Transcripts For SFGTV TA Vision Zero Committee 63016 2016070

Transcripts For SFGTV TA Vision Zero Committee 63016 20160703

The Vision Zero Committee of Transportation Authority board special meeting. Im jane kim and serve as vice chair. Normal yee is at rules committee speaking on a measure he introduced to the full boards. We are joined by commissioner wiener and mr. Clerk do we have announcements . There are no announcements. Roll call item 1, commissioner aye. Wiener, here. Commissioner yee, absent. Commissioner campos, absent. We have quorum. Can we call the next item item 2, approval the minutes of march 31, 2016 meeting. This is action item this is routine item. Can we take a motion on the item . Motion to approve the minutes of march 31 and do that without opposition. Commissioner kim, aye. Commissioner wiener, aye. And commissioner yee absent, the minutes are approved. Thank you and the item passes. Please call the next item. Sfmta would like to call item 5 before item 3 . I dont have the ajnda in front of me. Okay. As i informed the chair i need to get to rules committee. Ill do opening comments item 5, update on vision zero project and initiatives. This is information item. Thank you. Wanted to make introductory remarks and allow commissioner wiener to make remarks as well. It st. The timing of the committee i think given the tragedies that occurred last week is timely as this board and the commission evaluate the work that our city has been doing to achieve vision zero that supervisor avalos and yee and i called for in 2015. While i have been heartened by much of the work and commitment of many of the departments including sfmta, public works, sfcta and department of Public Health. As tragedies continue on the streets and lose lives or see severe injuries continue we realize the work continues to be urgent. We know the collisions are absolutely preventable and it is important to continue to work engineering, education and increase enforce the importance of the work is highlighted every time we lose a life of another member of San Francisco. Last year we lost cath ran slatry and hething miller. One in the district i represent on 7th street a block from where i live and Golden Gate Park as well. I have been really impressed to include pilot projects and get temporary projects on ground, i think we also have to make sure our long term projects like protected bike lanes really see movement as well. I think as we continue to see what is happening in the high corridors the issue is more important than others. I did call for a hearing earlier this week to review the bike lane safety and bike lane enforcement and also working to introduce a resolution with sfmta directing the department to design and construction of protected bike lanes. It has been great to see temporary bike lanes come in on second street, howard, folsom and golden gate, it is frustrating when the new lanes go in and continue to see double parking and continue to see cars driving in the bike lanes and then of course when we experience tragedies like the two we had last week. I like regularly in this district, i pass by on the corner where catherine slatary and [inaudible] lost their lives every day either it is pedestrian driver or cyclist and as we continue commitment to have fewer cars on the road and encourage more people to walk bike and take Public Transit we have to insure to all the residents it is absolutely 100 percent to do so because we have proper design enforcement and education. Im hoping through this process we continue to do the temporary urgent work which i think is important we continue to move in a parallel and swift track making sure we have protected bike lanes. Having being able to visit a bike infrastructure in copenhagen i got to see what it was like to be in the city where 2 3 of the residents bike on a daily basis and believe they are able to do so because everyone rides slower and Speed Enforcement is essential for hitting vision zero. If we have a city with lass cars on the road we have to guarantee greater safety and other modes of transportation. I hope through the committee and upcoming hearings we can do the work. Commissioner wiener is a huge advocate for transportation would like to make opening remarks. That you thank you very much commissioner kim. You know, commissioner kim and i from time to time had disagreements on issues but this is a issue in terms of Street Safety where we have been hand and glove and commissioner kim has been very supportive of the work that i have done in the area and ive been supportive of commissioner kims work and have to band together and be united to insist this just stops and that we stop with the death and carnage we continue to see on our streets and insist our city departments move faster and in a more coordinateed manner to get these projects implemented to insist that the funding be there and to insist that we stop with the excuses for getting this done. This is a issue that is intensely personal for me and i know for a lot of people. We all know someone or know of someone who has been injured or in some cases killed on our streets due to the unsafe conditions and due to unsafe street design and that has to change. I attended the vigil for mrs. Flatary at 7th and howard and i dont want to attend more vigils and dont want them to have to happen because the deaths should not be happening. They are all 100 percent preventable. This does not have to be how our city is. A few years ago i authored a legislation to mandate our city departments coordinate toort and actually talk to each other when there are disputes about street design changes. We have seen some improvement in the indepartmenteal coordination but have to keep moving that forward. I authored legislation to change the fire code because we have this unfortunate situation where fire code which comes out of texas for those who follow these things is very focused on having street that are really wide and we have these very suburden Design Standards imposed on our city so we work to change the fire code to make it easier to have bulb outs and other measures we know, that save lives. Im working on legislation to require when the Fire Department goes out to bid on designs for fire trucks, that it has to include criteria in the rfp about having the trucks be more agile and more able to navigate narrow city streets because we have this attention and sometimes we have push back from the Fire Department about the size of their trucks and desire on the Fire Departments parts to have wider streets. We know this from south of market that wider streets means faster traffic, faster traffic means more collisions and more serious collisions and there is a direct correlation between overly wide streets and more and more serious injuries and more deaths and so we have to keep pushing absolutely protected bike lanes are critical but that isnt the only thing we need, we need to continue to move our city toward 21 century street design. We have all the facts we need to know what we need to do to have safer streets and you have my commitment that we will keep moving in that direction. I apologize i cant stay but will have to switch with supervisor yee to go to rules committee for sales tax that will have funding for collision and vision zero. I guess ill wait for supervisor yee so i dont break the quorum. We would like to call up director of sfmta to begin it the presentation and got the press announcements of the 57 project jz curious to see that list and where we are prioritizing. Thank you supervisors and thank you for the opportunity to be here to talk about vision zero. Thank you also for your leadership on the issue and challenging us and reminding us as you said, the deathsevery death on the street is preventable including the two im sorry, we just lost quorum and we will have to recess the meeting until another member walks in. I sincerely apologize to members the public because i know you are here to speak but cant continue Committee Hearing without a [committee reconvened] i will hand the gavel back to the chair, commissioner norman yee and if we can begin it presentation with tom maguire are we on item 5 . Okay. Okay. Thank you again supervisors for your leadership and challenging and remining the death in the streets of San Francisco is preventable including the two that took place last wednesday. [inaudible] killed by hit and run drivers on jfk and howard. They were riding their bikes and following the rules and none of the excuses we sometimes hear about cyclist responsibilities come into play. They were killed because of the irresponsible choices of two drivers on the streets. We hear and share the urgency and outrage we heard from the community in San Francisco and agree that these tragagys were preventable. We believe these were criminal reckless acts we can engineer and enforce and educate to keep the streets safe and a big part is call for better bike lanes in the city. I will talk about the work we are doing to make streets safer for cycling in San Francisco as part the vision zero 2016 projects. Since the listing of the bike plan injuckz in 2010 San Francisco is moving to expand the bike network. All most 20 percent since 2010. At that time we had no bike lanes or protected bike lanes. Since then we built 13 protected and 14 miles of [inaudible] in San Francisco. We have smalled on a steady case starting with jfk drive and [inaudible] polk street in 2014 and 2015 protected bike lanes on [inaudible] also separated bike lanes on san jose avenue, golden gate, [inaudible] we also have over 20 active bike safety projects in Planning Design or construction and in 2015 will implement over 10 miles of new or upgraded bike facilities in San Francisco. These are mix of protected bike lanes, buffer bike lanes and transformative streetscape projects like polk street, masonic avenue and folsom street. These projects are significant safety and Infrastructure Investments in each of these corridors. We know we can always domore and better and faster and that something that we hear loud and clear from the city leader and community. I asked the bike program to look at 90 million inest ivistment and look to see if upgrading protected bike lanes is the tool to keep cyclist safe on the streets because we hear loud and clear for more protected bike lanes thrrchlt are other ways the process is getting better. Changes to California Environmental quality act championed by board of supervisors and planning commission. New funding measures like a and prop d in 2014 and sales measures like prop k help to allocate more to Street Safety projects. More will be needed to achieve the vision as a world class biking city. There are other assects besides engineeringism we have to do this the right way and inwork with communities and engage the people on the corridors and work with the communities to make sure there is broad support in neighborhoods across the city and that helps face the tough decision. We know engineering isnt a [inaudible] one of the tragic connecting threads between the fatalities last week is excessive speed. We know excessive speed turns near misses into collisions and collisions into fatalitiesment there is a tool [inaudible] nob automated safety camera. Cameras can [inaudible] 141 communities across the United States have asc. Portland, washington dc, new york but the tool isnt allowed in california. It is a Life Saving Technology and need a change in state law to get it. Automated Speed Enforcement is also not a Silver Bullet and includes engineering safer streets and programs to keep the users safe and that is why the next generation of projects include all of the [inaudible] we Just Launched a vision zero priority projects website on the vision zero sf. Org site where 57 projects that we are bringing forward for vision zero are mapped interactively. It allows members of the public to track the progress and scope key mile stone s and track if we are on track to deliver what we promised in 2017. As i said, the projects cover a range of initiatives both engineering enforcement and education. 22 major Capital Projects completed by 2017, range from quick and effective projects to major corridor transformation. 21 more Capital Projects that achieve mile stones such as completion of Environmental Review or the construction bidding. 14 non Infrastructure Projects including city wide communication strategy and other things that will supplement the Engineering Projects to move away the culture of speeding and towards the culture of safety. These are projects and programs that cover every district in the city. There are projeths in all 11 districts. I will change the slide for a second. I want to put up the map and show a few examples of the projects. Mr. Maguire where on the projects do you list the priority projects . Im on the site now. I will pull it up on the screen and walk you through it. There we go. This is the interactive website and i highlighted a project at sutter street. We identified a need to shorten the crossing distance and protect pedestrians in the very congested intersections in the tenderloin. We are installing 4 pedestrian bulbs at each intersection. You can click on the dot and see a description of the project. How do you get there . Visionzerosf. Org. Im there. Do i go to about or safety and action. If you are on the home page, maps and data and that is where members of the public can fine all the priority projects . Okay. You have description of the scope and expected completion date. The status of the project is on schedule if that is to change you see it here first. This is minute to make this transapparent as possible for each of the projects. I also mentioned not all our projects are Engineering Projects. We also got some enforcement education things on here. For example, one othf important evaluation efforts is department of Public Health to assess the full medical care cost related to transportation injuries and fatalities. It is a important documentitation process that will make the argument for vision zero funding. This is tracked the same a engineering project. You can see the scope and milestone when we expect to meet it and notes whether we are on or off schedule. That is the way the information is organized. We are trying to movetrying to more and more towards a tool to be as transparent as possible with the public and as we did with the first generation of 24 month projects we will deliver what we promised to do and what you challenge us to do. If you just want to look at a list of all the upcoming projects without going on the map, what link do you go to there . If my colleague mari hunter who mastered this can come up . On the website at the bottom you see this table here. Well, for some reezten is cutting off a discussion was held cutting off the bottom quarter. Below is a table of the city wide projects and it was requested we include all Engineering Projects so in the process updating it rather than just being able to locate them on the map and making sure it is a full list. Currently it is non infrastructure, the table below, but well update with all projects. It isnt showing on my website, the tab you are roughering to. For the sake of ease of use i think it would help to have a link that lists by name all the priority projects so people can identify and understand what is in the hopper and what they may want to advocate for because they dont see it they dont believe it is a priority but the expectations stow the public can hold us accountable to make our stated goals. Well make that happen. So, a few other ones i want to highlight in the enforcement world, we come to realize education and enforcement are a natural pair and worked with our Safe Speed Campaign and sfpd to combine education and enforcement at the high crash locations around the city. Starting in the summer we will do messaging on high crash and local targeted messaging about speeding which is often the cause of the fatal traffics. Then launch a media push in september and in october go out with 140 hours enforcing the speeding traffic regulations on the streets where we have been getting drivers message about cutting down on speed. It is a example of the data driven spirit of vision zero. Going where the speed{crashs are happening and putting all our resources into enforcing the laws in those locations. We are continuing to [inaudible] sfpd with the speed guns they need to enforce the laws effectively and we continue to build the ground work for city wide Safe Speed Campaign through focus groups and research and finding out what it is that motivates people to think twice about their behavior and cut down on excessive speeding. The communication strategy, something we have talked about for a long time are launching it. It is research and data drichben and based on trying to find a way to communicate with communities in high crash corridors with messages are based on focus groups and research. This is a example of the message we are putting out there. Kill wg kindness, not with collisions making sure that we have a high visibility potent message that gets through and breaks through to people but it is research tested and it is really aimed at changing behavior and choices drivers continue to make and as recently last week causing fatalities on the streets. Moving from the culture where excessive speed isnt a problem where safety is priority on the streets at all times. That is a overview of the next generation of 57 projects. Look forward to any questions you have. Seeing none,commissioner kim. Thank you chair yee. I want to try not to [inaudible] i know many members of the public want to spe

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