i think the port commission made this argument. but reconsidering it, the compliance period, maybe 6-9 months after the initial audit in which they can work to come to can compliant and be retested before hiring a facilitator. i see that as burdensome and expensive, particularly to city and nonprofit entities. they've asked for consideration of the grace period. i haven't heard from any other departments. i plan in the next two weeks to do outreach of my own to businesses that are not associated with the associations and the representatives we heard today. i'm talking about january terse, i'm talking about bouma and the apartments and association and golden gate restaurant association. there is a considerable list of businesses that are impacted that are on this newly furnished list. the department of environment

provided. the american industrial complex in particular. the industrial businesses are not fully represented. i would be interested to hear from the school district as well where their thoughts are on this. so it seems like there is a lot of moving parts and work that needs to be done when it comes to moving this legislation forward. any other comments? >> thank you. i want to start out by thanking supervisor safai for this important piece of legislation. i know there is a lot of questions still. i want to thank my colleagues for asking all the questions. i've been in listening mode. i'm fine with accepting the amendments because i think it's good to work off one body, one piece of legislation. so i am fine with accepting them and knowing that we have two weeks to address all of the concerns that have come up.

and work with supervisor safai on any more amendments you might want to make. so i am fine with moving the amendments forward today. >> supervisor safai: thank you. >> president cohen: when is the next budget meeting? >> the next finance meeting is november 15. >> just one last point. the one example that they gave that talked about the cost savings of $28,000 before the zero waste facilitator and after, i would ask the department, if we can get this one case study is great. it shows how much money was saved. shows how the annual cost is a significant savings to the building. if you can show more examples of that. if you can bring those, i think that will be very helpful to this committee. because it will talk about some real life examples about why

this is important. how the cost savings are there. and specifically what the overall benefit is. so i think that is an important point. then i would just again say to the committee, i think president cohen's point is a good one, i would prefer to have the amendments accepted today and we can move forward with further conversation. i know they sounded technical and cumbersome, but we did spend a significant amount of time talking about a lot of those today, in a lot of detail. >> supervisor safai, you definitely put a lot of work in this. this is quite a heavy lift. you definitely have many stakeholders that are at the table that are touching this legislation. even myself, when i first heard about it and learned about, i didn't even think about the impacts to some almost secondary stakeholders. so i appreciate your willingness and flexibility to work with us

on the legislation. >> supervisor safai: through the chair, to your point about the affordable housing, i am -- having been a former housing authority commissioner, having worked with the housing authority, i'm cognizant of that and i think sitting down with the affordable housing stakeholders, i appreciated mr. cohen's comments today about working with the department in terms of helping them get up and running and/or education as both you and supervisor fewer talked about today. i would say in some cases if you're at 3% diversion rate, that could be the availability of the right equipment. could be education. but it also could be a real opportunity to put some pinocchifolks in a position to have a job opportunity. you know this firsthand, supervisor, president cohen, even though we have a low

unemployment rate certain communities have a significant unemployment rate that is not reflected. and it's emphasized and magnified in public housing. so we could be giving residents and/or students and youth an opportunity. this does not mandate the type of person going in, but it mandates the type of work and focus. >> supervisor fewer: i would like just to follow up with the department of environment on some of the data that i requested. i was hoping you can get that to the supervisors as soon as possible. so we can have actually a deeper analysis. that would be greatly appreciated. supervisor safai, i'd like to make a motion to move these amendments with a positive recommend takes. and -- recommendation. i and believe that triggers a two-week waiting period because we don't have a meeting next week. and the meeting of the 15th.

steph >> would you like to accept the amendment proposed by the port? supervisor safai, i would like to remind you you're a guest here. >> thank you for reminding me. >> let me check with my committee. ladies? would you like to accept the amendments from the port? >> supervisor stefani: i this in the two week time we have time to talk with the port. i don't know if i'm comfortable, because i haven't had a chance to talk to the sponsor of the legislation. not saying that i wouldn't accept them in two weeks, but right now, it's important to get feedback from supervisor safai. >> president cohen: supervisor fewer? >> supervisor fewer: i would be open to having further discuss and i'd like to meet with the

port to see how this might have impact and whether or not to reevaluate the proposals so see whether or not it will impact they want. >> supervisor safai: thank you. sorry. didn't want to speak out of turn. through the chair and to everyone, i just received those this morning. they are referencing a separate section of chapter 19 that is not referenced in my legislation. i asked both the port and the department of environment to speak. they're looking at them. the first one that talks about waiving the responsibility of them, that would be an exclusive wavering request that no other accounts have. so my reaction to that, i'm not open that, but i'm open to sitting down and talking to them. the second is about the public trash cans and we have started -- one of the amendments today deals with that. i do want the department of environment, myself and the port

to sit down and have further conversations. we met with them months ago about this. they said they would get back to us and we just got the language today. >> president cohen: what we'll do is hold off on accepting the amendments proposed by the port. we'll chew on them for two weeks and then bring it back up in discussion. you're welcome. so supervisor fewer has made a motion to accept the amendments made by supervisor safai. i think we can take that without objection. thank you very much. without objection, the amendments are accepted. and then i will say that we will continue this item for two week's time as amended to the november 15th budget meeting. all right, we can take that without objection. thank you. is there any business before the body? >> no further business. >> thank you, we're adjourned. thank you very much.

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[♪] [♪] [♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested.

one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪] it brought all of the punks on

the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last

show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and

i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting.

one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuffestuff from their grandpar, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the

public in the future.

>> 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. 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] [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. 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. 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. 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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. 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 -- 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 aic