The enforcement with the work that sfmta and sf pd does we know that people will be moving slowly and we want them to move and dont block the box will be an rather than to help us we have sfmta here and i want to thank and recognize aaron miller and peter and theyre planning interim aerial that did the car count and prepared the data and liz bringing so from sfmta and the enforcement manager for the sf Street Division i want to recognize sf pd will be here to answer questions maybe momentary about the pilot and the partnering with the sfmta so unless theres more comments ill open up for sfmta for presentation. Thank you for calling for that hearing today federal and state this is an important issue particularly in south of market but to a lesser degree this is a real problem but south of market is definitely the epic center of the gridlock and the violations of the law we see that have presented impacts on twraf and the neighborhood quality of life and this is really blocking the box i
Its dissipated without a doubt formal commitments in place over the last couple of years i want to thank sfmta in particular weve been working to have strategies about dont block the box and sfmta initiated a pilot from july to september with data theyre to present at todays hearing it is what we can do to continue our work and how we can make our pilot permanent thought intersection in our district and whatever tools we have i want to recognize that San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has been working on dont block the box cameras and to help with the enforcement with the work that sfmta and sf pd does we know that people will be moving slowly and we want them to move and dont block the box will be an rather than to help us we have sfmta here and i want to thank and recognize aaron miller and peter and theyre planning interim aerial that did the car count and prepared the data and liz bringing so from sfmta and the enforcement manager for the sf Street Division i want to rec
Sf Street Division i want to recognize sf pd will be here to answer questions maybe momentary about the pilot and the partnering with the sfmta so unless theres more comments ill open up for sfmta for presentation. Thank you for calling for that hearing today federal and state this is an important issue particularly in south of market but to a lesser degree this is a real problem but south of market is definitely the epic center of the gridlock and the violations of the law we see that have presented impacts on twraf and the neighborhood quality of life and this is really blocking the box it is a boarder challenge where our streets are basically, the so you yeah. Well get to you in one second laughter where otherwise, it looks like im lecturing you, we is a boarder issue in San Francisco where the streets are like the wide west and earlier this year we held a hearing on double parking weve ramp and double parking throughout the city that has impacts on congestion and creating traffic j
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 couple of years i want to thank sfmta in particular weve been working to have strategies about dont block the box and sfmta initiated a pilot from july to september with data theyre to present at todays hearing it is what we can do to continue our work and how we can make our pilot permanent thought intersection in our district and whatever tools we have i w
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