Up next, the Senate Armed Services committee holds a confirmation hearing for Navy Vice Admiral Charles Richard to become commander of u. S. Strategic command, which oversees the u. S. Nuclear arsenal. This is just over 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] our meeting will come to order. I think i do have an Opening Statement. Today we are meeting to consider nomination by Charles Richard were the greatest admirals to be commander of United States Strategic Command. I appreciate you being here. We enjoyed meeting your beautiful family i dont agree with a couple of things they are pursuing but thats all right. [laughter] we appreciate it very much and be sure to introduce them to the committee. And with those laws and regulations will you ensure your staff complies with deadlines with questions for the record. Will you cooperate to provide witnesses in response to congressional request quick. Yes mister chairman and those that are protected for reprisal from briefings quick. I will. We
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In enforcement. Two other comments real quickly. As far as the first five, one of the main thing that happens that causes collisions, his failure to signal. The Police Department shows very few statistics on siding people for failure to signal. This is a preventative measure that would eliminate a lot of the collisions if bicyclists and pedestrians saw someone signaling it would be very easy to do that yet we see no action on it. We would like to encourage being considered part of the first five, because lastly, we have asked, were going to do a resolution on it which gives grant for bicycle Traffic Enforcement in some areas of the city. Getting a grant to test out and the other cities are doing it very successfully. Its a fraction of the cost of a motorcycle and we would like to see it thank you. Next speaker. I am a School Crossing guard at 19th and judah, i represented the guards during our contract negotiations. We have been lobbying for more than a year since the mta informed the
The correlation is not causation, but the recent increases relate inversely to the declining number of officers in enforcement. Two other comments real quickly. As far as the first five, one of the main thing that happens that causes collisions, his failure to signal. The Police Department shows very few statistics on siding people for failure to signal. This is a preventative measure that would eliminate a lot of the collisions if bicyclists and pedestrians saw someone signaling it would be very easy to do that yet we see no action on it. We would like to encourage being considered part of the first five, because lastly, we have asked, were going to do a resolution on it which gives grant for bicycle Traffic Enforcement in some areas of the city. Getting a grant to test out and the other cities are doing it very successfully. Its a fraction of the cost of a motorcycle and we would like to see it thank you. Next speaker. I am a School Crossing guard at 19th and judah, i represented the
Vision zero Research Collaborative of backgrounds and expertise. With respect to emerging mobility, we have been working to create a standardized methodology to monitor injuries related to new modes of transportation through the trauma registry. Recently released our first sixmonth report looking particularly at escooter related collisions. These were shared as a part of the packet. I want to acknowledge our vision zero epidemiologist was critical in leading this work and is in our audience today. Because of the injury prevention Research Collaborative we had a Strong Foundation when escooter hit our streets last year to work with the hospital staff to develop methodology for tracking. We were the first in the country to do so who were eager to impairment something similar given the Public Safety concerns with respect to two new modes. There is a number of names that have advancer this including reporting the data including transparency and consistency with respect to definitions, and