and -- that generally it is for pedestrians. it is a three-way, which means it carries a lot of traffic. similar streets are the same typology, but all of those streets are about to benefit their residencts and users of te street. these have been adopted for greening, sowed is substantial -- so it can become like a small plaza. these are the benefits compared to the right turn and congestion on the street. that might be an advantage in some cases, because you can see the pedestrians. it is hard to see them at night because you are not sure of the intention. >> for some thoroughfares, we are also proposing some locations but basically pedestrians cross in two. they can wait for the next one. comissioner moore: particularly the configuration was part of our discussions on looking at the whole food store, and what was proposed on the west side of the street is something i have questions about. it is really more in support of what is happening in the store, whereas the pedestrian movement would create a condition across the intersec

we started the transportation discussion of sort of the pedestrian aspects, the pedestrian mobility.we talked about new connections across a lot of the major streets that surround the project. there is a series of new access points. we talked about that and we will skip the component. we can come back and talk about that if you want, but we will go straight to the traffic into transit component. like the new access that is being created for pedestrians around the site, there is a substantial amount of new improvements being made or proposed for vehicular circulation. there are very few access points in and out of a project. there will be a bit least six new or substantially new vehicular access points into the project so they don't need to circulate around the project. and there is sort of major congestion. people coming and going can this -- to distribute to the most convenient access points. both the brotherhood will be reconfigured. besides these new access points, there will be substantial improvements in some of the major intersections that are troublesome in the future. the bes

two years ago, we spent $3.5 million per pedestrian fatality on traffic fatalities. what i would like to ask staff to do is conduct a study that has two purposes. first, to identify city agencies and departments working on pedestrian safety issues. two, let us know what teams are tasked with try to solve pedestrian issues, what are the working on, what are the outcomes, and what are the time lines for those projects? secondly, assistance in identifying funding sources. for current projects as well as future projects. what our potential revenue sources that will help fund this work? i look forward to working with the staff on this. commissioner campos: if i may, what level of involvement, if any, do you expect from the municipal transportation agency? commissioner chiu: i hope as much to get these answers done. commissioner campos: thank you. commissioner avalos? commissioner avalos: thank you. i would like to call for a hearing on the extension of the 14 mission bus to daly city bart. we had a conversation with the m.t.a. last year and we would like to hear a progres

pedestrians are constrained to use the balboa park station. we need to have a different approach to it. i am hoping we can have that happen. last year, we approved the better neighborhoods plan for balboa park. ocean avenue. just past city college on ocean avenue, also inclusive of balboa park, and the station itself. we actually zoned it for housing, but the mta does not want to look that pretty housing in trans in-oriented development, along balboa park, -- housing in transit oriented development. 16 to 20 years from now, that is not the way we need to be working collaborative be. -- collaborative late -- collaboratively so i will be looking at support for that. i want to thank the department of public works and for another for pushing it forward to make it happen. there are those who do not receive the same attention that people elsewhere in san francisco received, and it is the little that i can do for representing a district that does not get its fair share -- other than that, i am submitting a hearing request to hear more about dpw, my n

more -- a lot of pedestrian lanes and wider sidewalks. they really have a policy that in this city of streets, we walk. and they have widend all the sidewalk, stepped up the quality. they made squares. they made a fantastic federation square because they had no square in city streets. no new building must have close wall to sidewalk because if you are to walk in the city, you cannot accept blank walls. they say in the old buildings you have to open up. the new ones never go in before you can prove that you can do something for the city. they say if you are to walk, you need first class street furniture and they made a fantastic series of street furniture. they think you should have enjoyment when you walk around, so they see the city as a gallery for contemporary art and change it all the time and have ins sthrawtions and whatever. -- installations and whatever. they see light as a fantastic enjoyment of the city. half the time the city is out. it's dark by the way. they have put granite on all te sidewalks and more than half of them, and

it is a very discreet location that does not seem to interrupt pedestrian traffic. my second concern is the one voice here today, and that is about safety and congestion down there, but i was given assurance that they would be guided out to post street to the bike lanes, so they are going to get position to get out, and they will be given a map that will be on the bicycle to come back in on the theory side -- geary side. there probably will be problems during that construction, but i imagine there will be some serious pedestrian issues there as well. construction people are going to have to figure out how to deal with that. i do not know that we can do anything about that. i share commissioner harrison's concern about the use of these storage facilities, particularly at golden gate park. i think they are unattractive, and it resonates with me every time catherine howard says we need a plan for behind the band shell. we cannot keep adding container facilities to solve our revenue enhancement issues, so i'm going to repeat to the staff that i think we need to address

in san francisco and to begin identifying potential barriers for pedestrians. one suggestion that supervisor avalos brought up, curb ramps, i know in my district, the approve something like $35,000, very expensive -- they approved something like $35,000. i would like to thank the members of the pedestrian safety advisory committee for their hard work and one from the richmond district and others for their work on the report. i look forward to hearing what they have learned and what their recommendations and goals are, in the short-term and long-term for improving pedestrian safety in san francisco, and i also want to thank supervisor chiu, for supporting financial aid and undocumented immigrants in the city. we heard from one of the students that we helped to give a temporary stay from his deportation hearings, and i think if we look at it, students from latino and other ethnic groups, i think we can understand the importance of supporting the dream act at the state level but also reintroducing it at the federal level, as well. i will submit the rest. thank you

every day, on average, there are two or more pedestrians injured on san francisco's streets. pedestrians account for half of the people killed in traffic collisions in san francisco. overall fatality collisions have declined since the 1960's but the percentage of fatal pedestrian collisions has hovered around 60%. at this time, we lack, per capita, as to the number of fatal collisions, behind most major cities in the world. new york, boston, london, paris, amsterdam, all have fewer fatalities per capita than we do. two years ago, we spent $3.5 million per pedestrian fatality on traffic fatalities. what i would like to ask staff to do is conduct a study that has two purposes. first, to identify city agencies and departments working on pedestrian safety issues. two, let us know what teams are tasked with try to solve pedestrian issues, what are the working on, what are the outcomes, and what are the time lines for those projects? secondly, assistance in identifying funding sources. for current projects as well as future projects. what our potential revenue sources that will hel

it is great to be able to walk as a pedestrian in this city and cross streets safely.

and the timing for pedestrians to cross may not be enough.jor thoroughfare, and there are problems. >> monterey blvd used to be a commercial district and now a freeway. when the 101 was shut down and the traffic pattern changed and they started coming this way and accessing it. >> the one thing that sunny side neighborhood gets involved in is work with the city college. and there are a lot of issues that spill out in our neighborhood, mostly is parking issues. our chip# complaint is that students are parking in our neighborhood. and the race to get to class. we have students that forget what they are doing and where they are and they are driving down our streets at 40 miles per hour and on flat avenue you don't want to be doing. that >> the way they are set up don't work the way they used to and 19th avenue is a corridor that carries the traffic. >> we have a huge intersection that is one of the worse intersection in the city. and we are working with the city to try to get traffic flowing down methods and the count down pedestrian crossings h

use that west side alignment to allow pedestrian access and use that moving streetcar to have safer pedestrian can act to the east side. we even talked about undergrounding the street car and have pedestrian access across those streets. it is so important. remember, these responsibilities are not just transit. remember that truck i showed you? that is a long-term goal at mta to have the street cargo directly, and if we have that, it does a tremendous job for relief for the region and as well as local. they are right at the heart of the sound space. communicating symbols -- signals, they are not so sexy, but they can convey what is happening more cleverly and more intelligently. we have the technology. it is expensive, but if we work with tier 5, we can find a way to embed it. it is not just those that are the biggest projects, but getting up too high and lake park and getting up to sunset boulevard, we can meet the the neighbors together so that it is not just the intersections, but the bigger picture. pedestrian safety is a major concern for anyone that has tried to go to mercy heights, where

have there been any to pedestrians? the potential is there because of the crossings. >> i understand the potential and i interest and the issue you were trying to address is speed. the other thing i'm curious to note is that i don't think we have heard any input from the business community. >> we have received support from the valley improvement association. we also received support. they would fight for their interests to have the sidewalks. we have not heard from -- >> is there any reduction in parking or anything like that? >> know. >> thank

have there been any to pedestrians? the potential is there because of the crossings. >> i understand the potential and i interest and the issue you were trying to address is speed. the other thing i'm curious to note is that i don't think we have heard any input from the business community. >> we have received support from the valley improvement association. we also received support. they would fight for their interests to have the sidewalks. we have not heard from -- >> is there any reduction in parking or anything like that? >> know. >> thank you very much. >> this is a no-brainer. the seniors and indeed people's disabilities. people are overwhelmingly in favor of this. increased the excess ability. since the majority of the input that i have heard from outside of this meeting has been part of this, i wholeheartedly support this. i will vote yes. >> we have a motion and a second. so ordered. thank you. >> the adopting amendments to the transportation code, division ii, article 1100, to amend administrative hearing pro

sometimes i notice the other pedestrians, they are crossing, on occasion, i have decided i'm going to 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. >> i

now the chp is conducting pedestrian stings. >> you seen the pedestrian in a crosswalk there. >> a hired patrol officer in plan crosswalks across the walk what crosswalk to see if driver's will yield. some drivers stop, but more than often they don't. the driver's that don't stop get to have a conversation with the uniform chp officer. >> here and you stop for failing to stop for pedestrian across rock. >> where was he? >> the driver argued that it never saw anyone in the crosswalk. >> and he argued that the pedestrian did not turn up industrializes, and he was not required to stop. so i pose this question to the driver. what is the crosswalk did not have any lights? >> good point. >> what about the lights not beyobeing on?. >> it's even worse our reviewer, as a decoy crosses the street, watches the mercedes blows through the crosswalk. even with the share present, who was not part of the state, then they both gave chase. in three hours the chp rose 32 tickets for driver's not yielding to people in cross rocks. including the person of this pickup truck could do not even having laces. the

, and if it's accommodating cars and pedestrians, then bicyclists can manage it as well. ginsburg? >> i'd like to make a comment or two, and then i have a more specific suggestion in line with your concerns and comments.

pedestrians account for half of the people killed in traffic collisions in san francisco. overall fatality collisions have declined since the 1960's but the percentage of fatal pedestrian collisions has hovered around 60%. at this time, we lack, per capita, as to the number of fatal collisions, behind most

. >> warnings to slow down for pedestrians >>. no. >> where traffic should stop for pedestrians. >> guest the ups driver is right. he must have studied his driver manuel. >> no i was in traffic one time and the lady stopped here and i blew the horn thinking she was dropping and tapped it. that's had found out. after she went i saw the sign that said stop here for pedestrian traffic here >>. how would somebody know that? >> if drivers took time out to read the sign posted every set of shark teeth they would know. you can only find them at cross what works with no traffic lights. they're usually 25 ft. or more before the crosswalk. it is to help make our streets safer if we can get the driver is to actually stop. in san francisco's stanley roberts for kron4 news. >> if you have at commodore story e-mail us. checking friday traffic the headlights are sluggish in all directions. will be right back. natalie portman is back on the big screen this week after performance and blacks want. it is one of the new out movies to hit theaters thi

we don't have yet, but we are also going to have pedestrian plan. as i mentioned already, road safety is also on the agenda. yet having a plan and having it put into practice is -- i don't have to tell you, two different things. we have had that hearing in the brussels parliament asking for the results of the plan and in fact it was quite frustrating. as you can see, painting lanes was going forward. we made quite good progress there. we have cycling routes 18 being planned and we only have four of them. that was in 2007. in 2009, there are only four of the 18 routes being really, well, operational. one of the big problems we have had and so i'm optimistic for the near future, but it was we had a great plan. we did have money in the budget, but we did not have enough people in the administration that could really, well, make it happen. and quite recently, two years ago, in that period, by the way, they really decided that we should enforce the administration because it's really, you need to work on it before you can realize what you would like to --