Efficient and safer areas for people to walk and ride and continue promoting the city as the most walkable city anywhere no, the country we cant do that unless we support that very fine goal of being the most walkable city. So i say to you today, were acting on this today and i appreciate the peoples efforts its not enough its not fast enough people are going to say but the thing i want to say the people who drive in the city slow down. Youve got to slow down all the construction trucks with a great indication of our economic recovery have got to slow down. All the people that emergency vehicles have to be sure what theyre doing is the safety and most efficient way to provide that service we need to slow down and promote people looking both ways before they cross the street taking that supra precaution for themselves and their families. Were going to be doing that through education and enforcement and good solid investment were given around historic comments. I think this the comprehen
Swede can do this we can its an Innovative Program to make sure we get this done. I want to thank all the city agencies to put aside our differences and we have to in the coming months do this again come together and put aside the narrow differences on the issue and come and unit on issues on the november booklet to fund the Pedestrian Safety improvement. Thank you all for being here and looked forward to this Work Together clapping. thank you, president chow and one of another partner that the Transportation Authority thank you tilly chang shes one of the leaders in the city. The Transportation Authority is governed by an 11 Member Commission it happens to be the same commission it sits as our board of supervisors and theyre led by a great advocate for equality and safety and transportation please welcome the chairman john avalos clapping. thank you, ed im really glad to be sharing this room with our city departments and the mayor. President of the board of my colleagues who have take
Smaet strategy and will deployment and combirs our community. Weve been successful so far but focusing on the 5 most dangerous intersections and our confliction factors and using our data for realtime deployment and redeployment we can get a handle at least for the enforcement piece but as far as as education were going to need community and partnership were looking both ways to cross the street now look both ways and make eye contact with the driver before you cross the street. You are our populations is over 8 hundred thousand and growing and twice as many bicyclists in the city and more construction in the country and at the same time everybody cant wait 60 seconds longer to be on their cell phone were at a crisis level in San Francisco we exceed Violent Crime serious injuries and deaths by those that are happening on the roads we can do this using technology and follow the lead of the people behind us but we cant get it done without doing it together. I ask i to sloan slow down and
For the city in terms of how we use our resources so who is driving that data i want to acknowledge Ben Rosenfeld and Barbara Garcia and her staff and tilly chang at the county of Transportation Authority and the planning department. Weve had a lot of which the smarter mind but last but not least the staff of the mta the sustainable street staff a lot of the bright minds in the city working together to analyze this data that will help us use our resources enforcement and education and when it comes time to pitting things in the ground the department of public works and Mayors Office on disability and Carmen Johnson and tom from our building inspector were working he together to put this stuff in the ground and that finally at the sfmta were led had by a board of directors theyve identified safety as the number one priority so i want to acknowledge sheryl bringing man here strongest voice advocating for bicycle and Pedestrian Safety and all the road users with all the folks standing beh
Continental contractions and on folsom street and improved at the City Clerks Office ton and striping changes on silver across the town and many trrnz claiming gary and palm and 6th and 16th and moo sonic and specifically by request i wasnt the first one to think of this were going to put the 13 at the yorba and that speeding is unacceptable awhile were waiting for the 13 ive specifically asked our chief and hes responded with a specifics officer to catch people so were going to make the city safer. This is our mandate were tired of saying were sorry. Were putting money serious money behind this are i know the group as identified over 275 million of work and this 50 million were identifying in november against that the 17 million were identified by various sources i want to thank you. The to the agencies for getting the first 17 million started ahead in the touchy areas of the city. Its more than just about commitment. We stood here months before and said we care about the citys safer