and crossing mission, going there, takes a very difficult time to cross because the light was so fastreet lights i mean go so fast. and being disabled is very difficult for me to run, to keep up with it before reaching the end of 8th street and mission. i notice too that in order to facilitate access to cannon street i do not go and take the cross mission street but rather do something illegal by crossing the street directly because it is right in front of the thomas street. i know that it's illegal crossing the street without -- so i'm here to state if your honors please that you take into consideration the establishment of the crosswalk for seniors and other persons residing in that district, especially one that should be created in the area crossing 8th street sir. there are more than 50 seniors going to cannon cape senior center every day and they also do something illegally by crossing 8th street. there are some drivers that are so -- that when they see an old person or a disabled person walking they slow down their cars. but there are certainly inconsiderate drivers, it's very d

or go down to market and cross. they do not realize that that is a legal crosswalk. i have a letter here. it states that it is a legal cross will, regardless of it the market is down there. i know it only takes about half an hour for them to come down there and put a line on each side that goes across that area right there, but they cannot do it. but the city can turn around and spend thousands of dollars and put the little green lines all the way down through there and pain that all the way down for bicycles. so why can we not get two lines put in there? like i said, i have been fighting this since 2004, and still cannot get anything done yet. just to see if we cannot get two lines put down there, stating that when they see the sign, they can see the marker, and that is crossing. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, sir. next speaker please. if there are any other people who would like to speak that our seniors or special needs, do so now. if not, we will suspend public comment after this person here and the

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and slash the numbers lanes, and maybe cross the directions to cross. and slashing the number of lanes and using a median refuge, and on a two-way street and you pet a median refuge and get one half one direction. and here in san francisco, and so many signal light turning and the right turning and people on red. and in new york city, they don't have right turn on red, and if i had one change it would be to eliminate right turn on red. that was a big mistake and it encourages people to run red lights, and you can do that when you have given the priority to the motorists. and when i was staying there is a left turn trap lane and that sign of hayes has no pedestrian crossing and to go from "a" to "b" and in a nice pedestrian neighborhood, that doesn't make any sense. those are my four rules and i promised to show you the before and after. and this is 122 avenue in portland, and after we applied the measures, now you see the after. and there was a high demand for crossing at that location, and no signalized crosswalk for a mile on one side. and it's been a

again, here, a very tough intersection to cross right now. we use the street car crossing to help us build a safer and more direct crosswalk across 19th avenue. this is the transit plaza. you can see now the trains come out of the middle of 19th avenue, everybody getting off the train heading west, which is about 90% of the people here in front door access for san francisco state, and making sure that while we do that, we redesign the crosswalk. you can see the bulls flaring out, at the same time giving up for your-way crosswalk, giving a much more prominent marketing to help traffic and pedestrians navigate the intersection safely. the last symbol of the mitigation measures that zeroed in on pedestrian and bicycle safety is on the very northwest corner. right now, there are no crosswalks. you can see the diagram to the left, that run on the bottom. cars making that right turn have no indication they are crossing into a residential street. our recommended proposal is a traffic refuge and crosswalk that helps people walk safely to and from the

pedestrians should be allowed to cross in all directions at once. i'm asking anyone from the board of supervisors or the city departments to see for yourself the issues and ask yourself of this as an acceptable way for people to get around. as a resident of that neighborhood, i would like to take you on a tour, along with some of my neighbors. sixth street is a dangerous people -- dangerous place for people in walkers or wheelchair's. we need changes to make the area safe. thank you. have a good day. [applause] supervisor mirkarimi: supervisor kim, would you like to go to public comment? we would like to thank everybody from the city family and those working with the city family for their presentation today. let's go to public comment. i have a number of yellow cards. a fair amount of people spoke earlier. it is hard to tell who spoke. please file after each speaker. i'm afraid that you cannot speak twice. supervisor kim is suggesting to have a one-on-one conversation. please. >> i am bob from senior action network, which started the pedestrian safe

you have the level of intensity of pedestrian crossing. also important to note is the yellow corridor that runs to the south and west, michigan corridor, that is a heavy transit line. transit and pedestrian crossings are actually very close as well. we are a walking city. we have voted many times. we are the most walkable city. that comes with some other increases in various exposure to pedestrian, bicycle, and motors crossings as well. we have been looking at what we can do within our current toolkit of resources and allowable measures. best practices were mentioned that we are not able to utilize. of the things we can utilize, like red zones, where we advance the packing further back so the pedestrians have greater visibility as the cross, and especially for seniors, senior visibility is really critical to be able to gauge whether or not the sidewalk is crossable. we have looked at continental crosswalks. these are the yellow letter crosswalks. it makes pedestrians more visible. we were talking about audible signals and countdown signals

and the bulb out issue that jack mentioned not just from the cross distance but site aspect. and the -- believe it or not, we say that adding bulb outs can increase parking and when you stripe 10 feet, you won't get much more than bulbs and some for uncontrolled crossings and very few that don't have signals or stop sign, but the bulbs outs will help there. and the last session about the end street signs and some of those things is another tool, and part because it's an uncommon situation here in san francisco, where you have a crossing, that's not signalized and no stop sign and more than one lane in each direction, and an advanced yield line, a line in place of a crosswalk and they stop at that location and it's a tool that has very little application, maybe a few places to be applied and uncontrolled crossing, but not necessarily multilane. and some near st. petersburg, where i live use that and i will say that now. >> we have until 3:30, and i want to be sure we have time for questions. and before i hand this to maggie, i want to make my own observations and like jack, i

cross, too. i get to the middle of the intersection, and i find out that the light has changed. >> we need to be able to work and go from one place to the other and have public transportation. the world needs to be open. >> people on disability has the task of addressing all the disability. when we are talk about the sidewalks, ramps, we have very specific issues. for people blind and low vision, we have the issue of knowing where they are and when the cross. it can be hit or miss. >> at hulk and grove, that sound the the automatic -- it helps people cross the street safely. >> now we have a successful pedestrian signal. >> i push the button, i get an audible message letting me know that i need to wait. when it is safe to cross, not only am i going to get an audible indicator, this button is going to vibrate. so it tells me it is safe. there is the driller sound and this trigger is vibrating. i am not relying on anything but the actual light change, the light cycle built into it. >> it brings san

we need a road and diet, the crossings that so many people ask for. you need to prioritize school zones in you need the enforcement that is based on data. there may a bond on streets that could set aside a significant amount for streetscape improvements. [chime] we are all pedestrians. supervisor mirkarimi: seeing that there are no others for public comment, i will close public comment. supervisor kim: i know that this was a substantive hearing in the really appreciate everyone being here and stay in the entire time to listen to the community feedback. i want to think the constituents and not just for coming out, but your activity

this is not crossed with a normal change-over. when this road is really designed for higher speeds, traffic, and transportation, in the event there would be a game in candlestick park. executive park boulevard -- this is enough distance to have two signals here. in that short of a distance, public works would build two signals. you need to time them for pedestrians to cross 10 lane freeway -- a 10 lane freeway. what thoughts have you given for the residential neighborhoods to reach this? >> this is not part o fthf the scope. my understanding, one of the transportation planners -- the yary are designed with a couple of signals in these intersections. >> you have give nthis a -- given this a lot of thought. both entry points are signals. we have worked with the load. absolutely to your point. >> i am not interested in car movement, but pedestrian movement. this will lead the waterfront to realize being in this location. >> this is in market street. commissioner moore: the embarcadero is designed for people, not for cars. you are sti

the red cross is able to get staff there, we ran that shelter. there were hotels in the chinatown, north beach neighborhood. now the building is under construction and working very closely with the property owner to get it back on line. >> much, it is a pleasure to have her in place. that is the beginning of a whole new level. when other members of the departments on board solves a lot of problems, we cut through some much stuff. it allowed us to get there quicker and more humanitarian days. it exists, and it is good to have the leadership. >> we have started this collaborative problem solving. we're starting to apply that at a lower and lower threshold. we have grown a lot of the community. it is all of this, it is all of our partners at the table here. if you could share recent example of how this has, all the way around? >> last week it tested and also demonstrated the importance of the collaboration. some of the collaborators included the organization. the mayor's office on disability, the fantastic department of public health. meals on wheel

know when welcome to cross talk i'm curious about the logic or kill logic of humanitarian interventions as libya grinds into stalemate well outside powers find themselves fall deeper into this quagmire you such interventions in everybody involved greater military escalation and do interventions we do invasions. to discuss the uses in misuses of humanitarian interventions i'm joined by omar tora b. in irvine he is a political analyst and an advisor to the transitional national council of libya in washington we have holy arbaaz a he's a senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies and in london we cross to john reeves he is a national officer of stop the war coalition and another member of our cross talk team yelena hunger are a gentleman says cross talk you can jump in anytime you want john i want to go to you how is this humanitarian intervention going in libya and how do you define success how do you define failure when it comes to these kind of endeavors well i think it was always a very risky operation not least because the avatar of purpose through to save the lives of

. >> another rate reversal for blue cross customers.oming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> the last remaining world war ii era military hospital in california is no more. 800 pounds of dynamite helped bring down an 11-story concrete building in east oakland this afternoon. christin ayers with why some were sad to see the old relic go. >> reporter: for navy nurse captain joanne fritsche, the blast capped a bittersweet build-up. >> i have seen everything from birth to death here. >> reporter: she came here to witness one final death, that of a small piece of naval history. >> you think of how many babies were born there and people who died there and families who were rejoicing and families who were sad. >> reporter: now it's her turn to grieve. the oak knoll naval hospital was her training ground as a young trauma nurse in the '80s. she was here during the gulf war and when the hospital shut down in 1996 and has watched its sad decay in the years since. but not everyone is mourning. >> i'm really excited. >> reporter: excited councilman larry reed sa

. >> a large tornado crossing the highway in front of us. >> storm chaser footage shows one of nearly a dozen tornados that ripped through overnight. this twister killed two elderly sisters. high school students huddled into a storm shelter as it tore through the building and picking up school buses and flipping them on their sides. >> it looks like somebody came and stepped on it. >> all the students survives, but seniors, three weeks from graduation, wonder where they'll stand. >> i don't see the possibility of having schools in these buildings again. >> reporter: at one point, the system dropped three tornados side-by-side. >> we got go, three -- >> reporter: in western arkansas, no tornados but violent winds had tragic consequences. a father and 18-month-old daughter were sleeping into their trailer when winds blew and killed them both. the child's mother survive. in little recognize an 8-year-old boy and his mother were killed after the mother climbed into the bed to comfort sni . >> the 2-year-old is fine. >> further east, a double wide mobile home was tossed 70 feet, killing a

>>reporter: total of 12 red cross volunteers from the bay area will leaf for the disaster zone in the next 24 hours. several dozen more are already on standby which means they could be deployed at moment notice. maintaining correct staffing level is keevlt less sont red cross learned after hurricane katrina. >> getting resource. we have a better handle on what resources are needed. do we need people that are shelter work. people that do mental health. people to do technology better sense of what kind of staffing to send out there. >> a lot of different things that they need before they could even get to the recovery phase. >>reporter: specialize staff like california search rescue teams have been contacted as part of the organizing effort. they haven't been called to duty yet. lisa, abc 7 news. >>> and if you would like to help you can contact the red cross at this number on the screen. >> we also have link to several charity helping the tornado victims. find that at 7 new news.com under see it on tv. >> the apartment i don't care couple who kidnapped jk did you guard in 1991 will ple

in carrying the cross. he was wear ago crown of thorns that had been placed on his head mocking him as king. hanging on the cross there, when he spokes the words, forgive them, for they know not what they do. grave where he lay, they had rolled a large stone over the opening. and some time in the night the grave had been opened. the man that everyone thought was dead had risen from the dead. and the tomb was empty, and christ wanted to be there, not to be any doubt at all. and so he actually appeared. to his disciples. and showed them the wounds in his hands. and in his side. and so they would believe. that he had come back from the dead. >> we'll be right back. >> finally this week you may remember this story we ran on "christian world news" last easter. >> 1300 members of faith church in budapest, hungry celebrated with this public dance. youtube video is going global. believers on 5 continents organizing their own resurrection dances training videos provided by the hungarian church. churches in 65 cities

now dana, the crossings here on charleston road was one of eight crossings that caltrans plans to make safety improvements on. back to you. >> i'm sure the husband and family are traumatized tonight. has anyone spoken about what exactly happened? >> well, they are not coming forward with yet exactly how it happened, but the car seemed to get stuck between traffic that was in this intersection. apparently over by the light, there's a very small margin of how many cars can get past the tracks. this couple was visiting from indiana. possibly they didn't know what the rules were, didn't see the signs and got put in a really bad position. >> terrible. all right in palo alto, elizabeth cook. thank you. >>> tonight we are seeing the confrontation when a driver forced the family off his bus. >> sorry. >>> it happened last weekend on the 24 -- the driver got angry when the couple took a long time getting on with their baby and stroller. the driver refused to move the bus until they got off. >> we provide ride to those who pay their fare. this is the people transportation system and we feel stro

allowed himself to be put on that cross. if he had a special relationship with god some how he is saying this is what god is like. he is willing to be sacrificed. >>> have you heard self- emptying and -- >> can i know sis, a good greek word. >> and many have stated prefers him of the church. >> i have not heard it put to music but jesus emptying himself on the cross, there is a controversy within christianity, whether god is the one who required that sacrifice, or not. >> that's right. >> the whole idea of atonement theory, my take on it i know people would like to have a debate with me about it was that it was humans that required the sacrifice, humans tend to want to sacrifice other people. look back on civilization, many civilizations were based upon a system of sacrifice, some of their members to apiece the gods or make sure things went well with their community and they thought because when things didn't go right that it was some how a short coming that could be satisfied by sacrifice with people. >> i always liked lesl

red cross had received $120 million in donations as of friday. >>> libyan remembbels for moamm gadhafiay they will not agree to a cease-fire. nato has established a no-fly zone over libya. gadhafi hasn't attacked government forces in misrata as he wants to avoid harming citizens. the former minister heads the national council in the rebel strong hold of benghazi. on friday, they were trying to broker a cease-fire between the rebels and gadhafi. there can be no cease-fire unless forces loyal to gadhafi stop attacking the rebels and withdraw from towns and cities. the senior government officials have deserted gadhafi. libya's information minister and the speaker of the congress have left for tunisia. gadhafi is rapidly losing power. >>> the japanese sumo association has punished 22 wrestlers and one stable master for involvement in a bout-fixing scandal. >> translator: it's a great pity that we have to punish so many of our members. it's an extremely severe punishment. >> the association's executive board decided on a series of punishment from an outside investigative committee. 19 wrest

flowers, crosses, and photos that mark the spot of a deadly crash. as mark tells us, roadside memorials along one road are coming down. >>> for drivers on the highway 4 bypass linking antioch and brentwood, it may pass in a flash, but it is a tribute to their nephew and cousin. 19-year-old cameron plat who was hit and killed by a car here on april 3. >> he's the happiest kid you could ever imagine. >> the roadside memorial serves an important purpose. >> i think just being able to see how much he was loved. >> the highway 4 bypass authority had originally considered allowing memorials like this to stand for 14 days, but this week the board decided that because they are on public property, the board has the authority to order them removed immediately for safety reasons. >> i know it's a huge deal. a huge deal is for the process of grieving. i'm still grieving. >> brandon and holly mohr railless are pratt's cousins and losing this memorial would be devastating to family and friends. >> it reminds me of him. >> the roadside memorials like this one can b

this would take the existing cross section that is very wide and difficult to cross with a lot of fast-moving traffic and humanize that. we showed several options. the money that we have currently will not build the features. it is just for the sidewalk greening, the corners, and restriping of the lanes. the other thing i wanted to highlight was the mission community market. it happens weekly on barlet street. it opened last july. we worked with a number of merchant and community groups to move it forward. then it opened. that is also happening. there are a couple of other projects that have been built as parks projects. the plan has ideas to make those permanent. those exist through the park's program now. it is pretty straightforward. what we're asking you to approve this to change the general plan policy in the mission area plan that would adopt the streetscape plan into the general plan. the policy crowley says to develop a comprehensive plan for the mission. we did that. we want to change it to say improve the mission district streets and sidewalks in accordance with the mission district

along with welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle fifty years after the cia back bay of pigs operation the castro dynasty still dominates havana but has the u.s. hardline stance on cuba had unintended consequences for the revolution is it time finally getting the embargo has never achieved its original aims. to. discuss u.s. cuban relations or lack of them i'm joined by ray waltzer in washington he's a senior policy analyst at the heritage foundation in berkeley we cross the salt landau he is a senior fellow at and vice chair of the institute for policy studies he's also a filmmaker and his new film is will the real terrorist please stand up and in san francisco we have gloria she is a corner of the national committee to free the cuban five all right this is cross talk that means you can jump anytime you want but first let's have a short short report on recent relations between washington and about. fifty years following the failure of the u.s. back bay of pigs operation to alice for dell custer's government and here but the two nations remain at loggerheads the decades of washington i

we have an existing cross connect box. we met with the condominium association. they very much wanted this, a competitive choice. we said we would ideally like to place it next to your existing cabinet, but we can work within 300 feet to find a place. the existing cabinet is off of the sidewalks and behind a hedge row of bushes. we were able to go in and place a second cabinet. we went through and met with them. we met with the neighbors and put a public notice before we filed with dpw and got their input if there were any complaints or concerns, and once there was none, we filed with dpw, but that kind of interaction with the community, it need not be next to the existing box. in this instance, it was an ideal location because it was already off of the sidewalk and screen from view. in other conversations that we have been having, we have gone out, and we have even brought a sample of sarb-ox and literally put it down the street, which another organization did for us. here is what makes the most sense from a technological standpoint. which one of these works, an

and author of terrestrial energy in paris we crossed to benjamin so cool he is an assistant professor at the national university of singapore he's also author of the forthcoming book contesting the future of nuclear power a critical global assessment of atomic energy and in austin we have robert bryce he's a senior fellow at the manhattan institute and author of power hungry the myth of green energy and the real fuels of the future all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in so this is the twenty fifth anniversary of the tragedy of chernobyl let's take a look back. at the telegraph the noble enough and your crane is destined to stay abandoned it's high radiation levels and decaying infrastructure so this is a reminder of the west's nuclear plant as a human history since then new critical issues have been modernized significantly to survive the accident of this scale the industry was virtually forced to reinvent itself so brazing and your safety culture are the less those coco's think use of nuclear energy well it always played a trick on both cards because the da

i volunteer regularly with the red cross and i wanted to talk about that. there was a fire in the tenderloin. more than 30 units were affected in the hotel. right now, there is a shelter for 60 people who were in the hotel. we also had 12 people displaced in the mission district. i wanted to remind people that the red cross, in addition to the major national disasters that you know of, our first responders and they are known for the silent disasters. when you hear about the fire in chinatown, the tenderloin, the red cross is there to make sure that people have shelter, clothing, food, and a place to stay. to that point, actually, next friday, on union square, we will be having a new initiative along with the mayor and the fire chief designed to build and model resilient community is focusing on our most vulnerable communities in san francisco and making sure that they are prepared. i really want to encourage people to come out next friday, april 15th to union square. there will be disaster kids there and there will be other modules for those that want to be

they have no intention of crossing the border-- they're mexicanos.so they come to the garbage dump to work, they put their children in school, the third generation has gone from book learning to computer learning. somebody puts in an internet cafe at the tijuana garbage dump. the girls-- nayeli, who's the hero of the book, is based on a real girl named nayeli. >> hinojosa: really? >> yeah, who at 19, she's mexicana, turascan, indigenous young woman; through school, learned to use a computer. goes to the internet cafe in the tacoria, tortillaria, and she looks up my web site to see what i'm doing. >> hinojosa: oh, my god! >> they watch you tube, you know? i was able to take her to a conference, a boarder journalism conference at the camino real hotel in tijuana. she'd never been in that hotel, and... she and her mom, and they paid them $300 to speak, and they were like, "wait a minute-- you can earn $300 for just talking?" and i said, "yeah, and i'm going to give you my fee, too," and they were not thrilled-- they were appalled that they could earn $6

it is very dangerous with crossing van ness. there are all kinds of cars at different intersections that are turning right or left. a lot of times, those cars are not watching what they are doing. i cannot tell you if they are talking on their phone or what they are doing, but they are certainly not watching. thank you. supervisor avalos: next speaker please. >> i'm bob planthold. i have been involved in public safety affairs for years. first, i want to associate myself with the remarks about the under responsiveness to people with disabilities and give you some quick examples. everyone allows dpw to have paul patrol. why is there nothing on crosswalk fixing? everybody uses crosswalks. look at market and van ness, one of the original dangerous dozen. it is dangerous if you have a walker. i want to jump to what supervisor avalos raised. the city has no lobbying presence in san francisco. we were successful with the police department. i cannot hear anything. san francisco is silent on pedestrian safety. the supervisors hafouhave f