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Findings 7 findings
F1
The Pilot permittees advocate for safe behavior education for riders through community events and their web sites. However, SFMTA has not provided its own concurrent, updated safety awareness campaign.
F2
The successful expansion of marked and protected bike lanes represents an opportunity to include signage indicating bike lanes are also for use by e-scooter riders. There is no signage currently indicating where e-scooters should ride, and insufficient signage to discourage riding on sidewalks.
F3
SF Traffic Company enforcement efforts are currently limited to street vehicular traffic and do not include enforcement of moving violations occurring on sidewalks.
F4
Injury data collected to-date by Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG), SF Department of Public Health (SFDPH), SF Police Department (SFPD), and Pilot permittees categorize types of injuries but not root causes such as damaged infrastructure (potholes or poorly marked lanes), education (inadequate safety and device training), or reckless use (speeding, distracted driving, and/or using sidewalks).
F5
The Pilot terms between the City and permittees require them to indemnify the City from injury and damage claims. However, Scoot and Skip Terms of Service put responsibility for injury, damage, and equipment inspection on the User.
F6
Current terms and conditions in the Skip agreement expose a contractual gap that delegates initial responsibility for scooter inspection and maintenance to their independent contractors, Skip Rangers, who receive no specific training from Skip. Scoot, however, hires and trains its employees to provide the inspection and maintenance services.
F7
A key obligation of the Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC) is to prepare and submit annual reports to the Board of Supervisors (BOS). These reports are to include pedestrian injury and fatality statistics and root cause analysis, to recommend changes in policies, funding and enforcement. PSAC has not prepared or submitted an annual report since 2011.
Recommendations 6
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R1SFMTA in coordination with Vision Zero SF should design a public safety campaign regarding e-scooter use, laws, safety and helmet use. This campaign should include TNC participation and utilize various means of outreach including ads on MUNI trains, buses, shelters, social media, and TNC apps no later than June 30, 2020.
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R2Signage, stencils, visual symbols illustrating e-scooters, and/or other messaging should be provided to remind mobility device riders that these lanes are available for them to use. Further, additional visual symbols should be added on sidewalks and High-Injury Networks to discourage sidewalk use by e-scooters. The visual design(s) should be developed and implemented by SFMTA no later than June 30, 2020.
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R3SFPD Traffic Company should implement one or more “Focus on Five” enforcement campaigns that target moving violations by motor vehicles as well as bicycles and powered mobility devices in all traffic lanes, with documented results no later than June 30, 2020.
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R4ZSFG, SFDPH, SFPD, and TNCs should collectively improve injury data reporting to better support root cause analyses. SFMTA and the SFDPH should develop and oversee the revised data collection efforts and prepare a data acquisition plan for review by the above referenced organizations no later than June 30, 2020.
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R5SFMTA, City Attorney, and TNCs should review and if necessary modify the City- Permittee agreement, the TNC-User agreement, and any other related agreements to assure that responsibility for risk management is allocated to the party/parties best able to manage such risks. This review and potential modification of terms across all agreements should be initiated prior to the end of the existing Pilot. Any necessary revisions should be incorporated and implemented in all agreements for the replacement program to follow at the conclusion of the Pilot.
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R6The Board of Supervisors should allow the Public Safety Advisory Committee to terminate on October 1, 2019 as designated in the San Francisco Municipal Code.