The director of transportation. Before i get into that whole presentation, i want to call up supervisor aaron peskin to speak and give his presentation, then we will move through the director to do presentations, and many others want to recognize you today. Supervisor peskin . Thank you, vice vice chair. Commissioners, director, and to the remarkable staff of the sfmta, my name is aaron peskin and im not here in my capacity as a supervisor, that will happen later. I am here in my capacity as chair of the littleknown Funding Agency called the San Francisco county transportation authority. Momentarily to be joined by our executive director, tilly chang, for the purpose of saying what is rarely said to the public, which are words of sincere and profound thanks to our outgoing director, address given, and to acknowledge and celebrate and ruskin, and the fact that i have been a constant pain in his but. [laughter] so lets be real. This is the toughest job in San Francisco government, maybe
Have had four traffic fatalities on the streets of San Francisco, four more people have lost their lives through the end of june, a total of 19 lives lost. Eleven of which were pedestrians just to walk through them, and you will see you might hear some themes here. June 23rd at 1 30 a. M. , a southbound vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed allegedly ran a red light at third and paul, striking another vehicle, which killed the driver and passenger of the other vehicle. The driver was 26 years old, and his passenger was 49 years old. We did send a Rapid Investigation Team out there. We did find some faded crosswalks, which sins have been repainted, but clearly spee was the issue here. On june 24th, the next day, 3 00 a. M. , a 56yearold man was killed at California Park california and Park Presidio when an eastbound driver, travelling at a high rate of speed ran a red light and struck his vehicle as he was going north on park and presidio. We also went out and repainted the lines,
Have had four traffic fatalities on the streets of San Francisco, four more people have lost their lives through the end of june, a total of 19 lives lost. Eleven of which were pedestrians just to walk through them, and you will see you might hear some themes here. June 23rd at 1 30 a. M. , a southbound vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed allegedly ran a red light at third and paul, striking another vehicle, which killed the driver and passenger of the other vehicle. The driver was 26 years old, and his passenger was 49 years old. We did send a Rapid Investigation Team out there. We did find some faded crosswalks, which sins have been repainted, but clearly spee was the issue here. On june 24th, the next day, 3 00 a. M. , a 56yearold man was killed at California Park california and Park Presidio when an eastbound driver, travelling at a high rate of speed ran a red light and struck his vehicle as he was going north on park and presidio. We also went out and repainted the lines,
Supervisor peskin . Thank you, vice vice chair. Commissioners, director, and to the remarkable staff of the sfmta, my name is aaron peskin and im not here in my capacity as a supervisor, that will happen later. I am here in my capacity as chair of the littleknown Funding Agency called the San Francisco county transportation authority. Momentarily to be joined by our executive director, tilly chang, for the purpose of saying what is rarely said to the public, which are words of sincere and profound thanks to our outgoing director, address given, and to acknowledge and celebrate and ruskin, and the fact that i have been a constant pain in his but. [laughter] so lets be real. This is the toughest job in San Francisco government, maybe the second toughest job is the one that Jeff Kaczynski has running the department of homelessness, but eds is the toughest and i just want to say, i have known him, and all three of his positions, going back to my first tour of duty when he came and made 311
As a supervisor, that will happen later. I am here in my capacity as chair of the littleknown Funding Agency called the San Francisco county transportation authority. Momentarily to be joined by our executive director, tilly chang, for the purpose of saying what is rarely said to the public, which are words of sincere and profound thanks to our outgoing director, address given, and to acknowledge and celebrate and ruskin, and the fact that i have been a constant pain in his but. [laughter] so lets be real. This is the toughest job in San Francisco government, maybe the second toughest job is the one that Jeff Kaczynski has running the department of homelessness, but eds is the toughest and i just want to say, i have known him, and all three of his positions, going back to my first tour of duty when he came and made 311 work, which has been a pain in your butts, but has been good for the people of the city and county of San Francisco. I knew him in his incarnation as the head of public