point out the issue with the paratransit program in particular for those who are living on the west side the seniors and people that were not mobile but had a difficult times getting the services on the east side and sometimes, we don't come up with solutions and when we do come up with solutions working with sfmta and the transportation authority to say well, what do we need to get in fixed so this will be an acceptable time for people not sitting in a van for 3 hours to get the service only becomes one hour and 3 hours back to their homes i want to thank both organizations for being flexible

and creative in vrnlt solutions. >> reporter thank you, colleagues any questions or comments on this thank you sfmta staff for the prop k allocations at this time i'll open up for public comment any public comment on item 7 okay seeing none, public comment is closed and colleagues if we could take item 7 we'll take that without objection. >> that item passes item 8. >> item 8 recommended topics of the of adaptation of the chinatown final report an action item. >> thank you brian. >> hi, everyone ryan senior transportation planner with the transportation authority this item begins on page 53 of your packet i'm here today as steve said to present the final report of the chinatown transportation

plan that was funded by prop k that was to identify the priorities in local communities especially communities of concern and i'm sure you're aware of we created the program in a similar vein this project focuses on the chinatown the concern among the community concern has the highest shares of elderly and disabled residents so fragile and unique community so we worked closely with community members to identify their key priorities the priorities we identified for the studies were really particularly about pedestrian safety and especially on broadway and kearny street when, in fact, are the high corridor in chinatown

in addition to stockton street on broadway we heard there was a lot of concern about pedestrian safety and particularly the relationship of pedestrian safety to travel volumes on the street as part of van ness bureau project in particular we heard about concerns of the traffic volumes and you know the future of the street and we did a review which included analysis of ideas that came up with pedestrian safety and did a review of plan projects along the corridor we found for broadway street there is a robust pipeline of shovel readies pedestrian safety improvements for most of the, in fact all of the high injury intersections along broadway between columbus and van ness this is part of the broadway polk and columbus straight studies and identified that there could be further enhancements to the pedestrian

safety through the signaled timing adjustments to identify those particularly for polk and stockton streets and there maybe other opportunities in the future kerney street different from broadway unlike broadway not a pipeline of pedestrian safety improvements project from my prospective looking at the data for kerney is should be a top priority for pedestrian safety emergency this graph is showing really gary the pedestrian safety record on kerney with others high injury corridors in chinatown and elsewhere in the city as you can see curry is on the far right has a far worse think records than the other high injury corridors in chinatown itch higher than other

high injury corridors in the city a very significant issue and priority so i'll briefly share some of the top trshtdz on curry street we saw conflicts with a number of loeshgsz locations you have double turn lane if you have experience crossing goons against two lanes of turning vehicles is it can create a situation that cross pedestrians have not visual and a number of distance a number of high volumes of vehicles conflicting is crossing pedestrians we've observed pedestrians violations and another important contributor the fact that kerney so relatively uncongested we saw

in general the intersections were operating for vehicles and traffic was moving generally high speeds so 32 mile-per-hour for example for the speed limit of 25 this makes a difference for an elderly civilian this is a significant issue that we'll need to address other issues are slow muni speeds 6 to 7 mile-per-hour on this corridor closely spade stops between turning vehicles as well and a bicyclist high injury corridor identified as a provided for the muni forward process and the bike strategy there are a lot of needs pedestrian safety and transit improvements and bicycle safety are issues we've been working with sfmta to identify how to address those issues moderating and one of our top

recommendations to move forward as quickly as possible with intersections of clay a recent fatality that occurred there fortunately we are that working to identify improvements that would, implemented shown on the screen very short time treatments we also have identified that this corridor as i mentioned the very significant issue with pedestrian safety really needs a corridor length treatment not just intersection spot treatments that address the safeties along the entire corridor with the transit and bicycle safety so we need a corridor solution one that can be implemented quickly again we've worked with mta and the community and mta has identified a project manager that we have questions from him

they'll be coming in september for an in tip request for funds to study this corridor and recommend improvements so they'll be able to share the details but plan to move ahead with this and we have identified 3 concepts we feel should be looked at as potential corridor to address pedestrian safety and other issues one option a series of pedestrian scrambles along the corridor or a road diet and introduce striping that might include the removal of double turn lanes and changing the timing to reduce speeds and implementing sgrarlz up and down the corridors any solution could potentially solve the problem but want to emphasize any

solutions addressing the speed that is problematic for the fag i will elderly population and address the conflicts of the turning vehicles that's a major contributor to the peaceful problem we look forward to working with mta i'm pleased we're able to move forward to the recommendations with mta leads in the next step thank you all and look forward to our comments. >> thank you very much for your presentation. >> supervisor christensen. >> i have a couple of questions i'm assuming you looked at the causes we're concerned you recommended the focus on the death so the presentation didn't include the leading usa's causes of injuries. >> uh-huh and so ones i mentioned the conflict. >> proportionly. >> i'm aware of the maneuver ability issues and not so much

the speed to what degree is speed. >> it is a major factor the study they you know ranked issues and speeding come out of the top issue and we confirmed that with the speed surveys of it it - the sample was 32 mile-per-hour that might not seemed to me that fast to a driver but an elderly pedestrian between 35 and 32 is numerous it doesn't need to be like 10 miles per hour. >> the question the degree to which we associate those finding with the injuries on the corridor. >> yes. we can. >> yes. >> i think come on i haven't seen that level of detail. >> i object to provide that. >> in terms of a road diets the

next streets going west are grant avenue and stockton street i'll saying saw i say in the context of road diets those streets are starving if you clamp down how traffic what is the impact on adjacent streets. >> we haven't gone favorite than this phase we need to look at that issue. >> because certainly something needs to be done that's clear and everybody is trying to figure out that i don't know if you or your colleague can answer we have the guests central subway coming o'ly haven't seen preparation for the increase in foot traffic we've got east west like clay and washington that are going to connect with the

chinatown with the financial district for example to what grey degree did preparation for that change. >> we didn't look at that as part of the study fiscal year on the pedestrian safety the exist pedestrian safety issues i mean, i'll is that any steps we can make to improve pedestrian safety on the have the is important it makes those changes critical i know there's an interest in do the sidewalks have capacity on franklin and clay that's a significant issue needs to be looked at we didn't look at that as part of this work. >> thank you so i don't know if it is appropriate at this time but as you mentioned we're looking at both narrowing the scope of study in relations to a

project gnarling or narrowly it to the kerney square where a lot of injuries occur and the anticipated growth it expected and broadening it to include the subway and portsmouth square we've got to garage queuing for the square and the entrance to the square again i don't know if the study went deeply into how to address it i don't know if it is appropriated to have the colleague comment on that is that possible. >> you want it? >> thank you very much uh-huh. >> welcome. >> hello greg with the san francisco transportation authority plans & programs committee i took my assignment and kerney street figured out go

vision 2025 corridor and the muni corridor this is a bike strategy corridor and that's all the information i've been working on this and the recent developments i've been working closely with ryan and the launch of the kerney corridor and the transit safety it is a catchy name that will be launching this fall and immediately is the curry where the fatality we knew before that that was the most disastrous intersection so many we have ideas i'd like to share with you guys at the appropriate time i don't have the details but again a lot of interest in the community to do something extremely immediately if we want to focus on this and

focus on the corridor as quickly as possible so that's the larger project. >> so we're talking basically about washington clay curry within a couple of blocks of the location the garage and entrance all of that tabled web and maybe preliminary to ask if you have some schedule some rough target of when we might be getting recommendations and . >> for the immediate intersection. >> i'd like say both. >> i'm approach it with immediate curry and washington immediacy hope to have ideas out there one the next couple of weeks and implemented by the mta for the signal shopping shop within a month or two my first implementing project i'm learning how the implementation goes but it is a huge priority

hoping i can do it quickly and then yeah immediately after that will be the kickoff of the involved community process, etc. along curry street and we were delighted to have you on board and glad you'll help us untable this. >> colleagues questions or comments all right. i also want to thank ta no matter which district we represent visitors they go to chinatown we're looking forward to the improvements all right. so at this time i'll open up for public comment for. is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak on item 8? >> if you can please line up along this wall over here that would be great. >> supervisor tang and commissioners as a member of the cac we were just slowly slightly

briefed on this item a couple of months ago this sort of thing i know that supervisor christensen you wanted this moved forward because of the servicing but the gentleman that is from our district he had a lot of questions on the item this was with me i was wondering if there's a way you - when we have our next cac meeting will we have a full report? it is this going to be going to go through without the cac knowing about it. >> we have our executive director tilly chang. >> we'll be presenting this and cac meeting no september this is unusual but for reasons of the

expectancy we wanted to bring it forward. >> go for it like i said this is something we barely had a chance to go through the servicing but if you feel it is important then go for it as long as we can get an update and get the fill funding comes before us again in september when we have our meeting in august when we have our meeting and we can we have a recess next month and this item can go forward thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> morning, commissioners name may a chinatown residents today i want to address the concern the clay intersection that intersection it is important i live at the corner every single day i see many people crossing

the intersection going home or park or school there also many hundreds of senior citizens seniors that walk slower to cross the street the streets are a caging challenge for people to cross so crosswalks is not visible to geary when the cars - sometimes they'll block the crosswalks if you put you're in the seniors shoes the seniors walk slower they'll left in the street the cars with turning and they will have a higher chance of getting injured i want the mta or commissioners to truly effective engineering to change and make a phase for pedestrians to cross

without worrying about be injured thank you. >> thank you very much next and from chinatown cd d we've been working closely with the folks on this plan thank you to everyone at the ta for the efforts on focusing on broadway and curry i'd like to make comments on the prelims of this plan we would really like to see a finish we heard about a fatality it was really tragedy but not surprisingly to us the intersection at clay and curry our offices are located there we see the clchlts between the

pedestrians and motorists we see the city metrics for the improvements needed for that intersection for the good folks at the sfmta if we could, of course, quickly evaluate this plan and plan for changes to the corridor but with an emphasis on clay and kerney that would be great and very importantly much needed for the supervisor we appreciate our continued focus on kerry street with the immediate focus on clay and kerney so we look forward to some immediate changes and we would like to thank everyone for their efforts. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning. i'm listing i can't a youth in chinatown cac so in if i pass by everyday i

sometimes look around and see seniors i work with pass by kearny street it worries about me they're having trouble crossing the streets last sometime any sister participated in actually studying the corridor of kearny street to tally the violations and i was a bit surprised how much was collected i pass by this place everyday there are violations but seeing how it supposedly me i read the packet i saw one of the solutions would be the scramble system is separates traffic and pedestrians and also there's a lot of system in the street we know how the scramble system works there are no changes that are perfect but

again, we need immediate action we want to save lives and hopefully what we can make changes before another life is taken thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning sxhigsz e commissions i'm andrew a resident of chinatown district 3 i've 0 crossed the kearny and clay intersections hundreds of time in my life for work or downtown or meeting with other youths across the intersection to the point often after often when i cross the east bay to clay curry a car will grace my back one second before the green light and sometimes when i walk on the southern side of the eastbound lanes i would find myself stuck in the middle

because a car needed to cross we as residents knew it was dangerous data railroads the calibers it is tragedy a fatality where a that he had right-of-way was violated at it sgrshgs last month i'm asking for is an engineering solution for the pedestrians not cars should have a head start thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> >> i'm david part of the chinatown cd c youth group over the incident that happened on curry we at the time set out with captain larry lazzaro original we were studying the left turn from clay to kearny

that's where the incident happened most of violations happen when cars are making a right turn the two main reasons the reason that people the drivers radio not yielding to pedestrians and second they turn off lane instead of in the turn pocket they turn in the second lane and even like cars wouldn't even yield for people like captain lazzaro; right? there's a big pedestrian issue in appear pedestrian safety and separating cars from pedestrians i think the skranl system is the way to go thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. i'm maggie i'm a youth leader if chinatown cd c one of my top concerns for pedestrians and drivers in

chinatown is, of course the intersection of clay and kearny i saw one of the proposed ideas was to make a make it illegal to turn left from clay to kearny on a red light i was thinking maybe make that turn a protected left turn to separate the pedestrians from the drivers because even at a green light the drivers still have to deal with pedestrians so if it was a protected left turn there is also two turning lanes it could give the drivers some more space. >> all right. thank you very much >> next speaker. >> hi, i'm stephen from

chinatown cd c around kerry street is occupied by seniors and those seniors will utilize the kroouks crosswalks to get to the park where they entertain themselves i've seen in those are like dangerous left turns and a scandal system will help as well as the seniors to cross safely and on time thank you for your time. >> thank you >> next speaker. >> >> next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm sandy consider chinatown as my second home i'm from the bayview neighborhood martin luther king said treat to justice is a threat everywhere it is facing pedestrian injustice not long ago there was a

fatality collision on happened on kearny and clay and in this collision kearny street has the worst pedestrian safety record of any street in chinatown every time when i come out to chinatown i see that the problem is happening the cars the speed to kearny street may kearny is a place for them to dry through but for us it is our home maybe when you drive so fast you don't realize there is the integral hotel which houses a lot of low income seniors and the elementary school is located on kearny street and occupancies

if you were to slow down when you drive you would see that kearny street is not just a place to speed through a community of people pedestrians deserve to feel safe when they cross the street why did kearny street have the problem of cars speeding through why are pedestrians in kearny street getting hurt? in here today i'd like to ask the engineers to get cars to slow down for chinatown we demand judged for pedestrian safety thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> hello my name is stephanie i'm a youth leader at chinatown community development center

i usually see seniors cross by kearny and clay street they usually go to the accredit to volunteer and when they get through that food pantry the food are heavy and very hard for them to walk on kearny and clay street because cars goes by kearny street usually turn at a really fast pace and it is hard for seniors who get food from food pantry to walk at a really fast pace on the street so i believe that the street on kearny street should be converted from a dual turn to a single left turn