. >> good morning, everyone much better i'm edward reiskin the transportation director in san franciscoany people out here for an important reason thank you, mayor ed lee and supervisor kim on their steadfast and consistent leadership in working with all of us to make our city safer the reason its important we're proud of our city we have a problem here the problem too many people getting seriously injured or killed trying to make their way around the city that shouldn't be for that reason as a city we've adapted the goal of vision zero to eliminate traffic fatalities in san francisco in the next 10 years good news if you call it that we've been working with the police department and the department of public health and many on the county which transportation authority to analyze the information associated with each one of the tragedies we've told have a good since of where they're happening and why and what interventions we can make to significantly reduce the likelihood of them happening with people getting seriously injured or killed the traffic signal are one intervention and many ot

realty 4 years ago our residents actually organized a walk on significantly street that included edward reiskin and is ta and dpw and we started on significantly and market and walked to ross and to fulsome to talk about the needs that the community needs to make sixth street a safer place for the youth and seniors and mother jones and the collaborative to talk how the intersection was unsafe and we even crossed the crosswalks at significantly to see whether cars would stop for crossing when we walked across the street from that experience the following year the mayor's office actually worked with our office to fund a pilot we knew it would take a look at to get the prong we the first bulb out on significantly and howard number one and 3 on the top collision intersection in the city to shorten the walking distance for our pedestrians before you to remind drivers that those curb outs are an important place of safety for our walkers and finally opened the signal an ross for many families that walk across the street to go to betsy carmichael and now we're here today to open this signal (clapping)

supported the legislation to make sure we enforced the mat could guidelines i want to relocate edward reiskin who is serving as the president of the nah could we've had a chance to work with our leadership and former leadership give a shout out to janet for her leadership as the past nah could president and underful in new york in mayor michael blossoming burger my daughters are in new york you've got to take care of them we know that streets make up 80 percent of our picking up pun realm we have to take care of that and we've got important propositions but as you go around the city not only is it a transbay center and central subway work we're doing take a look at what utilized to be fridays before the loma prieta earthquake and we had them in chinatown along broadway if you take a look at it and ride through them you'll see popular projects that includes housing and multimodes of transportation along omaha and the we had all freeway rams making all those crossroads exciting and wonderful especially important because literally this month is the 25 mini of the loma prieta earthquake and we've