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Down by police precinct. Yes. How does the department or does the department track how more precisely where the citations are being issued in terms of on specific blocks or specific intersections knowing more specifically of a Police District where the citations and dangerous driving is happening. Absolutely. As i indicated, we embarked on a collision data base. That data base has a component for traffic citations and with the Traffic Company, those officers have been Given Technology that allow...

Board and bicycle riding prohibiting on sidewalk. I pointed out to ed that i wanted to thank sandra. She works for mta and im a member of the access accessory commitment of the mta and i had asked sandra at one of our meeting, we just had the meeting today, to please look into funding because i knew they existed, the no bicycle riding or skate boarding on the sidewalk. Find the signs and get them put up. She asked me where i would like to see them two up and i said 8th and market street, so if y...

Severely or fatal crashes. Turns in general are a big issue for us. So left turns is in the Police Report and then the locations of the places where we have signals is information that we have. So we put those two together and that is a very simple crash profile that we call left turns at signal intersections but they become more complex with more data. I will give you a few examples. So, this is just a little more information about the data that we do have information about the age of the pedes...

Thank you all. If you can wrap up those conversations, we are going to get back to our meeting. Our first one of the year. And again, thank you and welcome for coming to the Mayors Disability Council meeting. We appreciate it. I really appreciate you councilmembers coming out today too holding up the fort. Thank you gary. Hes helping me cochair. Okay, we are getting back to the agenda and Information Team 7. The geary street bus Rapid Transit. Thank you. I chester fung on the mta. I will be givi...

Out on where our traffic motorcycle officers are conduct the enforcement and it will be reflected on overall Enforcement Efforts. To be clear, one this is fully operational, will every citation, 100 percent of the citations be in there or some officers will be handwriting. Some officers will still be handwriting citations . Why is that. The devices are expensive. We dont want to have duplication. Were hoping that as we see improvement in technology, well realize the capacities of smartphones. I ...

Got done. You can make it happen. I did it. Thanks a lot. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good evening, my name is wendy beck and im a walking miracle. Its a miracle that i have not killed by a bicycle or a car after countless misses. Im a walker and driver who biked and walked in new york city but i never have felt threatened here in San Francisco. I had to knock on the window of a texting driver so she would see me when i crossed and i got outrage. To help make vision zero a law, make a law o...

Safety of our streets for all the users particularly for the most Vulnerable People on foot, people on a bicycle, the ones that arent protected by a shield of metal. As you well know, weve been doing a lot of work in this area, not just the mta but working across the city family, Public Health department, public works, Transportation Authority and others. I think a really good point to start moving the dial on this to work towards achieving the mayors goals as issued in his pedestrian strategy a...

The clarification. I am not sure. I mean i understand what you are saying. I just dont agree with the need for it. I think that everyone is agreement this is intended for employees at the Redevelopment Agency when it was dissolved by the state and those employees have to make the decision, i think by january 1st, 2015 of whether or not they are going to become City Employee and take advantage of this change. That is the intent. I think were all on the same page. That was our legal understanding ...

Thank you. And so on that motion, we have a first and a second. Could i get clarification for the maker of the motion does that include the recommendation of approval for the future amendments including the retail requirements. Yes. Commissioner adams . Yes. Dooley. Yes. Dwight. Yes. Ortizcartagena. Yes. Commissioner riley. Yes. Commissioner toursarkissian. Yes. Commissioner white. Yes. It passes seven votes in favor and none opposed. Takes us to item 6,discussion and possible action to make rec...

Congestion. The vehicle fleet rehabilitation, again, as im sure you know from personal experience the break downs that occur within the vehicle fleet because of the vehicles are not being overhauled and replaced in a timely way and then converting the bus to 60 passengers and improving the maintenance sufficienty my rebuilding our maintenance facilities. Rapid Network Enhancement includes better Market Street, the implementation of the transit effectiveness project and the gary Network Improveme...