of a car crashed right into an apartment building in the 6800 block, river dale road in river dale. the car ran right into where a woman was sleeping in her bedroom at the time. police have not yet confirmed that report. we will follow this one all morning and as soon as we get more information will pass it along to you. now to the crazy weather, it was a beautiful start this sunday, a live look at nationals part. sunny skies come after friday s nasty storms. gwen is down in the weather center with what we can expect today. certainly gwen, yesterday was a nice cap to what we had on friday. this is spectacular saturday. exactly. when i was working last night i referred to it as maureen ume my coanchor, as the calm after the storm. but a far different story from friday, through yesterday and to today, let s look at satellite radar, fairly clear skies across the area this morning but clouds starting to edge in from the west. we are keeping a close eye on the system to the no
slot program. thank you for having me here today. i m keith mathews with the police department and as julian said i help coordinate the mta, d.p.t.s traffic engineering safe passage program. it s based on the enforcement and education of the regulations of san francisco traffic code 194 point 3. these are regulations basically that pertain to anyone working in the streets and sidewalks of san francisco. anything from plain general construction sites to perhaps moving companies or any type of change in the path of travel for either pedestrians or vehicular traffic or bikes or any type of traffic with buses, cars, trucks that may effect the normal and every day stream engineers out there on the street scrapes. i have an enjoyable portion. what i take care of mostly is coordinating the education efforts of our program, we currently offer a free seminar. the - now it s the first tuesday of each month at mill ton works auditorium and we insight yi one related to the activities t
locations with heavy flows. you have to deal with heavy flow of traffic. can we do signal timing to provide that the cross walks are not closed at that time. that s challenge. people want to cross whether they re closed any way. i think your aware of that and anything we can do to retime for allowing pedestrian crossing will be important. banning turns on red at certain locations depending on a situation. sometimes it s beneficial and sometimes not if cars are turning left on green maybe this would not be help full. i think jack mentioned the pedestrian has would or what we cause 2 - 5 seconds of walk signal prior to the vehicle giving they re green can really provide is a pedestrian ahead start. so, the motorist can see them and yield to them. those are some of the very few examples of the counter me sures and i can answer questions but right now we re at the end of our time. couple of questions? countdown as an example of synergy tools but i think we need more that brin
enforcement. i have with me others that managing the field operations. thank you. next i d like to ask officer mathews to speak regarding the slot program. thank you for having me here today. i m keith mathews with the police department and as julian said i help coordinate the mta, d.p.t.s traffic engineering safe passage program. it s based on the enforcement and education of the regulations of san francisco traffic code 194 point 3. these are regulations basically that pertain to anyone working in the streets and sidewalks of san francisco. anything from plain general construction sites to perhaps moving companies or any type of change in the path of travel for either pedestrians or vehicular traffic or bikes or any type of traffic with buses, cars, trucks that may effect the normal and every day stream engineers out there on the street scrapes. i have an enjoyable portion. what i take care of mostly is coordinating the education efforts of our program, we currently off
signals to get this sort of good study so continuing to put those in will be a huge benefit. other things with signal timing. someone talked about the double left and right turn lane. how can we provide those across locations with heavy flows. you have to deal with heavy flow of traffic. can we do signal timing to provide that the cross walks are not closed at that time. that s challenge. people want to cross whether they re closed any way. i think your aware of that and anything we can do to retime for allowing pedestrian crossing will be important. banning turns on red at certain locations depending on a situation. sometimes it s beneficial and sometimes not if cars are turning left on green maybe this would not be help full. i think jack mentioned the pedestrian has would or what we cause 2 - 5 seconds of walk signal prior to the vehicle giving they re green can really provide is a pedestrian ahead start. so, the motorist can see them and yield to them. those are some of t