Emotional topic. Imagine some of you are feeling a sense of rage and youre looking for somebody to glaim. Others may be feeling powerless, shaken, heartbroken, that is all okay, we understand that. Like you the leaders who join me today share your grief anytime somebody is injured or killed on our streets. We all know in our hearts, and in our guts, that this is unacceptable. This is not the kind of city that we want to live in and that is why ten years ago, today, many of our visionary leaders made San Francisco the second city in america to adopt vision zero. Since i joined the sfm board of directors i was laser focus on how it will get to zero. This is my number one priority in my service to this city. I see the ability to walk, bike, drive, roll, or take transit safely without fior of harm as a basic right and freedom that everybody should expect in our city. Its why i created the vision zero subcommittee so that we can all sit around the table together, talk about opportunities, but also talk about the real challenges that director tumlin and staff face every single day as theyre trying to achieve this goal. I wanted a space where community, advocates and government can come together and problem solve together. As with embark in the next ten years of vision zero i want to continue to come to the table, please bring your next ideas, we want to Work Together. And as much as i am deeply passionate about vision zero, it was not until recently that vision zero is not actually our vision. Of course no one should die or injured on our streets, of course. But we can reach vision zero, we can reach a day where no one dies and no one is injured and we can still fall short in the city that we want to be. You see, i think safety is the floor. Safety is the minimum. And as we have seen these last few years, our street can be so much more than safe. Our streets can be placed that uplift and elevate people. Our vaoets will be blank canvassed for local artist, places for communities to come together and express their unique identities and histories. Great streets, should create opportunities for joy, and for delight. Whenever i ride my bike down jfk promenade and i pass that piano that warped piano and i see a Community Sing along and i see people making fools of themselves just coming together as a community. Or i take a highway and a see a spontaneous jazz by the ocean wave, i think this is, this the kind of city that i want to live in. Mayor breed, you have had the vision and the foresight to call for jfk promenade to be a permanent place for people. And that is a gift that every single day up lifts, hows thousands and thousands of people in this city, forever. You are all here today because you care so much. Well no one, no one cares more about this city than this mayor. No one takes more direct responsibility for all of the challenges this city faces than this mayor. And no one holds more of the incredible challenge of reconciling often competing view points and still finding a pass forward. Emigrateful for your undying sense of optimism that we will reach out our potential thank you, for your service mayor breed. San francisco please welcome your mayor, london breed [applause] mayor breed thank you, amanda and thank you to all the people and the advocates and so many who care deeply about this and San Francisco who have joined us today. Thank you to all of our elected leaders and to sfmta, im so glad that were all here together in order to really talk about what the future of San Francisco holds and what we need to do to move this city forward as a result of so many challenges that we have experienced. Today is a moment for us to come together as a community in light of a strategy that struck our city in a devastating a little over a week ago. I dont need to repeat the details of the moments to all of you what happens the pain, the terror, the hopelessness the frustration. We are still still processing the grief and sadness for a family whos life was lost and a community that was shaken. I will never for goat receiving the call and being in the community in the aftermath, there were so many, so many moment thats stay with you as a mayor. Ive been in the homes of grieving families who have lost sons, and daughters to gun violence, ive been in the hospital supporting tragedies that have happened to our First Responders. What happened at west portal, was one of those moments. Im going to west portal next week with sfmta john tumlin to talk through some of the changes that were making on the streets. But those changes while important will not take back what happened. To every one who has shoulder and born the grief of the family over the last two weeks, or the injuries or deaths of other loved one over the years, we see you and we thank you for your work and your advocacy. This is a moment that we never want to live through again. Not just a family loss but two lives of young people, unimaginable. Ive seen loss in my own life devastating loss and it never gets easy. It is lessons from horrific events such of these that must to the way we move forward as a city. The way that we move forward in a courageous way to make significant change. But thats also why we do the work. We do the work to make a difference, we do the work because we want to save lives and we want to make San Francisco a better place. Thats one of the hard parts about the efforts with vision zero. Its rare to recognize the work that you have done to safe lives and it has. Weve done a will the of work, reductions and speed limits, protected bike lanes, slowing drivers down and while these efforts have been successful and have saved lives, we know we have to do more. Ten years ago, i sat in the board of supervisor sxz voted with along with my colleagues including our surnt City Attorney david kh ru. Five years i inherited the 49 scare miles of 100 plusyearold infrastructure road that no longer fully meets our values as residents, our values today are so much more different and it needs a complete overhaul, period. [applause] these streets were built for another time. A smaller population and design for a world, we no longer want to live in. Where cars are prioritized and the only option. Our systems are long overdue for a physical moderization and this is going to take a lot of time and a lot of resources and a lot of understanding, because things need to be different. Ten years ago, we made a commitment to improve our streets, that work has been hard and it has been long and it has not always been easy. But when you step back, progress has been made. And we made it together. San franciscos has installed 33 quick billed projects and more than 50 miles of safety improvements on the highest injury streets. Weve installed over 700 traffic calming dwiesz such as speed humps, raised crosswalks, median islands to reduce speed. Weve installed 41 miles of protected bike lanes since 2014. Weve installed no right turns on red lights at over 300 intersections city wide including 62 intersections in the tenderloin. We have established slow streets, shared spaces and jfk prom nod promenade mostly because of the pandemic. We became the first city in california to reduce speed limits on San Francisco streets. [applause]. And with every one here in support including our City Attorney david chu, we passed enforcement at the state level. So thank you to the City Attorney who worked with Safety Advocates to first introduce automated speed and did it several times. Thank you for fighting here at the state of supervisors. Thats not all of the work, but its a lot. And we know that, it has saved lives. And we look at the work we have done to determine what we know we have to do. Too often Street Safety projects get stalled or slowed down. But today we lay down our commitments to moving forward. This happens now. Im here to support sfmta as they deliver their vision zero commitment including projects, automatic Speed Enforcement and reducing speed limits all over the city. Ive asked for three specific things. A day lighting plan and policy to prioritize the treatment of intersection city wide. A no right on red policy to prioritize the treatment at intersections city wide. And increase parking control enforcement to ticket people who park on sidewalks and block our crosswalks and bike lanes. [applause] [cheers and applause] but thats not all, i want to Say Something else about vision zero. I know we rightfully focus on Street Safety, it is a moral imperative, it is urgent and it is an urgent matter that we need to address. But making our streets safer should also deliver hope. It should bring people together. When we first created the slow streets during the pandemic, as much as we cannot be together as a community, we were still together on the streets of San Francisco. And it brought hope, and it brought joy. It should be about creating spaces that unite us not just streets we drive down or neighborhoods we drivethru or bike down or on our way to somebody someplace else. It should be about joy. When i think about jfk promenade, they have so much joy. Yes, its definitely safer than it was before, absolutely. But its also more joyful, whether youre roller skating, biking, walking your dogs, walking with neighbors running into your friends, it brings joy. Thats where i want to take vision zero next. [applause] so how do we spend the next ten years making the city more welcoming for people to be out on the sidewalks and in their streets talking with neighbors and having a block party and listening to music and kids walking to school and feeling that they can be safe, we will always focus on safety. But i want us to focus on how we bring people together. Because the street changes that bring us together are also what will make us safer. We will continue to work with all of you to imagine those space sxz reimagine what is possible. Can you imagine if we would like look at places like northbeach where people can come out on the streets and sidewalks and enjoy their neighborhoods. Even places like hay street where we know the sidewalks are really small but people visit that neighborhood and can be another kind of promenade, we need to be open to these ideas and i understand they will be challenging when people do not understand what that can mean for an impactful business and the ability to get to work. And what happens, people to see it, they have to feel it and we have to be courageous enough to produce it. [applause] we will continue, we will continue to work with all of you to imagine those spaces. To reimagine what is possible. We will always need spaces for different modes of transportation, buses, cars, bikes, walking but we also need spaces for people to come together. The city is complicated and it is dense. But i truly believe that has space for us all and change is not bad. Change in our street infrastructure is not bad, its a way to make San Francisco the kind of city that we can all enjoy and love. We need better transit, we need more housing, we need more opportunities for public space and i know there are a lot of opinions and a lot of ideas but lets hear them all. And also, if we dont completely agree thats okay. But the biggest picture here as i said, is always about safety, and bringing people together. We can all agree on working together to get to come together to do what is necessary to address the challenges. And my message to all the street Safety Advocates that are joining us here today, that are demanding change, that want to see bold, courageous change in the streets of San Francisco, we are prepared to be aggressive in implementing that change in order to make a difference. When i first became supervisor, i fought to make those bike lanes on valen oak happen despite all the challenges that occured before and i will continue to do what i can to deliver on Street Safety in San Francisco. Thank you all for being here for bringing attention to Street Safety for holding space, for the lives that we have lost and to make sure that they are never forgotten and we honor their legacy by making improvements and making sure that it tuz not happen again. I will always do more to push the envelope and i will make sure that were continuing to have the hard conversations. We know its not easy and one of the things that ive been consistency talking about is getting rid of the bureaucracy to move forward. Yes we want Community Engagement but sometimes its just a little too much, we need to move forward, we need to get out of the way, and we need to make it happen thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] and with that, i would like to introduce supervisor rafael mandelman. [applause] thank you, madam chair, why supervisor mandelman . Oh because im the chair of Transportation Authority and have been able to do that for a few years, its come here, stand next to me, its actually the heart, speaking of bureaucrats who are amazing our Transportation Authority director and her team. I just want to thank you, tilly. Thank you madam mayor, yeah, tilly deserves some applause. Yeah, her Team Deserves some applause. [applause] thank you madam mayor for your vision on vision zero. I join in acknowledging the tenyear anniversary policy. But more importantly, im here to recommit the t. A. To work in partnership with our city Broad Community to end traffic related injuries and deaths in our city. I also join my colleagues here today and all of you in mourning the death of the family that was killed in last years traffic crash we grief with their family. In 2013 San Francisco was the second city to adopt vision zero through an ordinance through norman ye and kim. United in our commitment to trying to make our city safer. Since then, weve done a lot to redesign our streets and increase visibility and reduce speed limits and conflicts and Institute Education and enforcement including the upcoming installation of Safety Cameras. They have provided hundreds of millions of dollars through our voter approved sales tax, double a vehicle registration, prop b and other funds to improve safety from traffic calming, to safe routes to schools, our prop bell program will provide over 15 Million Dollars over the next five years alone in accelerated vision zero Capitol Investment and education funds. But as i noted as at the t a meeting, while we will continue to presa head it is press ahead, we need more culture no more speeding. Here im grateful for the work of families for safe streets and walk sf and legislate tours, past and present, past mayors and the current mayor and sfmt a and david chu, who worked so hard for us to authority to pilot speed Safety Cameras. This will safe lives and i know san franciscans cannot wait. And i will continue to press for traffic enforcement, were holding a hearing again on that, at the committee at the end of april in city hall. We must protect all visitors and through vision zero and i look forward to all of us unifying to tackle the goal with the urgency that it deserves and demands in the coming years and years. And i believe i now get to introduce a true a true, safety advocate and champion, both well as a supervisor on the boateder of supervisors, as president of the board of supervisors, then as a state legislature and now back to us as City Attorney, were glad to have you david chu. [applause] good afternoon, brothers and sisters. So i have to say as somebody who has attended many many events here on the steps of city hall, today feels different. This is a different kind of moment. This is a moment of emotion, of reflection and of intent recommitment and i want to thank you all of you for being part of our San Francisco community. Ten years ago, when which was serving as a president of our board of supervisors, we were seeing too many families who were losing loved ones on our streets, kids going to school, cyclist going to work. Seniors living their best lives, and this is why a number of us came together to author the inaugural resolution to start vision zero. To eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries and increase safe mobility for every one. And i want to take a moment and thank each of and every one of you because as i look out here, there are folks who are with us, ten years ago, 9, 8, who have been with us every step of the way in this fight. Transportation professionals, pedestrian, and cycling and senior advocates and community and elected leaders, the road has been long and well it may not feel that way, we have been saving lives but we all know this work has been much harder than any of us expected. We also know when we travel together, we get it done. And i want to give one example. I have to tell you in 2017 when a whole number of us, many of us here on these steps, when we first introduced the first version of automated Speed Enforcement, i thought we were going to get it done in 2017. Then 2018, 2019, it took us 7 years despite the fact that we know that speed kills. That its the top factor in severe and fatal car crashes despite the fact that automatic o mated Speed Enforcement had saved lives in over two cities, dropping preventable deaths by 20, 30, 40 percent. It took the work of literal virtually every person standing with us today to get it done. But because we did, govern newsom signed it into law and those cameras are going up [cheers and applause] listen, we were just tragically reminded this past month why we do this work. And as a parent and as a san franciscan i joined us this week about what happened. But this is what has to fire us up to do the hard work. Building the safe travel, creating slower streets and i want to you k