e school safety we had the countdown signals -- i worked with triple a and those made a visibility for people using the facility and these are handed out at events and if a senior goes out for a walk at night just a simple thing like this will give any motorist and people a chance to see this and no money spent by the city we're talking about people having existing helmets and there's plenty of ways to hand those types of things out at events and you can go to japan town and pickup one of these for a dollar or $0.99 and it doesn't mess up my suit i'm on my bike and i go to my office and i'm ready for a meeting so

as we build buildings tall er we're creating shadows and dark spots and we can't see things. when the city changed to gray muni buses i said hey you can't see the buses and the bicycles against the gray pavement i said and that's how the red reflective stripes got on the buses a citizen speaking proactively so i learned to legislate and talk to to you guys so what i'm saying -- >> thank you. we have to ask you to wrap up. >> i am wrapping up. tweak this part and get this kind of a thing done with aaa and the bicycle coalition and the cooperation -- you would get a

kick down of 20 to 30 percent of fatalities thank you very much. >> thank you. we let you go way over the the 2 minutes. >> i appreciate it very much. >> it is a very bright light and i think we could all benefit from having one of those. thank you. >> it's it's it's a good color. >> thank you. >> good good afternoon commissioners. i'm the executive director of walk san francisco i want to thank the city for their presentation and all of you for being here and your attention to this really important issue and i want to send our our condolences to the family of mr. yee and yee it's

just heartbreaking and i also want to thank you all for your work in making sure that our city does not continue to see these traffic fatalities your leadership in terms of proposing policies and looking at speed supervisor mar as one of the top killers of people and traffic and supervisor kim making sure that tenderloin lighting takes place and supervisor yee your work to help to make sure that tour bus drivers are not diss tracted is all really important and i think the work that the mta has been doing is critical and we're excited to see this come to light through the walk first projects that will be funded

and discussed today and i also want to remind you that we have a 13-mile goal that the city set at minimum for this coming year and with that goal, we would achieve one ninth we would fix or touch one ninth of all of the streets along the high injury corridors over the next nine years and if we're only touching those streets once we're as advocates interested in understanding what that improvement looks like how will we make sure that these go above and beyond and really make our streets 100 100 percent safe and if that's not possible, then we, as advocates, are also calling on the city to increase that goal so we can have time time to return to those streets to do future improvements which i think is more realistic. .

>> can i ask you to finish the point that you have before you? >> the approach that was just discussed seems to be rethinking the focus on the five is a big change from where we were and where the police department was last year and i think that requires a lot more conversation before making an over all switch in the plan of attack and i also would love to see some data that director maguire talked about regarding the geographical layout of where these citations are happening and allowing the public to understand where the citations are happening making sure that that data is being shared and i know the command is doing a great job in trying to make sure that that happens smoothly thank you. >> thank you and i want to thank you for meeting with our tenderloin police station captain talking about different

matrixes in the tenderloin. >> thank you. >> good afternoon everyone. my name is shirley and i'm a youth leader from chinatown and san francisco has had a total number of 19 fatal collisions in the past year alone and i think that's important for the city to work on improving city streets is is is is is to decrease the total number of collisions from happening. we hope that vision zero will achieve its goal by the end of this year for its 24 projects and i want to thank safety sf sf sf for promoting this and i

think that is actually an effective way to do this education outreach since to promote the message that safety is a priority to our citizens while education is being implemented into our communities it's also important for for engineering and enforcement to be also working along and this will also make vision zero achieve its goal more successful thank you. >> thank you and thank you for being here today. good afternoon i'm david yee and i am a resident of visitation valley. last week we surveyed a hundred pedestrians in chinatown during the the street fair and we asked them which intersections did you

feel were the most dangerous when you were crossing the street and there was one over lying cause and that was speeding and this makes sense speeding is one of the big five citations so my idea for this is the implement ion of speeding zones and ideally they will have a lower speed limit but that that might be difficult and if the speed limit can't be lowered i'm confident never the less that these drivers will drive more carefully with more awareness knowing that there are seniors near by. >> thank you we would love to see some of the outcomes of your work interviewing seniors

on the street and i was actually part of the first academy. >> hello my name is lisa and i'm also part of the campaign academy and i live in chinatown and walk to school, bus to school and walk to the youth center to volunteer but this year and previous year i learned there were a lot of collisions going on. i had no clue there were a lot of collisions and many things going on and just yesterday there was a a 78-year old that got hit and killed and last year on stockton street the tunnel someone was killed and right after someone was hit and luckily it was not fatal for that person and sometimes the question of wondering does

something have to happen until we finally realize that we have to do something. right after the two collisions that happened in the stockton street tunnel finally they begin to do something and sometimes could have the immediate action be able to to prevent those deaths and accidents and sometimes we can't just sit around and think of excuses saying we have the budget and we don't really know much about it sometimes we have to take the action. we can't just wait for a miracle. sometimes the action can be the ones that prevent those injuries and i'd like to look forward to what vision zero has to provide in the next few years and hopefully there will there will be zero deaths in 2024. >> thank you i know there's a number of students here and you

mentioned taking the bus to school. our office at the request of one of our school board members will be making a hearing request regarding the coordinated efforts on bus lines to schools and what we're doing to increase both our capacity and service to make sure our students are getting back and forth between school and their neighborhoods safely. >> hi my name is david and i just want to say i am extremely thankful for the scramble system that was implemented on stockton street after the tragedy events that happened. so just one thing that's been on my mind -- i just feel like so during the survey we conducted in the chinatown street fair we asked a number of people where they think was

the most dangerous streets what most -- what streets they think are the most dangerous and what streets they think are the the safest and even with the scramble system a lot of people feel stockton street is still dangerous and not only should we implement the system and make it safe we should also tie it into other factors such as enforcement and education to make the civilians and pedestrians feel safe also. thank you. >> thank you. thank you for being here today. is there any further public comments on items 3 3 and 4? seeing none public comment on these 2 items are closed. colleagues, any further comments or feedback? >> i i had one. this is not something we have to finish talking about at this meeting

because i know we'll have many more opportunities to talk about this as mta's much larger budget will be coming back to the board as a supplemental request but i'm really glad to see and i'm thinking in terms of how much of our prop b general fund will be utilizing for vision zero improvements and i think given a very large dollar amount that is going to capital resurfacing and new vehicles, i'm regular curious you know what are the remaining 25 $25 million is going to be going for and i know muni has many priorities so i don't question that there may be other priorities as well but i want a good understanding of whether this is a fair chunk of the new dollars given the immense investment the city is making and get a better sense

of that that as we meet over the next couple of months but this is a good snapshot to start out with and i appreciate you giving us an early look at what that perspective is. seeing no further comment mr. clerk will you please call the next item? >> policy initiatives. this is an information item. >> we have kate breen to discuss the efforts to advance automated speed enforcement and is particularly focusing on state legislation on on the docket that addresses our vision zero priorities. >> okay so i'm just going to introduce kate who is going to be formally taking over for vision zero kate is our policy director at sfmta and a real expert on state legislation and policy and she's going to walk

us through some some of the things that happened since we last met and unfortunately this is not going to be the most positive update i i think when we met in december we were talking about a long-term effort to consider lowering speed limits in san francisco and i think the experience that kate and i had when we went to sacramento last month is that there's a lot of education that needs to be done among our state legislators even the ones based in san francisco and vision zero is yet another example where the city is really leading on the policy front and changing that conversation at the state level is going to take effort from everyone and kate is going to talk about ways to do that and meeting with with the

secretary to talk about changes to the federal law and highway bill and start to get urban priorities about complete streets and safety so it's good to see that happening in washington hope we can have more of that happening in sacramento but if there's any message is that the cities have to lead because the state legislator is not going to pass these bills without a strong push from our urban delegation. >> so thank you. i am kate breen director of government ^ fares affairs for the sfmta today i'd like to thank you for your personal leadership. as we started this process really last fall and tried to tee ourselves up for a program this

year with a kick off of the current 2-year session i think we learned a lot which tom just referenced there's a lot of work to do to do at the state level and we know we have allies on both sides of the aisle and we've seen legislation introduced this year by democrats from los angeles and republicans from the central valley focussed on vision zero initiatives and i'll talk about that in a minute but we don't have a bill but we still have opportunity. i also want to acknowledge the support of our advocates walk sf and the san francisco bicycle coalition have been working arm in arm with us to start socializing the concept of vision zero we have shared at the federal level the vision zero action strategy and will

continue to do so and key committee staff working now on the surface transportation act and with regard to what we can do this year our current thinking and we've talked to staff and it's about the concept of engaging stakeholders at the state level so we can have a conversation that doesn't have to be in the framework of a bill but brings people together to understand the challenges that we face as cities but also as the state of california and engage folks hopefully at the highest level of the state transportation agency but within his agency's purview is the office of traffic safety headed by rhonda craft a craft to

show what we've done here what you have done can be used as an example for the rest of the state and frankly at the federal level so again not a linear path but opportunities and i think the timing on this would be sooner rather than later maybe in the july in the in the july re-cess and we're developing that concept now. with regards to the bills that haven't been introduced last week was the bill introduction deadline and i've mentioned some related to hit-and-run accidents there is a bill related to school zone speed limits as well as increased fines for speeding around school zones and i think 2 bills in particular that are indicative of the environment

we find ourselves in when it comes to this attitude if you will that prevails to automated enforcement at the state level and that's not going away and we need to be prepared for that as it relates to the mind-set, if you will both from a privacy perspective and these are issues fundamental at the state level and we'll work with our peer cities that we know are very interested. we're working through the league of california cities and the california state association of counties and some of that is education and some of that is they are already there with us it's a very diverse population when you get to cities and counties at the statewide level. i'm happy to answer

questions. we will not be able to do this without you at our side we share all of our reviews of state bills so make sure we're speaking with one voice as much as we can when we're we're at the state level. thank you. supervisor yee. >> thank you. thanks for your work. i just want to add to your list i guess we're pushing locally some legislation around the tour buses and eventually i think it's going to be really effective. we would need to push it at the state level and i know some of the discussion -- i'm not too sure -- do you have people carrying those types of things? i don't know

that -- this might be of interest at the state level but we don't need the state level to do this locally. i haven't introduced that legislation yet in regards to black boxes arming our city vehicles with black boxes we're having a hearing on that on that for the report that's been developed and i'm hoping to have follow up legislation to have the the city the city be 100 percent armed. i believe the state puc might already have that, so that could be, again, you know, it's these little things for for me that make a difference in the long run and maybe other state vehicle divisions would have vehicles made to follow suit. >> thank you. >> supervisor mar? >> thanks miss breen for working with our office i really

appreciate your work. you mentioned the state association of counties and the the california league of cities -- are they going to raise awareness of our bay area legislation? >> i sit on the public works committee of the league and i've found there's not a a you a u.n. imity of opinion and i think at least at the outset it sounds like it appears their focus is really on identifying funding and reinvestment in the state's transportation system particularly with a focus on highways and our task is to bring into those forums an

awareness we all need that investment but how can we work together to to weave that message -- i wouldn't say that it's there yet. >> and you mentioned we have to keep up the education work on like speeding cameras and technology and lowering the flexibility for local areas to reduce their speed limits to save lives and i wanted to ask also since i brought it up and i know we we may be doing similar things to new to new york city's districts and safe routes to seniors type programs but just knowing what we can do to increase the zone of safety around areas like senior centers where we've seen killings in my district an an

87-year old woman to the recent man right outside the richmond district senior center they are like zones where we know high injuries happen where seniors are concentrated and chinatown for example they had different suggestions like the ccdc campaign academy folks raised looking at things that could be done to immediately make them safer and longer term efforts and start to look at zones around senior centers where disabled people are and key spots for more strategic safety effortses. >> i think that's what you do see i do see i i don't know

if new york focussed on senior centers and schools i think they did and based on the good work of the controller's office who will come back in may and give you a much deeper dive on automated speed enforcement and when you look across the country in terms of people's willingness to allow in their communities there's a much higher amount of willingness when it comes to areas around schools and senior centers. >> we looked at novato and some other areas i'm not sure how much it's helping but i'm just trying to think of ideas that have come from other cities the slow zones in seattle and portland and the mobile speeding radar machines. >> yeah. >> whatever legislative ways

at the state level that can allow us to do more locally and even look at other cities for what we can do even without state legislation given the political climate. >> thank you. >> i just appreciate you being here today and also for the response that i got from the sfmta. i had asked -- i'm curious because i first learned about the bill to prohibit any further traffic enforcement cameras and to halt any existing ones and it looks like we have quite a number of them and it would be an extensive study and i'm going to assume it's a radical element in sacramento and doesn't have any chance of moving forward but i think it's important it's important for us to watch that and make sure our voices are

heard because it's been such an important tool and i would love to see the data on how effective these cameras are in the scene of in the intersections before us but i think it's important to showcase and demonstrate the data that shows that our residents are safer because they exist in these intersections and i think last week was a big learning lesson for all of us in the in the city we need to do a lot more to educate our colleagues in sacramento on the importance of safety cameras and i know aclu has concerns and other interests have concerns about government video taping our our residents but i think we have to be able to showcase all of the amazing data that exists on the impacts that

safety cameras have in other parts of the world and other cities that have implemented speed reduction cameras and it's important to not forget the community it's great to have the technical folks and the experts in our city departments and even us as elected officials to make phone calls and go there and having families go themselves that have lost members of their family having folks that have been injured severely injured go up and tell their stories directly to our representatives and i certainly saw that at the conference in new in new york city in october. i think we're somewhat missing here in san francisco and i know supervisor yee and i talked there's an organization of families that have lost members of their

families in traffic collisions and they played an amazing role in albany in getting speed reduction in new york city and i know supervisor yee is going to be working on this as well and i think we should certainly partner with the community on this effort. >> that is what it will take. it really has to be about this broader campaign involving the community victims and public health advocates and i think that speaks to the larger campaign that really needs to take place with regard to vision zero and thank you for those comments and we'll absolutely figure out how to harness those voices including some some of the ones we heard here today. >> hi thank you chair i just wanted to add to the to the excellent presentation