tom maguire and ricardo, aleja as well. >> thank you. i'm tom maguire i oversee the sustainable streets division at the mt a. perhaps the most important part of our mission is the achievement of vision zero. i'm really excited to see the board of supervisors following on its historic commitment to vision zero we of course share and i thought your comment supervisor mar that the culture of speeding on the streets is appreciated and we'd like to use initiatives like vision zero to replace that culture of speeding with a culture of safety and also i want to thank you for your research and i took a few take aways from that and speed really matters it matters for reducing the the severity of crashes and the importance of combining enforcement education and engineering together which is the vision zero approach but combining those 3 together to achieve a safety outcome and of course the importance of automated safety enforcement and that's a tool that maybe as we embark on a conversation about what the right speed limit is here in in san franc

>> thank you director reiskin i want to recognize the new director of sfmta sustainable streets tom maguire. >> thank you, commissioners it is great to be here this afternoon that is the absolutely number one priority 2014-2015 for the mta we've got a broad range of materials we'll be starting with tim pitching for megan he'll be talking about the research about the refined high energy network it is an important data many undermines the strategy and you'll come back and talk about the engineering product delivery and the education underway and talk about some of the policies o policy rules we have that be coming out of the vision zero task force over the next couple of years with that, i'm going to turn it over to timothy talking about the new data natural lyrics. >> good afternoon, commissioners timothy with mta unfortunately megan can't be here she has a home situation i'm going to go over the updates the network which we've made tremendous progress a couple of years ago just quick you background in 2011, we started working on gathering the data on the resources and we went from intersect

tom maguire from the department of transportation in new york where he worked for years improving safer streets in new york and our sustainable streets division and from the department of public health we have our co-chair of our san francisco vision zero task force and commander ann mannox working hard on the vision zero processes in our city and the audience nicole snider and tyler frisbee and many others. with that colleagues i'd like to ask if you have any opening comments supervisor christensen . >> supervisor campos. >> i just want to thank you and thank supervisor yee and kim i look forward to the presentations and suggestions and thank you to the budget analysts for their work as well. >> thank you with that i'd like to invite you to present your findings. >> good afternoon. supervisor mar supervisor campos and supervisor christensen i'm fred r from from the budget and analyst's office. i'm just getting this prepared. today i'm going to summarize the report that we completed at the request of supervisor mar on reduction options in san francisco. i'll start with a quick profile o

tom maguire from the department of transportation in new york where he worked for years improving

miguel al maguire, nbc news oxnard california. >>> this is tom costello, just 13 hours before this morning's crash, a 30-year-old woman was killed in silicon valley when her suv got stuck on the tracks. in front of an oncoming commuter train. it was three weeks ago tonight that a packed commuter train in new york slammed into another suv on the tracks. five people killed. some 855,000 passengers ride commuter trains every day. 476 million trips each year. but there are also 2,000 accidents at railroad crossings each year. last year alone, 239 people were killed. >> it's just a basic fundamental rule don't stop on the tracks. don't start across the tracks until you're sure you can get all the way across. >> reporter: in chicago, 17-year-old luke wilson was hoping to beat the train to get his 14-year-old sister lauren to school's play rehearsal. they never made it. lauren was killed luke suffered internal injuries and broken bones. >> luke has never gotten over it that crash. neither physically nor psychologically. he lives with that as we do every day of our lives. >> reporter: that was in 19