Under the influence. A lot of people think its about driving, but its speed. 60 percent of the injuries occur in intersection. Our public needs to be aware of this. Too often people are not yielding to oncoming pedestrians. We need a shift that will require everyone to Pay Attention to the streets. San francisco is ranked as having the highest total rates of fatalities and major injuries to pedestrians and bicyclist by both vehicle miles and by population. I know we can do better. We are a city that knows how to do things so lets get it done. This will call on the Transportation Authority to convene a working group of Pedestrian Safety advocates and lead the major county departments. Including the departments of Public Health, sf mta and San Francisco Police Department to develop and action plan. Within 90 days of this first meeting, an action plan of the Public Awareness campaign will be presented to the board. We have an unprecedented level of support coming from community members, t
Memoriam which i am cosponsoring with Kim Bobby Baker who passed away. She was born in memphis tennessee and overcame many challenges before moving to San Francisco area in 1992. She served as the west coast regional ministries and lay minister and transgender minorities. Her friends admired her ability for adversity. She is wellknown at the tenderloin Resource Center and health. The Wellness Center in early 2013 of finding a home for her many talents and for her passion. Bobby jean worked tirelessly to help people that were falling through cracks in society. She had a unique sense to find members in need. She survived by family and many many friends and clients in San Francisco and the bay area and many people are in mourning for her passing. Along with supervisor kim, i would like to adjourn the meeting in her memory. The rest i submit. The clerk thank you supervisor wiener. Supervisor yee . Supervisor norman yee thank you madam clerk. First i want to thank supervisor kims comments a
Said this is our desert. These are the top stories and a man suspected of opening far on people and vehicles and occupied is jerusalem. Has handed himself over to police. 8 people were injured in the attack on sunday morning. A man believe to have shot at pedestrians and passengers on a bus and in a car that i took a name has the latest from occupied east jerusalem. Police say that a man ambushed a bus that it was arriving to pick up passengers. Passengers were boarding a bus, they say it was packed when they began hurting gunshots. People fell to the ground, bleeding. There was screaming and warnings that this was an attack. The numbers keep fluctuating a bit, but what we have is that 8 people have been injured. 3 of them are americans. 2 of them are in Critical Condition that includes a pregnant woman in her thirties and a man in his sixties. Donald trump is under pressure of to reports. His lawyer assigned a statement in june, confirming all classified material had been returned. I
With 20 pedestrian deaths recording in San Francisco. We have seen an unprecedented number of accidents along with enforcement and better infrastructure education is a need to prevent these injuries. Im hoping to get started the education piece within the next month or so. In district seven we wanted to do some pilot program. We are asking students in our Public Schools to participate as crossing guards. Right now there is two schools that have shown a strong interest and we are hoping to take it off. Why i was interested in doing that is really the education piece where you start educating children at a young age about what their responsibilities are, not only as a pedestrian but when they get older as a driver. So thats my attempt. And what we are finding out and maybe everybody might know this, but for people that dont know this, speed is responsible for 10 times the number of pedestrian injuries in San Francisco, more than driving under the influence. A lot of people think its abou
People think its about driving, but its speed. 60 percent of the injuries occur in intersection. Our public needs to be aware of this. Too often people are not yielding to oncoming pedestrians. We need a shift that will require everyone to Pay Attention to the streets. San francisco is ranked as having the highest total rates of fatalities and major injuries to pedestrians and bicyclist by both vehicle miles and by population. I know we can do better. We are a city that knows how to do things so lets get it done. This will call on the Transportation Authority to convene a working group of Pedestrian Safety advocates and lead the major county departments. Including the departments of Public Health, sf mta and San Francisco Police Department to develop and action plan. Within 90 days of this first meeting, an action plan of the Public Awareness campaign will be presented to the board. We have an unprecedented level of support coming from community members, the Mayors Office and the board