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 really shaped me up was a

little bit of grounding and punitive damage by my parents so they stopped and said you're not going to be a fatality. we're going to put a hold on it and that's what these people are doing. they say terrible things so we need to put a stop to it. i'm the safest drivers know now because of the change of attitude. the other problem is i think we need it change of at attitude so i'm going to suggest increase for fines and vehicular collisions with bicyclist. if we hit people in the pocket book like it hit me, i became one of the safest drivers i know, but until i made that decision i wasn't. so that's what's happening on the streets. these folks aren't realizing and then we suffer the consequences. thank you so much for your time. dmr >> thank you very much. next

speaker, please. >> good evening, my name is amy and i live in the marina. and i'm a member of the bike collision. i'm here to tell you about my friend who was hit by a car two years ago. she didn't feel comfortable being here so i'm speaking for her. she was walking at a crosswalk and the driver failed to stop at a stop sign. she ended up on the hood of the car but she suffered a concussion and was -- had to miss work for weeks and still two years later she suffers back pain from time to time. i want to stress that her collision was totally preventable with better [inaudible] fra structure and the driver was looking left and didn't see the human being who was in front of him. i feel like we can fix the speed issue by enforcing cars to slow down and we can fix the visibility

issue with speed tables. i also want to reinforce what natalie said earlier about cultural indifference. when my friend was hit the driver rolled down the window and asked if she was okay and she was in shock so she didn't say anything so the person assumed she was okay and didn't leave a name or phone number and left. so it's culturally indifferent for someone to leave without getting out of their car to ask if you're okay. absolutely, that's not acceptable. is it culturally indifferent that they were so focused on looking for cars, they weren't focused on human beings. is it okay for us to be okay with the ways our streets are designed. it's not okay. so i want to thank everybody for their commitment to vision zero but i feel we need to put in specific and

measurable and timely improvements on our streets and the recent improvements on the streets are great. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is paula brown and i was hit by a car but i'm not sure about that. i wanted to bring up about how cars drive-by and do drive-by shootings. i like to use the over head. my son was shot 30 times with a semi automat -- automatic gun and the guys were in a car, a black car and drove by and shot my son and i've been fighting for six years fighting this and this happened in district 6 in the northern pan handle. i got

this from homicide details and these are names that i'm not pulling out of a hat. they were all in the car and all these guys was involved in shooting my son. and to this day i still have no justice. i want my son's case to be taken important just like the lady's case. she want to open up about her being hit by a car. i want my son's case with the same importance. i've been doing this for the last six years. i've gone to the police commission and i've come here on several occasions. so i want the same justice for my son. hear are all the names, this guy thomas is a man corporate and paris moffit and all the rest of

them. they drive-by in cars some shoot people and these guys are still walking the streets to kill again, to kill again. to kill one of your children. and you will be doing what i'm doing everyday. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you campos and members of the board, members of the police commission. ed and our chief. my name is carla johnson and i'm the director at the mayor's office on disability and i appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. our office is the ada coordinator and we want to make sure our city services programs, and facilities are accessible as required under the ada and we consider pedestrian safety to be a

disability rights issue. we heard a little earlier from a speaker who talked about statistics and the point he made was we don't have add quit information about people with disabilities and how many of them are getting hurt or killed in these accidents. we certainly have anecdote information, i think everybody knows somebody who has been hit or who has had a near miss, but the thing about being a person with a disability and remember almost 19 percent of our population actually has a disability, the thing about being a person with disability is that it may take us longer to cross the street because of our disabilities or if you're using a wheelchair, you may not be as visible to a driver because you have a low profile to the street and it's important when we think about solutions and traffic

engineering that we take into consideration what the person's disability was. just to use a brief example is the person who was struck was somebody who as blind. it may be that the necessary traffic engineering at that location to prevent a future occurrence would actually be audible pedestrian signals or if a person when was struck was a wheelchair user who is in the street outside of the crosswalk, the issue may have been all it needed was to have curve ramps. >> i want to give you enough time as head of the mayor's office to finish your thoughts. it's important to incorporate the disability and senior piece. >> thank you for that extension. there is a very specific form that the california highway has developed. it formed 55 which i put on the over head just for a visible element. and this is

the form that the police department uses when they collect their statistics. it may be that what's necessary at the state level is put in place some legislation to compel the highway patrol to update that form so they can capture those really critical statistics on whether or not that pedestrian was a person with a disability. last of all, on a personal note, i'm a survivor of a collision with a vehicle. i'm a pedestrian. i'm a bicyclist. in 2001 i suffered brain injury from that incident, so it's personal for all of us and i thank you for your attention tonight. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please.

>> supervisor campos and members of the board of supervisor. my name is peter and i'm with the independent living in san francisco. i want to first thank you for really talking with this issue and talking about solutions. i want to encourage you all to really bring people with disabilities to the table as you make the decisions and policies. many of us for reasons that director johnson mentioned are really -- have difficulty and -- excuse me voice. from a personal perspective, i use a wheelchair and have since i as 14 and i've

been disabled all of my life. in san francisco i use my wheelchair to work and do the very aspects of my job. sometimes when we come up on places where i might go down a curb ramp and there's no curb ramp on the other side, so we're at risk because we may be in the roadway longer looking for another curb ramp or looking for a driveway but there isn't another curb ramp. sometimes we're in the street longer because it takes us longer to get across the street. maybe there's somebody else standing on the curb ramp so we have to get them to move out the wait to proceed out of the roadway. thank you for your time and i really appreciate this hearing. >> thank you mr. mendosa and

thank you for the reminder of including this community in this discussion. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is derrick and i'm president of the san francisco cab driver's association. i like to point out an important factor of this pedestrian vehicle collisions which has not been addressed and is being overlooked. it's an unflux of thousands of personal vehicles with local transportation for hire. this kind of on demand transportation necessitate these drivers driving around and congesting the roadways. i'd like to point out that the california public utilities code 10322 entitled 49 in the us code 1302

describes local transportation where it's determined on distance travel as taxi service and i like to put this on the overhead which shows that california government code section 5307.5 states that every city or county shall protect the welfare by adopting a taxi cab service. this city has refused to regulate these vehicles. our organization collected over 3,000 of these license plates and we're sure there's twice out there. compare that to the 19,000 taxi cabs that's limited in their numbers. pay attention to this. these people are distracted and they get their calls by texting and they're distracted while they're driving, so as we saw on new year's eve with that

traffic accident, any these services are taking responsibility if they're on a call. they're hiding on their insurance about what they're doing. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> my name is jim. i speak as a driver and as somebody who drives at night a lot. and i notice that there's a major problem with street lights. street lights in san francisco where they're placed, you don't see people walking an across the street often. they're not placed -- for example, go on on stiener street between mac cal ster and golden gate on the west

side. you see people crossing and i - when i'm driving on 15th street and 17th street, you're driving and you're so careful because you don't see the people and they walk. they're not at fault, but they walk. you can't see them a lot of the time and you have to crawl. that's a problem. it needs to be investigated. i want to jump on walk. they're not at fault, but they walk. you can't see them a lot of the time and you have to crawl. that's a problem. it needs to be investigated. i want to jump on the last speaker's comments. >> we have these drivers that are driving around that don't have insurance like that accident at el son and spoke. the person don't have insurance and some drivers went to the police commission and said can you stop some of these

guys and just ask them, do you have commercial insurance, otherwise you're illegal. well, the chief said i'm sorry we don't know what they are. well, you've seen the pink mustaches and you can stop them and ask them. that's not reasonable grounds. there's reasonable grounds to stop them. it's the police department's job and the policeman's job to stop them and ask them and you will find that 99 of the case they don't have insurance. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors, commissioners, chief sir and director reefgan. i'm here as a pedestrian, as a 30 year resident. i moved here 1984. the fact that as a pedestrian for 30 years i have survived, it's a miracle. not everyone has. i've had so many close calls. what i do have a

guardian angel, i don't know. i'm lucky that i'm alive. so many people have run lights, run stop signs, i would have loved to see them nailed but they're too far before i can get their license plate. what do we do about this? there are solutions. you heard the solutions tonight from jan kim's plan vision zero, walk sff. walk sff have great ideas. the ideas are here. we need the will to implement them. there's ways, education,en za nearing, enforcement. those three e.'s that were mentioned. yes, yes, yes. there are ways to increase safety. one final comment. i have an issue with recology and it took the loss of my neighbor. they backed up on him on the tenderloin and rolled over him. he was gone. it was so

preventable the loss of donald yazy. this is a huge truck with one driver and no back up camera. simple solution, back up cameras. the competition to lost the city contract actually has back up cameras in their garbage truck. supervisors, maybe you can think about requiring recology to have back up cameras and in the tenderloin, there's too many jaywalkers. if the trucks have extra driver, that would help >> i have one more speaker card, henry pan. >> my name is sasha. i bicycle mainly as transportation but i walk, take the bus, take cabs and pretty much everything. but because i'm usually biking and walking, i'm

aware of the drivers that i see around me. i try and make eye contact. i noticed which drivers are causing problems and pedestrian and bike problems and most is distracted drivers. i'm amazed at home professional drivers in deliver trucks are holding the phone to their ear so i like to ask for greater enforcement of these distracted drivers. i was on market street biking and there was a bike cop and i saw him look in a window and say you need to put the phone down now and bike off. that's the least he can do but at least a lecture with a possible fine. i'm not saying ticket everyone, but more than telling her to put the phone down and going on their way. the distracted drivers are what i fear most in this city and i'm walking and biking and even on the bus. who knows. so i'm asking for that to be done and then for

some peterson training of our police officers. back in the 90s, i felt like the officers were on my side and as a bicyclist i don't feel that way. i feel like they look at me as a scoff law and i stop at the signs most of the signs. but for the most part, i follow the rules. i stop at the lights. i stop at the signs. yet i still get looked at and grouped into another category. we're everyday people and there's as many cyclist who breaks rules just as vehicles. thank you for your time and for holding this hearing and embracing vision zero. >> good evening, i'm brent and we're the non profit of public

safety. we have the same goal and we support any initiative that raises awareness of anybody and immediate surroundings whether they're driving, cycling or walking. and we like to see an added benefit, we hope this will result in a reduck or elimination of personal electronic device. be aware of your surroundings and we all need to work together. thank you for all working together. >> thank you and thank you for your work. next speaker, please. >> good evening, supervisors, and commissioners. my name is rick. i moved here in august 6 of 1973 and i've been active in san francisco in public policy he and politics. most recently i'm on the human rights equity committee, but i'm here as a senior. a senior

luckily i've lived to 67 at the end of this year and perhaps 68. i want myself filmed on television now because i want you to remember me because i'm absolutely convinced that my life is going to end in a crosswalk. i mean that sincerery. i live near market. when i get off the f-car, every single day there are cars comes sweeping through the intersection from gararo, page and both sides of market street and i almost get clipped once or twice a week. i have little -- i'm little bit impaired in my physical because i'm close to 70. i'm not sure of the answer but it has gotten terrible. when i left

brooklyn new york 41 years ago, when i got to san francisco, it was amazing crossing the street. if you put one foot in the street, any car coming by would stop for me. i thought, how did this happen going from brooklyn in manhattan to where cars stop for you. for the past 25 years that's gone. gone. and that's what you've been hearing today. the city has become a city of cars first. we need to do something about it before people like me and the others here in the audience leave here untimely demise. >> thank you for sharing your personal story. next speaker. >> good evening commissioners and board of supervisors. my name is henry. i want to talk about an

incident that happened new year's day after the fire works. there were a group of people walking up market street and a car -- the driver was frustrated and she backed up out giving a car and not caring that she's going to run people over and sped out of that method. this was at market and spare street of the night of january 1st. luckily nobody was injured. we're going to have to do more than education. people know about this. people know about the rules of the road, they won't care. they just want to get to their place on time which is why they're going to do whatever they can in order to and they don't care if anybody is injured. there's got to be enforcement, but even then that's just an

intermediate things. cars and drivers have so much more problems like high blood pressure, they're killing our earth. what needs to happen is overall in the long term and i think vision zero supports this is there needs to be an emphasis away from the automobile like get rid -- most share of automobiles needs to be reduced in order to accommodate everyone in this city in order for it to grow and be safe for anyone. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> thank you for holding this important hearing. my name is henish. a lot has been said about vision zero and there's one aspect i want to focus on and that's the vision zero and we can't expect

people to suddenly do what they're supposed to do. we can't expect drivers to look where they're going and expect pedestrian not to jaywalk, so the question becomes if we can't expect people to be perfect, what can we do? one the things -- one of the most effective things we can do is reduce the speeds on our roads and in fact i'd like to give an example of a case here in san francisco which is 19th avenue. 19th avenue was traditionally the most dangerous street in san francisco. five people lost their lives in 2007. and then a number of things happened. one was the mta installed a count down timers where there were walk, don't walk signals before. the state delegation passed a double fine zone and the speed limit was reduced to 30 miles an hour, but those would have been

effective without the leadership at shamel who committed to do speed enforcement everyday for a period of year and the results have been dramatic. in six years they've been one fatality in 19th avenue. it's one too many, but it shows what can be done when with everyone works together and when there is targeted enforcement of street. >> thank you very much. i like to give an opportunity to any member of the public who has not spoken who would like to speak. if you can please come on up. seeing none. public comment is closed. as i noted earlier, i there was a representative here from recology and i wanted to give them an opportunity to talk about the work they've been doing to increase safety on our streets. >> good evening, thank you supervisor campos. my name is

paul. i'm with recology and last tuesday we made an in debt presentation to the pedestrian safety advisory committee on our safety program and what we do at recology to enhance safety. safety is apart of on our culture and starts about the application process. we hire licensed commercial professional drivers and it continues through their employment with recology and golden gate. we have training and supervisors that are trained and train the drivers. through training and having programs to make sure we keep those good drivers with us. on any given day, recology is 24/7 operation and can have 350

trucks on the street. last year our workers out on the routes put in over 1.2 million overs of work out there. safety is important to us not just from a public point of view, you for our employees and when our drivers get out of the route they turn into pedestrian. i've experienced losing coworkers on the work. we finished up an occur rick lum with the bicycle coalition and they're going to train our drivers and we reached out to walk san francisco and we want to do something similar with them. we feel with recology, safety

is the most safety we can provide. >> is there a question? >> thank you. i want to thank members of -- commissioner chan. >> i have an recology. hearing the suggestions from the public and there was a suggestion about back up cameras. do you want to respond? >> any any truck we have will have a back up camera. there are reasons we can't retro fit trucks that have to do with warranties and just vehicle codes with commercial vehicles, but any new vehicles we buy have back up cameras in them. >> thank you very much and i want to thank members of the public for their patience for sitting through this hearing for a number of hours now. and i also want to thank the members of the police commission for their patience and to my colleagues on the board of