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Page 2 of 2 transform our streets to make it safer to walk and bike. However, we believe more work needs to be done. While progress has been made on some of our major arterial streets, including adding protected and painted bike lanes, they remain environments that incentivize fast driving. The City's prior planning efforts, including its own Safe Mobility Santa Ana plan, has identified arterial streets as constituting only 20% of our roadway network, but 60% of all pedestrian involved collisions and 68% of the collisions involving people on bicycles occur on them. These data show how dangerous these wide streets are for all travellers, whether they be motorists, pedestrians, or cyclists. Yet, limited progress has been made in implementing the numerous street reconfigurations that have been studied in prior city planning efforts that would calm traffic speeds. We call on the council to prioritize public works efforts on improving traffic safety on arterial roads. We believe that policing will not mitigate Santa Ana's street racing problem. This approach would be reactive, and we believe a more effective approach will be proactive. Rather than improving traffic safety, these measures will have the unfortunate consequences of policing innocent civilians rather than those breaking the law. We believe the Santa Ana Police Department had good intentions in developing this ordinance, and as our work in Advocacy Activation, and Education demonstrate, we both have a shared goal of improving traffic safety in the City. But we believe a more effective effort will lay in cooperating with the Orange County Transportation Authority, and a more ambitious collaboration with the Santa Ana Public Works Department. This team of agencies should collaborate and set policy and implement capital projects that should change street design and geometry to discourage street racing. Working with these entities will help to identify a data -driven approach to locate which corridors in Santa Ana see pervasive street racing and where to invest capital improvements directed at mitigating street racing. Examples of policy changes and capital improvements include: Allowing parking on arterials such as metered parking (which would require policy change at the OCTA level) which would generate revenue for the city, protected bike infrastructure, pedestrian safety improvements (in collaboration with Public Works), speed humps, and more frequent traffic lights and crossings throughout arterials. More ticketing will not improve public safety long term, and we fear it is a slippery slope when we are criminalizing people in the public right of way. We respectfully request the mayor and council to vote against this ordinance. We at SAAS look forward to building a stronger partnership with the City and County in improving traffic safety for all in Santa Ana. Sincerely, ,;I� Krictnrnher Fortin Project Director Santa Ana Active Streets 1128 E Katella Ave. I Orange, CA 92867 I Tel. (657) 205-7306 1 www.saascoalition.ora I infonasaascoalition.ora