provide more in fruits and vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment it's truly thank yo. 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 has to be the jerry and the enforcement part we fund and look at it with the data that the public health department has come up with. my hope is looking at mayor debasis work in new york we can look at anothers cities as well >> thank you, commissioners at this point, i'm going to open this up for public comment. anyone want to speak seeing

none, public comment is closed. move on to item 3 >> vision zero overview this is an informational item. >> we have megan from the san francisco public health department to give an overview which is also the pedestrian safety task force co-chaired by her and tim i didn't. >> thank you very much for having us and thank you for the opportunity for achieving the goal of zero vision by 2024. the safety task force is expanded and our meetings are now quarterly as the zero task force and i'm going to share a little bit about the overview and the team is structuring it's activity to complete that goal and future items for your

consideration for the committee. and i'm going to turn it over to for more discussions regarding engineering. back to the root of vision zero it started in sweden it is the highest priority for our transportation system the racks we've heard we want to design a transportation system forgiveness our humanness and so there's not death we're really doing comprehensively at the various project like education and enforcement to help to create a system in san francisco that fundamentally protects life. we are also keenly attuned to protecting our most vulnerable road users and community.

this map includes a lot of information including the high pedestrian corridors that is 6 percent of our streets and fatalities as well as the bicyclists high corridors which similarly identify 4 percent of our injuries our. those corridors overlap there are particular places their cyclists and pedestrians are injured. in conducting that analysis we see a higher progression of high injuries in community with low income population and non-english speaking population and distribute of color so where our most vulnerable folks live this is what the data points to

safe lives >> i think the slide is small could you just go through the key the purple being - and the purple is where cyclists high injury corridors intersect with the pedestrian safety corridors this year, the blue is just pedestrian. >> right thank you. >> also with respect to get this slides on the left is the transportation mode that on the city and on the right 2013 breakdown of fatality so we can see fatalities with the pedestrians and cyclists merry christmas 20 percent of trips and the deaths on the street. this slide gives an overview

thought we have the city staff from the multiply departments that touch on traffic safety shared by dpw and representatives from dwp and planning, the police department i'm sure i'm forgetting other agencies we'll providing provide a comprehensive list. our steering committee is broke down into engineering and enforcement and evaluation and data. our premises is the same as the opening remarks we said we can't achieve operation vision zero we know based on the evidence that education is important to partner education with enforcement. so in order for it to be, true effective we need education and

enforcement to work hand to hand and that it's regularly enforced. to the last of the top orange box through the support of the transportation authority vision zero we're going to work specifically with communicating both workplace and to the public regarding what our goals are and what the city is doing to achieve vision zero it's a key strategy for the success. in addition to the committee we have working groups those working groups are addressing the more emerging issues that we haven't collectively grappled with and feed into the actions the subcommittee. currently, we have a bicycle working group and a city vision

that be looking at the barriers and also we're talking about the vital near term action but what are the larger policy issues to approve vision zero one example the status of automated transportation. we're also going to harness the existing partnering to be a vision for the one body it enacts and implicit acting as a united city for the actions. we have the customer input to the subcommittees and importantly at the top we have the steering committee reported to the sfmta board to this committee and also to our city

vision task force. now i'm going to briefly into into the subcommittees and their leadership. we have our education subcommittee lead by the sfmta and john max white and the key partners from the public health department. and then at the last key activities in support of vision zero include delivering a campaign and the active corresponding grant we have a engineering subcommittee lead by the mr. reynolds that's collaborating with our data subcommittee to identify before and after nodes for data analysis and tracking the

capital. enforcement subcommittee is being keeping you informed co- led by the a gentleman from the police department and from a gentleman from the sfmta it includes implementing the da's position for vehicular mandatory manslaughter and we'll be working to continue to provide data analysis to have targeted efforts and supporting the monitoring and implementation of the monitoring initiatives. our working groups are dp works t l i want to be sensitive to the tops i mentioned the leads they're going to be providing information to the sub activities. before getting in the nightly

gritting we all acknowledge what the opening remarks are this the kltd shift we're going to need to address larger policy issues and barriers within the structure and really changing businesses not accepting death and injuries of how our system operates but every fatality seriously evaluating what happened. again critically analyzing our priorities with respect to the bottle necks and offensive state and local actions to achieve our goals. to do this we're do not on our policy passersby to reinforce those priorities to help us address the fund needs we're going to identify to achieve those goals and we need our

stockholders and communities to inform and again provide accountability and help to support the vision zero. today, we're going to be talking about engineering and this is including the city vision including the product delivery and as well as the legislation update at the state level and other items for cyclist safety and evaluation data and funding. thank you >> thank you. i know that today enforcement is not on our agenda but i thought i'd ask the question on the slide on enforcement committee sfmta has taken on their focus

on the top 5 enforcement issues that we know cause pedestrian safety and their goals in terms of ticketing, etc. we've been seeing the results of the data i'm curious i'm not sure if the best person to answer this is but i'm curious what the sfmta role is around improvement and their goals. >> i'm happy to speak - with respect to the co- leadership of this combe subcommittee we've talked about marty the commander ali overseeing the implementation and the enter agency cooperation with respect to making sure that the commander lee is out in the field and overseeing the