the public. the last thing that i wanted to cover, i actually wanted to ask our director of taxi and accessible services, chris hyashi to provide an update on the electronic taxi project. >> good afternoon, director. >> good afternoon. i brought a very brief powerpoint presentation. when that comes up on the screen -- there we go. so, you had asked for a brief update on the eta system implementation and i'm going to keep it very brief for now because we're planning a much more comprehensive presentation for your february 4th workshop. we'll be able to take a little more time to explain some of the technical details. also want to thank our sfmta it staff who have been tremendous in helping us move this program forward. the good news is you can see up on the screen the project schedule which is basically divided into three phases.

the first phase involves collecting the data from the existing taxi equipment in real time. the second phase involves taking that data and executing vehicle assignments in response to e-hills in real time on a testing basis. and then the third and final phase involves connecting that information to a licensed third-party apps. we've been working with the city attorney's office on drafting the license agreement for those apps. the basic terms of those apps agreements are something that we've been in discussion with the apps themselves for quite sometime now. and as additional app providers come into our awareness, we've been sharing it with them and collecting their comments as well. so, currently the good news is that we are actively testing the real-time data collection with 10 wireless edge vehicles. the super good news is that we are able to and exchange data

in real time on the vehicle status or hired, and not hired and where it is. so far all of that has been very positive the fact that we're working with wireless edge first is a reflection of the fact that most vehicles have wireless edge systems in them. so, if we can crack the wireless edge night we'll have the vehicle in the fleet, i think it's on the order of 50%. now, the board had asked staff to come back to the board after february 1st to revisit whether it would be necessary to acquire any of the on board devices that come with the system that can do the data collection automatically. and, so, if we can get everything working with wireless edge, it clearly won't be needed for any wireless edge people. we're start waiting on the specifications [speaker not understood]. at your february 18th regular meeting we will come back to you with a request if needed to authorize us to a wire any on

board devices that might be needed. it's possible by that time we'll be able to tell you we don't need any because everybody's participating. in any event there are people able to participate. we're going to request your authorization to acquire on board devices and a deadline of march 1st to install the devices. if we meet that target deadline, it will mean even those links we haven't been able to connect to will be able to keep up with the schedule of anticipated roll out by about april 1st. and that concludes my update except i wanted to show you one more slide. this is a little preview of the ride integrity system that will be available to sfmta taxi services staff on our desk toxtionv that shows us up to the minute trip information, mapping information and i'm very much looking forward to showing you the rest of the bells and whistles, which are

really, really great from our perspective at your february 4th meeting. >> thank you, director hiashi. [speaker not understood]. thank you very much. we have speakers on this? how many do we have? >> we have 8 speakers. >> what i would like to do is suggest after the public hearing part of this, that we bring up item 14, the shuttle because because there are people who are very interested on that. let's go with director reiskin's report at this point. >> sure. [speaker not understood] item discussed by direct r reiskin. >> roberta, supervisor kim has joined us. [speaker not understood], common courtesy? good afternoon, supervisor kim. >> good afternoon, president nolan. thank you so much for letting me speak. i really appreciate it. i did want to address the

director's comments and thank director reiskin and also the sfmta board of directors for your commitment to raising awareness for the need for transit infrastructure and also for pedestrian and cyclist safety improvements here throughout the city. as you know, and i know that director brinkman has already brought this up at the last board meeting supervisor avalos and i introduced a resolution, a planning process to create san francisco's version of vision zero, a plan that's been adopted in chicago and new york really modeled off of what has happened in several countries in europe to reduce all traffic fatalities over the next ten years, so, in 20 24. as you know our pedestrian strategy which was introduced last year has already set strong goals of reducing serious and fatal injuries 20% by 2025, 15% by [speaker not understood].

[speaker not understood] sfmta is on board with achieving this very aggressive but we feel a very doable goal. as you all know, the stats and fatalities are absolutely 100% preventable and it's about getting all of our agencies to work together to be able to achieve that goal. a lot of people play a role in that, but, of course, a critical role sfmta can play what time asking for your support is how we can fund the engineering component of vision zero. am ion time as well? >> we will ask you a question. keep going. how's that? we can understand what you're saying. i love being on the other side. [laughter] we did get some feedback from the director as well as staff members from sfmta on what could be a critical component of this three-part plan. engineering, education and enforcement.

and a key role that sfmta can play on the engineering component. as an example of this, last year the board of supervisors was each granted $100,000 budget discretionary funding budget allocation for our office. and we used a portion of ours to fund the first ever pilot on sixth street where we know we have the number 1 and number 3 top collisions here in s. we're able to implement something quickly because we know that the long-term design process will take years including being able to find funding. we were able after that unfortunate death [speaker not understood] we're able to move quicker on doing a bike lane pilot on folsom street. so, we're asking in the near term to be able to fund through the budget process low-cost pilot projects in areas where we know that the road design will not come is not enough.

we are actually ahead of new york city in the sense we already know the date a we know the sections we need focus on and we know the types of driving behavior that produce these injuries and fatalities. and we have been in discussion with the sfmta and ta on a crisis intervention some time. i'd love your a port in ensuring they need [speaker not understood] prevent serious bodily harm and even death. i'm asking that the team be held to a high standard of project delivery which needs there will need to be resource sharing and communication between the san mateo, dpw, transportation authority, and department of health amongst many others. i've brought copies of the resolution that the director has referred to so we can share that with you. and i want to call your attention to the last resolution which is that further resolved that the board of supervisors urges san mateo to create this crisis

intervention team in collaboration with other city agencies which would be passed with engineering and implementing at least 24 pedestrian and cyclist pilot projects over the next two years and the corridors demonstrate the high number of severity of traffic collisions including temporary fall outed, traffic speed reduction measures separated by lane removals or left turn restriction. and the two-year pilot be used to analyze project toward our goal of zero traffic fatalities in 20 24. [speaker not understood] we know the next year to a month is aggressive. director reiskin is prioritizing where these will go the next couple of years. we would love to start this immediately and to get a sense from sfmta on what is

reasonable given the urgency that's facing the city of all the factors that director reiskin has already pointed out today. what can we do in there months, in two years. so, i wanted to appreciate the discussion and really we'rection out to say that we look forward to working with all of you on this plan. >> thank you. >> i'm sure we can say on behalf of our colleagues we appreciate your active energy and leadership in this. >> thank you. thank you for your time. >> i'm the director, so, reports. >> okay. nicole snyder followed by john winston, and then leah shayham. good afternoon. good afternoon, hi, my name is nicole snyder and i'm the director director of walk san francisco. and first and foremost on behalf of walk sf and our members, i want to thank you

for requesting that the board adopt vision zero resolution. last year we experienced the six-year high with four pedestrian fatalities and bicycle fatalities. we can no longer send a message that a human life is worth less than a car. [speaker not understood]. 16-year-old sophia lou shouldn't have been killed. she would have been 7 by now and she deserves so much more. this is our culture and this culture needs to change. no loss of life or death is acceptable when there is clear evidence that we can prevent these deaths and injuries from happening in the first place. it's engineering enforcement and education solutions that will bring us to vision zero. envision zero he, the plan to

eliminate all traffic fatalities for all roadway users in 10 years. i'm confident that mta has the most talented and committed staff in the country. in the past six months i've seen mta install our first and second temporary improvements, developed a walk first strategy and planned some of the most innovative street design solutionses. but i've also seen strong safety projects be stalled and watered down. and now we're calling on you to commit to vision zero by expediting safety projects. funding the education of drivers who are disproportionately responsible for hitting and killing people. installing more [speaker not understood] and innovative designs that deliver on our right to walk and bike without being killed or injured. >> thank you. thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> john winston followed by leah shaham, and then kevin

stall. >> good afternoon. >> hi. john winston from the pedestrian safety advisory committee, i'm from friends of monterey boulevard. appreciate the chance to speak to you. we have 40,000 deaths a year in the united states. that's the equivalent of three jumbo jets crashing, everybody dying every month. when we talk about a change of culture in the city of san francisco, we really need to look at it in those terms. there are actually that many people dying. so, when we -- moving from vision zero to reality zero, we're going to have to make some decision -- you're going to have to make some decisions that are unpopular. and what we need to do on our end as activists and psac will look to changing the culture, to changing the ideas of how they look at the assessment of the risk of walking down the street or riding a bicycle and we look to you to change the

actual -- pour the concrete and make things happen. get it to reality zero. >> thank you, mr. [speaker not understood]. next speaker, please. >> leah shea ham followed by kevin stoltz [speaker not understood]. >> [speaker not understood]. thank you for your time. i have to thank bond yee. we do thank him for his decades of commitment. we sometimes have been on the opposite side debating things, but appreciate his personal touch of humor [speaker not understood]. i want to thank you for recognizing that around advocate citizens. we do share the same goals. i wouldn't question for a second any of you would think we would want to design the streets of thoma, you didn't design those streets. they were done 50 plus years ago. they are what they are, but ask the folks and there are many of

them, walking, biking through those neighborhoods, are we doing enough or not? i thank supervisor kim, everybody who has come out, all the great folks at the rally earlier, vice-chair [speaker not understood], [speaker not understood], tenderloin neighborhood development negotiation. we've gotten to the point of a crisis. i know you've done this. none of us like to get that cull and hear about the terrible thing happening. [speaker not understood]. more importantly, we hope you put action to those words. it means a change in urgency. it means i believe living up to ha you've done correctly. prioritizing in your strategic plan. now i'm asking you to do it in your budget. [speaker not understood]. it means 5 or 10 million bucks is on the table. it should be prioritized to safety streets, saving the life of a 6 year old and hopefully

won't have to experience that. number two, chrysler for the [speaker not understood]. it can't be business as usual. i'm not smart enough to know what this look like. but some of your folks are. who are the right people, who is the right configuration? how do we get them into place now. thank you. >> thank you. next. >> kevin stall, michael shands. >> good afternoon. good afternoon. i'm a city pedestrian [speaker not understood], and also low-income, citizens of the tenderloin and [speaker not understood]. we're also the most overlooked. there are seniorses, disabled, families with kids. these people are the most [speaker not understood]. soma and tenderloin have some

of the worst intersections in the entire city and really needs to have the san mateo and other sergeant ascential to and make it a very high priorities and needed infrastructure and enforcement changes we so desperately needs. please help us with our safety needs and don't forget us like you have in the past. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. stoltz. next, please. >> michael sands. [speaker not understood]. annie: south worth. >> hello, mr. shan. hello, i live on market street. the mayor's plan is to be nice. it's a cute slogan. we need a stronger response to this he can democrat i can. we need to stop catering to cars. instead of metering on sundays, we need that money to buy safer streets and to improve our infrastructure.

currently when i walk down harris street in some a i keep getting to these little metal barriers that say, no ped crossing. this is because we prioritize cars making right-hand turns or left hand turns above people walking the street. it forces me to cross the street not one, not two, but three times putting me at risk three tiestionv. suppose the city prioritizes ~ >> please stand by, experiencing technical difficulty

>> good afternoon, mr. yamamoto. good afternoon, i'm jerry yamamoto [speaker not understood] as well as having particular interest in public safety. i have been transported by a fire department ambulance after a collision with a car in the bad old days on guerrero and san jose. so, thank you for making those changes. i would like to encourage more changes as currently as my vantage point on 17th street. i have seen a number of crashes of cyclists on that street caused primarily by the narrowness of the street and the tracks. i'm not sure if you are familiar with that, but the streetcar tracks on 17th street are -- they're right in the middle. and, of course, on the side is parking. and in between there is a very small amount of space for cyclists or whomever is on the

street. whenever anybody is parking and particularly double parking, bicyclists have to cross the tracks and that causes a lot of crashes. particularly in the morning during the school year there is a lot of double parking there and that is when there is a lot of injuresies. however, during the rest of the time there's also a lot 6 injuries and these are not fatal crashes. a lot of broken arms, head injuries, a lot of abrasions, and they happen all the time and you will never hear about most of them because mostly the people get up and go home ~. so, please, if you could attend to that. >> thank you, [speaker not understood]. next speaker, please. >> annie south worth. mo [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. is ms. south worth here? >> are there people in the other room, roberta? >> yes, there are. and i'm reading enough ahead so people.

followed by steve sell ton and beverly pitser. >> good afternoon. my name is [speaker not understood], i'm a member of the [speaker not understood]. i live right off of cesar chavez and bartlett and enjoying the streetscape improvement there. i came to speak today because i want to talk about sort of the two worlds we're living in, especially as an inner mission resident it is walkable and safer which has historically been a very dangerous street. i appreciate and note how many people are out there walking and biking. i live by at least one if not two dangerous intersections. i feel concerned every time i see them cycling up cesar chavez. i wonder do they know what's going to happen when they get to guerrero street? people try to go to san jose

and noe valley. we seem to have a disconnect. we are creating safer streets. i don't think we're creating safer intersections yet. and i think what supervisor kim spoke to is that we have a lot of data. we do know the intersections are particularly dangerous. [speaker not understood] intersections are dangerous. what i think is important is for the city to recognize we need to approach a safer street in a much more aggressive way. and with this vision zero is super important because it completely raises he the bar. it forces all the agencies, in this case the mta to raise the bar and say, okay, if we've had accident, if we've had some sort of pedestrian or cyclist injury, it means something is wrong. we need to figure out what we've done wrong, work with the other agencies, and figure out how that could have been prevented. one last thing i'd like to mention, too, i also want to point out we live on the edge of mission. we're close to the bayview. and i see that we [speaker not

understood] disconnect on the south bay corridor and intersections down there. and again [speaker not understood] information in the data and to look those to* those intersections as well. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> steve zeltran. beverly pitser, and final speaker card for the director's report, henry pan. >> good afternoon, sir. steve [speaker not understood], i'm a resident of san francisco. and first of all, i'd like to say you have proposals to raise money for these new revenue bonds, but why aren't you raising the revenue on the billionaires in san francisco, the 16, 17 billionaires and downtown developers and corporations who really benefit from the transportation system in san francisco? that alzheimer's ~ seems to be off the table. i think we need to focus on making the people who can afford to pay for more public transportation. we need more public buses. we need more mass transportation. the obstacle courses that these -- all these private luxury shuttle buses are causing harm to the people of san francisco,

the residents of san francisco and you're going to be discussing that later, but i think that that is a problem, these luxury buses in san francisco. the other issue that i want to bring up is the bain of mta employees. there is a lot of bullying and that includes employees who work in the city of san francisco county. they're trying to do their jobs. this is not being a dreadtionthv. ~ addressed. brian, a number of employees being bullied off their job for doing the job by the mta. that has to be addressed by this commission. there was a national week of action against workplace bullying. it is happening at the mta. the last point is it seems like this commission actually, and you yourself, are off target around the issue of taxing the people of san francisco for using the meters. why is it all of a sudden that the mayor says we shouldn't have meter use on sundays? i mean, it seems like he says that everybody is against it.

there are some people who are in favor of it, but this commission went ahead with that of basically taxing the people of san francisco, working people of san francisco with these meters without really addressing what does the public want and they don't want more meters, especially in residential areas which you're pushing in through privatization of agencies you contracted out to to make money off the meters. >> thank you, sir. next, please. >> beverly pitser. madelein san, [speaker not understood]. >> good afternoon. good afternoon, president nolan, board of directors. my name is beverly pitser, [speaker not understood], i'm also a small business owner. in 2009 i was a victim of an auto pedestrian accident in soma and i'm also obviously a survivor. i wanted to put a face to the people you will be helping. i'm lucky. i was transported to s.f. general. i was unconscious and i was the

equivalent of a jane doe. i think my name was rita on my bracelet. i underwent a six hour surgery five days later to have my face recorrected. i have titanium plates in my face and underwent a lot of work to feel safe again to walk in the streets of san francisco. i'm also an avid environmentalist and i sold my car in order to fund my business. and, so, i'm an avid muni rider and pedestrian. so, i'm putting my faith in the city, i'm putting my faith in what you decide. and i also walk courageously every day to work and to live my life. it's also a tragedy for the drivers who do hit pedestrians. so, there are many, many victims in this. i would never want to be that person who hits a pedestrian. so, these improvements, we know where they can happen. [speaker not understood] happen

in soma. it happened going from a one way onto a two way. so, i urge you to make these changes and to adopt vision zero. >> thank you very much for sharing your story. appreciate you being here. thank you. >> henry pan and madelein salve it. these are for items addressed by the director. >> good afternoon, am pan. ~ good afternoon, my name is henry pan. i'm here to voice my support for vision zero. the reason being that we have too many pedestrian collisions that have happened in the past year and we need to change now. we must no longer prioritize the automobile. enforcement in what we call be nice, look twice, might be a solution, but in reality these drivers know the rules and they don't care. he they just want to get to their place in their entitled sense to get to wherever they want to go without regard for the remaining public. so, i urge the board support

and adopt vision zero and i hope not only does enforcement come along with it on the part of the police department, but also i hope this agency helps the shift, the graduate shift from the automobile which is very important. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> last person under this item, madelein savitt. >> good afternoon, ms. savitt. good afternoon. thank you all very much. in the spirit of thanks to bond yee, i want to thank you all really for your endurance and dedication and special shout out to ms. boomer who is extraordinary in her dedication. >> yes, she is. but the patience up here and the endurance is really fantastic, too. i am madelein savitt, a parent, architect, health researcher and founder of folks for polk. and i take polk street as emblem atic a what happened in ourv city.

you are the experts, you people, mta and planning and et cetera, they are the experts, they know what's right. best practice is out there and we need implementation. i want to thank also jane kim for being extraordinarily supportive and understanding, that it's a comprehensive solution. it's not just about pedestrians. it's not just about cyclists. we all live in this city. and if we live in fear of being out and circulating through the city it's not good for anybody. i would like again to revisit polk street and the design for it which came out with it was excellent and best practice and it's not for people who do not know this discipline to decide we cannot have safe healthy infrastructure. bottom line is the bottom line. the economy is at stake. make no mistake it's not a short term thingv it's long term. and we really want to move forward on polk. >> that concludes the speakers on the director's report. [speaker not understood]. >> i just had one question for

director reiskin or maybe for taxi services. i appreciated the follow-up we got from deputy director hiashi. it seems 60% of the cabs are on their way to compliance with this one piece of technology. is there any sense at this point that any of the large taxi companies are not cooperating or are we optimistic that given the extended time and the discussion we had last time that those company are now in the process of cooperating. >> there is still time to receive comments from verifone and cmt that we have not connected with. i think that i wouldn't want to answer that question until more of that time has run and given them an opportunity to participate. but, again, i know that if we don't get that cooperation by about mid february that we'll be able to tell you which vehicles we thk