accidents to how these projects are determined. i think what i had expected when we talked about moving these projects forward is that we would have a clear understanding of the most dangerous intersections. and how they related to the project. i know there is a map here that shows us those particular areas. but i guess the challenge i am experiencing is trying to connect the projects to the map. so my expectation would be that we make sure that we are addressing those issues with some of the most dangerous intersections throughout our ci city, regardless of the district. and even looking at what is happening in my district. there are intersections they know for certain that are problematic that are not a part of the plan. and my concern is that we are

not doing what i expected with vision zero, that is to address those areas most problematic. having a list that lists them out is great. but i guess prioritizing them in a way that explains how it relates to the data of those particular areas. and the accidents that occur in those particular areas. and i guess i can give an example, so i make sure i am being clear. in my district we have webster street from fulton to sutter. and i want to understand the data for that, as well as understand why that was chosen. rather than turk street and eddie street, that tiknow f-- that i know for sure that there is a lot of collisions on that street. and i know for certain that golden gate is a problem going

east down the hill towards steiner. there is areas where there is a number of accidents and bicyclists and pedestrians. just trying to understand how these were prioritized over others. and a comparison of those particular areas based on the numbers. so i can make a better decision about whether or not i can wholeheartedly support these projects or support something else. >> that is good feedback and something that we heard at the task force meeting is telling a story about a project. and that is something that we can do. we have that data, so we know along this corridor what the collision factors were. and so we can definitely bring that information forward. >> and then the last comment i had, and this is probably taken place before regarding the bulb

outs. we have especially during rainy seasons a lot of back-up with our sewage. i am not certain what the decision of the bulb out are made and how they are addressed so they are better what exists, to help avoid the back-up that we sometimes experience during the rain. i want to put that out there, as something that i hope can be addressed when making plans to place these bulb outs in certain locations. >> of course. >> i wanted to add taking a step back to the map, which is some background regarding bicyclists and pedestrian high-traffic corridors that were identified with the collaboration of mta, and include where both cyclists

and pedestrian injuries are concentrated and taking into account where the most severe were concentrated. and this includes 60% of the most fatal areas in the city. from that higher level that was a real consideration of respect of where these projects are. >> thank you, and i expect it to be made clear looking at project. they are listed and i appreciate that was the case. >> communicating it. >> yes. and also because from my perspective i am not certain if what is relevant in my district, for example, based on my experiences actually make sense for the projects chosen. trying to have an understanding of that would be helpful, thank you. >> commissioner yee, did you have any other comments? >> well, it's part of this

agenda item, and i know you didn't get there yet. so we have these 40 projects and then you have a section here that talks about add-backs. >> yes. >> and then the add-backs were for this fiscal year and next. there were -- through last year through the participatory process and we had funding measures, is that reflected anywhere in this presentation? and the question i really have for that is, these are fairly small projects throughout district 7. and this funding for it -- so i am just wondering whether or not

the time line on that is going to be -- well, i just wonder what the time line is. we have funding and the project, can we go? >> so you are looking for more information, like scheduled-type information for these add-backs? >> um, yeah, but for last year. >> last year? >> the funding was for last fiscal year. in regards to, by the time that we selected, we, meaning the community in district 7. selected the projects, there were nine of them. the funding has been allocated and transferred to i believe mta. and then so now i am just wondering whether the time line would be, delayed or what. and whether or not -- to me it also makes sense if we are doing this through our participatory

budgeting in each district. these projects should be added, as a project -- not part of the 24, or 40. but just as an addition to. >> to track. >> yeah, because it really, to me these are projects that the neighborhoods that are important to support vision zero. >> of course. so we can look into the add-back funding you provided last fiscal year and provide an update. >> yeah, and part of this. >> yeah, okay. >> and i really apologize, because i really want to stay for the entire discussion. but i also wanted a break-down of this $21 million. the full $21.2 million and what the source of funding is. so i want to have have a complete understanding of where

the money is coming from. and is there a gap -- oh, in the dollars to make sure that we are doing our job, making sure that we fund the projects adequately. and if there is projects under funded as commissioner wiener brought up that we want to be sure that mta is there to deliver. >> with this we have scope and schedule and now an estimated budget for each of the individual projects. part of the consideration with which funding sources would be used, has to do with the time when that project would happen. as of today with regard to the 40 and $21 million, we are confident that between the revenue bonds and k-sales tax and operating funds for bicycle and pedestrian improvements. plus the add-back money that you supported and the mayor's office that we can fully fund the 21.

and in the next cycle, we can provide project-by-project plan, we didn't want to do that yet, and maximize the sales tax versus a revenue bond that can only be used for certain things in a certain period. now that we have clarity on timing and funding amount we can plug in that. and with the sources and prop bonds that the revenue bond can be fully funded. >> it would be great -- i don't need per project, that is a lot of work, but the breakdown of the total aggregate and that we are funding the projects properly. >> i want to point out something. when we talk about the status of these projects and when i look

at what we -- where we are with these things. like predevelopment. design. preconstruction. environmental and all of this. i guess this is a part of me that is wondering really, these are completed projects? in other words, as a layman, when a project is finished. i am trying to design it and now i complete the design. so. what is the impact on the safety? i design something. so i am just questioning whether we should define completed project differently. in my mind a completed project is when it's done, actually going to help the situation. and people will see that it's done. i don't know how other people feel on this -- >> that point, that's a good

point. the difference between something that is complete and an intersection is fixed. we won't have any other collisions there. versus something is implemented and we need to evaluate it and make sure that is actually going to address the problems we have identified. is what we think are the collision factors. am i understanding you correctly, something that is complete and how we evaluate it? >> yeah, again you are designing something that is predeveloped to be preconstruction to be finished. >> right. >> for me, when it's finished, that's completed. >> right. so the status column is where we are right now, where the project is. and the estimated completion is when it would actually be in the ground. >> excuse me, what you are

saying the phase it's in. when it says, complete, the project is completed. there is nothing else to do. the status is the phase that the project is in. so it goes in the planning design phase, the construction phase, and when it's finished it's complete. that's how we do all of our construction projects in the city. >> okay, for instance, if i take any item. say item 19. and right now, today it's in the predevelopment. but we are anticipating that the whole project would be finished by june. >> june of next year. in between now and june of next year, you will see three more phases of status update. >> thank you very much, that is helpful. >> sorry that wasn't clear. >> i don't see anymore questions or comments from this commission. i mean right now. so we can go back, if there are more. but at this time i want to open up for public comment on this item.

>> good morning, commissioners, my name is nicole snyder, the executive director of walk san francisco. i want to thank mta for the progress they presented. and to take a step back to january of this year, when we worked with you all to shape a vision zero resolution. and then worked with mta and other agencies. at that time we were advocating for a crisis intervention team to correct intersections where collisions had happened and react to the collisions and do engineering at those intersections.

i think we have shifted a little bit to take more of a long-term approach to look at not just immediate responses. but collisions over the last five years or 10 years, and where those intersections are. and the main thing we were ad advocating for and there was an item that we couldn't tackle to our level and to go above the projects to add 24 projects. and i think again in april -- no, in june when we worked with all on add-backs to create new projects, those were meant to be new projects [bell] i want to highlight that we really appreciate the vision zero list and appreciate all the hard work. and we know that the city is putting a lot of work and effort in this. and this is a perfect venue to

ask the question, what do we need to advance new projects? what can the cta board help and provide to the mta or who needs it to create new projects. to really help us achieve our goal of ending deaths. thanks. >> any other -- please come up. just as a speaker finishes. mrs. gold thank you for being here. >> thank you, i was hoping there would be an answer to the last part of her question. >> we will answer her question, public comment doesn't allow a response. >> real fast, this is new to me, i would like sfta to address what exactly is a road diet and what does leading pedestrian interval mean. and also in conjunction to what the last speaker asked, are these projects written in stone.

are there additional projects that are not yet on the table yet. thank you. >> thank you, mrs. gold. >> my name is debbie gold and i live in district 6. >> to the committee project for the san francisco city with the pedestrian safety and without furthermore just like california (inaudible) accident, thursday. (inaudible) although it's related to the city, and richmond district, and (inaudible) but action related to the city. just accident and (inaudible) 10 weeks ago, see, in the morning like (inaudible) in the morning,

like 70 years lady and a lovely son and chinese lady get killed. (inaudible) traffic. so the only way to resolve such a conflict is to please make a decision (inaudible) i mean in the street you have to have ultimate (inaudible) of your thinking and thought and how you apply yourself. your pathway. even for older people and in chinatown grocery, you have to consider good objective and don't (inaudible) consider traffic and waste time for people going out to places. no sense to go randomly without a real objective. (inaudible) without good concern. so it should lead to (inaudible) for that person (inaudible) [bell]

>> thank you. >> good morning, commissioners. i am leah, with the san francisco bicycle coalition. i want to build on the comments of nicole snyder, with walk san francisco. we work closely with you and staff from various departments, and thank you for taking seriously the goals of vision ze zero, elevating that. and i think that we have strayed and moved away from the urgency. it was to be crisis intervention and it was addressing what we believe is not a responsive system. we are not fixing the streets fast enough. no one likes that, i don't blame anyone here. but we are not fixing our streets fast enough. this list is a great list but looks like list we have seen before that are great lists that get slowed down. and thank you commissioner kim

for bringing up sixth and howard. and the one that gets me is market and tobias, and it slowly became a vision zero project, but i don't think it should count to the 24 to get done. i encourage you to stay on that and ask the city to go back and update what the new projects are that will get done. i think it will help them to figure out why the system isn't working. it's not working. is it money? staffing? we don't know, but i ask you to use your work to do that. [bell] last we don't want is vis -- vision zero to be a buzz word, we need to make change.

>> thank you, we will miss you tremendously. >> good morning, supervisors, my name is mark fong, i am a partner at attorneys in san francisco, good morning, commissioner yee. i am here in sort of a crisis intervention mode to speak on behalf of the family of fong lee who was killed at the intersection of sacramento and stockton street on saturday, september 20. three days after she lost her life, while the tv cameras were there filming. there was another resident of the same senior housing project where mrs. yim lived, who was struck in the same intersection and cross walk. and he was seriously injured. so there is going to be a memorial at the intersection tomorrow at 10 a.m. it is going to be attended by

some of your colleagues. i think supervisor chiu is going to speak. there will be members of the family who will make remarks. reverend fong from chinatown cdc will be leading a prayer for mrs. yim. and i wanted to stress as the attorney for the family, i have begun an investigation into this intersection. [bell] i have lived here my whole life and recognized it to be very busy. but shocked to find out when i inquired of the mta zone traffic surveys that over the last nine years, and these are simply reported traffic accidents. of course we know many other accidents happen that don't get reported. and many others don't get turned into collision reports.

in the last nine years there was 22 collisions at the intersection resulting in 29 injuries and two fatalities. i spoke with several business owners at the intersection. as part of beginning my investigation. and they were quite certain that over the last 20 years there has been five to six deaths that they are personally aware of at this intersection. far away the greatest number of accidents occurred -- >> sorry that is your time, sorry, i thought it was the little bell but the big bell. >> thank you, and i hope you support the memorial for the family tomorrow. >> seeing no public comment, i will closing comment on this item [gavel] i apologize, it looks like we are going to lose kwquorum for this meeting, i am not sure --

okay. i don't, yeah, i am speaking at 11:15. i am down the street. so i think what we will do is take a recess until we can find a third member of the board to take over. and i do ask that we reschedule vision zero back to thursday, so that we can all keep our quorum. the original date that vision zero committee was set for. and i will make a couple of comments, yes there is a prayer and memorial for a senior resident that was killed at sacramento and stockton at 10 a.m. tomorrow, and we hope that folks will be able to attend. and know that this is not the list, but this is an intersection that we need to look at. those left turns are the top violations that lead to fatalities on that intersection.

and we have so many pedestrians in chinatown, we definitely have to prioritize that intersection. and i do want to appreciate all the work. i don't want to be a session to give mta a hard time. we want to be sure that there is clear understanding what have we mean by vision zero, and near-term improvements. and i think that the discussion is helpful, and understanding what is included on this list, and what should be continued to be pursued whether on the list or not. and i agree with commissioner yee, and if projects in the future and able to speedup, as a priority, and that is included on the list. i think this discussion is helpful, we can't talk to each other due to the brown act to be sure we are on the same page. i know that we have two other items, update on enforcement activities and the vision zero

progress report. so i will return to make sure, if not able to find a member, we will regain quorum again. >> (inaudible). >> i did have that question when not in quorum, doesn't mean that we can make motion on the comment. >> this is legal counsel, in order to conduct business you have to have a quorum. you can hold a workshop, you have to recess the meeting or find another. >> we did hold a committee member last thursday without quorum. and we weren't able to make a motion on the item to continue or file it. but we did hold it as a workshop. >> yeah, you can conduct a workshop with less than quorum members, but technically you are

in recess, not in a meeting at that point. >> vice chair you have a preference? do you want to at least -- do you want to continue item 4 and do no. 5 as a workshop? does that make sense? or do both items. yeah, it's up to you. okay. so norman yee, our vice chair will like to continue items 4 and 5 as a workshop. and we will continue the items and take public comment on them. because we did notice them. so we actually had this issue last week at the select committee, the city and the

schools. and our clerks and our city attorney did allow us to hear the presentations on the item. we weren't able to file or continue the item, and we can do that at the next meeting. but we have precedence to do that. thank you, i will hand things over to commissioner yee. >> to be clear, we are in recess as a committee now. and we will reconvene as a workshop. >> we are in recess as a committee and having a workshop. >> right. >> can we for this workshop get update on the enforcement

activities, it's not an item number. commander ali. >> good morning, commissioners. commander mikail ali, san francisco police department, to give you an update on where we are with enforcement. as august 31 of this year, relative to the same period of time last year, we have seen 62% increase in the number of traffic citations issued. 24% of the total citations are focused on the top five collision factors involved in all traffic collisions. that we have analyzed from 2006 and 2011. to put in perspective, we are talking five violations of a vehicle code where there is literally hundreds of vehicle code sections. our officers are really focused in on the behaviors that are

driving our collisions. and we are using them in the most strategic way. our officers in patrol have increased their functions relative to enforcement. and using our motorcycle units in particular in a strategic manner. those areas where we have problems, that's where we deploy them. we talked about enforcement and to give a great example. when we have a fatality and other serious collisions at that location. in the absence of completed engineering project at that location, we had to increase not only our educational efforts for those in the community. but clearly had to increase our enforcement efforts. since that engineering project has been completed. we have not had to put thosekine of resources in that location. clearly we are talking about

making certain there is a collaboration between the mta and police department and public health and others to make certain there is a clear sharing of data relative to the most problematic areas. and we are putting the resources where they are. and as a result not only of the enforcement efforts but other efforts as well. is reason why we see significant reduction in fatalities for the year. although we are not at zero. we are definitely moving in the direction of. 2013 we ended the year with a total of 34 traffic fatalities. 21 of which were pedestrian fatalities. we are currently at 20. significantly below where we will be hopefully at the end of the year. as it worked out 21 pedestrian fatalities last year, and currently at 12. and