“Get off the sidewalk,” Diane Amato regularly shouts at the many people she says ride scooters and e-bikes on sidewalks in her San Francisco neighborhood.

They don’t always take it well. Amato said she has been “flipped off, called names, and threatened.”

Amato, who lives in the city’s northeastern District 6, was one of more than a dozen residents who showed up at the Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting on Monday to support the San Francisco Street Safety Act, the city’s latest effort to reduce severe and fatal traffic deaths in the city.

“Are we just going to continue to get injured and killed because pedestrians come last? Or will you pass the Street Safety Act and put the welfare of pedestrians first?” she asked the committee members.

The ordinance, which passed unanimo

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