>> (clapping.) >> i want to thank some of our special guests mayor ed lee and assembly david chiu and supervisor norman yee and supervisor fewer thank you for being here we have detrimentally from the sfmta, we have the general manager of rec and park phil ginsburg and i get that wrong change your name the director of the department of the environment deb reaping and we have the traffic commander online suicidal and we have folks from supervisor safai's office the da's office and i

think we got everybody thank you for being here. and thank to our sponsors and kelly and others and the bayview rapid transit and recotton and the sfmta thank you for your support. >> (clapping.) >> so walk to work today is, of course, about walking that is very simple act that putting one foot in front of each other or cheers throughout the streets it is more that an amazing day not only people keeps us healthy and prevents chronic diseases that are plea of not guilty our country but built communities on the street walking is thing helping

economically and keeping us healthy for decades to come >> (clapping.) >> and it is an equalizer everyone has equal access to a simple mode of transportation walking might seem simple for pedestrians it is not we'll wait for the ambulance (sirens) this is not my lucky can i for my last conference between the rain and the - but we'll continue to people choose to live in san francisco and choose because they walk this is to say about every single trip in san francisco starts and end with walk and 25

are solely walking in the city that is incredible and today, we highlighted projects that will help encourage more people to walk and san francisco the most walkable city in the country we highlighted octavia street opening opened for people right next to patricia ground zero and highlighted did neighbor way that is transforming page street into a more walkable gastrolovingly place for access and now we're here and city hall to celebrate walk to work today those great projects can make us the most walkable city in the country and proud of the work the city has done and the community as you may know is today is my last walk to work to today and the third week i will

be your partner across the bay with my new job with the city of oakland one thing i'll good a the three is hiring and we have a wonderful team at walk sf who will continue our movement going forward so with that, i'm having the loudmageddon phone to our inventor executive director that will continue to have a loud voice and partner with the city to make walking assessable for everybody. >> yeah. wow. >> (clapping.) >> thank you nicole and on on behalf of the pedestrians in san francisco everyone that walks in san francisco thank you for your hard work and dedication and our

heart the city it much better because of you so thank you, thank you. >> (clapping.) >> yeah. >> so, now i have the distinct pleasure of introducing our first speaker a long time advocate for people and walking and pedestrian safety the mayor of our great city mayor ed lee. >> (clapping.) >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> thank you educating for the interrogation and big thank you to annual walk to work today, i walk from my office (laughter) i didn't take the accelerator but want to say good morning and add my things to nicole i know that she does great work will be walking across the bay but had loot talent to work together i've enjoyed the walks but the folks we've had to on the streets i know that everybody

enjoys the improvements along haight street and i know we have so many departments with the county of transportation us i think that is one of the most walkable city's in all of the country and more people walking more than ever and even today that is not rain how important is seattle that is not rain but you know a that's why we work together to improve all the streets and make them more walkable and usable and safe who you're walking by or taking carpools or the bus safety is the number one, what we've been working to make everybody's experiences or experience that much more safe we've lowered the

speedometers still over 90 miles of bike way improvements and also that's why i'm supporting senator change of venues legislation to add the technology to san francisco to be the model for the rest of the state. >> (clapping.) >> and that's why traffic calming would the record reflect to make sure that streets are also green connections for all of us the greener we make the pathways the more enjoyable a they'll be so our commitment as a city to make sure that everybody is traveling to our city safe that is enjoyable, that with the leadership of supervisor yee and other members of the board and the sfmta and all the departments wsht we'll accomplish that goal together we'll make sure that

we'll continue making the streets safer for everyone so, now my pleasure to introduce a friend and partner in our state legislature david chiu (clapping.) thank you, mr. mayor for your leadership welcome to sunny san francisco as i've been in the state legislature i realize how much i take for grant walking i used to walk to work i have asked 90 mile commute that would packing take me two days to walk rather than walking through the beautiful neighborhoods running into people in the state of california i recently came to learn how easy to take the physical acts of walking for granted as you may know 200 muscles in the body it takes to walk because of my 13-year-old this weekend started to walk.

>> (clapping.) >> he started to run a little bit of a problem but another thing we take for granted when we walk the streets nothing happens it is wonderful by taking it for granteds those of you in collisions and family members or loved one that have been in horrible tragedies on the streets you, you know this is 0 not something to take for granted i want to thank you for moving with vision zero with the mayor for your leadership and the former colleagues on the board of supervisors for our unwavering commitment all the department head and advocates all over the city we know to our work is not done there is too many people every 18 hours small business smoking gun someone is struck on the streets of san francisco walk sf educated me on a solution we've not tried that worked in over one and 40 community in the it united

states that has helped to drop it by 80 percent and helped to end serious and facility collisions because of you we've introduced our safe streets in 2017, 8042 allows san francisco and commissioner dejesus to piloted the enforcements to reduce speeds up on the streets of san francisco this is a challenge i've had more meetings on that bill than another other 20 plus bills i've moved change is not easy he know with the dedication of walk sf with the leadership behind me and the leadership in front of me with the voices that all of you represent we will take the steps we need to make sure that some do soon, we'll actually see a vision of no fatalities on the streets of san francisco thank you for being part of vision and thanks for being here today.

>> (clapping.) >> and with that, is my honor to introduce someone who has been a leader on safety and knows just how hard our streets can be give it up for supervisor norman yee for district 7. >> (clapping.) >> thank you assembly david chiu and mayor for being here and supporting walk to work i'm supervisor norman yee supervisor the district 7 and i take those words from essentially chu seriously in regards to never take for granted that we can always walk ahsha safai in our streets right now, i'm one of the victims a little bit over ten years ago, i was according in a crosswalk a car decided wouldn't have a

chance i lost i know how hard it is to be safe open our streets that's why i'm so k34i78d to making sure that we have the vision of vision zero by the year 2024 and it is going to happen because of leadership from people like assembly chu people like mayor ed lee, people like elsewhere this is standing up here to enforce this what walking is so important i love walking i used to walk to work from chinatown to the castro when i was a kid for 10 years it costs too much to take the muni (laughter) we didn't have free muni for kids then so i love walking why? because i have lake merced i get

to see not only the boundary but the outside and i also see literally hundreds of people walking and running and jogging around there i run into people all the time i love walking in the evening looking at my neighborhood just to see my step outside the box thousand steps a day what is important to medical you continue to would the record reflect in partnerships and it really, really do appreciate what mayor ed lee is doing to get behind vision zero to let's walk walk to work guys and right now another reason we're reaching this vision zero because of the dedication of another learn had the director of sfmta ed reiskin.

>> (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor norman yee and assembly simulate chu and mayor ed lee happy walk to work today that is a remembered to all of us what a great experience to walk in the great city of san francisco everybody took one or two trips they'll otherwise go in a car and did it on foot each week we'll have a less congested city and safer city and cleaner air we'll be individually healthier and more opportunity to make connections with our neighbors it is a win, win, win win all around that's why we at the sfmta with the leadership and support of all our elected leaders the sfmta droekz and all working together with the neighborhood working hard to make walking a better option for more people everyday

we're doing that by redesigning our streets to make them safer and doing if by supporting the police department and focusing enforcement on the behaviors liking to lead to serious collision willow we're pushing with the partners an education to make everybody aware of the fact to slow down and ebay the rules and watch where you're going and that's why we're working hard to support good sound database policy change such as the safe streets act that assembly member chu is leading and make our streets safer and grateful for the support of mayor ed lee and jan to get in legislation through with all of these things in motion we can get to vision zero and will get there by 2024 eliminating traffic kathy's no

people should be seriously hurt or killed so why not i want to join in thanking for her great service thanks everybody. >> (clapping.) >> new supervisor kim. >> yeah. wow. >> yes. >> actually sf walk reminded me this morning that i got to participate in the very first walk to work today back in 2011 there was 3 of us elizabeth and myself and another lady we were accompanied by the san francisco examiner that it is been my honor to walk to walk to work today every single day since that year the very first hearing

when i joined the board of supervisors was a public safety he represent my sdrinthd that had the highest injury corridors and the collisions between drivers and pedestrians and this was an issue that many of my diversifies neighborhood whether the tenderloin or south of market and mission street i mission bay that is something all of our residents understand and relate to and few people if that didn't know someone that was hit by a car going to work or school that is been my honor to work with the constituents at walk sf and our board of supervisors to achieve a goal of vision zero and i wanted to congratulate all the partners here today including sfmta and last year, we had a reduction in pedestrian fatalities here in san francisco from 19 to 15 and

while this may not sound like a huge number 4, additional lives that go home to their families and contributing to the community we know that each of those are 100 percent preventable those deaths thank you assembly member david chiu for taking the stance of moving forward with this this is something we for many years were lobbying the representative ♪ sacramento from other countries addendum speed conformity slows down and achieving vision zero while that was a critical issue we're glad to have a representative ♪ sacramento you most all we'll not move forward without legislation of years of lobbying and want to recognize some of the community leaders in district 6 they will and breath

this issue everyday who chair and vice chair the advisory committee and alex rogers who is here and ascends all the meetings and finally i mentioned elizabeth earlier but want to thank another great leader around this issue and who has really elevated this issue to the awareness that is fera >> (clapping.) >> supervisor norman yee and i wanted to present something so what are we are doing now, now that shows scored across the bay area that is amazing i had nick over a month ago talking

about how we need to spread that work in san francisco and actually creating a statewide family we're going on and on and on and on when he heard that day about spreading the good work of san francisco i didn't mean for her to leave san francisco but spread the work for 4 years in san francisco and she's came across the board as the ed of walk sf about the i became a supervisor i feel we have a strong partnership in creating what we created in san francisco and hopefully by 2024 not only in san francisco but in the east bay we will have a vision zero

of no fatalities on our streets so shows a wonderful person that has testified it was amazing when we contact from the conference in new york realizing that two things were really important that gets you will us to our goals one of them being the automated speed enforcement issue she is an advocate for and the other piece while the voices of the families that are affected by those collisions those project collisions we wouldn't get too far with that and you know what, she went ahead and created that organization and it is the strongest voices up in sacramento to get things done so that is a yes. >> (clapping.) >> so today, we want supervisor kim and myself want

to make a proclamation but today is proclaimed march 6, 2017 as the her day. >> thank you. >> i'm putting this on my wall thank you. >> (clapping.) >> well, thank you so much i feel so loved and i will continue to stay in touch and be your partner across the bay and really, really want to thank everyone today, i love those events it shows how many people care about walking and this movement we appreciate your

partnership so i'm honored and really just loves love and keep on walking and moving forward together thank you happy walk to work

>> good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the sfrnz of tuesday, april 11, 2017, madam clerk please call the roll. >> thank you supervisor president london breed supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor fewer supervisor kim no present supervisor peskin supervisor ronen