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 supervisors, so with that, it's an opportunity for commissioners and supervisors to ask questions and thank you to the police department and the mta and community partners. supervisor kim. >> thank you. given the time that this hearing, i'll limit my questions. i know this won't be the last hearing on this issue. i want to make comments. first i want to thank the chief for your statement early on. you've made it before the press but it's great to see you here. this meeting was called because of concerns from members of the public regarding investigation with the death of amaly, one of our 24 year old resident who was riding in

august. i appreciate you being here. i want to thank commander ali for the presentation today. it was really great it have all the information. i know you sat down with caroline from supervisor david campos office and sunny from our office as well. you've been to a lot of meetings since that last hearing in october and i really appreciate -- i feel how far we've come in terms of putting together all of the data including the information on the citations and then being able to look at a plan to reduce pedestrian injuries and fatality. and i appreciate sfpd. i'm glad to see it repeated over and over again at today's hearing. it's really important that we get to this place and i'm glad to see one of the

goals for sfpd goal will be making 50 percent of the citations, the top types of youry collisions that we see on the road. that's important. i want to cite this data, 6 percent of san francisco total mile of streets account for 60 percent of the severe and fatal incidents here in san francisco. that means that our work in reducing pedestrian injuries and fatalities are possible. if we can extend our energy on 6 percent of our road, we can reduce 60 percent of our injured and fatalities and i think that is important and it's great we're falling on the cities like new york and chicago, but what we have above them is we have the data collected here already so the work of sfpd, so we know what work needs to get done and i'm excited to have a collective effort and coalition to make that happen.

it's great that we'll see the increase of officers in our academy. commander ali reiterate these deaths are 100 percent preventable and therefore we should do everything we can to prevent them. i've said this at role call but there's nothing like going to a funeral to humanize these fatalities. i don't want to go to anymore funerals of our resident. it's hard to sit and hold hands with family members that have lost their daughters, their brothers, their grandparents to these deaths that we know that are absolutely avoidable. i also want to commend sfpd, on new year's eve we saw the change in practice already with two arrest for the two homicides that we saw that day. the six year old

and 86 year old mr. zin. and i think that is an important step forward and it was well documented in the press. it's important that our drivers knows that these types of offenses are going to be taken seriously. a couple of other things. i actually -- all of our captains are here today but i appreciate and i know that i'm being very specific but this is a district that i represent. i want to thank captain redman for working our office. redman came to the meeting in the south of market with our resident to see what we can do to focus on five and how we can get the support that needs to be there with dpt and breaking things. how do we enforce double parking and parking in the bike line and whose arena is

what. that was incredibly helpful for our resident. he has to sit down with our organizations. this field outreach is important. our community and sfpd are working together on combatting this health epidemic. last i'll say that we supervisor avalos, he and i did introduce vision zero on tuesday. this is the building of that dialogue. they're taking all the comment of feedback. we want a lot of specifity and sfpd has done an a lot on the enforcement lot. as members of the public that's talked about, street engineering is important. and what was exciting last year, we were able to do the first two pilots of their clients here in

san francisco on 6th street and on fulsom, one for the pedestrian and one for the bike lanes and i hope this is many more pilots to have. it can take years to fund and it's a process we have to go through, but pilots can be a way to safety today where we know injuries are happening. i want to thank bike coalition. they've been in our office engaging communities and resident to come out and speak not just at a hearing, but in october. we had powerful testify to why this issue is a priority for our city. i do want to recognize, i know some staff spent a lot of energy on hearing and sunny from my office spent an an amount of time organizing, actually for this event so it's not just folks coming

up, but letting folks know that this meeting was happening tonight so that people can speak on an issue that was important. the last thing i'll say when we started talking about this issue in 2011 and i don't know what statements have been made before, this is a strongest statement i've seen in sfpd regarding its effort on pedestrian safety. so i can't say for what has been said in the past, but i believe it's going to continue through this year and i'm excited about that. you know, two or three years ago when i took this issue on, i remember being told that it was a milk toast issue. something that wasn't maybe serious enough and worthy of policy maker's time and what's exciting to see is the involvement of our resident of our organizations to elevate this issue to the importance. i want to thank press and blogers. this

issue has gained a ton of publicity due to a ton of great writing on this issue and a lot of great education that has happened on this forum. thank you. >> thank you supervisor kim. supervisor yee. >> supervisor kim has done a great job of thanking everyone i wanted to thank. it's worth thanking these same people again. it is for the sfpd and the captains for being here. this indicates the seriousness that sfpd has taken this issue and a lot of it i have to give credit to the leader of this pack, chief sir, thank you for taking this serious because if you didn't take it ri