hanging from your rearview mirror. we are working on six speeds, jaywalking, red lights, stop signs. accident investigation. also, commercial vehicles. we have a lot of the accidents involving pedestrians involve commercial vehicles that are operating in san francisco. we have a commercial vehicle unit that is addressing the safety of those and concentrating on enforcement. we are also providing high- visibility deterrence with a number of officers we have. if there is anything -- if you have any questions -- captain gary might have a comment. captain garrity has a comment about -- >> for purposes of time, i know the tenderloin station got together the first of the year after the executive order was issued.

myself, with an ankle, the night watchman tenants, decided that we needed to have a tenderloin [unintelligible] we develop our own safety testing plan for the area. a couple of things involved in that. i do not want to go over with the captain already said. enforcement. collecting data. also, collaborating with the neighborhood. what do the people in the neighborhood what? everybody is different. tenderloin is different than south of market, different from the park, mission district's. we looked at a couple of things. a lot of it was giving neighbors what they wanted. we put up signs along the jones street corridor especially for seniors and wheelchair users, bicyclist riding on the

sidewalk, skateboarders. we have gotten involved in the kids after school program. that is pretty much in the works right now. the safe passage program. it is in the pilot stage now. that would be a program for after school children and before school, volunteers in the neighborhood, someone working on the dpw permit for footprints, children going to and from school and boarding buses. we started a little bit already in the morning. before school and after-school. we have a problem with our staffing. we are trying to work with that. we are going to tweak that a little bit. a lot of the kids now traditionally go after school to programs in the 5:00 hour, and

we have worked with supervisor kim and her staff on safe passage. people have been pretty receptive to that. we are headed in the right direction. i do not want to give you a lot of data. we have decreased injuries 52% since the end of january. it is working. we are doing foot patrols. i am an advocate of foot patrols in the area. if we have to dump a radio car, we will. in terms of pilot programs, we're looking at getting rid of one of the radio cars. where it becomes heavy, especially at jones, we are looking at using more bikes. that is something that perhaps the mta could look for at the corridor, a pilot by calling in those areas. it is a downward one way street going south, as people mentioned before from the department of

public health, seniors, heading to those freeway connection ramps. that area is a safety concern for bicyclists, people using the crosswalk, and bicycles. otherwise, what we need to work on hoat the district level, we have some engineers work on projects. the police has a pretty good dialogue of enforcement but the nuts and bolts of the community right now, right now, some areas are being realigned. you do not want my opinion on that. supervisor kim: no, we do. >> no, you do not. with that, i will open it up for questions. any questions, i will give you a tough answer also. regales street, i have a few

concerns about the market and jones area. especially pedestrian going to and from service providers, st. anthony's. school kids. that is a real tight corner. seventh street, the turn going up leavenworth is a tight turn. several accidents occur. people get confused on the markings. it worries me about pedestrians. that is a cross over to the united nations plaza also. so we will be working with the mta on that. supervisor mirkarimi: colleagues, any questions? supervisor campos: thank you very much, both captains, order presentation, welcome to the public safety committee. capt., nice jacket. looks good. just a couple of quick questions. one had to do with points that were made by dr. bahtia about

the information collected and flowing back to -- actually to the police department, and at some point in the presentation there was discussion about how the environmental factors that cause these accidents are not reported and the police were not -- the police were not recorded in the report. i wonder if you have any response to that, captain? >> yes, i do. first of all, the engineers have been trading our officers, accident investigators to look for those factors and include them in their narrative reports. yesterday, we had a meeting at the mta -- we are going to have another follow up meeting at the department of public health, department of public works, where we are going to take our officers who input the reports,

and our statistician, who receives the reports and transmits them to the state, what we are going to do is try to move the statistician over to the mta so that the mta, department of public works, department of public health will all be receiving the latest information before it is translated. receiving that information is almost a year old. we are trying to -- the police report will come into the statistician. the statistician will be able to input them into the crossroads program and everyone will have that information available within a week, no later than a week from when the accident occurred. that is what we're doing right now and targeting. supervisor campos: is it a question of changing the actual

report, the form itself, or is it a question of trading the officers to fill out the incident report? >> it is a training issue and also an input issue. there is also an analysis of function that goes on. officer john anton is here. he has been assigned to work directly with the department of public health so that they can take the police reports and he will serve as our liaison to of everything that needs to be looked at on the reports and to analyze them, and if the department of public health asks us for further investigation or information, he can coordinate to make that it -- make sure that goes out. supervisor campos: my feeling is it is great to improve training and make sure that as officers are filling out the incident report that you have more consistency in what is reported,

but i also think to the extent that you need to change the form and what is included, required already, that makes it more systemic so it is an extra, added check. >> we can always improve the forms we are using. currently we use the chp555 form. we can add additional forms. the joint committee we are working on, if the department of public health has a suggestion for us, we will incorporate it, collect the information they are asking for. supervisor campos: final question is the disparity between the number of incidents reported by the police department and the records that the hospital has. there is a 20% difference in terms of what is reported by the police, what is actually

happening at hospitals. >> that is correct. we have believed for years a lot of reports go unreported. that may give you a specific example. we -- let me give you a specific example. we had a motorcycle officer go down on the green biplane on market and van ness spirit it was very slick. -- bike lane on market and van ness. it was very slick. we learn from several of the bicyclists in the area, we have been falling down, there have been some injuries, but they did not report them to the police. when we met with mta, they resurfaced the street because they found it was an environmental hazard. a that was used for the bicycle lane, when it became what, became slick and dangerous.

those accidents that were occurring, they are not making police reports because injuries were not sufficient, they felt that they were not involved with another vehicle at the time. but that is, in fact, a traffic accident. so those types of injuries go under reported. other injuries which occurred, for example, a skateboarder on a sidewalk that hits a pedestrian. those are treated as an aided case, as opposed to an accident because of the behavior patterns. one of those patterns is a skateboard on the sidewalk. supervisor campos: i would a imagine there are differences in terms of levels of reporting by neighborhoods. in some neighborhoods, the disparity in terms of what happens, what is reported to the police and what happens at the hospitals might be even wider of a difference. >> that is what we are addressing. when we look at cultural diversity -- because there are

some hesitancies in communities to make a police report. they feel like they are imposing on us, or it is just a cultural thing not to make the report. so that is what the education process is, to go out to say to the organizations, communities, please make the report when these things happen. supervisor campos: the last point i would make on that, some of the issues that have been raised in context of the sanctuary ordinance, in implementation of the so-called secure communities, the very negative impact it has on issues like pedestrian safety. because if you are a pedestrian and have been a victim of an incident, you are going to be reluctant to have an interaction with the police because of that kind of program. >> that is why it is important to have officers dedicated to the organization's and liaison

with the organizations. as the trust is developed and bonds are developed, those members of the community will come forward and they will know the officer can be trusted to file the report without consequences. supervisor mirkarimi: supervisor kim? supervisor kim: just a couple of follow-up questions. thank you for being here. thank you as well to capt. garrity for the time and for your input. how do you currently share data with dph and nt a regarding other collisions and traffic violations? >> that is a nightmare for us. our statistician collects every day the police report and prepares an excel sheet and then

sends it over to -- shares it with the different organizations. that is why we met with mta's today to see if we could move our statistician over to mta and receive the information, directly input it into the crossroads program. that way, every organization and department would have instant access to the mapping function and data collection function of statistical data. supervisor kim: i know that mta is committed to setting up a share data site on line. this is something sfpd is committed to as well? >> yes. supervisor kim: i know the city of belmont has set up five crosswalk listings, cited 77 drivers with moving violations. their emphasis -- and this is that they have three pedestrian violations per year. -- and this -- impetus is that

they have three pedestrian violation per year. what are we doing around the freeways? are we setting up stings on a regular basis so that we let drivers know that we are serious about pedestrian safety? >> we have several operations. one was recorded by channel 4, "people behaving badly." we are going to try to do those kinds of things on a regular basis. >> and further, we conducted a month and have a pedestrian stings. in that timeframe, different corridors throughout the city, the traffic co. wrote over 1700 citations. supervisor kim: how do you decide where to do these stings,

target enforcement? >> we look at hot spots, we get complaints from the neighborhoods. like the people today, they say this area is very dangerous for us crossing. whether it is chinatown, the richmond, sunset, we choose based on a lot of complaints. supervisor kim: so you base and off of the complaints that are called in. >> absolutely. supervisor kim: what about freeway ramps? do we do sting's there? >> to date, no. supervisor kim: is that something you would pursue? >> i am sure we could open ourselves up to that. supervisor kim: how many patrol cars are dedicated to enforcing traffic laws at the southern station every day? >> i could not answer that. supervisor kim: with the captain know? >> southern station has two motorcycle officers dedicated to

it. i cannot speak to any traffic cars. supervisor kim: what is the average number of speeding tickets sfpd gives every month? >> we would have to get that information for you. quite a bit. i do not have an exact number for you right now. >> it would be great to get that number of speeding tickets, the number of tickets we give to vehicles blocking crosswalks and intersections. how many citations are written otherwise. >> he we can refer to the safety pedestrian advisory committee. we provide a report to them. we will make sure that your staff receives it. it is the running benchmark for the year, what we're doing with information that is broken out by district and violations. supervisor kim: thank you for

your time. i asked this to supervisor mirkarimi earlier, but i know we depend on sfpd for a lot of enforcement but perhaps the sheriff's department is underutilized in this area. they have the ability to cite as well and i am not sure what we can do to share the load better -- >> actually, we are sharing the load with the sheriff's department because they are part of our dui program, participating on the enforcement city-wide. you asked about the freeways. we did have a checkpoint. one of them was on eighth street going to the freeway. this year, it was successful, done during the holiday season. we have had several other checkpoints south of market on dui because that is also a contributing factor.

so in foresman on the dui program is included. currently, we have eight departments participating. supervisor mirkarimi: relative to what supervisor kim just ask, if there is nothing that prohibits the sheriff's department from being enlisted to assist in these particular endeavors, is that correct? >> in fact, the top dui person was a u.s. park police person this year of operating in the richmond district on 19th avenue, park city corridor, along with another officer at the richmond station. the university of california is also actively enforcing and participating. absolutely no impediment to that. supervisor mirkarimi: as long as those duties are not interested

in the department of sheriff, there are ways that sworn officers of the sheriff's department could help to complement and assist in the ongoing day to day activities of the police department, correct? such as in the topic we are talking about? >> correct. supervisor mirkarimi: very good. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. next we have at sfmta. i also want to recognize for my colleagues, we have ed riskin from dpw. raymond smith from district pedestrian safety advisory committee. questions if there are. we also have here ed, the director of department of public works, courtney from redevelopment, elizabeth from

what san francisco, and raymond smith, to insert questions as well. -- to answer questions as well. >> i want to thank you for having this hearing. it is really important to listen to what we just heard and get the feedback. i want to recognize, i have two staffers with me here. we have heard a lot of testimony and information from the speakers. some of this might be repetitive. i will focus on the areas we were asked to present today. the key area i would like to talk about is the current pedestrian program we have in our perfume in the city and

drill down to specifics of what is going on in district 6 and what opportunities there are coming down the pipe. before we begin, i'd like to mention that, as the mta is in to greet two different modes, we see walking as fundamental to our vision. we are one of the few agencies that has the purview of almost all the modes under one agency. we have growing and strong partnerships with other transportation providers. this slide is important to show you who is in charge of what. there has been some confusion recently about how much the mta has responsibility, the public utilities commission, etcetera. this came out of the work we did with our partners, led primarily by the planning department, who

has jurisdiction over what. it is complex. it is one of the discussions we will have in the near future on how we can simplify this. this makes sense for building streetscapes, but pedestrian safety is all around these issues. there really is room for improvement. i want to move your attention to the overhead projector. [inaudible] a sheet actually shows who is responsible for which segment of the pedestrian safety directive and what each department has to contribute. it was a long list of different agencies and what they can

contribute. "back toward the power point. what it comes to go to his design. if we engineer it well and we have a good education, good encouragement, enforcement, evaluation, it is positive. in addition, it is important to note that the public realm, the space pedestrian's occupy, really has two key elements. pedestrian safety is about engineering, how the physical street works and operates, whereas public safety and what is going around in the area, how the buildings, land use, all those different elements, and both of these two factors really determine the quality of the public realm. we really have to pay attention. we have also looked at using the

data that we have to start doing some modeling of estimated pedestrian trips throughout the city. you really see the area of district 6 and the financial district has the lion's share of estimated pedestrian crossing. some of the areas around market street have about 200,000-plus crossings per day. that is not a small amount. it is comparable to some european cities. you have the level of intensity of pedestrian crossing. also important to note is the yellow corridor that runs to the south and west, michigan corridor, that is a heavy transit line. transit and pedestrian crossings are actually very close as well. we are a walking city.

we have voted many times. we are the most walkable city. that comes with some other increases in various exposure to pedestrian, bicycle, and motors crossings as well. we have been looking at what we can do within our current toolkit of resources and allowable measures. best practices were mentioned that we are not able to utilize. of the things we can utilize, like red zones, where we advance the packing further back so the pedestrians have greater visibility as the cross, and especially for seniors, senior visibility is really critical to be able to gauge whether or not the sidewalk is crossable.

we have looked at continental crosswalks. these are the yellow letter crosswalks. it makes pedestrians more visible. we were talking about audible signals and countdown signals, to name a few. some of the physical engineering toolkit pieces are advancing aligns with the crosswalks, center median improvements, where we create a pedestrian refuge as across the street, improved lighting, and looking at race crosswalks in some areas. these are more capital-intensive than the previous list. i will talk about those in a moment. the one measure that i think has been most successful and one of the best practices that san francisco pioneered in the u.s. was the countdown signal. these signals, immediately

after their installed, showing 22% reduction in collisions. we put them throughout the city. we are continuing to put as many as we can in the city where we have signals at intersections. when we're looking at what toolkit we have and what we can do, the information that has been brought before us by the department of public health shows you that the cross we put in for the infrastructure improvement pales to the cost of the people who were injured. that being said, there are some costs that we are held to. it is a challenge for us to streamline the timeline down to o.

we must prioritize where the signals go and how many go in. two is the process of educating the community, the approvals process -- process, and doing environmental analysis. these are things that are not negotiable in the time line. we're looking closely at internal practices and our partner decisionmaking processes to streamline as best we can. we feel we could probably bring these down some. there are specifics that we must go through. i want to point about the cost of bulbouts. one of the cost determinants is moving fire hydrants. we have been working closely with the department of public works an