Boss as a member of the mta board of directors, jerry lee. Thank you, thank you. I know that when i speak on behalf of the board of directors, were really encouraged of the efforts that were involved with in terms of being at the starting point of square one. This is a critical moment for our city in terms of the efforts of making the streets more attractive and safer for pedestrians. I also want to acknowledge the work of the sustainable Street Division who has helped in getting these speeds at the schools reduced. This strategy will help bolster their efforts in making the city streets a lot safer for pedestrians to walk in. Thank you very much. Thank you, director lee. One of our, one of our strong partnerships is with the Police Department. We kind of share responsibility for managing the public rightofway and enforcement as you heard from mayor is absolutely a part of the strategy. So, its a very Important Partnership for us and very glad to have the Police Department so ably repr
Being at the starting point of square one. This is a critical moment for our city in terms of the efforts of making the streets more attractive and safer for pedestrians. I also want to acknowledge the work of the sustainable Street Division who has helped in getting these speeds at the schools reduced. This strategy will help bolster their efforts in making the city streets a lot safer for pedestrians to walk in. Thank you very much. Thank you, director lee. One of our, one of our strong partnerships is with the Police Department. We kind of share responsibility for managing the public rightofway and enforcement as you heard from mayor is absolutely a part of the strategy. So, its a very Important Partnership for us and very glad to have the Police Department so ably represented here, but more importantly, on the task force and working with us every day. So, very happy to have one of the great leaders of the Police Department, deputy chief denise chef. Its a very tall man. Good mornin
That or today that in our downtown area is probably one of the most safest areas to walk buzz we pay a lot more attention to that area. But there are a lot of other places where we havent considered the issues of lowering the speed, as weve done around our schools with walk sf. We havent done enough study around the data, completed the data of collision and pedestrian injuries as well as we should have to make it safer. So, our pedestrian strategy really is in draft form. We have completed it in this month, and we plan to introduce it throughout the various public agencies and commissions and allow it to be publicly vented. But we do have two very solid goals, and that is by 2016, we want to reduce the number of serious or fatal pedestrian accidents by 25 in the next four years. And by 20 21, by 50 . We want to reduce that number. Thats a great goal. Weve always got to drive ourselves with reasonable but serious goals to reduce these pedestrian fatalities, and we know we can do it beca
The San Francisco playgrounds history dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for 27,000. In the 1950s, the center was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. Thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe Neighborhood Parks bond, the Sunset Playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. Here we are. 60 years and 14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brandnew rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. The new rec center houses multipurpose rooms for all kinds of activities, including basketball, line dancing, playing pingpong, and arts and crafts. Use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. On friday, november 16th, the dedication and Ribbon Cutting took place at the Sunset Playground and Recreation Center celebrating its renovation. It was raining, but the rain clear
Emergency department. 2011, the last year we have data on, that number is now 182 shooting victims. While this is a substantial drop, i submit to you that one is too many. These numbers represent the patients who are transported to the hospital, not the victims who died at the scene or do not come in for care. Many people are killed from homicides, but suicide taking ones life with weapons is much more common in the united states. It is a silent killer since more than twice as many people die of suicide than homicide historically in the united states. There is an hep dim i can of Violent Crime committed with guns and is a Serious Public Health problem that we must confront head on. It is incidents like this past week bring these terrible crimes out in the public, but the reality is people are killed every day in this country with weapons that permanently change the lives of the families that they are with. In conclusion, i would like to thank the mayor for inviting me out to stand with