the city clerk's office ton and striping changes on silver across the town and many trrnz claiming gary and palm and 6th and 16th and moo sonic and specifically by request i wasn't the first one to think of this we're going to put the 13 at the yorba and that speeding is unacceptable awhile we're waiting for the 13 i've specifically asked our chief and he's responded with a specifics officer to catch people so we're going to make the city safer. this is our mandate we're tired

of saying we're sorry. we're putting money serious money behind this are i know the group as identified over $275 million of work and this 50 million we're identifying in november against that the 17 million we're identified by various sources i want to thank you. the to the agencies for getting the first 17 million started ahead in the touchy areas of the city. it's more than just about commitment. we stood here months before and said we care about the city's safer whether it's awareness or a higher level of enforcement or

putting things into the streets that make sure from the physical standpoint a better and more efficient and safer areas for people to walk and ride and continue promoting the city as the most walkable city anywhere no, the country we can't do that unless we support that very fine goal of being the most walkable city. so i say to you today, we're acting on this today and i appreciate the people's efforts it's not enough it's not fast enough people are going to say but the thing i want to say the people who drive in the city slow down. you've got to slow down all the construction trucks with a great indication of our economic

recovery have got to slow down. all the people that >> emergency vehicles have to be sure what they're doing is the safety and most efficient way to provide that service we need to slow down and promote people looking both ways before they cross the street taking that supra precaution for themselves and their families. we're going to be doing that through education and enforcement and good solid investment we're given around historic comments. i think this the comprehensive and we're going to keep the safe groups working with us and the advocate so we'll respond efficiently. i thank our police and fire and

all departments. for the departments that are implementing these things whether the public works or other puc or dbi all the other agencies working together we'll honor all their efforts when we get the changes and i'll see these improvements being done this year. our police department is looking at other ways to use technology but those ideas will come forth as we get the appropriate funding to make the technology work for us boarder in deeper ways. thank you very much (clapping.) thank you, mr. mayor. and thanks for your leadership your office leadership of the atomic force the development of the strategy for which walk first,

the initiative we wouldn't be able to do it without the leadership from the mayor's office it takes all the community and folks to make this happen. the other leadership t is from the government i want to bring up the president of the board of supervisors who in his role as president in his role as representative from the board on the capital planning committee and as his role as someone that represents the district that has the biggest goal of the pedestrian safety please help me welcome board president supervisor chiu. i want to thank all the folks for walking together in this important announcement i want to thank the police department and

the mayor and the dbi and planning i want to thank walk sf and all agencies. i'm proud felt fact our board of supervisors is united and want to thank supervisor yee and 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 phone 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, in san francisco we're doing a special series called stay safe, about staying in your home after an earthquake. and today we're going to be talking about the neighborhood support center to help people find new resources when they stay in their home. ♪ ♪ >> we're here at the urban center in san francisco with sarah karlewski, deputy director of spur. we're talking about the shelter, a safe place to stay, exhibition at their center. and part of being able to shelter in place in your home is to be able to find a place nearby where you can get the services that you might not have in your home. and that's what this little neighborhood support center is for. >> that's right. >> what are some of the

services that might be provided in a neighborhood center like this? >> yeah. so, we think of the neighborhood support centers as really being homes away from home. so, after a major earthquake there is going to be a lot of confusion. people are going to need to try to meet up with other people. they're going to need a lot of information. so, a lot of what the neighborhood support center is going to provide is that information. basically we're going to be like a hub where people can come to get services, help, information, et cetera. what you see here on this table are a whole variety of did you ever rent things from tools, some walki-talkies. this helps people know what is going on in their neighborhood. over here you have a whole variety of water and canned goods. we're really hoping that people will stock up for themselves at least for the first 72 hours if

not more. i know that i have a ton of canned food and other sorts of things such as water within my own home. and everybody should, but there's going to come a time where people are going to end up running out and needing more. so, that's what we've got right here. >> so, this neighborhood support center, this doesn't look to be a major city sponsored fully stocked space. it can be a small commercial space, even somebody's garage as long as they have the information, a guide of information, who to call for what, communications equipment, some power, have a generator. >> that's right. >> thinking of lights and charge your cell phones and so on. and probably be operated by volunteers. >> volunteers, maybe members of nert could help out, people who live in the neighborhood that have some building skill could be helpful. so, if there is a structural engineer living nearby or even an architect, they could really help people kind of understand

what has happened to their homes and what sort of repairs might be needed. >> here we are with some of the things that you might find in a neighborhood support center. one thing we learned from hurricane katrina, people really rely on their portable electronics and their phone. we say here's a charging station tied up to the generation. the essential coffeepot. >> yes. >> maybe a computer, you can check your e-mail with. >> yes. we have our charging station here. and then over here you can see we've got a whole variety of things, including the all-important different tags. so, lawrence, do you want to talk a little about the tags? >> sure. people want to know what do these tags mean. is my building safe or unsafe. these are the city owe initial tags. staying in your home doesn't require that you get a tag. it just means that you use common sense and maybe get help from people who might be around who can help you evaluate whether it's a safe place to

stay. >> you might want to know because regular city services are disrupted, you might want to know when trash pick up is, if you need to get clean water, et cetera. also in the neighborhood support center, that kind of information would be available and we've got a little of that up here. >> trash pick up resumes regular schedule on wednesday. >> that's right. >> please mark your human waste. >> that's right. >> so, this is kind of an information center, communication center, also a center that hopefully will show people how to relate to their neighboring communities, what else is happening city-wide. and, of course, this is sort of the ubiquitous form of communication. my cat is missing, call me. >> exactly, because a lot of times, even if you do have a cell phone, and people do if you're really trying to save some of your precious energy minutes, et cetera, or it's not working as well as it normally does, it is helpful to have a message board that you can get information to other people.

and, so, that's what we're showing here. you can see people are going to be looking for their pets. they're going to be looking for rides. people are going to need to be sharing resources a much as they possibly can. another thing that you can see here is they're going to need to be fair tools and some of the things that people are going to need in order to be able to stay safer within their homes. so, we're just showing sort of a gesture to that with all these different tools here. but then also tarps, people are going to need to cover their windows if their windows are cracked, if their roofs are broken. so, ideally, the city would be able to know where all these neighborhood centers are and help deliver some of these supplies. >> they could come from a neighbor, maybe not. thank you so much for allowing us to come in and share this wonderful exhibit. and thank you for

>> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount