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Thank you. Any further Public Comment . Chief suhr, are you coming up . [inaudible] okay. Good evening commissioners. Chief suhr and joyce. Welcome back. This is 2015. I expect very good and positive things of this commission and of this Police Department. I have been in San Francisco since 1998, and no where, and i lived all over the bay area, have i found access to be able to raise questions about Police Activity to have people listen to respond and implement programs to incorporate and includ...

Maclaren park and long street probably like sunset boulevard and a few others within the west side of the sunset but i think for a citywide approach and i know our mta is looking at calming traffic hopefully limiting speed limits is a part of that strategy and one other bit of information that you gave besides the london uk study showing that over the the 20year period reducing traffic collisions by forty percent in their efforts i think thats an important piece of data and i think you said that...

Vehicle collisions was 3111 of those 844 involved pedestrians and 630 involved bicyclists. Of the another statistic is the number of collisions with fatal ities and that number has gone up respect respect ively and 622 collisions in in 2011 and over 21 percent of the drivers in the city exceed the speed limit by five Miles Per Hour or more. This map shows where those streets are and when i say over 21 percent, this was some information com piled by the department of public health, that range is ...

Triggered when somebody is going really fast but looks like an interesting use of new technology in school and work zones so its not throughout the city and its not there all the time but it could really be targeted strategically to help people be more aware of the speed limits in a targeted way could you just talk about automated enforcement cameras and just whether you you think thats a realistic change that we could make at the state possibly local level. Right. I think certainly based on the...

Over 146 officer fatalities per year. That is a shocking number. One officer killed somewhere in america every 60 hours. All right. But the good news is that numbers are going down. If you go back to the 1970s we were averaging 231 officers killed in the line of duty each and every year. That means the 146 number i cited is 37 lower than it was 40 years ago. That is at a time we have double number of officers serving and putting themselves at risk. Would you have expected that number would have ...

Minutes okay. Seeing none is there any Public Comment on item supervisor avalos. Im sorry, i he am wondering if youre mike is on. Is that better my apologies colleagues, any changes to the minutes seeing none well open up for Public Comment is there any Public Comment on item 2 seeing none, Public Comment is closed could i have a motion to or is that a roll call on the minutes. On item 2. Supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farr...

Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority meeting i want to thank sfgovtv for broovrt todays vent jonathan and jonathan madam clerk my had any announcements. None. Roll call. Supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor kim . Absent supervisor mar absent supervisor tang supervisor wiener we have quorum okay. We will now move to item number 2 item 2 approval of the minutes of ...

Mar supervisor campos and supervisor christensen im fred r from from the budget and analysts office. Im just getting this prepared. Today im going to summarize the report that we completed at the request of supervisor mar on reduction options in San Francisco. Ill start with a quick profile of collision statistics and speeding information in the city. First of all from 2011 the number of vehicle collisions was 3111 of those 844 involved pedestrians and 630 involved bicyclists. Of the another sta...

West side of the sunset but i think for a citywide approach and i know our mta is looking at calming traffic hopefully limiting speed limits is a part of that strategy and one other bit of information that you gave besides the london uk study showing that over the the 20year period reducing traffic collisions by forty percent in their efforts i think thats an important piece of data and i think you said that study found that by reducing speed limits by one Miles Per Hour reduces the number of co...

Limit prior to shows zones being put in place. Supervisor supervisor campos most of of the residential were 25 and dropped to 20 and then some some of the commercial and main streets were 30. Thank you. I just wanted to thank both of you for the great report i wanted to highlight that the speed limit compliance map that you gave is all over the city and i know the mta has identified the pedestrian high injury corridors and the map of the collisions due to speeding in the city tend to be concentr...