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slot program. >> thank you for having me here today. i'm keith mathews with the police department and as julian said i help coordinate the mta, d.p.t.s traffic engineering safe passage program. it's based on the enforcement and education of the regulations of san francisco traffic code 194 point 3. these are regulations basically that pertain to anyone working in the streets and sidewalks of san francisco. anything from plain general construction sites to perhaps moving companies or any type of change in the path of travel for either pedestrians or vehicular traffic or bikes or any t...

locations with heavy flows. you have to deal with heavy flow of traffic. can we do signal timing to provide that the cross walks are not closed at that time. that's challenge. people want to cross whether they're closed any way. i think your aware of that and anything we can do to retime for allowing pedestrian crossing will be important. banning turns on red at certain locations depending on a situation. sometimes it's beneficial and sometimes not if cars are turning left on green maybe this would not be help full. i think jack mentioned the pedestrian has would or what we cause 2 -...

enforcement. i have with me others that managing the field operations. thank you. >> next i'd like to ask officer mathews to speak regarding the slot program. >> thank you for having me here today. i'm keith mathews with the police department and as julian said i help coordinate the mta, d.p.t.s traffic engineering safe passage program. it's based on the enforcement and education of the regulations of san francisco traffic code 194 point 3. these are regulations basically that pertain to anyone working in the streets and sidewalks of san francisco. anything from plain general constru...

signals to get this sort of good study so continuing to put those in will be a huge benefit. other things with signal timing. someone talked about the double left and right turn lane. how can we provide those across locations with heavy flows. you have to deal with heavy flow of traffic. can we do signal timing to provide that the cross walks are not closed at that time. that's challenge. people want to cross whether they're closed any way. i think your aware of that and anything we can do to retime for allowing pedestrian crossing will be important. banning turns on red at certain l...

pedestrian crossing will be important. banning turns on red at certain locations depending on a situation. sometimes it's beneficial and sometimes not if cars are turning left on green maybe this would not be help full. i think jack mentioned the pedestrian has would or what we cause 2 - 5 seconds of walk signal prior to the vehicle giving they're green can really provide is a pedestrian ahead start. so, the motorist can see them and yield to them. those are some of the very few examples of the counter me sures and i can answer questions but right now we're at the end of our time. >>...