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Ed’s Neighborhood
Citywide
Ed’s Neighborhood is the custom-built, interactive streetscape designed
to teach grade-schoolers how to safely navigate our streets. The fold
up set, named in honor of the late San Francisco mayor, Ed Lee, can
be taken around to different schools. It features crossing signals,
crosswalks, bike lanes and fabricated moving vehicles. It made its
debut April 13 at Jean Parker Elementary School in Chinatown.
Supervisor Norman Yee gave Public Works the job to build this project,
and we took it on with enthusiasm, managing it from start to finish.
We brought in the design firm, LMNOP, to create the set. We worked
closely with them to ensure it looks and feels like San Francisco and
imparts the right safety messages for kindergartners to second graders.
The set can accommodate up to a dozen kids at a time, and each
guided tour lasts about 20 minutes. During their walk through the
neighborhood, they learn such pedestrian safety tips as how to watch
for cars backing up and how traffic signals help people know when to
cross the street and when to wait. There are nine educational zones in
all.
The initiative dovetails with San Francisco’s Vision Zero policy of
eliminating all traffic-related deaths and serious injuries by 2024.
Public education is a key component to helping us achieve that goal.
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