>> 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 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