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