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hello nang. >> hello. >> i need to understand house this gleaning work. >> we come and harvest like for example, we'll come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. >> (laughter). >> made that good, good and ease. >> the trick is how not to hurt the branches. >> like the thing. >> i'm so excited about this. the people are so passionate about where the food goes to the private property owners give us the food they're happy that no of a t is going to waste
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>> oh. thank you. thank you. again job aura natural >> (laughter). >> from backyards to back lots let's take a look at the food and community bonding at the free farm. >> my idea was to start growing food and giving it away. and getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. we were all divorce and as part of our philosophy of working together and working together. >> what's the most rewarding aspect of volunteering for the
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free farm stand. >> well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but something about giving food away it's giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it to you it's primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. >> now serving number to 49 come on down. >> we have the capability of producing this food and in san francisco you can grow food all year round so the idea we're capable of prougdz food in our own backyards we're here to demonstrate an bans of food and i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in
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have to be a comedy. >> we build time together and it's the strength of any ideas of the connections we'll turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a stronger power and not have to rely on money that's the people power. >> in this episode we've seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the
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connection to the earth and environment it's truly i didn't o- >> sound familiar do you keep on getting up there's an easier way. >> of course there's easier way get rid of of mosquito they breed whatever this is water no water no mosquito mosquito feed on good blood the eggs hatch and stay near the waters san francisco to breathe and the adult underlying mosquito waits on the as many until it's sexuality hardens
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water pools in any areas and creates places you'll not normally think of budget and any container that holds water and hidden in bushes or else were dump the water and do it over soil not into a drain the larva can continue growing in the pooled water is sewage disthe first of its kind the area if the sewage is two extreme have a licensed plumber assist water pools in rain gutters and snaking and cleaning out the water when keep the water from pooling and keep in mind that mosquito breed in other waters like catch balgsz and construction barriers interest crawl spaces with clmg is an issue you may have is week to cause the water to collect this is an sour of mosquito so for
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buildings just fix the clean air act drains and catch basins can be mosquito ground it will eliminate it as a possible location keep shrubbery and growths estimated any water to can be seen and eliminated birdbath and fountains and uncovered hot tubs mosquito breed but it is difficult to dump the water out of a hot top can't dump the water adding mosquito finish rids the source of mosquito there are also traditionally methods to protect you installing screens on windows and doors and using a mosquito net and politically aau planet take the time to do the things we've mentioned to eliminate standing water and make sure
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that mosquito are not a problem on your property remember no water no mosqui adjourned. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shop & dine in the 49 with within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 my name is jim woods i'm the founder of woods beer company and the proprietor of woods copy k open 2 henry adams what makes us unique is that we're reintegrated brooeg the beer and serving that cross the table people are sitting next to the
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xurpz drinking alongside we're having a lot of ingredient that get there's a lot to do the district of retail shop having that really close connection with the consumer allows us to do exciting things we decided to come to treasure island because we saw it as an amazing opportunity can't be beat the views and real estate that great county starting to develop on treasure island like minded business owners with last week products and want to get on the ground floor a no-brainer for us when you you, you buying local goods made locally our supporting small business those are not created an, an sprinkle scale with all the machines and one person procreating them people are making them by hand as a result more interesting and can't get that of minor or
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anywhere else and san francisco a hot bed for local manufacturing in support that is what keeps your city vibrant we'll make a compelling place to live and visit i think that local business is the lifeblood of san francisco and a vibrant community >> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry he -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's
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journey because every autistic child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do.
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i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but
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my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in
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relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal --
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developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant.
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i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things,
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like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to
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fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary.
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>> i personally love the mega jobs. i think they're a lot of fun. i like being part of a build that is bigger than myself and outlast me and make a mark on a landscape or industry. ♪ we do a lot of the big sexy jobs, the stacked towers, transit center, a lot of the note worthy projects. i'm second generation construction. my dad was in it and for me it just felt right. i was about 16 when i first started drafting home plans for people and working my way through college. in college i became a project
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engineer on the job, replacing others who were there previously and took over for them. the transit center project is about a million square feet. the entire floor is for commuter buses to come in and drop off, there will be five and a half acre city park accessible to everyone. it has an amputheater and water marsh that will filter it through to use it for landscaping. bay area council is big here in the area, and they have a gender equity group. i love going to the workshops. it's where i met jessica. >> we hit it off, we were both in the same field and the only two women in the same. >> through that friendship did we discover that our projects
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are interrelated. >> the projects provide the power from san jose to san francisco and end in the trans bay terminal where amanda was in charge of construction. >> without her project basically i have a fancy bus stop. she has headed up the women's network and i do, too. we have exchanged a lot of ideas on how to get groups to work together. it's been a good partnership for us. >> women can play leadership role in this field. >> i tell him that the schedule is behind, his work is crappy. he starts dropping f-bombs and i say if you're going to talk to me like that, the meeting is
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over. so these are the challenges that we face over and over again. the reality, okay, but it is getting better i think. >> it has been great to bond with other women in the field. we lack diversity and so we have to support each other and change the culture a bit so more women see it as a great field that they can succeed in. >> what drew me in, i could use more of my mind than my body to get the work done. >> it's important for women to network with each other, especially in construction. the percentage of women and men in construction is so different. it's hard to feel a part of something and you feel alone. >> it's fun to play a leadership role in an important project, this is important for the transportation of the entire peninsula. >> to have that person -- of women coming into construction,
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returning to construction from family leave and creating the network of women that can rely on each other. >> women are the main source of income in your household. show of hands. >> people are very charmed with the idea of the reverse role, that there's a dad at home instead of a mom. you won't have gender equity in the office until it's at home. >> whatever you do, be the best you can be. don't say i can't do it, you can excel and do whatever you want. just put your mind into it.
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>> the meeting will come to order. this is a regular meeting of the vision zero committee for wednesday, october 31st. 2018. i am captain -- [laughter] [applause] >> and i wanted to do this to emphasize what we really mean about what is vision zero. as you know, it is our policy in san francisco and with my three come in, please? so, here we are.
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the first hyphen is education. this is my educator and then we have programs that will emphasize safety including in the neighborhood and safe streets to school. drive slowly. the next one is engineer. our second. [laughter] which will fix the streets. [laughter] >> it is not safe! to emphasize that we want to engineer our streets so it safer for pedestrians. and third but not lastly, enforcement. [laughter] >> what does it say on the back? it says crash, accidents, speed kills and enforcement. do not move too quickly in this room because she has a radar gun thank you, very much. [applause]
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[laughter] >> happy halloween. i really am supervisor normandie and i will be the chair -- norman yee and i'm the chair of today's meeting. i am joined by commissioner catherine stefani and commissioner aaron peskin informed me that he will not be able to come today. we have to do this excuse then, do weekly yes. ok. can i have a motion to excuse commissioner peskin? with no objection, the motion passes. the committee clerk is alberto. the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff of san francisco government television who recorded each of our meetings and make the transcripts available for the public online.
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mr clerk, do you have any announcements? >> members of the public, silence or turn off your cell phones. comments will be taken after each item. speakers will have two minutes each. >> before i called the first item, i want to recognize that the committee meets only quarterly. and i am sure commissioner stefani is committed -- we want to make sure that people do know we are committed to vision zero. we are dressed as you saw as vision zero and its three pillars education, enforcement and engineering. a simple and fun way to further promote our pledge get to zero traffic fatalities by 2024 vision zero is a serious commitment.
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vision zero is about people and how we behave. all san francisco residents and visitors have the right to transverse our city safely as a pedestrian, bicyclists and motorists and on public transit. we must continue to do everything in our power to get 20. mr clerk, could i have item number 2? >> rollcall. >> item number 1 will be roll call. [roll call] >> we have coram. >> ok. item number 2. >> item two is approve the minutes of july 31st, 2018 meeting. >> are there any public comments for this item? seeing then, public comment is now closed. -- seeing none, public comment is now closed.
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do we have a motion? with no objection, the motion passes? >> item number 3. >> it is progress updates. this is an information item. >> i have someone from pedestrian safety program manager of sfmta and tom bellino ok. >> thank you. i just wanted to know you were going to get up here. i am the pedestrian program manager. i'm always pleased to be here at the quarterly vision zero subcommittee,. i am a cadet today of the vision zero hero movements. you stole my thunder. >> sorry. [laughter] >> there is a number of other
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cadets with me today. every day is a great day to work towards vision zero. just as always, you have already referenced our pillars of vision zero and that is to engineer our streets for safety, educate our public about our programs and ensure our technology results in safe outcomes on the streets. we have a lot of great pictures here on the work that we have done in the last quarter for safe streets. of course, masonic boulevard, our first project that we finished earlier this fall. you have a big ribbon-cutting when you complete a project of the size of masonic. we were pleased to see commissioner stefani was there as well as our other supervisors and our mayor. we are still working on our speed reduction of golden gate park. here is a brand-new speed hump on jfk drive. on 17th street, a really minor improvement to improve cycling
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commute of hundreds. this is on 17th street where prior cyclists were forced into traps and now we have a fully separated bike facility thanks to our colleagues at public works. major projects are starting to finish up and that includes polk street and a second street. if you go out there today, they are a month old. the pictures will look fully different and we are excited about the same completion of both of those major infrastructure projects. lombard street just began construction and in the past month and here is an older picture of lyon richardson which will have signals newer than the ones you see in that picture in the right corner. we had a packed board agenda this fall with more to come. i will talk about that in a second but the sfmta board approved projects on sixth street, taylor street, a near term parking protected bike facility, pedestrian safety improvements and a new cycling
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facility at the maze connecting some of our neighborhoods to the farmers market. coming to our board, november 6 th is a long-awaited project on townsend street as well as valencia street in december and forthcoming our projects to improve safety on powell and brandon street. we will be starting construction soon on 19th avenue and valencia. i really enjoyed this picture of valencia. i asked myself if i could return us to that traffic control device and would not be the design we would implement? i would go with that in the train tracks. on our safe people side, there is a huge amount of work from our team. this is our kill with kindness campaign that we are doing around two of -- i'm hopeful that the a.v. works on this one. if it doesn't, i assure you we are doing good work here.
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there is no sound. ok. thank you. so this is a campaign rolling out to share key information about our safety campaign. as well as we are doing additional radio adds coming soon as well. we will be reinforcing speed limits and anti- speeding behaviour. we have done an in-depth look at left turn collisions. (-left-parenthesis collisions are predominating the kind of collisions that we see that result in injuries and fatalities. our education team is thinking deeply about how we can change people's behavior and what kind of traffic control devices as well as messages we can use to reduce left turning behavior and unsafe left turns. so this is a work in progress. it was really exciting to get behavioural psychologists thinking about the work that we do as traffic engineers and
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planners. i think we will probably have a much more in-depth conversation about that in another hearing. we have had our street team outreach and this was blocked and rolled to school day and we have a lot of vision zero cadets and they could not look more adorable. i will ask my colleague to join me to give a brief overview of our motorcycle safety campaign and i will turn it over to him. >> sure. hello. my name is tom. i'm the project planner at m.t.a. project manager for the vision zero motorcycle safety education campaign. which is now ending its second year, starting in 2016. we knew that there was an unaddressed problem of high incidence of motorcycle injuries and fatalities that make up two% of road users. but up to 20% of fatalities. we knew that ridership was increasing for the last ten years and that despite these
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challenges that san francisco should be a good place for riding a motorcycle. we have good weather and traffic is generally good for riding a motorcycle. so we applied for a grant from the california office of traffic safety and we were awarded a three-year grant. it is a first in the nation vision zero motorcycle education program. the first time that a city has tried to eliminate most likely -- motorcycle fatalities specifically in the vision zero context. we wanted to be data-driven as everything in vision zero s.f. is but be community-oriented. because we know that there is a strong sense of community within that motorcycle riding population of san francisco and that like all people, they respond better to in group messages rather than the sfmta saying things at them. so we wanted to get community leaders on our side to endorse that message. with their help and input, we
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have produced educational materials like these adds that were up this year for motorcycle safety month on buses and light rail vehicles and we made these patches that you see that we give to people who go through our safety ambassador program. we made these postcards telling people about the dangers of speeding and other issues in san francisco and everything that we have produced was an english, spanish, chinese, and filipino. and a big plank of what we did was we held 11 motorcycle safety ambassador trainings. where anybody from the motorcycle riding community could come and get educated by the first six of them by sfpd motorcycle officers, and then the second set of them was taught by chp educators who spend most of their time educating people. and we also produced these
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motorcycle safety videos. i will try and show one if it works. reproduced a long one that is meant to be a training video and six short ones that are meant to be shared on social media. [♪] >> in san francisco, motorcyclists have special situations to deal with. we get fog and rain. oil build up on streets and they make the road really swept -- his like. especially roadway paint. motorcycles lose traction. >> they cover specific topics. so things like munimobile traffic which predominate in a lot of san francisco streets. but more so for writers who have moved here from other cities might not be as aware of. you can check all of them out on our youtube page.
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for the third year of the program, which is coming up, we are just embarking on that. we are going to try and do trainings that involve equipment some off-road practice. northern california has a lot of off-road motorcycle facilities and a lot of people don't know about them. they can give inexperienced writers practice that they couldn't really get on the street. and publish our findings so other cities can take what we've learned and especially other cities in the bay area and in the first two years of the program, we have seen a 15% reduction in motorcycle injuries and a 50% reduction in motorcycle fatalities compared to 2015 before we started the program. we are hopeful we can keep those numbers going and that the third
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year can be as successful as the first two. thanks. >> ok. are you done? >> thank you. i want to toot his horn. this is an incredible program. we know motorcyclists are disproportionately impacted in traffic safety and we, as he noted, don't have any programs specifically addressed to them. and our toolbox is extremely limited. we know we will have to get there through education. i wanted to express strong gratitude to tom and his team have done a remarkable job. on the legislative update front we -- the prior legislative session closed and we saw a number of bills advance and others not advance and some take additional form. the one most relevant specific to this committee is our zero traffic fatalities task force which was a b. 2363 and that is
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something that my colleagues and i are looking forward to getting guidance from our state legislature about speed limits and automated enforcement and we are excited for that to commence next year, is our understanding. otherwise we know that the next legislative session starts in january, at which point we will be thinking about what we are thinking to advance with our peers and our colleagues across the state. and a lot more to come on that front. that is my progress update today i just want to also share that halloween is a day that san francisco closes dozens of streets and we have hundreds, if not thousands of people walking safely across our streets in the city and a lot of that is thanks to our police department who is out there from 5:00 am until 3:00 am tonight. we are appreciative of their enforcement and their work to keep everybody out there safe. especially the kids out there and those families. thank you to them specifically on halloween.
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that ends my progress updates. if there are any questions. >> any questions? so a couple of questions. in regards -- now that i have seen masonic avenue completed, is anyone keeping track of what is going on there? just seen the impact of the engineering piece in regards to traffic flow. is it going slower? >> that is a great question. probably about a year ago we requested and received funding from this transportation transportation transportation authority three prop k. to do a robust evaluation program of every street project that we are putting in the ground and so it masonic is 100% included. we are doing post- data collection around now and so that will look at things like speeding, are we seeing terms --
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turned speeds reduce? i would sing motorcyclists and more people walking? we ask ourselves a lot of robust questions and we do post- data after -- it has been in the ground a little bit so people have adjusted their behavior. we will continue that through the year as we continue to see a adjusting behavior. we will be reporting back through an annual report. we will not be sharing any outcomes from masonic in our annual report that will be due out sometime early next year. but we would hope to see those outcomes kind of coming to fruition in january 2020. does that make sense? >> yeah. [laughter] >> right? >> that's great. i am glad you are looking at collecting data. it could hopefully be a strong argument on why we need to be doing this. one of the legislation was the scooter one. can you tell me what these
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legislators were thinking when they thought that 25 miles an hour was ok for scooters? >> i will not delve into the minds of our legislators. i will leave my opinions out of it. i think what is most important is that we have local authority to override any state laws. we have strong scooter permit regulations and we will be working with departments to ensure everyone who is using a scooter is behaving in a safe way for everyone else on the street. >> what are some of the things we can override? >> i believe, is a jd here? do you have any answers for this one? >> i will let an expert speak on this one. >> i noticed that i received -- i received some information on e. scooters and how -- for people to use it and how to
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behave. thank you for that. >> good afternoon. so ab 29 a nine is the bill you are referring to. your specific question is -- is it about how fast the scooters can travel or the types of roads that they can travel on? >> two main concerns i have right now off the bat about reducing -- is at the speed? which to me, i would think that 25 miles an hour is pretty fast or being on one of those things. the other thing is the use of a helmet. they are saying that if you're over 18 you don't have to use it that is a crazy thought. no helmet and 25 miles an hour. >> they did repeal the requirement for adults over 18 to be required to wear a helmet. starting in january, that will no longer be a requirement. that is not something that the local permit program can override. there is not much that we can
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override, actually. there's not much that we can override. by the way that the program is designed now, it is the helmet that is the only change. it was something we had really wanted to advance with our application. >> are we keeping track of -- i noticed it is early, but is anyone keeping track of issues such as our scooters involved with collisions? are they speeding? >> you can come back. >> i don't know if anything will ever happen, but if it does, we need to let legislators know. >> we are working directly with hospitals to make sure that when someone is admitted into the hospital that we are collecting the data whether they were using and he scooter. we have updated some of the information -- if this is not where i will -- this is where i won't get it right. with someone who is admitting so
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much of the hospital and they will circle the devices they were using. we have updated that recently to make sure that the many different types of mobility devices we are seeing on the street are all being counted for when we are getting injuries at s.f. general. any level one trauma will be admitted. will be tracking that data through the hospital. of course, our police, also when they are attending at the site will also be tracking that. >> are you also tracking people that get hit by scooters? not just people who are injured on a scooter. i've encountered a few of those people. >> typically, my public-health colleague who is in my task force would be here to answer that question. i will confidently say the answer is yes that we ask what kind of device -- either the person who caused the collision or the person who was the victim of the collision was using at the time. that is data we collect. but we can certainly reports back in three months on this topic where an expert in the
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field would be happy to report back on that. >> i guess what i heard you say was if they have a certain number, type one or whatever trauma at the hospital, it would be reported. a lot of these -- if a scooter is setting down the street, they may not go to the hospital. it could be that they just sprained her ankle. how will we be capturing these type of things? the bulk of them probably will be that. >> that will be always a disconnect between all of the data we have. we are using hospital data for our injury network. vision zero's goal is to reduce fatal and severe injuries and we believe that we are really capturing the worst injuries in any of those that may or may not involve a scooter at the hospital. we certainly recognize that there are collisions that are happening by all types of vehicles all over the streets that we are not collecting but we hope that by tracking severe it is an indicator about the types of overall collisions that
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are occurring even if they do not result in a trip to the hospital. but that said, we certainly get information through 311. that is often the type of information we use. and certainly from your office as well. >> i hope we can keep better track. this is probably beyond vision zero's scope, but still, m.t.a. is giving these permits out and it is causing people to get injury to one way or another. we should really care about that also. ok? >> all right. >> any public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. thank you for your update and i really appreciate the work you are doing. so, mr clerk, can you call item number 4? >> item four is resolution of support committing to the transportation authority and the
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media pledged to use crash and collision and not accident and recognition of world day of remembrance 2018. this is an action item. >> ok. i think i will health alvin lester and amanda lamb coming up to do a presentation of why we need to do this. >> good morning. -- good afternoon chair and committee members. my name is alvin lester. i'm here today in the remembrance -- and remembering. i am also here with amanda lamb. another one of our members of the group. we are here to talk about world his day of remembrance for road traffic victims and to ask you to pass a resolution before you today. first i want to share who we are
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we are a group of individuals who personally survive a severe traffic crash or whose loved ones have been severely engineered -- injured or killed in a crash. the group launched in november 2016 and we are one of a families with safe street chapters in north america. we are just -- we are now just in san francisco but bay area wide. we are supported by walk san francisco and the san francisco department of public health. i have this file. my sun and mom were hit and killed in 2014 when he was walking in the bayview. now, amanda will tell you about world day of remembrance. >> thank you. good afternoon. my name is amanda lamb and i am a crash survivor.
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