organizer. i want to thank the board members for having this meeting tonight. i support commissioner kim and that education and enforcement will help make our streets safer. i would like to say to pedestrian and cyclist and drivers to be more responsible for your actions. being responsible shouldn't be demanded but should be a common sense of our lives like being a kind person. lastly as our city becomes more dense with a population, we need to change our views from our smartphones examine i-pods to the views of people and the scenery of this beautiful and evolving city and the possibilities of the future. thank you for your time and i hope everyone continues to stay safe. >> next speaker, please. thank you very much. >> my name is dawain. i'm a

second generation san franciscan. my dad was born in 45 and i was born here and i never want to leave. i do biking and it's how i get around. the day before thanksgiving i was biking on 4th street on the left side of the road in the direction of traffic and it's a one way street so that's legal. i was pulled over by an sfpd and she issued me a citation in a law that doesn't exist. i was in the right so i'm currently fighting this right now. i have an arraignment on the 24th and honestly, that's not a big issue. i know it will get thrown out, but i'm worried about what if someone had hit me while i was on the left side of the road. would that officer have gave the blame to me because he believed incorrectly that i was in the wrong or what other things do i do in the name of my safety that officers would see as me

violating the law. the reason why i did not move over to the right side of 4th street as she told know do is the three right lanes turn into the freeway past harrison so if i wanted to go past that, i would have had to cross three lanes of traffic and i that would have been unsafe. so i chose to stay on the right side of the road and get a citation. education of traffic laws for the sffpd office -- officers is important to me. thank you very much. >> i have a few more cards. next speaker. >> good evening supervisors, and john a senior of the safety advisory committee comes to you and the

public with compassion, commendation and constructive analysis. i commend the supervisors for appointing me to hold a senior seat on peace act to represent seniors and people with disabilities such as myself a survivor of a pedestrian collision hear in 2001. i commend the police department for their critical and constructive decision to retain data of collisions in san francisco and not completely surrender it to the state and have it back nine months after the year is over. you have each made great decisions. i approve and i give to you constructive analysis. in the sheet i hold here is collision -- traffic collision form 555. it does not give the police department of san francisco permission to state any party involved in the collision

had a disability. the data that was analyzed by walk first campaign tool of pedestrian safety strategy omitted any critical analysis of victims, perpetrators or witnesses of any pedestrian collision in san francisco with are they had a disability. i recommend you amend this document or propose the state do it because people with disabilities are being admitted in record keeping in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you very much, sir. next speaker, please. >> good evening, my name is edward and throughout 29 years that i've lived in san francisco san francisco i've experienced repeatedly police bias against bicyclists which creates inpunity who terrorize us and that lives our citizens

afraid the right to bicycle on our city street despite the transit first policy in our charter. that policy applies to all city agencies. that includes the police not just agencies concerns primarily concerned with transportation. it requires that public transit be given priority over private cars and that quote bicycling shall be promoted by encouraging safe streets for riding, end of quote. the police has done nothing to fulfill their obligations under this long standing law. these priorities have never been incorporated into poll sea for enforcement policies where the discretion. police aren't trained in their duty to promote private car or prioritize vulnerable road users over motorist. the transit policy was enact 40

years ago but in all that time the police department hasn't been asked or produced any reports specifically confessing what it is doing to permit the policy. take a position in the war where motorist are warring against other users on our streets, the police demonstrates their failure to demonstrate the transit first policy. i urge you to request the police department to provide annual public reports on on implementation by the police department and schedule annual reviews of the transit first policy when the first report can be produced. >> thank you sir. next speaker. >> i'm zach and i'm the chairman of the san francisco pedestrian safety advisory committee where is the official representative to the board of advisers and with 21 fatalities last year i really

do they we need to focus on solutions. our committee recommends requiring the police department it distribute pedestrian injury to the press. we ask that they do so but it won't be so difficult with the daily crime summaries, however, ped me collisions are not accidents and deserve to be treated as such. we need information on collision reports. the question i would like an answer to is how many people were hit by cars in our city. we can't get those numbers just yet. our committee recommends identifying funding for the pedestrian safety strategy independent of the mayor's transportation task force 2030 representations. the measures which polls show might not pass, unfortunately would fund 51 percent of the mayor's safety

strategy if they were passed. i do want to thank you for your attention to this deadly serious issue. it demends our act of meaningful change. >> thank you sir and thank you for your service. next speaker, please. >> dave cherry. native, father of a nine year old. i'm also on the board on my son's school. i coordinate walk to school and bike to school and over the last two years, i tried to work with supervisor yee and burns in the past. with not very much attention to the trouble we have at duo circle, recently the over sized mta, i mean they've got way too much and since they took the traffic away from the police, it has been a problem, but anyway, and the problem is they put in this new circle,

they'll say that's going to create -- that will take care of the problem they're in front of the school, well, when they passed the law back in 2008 to lower the speed limit to 15 miles an hour in front of west portal, the local police have not -- the police area and i've tried over and over to talk to them. i'm not trying to point fingers, but they're always saying there's not enough officers. it's always not enough officers, so i can only say that we need help. the kids there have been hit a few times over the last two years and this new system that they put in, what happens is the people come down tour taravell and they go into that circle and they spit out. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. my name is kate and i am the president of

walk san francisco board of directors. we're a member's support organization that makes walker safer in san francisco for everyone so that our community is healthier and more livable. walk san francisco and its members representing communities across the city are calling on you today to seek funding for the full implementation of the pedestrian strategy and to adopt a vision zero policy without further delay. you likely remember that walk san francisco worked with the mayor and police chief sir, the sfmta and the dpd and the department of public health and a plan to reduce the numbers of serious and pedestrian injuries and half in the next ten years. that strategy has been implemented since april. 14 people have been killed since the walk has been implemented. that's

14 san franciscans whose life didn't have to end. we should fix our streets with on the ground safety improvements through full and fair enforcement of traffic laws that focus on the dangerous behaviors to protect our most vulnerable road users. on behalf of the walk san francisco and from one san franciscan to another, i urge you to do everything you can to fund the vision zero policy before we lose another to another preventable accident. >> i have a few more names. >> bill, linda and ward. next speaker, please. >> my name is michael. i live at fulsom street and i have a few view seat on one of our great

traffic sewers. i'm concerned about public safety and i'm glad to hear people saying encouraging things about vision zero but the plans i heard aren't going to get us down to zero fatalities. distracted driving is dangerous and i hope enforcement can eliminate it but there were deaths long before cell phones. the problem is taking a multi ton piece of metal and driving it through a crowded city is dangerous. he got to visit jeremy, all three of the cities i visited had no traffic in their city centers. they keep the cars out of their city centers where people are walking and shopping and enjoying the businesses. it's good for people and good for health. it's good for people. we need to adopt the policy like

that. instead of in san francisco what i encountered while walking down the street are metal barriers that says i can't cross the street there and i need to instead cross the street i'm walk along, cross the street i want to cross on the other side and then recross the street i'm walking along. we've already herd that crossing streets is dangerous, now i need to cross three streets to cross one street. this is not prioritizing people before vehicles. >> thank you sir. next speaker. >> my name is andrew peterson. and i lived in san francisco for seven years and the bike coalition volunteer and there's a lot of emotion but one thing know that vision zero is a win. what i want it discuss in the coming weeks and

months, how with we as a community, community groups like walk sff was here together in the room going to get police chief sewer and commissioner restgan the resources they feed to do their jobs and make it safe. the police block hasn't moved at all and that's a positive thing. these people are here to serve the city and they're putting their lives at risk all the time and they care about safety. i don't think that's a question. it's not a question of if, but a we of when and how and when are we going to see the city for managing itself to keep the resident safe and when are we as the community going see the results. it's not a 16 to 24 month turn around time. we can't accept to kind of timeline for a critical issue. again, this is no longer a question of if. it's a question of when and how we're

going to do this together. thank you. >> thank you very much. i have a few more names. amy chin and we have carla johnson from the mayor's office from disability's office. >> i have some sheets for the commission. and police if they like them. >> my name is birt hit and i share the bicycle advisory commission. excuse me voice. i also teach the adult bike education classes that layla referred to, the urban street skills and i teach many operators about bicycling. it's one of the city agencies that have large vehicles on the road all the time successfully. i like to thank the commission for his statements

and the things to change. i've worked with him over the past few years and i appreciate the direction he's going and something i was going to talk about that's not necessary. they are preventable. one with the important things we need to find out because they are preventable and not to concentrate on fault and on cause. as a bike educator i can teach better if i'm looking at the cause and teaching defensive actions verses who is at fault which doesn't help much. in terms of reporting from the bac, we've had a consistent problem over the years getting information from the citations issued by mode, that's bicycle patrol automobile. by the location, but the infraction. one thing that's common, on the collisions -- if you look in the collision reports, it states the

majority of collisions were by unsafe people. in the case of bicyclist that it's a cop out and the police need to pay attention to the thing that's can be teachable from that. lastly i want to leave with one thought with you. the fatality report, there's no fatality report. we have no traceability it cause the fatality. we need to see this fatality report. it's important for the sake of education. the traffic department uses bikes -- >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening supervisors and commissioners. i have some visual aids. does this work? my name is john winston and i'm on the transportation safety advisory committee. i'm a founding member of the friends of monday ray boulevard and i serve on the

traffic on the sunny side association. i put these cities here. the pedestrian fatalities per 1,000 resident so the city that we normally associate with, dangerous driving and paris and new york and paris has 30 percent less fatalities than we do. and new york has 20 percent less than us. i have a bit of a laundry list here. there are differences had you get hit by how fast the cars are going. i would like to propose that as part of vision zero, as london and paris and new york has, we should lower our minimum default speed to 20 mile an hour.

by my chart when you're being hit by a car at 20 miles you have a one percent chance of being killed whether it's different at other speeds. to lower the speed limit to 20 miles we have enforce that. oh, my god. okay. i would like to have speed cameras that would be able to catch speeders in their tracks, read their license plates and send them a ticket for a non moving violation. >> thank you very much. i have a few more names. berry, paulett brown, lewis and jim. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is kelly baker and i work at the neighborhood corporation. i bike everyday. it's my name mode of transport and i walk to work everyday in the tenderloin and throughout the neighborhood to a different building, but i'm here to read a statement by my colleague lee.

my name is hatty lee and i'm a community organizationer at the development corporation. they houses over 3,000 people. formerly homeless and people of color. i have the privilege of working closely with these resilient community members and they try to make ends meat for thems and improve lives for themselves. i found that one of our members have lost her grandchild over the holiday. she told us she couldn't speak about her death publicly yet but gave us permission to speak about her death. we're here to say this should stop. being on taylor street with dozens of resident living

on that block, i've seen more than one occasion how cars, the drivers treat the streets of the tenderloin as an extension of the streets they get off. this is a neighborhood where tons of children walk to and from schools and seniors meet their friends on sidewalks and where the community leaders eat, shop, and meet their friends. please work with the police department to improve streets and enforcing traffic laws in the tenderloin. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi, natalie. an organization that concentrates

on poke street. my emphasis that's been from the beginning with the new opportunity that we have on poke street. to make it the best example we can. it's being redesigned and what we've seen is there's many measures in the infrastructures that help minimize what the police has to do. first i want to thank all the supervisors especially jan kim who is one of the supervisors in the district of poke street. i want to reiterate what natalie from wat said. the cost is between 18 and $28 million a year. when we talked about cross fed, it's too much to put in the infrastructure to avoid this. the distension and the cost between the two is nothing short of obscene. we're spending that money but doing at the wrong idea. i want to bring back

vision zero when it first began which isn't fatality. that cost is way too high. all the injuries cost us in many ways financially and also the human cost in every respect. the person might fail but the road system should not. we have to create the infrastructure that makes the work for our work enforce of the least as simple. there's very cheap ways to do that. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> my name is anthony ryan and i live in the mission district and i teach at san francisco state university. i wouldn't be here tonight except about two years ago i was hit by a car on on my way to work and i lost my front piece. you're looking at poers lynn right here and the person who hit me was

running a red light, but in my report the officer cited me at fault for unsafe movement. that's not rare. there is a culture of insensitive to the plate of street users whether they're pedestrian or cyclist. that needs to change. it's too easy it blame them because we need to redesign this city to have safer streets and that's on this body. this body needs to take action and the mayor's office needs to take action to make vision zero a reality and to make all the people here that want to see this happen and hope this isn't just words this time. all that needs to happen. thank you very much for letting me speak this evening. >> thank you very much and thank you for sharing your

experience. next speaker, please. >> good evening, and i'm cathy and i like to thank you forgiving me this opportunity to speak. i'm a nurse and i cycle and city all the time. one incident i was being chased which by a car on my bicycle and it was a one way street. i asked an officer to talk to the guy who was behind me and following me but he say you cyclist don't stop at signs and you go through red lines so that was his response. you i found out he was parking and not an officer. but i like it say that i'm disappointed and a little out raged at commander ali comment about the asian immigrants and

they seem confused about traffic patterns that was in response to the fatalities. i'm an asian. i'm elderly, i'm 70 years old, but i'm not an immigrant so does that make me more safe. i think -- i feel like there's racial profiling and that's why i have to bring it up because people have to be careful of how they see human being. these are all human being. they're not just asian immigrants. i hope you see that through. thank you. >> thank you very much, ma'am. fwl my name is joseph and i'm on the board of director tore -- i'm on director's board. i form pedestrian and ending the carnage on our streets. some were kills and some were elderly and some

was a six year old girl. we had a mother run over and killed. i've been following these tragedies and it's time for them to stop. the police need to report all collisions with all pedestrian and cyclist and train all officers on pedestrian cyclingist rights. force traffic laws for the road users and that's pedestrian and cyclist and they need to focus on the worse sections in the district. and they need to measure and publish the effectiveness of area. i hope you would take my recommendations and implement them. the citizens of this city has been waiting

too long for justice on our streets. >> i'm going to read a few more names. >> barnce and rick. >> linda, i'm one of those pedestrian that gets hit everyday that's not a fatal accident and this has happened to me on three different days and when i was walking in the crosswalk and paying a lot of attention but when a vehicle is coming at you when you don't expect it, you can't protect yourself. when a car was passing me and it decides to back up into me. now, those cars all three of them were going slowly so i wasn't badly

injured but the bicyclists are coming at you like a bat out of hell. 95 percent of cyclist creating chaos and there's no visible police enforce. i see bicycles going the wrong way with dark clothes and no light and they don't make a sound. or running down poke street and they'll hold the sidewalk as if they were lance a lot at the bridge or going between a bus that's trying to get over to led pedestrian on and off on the curve endangering themselves and elder people to mount from the street into the curve. the police can see these things and they need

enforce it. when i was a child, the children had to have a license for a bicycle. and they need enforce a license to be on there so it can be on the red light camera and require testing. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon or evening. my name is bill gandy and i have a few notes about some stuff. i'm glad the police department is treating this seriously because this is a crime and as such it's like a crime scene. people are having trouble. i myself haven't been hit luckily but have so many encounters that it's crazy so i can see it's a problem. we need a change of attitude. i was a motorcycle guy driving crazy, the one thing that re