Streamlining permitting a, reducing fees, and getting rid of red tape. I believe we must overcome the rigid policies that have delayed meaningful progress in our district for decades. Now is the time we can either choose to make a change with new leadership or continue down the path that weve taken the last 20 years. Learn more at votesimonsen. Com, and id be honored to have your vote this november. [ ] good morning, and welcome to the september 29, 2020 meeting of the Vision Zero Committee. I am commissioner norman yee and i will be chairing todays meeting. Im joined by vice chair commissioner stefani and commissioner peskin. The Committee Clerk is britney milton. And will you please call the role . Yes, commission peskin . Commissioner peskin present. Vice chair stefani present. Chair yee present. We have quorum. On behalf of the committee i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who records each of our meetings and makes the transcript available to the public online. Clerk, madame clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. I would like to make an announcement about Public Comment. Public comment will be item via telephone by calling 14156550001. And when prompted, entering access code, 146 771 7365. Once you join, youll be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. To make Public Comment on the item when the item is called, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. When its your turn, youll hear your line is unmuted. When the two minutes are up, well move on to the next caller. Calls are taken in the orders received. Best practice to speak clearly, slowly. Please allow for a lag time during the course of the meeting. That concludes my announcements. Chair yee okay. Thank you, madame clerk. Before we get started, this is a friendly reminder for all the commissioners to mute your microphone when you are not speaking to avoid audio feedback. Before we get started, i wanted to start state that the Vision Zero Committee is set to expire at the end of this year. It will come up to all commissioners to reauthorize this committee and vision zero has to remain a top priority for our city. Weve made significant progress, but we have a long ways to go as at the end of august, people have been killed on our streets, 18 of them have been killed. Again, we started off the year very poorly in terms of the number of fatalities that were recorded. Its slowed down somewhat to get this number. And hopefully, we can keep it at 18 for the rest of the year. This is really absolutely a tragic and these are lives that have been cut short and families that will never be the same. We have so much more work to do to literally save lives on the streets of our city. These deaths are preventablprev. I keep saying that and will keep on saying it because they are. The 463 severe injury collisions reported this year were also preventable. We need to be forwardthinking and creative in our approach to education and enforcement strategies to improve Pedestrian Safety. And we need to ensure that there are clear time lines and measurable goals in place to keep us accountable. We absolutely cannot let up now. Madame clerk, will you call item number 2 . Yes, item 2, approve the minutes of the june 25, 2020 meeting, this is an action item. Chair yee okay. So is there any Public Comment on this item . Clerk let me check, chair. This is a reminder to everyone on the line that you press star 3 if you would like to comment on this item. And seeing the call list, there is no Public Comment. Chair yee okay. Seeing none then, can we im sorry. Im having a hard time commissioner peskin mr. Chair . Ill make a motion to approve the minutes. Chair yee okay, motion made. Do we need a second for three persons . Vice chair stefani second. Chair yee roll call, please. Commissioner peskin aye. Vice chair stefani aye. Chair yee aye. We have three ayes, minutes are approved. Chair yee okay, then motion is passed. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item 3, vision zero progress update. This is an information item. Okay, ryan reeves. Good morning. Good morning. Britney, can you confirm that you can see the power point . I can see a white screen. Can you see it now . Yes. Okay. When i have a full screen, i lose it. So hopefully, the slides are large enough for you to see. Okay. Good morning, my name is ryan reeves and im our Vision Zero Task force cochair. And i will be sharing with you today a progress update on vision zero. Really focused on the work over the past quarter. So through august of this year, weve had 18 traffic fatalities, including eight people walking, two people biking and nine People Killed riding in vehicles. This is similar to the fiveyear average in fatalities, but we know even one is too many so we have much more work to do. Although the goal is eliminate fatal crashes and reduce severe injuries, we have seen a 50 decrease in injury crashes during shelterinplace as compared to the same time period last year. This is just comparing police data year over year, so its not comprehensive because it doesnt include serious injuries that are only reported at the hospitals. It includes all injury reports, so without hospital data, were not able to obtaject obtain the obtain the severity of the injuries. We did want to share this trend information which has been requested in the past. So next ill provide a few highlights of our recent work across our program, starting with our legislative agenda. So in terms of our legislative work, we continue to work towards our transformative policy agenda, focussed on how speed limits are set and getting state authority for automatic Speed Enforcement. Our third is pricing which is led by our partners and will be reported on by walk sf later in the agenda. We continue to participate in the task force. This was convened by the state to identify how to change how speed limits are set. Weve been working with other members of the task force, including oakland, sacramento, san jose, l. A. And others, to really continue elevating the recommendations from this report. And we recently coordinated with the partners on a policy letter to the secretary to encourage prompt action on these recommendations. So the recommendations are focused on changing how speed limits are set, including moving toward a safe system approach that would go outside our current 85th percentile speed limit setting process. They released a guidance document that charts a path forward toward a safe system approach and we participated in the guidance that again reaff m reaffirms these critical recommendations. Weve also been monitoring news from seattle that found recently that even speed limits, even without additional enforcement or education, they were able to reduce crashes. Were looking at this to reinforce how these legislative policies could change how speed limits are set. Lastly, with automated Speed Enforcement, were still in exploratory conversations around legislation for next year. Again, looking at how we can reduce dangerous driving behavior, especially with a racial bias and equity lens. Weve been participating in the u. S. Department of transportation work to update the federal guidelines for implementing speed Safety Programs. So were expecting the guidelines in the next six months. Next, for brief highlights from our streets team. So we continue our work on our quickbuild program. Weve had 14 projects that have been completed and the remaining 17 are on the way. Including 14 in design and 3 in construction. And the projects that are under way are implemented in neighborhoods that have historically been underrepresented in Traffic Safety such as the bayview and excelsior. Theyll account for 50 miles of quickbuild improvement. In terms of completed projects, just to share a few highlights. On 3rd street, we added a twoway protected bikeway connecting the protected infrastructure. And the San Francisco bay trail. And on townsend we completed a multimodal project, including a new walkway, transit bulb and bikeway. There are others under construction, including 5th, 7th and embarcadero. We also have 14 projects in design, including our work in the bayview for the Hunters Point boulevard. We recently completed an open house. And while the design is still in process, the project will include increasing pedestrian visibility and safety as well as slowing speeds. And other projects include alemany and beale street. A key part of the safe streets work has been the evaluation to assess preand post project data and understand the impacts and effectiveness of our work. My colleague will be giving a full presentation in the agenda on our results. So you can see here, highlights from our recently released 2019 yearend report which includes data. In terms of quickbuild moving forward were committed to investing 2030 million over a fiveyear time period, including prop k and the new tax made available this year. Weve looked for new ways to conduct outreach. For projects that are in the Public Outreach phase, we have started to use features like story maps, survey tools for people to learn more about the project and provide feedback. You can see a few images here of the recent outreach conducted in both the folsom and bayview. In addition to the quickbuild work, weve been working hard on our Covid Response work which has including, our slow streets program, our shared spaces program, including full lane closures, and our emergency transitonly lanes. So looking ahead for our safe streets work, were continuing our quick build and Covid Response work, but we wanted to share other updates. Were planning to advance a citywide daylighting program on the network. Weve submitted a 500,000 request for prop k funds that we expect will achieve about 500 in our intersection on the hydro network. And the approach will be corridorbased, building on the Lessons Learned from our recent work in district 4 as well as the work in the tenderloin several years ago. Well be focusing our daylighting work on areas of high crash. Were going to be implementing speed reductions near senior centers, building on some analysis that identified seniorserving facilities. There are about a dozen locations weve identified that meets the criteria to reduce to 25 Miles Per Hour which we company to m. P. By the end of the implement by the end of the year. Weve identified the prop 8 location for your red lights and listed here on the approaches that will be prioritized. Based on the data for injury crashes. So weve committed 2 million to expand our existing Camera Program and designing of the expansion will begin this year. Commissioner peskin mr. Chairman, if i may jump in on the Camera Program. Ms. Reeves, mr. Chairman, is it okay if i hop in, or do you want me to hold my questions until the end . Chair yee how much more do you have . Just a few minutes. A few more slides. Chair yee why dont we finish up, because i have questions, too. Commissioner peskin okay. Okay. So a few quick highlights. In terms of our safe people work, our vision zero outreach is largely on hold due to shelterinplace. That includes the street Team Outreach and post fatality outreach, however we do have updates for looking ahead. For safer intersections, by the end of october, well be launching our safer Intersection Campaign which focuses on reducing leftturn collision and this Education Campaign is funded by the active Transportation Program grant. We also are coordinating with the Youth Art Exchange which is a recipient of supervisor yees participatory budget grant, so well be working with High School Students to develop vision zerorelated visuals to run on transit vehicles. And last we received another office of Traffic Safety grant to continue our Motorcycle Safety program, so well be partnering with the Police Department to provide Safety Training next spring and summer. And then finally, our just a brief update on the data systems team. Weve expedited our data process to share more quickly the commission information. Its been updated to reflect data through the beginning of this year, which is an accelerated schedule. You can search for information and this is something that our planners and engineers use. That concludes my presentation. Im happy to answer questions. Chair yee thank you very much, ms. Reeves. Commissioner peskin . Commissioner peskin thank you, chair yee. I just want to drill down a little bit into the light enforcement and if by way of background, how many cameras are there now . My recollection is that there is about a dozen. We had an old program that used to be done with the old thing called film. That took a long time to develop. Then we went to a digital system a few years ago, but can you just remind us and the folks who are listening what the current state of the digital red light Camera Program is . How many we have . And what the numbers are . And both as to enforcement and as to reduction of crashes . Sure. So i dont know im going to pause for a minute and see if my colleague is on the line that leads our red light Camera Program. I dont think he is. Jamie, i just want to invite you in, if you have any summary of behalf of ricardo. I believe we have about a dozen or so cameras and that we have moved to a digital program. Commissioner peskin and those things are true. Yes. So jamie, sfmta, so ricardo, the city traffic engineer would have the most detailed information, but i can provide a Little Information as well. Commissioner peskin, youre correct, i think its 13 cameras we have and the transition to the digital system was completed in 2019. So that was a fairly capital intensive process and the red light Camera Program is capital intensive. Its like building a new traffic signal next to your new traffic signal, its about 300,000 for each intersection we do. We have committed 4 million. So that is the list of locations that ryan shared earlier. Commissioner peskin so through the chair, mr. Parks, what im really looking for is data as to those 13 intersections relative to the improvement of pedestrian and vehicular and Bicycle Safety. We have 2020 year to date numbers. Thats what im trying to drill down into. Do we have a map as to where those 13 are . I assume that those were the same locations where we had the old lane things that used to stick out and flash. I assume we replaced those at the same locations, which is primarily on the east side. Many of them in the corner of the city that i represent. Chair yee i think there was an earlier slide that indicated the locations. Can you pull that up . Yes, let me figure out how to get back to the and, yeah, i think this is the list of the eight commissioner peskin thats the expansion. Of the 13 we have out now, we do have a list on our website that we can send out. But around eight of those are preexisting locations, already zonebased systems. And i think four or five were candidates for new locations. And for the previous ones, i think we did do a presentation maybe last year on kind of crash data so we could share that again and well be doing a similar analysis on the new locations once we have one year of full data. Commissioner peskin presumably, when in 2019 did the 13 digital cameras go in . I dont have the exact date. It was toward the end of 2019 that we finished it. Commissioner peskin presumably, we have one year of data as were toward the end of 2020. This is ricardo. Hi, can you hear me . Chair yee yes. Yeah, we have the data for the locations that are now active. We activated the last few locations this year. This system as a whole is giving about over 800 citations every month. And well be looking to see how that impacts safety in the next few months because crash data typically lags a little bit. So but i think that my colleagues have covered most of the details. We can provide more information to you, commissioner, on the locations. And the data of how many citations are given by each location. Commissioner peskin yeah, i think if chair yee will indulge me, i think it would be really helpful to have that particularly as were talking were all 100 in on automated Speed Enforcement and have vested time to get the state of california to give us that authority and try to get Law Enforcement statewide and in San Francisco to get out of the way and allow that bill to pass in the state legislature. But, as we are deciding what to do with our ever increasing amount of capital money as were expanding by eight intersections, which intuitively sounds like a good thing, i really would like to hear what the data is 800 a month across 13 cameras sounds robust, but if that could be broken down . And insofar as the Vision Zero Committee doesnt meet that often and insofar as the champion of the committee for the time being has been my colleague, commissioner yee, if commissioner yee would indulge me, i would love to have that at our next full Transportation Authority meeting in october. Just an information item on redlight cameras. I think that would be really helpful. And relative to the crash data that lags, i still think we should have a snapshot of data as to how it is improving or not pedestrian or Bicycle Safety. I would really like to drill down in that and if chair yee would indulge me, i would ask our staff to calendar that a