our overall strategy to collaborate with city agencies, like the department of public health, san francisco m.t.a., and also with advocates and stakeholders like i see jody mcgaris who is one of my new friends over the last five weeks from walk s.f., a strong advocate for pedestrian safety in the city. brian wiedelmeyer is someone i've worked with and gotten to know over the last five weeks. i think i'm in my fifth week here at m.t.a. my next slide is a comparison of our second-quarter results for 2019 compared to what we did in 2018. for members of the audience who might not be familiar with focus on the five, we have identified five violations that are the most common primary collision factor in traffic collisions in the city. when you see focus on the five notation, the police department has a commitment of reaching the goal of 50% in all of our enforcement. for members of the public that may not be familiar, the focus on the five violations are for red lights, stop signs, pedestrian right of way, speed, and failing to yield while turning. so you'll see in all of our categories here for red li

m.t.a. and the city of san francisco have failed us. so the city of san francisco and the m.t.a. have a moral, ethical, and very possibly a legal obligation to bail out the taxi industry. i hope this board will look into this matter sooner rather than later. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is carolyn kahn. i live in potrero hill in san francisco, and i won't take a long time. i think you've heard a lot of eloquent statements with many facts. i happen to be a ph.d. cell biologist. i'm not going to go into it. you'll hear the facts at the next meeting. i'm very proud to live in san francisco and i support the liberal policies in this city. and i'm having a hard time understanding why just some of these cities have already not supported 5-g and are protecting their citizens and among them are berkeley, piedmont, monterey county, lot altos, sabastopo -- sebastopol, and the list goes on. i think this is just an issue of greed. i think that, you know, many of us have cell phones. i haven't been anywhere in this city where i've not been able to use my cell p

i'm the commander in san francisco police department assigned to m.t.a. so some of this information, as president yee mentioned, was presented previously. i'll try to get through it directly. as an overview of our traffic company, 46 officers assigned to motorcycles. they're responsible for traffic enforcement city-wide, collision investigations, participation in community events, they facility traffic control and parades and marches, which we have many of in san francisco. our strategies related to vision zero including the creation of the vision zero team which is housed in the traffic company. we started off with four officers. under the leadership of mayor breed, that team was increased to nine officers. also in our strategy is to prioritize enforcement in high-injury corridors to increase our visible presence as a traffic violation deterrent and change the behavior of those using the roads and streets. we're using data to drive enforcement. also we in our strategy -- this is a roll-out for every neighborhood, for every place within the city and count

san francisco. lifelong resident of san francisco and i'm a major user of public transportation and obviously walking in the city as well. i want to thank the m.t.a. and the d.p.w. for the work that's been done on better market streets. we've been involved and our council has been involved and i've been serving on the citizens advisory group for the last seven or eight years with all the work that's going on so i want to thank everyone who has been working on this and market street and we think it should be returned for a incredible avenue for the city. one question we brought up and i want to thank the m.t.a. for working with us on this is one of the changes is changing on ellis street from stockton to and converting that back to a one-way that would go westbound and we have a couple hotels that it's going to cause pretty good inconvenience so the mta has agreed to take that first year to look at that and make sure it's going to be something that can workout but thank you very much. >> thank you, very much. >> great. >> that's it for speaker cards. >> we have read through a lot of speaker cards and some people did not respond. either they left o

m.t.a. to put a pilot of protected bike lanes from market to 15th on valencia street within four months time. [♪] >> valencia is one of the most used north south bike routes in san francisco has over 2100 cyclists on an average weekday. we promote bicycles for everyday transportation of the coalition. valencia is our mission -- fits our mission perfectly. our members fall 20 years ago to get the first bike lane stripes. whether you are going there for restaurants, nightlife, you know , people are commuting up and down every single day. >> i have been biking down the valencia street corridor for about a decade. during that time, i have seen the emergence of ridesharing companies. >> we have people on bikes, we have people on bike share, scooters, we have people delivering food and we have uber taking folks to concerts at night. one of the main goals of the project was to improve the overall safety of the corridor, will also looking for opportunities to upgrade the bikeway. >> the most common collision that happens on valencia is actually due to double parking in the bike lane, specifically during, which is where a driver opens the door unexpectedly. >> we kept all the pass

san francisco, and i give you an example. people hadn't painted crosswalks for three weeks. we talk about zero vision. i had to come and speak two or three times. people from m.t.a. and the crosswalks are painted. if i hadn't done what i did, nobody would take care. i am saying that because in the presentation 90% of it is who you know. who is pushing the project to go forward. in san francisco with a population of 840 and looking at the aging population and looking at those areas where the poor live, idy get lived and the mentality and physically challenged lived, we see the so-called project managers have no empathy and no compassion. that is putting it bluntly. those factors are not involved in how the funding is done. because they are shy many from this they don't reveal it on a website where people can go read and see what is being done. this reflects on the supervisors. some have their heart in the right place, but most do not. thank you very much. >> public comment is closed. we actually have a motion on the floor. we need a motion to adopt the item number 7 and then we need to amend that motion. why don't we, if the maker will temporarily withdraw the fi

san francisco neighborhoods here on my own behalf. the great light rail vehicles have been inse service for over0 years. they are easily accessible in the tunnel they are not easily accessible in the neighborhoods. when the m.t.a. was working to design the new lrvs they both have the opportunity to fix these equity issues. both of them failed to do so. had most respects the cars are the same. by using the same basic design the m.t.a. will be locks us into another 20 years of the same equity issues. more than two years ago the community urged the m.t.a. to move forward with low floor lrvs. they are easier for seniors to board and some manufacturers have on board wheelchair ramps to create wheelchair access system ride. the m.t.a. is in phase two of procurement. i urge you to insist they use this opportunity to address exissues for seniors and disaged by purchasing low floor lrvs. another equity issue is elimination of lrv stop in the neighborhood. on tara vim, they have eliminated a significant number of stops to create equity issues for seniors. they need to walk additional blocks to catch the lrv. in district four they have the entire city. when the m.t.a. eliminates stops, it impacts certain communities disp