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Intersections are so high and people are distracted with so many things weve got to Pay Attention to a higher level of safety in the city and thats why i endorse this effort. I am proud of all of the departments to begin doing this in a very deliberate way and we launch this program with a strong aggressive Education Program that should last a long time. Truckers and others change all the time, schedules change all the time but the safety has to be at the highest level and as youre trurning corners as youre going down the corridors and out of construction sites or into them or at the store pic...

And vehicles in the district and i remember being nervous and the first time i was presenting policy concepts we wanted to work on in the board and without skipping a beat this is my priority. Safety is one of the first things we got to make sure that we ensure for the resident it is here in San Francisco and its really been a pleasure to work with the mayors administration and his Department Heads to make this a reality for all of our residents throughout the city. 2013 was a really hard year for us. It had been an issue we were working on yet we saw a rise in pedestrian and cyclists fataliti...

Vehicles your chances of coming out of that is going to be very, very little, and we realize that this is one of the most important things that as we are experiencing a very Strong Economy in San Francisco with all of the developments, not just downtown, but in our neighborhoods, people rehabbing their homes, Small Businesses rehabbing and from fires and other disasters or the local neighborhoods or in the downtown corridor this is very important. I know supervisor kim this is one of the most important things she said to me as we experience large number of accidents in the last couple of years...

Of them so not just the leadership from the executive branch but also the board of supervisors who is the Transportation Authority commission who provide the leadership and funding to advance some of the work were doing here. Were fortunate to have someone who represents an area that has the highest amount of need with regard to Street Safety being at the forefront of the leadership on this issue for the Transportation Authority serving as the chair of the vision zero subcommittee and also on the board of supervisors representing district 6 that includes tenderloin and south of market areas, t...

Institute. This is about 20 minutes. [applause] we are in kind of an unusual technical situation because craig venter, who is in san diego, hes supposed to be here is ill will something. So i guess lets see if i can just craig, can you hear me . Hes ill with something akin to muteness. Hes looking pretty good. [laughter] craig, can you hear me at all . You think hes scary looking . Hes not scary looking. [laughter] hes just an ill man. Lets see if we can we have a number of backup systems which i suppose we should employ. [laughter] if worse comes to worse, ill just tell you what i think he wo...