>> good morning and welcome to the 2011 meeting of the san francisco county plans and programs committee. i am david campos. we are joined by carmen chu, david chu and scott weiner. the clerk of the committee is erica cheng.

covering for sfgtv are eric bunch and don gardener. avalos is on a transportation trip. a -- bicycling trip. can we get a motion to excuse him by commissioner chiu, seconded by carmen chu? mada -- madam clerk -- 9 >> collegues, you have the minutes of the february meeting before you. public comment is closed. can we get a motion by carmen chu, seconded by david chiu, to take this without objection. item three.

>> the advisory committee report, an information item. >> good morning. maria lombardo. there was no cac meeting last month. they will be briefed tomorrow at 6:00 pm. >> thank you very much. is there any member of the public wishing to speak? public comment is closed. item four? >> one number to the citizen's advisory committee. an action item. >> ben siefka of the transportation authority. we have one appointment by way of background. the 11-member citizen's advisory, each member with a two-year term. we have wanted to have this be a

priority at the committee. we have one vacancy from district six, a result of the resignation of julianne parsons. and we have an applicant to speak and join the committee. >> we should open this to the applicants for the seat. if you can come forward, you will be able to make a brief statement with up to three minutes. i don't know if it is one or more. but we would begin with mr. flanagan.

>> my name is joseph flanagan. i am a member of the department of developmental services. advisory committee, representing san francisco. and also, i am a member of the arc of san francisco. my experience is working with those who come out of developmental center and seniors. my interest in the cac is to help support disabled and help them with the problems that they have getting on and off the bus.

and other transportation problems the city has. my experience happened at sonoma developmental center in 1963. i was a patient's rights advocate there. and then i formed a group for cac for the arc of san francisco. i feel i have a lot of experience. i would be willing to work with the cac on this committee. thank you very much. >> thank you very much.

any questions? are there any others? begin by stating yoru name. >> i am the president of district six. the coordinating council for three terms. i have served there three years. i represent seniors, disabled, youth, marginalized populations. i would like to continue that work with the cac. i have been a small business owner in san francisco for 25 years. i am 70 years old and am

disabled. i was enjoyed -- i was part of luxor cab company. i think there are a lot of transportation needs beyond the marginalized populations. i would like to be used in the further transit needs. >> any questions to mr. smith? thank you, again, for your interest in serving the city of san francisco. mr. haughtman? >> i am delighted to be here before you. i have been active in political groups since 1973 and lived in district six since 1995. i am an active participant in the good neighbor coalition in

the tenderloin. i am the president of the north mission neighbors. by way of a short background, i have a degree in city planning and urban studies. i have been active in the issues around planning and transportation. it would be a great fit for my interests. i look forward to working with you on the county transportation authority. >> is there another applicant? we will post that presentation. we will open it to the public. if anyone would like to speak, come forward. public comment is closed. if there is a -- there are more

applicants than vacancies, it is hard to decide whom to select. from my perspective, each of them would be able to serve district six well. i also believe that as a body, we have to give difference to the city supervisor. i am sure supervisor kim had a good idea. the support is for mr. flanagan and based on that i will support him. can we get a motion? >> motion by commissioner chu. >> we have excellent applicants. i wish we had space for all of them. i wish there were places for them. i understand our colleague

suggested mr. flanagan be the person we consider and we continue to have representation on this body that understands the challenge. i would like to support that motion. >> a motion by david chu. seconded by carmen chiu. can we take this without o bjection? congratulations mr. flanagan. >> city-wide safety effort,s, an action item. >> david chiu wanted an update on this item.

i didn't know if you wanted to add anything. >> if i could preface this. many of us here at the board have been concerned about pedestrian safety. i requested the t.a. do a preliminary analysis related to this. two or more san franciscans are injured every day. -- $280 million were given for pedestrian fatalities. it is difficult to understand who should be responsible. and where can we ensure there is funding? for me, this past week, the situation is more acute.

there were three fatalities in the last week. this is a problem we can't wait to deal with. i want to look forward to a good conversation. >> thank you. tilly chang from planning. this item is on page 23. i will co-present with maria lombardo and timothy poppinger will speak after me. people from dph and other people from mta are here. i will begin. thank you for framing that sovering -- sobering news. the presentation begins with an outline of the pedestrian safety transit. the overview of the agencies

that are active in particular, outline of funding issues. the key needs going forward and the sfmta's presentation. injury collisions, the trend is this is decreasing. the proportion of trips that are not motorized is rising percentage. the city is doing better in terms of reducing the amounts of injuries but the overall traffic safety, we need to focus more on the pedestrians and bicycling communities, involving those travelers. the number has actually risen and this is more troubling, despite the downward overall trend.

we believe that this is actually a result. we believe that this could be the result of more people bicycling. this is really not able to keep up with a new demand, the rising demand for bicycling. and other barriers. implementing the measures to make certain of these conditions. 60% of the fatal collisions -- >> what is the difference between pedestrians and bicycles? >> the difference between bicycles? >> one line says, all of the users, and the others as pedestrians and bicyclists. >> this gumballs motorized transportation. people are on the buses and light trucks. we can zoom in on the injury collisions involving

pedestrians, and people on bicycles. the downward trend to the right, for the bicyclist and pedestrians is very troubling. to understand these trends, in terms of the fatal collisions, the numbers are fairly low. we do have a downward trend, as the number jumps up and down. this is a declining trend, although every fatality is a large tragedy and we do need to redouble their efforts to avoid all fatalities. we will focus on the injury statistics, because the low number of fatalities is a little bit less indicative of the

overall sector. in terms of the injuries and the fatalities, the mayor issued an executive order for new gold to be set. 25% reduction in severe and fatal injuries. and a 50% reduction by 200021. >> massi were these numbers come from? looking at 25% of the injury collision, this is based in terms of what is reported to the police. the reason i ask this, in some parts of the city there are issues involving pedestrians that are not recorded by the pedestrians. >> thank you very much. this is absolutely true. we do not have good integration from all the sources. this is from the data base of

the traffic, that captures the police records. those that are reported and are documented. we have not coordinated all the data from hospitals and health services. and they're also the people who are -- to do not have the information, of what happened. >> we were talking earlier about what happens in the mission, and all those things going forward. >> absolutely. there is a desire to see how we rank compared to the other cities. if there is any measure to make comparisons between the cities, if we get into how we think that we are doing, there is a

variation of the quality and the links of the trips, and a set of characteristics that may vary from city to city, and this affects the interactions between the cities. we do not have a lot of kuwait. ha ha others have how -- or -- our daytime population is different from the daytime population. this population has the international standard of traffic safety. this is higher than london, paris, or new york.

ther>> there was a study showing san francisco has more deaths and injuries than any other city calculated with miles driven. >> sure. >> if you look at this, we don't cover it quite as well. the comparison to san francisco and all cities is misleading. medium-sized cities don't have the walking.

for the city, this works against us. we were aware of the findings and we highlighted this because it is not a correct comparison. to compare san francisco to santa rosa or necessarily los angeles. this is such a different characteristic. the densities for the trip characteristics. it is difficult to make these comparisons. it is somewhat to be expected. we have more walking and less driving. >> reports said we were first in victims killed involving pedestrians or motorcycles.

this is by miles driven or populations. >> either way, it is a severe problem. here is a map. this demonstrates the point about ways to look at these problems. this is actual collissions. you see the market street quarter and the trip-making and walking we see. you have the market in the other coordinators', where we have these conflicts. the next match, if you take a different measure, for the pedestrian collisions, with the trip making. different parts of the city are lighting up.

you have less total walking in the south -- across the south and southwest. we see a difference of the hot spots. the working conditions are so poor, this is going to show up in the rate. the absolute numbers -- this is the absolute traffic if we see these -- see this with the injuries. we see this on an absolute basis. if we look at this from another perspective, in terms of how much walking that there is, with the overall traffic demand, that is a different part of the city. both of these measures are very important to understand.

we have made progress in reducing injuries. and the trend for injuries and fatalities are going down but we still have work to do in terms of the severe injuries. he is here and he -- he says a lot about the vulnerability of the users, the seniors are four times more likely than adults to be involved in a serious pedestrian injury collision, then the children. the pedestrian fatality rates, we have vulnerability in certain users, we have concentrations with the different parts of the city, with the measures that we are using. in any case, to meet the goals of the city with traffic safety, with the pedestrian