sandra. she works for mta and i'm a member of the access accessory commitment of the mta and i had asked sandra at one of our meeting, we just had the meeting today, to please look into funding because i knew they existed, the no bicycle riding or skate boarding on the sidewalk. find the signs and get them put up. she asked me where i would like to see them two up and i said 8th and market street, so if you were to go out there by the theater, you'll sea that sign and directly across the street to the intersection at the burger king, you'll shee that sign. this is one person, yours truly going to an organization matt committee and saying this needs to happen. so it's possible to get something done. it didn't take a lot of time. it didn't cost a lot of money and you know i

like to say something positive, so again, i thank you so much for the opportunity to have sandra, for her to find this stuff and it got done. you can make it happen. i did it. thanks a lot. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> good evening, my name is wendy beck and i'm a walking miracle. it's a miracle that i have not killed by a bicycle or a car after countless misses. i'm a walker and driver who biked and walked in new york city but i never have felt threatened here in san francisco. i had to knock on the window of a texting driver so she would see me when i crossed and i got outrage. to help make vision zero a law, make a law of texting while driving. any things might help

by putting more count down stoplights and no right on red at certain intersections and campaigns but the most important thing is to stop distracting drivers by placing unmarked cars at corners and placing more emphasis on moving violations than parking. a parking car, a parked car never killed anyone. thank you for making this a priority in san francisco. >> thank you very much. i'm going it read a couple of more names. >> john alex, dawain, zach marks, edward and i apologize if i'm my pronouncing your name. next speaker, please. >> hello everyone, i'm crystal harris and i'm a california resident. i've worked for a company, a bicycle company in san

francisco for many year and i like to share a story that happened outside of san francisco but i truly believe in san francisco as being an [inaudible] type city. if you do have zero fatalities, you will spread a social movement. my story is that. i was involved in a collision where i was hit broad side in a bike lane in a crosswalk. i had stopped at the stop sign and the driver didn't stop at his stop sign. i sustained a severe brain injury and a cone fractured skull and a fractured vertebrae. and i still have seizures. i feel i was doing three important things in my life when i was hit. i was getting my master degree in mental health counseling and i

was also learning to teach yoga as well as many other things, working four hours a week as a university counselor. all of those things stop when you're hit by a car and i have faith in the city of san francisco and definitely, definitely having zero fatalities so that you can show the rest of the world the truth that with he need to be more compassionate and human. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> reverend, how are you? >> i'll try to be quick but i need to bring the high schoolers up front. thank you to the supervisors. you were all with me at church on sunday because a famous leader died. a couple of weeks

before that, a little girl was killed. i have three bikers in my church that i had to go to the emergency room. this is just too much and i don't feel this is just an issue. i mean this is about can we make san francisco better in a safer way and i'm not calling the bus driver that killed my high school kid a criminal because i have friends who are bus drivers but when you make a right turn with a bus, it's dangerous. on broadway i as there when an elder was killed there and i get crap from others in community that say, wait, what do you mean. we can't bring our big trucks in china on stockton street. that's impossible. kurny, one of our resident were killed. there's too much. recently i had to

carry a senior across kurney, but what's the issue there. how many seconds do you get to cross there. it's going to cost a lot and there's going to be people yelling. captain tom is my buddy and he's worried he's going to give out more tickets. this is it and we're going to go forward as chief and slow down san francisco. thank you. >> thank you reverend. next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is lisa and impart of c cd c campaign academy and yesterday i went to the pedestrian safety focus group and in the focus group i heard many seniors talk about their concerns for safety when it comes to a car. so many of them said they're

afraid that they might be the one to get into the accident next, so on behalf of the seniors and also the people that attended the meeting yesterday, i would like to -- i hope that the safety for pedestrian will improve and also for bicyclist and sometimes when i walk-through broadway and powell, where the broadway tunnel is because when i walk home from the youth center and many of the cars are speeding to get into our come out the tunnel and sometimes when cars try to turn and like go into the tunnel, it's like sometimes it gets in front of me and i get really scared because they won't watch or wait until they see there's no more pedestrian that's going to cross, so i hope they'll be improvements there and also other places which has problems or a lot of accidents that occurs.

thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hello, my name is david. i want to talk about on behalf of the resident of china town too. many seniors wanted us to talk about changing the enforcement and also the education on safety laws and also -- they also hope that one day to see taxis be a safer place for many pedestrian. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> my name is johnson. i'm an tenant organizer that deals with mobility issues. last year i got hit by a bus. there was no followup. there was no -- they sent me a check to repair my bike. i want to know what happened to the driver that hit me. did he get suspended, did he get - this

has to change. if this project is going to work, it has to take us to look at the law and change those loophole that's allow drivers to get away with what they getaway with because we can't ask these guys to do a job when the law is only this. two, we definitely have to make the mayor and the supervisor accountable to the community to step up and say, hey, these laws aren't working. how can you work with us to change these laws and what we can do about that. third and -- third, i don't think i'm an evil minded person. all of us working together has to make this work. but let's be realistic, vehicles are the most deadliest things on the street, so that's why the fatality is focused on that, but we

have to give them their tools to do their job. >> we have someone from the mta that's going to followup. i have a few more names. kate, michael and andrew peterson. >> my name is castle, and i'm with the tenant housing clinic as an outreach worker. i like to appreciate or express my an appreciation for this issue. i'm looking forward to seeing -- follow through and commitment to this. and maybe -- it's on a ten year plans zero fatalities and so forth. i would like to see some urgency on this because this is serious. i appreciate your efforts and the

activist and the media attention to this and the bike coalition. i like to thank the independent media such as san francisco guardian that brought this to our attention earlier and so forth but i would like -- i would be happy to see a followup and commitment on this and i appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please. >> good evening. everybody. i'm a community organizer working hard with a great group of pedestrian on our safety campaign. this safety issue tends to be more of an issue in san francisco, but in low income areas. we feel ignored by the law enforcement when it comes

to public safety issues. and i like what someone said today is we need to change the cultural understanding regarding this idea of these fatalities being accidents or crimes. we need to take it more seriously in the way that it affects everybody and holds the people who are causing these fatalities responsible. but also we're hoping that law enforcement takes very strong steps to prevent these fatalities and also to create streets which are made for pedestrian and for everybody, not just drivers. as it was said today, this is a city of walkers. let's keep it that way, but also make sure that those pedestrian and walkers and everybody is safe. jakia story touches me and that's when it came to me. this isn't just another story. this happens to a lot

of people and these are heart warming stories and we hope that we can prevent such a thing for happening so thank you so much and that's it. thanks. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good evening, my name is michael and i live in the north pan handle and i biked here and i walk or bike or drive. sitting here through a couple of hours of statements made me think this is a tricky hearing to respond to because everyone is saying the right things and i think so many of us really, really want to believe and at the same time other than some notable exceptions, over the years, we've heard it all before, so there's a challenge whether to

take the leap of faith that this time it will happen. people will be accountable and it's well and good to say let's not point fingers at people or blame people, but it's hard to do that when you've lost someone on the street because of our unsafe streets or someone's disabled and we've all talked about how accountability is key and i would really, really like to see more of that so that when something gets done as you said it would get done we can come to you and we can say, good job. we can say to the chief, to the commission and the board of supervisors and the directors of the mta, good job and when you haven't voted your position, when you haven't funded it, then we have to say not good enough and your actions are putting us at risk. thank you. >> thank you sir, and i'm going to read a few more names. nick

and birt and kelly baker. medalline and lisa and david tran. next speaker. >> good evening. i'm debbie gold and i live in district 6 and i'm on the safety committee and i'm on captain redman c-pad. i was listen to everyone during the course of the evening and i don't need it add to all the stories because we all agree on the same issues, however, i do want to say that i've been a driver for over 40 years and i learned how to drive from studying the dmv manual. no one has mentioned about including a

representative from the dmv and i would also like to suggest that maybe each police officer has a copy of the dmv manual. i'm thinking that maybe some of the police officers, maybe the bus drivers, maybe the truck drivers, maybe those people who are out there who are breaking the laws have lost sight of the basic rules of the road, and my suggestion would be to maybe have the dmv manual accessible to everybody. and thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. don't be shy. you can line up closer to the podium. >> thank you, my name is howard and i live in sulma and i was on fourth street walking south and waiting for my pedestrian signal to change am i saw a truck approach the stop line on the 4th street ramp

and saw its signal turn yellow. the truck could have easily stopped on the yellow light but it went through. its light turned red even before it was halfway through the intersection. my walk right was turned two to three seconds before the truck cleared the intersection and i can begin my delayed process. the behavior by the truck is permissive by the yellow rule. a pedestrian crossing veal couldn't see that the truck had taken average of permissive yellow. the pedestrian was struck and kill. the affect of permissive yellow on cars, now streaking through intersections at high speed is unfortunately part of san francisco city skate. ironically the count down signals have provided

drivers with an effective lengthening of the yellow signal. the flashing hand signal prompts motorist to increase their speeds earlier than before in order to clear the intersection. the affect is higher and more dangerous speeds. in my opinion, speed control is the element of reducing pedestrian collision. >> thank you very much. we have a representative from recollege so once public comment is over, we'll give them an opportunity to speak about the work they're doing. next speaker >> my daughter was killed and i'm her father mcdonald. i see one recommendation missing. pedestrian fatalities have become a worldwide epidemic, but we can lead the way a campaign that

the whole will follow. this is a great start, but it's not answer to completely making vision zero a complete reality. we need our elected officials to work aggressively with our congress and us senate to pass a bill through legislation mandating that all new vehicles sold in vehicles have accident safety sensors installed. we always hear he jumped in front of me too many times. imagine the lives we would save with those censors installed. i know it's too late for my daughter, but if this meeting is about preserving life, vision zero should start with a pedestrian or accident prevention censors. >> thank you sir and sorry for your loss and thank you for sharing your story with us. next speaker. >> hello, my name is kevin

stall and i'm a safety 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