More presentation. Im going to struggle with this. Can we keep it brief. Teresa who is the chief of the Advisory Board. Good evening. Again, thank you all for this incredible effort and necessary and needed change for San Francisco drawing all of our attention to Public Safety ety and all of our citizens safety. My name is is tracy and im a mother and Small Business owner in the San Francisco district in a police distract. Im in the city of heights and last year i became cochair of an Advisory Board and at the time my cochair now commander, sharon. So when we started our meeting last january, we wanted to start the meeting by addressing Public Safety and mention this idea of a well known program in Northern California called street smarts. So we began to investigate street smarts and look at would it be feasible to bring street smarts to San Francisco. Im happy to share with you tonight, were ready to kick start San Francisco street smart this spring. Many of the areas of of concentrat
Board and bicycle riding prohibiting on sidewalk. I pointed out to ed that i wanted to thank sandra. She works for mta and im a member of the access accessory commitment of the mta and i had asked sandra at one of our meeting, we just had the meeting today, to please look into funding because i knew they existed, the no bicycle riding or skate boarding on the sidewalk. Find the signs and get them put up. She asked me where i would like to see them two up and i said 8th and market street, so if you were to go out there by the theater, youll sea that sign and directly across the street to the intersection at the burger king, youll shee that sign. This is one person, yours truly going to an organization Matt Committee and saying this needs to happen. So its possible to get something done. It didnt take a lot of time. It didnt cost a lot of money and you know i like to Say Something positive, so again, i thank you so much for the opportunity to have sandra, for her to find this stuff and i
Got done. You can make it happen. I did it. Thanks a lot. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good evening, my name is wendy beck and im a walking miracle. Its a miracle that i have not killed by a bicycle or a car after countless misses. Im a walker and driver who biked and walked in new york city but i never have felt threatened here in San Francisco. I had to knock on the window of a texting driver so she would see me when i crossed and i got outrage. To help make vision zero a law, make a law of texting while driving. Any things might help by putting more count down stoplights and no right on red at certain intersections and campaigns but the most important thing is to stop distracting drivers by placing unmarked cars at corners and placing more emphasis on moving violations than parking. A parking car, a parked car never killed anyone. Thank you for making this a priority in San Francisco. Thank you very much. Im going it read a couple of more names. John alex, dawain, zach marks, ed
Like to Say Something positive, so again, i thank you so much for the opportunity to have sandra, for her to find this stuff and it got done. You can make it happen. I did it. Thanks a lot. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good evening, my name is wendy beck and im a walking miracle. Its a miracle that i have not killed by a bicycle or a car after countless misses. Im a walker and driver who biked and walked in new york city but i never have felt threatened here in San Francisco. I had to knock on the window of a texting driver so she would see me when i crossed and i got outrage. To help make vision zero a law, make a law of texting while driving. Any things might help by putting more count down stoplights and no right on red at certain intersections and campaigns but the most important thing is to stop distracting drivers by placing unmarked cars at corners and placing more emphasis on moving violations than parking. A parking car, a parked car never killed anyone. Thank you for maki
And the driver didnt stop at his stop sign. I sustained a severe brain injury and a cone fractured skull and a fractured vertebrae. And i still have seizures. I feel i was doing three important things in my life when i was hit. I was getting my master degree in Mental Health counseling and i was also learning to teach yoga as well as many other things, working four hours a week as a university counselor. All of those things stop when youre hit by a car and i have faith in the city of San Francisco and definitely, definitely having zero fatalities so that you can show the rest of the world the truth that with he need to be more compassionate and human. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Reverend, how are you . Ill try to be quick but i need to bring the High Schoolers up front. Thank you to the supervisors. You were all with me at church on sunday because a famous leader died. A couple of weeks before that, a little girl was killed. I have three bikers in my church that i had