Limit prior to shows zones being put in place. Supervisor supervisor campos most of of the residential were 25 and dropped to 20 and then some some of the commercial and main streets were 30. Thank you. I just wanted to thank both of you for the great report i wanted to highlight that the speed limit compliance map that you gave is all over the city and i know the mta has identified the pedestrian high injury corridors and the map of the collisions due to speeding in the city tend to be concentrated south of market and supervisor christensen district but still theres a lot of injures on the west side where theres a lot of red lines in the speed limit compliance in streets that you can drive much longer distances like im just looking at this through Golden Gate Park i see a lot of red lines and 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 traff
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 5 percent. That is correct chair mar it was a separate study but it found looking at a number of citys experienced a reduction of 1 mile per hour in average speed resulted in a reduction. Its not as precise as that when we looked at the case studies but it was in that ballpark so it was interesting to see experience supporting that formula. And to supervisor camposs question to look at state legislation so our office is working with the mta but also our City Attorneys Office and beginning with the state and i wanted to highlight the case study for Portland Oregon for auto
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