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. about three years ago, i was

crossing the street and was hit and severely injured in the fillmore district just a few blocks from here. and suffice to say, i am thankful to be standing here with you all today. families for safe streets held their first day of remembrance in san francisco in 2015 and as you all may know, this is a global event that takes place every year. it is a time for us to honor those that we have lost to traffic violence, such as alvin 's son and mom. and those who have survived. it is also a time for us to stand in support with the family members and loved ones of those who have been hurt.

>> we are going to hang these posters at the crash sites on the route and throughout the city. and part of the reason that we hold world day of remembrance every year is to raise awareness. keep an eye out. it really is something that we -- we need this opportunity to engage the greater community. traffic violence is something that affects every single person in this room. if you are a san francisco resident, if you ever walked down a city street, especially if you drive, we need your help and we can't do it without you.

on november 18th, city hall will be honored in world day of remembrance. we just want to thank erika maybomb and supervisor yee's office for making this happen. it really means a lot to us. thank you. and again, if anyone wants to join, please come. it really means a lot to us. there are flyers right here. you can talk to any of us and we would just love to have you. i have been really encouraged so far in this meeting, because i have not heard the word accident used once. alvin and i have been members, and we don't believe what touched our lives were accidents. we believe that crashes are preventable because they're predictable and we believe if we stop the use of the word accident, we can all start taking greater accountability

for our unsafe streets and we also want to end the culture of acceptance that gives these things as something being unavoidable. that is our focus for this year's world day of remembrance. we are asking local media, like the chronicle and locally elected officials such as yourself, to pledge to use the words crash and collision in place of accident. after this meeting, we will be, alvin and i will be visiting some of the supervisors' offices and cruising the halls and asking you all to join us in taking the pledge. be on the look out for us. [laughter] >> and finally, the reason we're here today specifically, as alvin mentioned, is to ask that you approve the resolution in front of you. this resolution will commit transportation authorities and also encourage the board of

supervisors and the local media to stop using the word accident and reference to traffic violence and to replace it with the words crash and collision. we believe that by passing this resolution, you will help to contribute to a culture of safety that will ultimately get us to vision zero. thank you for your time and consideration. we really appreciate it. >> great. any comments or questions? you know, i cannot agree more that language is critical when it comes to shaping impressions. and behavior is not -- as you know, it's beyond what we're talking about today. we're seeing language used to shape people's behavior, to the worse at this point. i know that exactly why san francisco and other jurisdictions have adopted vision zero policies giving your

name and framing of our commitment to this goal. i will be supporting this positive motion, of course. but i just was wondering, do you know of any of the media outlets or news tv channels, whether or not they're actually using either collision or crash at this point? >> kathy. >> i'll see how much i can help. i'm kathy from rock san francisco. most of the tv stations regularly use the word accident. especially they do a lot of traffic reporting in the morning. they talk a lot about -- unfortunately the frame with which they see our roads and the crashes that happen are about delay to people trying to get to work. so when they report one of these quote-unquote accidents, they always talk more about how much it's going to inconvenience everyone else rather than the real impact of it. so getting the tv stations to stop using accident is actually something a little beyond what

we've been able to take on just for this event this year. it would be a pretty monumental lift. i think the print publications are doing a lot better. sf weekly does a great job of not using accident. hood line does a good job. and we've gotten pledges from both of those publications to not use accident. we think that the examiner does a really good job too. it's on the way to making a formal pledge. the chronicle, i think uses accident sometimes and we're waiting to see and we're working hard to get them to pledge as well. >> that's great. i just want to then give a shout out to channel 7, abc. i was watching the news two days ago and i think it was two days ago, and there was an incident and they actually used collision. i was like wow, look at that. i knew this was coming up. i want to give a shout out to

the 5:00 news where they actually used collision. thank you abc. and if i see it on other channels i'll give them shout outs. if they don't use it i'll give them shout downs. [laughter] thank you, very much. i really appreciate the work of families for safe streets. they promote these issues and supporting and really pushing us as a city to continue our commitment to vision zero policy. thank you, very much. and i will be joining you at th- >> the remembrance. >> if you actually have a form right now i'll sign it right now. >> all right. >> ok. perfect. >> bring it up and i'll sign it. are there any public comments at this point? ok. seeing none. public comment is now closed.

is there a motion. >> first of all, i'll sign that too. we'll move it forward. i move it with a positive recommendation. >> great. with no objection, the motion passes. >> thank you, very much. >> >> than thank you. >> mr. clerk, can you call item 5. >> clerk: item 5. i need my form. >> the form is here. >> we're committed. see that. >> clerk: item 5 mayor's guidance on vision zero. this is information item. >> i'm sorry. i should focus. ok. mr. mcgwire. go ahead. >> good afternoon commissioners. tom mcgwire. sustainable streets director at the sfmta. as you may know, on

september 26th, mayor breed made an announcement that she was taking new measures to improve psyche list safety in san francisco andens hance our vision zero efforts. had continues in the path that her predecessor as mayor and she took when she was a supervisor on projects. she asked us to do three things with this directive. the first was to expedite the project. the second was to make recommendations for ways in which we can get those projects done and all of her directs faster and third was to clarify and tighten up the way we do our rapid response when unfortunately a fatal or serious injury crash does occur. i'll give a quick run down on what was meant in all those commitment and answer any questions you have about them. the first is asking the mta to expedite the implementation and delivery of critical safety projects that are in the pipeline right now.

and it's quite a few examples of those. the fact that we're hoping to, by the end of december of this year, have a partner protected bike lane between 15th and market. we're hoping to have a comprehensive safety project on town send street that will address passenger safety on townshend street and we'll implement a project that our board approved on howard street between sixth and 11th to to a parking protected bike lane. they are immediately moving faster. another thing we got done this week, we're getting done as we speak, is the improvement of the southbound green bike lane on the embark adair owe. there's a terrible crash over the summer. awe're working quickly with our

partners at the port to make sure that gets done. a couple other projects that our board legislated and we're looking for ways to get done faster are the pedestrian safety improvements on sixth and tail. again, it's no accident that many of these projects are in the tenderloin and soma. the neighborhoods that pop out more than any other are high enterally network. she asked us to make recommendations for how to improve the speed with which we deliver projects. we're working on that right now. i know that i want to acknowledge it's something that this committee is asked us from the very first time this committee met back in december of 2014. this committee has been asking us to get projects done faster and we've tried to improve that and we'll have those recommendations in the month ahead. finally, as you know, we have a rapid response protocol.

when a fatal collision does occur on our streets, and that rapid response involves both the sfpd and the mta and the mayor just clarified exactly who is doing what and when. and i want to review that so everyone is clear about that. when a crash occurs, within one hour, the police department will notify the mta of the location and anything is known about the crash. within 24 hours of the crash, mta will have a license engineer on site to take a look at the physical conditions, the traffic control devices, roadway markings, to see what if anything could be done to improve safety immediately. even as the crash investigation is taking place under sfpd's leadership. and within 72 hours of visiting the site. we commit if there are things we can do we get them done right away. and a couple examples of that

would be on howard street there was a fatal crash, a pedestrian was struck in a crosswalk. we were out there later that week. we removed a parking space and painted a crosswalk and put in warning signs. the rapid response, that's not meant to substitute for a robust, well-planned, well-designed full reconstruction of the intersection where there's a danger. we know we can use whatever tools we have at our disposal to immediately make those streets safer. so that's an overview of what was in the mayor's directive on september 26th. i would be happy to answer any questions you have about it. >> besides the examples you just gave, are there -- have there been other corrections made after a collision?

>> yes, there have. one more example of off the top of my head on courtland, there was a truck that struck a pedestrian. we've gone and restriped all the crosswalks at that intersection. high visibility and improved and cleaned up all the signage along that stretch of courtland and there's many more examples, yes. >> ok. any questions? >> thank you, very much. any public comments on this item? see none. public comment is now closed. i also, you know, want to remind all of us out there and my colleagues that we do get funds. work with your supervisors if you see something that could be improved. annually we get another allocation of $100,000 for every

district. through the community response team that tom mcgwire was just talking about. again, this fund is used to get a quick temporary fix. i put in my own budget for the direct $250,000 every year on pedestrian safety measures. if something that if other supervisors would like to jin mn me to get more money from the budget for the district, i really would support that. thank you, very much. i guess this item is finished. so, mr. clerk, item 7. >> clerk: general update on the action strategy update. this is an information item. >> ok. >> i'll be back.

very quick this time. sorry. while i'm loading this, i want to give a shout out to joe mcdonald who has not had a accident in a couple years. i tried to e-mail him and i couldn't get to him. joe if you are there listening. [laughter] >> your drive-time reports are great. we really appreciate your use of the word crash and it's every morning for those of us who listen to mpr. so i am back. i am the vision zero task force co-chair and the pedestrian program manager at the mta. and along with my co-chair, meghan we're we're updating our action strategy. so for those of you who remember, this will be our third iteration of the action strategy. our first action strategy came out after we initially began vision zero. and it was really defining the issue. we needed to define the problem.

it's not necessarily an understanding that we had all shared among the city that we wanted to get to zero traffic fatalities and that was our first action strategy. we've really grown as a team and as a collaborative approach. we define ourselves as a safe systems approach. our last version of the action strategy. in our next action strategy we intend on releasing in early 2019, we want to both identify clear actionable steps we can take in the next two to five years to get towards zero by 2024. and advance a clear policy platform that will drive that zero goal. and so, we all know and i'll talk about it in a second, there's going to be a lot of things the city can do and there's going to be some things that the city, as agencies cannot, and we're really looking to you our policies makers, our state and the federal to help us advance the vision zero policy.

we wanted to have a robust community outreach for this strategy. we got some really great incisive critical feedback on our last action strategy about making our actions smart. about being collaborative with our really powerful stakeholders who are were out in the community making change everyday. we wanted to make sure we have a collaborative approach towards developing this strategy. and so that started last fall with a bold idea workshop where away wanted to talk about the policy initiatives we would need to advance in order to get to zero beyond the scope of city agencies. we built on that this summer through a community workshop where we had over 70 participants help us to frame both what was working well in our last strategy, what we wanted to expand on and where were new ideas that they as community members wanted us to explore. and think about including in our new strategy. we additionally understand a

full day wednesday city workshop in the summer may not be something everyone who is interested in vision zero can attend so we hosted community coffee chats and tea talks in each of our 11 districts. to make sure we were talking to hundreds of san franciscans about vision zero and first that meant they were hearing about vision zero for the first time and for others they were giving us clear feedback on the work we are doing in their neighborhoods. i will say i attended two one at moscow and one in the tenderloin and half of those conversations were done in the chinese language and cantonese and mandrin. i didn't exactly know what was going on until i got the translated notes. it told me we were talking to people that are not engage in the processes that impart of. that was was really exciting for us. we hosted a city workshop. a lot of people work on vision zero across the city. hundreds in fact. we wanted to make sure those

people participated in our process. and we wanted their direct input on what we heard from the community and so we asked them to come help us make smart actions. we've spent the last few months really taking input and now we're starting to take that input and build it into a clear strategy and that is what i'm going to talk about now. we've had over 70 participants in our community workshops and over 300 new ideas. here was our quick pictures of our coffee talks. some of the feedback was our goals need to be smart. smart means specific, measurable, achievable, result oriented. what is going to get us fastest to zero and time based. when can this be accomplished. we all know we're working towards the 2024 timeframe but some things we have a reasonable expectation of doing in two years and others we're going to need the five years to get there. so, i'm only going to give two slides on this. our real hope is we will sit

down with your office to go into depth about this information. because frankly, as someone described it it's a little bit of a laundry list. we certainly heard the feedback and have actions that reflect the feedback we got. so, none of this should be a surprise. lower speed limits, culturally competent outreach, those are huge themes we have on our street side, including some of the clear infrastructure changes that neighborhoods wanted to see. on our people side, the safe routes programs continue to be extremely supported and people are looking to see us expand those programs, especially to hit vulnerable populations. they want enforcement. our traffic laws out in the streets and the neighborhoods they live in. we did hear a lot about that left turn collision. the good news is we're always working on it but how will we make that information and put it into action in the next two years. and on the safe vehicle side, we

both understand that we can regulate what we do with the city fleet but also, there's a lot going on in both automated vehicles and in emerging mobility that we need to be thinking about here at the city level as well as beyond the city level. we heard loud and clear that people are looking for us to talk to our partners about safety and what they can do as people who are using the streets to improve safety. so just briefly, the key highlights i wanted to bring up to you about what is new, what are we bringing forward to this action strategy that wasn't there prior, so, loud and clear we heard we wanted to see a link between the transit infrastructure we're putting in the streets. the safety outcomes that we think they have. and so, as our number one goal, in addition to protected bicycle facilities and widened sidewalks we will include transit only lanes which concentrate a road and our most impactful street

infrastructure tool we can use. that makes the next us between projects like van ness and gary to our vision zero program. on the safe people side, we've definitely heard that we need to be reaching deeper into our communities so we'll do a chinese focused vision zero campaign. and expanding our bay area for families for safe streets programs. and, on the safe vehicle side, automated vehicles are both something in the future and also very present. and so, we need to make sure that we have policies in play books that people who are providing these services know that they responsive to you in terms of safety here in san francisco. and ideally beyond san francisco. but, you know, we have this laundry list and it's certainly things we can do in two and five years with our budget and what we have. it is clear that zero is going to need more. what does more mean? we've all been having these conversations but this is where we want to share this information with everyone in the region and the state and in the

country. we're going to need bigger tools in our toolbox. some of those are the things that i know that commissioner peskin has been talking about like pricing. or automated enforcement of our roadways. we've been talking about them and we want to cot fie them here in this strategy and if we're going to get to our zero goal by 2024, we need access to those tools that reduce vehicle miles traveled and that improve safety on the streets in san francisco. and, that is really the direction that this strategy will be taken. so, not just the things i know i need to do as someone sitting in a cubical but also how we can inform the national conversation about these rules. so just as clear next steps, we are still taking feedback on those actions. i'm continuing to work with different owners all across the city to make sure that everyone who has an action in the strategy knows that they will be working on it and they will be responsive to us. and the vision zero team at mta

and at dph. we're still doing a lot of city and agency review so we have a lot of important people who away want to talk to about this plan and make sure that they have bought into it so they can be really impactful and we're hoping for it by march 2019. if there are any questions, i'm happy to take them. >> any questions? just some quick ones. it's great to have -- i usually talk about this in reverse because you are having these two two-year action plans. i am curious how does it tie into the end goal of in six years. i mean, do you sort of look at what you need to do within the six years and make sure that your two-year plans actually will get us through that end goal. >> i think that there has to be a balance between both the things that were equipped and able to do in terms of

resources. so that means people and that means money. there's also going to be elements of aspiration, right. we certainly want to get to zero and we know we will need more than the things we have. the resources to do. we have to be clear about what is possible while additionally thinking about what we would like to see. i think that's going to be framed in both ways in this strategy. and additionally, we can't ask for more than we have. we fully recognize there's a greater need beyond what we can do. hopefully the things we are doing are the most impactful things. >> did you say that we can ask for more than you have? >> you know, typically when we -- a clear strategy, we have to be con trained to the things we have but make it clear what the gap and the delta is in order for us to do more. really, we want to be that you e

thoughtful. the things we want to do we're doing that have the highest impact. >> which is great. i would also like to know, in regards to the gap. the delta we're talking about. what is it and what would you like to do if you were to have more resources? right now it's like, ok, we might need more resources but i can't sit here and say we can't support it without having a notion, well we have this much more money we'll do this. so can we get a list or at least some -- >> i think our conversations with our individual commissioners and supervisors would be great. i think there are some things where the gap is known. and you know, so, if we wanted to do x more pedestrian count down signals, we would be able to tell you exactly how much we would need in the timeframe in order to make that come true.

others are going to be, you know, could we advance an entire transit-only lane project and that is going to be both from our perspective of our resources and also from those bold ideas, right. [ please stand by ]

>> some things are about our power to stage just change state and federal federal laws. >> we have to get the state to allow us to do this. do you have any clue whether or not they will be reintroducing it and when we. >> we hope there will be a conversation at the zero traffic fatalities state task force. so i think that is where we will advance any new ideas and any initiatives for vision zero. that is an exciting opportunity. >> are there any strategies that the community could be part of that could help to strengthen the strategy?

>> i am looking to the state legislative analyst to answer that question. >> i'm sorry. it will take me a few more minutes but i think this is really important to me and for people in the community in san francisco that we get the opportunity to do this. >> right now, the way the legislation is written, it identifies -- does not have a specific number of seats on the taut -- on the task force but it shows that they will be represented on the task force. a lot of them are people we have had issues with such as automated speed enforcement like the california highway patrol and state agencies that haven't had the same view s.s. on that. in terms of community engagement , because we don't know exactly who is on the task force and how many people, it is hard to say. the california state transportation agency is leading that right now and i know that san francisco is definitely in

collaboration with big cities across the state. they have already sent a letter requesting to have a seat on that task force. so that will be -- if san francisco is at the table, we will of course, do outreach to know what we will be talking about their -- about their. >> i don't think actual legislators are on the task force. it is more staff. agency staff. and it is set to convene july 1 st 2019 is the deadline for it to convene. >> july 1st of next year? >> yes. >> oh, boy. >> now is a time to start influencing. >> i'm sorry. any other questions on the task force? >> i don't think so. in regards to telematics, i don't know if you can answer this question or not.

but we've implemented the telematics on most of the city vehicle fleets and i was just wondering if there is any data to show any improvement of behavior for drivers, our city employees. >> my colleague will be the right person to answer that question. i apologize. if i could come back with an answer to that one, that would be great. >> i have heard positive reports in regards to reducing idling and things like that which would save a lot of fuel emissions. but i haven't heard a lot in terms of are we driving safer? are we slowing down? now that we sort of know who is going 80 miles an hour in the city. >> i think if john were standing here, he would say the number 1 goal of the telematics device his deterrence. when people have something in their car that says we will be recording your. >> speaker-02: , that people tend to behave in a safer way. i will let him come back and

talk about that next quarter or we can send you an e-mail or follow up on that one. >> all right. thank you, very much. did i ask for public comments on this? >> not yet. >> any public comment on this item? >> hello again. my name is, ending the policy and program director at walk san francisco. first i want to thank sfmta staff and d.p.h. for this approach and this outreach they have been doing for the action strategy. the vision zero coalition last year as a group that walk s.f. help support. it is 35 communities and organizations that advocate for vision zero. we did not have a lot of opportunity to have input on last year's last action strategy we mentioned that and the m.t.a. and d.p.h. really listens. they have been sitting down with us and have been holding all the great meetings that she mentioned. the amount of community input on this strategy is phenomenal.

i really want to thank city staff for doing that. will not get to vision zero if all of our voices aren't heard and part of the process. i am excited about some of the things that are in the draft items in the action strategy. especially, i'm not sure if she mentioned it, but i think i heard recently a commitment to put improvements on every high injury corridor before 2024, even just short-term temporary. that is how we will get there. but i share your concern about the boldness and about -- not even the boldness, but what do we know? instead of just having a plan that gets us a two years and a few things and may be five years , i want to know is what will it take to get us there? not what you will do by 2024 but what would it take us to get to zero deaths and zero injuries? and then we can work back from there and figure out what we need to. i agree with you and i would urge the city to produce that report of what has worked so far and what remains necessary to be

done. i would like to see that too. the vision zero coalition has been pushing for a five year plan. a plan that takes us all the way to 2024. it is not a long-term goal. the city makes long-term plans that are much longer. this is a 50 year plan. if we can do a 50 year plan, we can do a five year plan that is details -- detailed and gets us where we need to be. i urge the city to really continue to do that. another thing we asked in this next action strategy is a focus on transit as a central part of a vision zero strategy. we know communities that rely on transit have fewer crashes. and so we want to see transit to be a bigger part of the strategy not just transit priority but transit frequency as well. i am out of time but excited to see what this next action strategy is. thank you. >> thank you, very much.

>> i would like to have you also include in your strategy, also the bidding and overseeing of construction sights. you have one construction site at the terminal and the west portal station where a white skinned coloured mail lost his life because thorough background checks and prerequirements of checking a background of a contractor was supposed to be done and city officials claimed it was done and it turns out that the company had a history of fatality and serious injuries that took place on the job. so i think that should be part of your strategy as well. and also, we had a latino, hispanic, mexican female who too lost her life on a construction site in the streets in the city and that should be part of your

strategy to oversee background checks of contractors as well. this contractor who too cause the death of this female also had a history of mistakes and licensed -- licenses had been provoked. i thank you and your strategy should combine what the bidding process and interviewing and backtracking these contractors who are slipping through this loophole which is supposed to be a safety to prevent these fatalities that you claim you want to prevent. also, my next demonstration, which is going to be more detailed under item number 7, when you talk about fatalities, i will be in more detail and more on what took place on these locations. also, you caught me off guard. there was a hispanic male who worked on a construction site

who was buried alive because the contractor didn't follow procedures when digging a trench it took 11 hours to find him. >> thank you. >> any other public comments? singing on, public comment is closed. i have one more question. sorry. i have four questions. one thing -- i came back from a conference in a child friendly city and a lot of this discussion was about the streets and what they could do to make it more attractive for people to feel safe on the sidewalks and streets. and part of it was, as you know, when we engineer what you call that, dieting? you always try to lose something you are trying to lose speed here. it is dieting to lose speed. is there any -- was there any overall strategy discussing the possibility of reducing speed

overall in san francisco? i know m.t.a. and caltrans is a little resistant to that in the past. i don't know about now. it took me two or three years to get monterey boulevard slowed down to 25 miles an hour off the freeway and originally for two years they said it couldn't be done. so i think things can be done. any strategies? >> strategies around speed reduction? the first one, i will say is automated enforcement again. and we also -- speed limit reduction roles are set at the state. again, that will be part of the conversation of the state at zero traffic fatalities task force. that it is convening in july. but it is definitely part of the

conversation. those two are the biggest tools we would like to talk about and we really need the state to be on board with those items. we are not starting from square one. we have done a great job advancing that conversation. hopefully we are taking that good work that we have done and we are moving it forward through this state legislation. probably a less than satisfactory answer. it is in our strategy. >> ok. thank you. we will can to new pounding on that strategy. thank you, very much. ok. we will go ahead and finish with this item and we will go to item number 7. >> item seven is update on 2018 fatalities. this is an information item. how are you doing?

>> hi, doing good. there you go. >> hi i am the captain for sfpd 's traffic division. today i would like to talk about the fatalities so far for 2018. and i will quickly go through the slides and i also have an expansion on some of the items that i was told to highlight. if we look at between 2016 and 2018, we are currently at 18 fatalities. this is slightly higher than last year but significantly lower from -- i went back as far as 2014 and we were in the thirties and right now it is just slightly higher at 2018.

so if we look at the fatalities and look at the travel modes, 12 for pedestrians, two more vehicles, three were bicyclists and one motorcyclist. so far, 33% of the people that have died were 65 and over. seven of those people were hit and run. i can expand on that in a little bit. one of them was a t.n.c. going to the hit and run, out of those hit and run out of the seven, we have made three arrests. one was a detention investigation and that was the t.n.c. out of those, we have three open cases right now and out of the three, we have two that are active and have leaves that we are following today.

and i will go to the next slide. if you look at the areas of what they look at as concentration of poverty and rural population, 56 % of the vision zero fatalities occurred in these areas and 44% of them on the high energy -- injury network. you can see the diagram up there if you have a closer copy, it will show you which of those areas people were walking. which were bicyclists and which were riding motorcycles and vehicles while driving. the yellow area is the vulnerable populations and communities of concern. the red network is the high injury corridor. and our unit focuses on enforcement on the high injury corridor.

out of those 18 fatalities, the seven hit and run, if you have any specific questions regarding those, our team, what they do is they go out and investigate and i have an investigations unit and a forensics technical unit that go out to every fatality. not only the hit and run and they basically treated as a crime scene and we interview all the witnesses and all the involved parties. we look at a forensics of not only the car but also the roadway and we look for cameras and video and individual video. we develop leads that way for the hit and runs. for the drivers that remain at

the scene, we investigate it and we work closely with the district attorney's office to identify which cases lead to prosecution. which are majority of them. we work closely with d.p.h. and m.t.a. and we work closely with d.p.h. and m.t.a. on every single fatality to troubleshoot the area to see how it can be improved and they work very closely with m.t.a. on that. and that is all for my presentation. >> i have a question about one of the fatalities. what do you call that, the moped think we the one along embarcadero. >> that is the pedicab. >> we don't have any leads at

this point, right? >> we do. we are looking at leads on that. we have been all over the bay area investigating that collision and we have interviewed people. we have examined cars. it is still an open investigation and we are still investigating it. >> one of these, i'm curious about. especially the area where there are a lot of t.n.c. they will have their cameras. was there any attempt to reach the t.n.c. that happened to be around that area so you can actually get more footage possibly of the vehicle that cause cost a fatality? >> yes. we have a multiple investigators that went out, not only the primary investigator that was involved on the investigation, we also have a video team that

went and looked at different routes that this person might have taken. we do have video of the vehicle that we put out and we put it out to the media including a shot of the car. specifically for the t.n.c., what we did is when we go out to the media, we ask for any kind of dash cam footage from anybody not just the t.n.c. that can come forward to. we have had a a lot a phone calls both anonymous and people who have identified themselves. it is an open investigation. >> ok. i appreciate that. hopefully may be in the future, i would like to see possibly working in agreement with t.n.c. and companies. because right now we are just asking for people to volunteer their information. wouldn't it be nice if you could say to them, this is where it happens.

can you get the footage of your fewer just your vehicles that are around sterically if someone refuses, or they might be a lot of people who don't want to do it, then you are at some disadvantage. >> i have actually discussed that specifically with my investigators. t.n.c. do not require any type of video for operation. so that would be up to the individual driver and those are generally considered independent contractors using an app. but it's definitely a lead that we can look at. >> one more related question. in this -- has ever been where you had notice from t.n.c. or any driver, with t.n.c. in particular that has been useful for investigation and finding

the perpetrator? >> we have some that have come forward as witnesses. i would have to actually look at the case fall -- case file to look at that and look at each individual case file. >> i will go off-line with you but i think my intent is there are some that i would love to highlight what they did that was so positive. >> ok. >> i just have one quick question. is there any reason or have you looked at why the fatalities spiked in august and september? >> we do look at those fatalities. again, and arrest was made on one of those out of the three arrests. and that one was a d.u.i. on the other ones that were both

pedestrians walking, one of them was a real late at night and that was the hit and run. at this time, there was nothing trend -wise that stood out. i have discussed that with my investigators. >> ok. thank you for your report. any public comments on this item >> i spoke to you earlier about hispanic latino and mexican female dissent who lost their life in a fatality in a construction site. she is a historical female by means of breaking through the glass ceiling barrier that was done by a predominantly male employees in the construction field. >> i'm sorry.

this item is on -- >> fatalities. >> vehicle fatalities. >> this is a teagle dish vehicle fatalities. the vehicle caused her death. i like to start my time and give me back for the seconds that were lost here. this e-mail here is working on -- this female was working on a construction site. she busted through the ceiling of an occupation that was controlled predominately by a male and she was struck by a vehicle that slid off of a tow truck and the contractor had a history of numerous rule violations and didn't have a license during this timeframe. this correlates with my earlier demonstration where you are talking about strategies. i believe your strategy of overseeing and being present during this contract bidding situations could help prevent this type of situations from happening.

her name was leanna. she was a plumber. she busted through the ceiling and went through the training in school and everything. she had a toddler that was only about two or three years old. as a result, she was asking her grandfather, where is her mother and the grandfather told her that her mother is in heaven. as a result, she wants to go to heaven too to see her mother. the second demonstration pertains to a male that was hit at west portal station. he too was killed by the negligence of a contractor. the contractor was checked and prequalified and passed all the tests, which is a boldfaced lie. he lost his life too on the job site. >> thank you. any other public comment on this item? seeing none, the public comment is -- public comment?

>> sorry. public comment is now closed. do you have -- i might have to skip item a and go to item nine for now. because we have two drop our time -- we have dropped dropdead time at 4:00 pm. can you call item number 9? >> item nine is update on plan for pedestrian signal retiming. this is an information item. >> good afternoon commissioners. i'm here with the sfmta. i am the city traffic engineer. you had asked us to provide you an update on what it would take or how long it would take for us to the time the entire traffic signal system based on our previous discussion that we had developed a new crossing time for pedestrians. a slower walking speed of 3 feet per section -- per second. and your inquiry led to some

productive work that we tried to see what projects we had pending and what projects were likely in the next few years and we have concluded that we can retiming all of the high injury network in five years and to be completed with the entire traffic signal system by the year 2024. the high injury network is about two thirds of our traffic signal so we think that based on existing projects and staff capacity we can do the work in five years and i will be part of our strategy that they discussed prior. and the locations that are not on the high injury network, we would finish them in the year after that five-year period. six years total. >> and in regards to the timing of it, did you say three years? >> five years for the high injury network and six years total for the city. >> ok. i thought you said three.

so the question here is what is preventing us from speeding that up? what would be the bottleneck? >> there are various bottlenecks there are some issues about how to properly read time some of the signals. for example, we are undertaking a retiming of the downtown area which requires not just going on and retiming the signal by gathering data and doing traffic analysis to make sure that we update other things and need to be updated with the traffic signal system. those kind of cases, we need to do a more thorough signal timing there are issues in terms of implementation and we have other priority projects including vision zero projects and transit projects that take up staff time in terms of implementation of projects. i am trying to be realistic in the sense that the past ability to deliver these types of projects and the capacity both at the m.t.a. in terms of

engineering and our traffic signal shop in terms of implementation. and that is the best we can do at this point. >> with the resources you have? >> with the resources we have and we likely will have in the future. >> but the state will probably past something that is similar. do we want to read time all the signals in california? san francisco deserves another 50 million to do this. can we speeded up? >> that would be possible. it would require a process by which we would have to step up staffing. it is an issue in the sense of retaining an engineer his -- it is a tight labor environment in terms of hiring electricians. staffing up along just beyond the stuff we have no, and retaining the staff that we have is a possibility. at this point, i'm not assuming

anything to come out of the sky. i am assuming what is known at this point and being optimistic in a sense it in the future we would be able to leverage some state funding or some other resources to finish the work. in the past we have not retimed all our traffic signals every five years. we have taken much longer. to do the project in five years is to be aggressive on our end. >> i appreciate it. i am sure what you are giving us is realistic. but it is always the what if? by the way, we have families who are street members and we heard what we need to. let's advocate for it and may be we could get it. >> i think -- i'm excited about doing traffic signal timing. it is one of the things we can do with minimal construction or other type of work. i think it is one of the things that we want to do throughout

the high injury network as, mentioned. i share your belief that this is something we should work on. but we are trying to proceed in a measured manner and i think that this is my realistic assessment at this point. if we can do it quicker, we will aim to do that. >> commissioners? no questions. i really appreciate your effort. the two things that we really find helpful is reducing speed and changing the time. any public comments on this item >> yes. the five-year commitment that he came up with that really equates to more than 100 people losing their lives. on this current toll the city of san francisco is experiencing right now. we have to get more aggressive. lives art