MEDIA ADVISORY
PRESS CONFERENCE AND VIGIL: World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
Contact: Will Moore, Policy Counsel, Circulate San Diego - 858-210-7999 | [email protected]
When: Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.
Where: Alice Birney Joint Use Field (At the intersection of Park Blvd and Meade Ave in San Diego)
Who:
- Todd Gloria, Mayor of San Diego
- Stephen Whitburn, Councilmember, City of San Diego
- Richard Barrera, Board Member, San Diego Unified School District
- Laura Keenan, founder of Families for Safe Streets San Diego
- Members of Families for Safe Streets San Diego:
- Nancy Cavanaugh
- Katie Gordon
- Michelle Gonzalez
- Anna Cornelius Schecter
- Caleb Carvalho
What: Elected officials, advocacy organizations, and family members of crash victims will observe the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
Families for Safe Streets San Diego (FSSSD) is a group of San Diego families who have lost loved ones to traffic violence while they were walking or biking. FSSSD members will place 258 pairs of empty shoes at Alice Birney Joint Use Field to represent the 258 people who were killed in traffic crashes in San Diego County in 2023. They will then share the stories of loved ones they have lost to crashes, and ask the City Council and Mayor to increase their investments in safe streets. Elected officials will then speak about local and national efforts to improve traffic safety.
Families for Safe Streets San Diego call for the City of San Diego to implement 3 specific cost-effective solutions that will save lives: 1) Improve dangerous roads, including the “Fatal 15”; 2) Reduce speed limits in school zones by implementing AB43; 3) Increase safety on the 6 Critical Corridors - the most dangerous pedestrian corridors in San Diego, which are all along routes to school.
Prior to the vigil, at 3:30 PM, BikeSD will also host a Pre-Event Family Walk & Ride starting and ending at Alice Birney Joint Use Field.
Visuals: Elected officials; Family members of victims of traffic violence; Empty shoe vigil commemorating the 258 people killed on San Diego's roads in 2023.
More information is available at https://www.circulatesd.org/2024_world_day_of_remembrance.
A downloadable copy of this Media Advisory can be found here.
