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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 automated cameras looks like they use vans that drive into your neighborhood up to 4 hours takes pictures every 2 seconds triggered when somebody is going really fast but looks like an interesting use of new techno...

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 limit. Let me ask you to repeat that. I think this is highlighting the culture of speeding and unsafe driving in our city so at least 21 percent of the drivers are driving over the speed limit and its on over 88 streets that are identified by that map. That is correct supervisor mar and as you can see they are scattered throughout...

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 ...