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 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 th