Pedestrian safety is an important issue for our office and especially for the district we represent that includes the south of market and the tenderloin neighborhood because of the close proximity of the neighborhood to our freeways and entrances and exits to a variety of neighborhood and, of course, the Employment Centers south of market area tenderloin in particular the east selma and beacon hill have historically experienced intense amount of gridlock because of their proximity this is esz batted when we opened our Giants Stadium in 2000 to begin posting our worldwide series team and continues to grow this part of San Francisco one of the most dense areas of San Francisco and San Francisco Community Transportation authority recent 2010 calibration study they said there will be total gridlock in 20035 unless were able to reduce the Traffic Volume by 26 percent were seeing that as jobs and housing grows in our may be that is a positive thing but continue to work on Pedestrian Safety c
Ms. Short were structural in this were ending this project were thrilled to be providing what is sure to be a well loved public amenity and in the making of the better street plan and alley plan so thank you. Thank you very much mr. Johnson are you up for a presentation and at this point well open up item 3 for Public Comment is there any Public Comment on item 3 if so please cord come forward. I would say i mean when i recent study b upon the area of San Francisco was striking it was a little area like angle island or alcatraz im only a low person im not a person of the island my time an hostage of the island not a slave to the angel item so everything about this is fracture was to appreciate just to status quo having the thousand pipe parkway for the is there any additional Public Comment on item 3 seeing none, public is closed colleagues could i have a motion to forward item 3 to the full board of supervisors with a positive recommendation. Well take that without objection. Applying
Have sfmta here and i want to thank and recognize aaron miller and peter and theyre planning interim aerial that did the car count and prepared the data and liz bringing so from sfmta and the enforcement manager for the sf Street Division i want to recognize sf pd will be here to answer questions maybe momentary about the pilot and the partnering with the sfmta so unless theres more comments ill open up for sfmta for presentation. Thank you for calling for that hearing today federal and state this is an important issue particularly in south of market but to a lesser degree this is a real problem but south of market is definitely the epic center of the gridlock and the violations of the law we see that have presented impacts on twraf and the neighborhood quality of life and this is really blocking the box it is a boarder challenge where our streets are basically, the so you yeah. Well get to you in one second laughter where otherwise, it looks like im lecturing you, we is a boarder issu
Pedestrians are produce tied above outline modes so they want to assure their neighborhoods are more safe their told by the Deputy Director of streets it was not a viable Traffic Improvement Program needs to be complemented 10 years later the traffic is worse and most of us who live south of market harrison street serves a westbound aerial that carries more than 13 thousand drivers most 7, 8, 9 to get home as quickly as possible over the Golden Gate Bridge i received a sector of people behaving balanced in september that highlighted the insane traffic and driving through the intersection thereby blocking all the traffic from the other angle one of our safety members set you up a camera to film all the violations and since 2003, 3 people are died in this intersection new york city has a campaign do plain clothes the intersection and Virginia Beach put but up signs thirty years ago San Francisco had a campaign its dissipated without a doubt formal commitments in place over the last coupl
The enforcement with the work that sfmta and sf pd does we know that people will be moving slowly and we want them to move and dont block the box will be an rather than to help us we have sfmta here and i want to thank and recognize aaron miller and peter and theyre planning interim aerial that did the car count and prepared the data and liz bringing so from sfmta and the enforcement manager for the sf Street Division i want to recognize sf pd will be here to answer questions maybe momentary about the pilot and the partnering with the sfmta so unless theres more comments ill open up for sfmta for presentation. Thank you for calling for that hearing today federal and state this is an important issue particularly in south of market but to a lesser degree this is a real problem but south of market is definitely the epic center of the gridlock and the violations of the law we see that have presented impacts on twraf and the neighborhood quality of life and this is really blocking the box i