seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> madam clerk, item 5. >> vision zero progress report, this is an information item. >> the co-chairs of the task force, megan wier, and timothy papandreou from sfta will provide a progress report on vision zero and initiatives. >> good morning, timothy papandreou, co-chair and joined by may megan wier. most information is in writing, and the powerpoint is also available. we are going to give you verbal updates on key pieces and then happy to answer any questions. in the update itself, there are some specific areas this we want

to touch upon, mainly the progress of the two-year action strategy, and some of the progress from the subcommittees. and also to what we call vision zero group updates that megan will go into and the key pieces. just quickly, the vision zero two-year action strategy, we have been working now with our subcommittee leads to develop an action plan for the next two years, to have a specific action and strategy ready for release this december. our next committee meeting we will present that as well. on the engineering, mari hunter presented the status updates, i we went -- i won't go over that

again. and to report safe streets success, which is a city-wide campaign with several city departments started its kickoff. and you may see that i pledge safe streets going on with buses and other properties around the city. it's interesting to note that to provide funding for the police department, commander ali talked about the funding challenges that the department is faced with. to supply equipment. there is lighto-enforcement devices and some specific targeted enforcement for that. and the other part for media and a tool of how successful these programs have been. expect that funding to come in

mid-way next year. and we are working on a curriculum to educate drivers of large vehicles how to drive more safely in san francisco. and one other successes we had, the police department has been successful in receiving our pedestrian safety education and enforcement grant for $200,000, and working together with mta to basically coordinate the education portion of the police department involvement in the safe streets campaign. so there is very good news in that part there. commander ali went over the enforcement piece. i won't go into that. and then lastly on my end, policy, many of the things that we want to do require new policies. either at the city level or the state level. and some of the most effective vision zero collision reduction

measures are currently not legal in california. we set up a policy committee to set up key policies of how to create impetus and with your support whether we can do them legally at the city level. or support legislators at the state level. things that include automated speed enforcement and other devices that we can implement quickly. that's my update on those elements. i will now move it over to megan to provide an update on her elements and then happy to answer any questions. >> megan wier, co-chair from the san francisco public health, i will start with the monitor update. we are partnering to evaluate the aforementioned safe streets campaign. and data collectors on the

street looking at vehicle yielding and to pedestrians. and we recently publicly released our online spatial data release, and that data release is called transbase and it's at transbase.org. and we have been working with sfta regarding speed data to inform speed monitoring, and working with an edmologist to link to medical records to help us capture at least a 20% underestimate of pedestrian and bicyclists injuries to inform vision zero initiative. in respect to schools, our lead

from the department of department health has worked to ensure that our safe routes to school partnership is the schools work with vision zero to serve as a body for these activities. working with 25 elementary schools and it's expanding. they are happy to announce they were awarded an active transportation grant for close to $1 million for the school year 2016-17, and to provide transportation tool kits and targeted traffic enforcement. a partnership between our agencies. we have seen increase of traffic enforcement by sftp. and everyone has walk to school on your calendar on october 8. and there is more about bessie carmichael school in the

work-group hand outs. and we are working on what i call the city vision work group. we are working to look ahead. we know that the 24-24 is important goal by the city. but we need more to achieve zero deaths, and we have a review of safety practices based on what is happening in the united states, and other cities implementing vision zero and as well as our peer cities. and looking to other countries such as sweden and australia, to see what they are doing in best practices of safety. and comparing that to the work in san francisco, as well as we know of our best practices. and this review will help us in short and longer-term strategies for achieving vision zero in san francisco, and feeding into our longer term planning. once we complete our tier action strategy, and timothy mentioned

we will engage with this committee about our findings and opportunities for the longer-term strategy. and finally and really importantly, with respect to communications, a contract has been signed with d & a consultants that are working with our city team on a communication strategy. which we will hope will be reflected in our presentations and communications moving forward. a lot of work is done by the city, and we know that we need more resources to really support us sharing that with you and with the public. and so john knox white from the mta is the lead for that work, and the communication work has kicked off. and we look forward to sharing that as well. >> and that will also -- if i may interject, that will create a clear definition of what vision zero is. and how we will communicate vision zero and the projects that support that. many concerns that came up

today, this communication strategy will really address those. and then they will have an opportunity as well, as we have seen a lot of support from community groups and various groups on how to get involved. this is an opportunity to get involved and amplify the message across the city and the region, on how to get to that vision of zero traffic fatalities by 2024. >> okay. any commissioners, tang. >> thank you, i wanted to see if you can elaborate a bit on the policies you mentioned we need to change at the local level, you mentioned speed enforcement but elaborate on other things to do. >> we have particular areas to look at. one of them is in particular, one of the things that we found most effective is the automated speed enforcement.

that is a standard practice in many cities in the world, and has shown direct reduction of speeding. and currently not allowed to do that, we need to pass legislation. i believe that is at the state level and work we can do at the city level. but we need that state approval to do that. that's one concrete example. the other one is with parking in particular, with vehicle enforcement. one thing we have been looking at, for example, the box programs we can expand those, and look at what the role is of parking control officers and how that enforced and how the funding of that is tied to these particular programs. so we are basically revising a lot of this to look at what we can do at the city level. or do at the state level.

and there are opportunities for funding at the regional level. and at the state and federal level for these projects and programs. so we are kind of doing a brought look -- broad look now to see things in the city, of things that are in the way of delivering these policies. or are they in place and need other jurisdictional efforts. we will have a fairly good view for that, for the next committee. and it was apparent that we need a group to address a lot of these. >> okay. so and to the education piece of this. and i know that we are waiting for state funding, i guess, to come in june. >> uh-huh. >> to be effective in june. and in the meantime there is an allocation of $1 million for

safe streets. and my understanding is that much of the attention is put on the east-side corridors. i am wondering what is happening with the west side? >> you said most of the funding is going to the east side? >> how are we addressing the education piece of it? >> i will have john (inaudible) come and give you details of the city wide effort. >> good morning, john knox white from mta. i think there is a number of ways to answer that question. the current safe streets san francisco program that launched at the beginning of this month involves city and regional wide educational outreach about driving safely around cross

walks. and marked. we are doing outreach to ensure that drivers are aware. even if there is not a painted cross walk on the street, that they are cross walks. and when people are in those cross walks marked or unmarked, that they have the right-of-way. much of the education is city wide and region we focused. and we are working with sfpd that is doing focused corridor enforcement for the next three months starting next week. and targeting those with pedestrian right-of-way. and we have money in the recently passed budget to allow us to continue the educational and marketing efforts through next spring. as we await for the funding next year, that program will expand

from four to 10 corridors. but again have a city-wide focus. and i think we -- i don't remember the exact, sorry it's been a while since we wrote the grant. but the enforcement piece in that, the work that begins next fiscal year will be city wide. it won't be focusing on a few specific streets. there is specific focused streets that we do additional enhanced enforcement. but city wide enforcement on streets west and east, etc. >> i am wondering if we can get more specific, maybe not today, but in terms of which corridors that we are talking about. it's city wide but you are going to target specific corridors? >> sure, for the current program we are working on geary, mission, sixth street and

kearney. and they were identified as the top-four high injury corridors where the collisions happening were related to driver violations and pedestrians right-of-ways. >> and you mentioned six new ones. >> i don't remember if we identified the six corridors there, but i believe that we have a list of those corridors and i could send you that this afternoon. >> that would be helpful. as you know in particular last year, there were at least district 7 had disproportionate number of fatalities compared -- wasn't worse but certainly up there in terms of percentage of fatalities for a district, it was high. i want to be sure that we pay some attention to the west side. >> absolutely, and we were very careful when we wrote the grant, not to write ourselves in a box to only do enhanced enforcement

on specific corridors, but to have a list of injuries and fatalities but to have the ability with this program that goes on for a few year. to address speeding throughout the city. and on corridors that may pop up as hot spots while the program is running. speeding is a problem on most streets in san francisco and the region. unfortunately, we will only reach the goals that we want to reach, and not specific corridors to speed. but any street they may get caught. >> thank you, and by the way, i have not mentioned this and nobody mentioned this. almost two years ago when i came into office, one of the first things i asked mta was can we cut the speed on monterey

boulevard, it's basically residential coming off of a freeway. at the time it seemed not possible, but i guess we were consistent enough and thank you mta to work with cal-tran and whatever, but we were able to, it was not a miracle, but certainly it was nice, wow, we actually got it down to a reasonable speed of 25. and that was making, it was put in a month ago. and just having those signs that say 25 made a big difference. because it was 30 before, but when i drive 30, almost every car would pass me. now at 25 miles per hour, i am driving 25, very few cars are actually passing me. i noticed a difference, i am sure when you do a study, i think it will prove me correct in terms of my observations. it's another example of what we can do to make it safe for the

streets. and reducing the speed, the type of injuries you get will be different. thank you very much. >> i wasn't involved but make sure that the people that were. >> any public comments on this item? >> i am bob plantle. i have some good news, some bad news, and some suggestions based on what california walks learned last week. the bad news regarding the safety of schoolchildren. the governor vetoed assembly bill 1153, that would have doubled the fine of speeding through school zones. here in city departments lowered the speed limit, that is helpful. the governor said it was regressive to double the fines. so the suggestion i am going to make is, since both the t.a. and the city have lobbyists.

they didn't seem to communicate quickly, timely and thoroughly to the city and t.a. and maybe from those agencies to advocacy groups. if we could have known of these meetings we could have generated comments from the state and the city. those lobbyists are paid, and we don't know what their instructions are. but i suggest a better communication channel throw and have staff work with the senate and assembly to find out what is coming up. the good news is that last week the california traffic control devices committee recommended that guidance be the approach to lowering the walking speed [bell] now recommended 2.8 feet per second walking speed. previously it was an option, and option only where seniors were

present. it was very remote. so i suggest also when t.a. gets a money request or mta puts in a stop light they see that it's 2.8 feet per second walking speed that is now used. thank you. >> any other public comment -- come on up. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i wanted to highlight john knox white's work and his data driven approach to this campaign. and really collaborative approach. if you haven't seen the signs already, they are effective and have taken the saur -- surveys from the public and direct that behavior and making sure that

people know that they have to yield to pedestrians whether or not there is a cross walk. i wanted to say thank you to mta and all others. >> no other public comment, public comment is closed. item 6. >> introduction of new items. >> seeing none, commissioner breed. >> thank you, i want to make a quick comment. i want to apologize to the public for our loss of a quorum. and i know that many of you have busy lives as well. i am appreciative of supervisor tang for stepping in. so we can continue this meeting. we do take this work very seriously. and i want to be sure that you know that your time is valued. and we appreciate the feedback and appreciate you hanging in there with us to see us through this process. so thank you.

>> okay, i guess no introduction of new items, any public comments on this? seeing none, public comment is now closed. meeting adjourned. >> item 7. >> wait. >> item 7. public comment. >> oh, any public comments on general comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. now the meeting is adjourned. bye.

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