Pedestrian safety is an important issue for our office and especially for the district we represent that includes the south of market and the tenderloin neighborhood because of the close proximity of the neighborhood to our freeways and entrances and exits to a variety of neighborhood and, of course, the Employment Centers south of market area tenderloin in particular the east selma and beacon hill have historically experienced intense amount of gridlock because of their proximity this is esz batted when we opened our Giants Stadium in 2000 to begin posting our worldwide series team and continues to grow this part of San Francisco one of the most dense areas of San Francisco and San Francisco Community Transportation authority recent 2010 calibration study they said there will be total gridlock in 20035 unless were able to reduce the Traffic Volume by 26 percent were seeing that as jobs and housing grows in our may be that is a positive thing but continue to work on Pedestrian Safety c
Ms. Short were structural in this were ending this project were thrilled to be providing what is sure to be a well loved public amenity and in the making of the better street plan and alley plan so thank you. Thank you very much mr. Johnson are you up for a presentation and at this point well open up item 3 for Public Comment is there any Public Comment on item 3 if so please cord come forward. I would say i mean when i recent study b upon the area of San Francisco was striking it was a little area like angle island or alcatraz im only a low person im not a person of the island my time an hostage of the island not a slave to the angel item so everything about this is fracture was to appreciate just to status quo having the thousand pipe parkway for the is there any additional Public Comment on item 3 seeing none, public is closed colleagues could i have a motion to forward item 3 to the full board of supervisors with a positive recommendation. Well take that without objection. Applying
A precede at the california puc because from the regulate terrors prospective the owner of that set asset is pg e rate fairs to make sure that the rate pairs get appropriate value so far the asset so its the c p puc ultimately decides whether the prices that pentagon and the city have negotiated is appropriate and that transaction can be appropriated at the state level its a road thats been traveled, if you will, by another cities weve pursue is in district 10 where most of the street lights are on pg e light poles and some recent examples where pg e has sold similar the cross arm and the limb and part of the street light not the pole thats a wood utility pole so we have ready examples when weve looked the system we know that pg e owns weve tried to see how much theyre going to cost the city to install led system in its place we estimate that costs us too 62 and one hundred and 15 million thats a rough estimate not a insignificant endeavor and be responsible for bringing those systems
Pedestrians are produce tied above outline modes so they want to assure their neighborhoods are more safe their told by the Deputy Director of streets it was not a viable Traffic Improvement Program needs to be complemented 10 years later the traffic is worse and most of us who live south of market harrison street serves a westbound aerial that carries more than 13 thousand drivers most 7, 8, 9 to get home as quickly as possible over the Golden Gate Bridge i received a sector of people behaving balanced in september that highlighted the insane traffic and driving through the intersection thereby blocking all the traffic from the other angle one of our safety members set you up a camera to film all the violations and since 2003, 3 people are died in this intersection new york city has a campaign do plain clothes the intersection and Virginia Beach put but up signs thirty years ago San Francisco had a campaign its dissipated without a doubt formal commitments in place over the last coupl
Assessment thats nice for the puc owned but in my district 090 percent is owned by pg e thats in the contestanting so my frustration is the unresponsiveness that the Utility Company really has been to make repairs are larger absent from tennis shoes on an overhead wire to companies pointing to puc no one taking the ownership this is helpful it maps out exactly 95 percent of any problem pg e is the sole force or the recommend to softly the challenges im interested in making the city look at the ownerships of 95 percent how do i help with that process. Well, so a couple of thoughts. Its a tough question. That will be a city policy to happen i know there are you know going to be issues in terms of evaluation of pg e street lights like the things for maintenance theyre probably not worth as much as pg e think theyre worth ms. Hail. The issue where you begin supervisor with the level of service im how have were going to make headway in asking the california puc to ask pg e to have performan