Crackdown on those individuals speeding and breaking the law and doing things that could create these kinds of accidents. No one wants to see the accidents on the side of the road, no one wants to experience going to a crime scene on the road knowing your loved one has been hit by a car or sadly tragically killed. I remember years ago on turk street and laguna, when a lot of us were hanging out and just kind of enjoying the weather, it was a really nice hot time, like in the fall and my god son was crossing the street on turk at the intersection of turk and buchanan where theres no stoplight and he was hit by a car. We watched as you flew in the air and thought oh my god, oh my god, just to see it, and had no control over what was going to happen was devastating. And luckily he had minor injuries, luckily he survived, and i just really felt strongly, we have to do better as a city. We have to do better with the vehicles that are speeding on our streets. We have to do better with our in
Hear as well as some other members of the community. So for our elderly, lets pay attention. Lets help them in terms of paying attention to our roadways when we are driving and bicycling, that is a huge issue in our city. Our outreach is a huge priority and again we use traffic stops as a way of outreach but we also have many public campaigns to remind drivers and pedestrians and bicyclists of their responsibilities when they are often the roadways. The partnership we talk about between the mta, city government, board of supervisors, Fire Department, the department of Public Health, it really is a team effort to realize the vision of zero fatalities. I remind you, look at where we were and where we are. This vision will be a reality, it will be a reality and well Work Together to make that happen. I thank you for your time. Families thank you for being here and remember, vision zero is about all of us. Thank you. applause thank you chief. The chief made reference that back in 2013 it s
Well, all right. Actually noted. Real quick. For next year rates and benefits this is just a pre notice, id like to see him look in to improving the hearing aid situation. I think its archaic that you get one hearing aid every two years and it is possible that as soon as you get a new one your old one dies. Id like to see Something Like three years for two new ones and maybe a co pay back if you have to get another one in between that and half of it a quarter of it would be nice. Hearing aid benefit. Number two, cater aks which i am now experience and i think its also a shame that with our insurance they start out, this is what you get for a cataract operation and now if you have 5,000 more for each eye you get the best. Its so sad that theres something in between our insurance that cant be halfway up to that 5,000 per eye. And then the third one, seeing now were doing so well with delta dental, possibly a twotier dental system i know its a lot to work around, the same as we have a two
Actuals thactual tools that we have, so please welcome welcome join me in welcoming and thank you for coming, alvin lester. Good morning, everyone. My story is simple, but it s necessary. Ill just get right to it. My name is alvin lester, the father of armand lester. He was struck and killed in a driver in the bay neighborhood in the city. Im here today to support safer streets so that no one else has to lose their life and suffer the pain i have from terrific violence. Im one of the cofounders of San Francisco bay areas for safe streets, an organization that consists of volunteers that have lost loved one. We are fighting to change the culture of unsafe driving habits. We have endorsed Vision Zero Campaign to put an end to San Francisco traffic deaths and serious injury by 2024. Using education, engineering, and law enforcement, it is critical that our city officials focus on the proven tools which will help reach the no deathno injuryno serious injury goal by 2024. Join with us as we
Road, no one wants to experience going to a crime scene on the road knowing your loved one has been hit by a car or sadly tragically killed. I remember years ago on turk street and laguna, when a lot of us were hanging out and just kind of enjoying the weather, it was a really nice hot time, like in the fall and my god son was crossing the street on turk at the intersection of turk and buchanan where theres no stoplight and he was hit by a car. We watched as you flew in the air and thought oh my god, oh my god, just to see it, and had no control over what was going to happen was devastating. And luckily he had minor injuries, luckily he survived, and i just really felt strongly, we have to do better as a city. We have to do better with the vehicles that are speeding on our streets. We have to do better with our infrastructures and when people push back on me about the improvements and bike infrastructure and all of those things we need to do, we have to make our roads safe. Its not abo