I am commissioner norman yee and i would be chairing todays meeting. I am joined by commissioner peskin and vice chair commissioner stephanie will be here joining us shortly. The clerk is steve stamos clerk alberto okay. Thats okay. The committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available online. Mr. Clerk, do you have any communications . Yes. Members of the public, please silence or turn off our cellphones. Public comment will be taken after each item. Speakers will have two minutes. At every meeting i have announced the number of fatalities since our last meeting. Another four people have been killed on the streets. Thats 22 people who have lost their lives this year, the deat deaths are tragic and heartbreaking and i want to give pause for them. But what we dont here enough about is the nearly 600 people annually when are severely injured on our streets. Severely is not bumps and bruises. It means trauma. Mo
The department did have prior annual reports Available Online, but we did not have annual reports for the prior twoyear timeframe. That was rectified i believe in may, or june, of this year. Currently the department has annual reports up through 1718 Available Online with various statistics of department review. Somebody mentioned that some of them were longer when they were first posted and they became more truncated later, can you speak to that . The department did previously with the review back in 1112, the way the department previously did their annual reports where they were much more extensive, but they also took approximately 1824 months to complete. If you look back in history at the departments annual report, technically included data for 1112. It was much longer. So we are looking out for version we are doing now is to find more of a sweet spot in between that has a series of grass and basic data and information and additional narrative and something that is complete within
Tools out there for automatically detecting sidewalk riding we would love to see. Maybe what we need to do locally is to create legislation to say if they they need to create this technology, otherwise we wont give them a permit. Commissioner stephanie. Just on rider accountability, not the company, but rider accountability for the person whos violating and riding the scooter on the sidewalk or has two people on the scooter or is putting the scooter on its side on the sidewalk or parking it obstructing the sidewalk, what is the accountability for the rider and what are we doing to enforce it through our own means, not through the operator. On the parking side, it is a violation of the transportation code to park a scooter improperly. That is something that can be enforced by the sfmta and we do Issue Citations for improperly parked scootered for a scooter program. Those citations are investigate. They will go out and issue the citations. Directly issuing a citation to someone on the si
Good morning, and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority for our meeting today, tuesday, october 22, 2019. Our clerk is mr. Quintanilla. Could you call the roll. [ roll call ]. Clerk we have quorum. Thank you. Next item, please. Clerk item 2, chairs report. Thank you. Colleagues, this month we had the pleasure of receiving a delegation from the California State Transportation Agency led by the new secretary of transportation, david kim, and members of his team responsible for safety planning and innovative mobility. They oversee the Transportation Commission and our state d. Ot. I want to thank our executive director and her team for organizing the round table as well as the sfmta acting director and the mtc Deputy Director for joining the meeting which i stayed for the entire time. The medium of the day was state and local partnerships and we had much to discuss, beginning with the storied history of Infrastructure Projects that followed the earthquake that took
Grown of officer has issued 1,565 violations with 87 of those being focus on the five violations. The other 13 , those are violations that are observed by the officers while theyre doing this enforcement. They are required to take action for Public Safety. Things like using a cellphone while driving or individuals using the transitonly lanes. That concludes my presentation with slides if anyone has any questions. Thank you, commander. I believe commissioner fewer does. Thank you, commander, for this report. We received a letter from walk s. F. And they were very concerned about actually the numbers of citations being focused on the focus on five. So she has written us a letter and id like to address have you address some of these issues. One is the drastic drop in citation numbers. Im quoting from the public email that is sent. How is it possible that only 1500 red light tickets were issued, whereas 5,000 infraction tickets were given annually. In 2016, 13,000 speeding tickets were iss