Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

The correlation is not causation, but the recent increases relate inversely to the declining number of officers in enforcement. Two other comments real quickly. As far as the first five, one of the main thing that happens that causes collisions, his failure to signal. The Police Department shows very few statistics on siding people for failure to signal. This is a preventative measure that would eliminate a lot of the collisions if bicyclists and pedestrians saw someone signaling it would be very easy to do that yet we see no action on it. We would like to encourage being considered part of the first five, because lastly, we have asked, were going to do a resolution on it which gives grant for bicycle Traffic Enforcement in some areas of the city. Getting a grant to test out and the other cities are doing it very successfully. Its a fraction of the cost of a motorcycle and we would like to see it thank you. Next speaker. I am a School Crossing guard at 19th and judah, i represented the guards during our contract negotiations. We have been lobbying for more than a year since the mta informed the Transportation Authority that there was a shortage of guards in this years contract negotiations we were told there is still a shortage by about 28 guards, we believe giving the crossing guards more hours, right now we only get 2. 5 per day. If we get a couple more hours in the midday and the afternoons, that would help with Traffic Safety and help retain more guards, because its a 2. 5 hour split shift and its hard to get people as was mentioned obviously, the police on the parking control cannot be everywhere. We are not trying to take away any work or substitute for them just because we are lower pay lower paid. We could be more of a help. Because of our contract negotiations this year, we missed the dead the budget deadline. I am hoping to maybe plant the seed for a smaller program, maybe 1520 guards at the most critical intersections. We are ready to go almost immediately, from a salary of 21 per hour its not too expensive. During the contract negotiations at the Mayors Office they said safe and clean streets were the highest priority, their spending an awful lot of money on keeping them clean. Despite that, i wrote to the Mayors Office and never got a response, i am hoping though, that there might be some way to get some money together for an interim Program Vision zero or the various other things, or maybe someday the uber tax. I had emailed the mta Board Members and none of them responded. Two paraphrase in todays language, those who save one life save the world. I hope we can be part of that group and get some sort of interim Program Going if there is some money left in the budget somewhere. Enke. Okay, just for your information if you want to speak about what you spoke about, right now, please wait for general Public Comment. That one had nothing to do with this report. Sorry. This report serves and points out derivatives of the topic. First of all, i want to point out how the Police Department demonstrated top class selfcontrol when a female driver of an automobile was driving very recklessly. Hitting numerous cars, and actually caused damage by hitting a pedestrian. By the same response, none of the cops fired one bullet, which could have resulted in the death of the female victim, or perpetrated defendant that was driving the vehicle that was in front of the Tenderloin Police station. My point is, this is an example of how you need an increase the Mental Health services and a location where a person mr. Wright . Lets stop for a second. Every major last Public Comment, i made it a point to say that if its not related sir, sir, you have a tendency of not being competent on my demonstrations. On my last demonstration just let me finish wait mr. Wright. You are saying it is not related and it is related. This says to rock severe injuries overall. Give us a minute. It is related to the topic pertaining to injuries that people have in the system that have severe mental disabilities. Okay, im not done yet. My time is not done. Im going to point out and respond to you how this is related, okay . Topic number six is talking about the Police Department update on report and the number of tickets on vehicles with pedestrians. Its related to vehicles and pedestrians because the vehicle was out of control and the police demonstrated selfcontrol and did not murder the person driving the vehicle. Im pointing out how the driver, the female defendant had a mental disability and if she would have got the services that i am saying that should be in place, that situation probably would not have been in place and it could have been prevented, sir. You see my point . Now an my can i continue police i dont want my time taken away. I need a minute back on my time. 16 seconds. Furthermore, the interruption you said is unprofessional, and your demonstrating and competence is not the first time you have did that. Okay. Thank you, mr. Wright. Thank you. Any other Public Comments on this item . I am seeing none. Public comment is closed. Mr. Clark, lets call number seven. [reading items] good afternoon. Thank you. Jamie parks over at cr livable streets divisions which runs our Capital Projects. I want to provide an update this afternoon on what we are terming our Quick Build Program which is a term we came up with a few months ago. Its really a continued evolution of the way we are delivering vision zero projects. Ever since we adopted vision zero in 2014 we have been working to deliver projects, Safety Improvement continuously faster. This is the next generation in the process. We will start by really echoing what the chair mentioned at the beginning of this meeting, 2019 has not been a good year for vision zero outcomes. In particular, i may not have the numbers exactly right. There was a. In late february where i think we had five fatalities in the. Of 10 days. I think i made it clear to everyone that the process was not coming fast enough. From a letter that the mayor sent to the director on the board, directing the the mta to develop a policy to move forward with Safety Improvements faster. Over the last three months we have put together this Quick Build Program to respond to that challenge. There are a number of aspects to this, so really three things i want to highlight, for the approach. One is overall streamlining the approval process for Safety Improvements, second is increasing our emphasis on the quick build projects, projects we can deliver faster with city crews and oncall contractors. And then finally, and importantly, Additional Resources to make it all work. Funding is not the only piece of the puzzle, but it is a critical piece of it, because without the additional funding the other pieces do not work. I want to go through each of these really quickly and then if we have time for questions im happy to take them. To start with, our Current Practice or where we were starting from. Our outreach process for typical projects takes 1218 months or even more in a lot of cases. We have seen a lot of benefits from that in the past particularly when we were talking about a project for several decades. We need to make sure we have all of the details correct. Through those processes we have worked through resolvable issues with the public. The challenges, we cant move as quickly as we would like, it doesnt allow us through that process to field test new designs, or, continue to adjust projects after they have been installed through our current process. The policy changes that we took to thes mta board, looked towards creating a process that was a lot more nimble and efficient where we could install safety treatments that were proven to be effective immediately. Adjust them over time, then come back to the board prior to implementing or approving Major Construction projects area the challenge with all of this, is as we are moving faster we need to maintain the same level of transparency and accountability we have for all of our projects. Talked a little bit about how we are doing that. On june 4, the mta board passed a set of policy improvements related to the Quick Build Program. It really did four different things. Complementary modifications to the transportation code in terms of how those projects could be approved. It created clear requirements for mta staff for accountability and transparency and how we report and deliver these projects. And then they approved a set of specific locations where we would be implementing quick build projects in the coming months. In terms of what a quick build project is. The primary thing to think about is these are reversible and adjustable improvements. Whether its paint and posts or moving around the parking meter or adjusting [inaudible] these are the changes our city crews can do. So we can adjust over time and that are not permanent. The Quick Build Program, the projects that are adopted are limited to a 24 month duration. They need to become permanent or make permanent adjustments to them. The mta board also changed the way the projects are approved within the transportation code allowing a set of specific approvals that typically require mta board approval to be approved by the city traffic engineer after a public hearing. It includes things we typically do on a lot of these quick modifying existing bike lanes, putting in stop signs. There a public hearing notice in accordance with our public hearings and requirements. How we solicit stakeholder throughout the course of the implementation of the project. I think youll hear more about our Evaluation Programs, couple of items from now. After before the 24 months expires. They would need to provide the ultimate approval for any improvement projects or any instruction activity. One of the things the mta board did do is a pipeline of projects, making sure that we are always delivering and developing new quick build projects. There are a set of 10 projects that we present to the mta board and i think april that we committed to. They are listed here, to deliver in 2019 on june 4, the mta board adopted a set of additional five quick build projects listed here on 7th st. Golden gate avenue, howard st. Leavenworth and valencia street all major streets on our high injury network. For us to deliver as quickly as possible likely early 2020. That is the length of the corridor. Sometimes we measure things and centerline miles, sometimes we do it in lane miles which is a total number of lanes. Anyway, its just the length. We could probably just call it length and make it easier. [laughter] we will work on that. The last thing i wanted to mention in this presentation is all of the things i just talked about require Additional Resources. We have been working really hard with staff over the last six weeks or so to put together allocation request that will be coming to the commission in july. What this will allow us to do is move forward with a lot of these projects and make sure that we are hiring the staff necessary to deliver them. He mentions that a lot of these quick build projects are delivered by city crews. We need to make sure as we are developing the project that we have the painters on the sign and sellers in place to deliver the projects. That is what the allocation request would do. Also i wanted to mention a number of onetime cost as well in terms of trucks or materials. A painter cant do very much work unless they can paint the spread. Those onetime costs cant generally be covered we are looking for funding for that as well through the citys general budget. That concludes my summary of the Quick Build Program and where we are right now. [inaudible] what kind of impact has this had, if any . I know it is soon maybe . What kind of impact that we had from quick build projects . Even though we didnt start using the term quick build, this started in 2017 when mayor lee issued a directive around vision zero projects and told us to deliver three protected bike lanes in three months. We delivered seventh and eighth streets which are protected bike lanes in nine months. Comparatively, a project like Second Street which is just now finishing up as an amazing project. That has been 10 years in the making. We can deliver 8090 of the safety benefits in a matter of months through the quick build project. We feel it is an important tool for us to deliver vision zero as quickly as we possibly can. Thank you for your report. Any other questions . Unseeing none. Thanks. Any Public Comments on this item . Come on up. Good afternoon. Thank you for this opportunity. I am the executive director of walk San Francisco. We are the only pedestrian advocacy working to make San Francisco the most friendly city in the nation. As you are both well aware, we rely heavily on vision zero and this is something we are pushing for every day. Weve also been reminded today that we are not on the best path for vision zero. We are doing Everything Possible to help encourage to be able to do things quickly with paint, posts, test, designs particularly for pedestrian safety. We are in full support of this quick build approach. We feel it is costeffective and results driven. One quick example of this which jamie did not highlight but i would like to highlight because i think its impressive its artie in the ground. Taylor street we passed this project in 2018 and the Capital Project will not be started until 2020 but their paint we have already implemented this quick build to reduce traffic speeds and take away a traveling. This is a fantastic outcome. They do need more paint crew to be able to do this. One of our big concerns is not the quick build also has a time for basic maintenance and things that we can do in terms of refreshing crosswalks and paint projects that we dont want to get pushed to the back burner. We think this is really important that they have the resources to both do the big projects like the quick builds but also can do all of the maintenance that is necessary. We do support this ask from the prop k funds, but we do want to question whether it is a great idea to borrow from future prop k if its a good policy or not. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on this item . I am seeing none. [reading items] good afternoon commissioners. I am the vision zero outreach coordinator. I will be giving you an update on our education and communications. We have radio and video prepared for you so hopefully it plays. This is a quick slide of what we came to present last time we were here. A lookahead of campaigns to look forward to in 2019 and the next slide we will speak more to it. This slide you have in your packets is just an idea of the types of metrics that we collect each month around education and communications. These are our metrics for the quarters as of midjune. Im going to explain the next line. If it works the video will Start Playing and it features our campaigns that we launched for the quarter. In april which was distracted driving Awareness Month and we launched our campaign. May wasnt Motorcycle Safety month and we launched the third year of our office of Traffic Safety Motorcycle Safety campaign as well as a driving to date campaign. The video should play. We have our pedestrian yielding campaign on the streets. There is no sound, but you can see the video running in the bottom right. Just give you an idea. [music playing] great. [laughter] the next few slides we want to share our around developing multilingual materials. Before it was vision zero it was safe streets sf. As our brandon started to develop, heres an example of our old brand and then this is the current vision zero brand you see today. These are Promotional Materials from our program which officially became an mta program today. Weve heard a lot about our Motorcycle Safety campaign which is in our third and final year. As one of our biggest education campaigns is around speeding and we created this is in chinese. Of course, this is the Senior Safety pedestrian campaign which we are working on sharing regionally with the city of san jose. A video that played earlier, this is our brandnew campaign that we launched in may we created videos both in spanish and chinese. [music playing] i apologize music doesnt change. [laughter] last one. When we were at the project level we tried to develop multilingual materials, that we did last year. On your left you will see our vision zero safe spot posters that are currently being sold right now. They started last weekend and should be complete this weekend and are in 150 different locations throughout the city. On your right you will see examples of our materials from our postfatality outreach cards from our Crisis Response team and also the memorial posters that we install. When we are at community events, farmers markets, libraries, sunday street these are the multilingual materials we have. Sorry. On your left, you will see comment cards in spanish and chinese that were developed specifically for the communities these cards are not available in english. I also wanted to give you an update on our chinese focus campaign which is part of our deliverables and our action s

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