and welcome to the our very first vision zero subcommittee this is our special meeting for thursday, april 10, 2014, madam clerk, any announcements?. no announcements. >> i want to welcome everyone to the vision zero that was established i'm joined by sfmta sxhooernd p supervisor wiener and supervisor yee and supervisor mar pr if we're joined by our chair supervisor avalos we will have to reconvene

at the special board today. i want to thank jim smith my jonathan from sfgovtv that makes our 0 reports on line. i want to give the floor to your colleagues our vice chair that's one of the first members of the vision zero it's an oversight body for the work the cities committed to having traffic fatality to zero there's a lot of things about the timeline especially the health crisis in the city we lost another life on van ness this continues to be an issue of the responsiveness to our needs of the youngest residents or old the and we got

news today a young 5-year-old that was hit in the sunset today. we've repeating been asking what's holding us back in terms of saving lives i want to thank sfgovtv it's important that our city understands how safety is first and not speed. the impact drivers what make to get to a site 5 minutes earlier in helping us to save lives we want to see the design sea implementation commitments we'll talk about political will and others things to achieve our

goal we want to know what what we, do to meet those goals. i look forward to getting feedback on days presentation. i want to hand this over to supervisor yee >> thank you chair kim. i'm happy that we're finally kicking off that font and looking at the strategies that will get us to the vision in 10 years if with your fortunate we'll get to our vision earlier than that. one of the for the were finally looking at this issue a little bit more comprehensively i know you we've had discussions around fatalities and pedestrian safety

and we've talked about the engineering piece of it and the isolation and sometimes, it's all about enforcement and others say we only have education about how pedestrians or drivers can make it satisfactory for all of us that would solve 9 problem. i never thought one in and of itself would solve 9 problem we need to look at all the strategies in combination to make sure they work in in conjunction with each other so thank you very much for being here today and i'd like to thank the rest of the committee who also have been passionate about this issue this is an important issue >> thank you supervisor mar. >> i wanted to thank supervisor

kim and supervisor yee and supervisor avalos and tilly chang and the transportation authority on they're great idea to see make vision zero a royalty i believe the 4-year-old was hit on fulton close to my house she was wearing a vest and riding a bicycle. it gives me fear of my own street fulton for a child as we try to and parents as we try to encourage bicycling that makes me want to work harder. about one another thing a 5-year-old was hit on fulton and

his babysitter as well. i know in some of the slides that come up the gary boulevard corridor is one of the top 24 but i'm hoping we'll looked restraining order look at other corridors as data comes in i know that living off fulton how despairs it is. this is about a health crisis in our streets many of them are not safe so it's critical. all the departments working together and taking seriously the goals of vision zero are critical i don't want to wait until 2024 to have major improvements i want to hit the ground running that at times departments are not acting with the urgency i think we want them

to take. yesterday's hearing before the budget committee we discussed the funding of the bicycle strategy there's been some improvements and progress but we need to keep you're going much more progress. this committee will be a critical place for each department to show how they're stepping up to take serious our vision goals but also as we gather new data like on, if you will, the only i'm hoping we'll look at other boulevards that he as a person interested i'm going to make sure that funding gets out the door and projects are completed quickly and cut through the red tape to work together. quick and strong action a

necessary i did especially the 4-year-old that was hit a couple of hours ago the emergencies like that mandate that we act as quickly as we can >> thank you, commissioner. seeing no further comment i'd like to begin with our first presentation oh, supervisor wiener >> thank you, madam chair i'm glad to be part of this committee. i've said this before i don't think it can be said often enough in terms of the 3 e of engineering the physical changes we need more education and enforcement but you can have all of it in the world but human beings we're not perfect and

there's inattention momentary or otherwise for pedestrians and bicyclists and everyone we're not perfect or completely consistent in how we pay attention. so making a safety change to our whether it's for walking or biking that's critical in understanding that we need to if the record could reflect that people don't pay attention and make mistakes and that will help to make our streets safer and take into account even if people are not paying attention we can reduce the chances of on accident and make that more linkage that pedestrians and drives will see each we we can there are proven changes to make

to our streets that save lives that make our streets safer. i have to say i've seen every bureaucratic obstacle to making changes. and it's not just one department it's, you know, all departments at one point or another gets into the act of obstructing pedestrian improvements and at times bike improvements as well. it's incredibly frustrating in addition you've got a planning and community process and finally put together the money and have a great plan and run the bureaucratic gaunlt let another department swoops in and it's also, you know, someone who's, you know, maybe not

talking to someone else in the same department and ends upococcus problems and if you don't have a supervisors office involved some of the projects die or get water down. it's a terrible system in terms of how we work among our departments pr i authorized along with supervisor yee a year and a half to create an enter departmental working group when you have disagreements that committee has not convened yet which is frustrating i know there will be subsequent agendas madam chair but i want to be sure we're including i've heard occupational you all the departments that have touched for example, the fire department has to be part of this

discussion i'm a great fan but a deep disagreement with the fire department about some of the pedestrian improvements and the presented has opposed a number of those improvements and water them down and put out on inaccurate statistic that 2/3rd's are the faults of pedestrians that's not true pursue the fire department needs to be part of the discussion and the public utilities sometimes, the puc takes a position and tries to force other departments to pay the costs of moving pipes. the public works has to be part of it not only the agency that builds the project but a dpw

person will obtain to how a sweep streetcar sweeper turns a corner there's there's a lot of departments that enter play here. i will say in our conversations with the fire department with puc and other departments i've seen a bit of a so oftening. there's 0 more education of how the departments fit into the discussion that committee can drive that >> thank you supervisor wiener. that's good feedback what we can agenda dizzy think that be important to have departments come in and talk about how to improve those projects to get them out.

supervisor london breed >> thank you and thank you supervisor wiener for the comments about the roles of the departments. i want to mention that outreach is critical as well because oftentimes there are projects that happen in our city and then i get the complaints from my constitutes so we need to make sure i know we can do our very, very best to try to reach out to everyone implicated in the community we have to make sure we do our best he efforts when making changes to o a community we want to make changes for pedestrian safety as we increase the population of our city we're making it easy to walk and live here and easy to bike and drive

here. and a big part of that making changes will impact that particular area and explaining to individuals you know why we're moving the parking in front of their street or cause champs with driveways in terms of deliveries. there are basic things if we're pro-active and explain it it would make all the difference so outreach is important and i want to thanks commander ali for his efforts. i've noticed only the enforcement efforts but a slight change in behavior of walkers and drivers being pilot

enforcement is 0 important i'm looking forward to how we as a city can work together to move forward sooner rather than later. thank you >> thank you, commissioner. i think your points are well-taken. i know that the transportation authority is putting together a potential budgetary position so we're able to inform our neighborhoods for improvement projects that are going in on their block as you he mentioned getting the proper feedback and input but explaining how they're to make our neighborhoods safer and to commander ali i thank you for your work. yesterday, i saw a young mother she was excited because several of her friends got tickets she

is excited and she has been close to getting hit several times and happy that her friends are getting tickets >> supervisor mar. i want to acknowledge the progress we've made at the beginning of the year after sophie's killing on polk and alice on new years eve and i wanted to ask the committee to look at mayors work in new york city and other major cities facing similar issues. we've moved from the look twice and be nice and looking at to beef up our commitments and as supervisor wiener mentioned the education part is critical have been nice and look twice but