Vehicles your chances of coming out of that is going to be very, very little, and we realize that this is one of the most important things that as we are experiencing a very Strong Economy in San Francisco with all of the developments, not just downtown, but in our neighborhoods, people rehabbing their homes, Small Businesses rehabbing and from fires and other disasters or the local neighborhoods or in the downtown corridor this is very important. I know supervisor kim this is one of the most important things she said to me as we experience large number of accidents in the last couple of years that we have to make a much more serious effort. All of the advocates said the same thing so its been my personal objective that we had with mta and dpw lead this effort with police and others and not just to slow down traffic, not just to get congestion out of the way, not to decongest the boxes but we also have to make sure that all of our utility vehicles in the city whether theyre driven by d
Of them so not just the leadership from the executive branch but also the board of supervisors who is the Transportation Authority commission who provide the leadership and funding to advance some of the work were doing here. Were fortunate to have someone who represents an area that has the highest amount of need with regard to Street Safety being at the forefront of the leadership on this issue for the Transportation Authority serving as the chair of the vision zero subcommittee and also on the board of supervisors representing district 6 that includes tenderloin and south of market areas, two of the highest concentration areas of serious and fatal collisions in the city so join me in welcoming from the board of supervisors supervisor jane kim. [applause] thank you. It is really great to be out here to announce this program this morning. As many of you know Pedestrian Safety has always been one of my top concerns in the district i represent. It was the first hearing i called and i be
Want to say thank you to ed for your leadership, to muhammad for your leadership as well, and lets not only enjoy these Economic Times everybody but lets Pay Attention to all other things that keep our city successful. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you mr. Mayor. This large Vehicle Driver Training Program was not just recommended through the vision zero process which involves many stakeholders from both within the government and outside. It actually initiated originated from the mayor himself and towards the end of 2013 when we had a number much serious and fatal incidents in our streets, and again as the mayor said its a small number of incidents that involve large vehicles but they tend to be disproportionately sever and fatal and after a rash of those and completely in supervisor kims district that the marge charged us with developing this program and with great cooperation from the california trucking association, from the teamsters, from people locally here and ups and fed