Thank you all. If you can wrap up those conversations, we are going to get back to our meeting. Our first one of the year. And again, thank you and welcome for coming to the Mayors Disability Council meeting. We appreciate it. I really appreciate you councilmembers coming out today too holding up the fort. Thank you gary. Hes helping me cochair. Okay, we are getting back to the agenda and Information Team 7. The geary street bus Rapid Transit. Thank you. I chester fung on the mta. I will be giving the presentation on the transit. The focus is the staff recommended alternative. That is the news that im bringing to the council today. Before i start, i just wanted to acknowledge and thank sf mta staffing Paul Bernardi who has part of the team during this project. This has been a partnership between the Transportation Authority and sf mta. The project is in the Environmental Review process. I will talk more about this. We are putting together the interviewal document and we plan to release
Not a surprise to anybody. Once we have that focus of those 70 miles, then we really needed to understand whats happening, who is involved, and what should we do about it. Thats what the focus is of walk first. The first thing we needed to focus on is now we have a sense of where the problem was and what was happening. We looked at 2300 crash records from the Police Department and we began to categorize them into what we call crash profiles. Crash profiles really tell a story about the trends on the network. And we draw from two data sets to get this information. One is the Police Records themselves that tell us who was involved and what time of day and the other data set is all the information we have about the physical environment in the city. So one example is left turns at signal lights at intersection. Left turns account for 30 percent of severely or fatal crashes. Turns in general are a big issue for us. So left turns is in the Police Report and then the locations of the places w