again, i'm megan weir and i'm the co-chair and i also work for the public health department. so traffic injury has and is a real problem in san francisco with respect to public health. recently we've had approximately 30 people killed each year on our streets and another approximately 500 people hospitalized with severe injuries at our public hospital, zuckerburg san francisco general hospital. we estimated that approximately $35 million in medical costs alone per year and our city surgeons respond to a serious traffic injury approximately every 17 hours. we are working closely with the hospital as a part of vision zero and rebecca plevin, a doctor at the hospital, i invited her to come today to just, again, this is an important issue and to better understand the concerns specifically of the disability community. half of the patients at our trauma center are people injured in traffic collisions and in doing this work and thinking of being here today, from vision zero is fundamentally focused on eliminating traffic deaths and prevention but we also know that many people sustai

is to push for policy on street safety and i know that after may you'll get a presentation from megan weir around vision zero so vision zero is one of our key policies that we're pushing for, zero fatalities or serious injuries by 2024 and you also heard from kate breen today and we work with the legislative affairs on pushing for policies at the state level even, like automated speed enforcement. so we're really trying to find larger and more macro policies that make san francisco streets more welcoming for everyone. for the next slide i want to highlight our youth and family biking work and we are partners in the safe routes to school partnership where we engage parents and teachers and students at elementary schools and we're in 30, 35 elementary schools and the public schools throughout the city. the two photos that i have here, the one on the left is from the south sear hub where three different school comes together and their student comes together and they gather at the playground and we have snacks, it's very fun and very energetic and it's a great way for kids to start the day. on