[inaudible conversations] call the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to order. We thank our witnesses for being here. I look forward to your testimony. As much of the world concentrates on the ice is a threat and instability in the middle east the Committee Takes this opportunity to consider efforts by the United States and other partners to counter extremism in the Subsaharan Africa area. Longterm development has been the norm across much of africa including here tell you what. Even with large letters i cant see anymore. Including here in our committee with the recent signing of the power africa legislation which we are all very proud of and appreciate the way the administration has let on that effort also. That we hope will bring investment to a key sector for Economic Growth and opportunity. Whereas in the middle east we have been reacting to terrorist violence and the uprooting of millions of people. And africa weve had the opportunity of years of influence through diplomacy and d
Rejoicing rise, with the San Francisco Transportation Authority here to try to talk about the pilot in context of the boarder set of strategies that we have to management changing the problems of Traffic Congestions thought the city particularly in selma so to start i want to just through up a couple of pictures i took this was on opening day of giants season of Traffic Congestion there it is and also the impact it has to muni to supervisor cohen sdrusz discussed in her opening rangers and pedestrians trying to cross with the crosswalk is blocked and also for cyclists and Truck Drivers its hard to navigate a transacting truck through the gridlock and bicyclists that went to the other side of the street i wanted to introduce it in this way this problem of all the cars on the street is one that i dont think is going to be revolved but dont block the box the reality a lot of people want to go home by crossing the bay bridge how quickly a car can get on the bridge not to mitigate by car or
More recent times in a year and a half weve spent an incredible amount of resources for the Market Street corridor for the effectiveness project now muni forward both cases there issues are the same intersections with gridlock and because those historically those locations have had more so like fulsome street vs. First and harveys on ramps they lead into a tunnel on the freeway and have been historically a major problem for us weve been out at first and harrison for several years now and roadway unless we need to have pcos actively professionalism 6 posts were running the signal box right now just to keep traffic flowing so we dont have a bottle next it works well on thursday and fridays and every week, we have a pco there 0 again, if we need more with whether a pd support weve deploy pcos to locations that are needed depending on the situation theyll fix posts and pedestrian seas or Vehicular Movement or any combination of those again, we talked about the 3 workerss its important that
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
What they should do and their rights resulting from the pilot certainly improvement recognizes the need for increased pco support at the intersections or at key intersections what we would like to do is initially establish for the p. M. Periods and again, we want to focus an thursday and fridays because historically those have been the worst days not to say theyre the worse but historically so we would like to use our deploy of small pcos for thursdays and fridays between the peak period of 3 30 and 6 30 depending on the intersection attribute more pedestrians problems or vehicles problem 6 pcos 3 intersections 3 pcos at each intersection until we need in the morning well work with sf pd if he wanted to do a saturation or sting at particular intersections but if we could start with a small group of pcos and move around the key intersections we define and see if we can change behaviors enforce at the given intersection may be able come back to it a few days later and move around to mix