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Together the grand opening of goodwills stateoftheart training and career center. [cheers and applause] i wanted to take a moment to do a couple of things. Lets show a little bit of love to the retail team. [cheers and applause] this store is opening tomorrow and it is going to be beautiful. They did a great job. I want to give special thanks to the honorable mayor breed. Thank you so much for being here [cheers and applause] to the honorable willie brown. [cheers and applause] supervisor peskin...

The department did have prior annual reports Available Online, but we did not have annual reports for the prior twoyear timeframe. That was rectified i believe in may, or june, of this year. Currently the department has annual reports up through 1718 Available Online with various statistics of department review. Somebody mentioned that some of them were longer when they were first posted and they became more truncated later, can you speak to that . The department did previously with the review b...

Tools out there for automatically detecting sidewalk riding we would love to see. Maybe what we need to do locally is to create legislation to say if they they need to create this technology, otherwise we wont give them a permit. Commissioner stephanie. Just on rider accountability, not the company, but rider accountability for the person whos violating and riding the scooter on the sidewalk or has two people on the scooter or is putting the scooter on its side on the sidewalk or parking it obst...

Good morning, and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority for our meeting today, tuesday, october 22, 2019. Our clerk is mr. Quintanilla. Could you call the roll. [ roll call ]. Clerk we have quorum. Thank you. Next item, please. Clerk item 2, chairs report. Thank you. Colleagues, this month we had the pleasure of receiving a delegation from the California State Transportation Agency led by the new secretary of transportation, david kim, and members of his team responsible f...

Grown of officer has issued 1,565 violations with 87 of those being focus on the five violations. The other 13 , those are violations that are observed by the officers while theyre doing this enforcement. They are required to take action for Public Safety. Things like using a cellphone while driving or individuals using the transitonly lanes. That concludes my presentation with slides if anyone has any questions. Thank you, commander. I believe commissioner fewer does. Thank you, commander, for ...

The zero Vision Committee for friday, october 4, 2019. I am commissioner norman yee and i would be chairing todays meeting. I am joined by commissioner peskin and vice chair commissioner stephanie will be here joining us shortly. The clerk is steve stamos clerk alberto okay. Thats okay. The committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available online. Mr. Clerk, do you have any communications . Yes. Members of the public, ...

We have. If there are more Technology Tools out there for automatically detecting sidewalk riding we would love to see. Maybe what we need to do locally is to create legislation to say if they they need to create this technology, otherwise we wont give them a permit. Commissioner stephanie. Just on rider accountability, not the company, but rider accountability for the person whos violating and riding the scooter on the sidewalk or has two people on the scooter or is putting the scooter on its s...

Concerned about actually the numbers of citations being focused on the focus on five. So she has written us a letter and id like to address have you address some of these issues. One is the drastic drop in citation numbers. Im quoting from the public email that is sent. How is it possible that only 1500 red light tickets were issued, whereas 5,000 infraction tickets were given annually. In 2016, 13,000 speeding tickets were issued and much less are being issued in the last year . One of the firs...

Think actually, a policeman saw it and said there was nothing he do about it because bikes do not have registrations and my suggestion to you, and i know it would be heavy in San Francisco, is to consider mandate rate, a recommendation for bikes with our f i. D. Didnt that way you can enforce it. Let me wrap up. The ultimate path to vision zero is the way we design our cities, is by not having pedestrians operating in the same sphere as vehicles. You go all over europe, you look at the great pla...

One thing were careful about is maintaining commercial look access so loading can occur on Market Street but we want to minimize conflicts with people biking on that sidewalk level bike lane. With the bike way, we determined that its best if we retain the loading bays concept like we have today where theres designated loading spaces on each block but weve brought it up onto the sidewalk and created a flex zone and theres a Cross Section and this space is 16 feet wide and leaves enough space for ...