Re elected. Now all the latest Business News live from singapore. Apec Trade Ministers gear up for a busy weekend in vietnam, as it faces restructuring of major trade agreements. And who knew what you could do with used Coffee Grounds . Good morning, asia, hello, world. Glad you could join us for this edition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. Trade ministers are gathering in vietnam this weekend and the person they will be wanting face time with, americas new trade representative, who is in charge of president trumps America First policy. Earlier i spoke to the Executive Director of a segment of apec and he told me what ministers are keen to find out. We are pretty interested to talk to the United States trade representatives and have him come and elaborate for us some details of us trade and other related policies. We are pushing ahead with a lot of initiatives in apec. It is a pretty important time. We have to have more clarity on what the us will be supporting, where their sen
But does the new president have the right formula to bring backjobs and growth . Plus nafta nerves. Tense times for mexico as its two decade old trade deal with the us is thrown into doubt. Welcome to World Business report, im aaron heslehurst. We have got about nine minutes, my very last Early Morning programme for you all before i moved to a new show. Move. Coming up, who needs the us anyway . Asia pacific trade ministers hope to salvage the Trans Pacific partnership after President Trump pulled the plug. We start in france, where the new president , emmanuel macron, says he expects no honeymoon from the public after his first week in power. He now has try and to win a majority in next months parliamentary elections, and implement the Economic Policy he says can turn the country around. So what is macron economics, and can it solve frances problems . Macron calls himself neither right nor left and sure enough, the team he announced on wednesday is a diverse mix of figures from partie
Box through the support of the Transportation Authority vision zero were going to work specifically with communicating both workplace and to the public regarding what our goals are and what the city is doing to achieve vision zero its a key strategy for the success. In addition to the committee we have working groups those working groups are addressing the more emerging issues that we havent collectively grappled with and feed into the actions the subcommittee. Currently, we have a Bicycle Working Group and a city vision that be looking at the barriers and also were talking about the vital near term action but what are the larger policy issues to approve vision zero one example the status of automated transportation. Were also going to harness the existing partnering to be a vision for the one body it enacts and implicit acting as a united city for the actions. We have the customer input to the subcommittees and importantly at the top we have the Steering Committee reported to the sfmt
Enforcement part we fund and look at it with the data that the Public Health department has come up with. My hope is looking at mayor debasis work in new york we can look at anothers cities as well thank you, commissioners at this point, im going to open this up for Public Comment. Anyone want to speak seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Move on to item 3 vision zero overview this is an informational item. We have megan from the San Francisco Public Health department to give an overview which is also the Pedestrian Safety task force cochaired by her and tim i didnt. Thank you very much for having us and thank you for the opportunity for achieving the goal of zero vision by 2024. The Safety Task Force is expanded and our meetings are now quarterly as the zero task force and im going to share a little bit about the overview and the team is structuring its activity to complete that goal and future items for your consideration for the committee. And im going to turn it over to for more
To enforce the pedestrian safety. Whether walking the bike lanes that impact the safety of our cyclists or to help to support really the limited resources that sfmta has yes. Thats another avenue were exploring were working with our Improvement Group within the sfmta to look at how our pcos can aid the sf pd but were looking at the policy opportunities and then as well as a lot of our grants are multi facets so that role as far as the sfmta and sf pd to make sure were including the enforcement within the grant. It will be good to have the sfmta what they provided whether the number of enforcement tickets where its going to focus its goals and whether or not theyre going to be part of the resources we i think as a matter of fact, should be able to allocate those resources weve talked about how the pcos can be a role but we should know what the goal is specifically. Supervisor mar yeah. I wanted to appreciate that question and the response from the sfmta but to thank commander ali i know