academies. thank you. >> keep up the good work. any public comments on this item? come on up. >> thank you. my name is bert hill. [inaudible] this is very timely, last monday night, we met new captain, luke martin, really impressed with him, he did a great job. one of the things we talked about was the staffing of traffic, in detail with it. we heard the staff went from 100 down to 80 and where it is now. encouraging the board of supervisors on the mayor to support in their planning. an increase in traffic, it seems

the correlation is not causation, but the recent increases relate inversely to the declining number of officers in enforcement. two other comments real quickly. as far as the first five, one of the main thing that happens that causes collisions, his failure to signal. the police department shows very few statistics on siding people for failure to signal. this is a preventative measure that would eliminate a lot of the collisions if bicyclists and pedestrians saw someone signaling it would be very easy to do that yet we see no action on it. we would like to encourage being considered part of the first five, because lastly, we have asked, were going to do a resolution on it which gives grant for bicycle traffic enforcement in some areas of the city. getting a

grant to test out and the other cities are doing it very successfully. it's a fraction of the cost of a motorcycle and we would like to see it thank you. >> next speaker. >> i am a school crossing guard at 19th and judah, i represented the guards during our contract negotiations. we have been lobbying for more than a year since the mta informed the transportation authority that there was a shortage of guards in this year's contract negotiations we were told there is still a shortage by about 28 guards, we believe giving the crossing guards more hours, right now we only get 2.5 per day. if we get a couple more hours in the midday and the afternoons, that would help with traffic safety and help retain more guards, because it's a 2.5 hour split shift and it's hard to get people as was mentioned

obviously, the police on the parking control cannot be everywhere. we are not trying to take away any work or substitute for them just because we are lower pay - lower paid. we could be more of a help. because of our contract negotiations this year, we missed the dead - the budget deadline. i am hoping to maybe plant the seed for a smaller program, maybe 15-20 guards at the most critical intersections. we are ready to go almost immediately, from a salary of $21 per hour it's not too expensive. during the contract negotiations at the mayor's office they said safe and clean streets were the highest priority, their spending an awful lot of money on keeping them clean. despite that, i wrote to the mayor's office and never got a response, i am hoping though, that there might be some way to get some money together for an interim program vision zero or the various other things, or maybe someday the

uber tax. i had emailed the mta board members and none of them responded. two paraphrase in today's language, those who save one life save the world. i hope we can be part of that group and get some sort of interim program going if there is some money left in the budget somewhere. enke. >> okay, just for your information if you want to speak about what you spoke about, right now, please wait for general public comment. that one had nothing to do with this report. sorry. >> this report serves and points out derivatives of the topic. first of all, i want to point out how the police department demonstrated top class self-control when a female driver of an automobile was driving very recklessly. hitting numerous cars, and actually

caused damage by hitting a pedestrian. by the same response, none of the cops fired one bullet, which could have resulted in the death of the female victim, or perpetrated defendant that was driving the vehicle that was in front of the tenderloin police station. my point is, this is an example of how you need an increase the mental health services and a location where a person - >> mr. wright? let's stop for a second. every major last public comment, i made it a point to say that if it's not related >> sir, sir, you have a tendency of not being competent on my demonstrations. on my last demonstration - just let me finish >> wait! mr. wright. >> you are saying it is not related and it is related. this

says to rock severe injuries overall. >> give us a minute. it is related to the topic pertaining to injuries that people have in the system that have severe mental disabilities. okay, i'm not done yet. my time is not done. i'm going to point out and respond to you how this is related, okay? topic number six is talking about the police department update on report and the number of tickets on vehicles with pedestrians. it's related to vehicles and pedestrians because the vehicle was out of control and the police demonstrated self-control and did not murder the person driving the vehicle. i'm pointing out how the driver, the female defendant had a mental disability and if she would have got the services that i am saying that should be in place, that situation probably would not have been in place and it could have been prevented, sir. you see my point? now an my can

i continue police i don't want my time taken away. >> i need a minute back on my time. >> 16 seconds. >> furthermore, the interruption you said is unprofessional, and your demonstrating and competence is not the first time you have did that. okay. >> thank you, mr. wright. thank you. any other public comments on this item? i am seeing none. public comment is closed. mr. clark, let's call number seven. [reading items] >> good afternoon. thank you. jamie parks over at cr livable

streets divisions which runs our capital projects. i want to provide an update this afternoon on what we are terming our quick build program which is a term we came up with a few months ago. it's really a continued evolution of the way we are delivering vision zero projects. ever since we adopted vision zero in 2014 we have been working to deliver projects, safety improvement continuously faster. this is the next generation in the process. we will start by really echoing what the chair mentioned at the beginning of this meeting, 2019 has not been a good year for vision zero outcomes. in particular, i may not have the numbers exactly right. there was a. in late february where i think we had five fatalities in the. of 10 days. i think i made it clear to everyone that the process was not coming fast enough. from a letter that the

mayor sent to the director on the board, directing the the mta to develop a policy to move forward with safety improvements faster. over the last three months we have put together this quick build program to respond to that challenge. there are a number of aspects to this, so really three things i want to highlight, for the approach. one is overall streamlining the approval process for safety improvements, second is increasing our emphasis on the quick build projects, projects we can deliver faster with city crews and on-call contractors. and then finally, and importantly, additional resources to make it all work. funding is not the only piece of the puzzle, but it is a critical piece of it, because without the additional funding the other pieces do not work. i want to go through each of these really quickly and then if we have time for questions i'm happy to take them. to start with, our current

practice or where we were starting from. our outreach process for typical projects takes 12-18 months or even more in a lot of cases. we have seen a lot of benefits from that in the past particularly when we were talking about a project for several decades. we need to make sure we have all of the details correct. through those processes we have worked through resolvable issues with the public. the challenges, we can't move as quickly as we would like, it doesn't allow us through that process to field test new designs, or, continue to adjust projects after they have been installed through our current process. the policy changes that we took to the's mta board, looked towards creating a process that was a

lot more nimble and efficient where we could install safety treatments that were proven to be effective immediately. adjust them over time, then come back to the board prior to implementing or approving major construction projects area the challenge with all of this, is as we are moving faster we need to maintain the same level of transparency and accountability we have for all of our projects. talked a little bit about how we are doing that. on june 4, the mta board passed a set of policy improvements related to the quick build program. it really did four different things. complementary modifications to the transportation code in terms of how those projects could be approved. it created clear requirements for mta staff for accountability and transparency and how we report and deliver these projects. and then they approved a set of specific locations where we would be

implementing quick build projects in the coming months. in terms of what a quick build project is. the primary thing to think about is these are reversible and adjustable improvements. whether it's paint and posts or moving around the parking meter or adjusting - [inaudible] these are the changes our city crews can do. so we can adjust over time and that are not permanent. the quick build program, the projects that are adopted are limited to a 24 month duration. they need to become permanent or make permanent adjustments to them. the mta board also changed the way the projects are approved within the transportation code allowing a set of specific approvals that typically require mta board approval to be approved by the city traffic engineer after a public hearing. it includes things we typically do on a lot

of these quick modifying existing bike lanes, putting in stop signs. there a public hearing notice in accordance with our public hearings and requirements. how we solicit stakeholder throughout the course of the implementation of the project. i think you'll hear more about our evaluation programs, couple of items from now. after before the 24 months expires. they would need to provide the ultimate approval for any improvement projects or any instruction activity. one of the things the mta board did do is a pipeline of projects, making sure that we are always delivering and developing new quick build projects. there are a set of 10 projects that we present to the mta board and i think april that we committed

to. they are listed here, to deliver in 2019 on june 4, the mta board adopted a set of additional five quick build projects listed here on 7th st. golden gate avenue, howard st. leavenworth and valencia street all major streets on our high injury network. for us to deliver as quickly as possible likely early 2020. that is the length of the corridor. sometimes we measure things and centerline miles, sometimes we do it in lane miles which is a total number of lanes. anyway, it's just the length. we could probably just call it length and make it easier. [laughter] we will work on that. the last thing i wanted to mention in this presentation is all of the things i just talked

about require additional resources. we have been working really hard with staff over the last six weeks or so to put together allocation request that will be coming to the commission in july. what this will allow us to do is move forward with a lot of these projects and make sure that we are hiring the staff necessary to deliver them. he mentions that a lot of these quick build projects are delivered by city crews. we need to make sure as we are developing the project that we have the painters on the sign and sellers in place to deliver the projects. that is what the allocation request would do. also i wanted to mention a number of one-time cost as well in terms of trucks or materials. a painter can't do very much work unless they can paint the spread. those one-time costs can't generally be covered we

are looking for funding for that as well through the city's general budget. that concludes my summary of the quick build program and where we are right now. [inaudible] >> what kind of impact has this had, if any? i know it is soon maybe? >> what kind of impact that we had from quick build projects? >> even though we didn't start using the term quick build, this started in 2017 when mayor lee issued a directive around vision zero projects and told us to deliver three protected bike

lanes in three months. we delivered seventh and eighth streets which are protected bike lanes in nine months. comparatively, a project like second street which is just now finishing up as an amazing project. that has been 10 years in the making. we can deliver 80-90% of the safety benefits in a matter of months through the quick build project. we feel it is an important tool for us to deliver vision zero as quickly as we possibly can. >> thank you for your report. any other questions? unseeing none. thanks. any public comments on this item? come on up. >> good afternoon. thank you for this opportunity. i am the executive director of walk san francisco. we are the only pedestrian advocacy working to make san francisco the most

friendly city in the nation. as you are both well aware, we rely heavily on vision zero and this is something we are pushing for every day. we've also been reminded today that we are not on the best path for vision zero. we are doing everything possible to help encourage to be able to do things quickly with paint, posts, test, designs particularly for pedestrian safety. we are in full support of this quick build approach. we feel it is cost-effective and results driven. one quick example of this which jamie did not highlight but i would like to highlight because i think it's impressive it's artie in the ground. taylor street we passed this project in 2018 and the capital project will not be started until 2020 but their paint we have already implemented this quick build to reduce traffic speeds and take

away a traveling. this is a fantastic outcome. they do need more paint crew to be able to do this. one of our big concerns is not the quick build also has a time for basic maintenance and things that we can do in terms of refreshing crosswalks and paint projects that we don't want to get pushed to the back burner. we think this is really important that they have the resources to both do the big projects like the quick builds but also can do all of the maintenance that is necessary. we do support this ask from the prop k funds, but we do want to question whether it is a great idea to borrow from future prop k if it's a good policy or not. thank you. >> thank you. any other public

comment on this item? i am seeing none. [reading items] >> good afternoon commissioners. i am the vision zero outreach coordinator. i will be giving you an update on our education and communications. we have radio and video prepared for you so hopefully it plays. this is a quick slide of what we came to present last time we were here. a lookahead of campaigns to look forward to in 2019 and the next slide we will speak more to it. this slide you have in your packets is just an idea of the types of metrics that we collect each month around education and communications. these are our metrics for the quarters as of mid-june. i'm going to explain

the next line. if it works the video will start playing and it features our campaigns that we launched for the quarter. in april which was distracted driving awareness month and we launched our campaign. may wasn't motorcycle safety month and we launched the third year of our office of traffic safety motorcycle safety campaign as well as a driving to date campaign. the video should play. we have our pedestrian yielding campaign on the streets. there is no sound, but you can see the video running in the bottom right. just give you an idea. [music playing] great.

[laughter] the next few slides we want to share our around developing multilingual materials. before it was vision zero it was safe streets sf. as our brandon started to develop, here's an example of our old brand and then this is the current vision zero brand you see today. these are promotional materials from our program which officially became an mta program today. we've heard a lot about our motorcycle safety campaign which is in our third and final year. as one of our biggest education campaigns is around speeding and we created - this

is in chinese. >> of course, this is the senior safety pedestrian campaign which we are working on sharing regionally with the city of san jose. a video that played earlier, this is our brand-new campaign that we launched in may

we created videos both in spanish and chinese. [music playing] i apologize music doesn't change. [laughter] last one. when we

were at the project level we tried to develop multilingual materials, that we did last year. on your left you will see our vision zero safe spot posters that are currently being sold right now. they started last weekend and should be complete this weekend and are in 150 different locations throughout the city. on your right you will see examples of our materials from our post-fatality outreach cards from our crisis response team and also the memorial posters that we install. when we are at community events, farmers markets, libraries, sunday street these are the multilingual materials we have.

sorry. on your left, you will see comment cards in spanish and chinese that were developed specifically for the communities these cards are not available in english. i also wanted to give you an update on our chinese focus campaign which is part of our deliverables and our action strategy. here are pictures of us in partnering with chinese hospitals in chinatown at their healthcare. speaking with our patients in getting more information. we will also be working with our department of public health partners to see how we can get even more information to create a culturally relevant campaign that speaks to the chinese population. with that i will turn it over to my colleague at the department of public health who will speak to you about safeties for seniors program. >> thank you. come on up. >> thank you for the

introduction. good afternoon commissioners. i am the program coordinator for safety for seniors at dph. i'm going to present on safety for seniors how we reach out to the seniors, particularly the multilingual seniors. i'm excited to hear what the committee has been doing on outreach. i am happy to reach out after to see how we can work together on outreach. our dph is educating seniors and service providers on vision zero and gathering feedback and bringing back to our agencies. our staff conducts multilingual presentations in the outreach to seniors on the service providers on vision zero and how to enroll in business zero and how to stay

safe. our program starts april 2015. since then we reach out to over 2000 seniors and staff at 62 locations. also our program is responsible for organizing local neighborhoods and community based organizations to work on safety through the whole city. the funding profits will be given to the underserved neighborhoods and special populations at risk. in the fiscal year 152017 and 17 to 18. the 15 community-based organizations, and the current physical year, 18-19. we have seven community-based organizations and by our neighborhood focus. they include walk sf, senior disability action group. chinatown community development centers in

the south family connections. tenderloin community benefit districts, lighthouse for the bright and visceral and visually impaired. some of them are here today. i would like to say thank you for all of the great work they have done. also, as i mentioned, our staff will go out to the different neighborhoods and senior centers to do the educational presentation and outreach. there neighborhood including multiple neighborhood located including chinatown, bayview, mission and tenderloin. our audience we reach are very diverse and non-english speaking. and then the

presentation, the presentation is translated in cantonese, mandarin and spanish to address the language barriers in the community. at the same time during the presentation, we take the feedback from the community and then share that with our city panel agencies such as mta. here is a picture of our staff talking to the seniors at their safe streets for seniors and tenderloin. [inaudible] also, our safety for seniors program educational materials, one for safety for seniors brochure, i believe everybody has one in your hand. also, our senior outreach card and both of them are translated into foreign languages. we give this out to the seniors during

our presentation, and community panels. the seniors really love them, because [inaudible] the people say they feel much safer and helpful as they go out. i also have the sample i brought here. if you feel - and feel free to reach out to me for more if you need it. here is my presentation on our program. i am happy to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> any questions? just a real quick one, i noticed on your presentation you have high injury neighborhoods that you are covering for your presentations and outreach. are you doing any at "all lives matter" one the sunset or ocean

avenue area. the sunset area we have several presentations before. we don't have the main focus there. we have one scheduled july 11 with our group called senior power. that would be another presentation in the sunset area. we would also like to schedule moore one the area. thank you. >> if you need help in my district anyway, district 7, there is quite a few senior programs and i know, you look at the stat over the last two years, even though sometimes you don't consider high injury area. you look at the stats and see how many seniors are actually being killed and you will see that it is pretty high, relative

for everything that happens in the city. i think that is something we shouldn't ignore. i could rattle off exactly where they were killed. >> thank you for the comment and we will follow-up. thank you. >> any public comments on this item? educational outreach. mr. wright. >> the program that you are reaching out, i would see - like to see you reach even further than that. you have a city college situation here where students can go to college for free. it seems like a good program that you demonstrated the negative gas flow. i would

like to see reach out to the board of supervisors, all of them in order to get legislation for people that is economically disadvantaged and families of all nationalities including asians that are on your welfare care not cash program. in order to receive those type of benefits you are not permitted to go to college it's unconstitutional. it's a violation of the 14th amendment pertaining to due process and equal protection under the law. you have a situation enjoyed by one set of people that can go to college for free and another set of people that can't go to college and educate themselves and for free as well. i would like to see you outreach to the board of supervisors, to see if you can get some legislation for people debtors seeking not only disadvantage, not only in your

own nationality of asian people, but all nationalism - - nationalities of people here in san francisco and on the economically disadvantaged program. by the same response, this chancellor i believe is very scandalous. he says he find me $50 million asking for a $50 million bond plus a $2.5 million additional bond, and you claim that you're going to be with a surplus. the truth of the matter is you are in debt and you're getting $2.4 million so you increase the debt up to $52.4 million in debt. he is scandalous. first he told us he was $11.5 million in debt. turns out it is $32.5 million. you can outreach like that.

>> thank you. next speaker. come on up. >> good afternoon commissioners. i am from curry senior center. i am one of the vision zero grantees. in here there are letters that we have drafted, and on the letters it says dear city, in san francisco, half of all pedestrian deaths resulting from deaths is persons 16 and older. make industries of the tenderloin safer for pedestrians. we urge you to address the issue listed below in a timely manner so we as older adults and adults with disabilities can safely utilize the sidewalks and crosswalks in our neighborhood. by making the intersection at leavenworth a pedestrian scramble to lessen

unsafe sidewalk congestion at the corners. by stopping left hand turns on church street. in leavenworth with red lights and by posting speed limit signs to post traffic. addressing these issues should be a priority for any cd leader that values the lives of older adults making these changes now will allow us to live longer and healthier lives. thank you. >> any other public comments? public comment is now closed. >> mr. clerk call item number nine. [reading items] >> good afternoon. my name is victoria truong i am one of the program planners at the safe streets evaluation program which takes a look at some of our key bicycle, pedestrian projects. i want to showcase some of our highlights of the program specifically 15 new projects as well as a few citywide safety treatments. we just released our

year end reports, this may, and i have some copies here if you're interested. we talked a lot about our safety proposals and plans to projects. how are we doing generally on those projects? overall we are performing well in locations where we made upgrades we have lessons learned. people feel safer and more comfortable walking and biking in locations where facilities were upgraded. vehicles are traveling at safer speeds with the reduction of a traveling and traffic measures. more people are biking on streets with newly upgraded bike lanes specifically protected bike lanes and lessons learned include the mixing zones generally help the conflict but don't necessarily solve the problem. following the

implementation of folsom street where we put in a protected bikeway along with other pedestrian amenities. we did a survey with people on the corridor and we saw that people walking felt generally more comfortable and i think it's also important to note that to people even driving either felt more comfortable or had no change at all which was about 88%. specifically on seventh and eighth streets we saw 16% decrease in in vehicle streets on seventh street and a 9% decrease in vehicle speeds on eighth street. even a small reduction in speed can dramatically increase the probability of surviving a crash. on church street this is a great example of a new bike facility that has led to a lot of success in bike counts. we saw a 287% increase in bike counts in the evening commute time. also a large increase as

well in the morning commute. with folsom street we also saw 80% of people driving yielded to bicyclists at mixing zones. we saw 4% of observations at mixing zones resulted in close calls or near crash instances. i will talk a little bit more about alternatives later in this presentation. >> aside from large corridor project we also looked at localized spot improvements and tools that improve safety. specifically we did look at tainted safety zones, flashing beacons and daylighting. generally we see when it comes to making pedestrians and feel safer, painted safety zones

work. flashing beacons increasing yielding to pedestrians in san francisco with a lot of pedestrians do not use them. daylighting improves visibility and reduces collisions between drivers and pedestrians specifically in tenderloin. for painted safety zones we saw that motorists are generally turning at slower speeds. they are yielding to pedestrians more often and they are also turning out a further distance from the curve on the sidewalks. at rapid rectangular flashing beacons we saw 16% increase in vehicle yield rates, 13% decrease in close calls and we have also seen the average use was only about 84%. over the next year we will be evaluating more flashing beacons as we

install more on the different types of roadways in san francisco. lastly, for the localized tools we also saw for daylighting specifically in the tenderloin district we saw 14% fewer collisions within the tenderloin district. on top of that we have been leading the way and continually looking to innovate our street designs over the last year, or past years we have implemented a number of parking protected bikeway's. we installed the first protected intersection at night on division street that was well received by the community and also a number of separated bike signals to improve that movement at mixing zones. for parking bikeways we saw 88% fewer loading violations on church street compared to the prior position. on 910 division st. we saw vehicles are generally

yielding to bicyclists as well as pedestrians and also turning at a speed either below or under the speed limit. for separated bike signals we have looked at two so far and we will continue to look at them as they are implemented. we see 86% of bicyclists comply to signals generally vehicles are also complying to the signals and the close calls compared to mixing zones are almost reduced to only one in those instances where we saw that. the bike signals themselves or reducing the likelihood between bikes and signals. lastly we have a couple of before and after shots of seventh and eighth street here where we have reduced a vehicle lane and implemented a protected

bikeway. 17th st. where we removed the parking and installed a protected bike facility. so that people on bikes and wheelchairs were no longer getting stuck. a folsom street we implemented a protected bike facility as well as curve management to work with the merchants in the general area. as we continue on with our evaluations we will likely come back again at another time to report back on the different types of improvements we are making in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you very much. any questions? icing on. as we implement more and more of these

daylighting situations, i don't know if you have the capacity to study more areas in which we will be implementing in a systematic way. >> i think we will be looking into yes evaluating daylighting, as we do moore one the city. >> the young lady that came up for public comments, before, mentioned leavenworth and turk. i noticed in your presentation you talked about some other places that was of interest to improve in the tenderloin but

did not mention that particular intersection leavenworth and turk when they are making left-hand turns. is that something you can look into. i actually would love, there is a bunch of petitions here, not sure who to give it to, maybe mta could look at that corner to see if we could have a left-hand turn signal there. okay? >> thank you. >> any public comments on this

issue? >> i will be brief. i really want the law of this last section, i think daylight assessment taken. i would like to ask in addition to that, one comment, daylighting; some of you who have been here for a long time may remember, in the past it was 10 feet from every intersection was already day lit and then we passed the law that eliminated it and then the cars were parking up to the curb. this is not a new idea. this is going back to a safe idea that worked for decades. for that very reason i think it shouldn't be something that needs to be justified. it worked very well at that time. the second thing is, one of the pictures showed a picture of taking away the parking on a roadway that had

tracks on the middle, one of the most dangerous things as a bicycle is a parallel tracks in case you have to cross a particularly if they are wet. extremely dangerous to try to right next to those tracks. if there could be a general program to try to do that everywhere that those tracks are there, it would make a big difference in safety. thank you very much. >> any other public comments on this item? public item is now closed. please call item number 10. [reading items] >> yes, talking about

daylighting, is something we passed recently at the board of supervisors to implement programs that would make it easier. i don't know what the words are. i was asking mta to daylight as many intersections as possible to come up with a plan to intersect daylight - how many was at? i asked her daylighting in a year. was it 500 corners? i don't remember.

>> good afternoon, chair e. it was 500. we wanted to make sure that we could commit to something we could actually get implemented. are aspiring to at least that. we are limited by resources and capacity >> i did not great i just could as we saw with the tenderloin project it, in did we will get at least that type of result, if not better. i since that there

would parking is impacted. you know, it would personally respond to people that think it is better dave parking spaces. the point is here on the future, for a future item that strategy be read this committee. on tuesday, the board of supervisors passed which expanded telematics vehicles is an advanced x speed baking and so forth. with the significant buffets including increasing

safety. since 2017, more than 40,000 of our cities, telematics will be expanded to nearly 1000 public safety vehicles requesting a banana and audit and have the safety benefits presented to this committee in the future. for introduction? i add and elect comments on introduction >> i would like to have you add to the new item of a possibility building affordable housing around the particularly focusing in on the who sleep and use that facility has a shelter because

they have nowhere else to go the income and your reservation systems are yet have you address that, because where they consistent. i would also like will to the millions of dollars the target you never see multimillion being addressed advantage people in san francisco. i would like to have you include that in your future plans and organizations, have these house rehabilitation locations where the behavior all can provide permanent locations for these people who live and

have treatment at the same respectfully. >> any other public comments is not a clerk, let's call the next item. >> item 11, general public comment.

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