maguire but my count from 6-year old sophia liu and new year's eve and new year's day to alfred yee, 87 years old that count gets up to 43 pedestrian deaths not counting vehicle and bicycle deaths. i'm just really anxious that this process to speed up projects and to really focus on key high injury corridors and moved along as quickly as we can and this morning as we were painting stripes on the crosswalks which i think is a really good thing, i'm really interested in how we're going to adequately budget projects and move key strategies forward. you and i talked about safe routes foreseen i for, seniors as a potential model and i'd really appreciate it if you have other ideas of how we speed up challenging the culture of speeding and dangerous driving and how we work not just on the enforcement which is so critical but the engineering and the education to break the culture that's causing these unfortunate deaths of this 87-year old man and others, the 3 this year that have already plagued the city i just wanted to get that off my chest. >> i'm glad you shared that. clearly we we have

one of the most memorable was new year's eve 2013 when 6-year-old sophia liu was killed at polk and ellis. the municipal transportation agency has a plan to make a 20-block stretch of the street safer. >> we've come up with a plan that involves protecting pedestrians through new design of sidewalks and crosswalks, protecting cyclists with a raised cycle track as well as bike lanes as well as improving traffic circulation by changing signals and design of the roadways. >> reporter: why is there opposition secret that for merchants like this owner of smoke signals magazine show, the loss of parking is huge. 110 spots along polk will be eliminated. >> people come from marin, from the valley, from everywhere to shop here. if they -- if it's not convenient, they condition find parking, and they won't bother. royal the bicycle coalition likes half the plan. the part that runs between pine and mcallister through the tenderloin has a raised bike path and dedicated lanes. the portion stretching north to union street has lanes shared with cars and a few blocks of bike-only lanes just during the mor