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[inaudible conversations] call the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to order. We thank our witnesses for being here. I look forward to your testimony. As much of the world concentrates on the ice is a threat and instability in the middle east the Committee Takes this opportunity to consider efforts by the United States and other partners to counter extremism in the Subsaharan Africa area. Longterm development has been the norm across much of africa including here tell you what. Even with large letters i cant see anymore. Including here in our committee with the recent signing of the power af...

Rejoicing rise, with the San Francisco Transportation Authority here to try to talk about the pilot in context of the boarder set of strategies that we have to management changing the problems of Traffic Congestions thought the city particularly in selma so to start i want to just through up a couple of pictures i took this was on opening day of giants season of Traffic Congestion there it is and also the impact it has to muni to supervisor cohen sdrusz discussed in her opening rangers and pedestrians trying to cross with the crosswalk is blocked and also for cyclists and Truck Drivers its har...

More recent times in a year and a half weve spent an incredible amount of resources for the Market Street corridor for the effectiveness project now muni forward both cases there issues are the same intersections with gridlock and because those historically those locations have had more so like fulsome street vs. First and harveys on ramps they lead into a tunnel on the freeway and have been historically a major problem for us weve been out at first and harrison for several years now and roadway unless we need to have pcos actively professionalism 6 posts were running the signal box right now ...

Have sfmta here and i want to thank and recognize aaron miller and peter and theyre planning interim aerial that did the car count and prepared the data and liz bringing so from sfmta and the enforcement manager for the sf Street Division i want to recognize sf pd will be here to answer questions maybe momentary about the pilot and the partnering with the sfmta so unless theres more comments ill open up for sfmta for presentation. Thank you for calling for that hearing today federal and state this is an important issue particularly in south of market but to a lesser degree this is a real probl...

What they should do and their rights resulting from the pilot certainly improvement recognizes the need for increased pco support at the intersections or at key intersections what we would like to do is initially establish for the p. M. Periods and again, we want to focus an thursday and fridays because historically those have been the worst days not to say theyre the worse but historically so we would like to use our deploy of small pcos for thursdays and fridays between the peak period of 3 30 and 6 30 depending on the intersection attribute more pedestrians problems or vehicles problem 6 pc...