Streets Are For Everyone
Celebrating 10 years of making streets SAFEr for everyone.
Our Mission
Streets Are For Everyone (known as SAFE) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in January 2015 that aims to improve the quality of life for pedestrians, bicyclists, and drivers alike by reducing traffic fatalities to zero. SAFE addresses the problem in a holistic fashion through direct education, broad awareness campaigns, partnerships, community outreach, policy and legislation, support for those impacted, and other proven strategies.
SAFE Streets Blog
What We Do
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SAFE Support Victim Services
We provide resources, support, and help to victims of traffic collisions and family or friends of victims…
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Finish The Ride & Finish The Run
Finish the Ride is a movement, started in the spirit of courage and determination…
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Streets, Art, SAFE Film Competition
Combining education and young-adult outreach, the Streets, Art, SAFE film competition…
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Activists, Advocates & Volunteers
A community of like-minded individuals united in the movement to make sure Streets Are For Everyone…
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Fight For Change
SAFE is committed to passing sensible policy and legislation that reduces traffic violence…
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Faith For SAFE Streets
Faith based leaders using their pulpit, prayers and powerful voices to remind our communities that it is up to each of us to ensure no one dies in traffic…
“It is critically important to adopt policies that ensure our streets are designed for all who use them — pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and public transportation users of all ages. All of us need safe and efficient streets. That won’t happen without change.”
— AARP statement of support for H.R. 2071 (2014), the Safe Streets Act
Damian’s Story
The Tragedy That Started SAFE
SAFE was started by cyclist Damian Kevitt as a movement for safer streets after he was hit by a car, dragged 1/4 mile down Interstate 5, and nearly killed while riding his bicycle in Griffith Park in 2013.
While still in the hospital, Damian made two decisions:
No matter how long it took, he would finish the ride he started that day.
He would use his story to fight for safer streets for all road users throughout California.
Finish the Ride and Finish the Run were SAFE’s first events, and they continue today as a space where community members can come together for change.
What started as a single, life-changing event has become a community of activists, advocates, and volunteers united in a movement that proudly declares that “Streets Are For Everyone” and fights each day to realize Damian’s vision while lying in that hospital bed.
In April 2022, 77-year-old Andrew Jelmert was cycling on Crystal Springs Drive in Griffith Park, training for what would have been his fifth AIDS Lifecycle Ride, when he was hit and killed by a driver doing 80+ MPH through Griffith Park.
His death underscored what park users had been saying for decades, that Griffith Park is a dangerous and high-speed cut-through for drivers, not the safe space that it should be for Angelenos.
The calls by cyclists and community members to SAFE for help after this tragedy were immediate and many. So SAFE’s team and volunteer advocates mobilized, holding vigils, press events, speaking at meetings, and working with a broader group of organizations like Streets For All, Bike LA, LA Walks, Active SGV, Los Feliz Neighborhood Council, and many more.