supervisor jane kim and other in this groundbreaking. in my first term you are participated in a number of agencies standing behind me. i think is it fair to say we're frustrated at the fact it was difficult to get on the same payment and hold ourselves account. its easy to say we support pedestrian safety but it's hard to focus and sometimes, it takes a crisis and we've had 21 dedicates 3 incident a day. those victims are our mothers and fathers our daughters and sons and brothers and sisters this is unacceptable. this is why we have to come together to create a real opportunity let me say this if

swede can do this we can it's an innovative program to make sure we get this done. i want to thank all the city agencies to put aside our differences and we have to in the coming months do this again come together and put aside the narrow differences on the issue and come and unit on issues on the november booklet to fund the pedestrian safety improvement. thank you all for being here and looked forward to this work together (clapping.) thank you, president chow and one of another partner that the transportation authority thank you tilly chang she's one of the leaders in the city. the transportation authority is governed by an 11 member commission it happens to be the

same commission it sits as our board of supervisors and they're led by a great advocate for equality and safety and transportation please welcome the chairman john avalos (clapping.) thank you, ed i'm really glad to be sharing this room with our city departments and the mayor. president of the board of my colleagues who have taken giant steps around the pedestrian safety supervisor yee and he supervisor jane kim and in particular i want to emphasize where we're at we're at a place to do new ways of business. we have about that as supervisor chiu discussed we've been tied and held back by dysfunction

that can no longer happen. i've really dedicated the staff and transportation authorized to work closely that the mta and the public works and the department of pubt and the controller's office to do everything we can of new because of business. we've established a new committee to look at how to expedite our 24 projects in 24 months to make sure we're putting an infrastructure in place where it's noted to protect pedestrians but we're focusing only neighborhoods that are impacted. i can't say enough the south of tenderloin needs our help and port to make their neighborhoods safer. mayor ed lee committed new resources for the pedestrian safety in the transportation

authority we'll be k34i789d up to $10 million to improve the outcomes. i represent a neighborhood of san francisco south of 280 that not a week goes by you don't hear from several people asking for traffic coming. this is necessary to hone in to make the improvements in place and radical dozen. i want to thank the controller's office bringing forward the planning for walk first. i think it's significant that behind the scenes the controller's office this is a been working with city departments to come down and work collaboratively to protect the pedestrians all over the city.

thank you (clapping.) thank you chair avalos. as i think you've heard one of the themes is this is something we're all unified behind and i want to acknowledge part of the leaders of that unity the woman who represents the district that has the significant challenges with regard to pedestrian safety and raised the bar supervisor jane kim. please give her a hand (clapping) and from the other end of the city someone in officer who has made pedestrian safety a key policy issue stemming from the pointed he was a victim of a pedestrian collision and someone who's brought leadership to the issue i think this week and restarting the students crossing graduate program i'd like to

recognition from district 7 supervisor yee (clapping) it's not just the folks inside the building of city family that's going to make that successful its stakeholders and 0 advocates from the outside to make sure we understand the problems where they are and what the issues are and who are pushing us to move faster and the leading voice we have in n that regard comes from walk sf a small and power energetic associations that helps to make san francisco the great place for walking please join me in walk sf nicole smooirth >> thank you all i'm so honored

to be here standing beside our mayor and the board of supervisors who have is shown their leadership and many how more this is a dream for pedestrian advocates to be standing beside so many leaders who are an advocate. this is a change i want to draw attention to the city staff i want to give them a really big round of applause (clapping) walk first is a way for us to get to vision zero, zero traffic fatalities in one year this year as others have said our dangerous street are 6 percent

of our injuries. we can strategically focus our money to those dangerous you are dangerous streets walk first helps to address those through the low-cost treatment and we're excited to see those following supervisor jane kim's lead on 6th street and market street. too many lives have been lost and i'm really excited to hear the mayor talk about not saying sorry anywhere and really doing what we can to prevent the injuries. vision zero and walk first are about real people like you and me and sophie this sibling

didn't come home. another person is dealing with a broken career and injuries. we know we can do this first san francisco and we can be nauseating and come together and we're a great city to showing swede we can achieve vision zero. i want to reiterate our thanks to sf staff and as we move forward with our partners to advocate 0 for funding to make sure those - courage more people to walk in san francisco. thank you (clapping.) thanks north america coal it's welcome and it continues to push

us for the record. we're luck n i didn't in the city when it comes to public safety we have two of the finest chiefs in the country i wanted to thank chief joanne and his wife and other first responders. we want to reduce the workload for them as part of the process i want to thank that staff and our real efforts there's safety and engineering and at the sfmta we play a supporting role and that's in improvement we can there's a lot we can do with the data we have and a lot we can do to design our streets better a lot we can do to make more

people aware everyone needs to not pay attention to trodden device but need to make sure that people are following the laws that's one of the most important things we can do to make the roads safer. the chief behind that for the has been helped by board of supervisors that have added police academies but the leadership to deploy those leaderships to make sure we're endorsing the laws is being done very well by our chief of police chief suhr >> i too want to echo the support i get from all the people behind me our mayor

number one priority is our roads are safety i can't do that without our partners board of supervisors and other on this remedying and the mta and our community partners walk sf and the bicycle coalition. when i became chief the mayor and i spoke about public safety early on. in february we had the second time in 50 years with no homicides yet some padded pedestrian was killed on the street we've had more people killed on the streets of san francisco by vehicles than by homicide. we intended to attack this trying to get a handle on gun violence and violent crime in san francisco and that's through

smaet strategy and will deployment and combirs our community. we've been successful so far but focusing on the 5 most dangerous intersections and our confliction factors and using our data for realtime deployment and redeployment we can get a handle at least for the enforcement piece but as far as as education we're going to need community and partnership we're looking both ways to cross the street now look both ways and make eye contact with the driver before you cross the street. you are our populations is over 8 hundred thousand and growing and twice as many bicyclists in

the city and more construction in the country and at the same time everybody can't wait 60 seconds longer to be on their cell pne we're at a crisis level in san francisco we exceed violent crime serious injuries and deaths by those that are happening on the roads we can do this using technology and follow the lead of the people behind us but we can't get it done without doing it together. i ask i to sloan slow down and we'll have a safer city. thank you (clapping) >> thank you chief i think a couple of themes we've heard there's a crisis that requires an emergency and work together but you've heard that is a

soluble problem and something that san francisco, california quickly establish itself as a leader. one of the ways we're doing this to focus our enforcement resources and our education resources and our engineering effort you hear data driven we're using date as a model of for the city in terms of how we use our resources so who is driving that data i want to acknowledge ben rosenfeld and barbara garcia and her staff and tilly chang at the county of transportation authority and the planning department. we've had a lot of which the smarter mind but last but not least the staff of the mta the sustainable street staff a lot

of the bright minds in the city working together to analyze this data that will help us use our resources enforcement and education and when it comes time to pitting things in the ground the department of public works and mayor's office on disability and carmen johnson and tom from our building inspector we're working he together to put this stuff in the ground and that finally at the sfmta we're led had by a board of directors they've identified safety as the number one priority so i want to acknowledge sheryl bringing man here strongest voice advocating for bicycle and pedestrian

safety and all the road users with all the folks standing behind me and all the staff work and everybody in san francisco a taking on the challenge and responsibility to slow down and be aware and get around the city safer we can make this a great place so thanks to the folks behind me >> all of you looking forward to marking this a safer city. thank >> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at

common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of

small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were

lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of

damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of

magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there

anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in

for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally

independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for