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The Fourth Street were essentially taking two lanes of twaf converting into a 2way street the palms was permanently removed and converting that parking lane into a northbound lane on Fourth Street as a result, the palms will probably be permanently loss the white parking on Fourth Street but have an opportunity to if they so desire to choose a white zone on free lawn street. Great borne. A lot of people love that open space shutting down the street any thousand has that happened i know that people want to open that up but now that people are used to not going down way. Thats not part of what w...

Maclaren park and long street probably like sunset boulevard and a few others within the west side of the sunset but i think for a citywide approach and i know our mta is looking at calming traffic hopefully limiting speed limits is a part of that strategy and one other bit of information that you gave besides the london uk study showing that over the the 20year period reducing traffic collisions by forty percent in their efforts i think thats an important piece of data and i think you said that study found that by reducing speed limits by one Miles Per Hour reduces the number of collisions by...

Vehicle collisions was 3111 of those 844 involved pedestrians and 630 involved bicyclists. Of the another statistic is the number of collisions with fatal ities and that number has gone up respect respect ively and 622 collisions in in 2011 and over 21 percent of the drivers in the city exceed the speed limit by five Miles Per Hour or more. This map shows where those streets are and when i say over 21 percent, this was some information com piled by the department of public health, that range is from 21 percent to a hundred so we could have significant numbers of drivers exceeding the speed lim...

Triggered when somebody is going really fast but looks like an interesting use of new technology in school and work zones so its not throughout the city and its not there all the time but it could really be targeted strategically to help people be more aware of the speed limits in a targeted way could you just talk about automated enforcement cameras and just whether you you think thats a realistic change that we could make at the state possibly local level. Right. I think certainly based on the port land experience and you point out the vans thats a good point its very mobile can go to where ...

Anything in the report that surprises you . Kimberly, when you look through this report, there are some surprises. It gives a fairly good timeline from the firefighter point of view. There are also 911 accounts in here. The big issue in the report, as i see it is communications. For hundreds of metro passengers, it was a smoky hellish day at lenfant plaza. It made me nervous. At the end of the day i thought i would take out the windows of the train if i had to. 200 passengers stuck for 40 minutes. 61yearold carol glover lost her life. The initial report id see fire and ems revealed arriving fi...