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 efforts to coordinate the efforts. >> i think it's important to sfmta to use its own resources to enforce the pedestrian safety. whether walking the bike lanes that impact the safety of our cyclists or to help to support really the limited resources that sfmta has >> yes. that's another avenue we're exploring we're working with our improvement group within the sfmta to look at how our pcos can aid the sf pd but

we're looking at the policy opportunities and then as well as a lot of our grants are multi facets so that role as far as the sfmta and sf pd to make sure we're including the enforcement within the grant. >> it will be good to have the sfmta what they provided whether the number of enforcement tickets where it's going to focus it's goals and whether or not they're going to be part of the resources we - i think as a matter of fact, should be able to allocate those resources

we've talked about how the pcos can be a role but we should know what the goal is specifically. supervisor mar >> yeah. i wanted to appreciate that question and the response from the sfmta but to thank commander ali i know that when we collecting check into captain sylvia man they're taking a serious effort in our richmond district to address vision zero commitment but is that happening citywide i'll wait for the data from the police. >> thank you. so seeing no other condominiums from colleagues i'm open this up for public comment.

two minutes. thank you >> hi madeline founder thought possible. i'd like to suggest that a lot of the projects in the pipeline really have the potential to incorporate so many of the efforts among them my project has been the polk street initiative. i think it's imperfect we understand that the professionals who design the streetscape and the street safety are the last word we've seen the best stinsz are being derailed by people who claim to know what's best for the street but not have locals to assign to our raiser and we have no

striping and this and that and we can't let that happen on our streets. a short while ago i was the victim of a driver who was being a human being and negligent but it happened in the lack of infrastructure that was not up to the task of protecting all of us on the road. we really, really, really have to look ahead at the projects in the works not just for 2024. thank you. thank you >> good afternoon. i'm nicole i'd like to encourage had this committee and/or the vision task force consider to create a vision zero plan similar to what new york city did that is comprehensive and can house all

the vision zero strategies we're talking to hold us accountable and think how to achieve vision zero because megan said this is a real shift in the way we're thinking and if we're talking about the zero traffic fatalities we can't simply put together a list off what we've been doing but think progressively this is an exciting time to do that i want to see the city put together a plan to do that. >> thank you seeing no other public comment it's closed on this item. item 4. i'm so sorry did you want to - >> so we'll reopen public comment on this item.

>> i'm lenore goldman i'm with the tenderloin health partnership. it's san francisco health improvement partnerships for the neighborhood pilot project we've been meeting with stakeholders and resident for over six months. we've targeted safety as the primary focus to enable other health improvements to occur. and it's evident that without, however, much we invest and put support into other height improvements when every single block virtually in the tenderloin shows up as red and black every street and corner we really urge you to consider putting a high priority on a number of the street corners.

injury and death is so high on every corner no matter how much effort we put on school passages to get children to school or to doctors appointments we're hoping the initial priorities will target the tenderloin and the expansion efforts will also do so. thank you for your recognition of the issue >> thank you. seeing no future comments public comment is closed. we will be holding public comment for each item it's easiest if you stand so you know you want to speak call item 4

>> please introduce yourself name and title. 24 near term projects this is an informational item >> we have the liveable manager from sfmta to present on this project outlined by supervisor wiener there were 3 main components enforcement, education and engineering. one was to ask for 24 pilot projects focused on our corridors to help cut down on the number of injuries on redesign so mr. reynolds will be presenting on the proposals by that sfmta >> good afternoon. thank you for allowing me here. the engineering subcommittee of the steering committee will be the place where we identify and