Safer Routes San Diego: Enhancing Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Through Neighborhood Road Audits

Team Lead: Derek Kang
Team Member: Dylan Zhang, Eric Wu

Project Abstract:
Our project seeks to protect, advocate, and improve the roads of San Diego. First, we aim to protect the pedestrians and cyclists of San Diego. By auditing hazards in streets, missing or ill-maintained crosswalks, and deteriorating sidewalks, especially near schools, parks, and low-income neighborhoods, we aim to protect residents from everyday road hazards that may have gone unnoticed. We do this through in-person field audits and real-time reporting via the city’s “Get It Done” application. Not only do we want to highlight these present problems, but we also want to promote urban investment. Our team seeks to map infrastructure defects and write a detailed report, ultimately delivering our concrete recommendations, like bike lane expansions and daylighting intersections, directly to the city council district office. We hope our youth perspective will help shine a light on this underreported issue in the city and kickstart a larger movement for public safety. Lastly, we aim to help transform how young people engage with local government and community. We plan to design an app that allows users to report issues within their community beyond just the San Diego city borders. Our ultimate goal is to drive civic action through youth-led advocacy and reporting.

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