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<br />Araiza, Fatima <br />From:Nathaniel Greensides <mynci90@gmail.com> <br />Sent:Wednesday, May 29, <br />To:eComment <br />Cc:Hernandez, Johnathan <br />Subject:City Council Meeting June 4 2024 - Item 32 <br /> Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. <br />Dear City Council, <br />I write in support of the item. I read through the Vision Zero plan I want to highlight the section about the 94% <br />myth which details how instead of simply viewing the issue of traffic incidents as being issues caused by <br />individual humans, we should be also considering how our traffic systems may facilitate human error and <br />therefore how systems should be redesigned so that harm caused by individual human error becomes less of a <br />contributing factor to traffic incidents on our streets. I recall a family member telling me one time that they <br />received a traffic ticket for not stopping at a newly installed stop sign in a residential neighborhood, but the new <br />sign was obscured from the view of drivers by a tree that had not been trimmed prior or post sign installation. <br />The systems based approach is also particularly well crafted to consider our residents where 37% of census <br />tracts in Santa Ana are considered disadvantaged and 55% of our residents do not have access to a vehicle. It <br />was nice to see senior level City staff (specifically Zed) quoted on multiple pages with the wisdom and insight <br />they bring to our City. Moreover, I appreciated the in-depth statistics about incidents between pedestrians, <br />bikes, and cars over five year and ten-year periods. I found it interesting that in the review of the literature for <br />surrounding cities policies and guidance, Irvine placed an emphasis on bicycling. Again, in our City which puts <br />education first, I think there needs to be a heavy emphasis on public education for both drivers and bicyclists <br />about safe navigation of streets in cars or on bikes so as to increase safety for all. Page 15 of the Vision Zero <br />plan mentions policy M-3.5 regarding education and I am most interested in seeing how this will be conducted. <br />Page 144 offers some education ideas and I will offer that I do not think that our local dollars and efforts should <br />be expended on DUI awareness campaigns seeing as anti-DUI messaging is pretty well covered across various <br />agencies nationally and statewide. Bike safety and maintenance workshops are a good idea; however I think that <br />City resources should be used to uplift entities which are already offering that service whether for profit, non- <br />profit, or otherwise. Share the road campaigns and driver training programming should include information <br />mailed to residents with links or QR codes to City webpages/information about how to safely navigate the <br />streets as a pedestrian, motorist, or cyclist and those pages should also detail legal consequences for failure to <br />follow any laws and regulations. It should also include benefits of traveling safely on streets, specifically that <br />safe and proper streets navigation helps people save time, money, gas, our planet, and most importantly, lives. <br />Sincerely, <br />Nate Greensides <br />Ward 5 Resident <br />1 <br />