intersections and they decrease the pedestrian crossing distances and improving visibility and reducing vehicle speeds. we also implemented in 201215 miles per hour zones around 180 schools and allows us to do more engineering and enforcement in those locations, reducing speeds, and certainly increasing safety in those areasmap of all the 15 miles per hour zones across the city. you can see extensive. we are restricted by the state to put it in locations 500 feet from a school and only a two lane road or smaller. getting into the program side this is some data that is collected by uc berkeley for all schools in san francisco. the walking rate at the highest

ever. this is the highest since it was started in 2010. the vast majority of schools with the highest rate of walkers have 75% or more on the reduced or free lunch program and there is a connection to that. biking is happening but more work to there. the walking drops dramatically when we get to sixth grade and 4% when we get to ninth grade. and then this is a survey that's done just of the schools that participate last year in the safe routes to school program so we saw walk trips increase at nine of the 15 schools. that is 60% and bike trips increased at% -- 40% of

the schools and this is (paused) . and just to introduce our crossing guard program which has been very popular. this is application based. any school can request it. some of the criteria needs to be the k-8. a corner must be designated as a crossing and have the yellow crosswalk and a minimum of 300 vehicles an hour and 10 pedestrians every 10 minutes. we offer free training for volunteers if schools want to add new help or locations that don't qualify. we have 172 guards at 103 schools and work with them on pedestrian and parking and safety issues

around arrival and departure time. beshear has been visiting schools with issues and working with them on the pick up and drop off procedures and just to talk about betty carmichael which i like to think of a success story. it's surrounded by arterials. it has a lot of bridge traffic and high walking mode share, greater than 30%. it has projects in the works and many years away so we worked closely with supervisor kim's office and school staff to put in a interval at seventh and folsom and did signal adjustment for more time to cross and put in signs and -- we have traffic calming procedure in place for norby sherman alley and another one that supervisor kim

mentioned is gene parker and this is a school along a large arterial on broadway and the entrance to the tunnel. the safe route of schools program was merged and this is what it looks like today and this is what we are hoping it will look like very soon. we will have new landscape, new curbs, new ramps, new islands to make it safer for everyone in the community. thank you very much. there's my contact information. >> commissioner mendoza. supervisor campos. >> thank you madam chair and it's nice to see all these folks in one way or another have been connected to the school district over the years. thank you very much for your presentation and

thank you for recognizing the personal side to the critical work that you do. one question they know that comes up with some of my schools in my district from time to time is the interaction between the shuttles, the so-called tech shuttles and the schools, especially as parents are trying to drop kids off or pick kids up. i am wondering sort of do you have any comments or thoughts about that nerms of whether or not that -- terms of whether or not how the mta deals with those issues? and whether or not that's something that's a recurring problem? i know that for schools like horace mann and that's been an issue. i am

just wondering if you could comment on that. thank you. >> thanks. i haven't heard that complaint and i am glad to hear it now and we could have a engineer meet with them and see what we can do for hem. >> great. thank you. >> >> >> commission fewer. >> sorry. i had to turn my microphone on. seems like the board of education is really the only city entity that has not adopted a vision zero policy and yet it's something that we take very seriously. personally my husband spent the last nine years of his 35 career as a police officer as a traffic officer as a soloist motorcyclists and one of the main jobs was to respond to traffic accidents and fatalities and he would come home and tell me about all of the fatalities and we were shocked at the

number of them. i think we are interested at the san francisco unified school district to look into what kind of policies we can support so that our schools can encourage safe walking and more biking and particularly in areas that have low car ownership and also where there is high injury corridors, so i think i just want to mention also supervisor yee's efforts around -- i just went to lake shore elementary school which is a great improvement supervisor yee having a designate lane for drop off everyday in the morning which used to be a nightmare frankly and also training -- i think what we have seen that enforcement with education has given us really positive results and this school crossing guard program has educated i feel

like the whole school community, students and parents alike, so i think it's a positive thing and i want to thank supervisor yee for bringing that to our public schools. >> commissioner mendoza. >> thank you. i was curious -- i have been also curious about this but the curb cut with the yellow and bubbles and what is that and why do we have bubbles now and i only notice it when i am across the street in heels. >> it's for people with sight disabilities and it's truncated so they can feel them and it's yellow because it's the last color you lose when you are losing your sight. >> thank you. >> i have actually asked the same question of sfmta because i

tripped many times on the yellow curbs. >> yeah. >> first of all thank you for this presentation and for working so closely with our office on this presentation but also on some of the case studies that i think some of the schools that most impacted at least by high speeding cars. it continues to be an issue even in the residential enclaves as well and supervisor yee is doing a lot of work in that part of town to make sure we're making routes to school safer. i am interested in two pieces. one is as commission fewer mentioned increasing the mode of walking and biking and public transit. actually we do have -- the numbers aren't bad. at least for high school or ninth grade 64% walk or bike or take public transit which i think is a really healthy number and roughly 38% -- 35, 39% looks

like kindergarten, fifth and sixth grade and there is a dip at fifth grade but looks like there is an increase in carpooling so i am curious about what has worked in increasing walk and bike mode? i mean bike is clearly struggling the most as a mode to get to school, but what has been successful in getting more of our families to walk and bike if that is a choice for them? and what have we been doing to educate families that have to walk and take public transit to school to make sure they're safe doing so. >> i will invite anna up. >> good afternoon comrs and supervisors. i am anna and i manage the non infrastructure part of safe routes to school so to make sure i capture all of the elements of your question supervisor kim is what has worked to increase walk mode

share? and what can we be doing for those that have no choice but to walk? i think -- so we started our program in 2009 and launched the survey the year after and we did it right before the student assignment system had the policy changes and i do want to recognize that there are some families that get assigned to a school that frankly is so far away that walking and biking is not realistic. we do have almost 25 to 35% which is actually really high comparison to the state. the walk mode share is around 15%. i don't have comparable numbers to other cities but that's where i think san francisco is doing really well. one of the things that we do in our program is establish -- help parents establish walking school buses and bike trains at participating schools so -- and i want everyone to

understand we're not asking children to walk to school by themselves. it's with families, an adult chap ron or a volunteer from the school. we have rock and roll school day and bike to school week and this is to show families this is realistic. i recall in 2011 we did it at marshal elementary when it was part of your district and now it's your district and we asked the kids to go to a certain location and they couldn't fathom that location and literally three blocks away and parents said it's so easy and so close and i don't -- parents -- i am a parent myself. lead very busy lives and i am not sure they consider the options until we launch it and they can own it

themselves so those are some of the examples. i think biking still has a long way to go. part of it what we hear in the parent comments honesty they don't feel safe with the volume of traffic and the infrastructure to put the younger children in the streets. i do see an increase i think in the preschool ages because they are attached to their parents' bicycles but when they're on a stand alone that's when parents start to feel uncomfortable and we have a long way to go with that. i feel with the advent of electric bikes that makes it a lot easier with our topography we have in san francisco but that is for those that can afford it and -- electric bikes are not for everybody. what we're doing for the families that have no choice but to walk is that we want to increase the

safety element of that because for example gene parker. they have well over 60% of their student body walking because they honesty live there. they have no choice to walk there, but it is not the safest environment and the example of the broadway streetscape is what we can be doing to make sure it's safer for those families to do so that is where vision zero comes in to help focus because the young families and i am proud to say that so far no child on the way to school has been hit or injured so i am very glad to say that. i'm a sap. i am sorry. so -- >> we love the emotion and just so you know this is a board that cried a lot at board meetings

together -- >> [inaudible] >> we're very used to it. >> [inaudible] >> we cried so much on the school board. >> really? >> yeah in public, at public meetings. >> that's lovely. it's on record. >> [inaudible] >> it's a big difference for me when i joined the board of supervisors. >> [inaudible] >> supervisor yee it happens still but -- >> i am very happy to say that no school children have been part of the data for vision zero. let's leave it at that and i would like to keep it that way. i will excuse myself now. >> no. thank you so much for that. actually and sorry anna i'm going to bring you back up but the last question was on the carpool because i remember it came up last year trying to figure out programs to help

families carpool and at the district schools and parents will continue to drive so even reducing the number of vehicles on the road helps get to -- >> there are a number of issues there. one is the department of environment at the time had a grant called school pool which is now ended, so we are trying to pick up some elements of that, but we don't have the level of funding that we once had. the other issue that i hear anecdotally is that carpooling is very easy for families that have children that out of the car seats. car seats take up so much space and trying to fit those all in so we as a team have not figured out how to incorporate those strategies yet. i would like to take the summer break to take the time to figure that out but ages eight and above and why you see an increase in the middle and school i think that's where a

lot of the carpool opportunities we can be maximizing but we're not doing enough that we could be doing on that, and there is also -- it's just frankly i think a trust issue with families. you can't get too far away on a walking or on a bike but someone that you -- you need ton the driver in a carpooling situation so it's really a grass-roots organic school community building exercise that we need to build, but i think we can help provide that. >> i would be certainly interested in looking at our school district folks. i feel that's something that should also happen from win the district is some of that community building that needs to happen because the one -- school pool is great but for parents that don't have access to internet or computers at home or a smartphone they're not going

to figure out how to get families together for those that drive which there are many so it would be great to work with the school district to see what are home grown solutions that would work within the school s and the successful models that work and bringing them out to other schools with similar populations. commission fewer and then supervisor yee. >> sure i wanted to mention that the school board is considering amending their student assignment preferences to include neighborhood proximity attend area to be a third factor instead of the fourth factor. >> i am well aware of that. i have seen the media around that and i wasn't sure when it was going to be heard again. is it scheduled or moving forward? >> yes it is. so in april we're going to hear from a

panel of experts around what the effect really on neighborhoods quite frankly of this process so we're getting a bunch of experts together and i think it's going to come before the vote of the full board later in the spring. >> supervisor yee. >> thanks for the presentation. just a quick thought. i am wondering if it's worth considering -- you know how sometimes when you're in one habit of doing something and it's hard to change those habits and then i forgot who mentioned but it's one of these things -- oh i walked there and it wasn't that bad and sometimes it takes a little motivation to get somebody to actually experience that and it's not a big deal and

would it -- if you were to get like a bunch of -- those bands or whatever maybe the cheaper versions where they count the steps and just hand it out to all of the kids and make that a contest for the families walking to school. once they have a safe route would that work? >> we give out a lot of incentives. on rock and roll school day you may have seen them and they have the reflective things for the backpacks and things that they put on the backpacks that say safe routes to school and very popular and it's the week of april 20-24 and we have a incentive, a raffle to win an electric bike and that has gotten 100 sign ups and it's

not even march yet but you're right the role of incentives with family is key both for the students and for the families and we're trying to offer for both populations. >> so i guess i am suggesting to move further not just having one prize, but i don't want to say fit bit but whatever -- there's cheap models and pe domsters or whatever they call them and give it to any kid. >> we could look into that but frankly it's a budget issue to come up with the -- are you saying for the entire school district? y. ? >> no, no, i understand it's a resource issue, but if you were to do a pilot in one or two schools and safe routes and good percentage of people you thought maybe could be walking but they're not and did this

contest for instance in which -- whatever way you want to do it for the week how many steps did you take? and they sustained that habit -- >> right. >> -- as a pilot project and you could prove look at this we went from 30% to 30% walking. you could get more resources but it's not about doing the whole school district. no. >> i hear what you're saying and pilot in a couple of schools. we will definitely consider that. thank you. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you madam chair. just a brief comment. i want to thank the mta. we had a situation at john o'connell high school where there was a relocation or placement of an additional school on that campus

and the mta was very responsive in addressing additional transportation needs with respect to bus routes and what not, and i would simply encourage you, and i am glad you're watching what is happening with the student assignment piece but it's not just the student assignment piece but also the program placement. if there are changes to programs in terms of the location of the programs they're often implications around the need to maybe change buses or add buses, so just encourage you to continue to monitor that. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. >> i have one follow up to the question earlier and the shuttle bus program. are there a lot of shuttle bus stops near the schools? do you have a sense of the number? >> i don't but i could put that together for you. >> they're very big and the

drivers are above the ground and i am concerned and the elementary schools and the sight of line and the education we're doing with those drivers and actually i can't remember -- i know we just announced our large vehicle education can iric lum and those that work with the city and it's different in this process and will the shuttle program be in participating in that education program? >> i don't know but i will look into it. >> i think it's important and the shuttle drivers often driving large vehicles in the narrow streets get that education how to share the road as well. >> i agree. thank you. >> okay. so seeing no further comments i wanted to open up for public comment on this item so if you have any comments please do come up. >> good afternoon commissioners. i am family and

will schools coordinator and work on the non infrastructure piece that darby talked about and one thing we have been trying to do is connect families to engineering proves. one of the things that you just talked about there are certain roads that don't qualify to be school zones and we think it's critical there's improvements centered around these areas. the schools are near the areas are usually bordering high injury corridors so we think it's important to be ambitious with the improvements and traffic calming. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none public comment is closed. [gavel] colleagues any closing comments? no. okay. great. i just wanted to thank again our departments for being here today. i look forward to the continuing dialogue and also the passage of vision zero resolution at the board of

education but also really able to flush it out what it means at the school district and how the city can support the district in that work above and beyond the partnerships that have already been created but i think we want to continue ensuring that none of our kids are part of our data points and i just want to thank the staff. the passion is really clear and i just want to say from a policy makers' perspective it's so great to hear that our staff cares so deeply about the policies that you're pursuing and implementing on the ground so thank you for your passion that you bring to this work. it really matters a lot to our families and kids so thank you committee members. we have a number of hearing items that will be set for march, april, may but i encourage our colleagues to give ideas and

call for hearings at well for the committee. mr. clerk are there any other items? >> well madam chair are we continuing this to the call of the chair? >> we can take a motion to continue if you would like it to come back this year. otherwise i will take a motion to file. >> i would think that -- i was thinking about another agenda item that is relate the which is the student crossing guard program. i don't know if it's going to be -- maybe it should be part of this but a separate item. >> [inaudible] >> okay. so why don't we take a motion to file. i hope this is an annual hearing at the select committee but why don't we entertain a motion to file. we have a file and we can do that without opposition. thank you mr. clerk. are there any

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