. >> elizabeth stant. walk san francisco. you may have heard that yesterday at two pedestrians were hit in the city. one man was hit so badly, it was presumed that he was killed, but he is now on life-support. so pedestrian safety cannot wait. on tuesday, the national transportation for america released a report called " dangers by design." it highlighted the fact that in the last decade, 47,700 people were killed by being hit by cars, which the report points out, is the equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every month but right now we are not seen the kind of public attention and funding that would go to a catastrophe like that. the report also found a majority of deaths occurred on arterial streets, the wide, fast streets, like the ones south of market and elsewhere in the city, including lombard, where that young man was hit. here in california, the report also found seniors, people of color, low income communities are most at risk of pedestrian injury and death. this is true in san francisco and even more so, our pedestrian