create safe and comfortable sidewalks along our busy streets? How will you ensure that the City is doing everything that it can to fix existing sidewalk bottlenecks and hazardous pedestrian visibility conditions and ensure that we do not create new ones? How will your Pedestrian Strategy, including the 5 miles per year program, address this problem? (Supervisor Wiener, District 8)
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