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talk about the work that supervisor kim mentioned. >> good afternoon two quick updates i want to reflect the large vehicles work we've been doing our team a hanging added mta has been working with advocates ecology and fedex and other city departments to develop policies for the larger program we're aiming for early spring roll out next year additionally as of yesterday the mta includes in all contracts we signed with the contractors they'll have to offer this training to all contractors have coming in the city and i know that is positively something that will come forward and additionally on
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safe streets and the education subcommittee vision zero we're putting together a citywide strategy an item that supervisor yee had recommended we have a strategy currently underway we're doing best practices research but we're on schedule to having a draft strategy that we can come and bring back spring of next year hoping to have that draft completed by the end of march but that strategy will be a first step in the city talking about saying that all departments are going to work together in developing an education mostly an education program making our streets safe it is a long time coming we're making progress i don't know if you have questions about the safe street program we're a
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thousand pledges for safe streets in our county that both joined the effort and will be putting the budget inspections displaying their support and shuttle drivers are joining at this point in time and we are doing roll out and presentations to the chamber of commerce getting on the agenda for this etc. and as part of that the project is underway sfpd is out with additional enhanced enforcement doing focus pedestrian right-of-way enforcement for about 4 hours everyday four to five officers >> supervisor mar. >> i see one of the equalities
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how do we reach out to locking families to make those communities safer. >> that is a personal value of mine something we he'd in the education strategy it is how we make sure we do that we are currently working with the san francisco conservation core to do a community outreach on our focus corridors and chinatown cd c to reach out to the communities both business and on the street outreach to the folks that are living and working there and shopping there as well but we do so that the grant that we are writing the grants that will be kifk next year and has a commitment before the grant we got it all the
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grants have that written directly into them. >> with the bicycle coalition reaching into the community and walk sf i think community partners will be helpful two. >> they're at the table for almost every meeting. >> i have a question i think it is great you mentioned the number of the shuttle programs what is that exactly mean. >> so i guess i can say the shuttle pilot they're being asked to talk to the drivers about safe driving on, on the street and required by going through the permitting progress and partnering in the pilot program to over the curriculum once the actual video is
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released next spring. >> so everyone will be required to use the vehicle program. >> it was written into the contract. >> and when you said that taxicabs are also voluntarily participating what does that mean. >> part of the safe streets we have a pledge that we ask the drivers and pedestrians to take we ask people to change the way they behave on the streets when you look for behavior change one of the most important things we ask people to take a pledge and use the streets safely and be mind fulfill to spread the word that safety is important once people have taken the pledges it is found they're more welcoming to medications that tell them
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how to be safe we have brochures and talking points for people that sign up for safe streets for the first step to how to be slowing up to make sure that people are aware of left turns and movements before people are hitting pedestrians trying to increase the awareness of what is happening when people are getting hit and steps to change their behavior so with the taxicab companies and specific we're distributing bump stickers for drivers wells fargo to take the pledge and take this seriously and receive a talking point for the actions we're ask them to pledge. >> after the pledge they get a series of educational items does
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it say found once you take the pledge they're more open what is that based on on. >> it is based on a number of studies people are not receptive if asking people to change their world if you do something for the environment they're more receptive. >> okay. >> that is good to hear i hope we're able to do more substantive work its a step forward and more alignment with supervisor yee is doing on the campaign will be w be cooperation so frequent driver education program and also the work that supervisor yee is doing citywide education on vision zero.
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>> well, i would say theirs coordination i think there is inherit coordination but the large vehicle driver education is a small piece we're hoping by march we'll identify the types of audience we see need to go after, etc. the larger vehicle collection will be done and underway we're working with the dmv to see if we can't get those requirements more stating like truck drivers at the end to cross injuringal burgundy we're talking with the foengz folks that write the tests at the dmv to get a couple of questions they're open to writing a couple of questions more focused on pedestrian safety and bicycle safety in urban areas which are not covered right now. >> maybe on our next committee
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he meeting we're here more. >> mr. white can you ask a question through the chair are the transit agencies taking the pledges too. >> well they are mini operators have been going through a bicycle training specific to driving on city streets we're doing you outreach with the larger vehicle curriculum to aid the transportation, etc. golden gate transit, etc. we're not specifically gone out and asked the drivers to take the pledge yet. >> thank you. >> okay thanks john were education e the next is enforcement i'm sorry that commander lee is not here she's out on the streets keeping pedestrians and drivers safe
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where flooding and power sections are disbelieved i'll give a quick overview of the statistics as of september a big increase in the number of citations that have been issued traffic citations both traffic companies and in some cases by the pcos we've began a coordinated effort between mta and the pd to comply our services more fiscally where walking the box is happening and so that the drivers who block areas south of market in the areas near freeway ramps understand that is a sustained effort they're not going to get away with it after the studies we found that blocking the box
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drops 80 percent because of the presents of the inclination combination of the officers we're going to continue that for 0 year and try to put a dent in blocking the box. >> excuse me. >> supervisor breed. >> do you have your presentation on available to the commissioners? i can't read it from the system. >> okay do we have a hardcopy. >> maybe that one but not the one. >> in the packet dollars a general written report in the packet. >> i don't think everyone has the packet. >> there's a presentation title entitled vision zero.
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>> just for the people watching at home and the director for the programming at the transportation authority i think the power point presentations are online at sfgovtv.org the first presentation is in your enclosure are to the packet and the power point is in the actual packet of the material. >> just for clarity on the item not in the there's only one told them section. >> one - there is an enclosure which which is the vision zero high injury mapping data and then there is an attachment to one of the agenda items that is in the actual packet of the materials and that's the presentation that tom is giving right now. >> sorry for the confusion.
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>> sorry to interrupt. >> okay. then we talk about evaluation being a part of vision zero we want to make sure we're tracking the forest fireness of the action in all the program areas tim showed day showing high injury the multiple high injury that is again be the baseline we're tracking to show us where we're making progress and we'll talk about this when we get into the strategy update but it is important that we're tracking outcomes vision zero is about outcomes not the pcos or dollars we put in but how many lives we save and towards vision
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zero you'll look at the evaluation through that lens we'll talk about later on policies we did a good job to coordinate the policies we'll have control over again by the commitment we got from the board of supervisors and from our own leadership that is important probation officer to look outdoor and upward at the state level to look at the laws that might be holding us back if vision zero from safety enforcement to look at whether or not we should drop some programs for 25 miles to 20 there are issues we've got get to later i want to talk about the delivery of the projects something i know has been a concern for the public and for
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commissioners over the last year so what i want to emphasize a lot of has changed in the rifrp between sfmta and the partnering agencies that help us with vision zero vision zero nodes those more than you know more than the board wouldn't just mta it is a great role public works and the puc are very important partners i'm going to talk about some of the ways we're cooperating our efforts better and they're bearing fruit up on the screen we have an image of an internal tracking database dashboard that shows the projects that we have in the pipeline with the status with the status of those projects and it is drawing from shared information that is information
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that sfmta has within our capital program and our financial controls the idea to have all the agencies talking from a common mr. chairman where are the projects and the details and flipping behind schedule we are working from a common story that's the first thing pull up something that we're working with depending to show transparency so while the dashboard gets into the nuances of the incredible that might not be what the public wants to see i'm pulling up the tractorer that will eventually be on the city's website and which members of the public and members of the board of supervisors and other
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stakeholders can use to get a quick look at the projects and hopefully, if you have questions on where we are not on schedule. >> so next slide okay another issue i know is a concern how are reprioritizing projects we have lots of data about where the injuries and crashes are occurring we also know that we made a commitment to deliver 24 projects in 24 months we have a pipeline of over 40 projects we're trying to move forward i want to make it
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clear to everyone the projects we're bringing forward in the pipeline and the pipeline behind those 40 projects we'll schooler not stop at 40 they were found on the multiplied mobile network on the streets tim talked about the idea when you look at the map you see the goodgraphies spread over the city one of the interesting things i found when i was looking at the data the initiative walk first safety action approach showed that south of market and the tenderloin were kind of the real high collision locates for pedestrian safety projects and that's what we focusing a large number of trafficking on and safety promotions that are designed to protect pedestrians from moving vehicles and quite a
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few streets outside the geographies vehicle versus other is safeties alameda boulevard and sunshine boulevards and speeding and red light running will certainly be urging all our tracking tools to address those as well and i think that perhaps the important point vision zero is a citywide project not a one-time but all business related to travel and all those tools to bear that's what we see going forward. >> we'll also pulled rolled up a summary of first 24 promotions in our cue the total price tag $26 million you can see i won't
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go through the chart but a wide range of funding sources that is before prop a and. >> bob: fund were brought into the picture we've got a large amount of money from prop a and we're seeing some positive coordination from the ta staff and c e ways to bundle those and keep the important oversight over our spending to take some of the bureaucratic steps we need to take before we go into those promotions and take the particularly and i'm grateful to the ta staff for that and, of course we have there are state funds, funds from the budget and so it's a broad
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funding base before prop a and it will increase as we go forward. >> actually mr. maguire we're missing this slide it could be one that you added i want to copy i know a number of colleagues that asked about the funding for vision zero if we could get a copy of that slides or additional slides okay sorry about that we'll make sure that you get a copy. >> i'm sorry go to the next one. >> i think that is it also i know that we are we've got a question from the members of the public but i'm interested in looking at how prop a and b will help us deliver on vision zero
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amongst the other priorities that sfmta the kind of thinking with the department with the passage of those two measures. >> that's a go question i think there are two parts to the answer one is that that broadens the base for projects close to half of the money is available under a prop a is going to go towards projects under the vision zero umbrella with the high network so obviously the most important russel's roles is to provide the source and we're committed to help with this vision zero strategy other important thing that the prop a does it gives us the ability to you know bring on specialized staff necessary to
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move across jurisdictions and agencies to do initiative things to work through the challenging jersey and on 19th avenue and howard street require a fairly broad set of resources skills so the staff initiative properly and, of course for the funding as well so i'd like to move on to identifying some of the specific challenges to project delivery and some of the ways in which we are delivering so in the san francisco plan the ta i thoift thought that was a major challenges delivery for small challenges those are unique to the projects that we're doing
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under dislocation not central subway stuff it is the small concrete projects that also seem take too long and some of the lessons for the kinds of things seem observe i read this document before i came to san francisco it is lacking a strong and clear leadership to implement the policies and many others are unique to the way we've worked in san francisco i want to go through them one by one and talk about in as a work in project but the first is the strong leadership i think our transportation importantly policy is at the policy level we we have strong leadership before n the board and board of supervisors that leadership needs to have sort of a single
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point of accountability i personally feel and my staff the sustainable street at mta wears accountability for delivering those projects and making them happen that is where that accountability is going to sit next two had to do with in the way the designs were made not having a high priority of modes and not having the ability to break through the building conversations to make the bold choices we need to redesign the streets and i think the value of vision zero at this point pedestrian safety is the most important role whether it's large or small-scale is while mobile hierarchies are being developed it is important within the city with the needs to slow
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down traffic and pedestrian safety is the number one priority within the mta next point had to do with the agency cooperation issues so one of the first ones we've done is to convene principle level workshops with the department of public works and with the city engineer groups and i and our staff are going through and looking for barriers the things with are sloan the schedules where outreach or funding or contracting and knocking those barriers over one-on-one we've benefited from having a coalition that pulls together the policy and direction of vision zero they're focused and very, very focused leadership at the agency level to commit to
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getting those projects down u done there was a reference in the report among the cultural question he another really good breakdown through public works is achieving the projects one of the champs that was raised in san francisco this is true in any city when you want to build a lot of small projects that is what vision zero is an effort we win intersection by intersection across the city it can be hard to get to work that through the city's conceptually systems all an approach that the contractors like to bid on big project a we're going to bundle up the intersection treatments into a few large contracts so dph can
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have a few that are constantly goes around the city rather than four or five most for the boyd process number 7 was the lack of funding for that the cooperation and the preimplementation this is a place where the ta staff has really open to responding to our need for flexibility in the saw way to execute lots of projects all at once we're bundling the projects within the prop a funding we're taken on the challenge of a little bit of project training for all the staff in delivering the projects
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there was a good objection some staff enacts with the public they can do better and sfmta i'm sure you're aware of has launched an agency wide really upping our game in public talking with the public in a respectful way and finally the also the spectrum of sequa which can be while it's important law it can be a tool for individual occupants of important projects even for the board consensus so slow down the projects one of the things at metro the sequa form process that shifts you us away from the vehicle model towards a travel model that is
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the right way to do environmental review and a in a city in an urban environment this is all the things we're pushing hard to overcome the project delivery and in this urban community last year this is what is beginning to change in the project overall. >> thank you. i really appreciate the slide i know the last two subcommittees they were asking a lot of questions of the challenges and this is incredible important to have this discussion it is good to hear the values amongst the department when we have multiple agencies working on the same project it will sometimes include planning they have to go through the department