the market plan, this is one of the proposals theory i want to thank staff very much for looking at this early. and going forward with this. i think we have come up with a good compromise. we have a lot of traffic in my neighborhood. the street is the neighborhood commercial street. when i think through the whole city, i think of the street. on and on and on, all of these neighborhood commercial streets are two-way traffic streets. hayes valley is the only neighborhood in the city where part of it is commercial district is the freeway. this is a start.

we have a lot of problems with traffic in the neighborhood. we have places where pedestrians cannot cross the street. that is also very dangerous for pedestrians and bicyclists. this is where we are very supportive of. >> ralph jacobson is the last speaker that has turned in a card. >> good afternoon, board members. i said he will e-mail's. there are approximately 2000 cars. also weakened hours, especially saturday and sunday afternoon, where are they going to go?

you believe that everything will just simply disappear, ho way, and vanished? the officials expect them to use a targeted portion of the street to be diverted to other roads. solving one problem will not create another. you don't want to take traffic from one neighborhood and put it into another. [unintelligible] market street is already overcrowded. venice is also very crowded. this year, when the project is implemented, it will reduce the number of traffic lanes available. it has already received a substantial amount of traffic for ninth street. in the auditorium and the civic center, it runs right through

your very own backyard. so, again, she says is an equity issue, you know what to take traffic from one neighborhood and put it in another. the end result is they will be doing just that. the proposal for these changes have not offer or include any alternative traffic about how and where the traffic will be currently billing. the street is already [chime] director nolan: and the other speakers? members of the board? >> i will thank our new manager and congratulate them for a very well done presentation that did not leave me with very many questions other than the ones that are inherent in this project. i remain unconvinced and will vote against this today.

this is a project motivated by very admiral neighborhood motivations. and certainly a vibrant and valuable neighborhood. since the central freeway was removed, this is become a largely westbound and parts of the eastbound artery system as well. i remember him asking that question in speaking to him and not getting an answer. there is no answer that is satisfactory as to where the cars will go. what i am hearing being said, our new manager at the identified some alternate routes, including the van as routes. it is an artery that already experiences significant traffic. it appears to me that the approach here is let's put this

in place, see what the effects are, fine tune it as we go. i very much appreciate the candor in that. that is what has been going on. i appreciate the neighborhoods they're in favor of it. what i'm concerned about, there hasn't been out reach or perhaps there hasn't been a reaction from the people beyond the specific neighborhood that will be affected by it. by fortune, we have a few taxi drivers here today that can speak to it. they are professional drivers that no traffic flow. i don't even know if we could hear from the affected drivers until we put this in place. there isn't a real solution to where the cars will go. i remain unconvinced. i think the project is better that was the first time around.

i think it has done candid responses. in that situation, we have a major east-west corridor. of course, it was done in large part to benefit that particular neighborhood. we have to look at this as a broad city issue. until we have the satisfactory answer of where the cars will go, i can support this. >> i will make a motion to approve the. we will see the impact of carefully planned.

[unintelligible] and the impact the neighborhood with this rush-hour traffic design. the next item to talk about the climate action plan, as we talked about we can't continue to facilitate the streets to make them work fror everyeone. -- everyone . there is a fellow in new york that says you can do something about traffic. it was fascinating when it was first close of two automobiles. i saw it, but as time went on,

they had to turn left. it is not nearly as bad as it was when the first started. traffic is not like the weather. it we can do something about it and engineer the streets to make an impact. i am in strong support of this. >> i am in support of that. as long as we can make adjustments accordingly, i am in favor of the. director oka: it has been through most of the projects that have been somewhat controversial. once we put things in place and things start to work out, people adjust to whatever changes there are.

i know most of us don't like change at first. unless it directly reverse the effects a major part of our constituents for our city, we have to maintain a safe environment for pedestrians and for people that use of our streets that don't have cars. we are a transit first city. let's act like we are. i am very much in support. director nolan: let's have a roll call. i think we have a divided house.

[roll call vote] we will take about a 10-minute break? thank you very much.

>> the mta has developed a draft 2011 climate action strategy for the transportation system and a fiscal year 20092010 departmental action plan. the deputy director of long- range planning will make the presentation on this major undertaking that requires your feedback before being submitted to the board of supervisors for adoption. i want to thank all of the staff that has worked on this. and our partners with the transportation authority and the city planning department has worked with us on this project.

>> the actual court later of the climate action plan and the community climate action plan. >> that afternoon, commissioners. i am the climate action corridor with the department of the environment. i'm here on behalf of the department of the environment and the director of climate protection services that could not be here today. i am pleased to be here today with some of the folks that i think are going to make san francisco actually meet its greenhouse gas reduction goal. as a climate accord later, i work with all departments to produce annual climate action plans. they look at how we as a city are doing to meet our greenhouse gas production goals. i am also responsible for coordinating the committee what strategy for meeting our community wide climate goals.

the presentation you will see today is the transportation section of that plan. two things i wanted to cover really quickly. at 34% of our internal government operations, and gm is the largest single a matter of greenhouse gas emissions at the department level. that is because of all the diesel that is consumed in the boxes that move san francisco resident commuters and visitors around. is with this land that we understand that if we are looking to seek to get people out of their cars, we reduce emissions from individual autos and we will have to most likely expand the fuel usage internally. we expect that the carbon footprint may grow, but i'm excited to say that we may have some key actions to help produce

a of the community wide carbon footprint and our internal carbon footprint. we will be going over them in detail later. the other thing that i want to say is that meeting our climate goals is going to be very difficult. lives of the most progressive greenhouse gas reduction goals of any city in the united states. it will require a big commitment of will, financial support, coronation across city departments internally for the families. and also communications. and really good planning. i am really pleased to have been working with timothy, peter, marty, and our partners. they spent the last 12 months researching, they have done

dozens of phone calls and looked at all plans from across the globe. have consulted experts and partners. i am really pleased to be here to support their work today because i think they have already demonstrated the commitment of both well and intelligence that i think we're going to need to see these things happen. >> i will actually walk through the strategy myself. in response, we had a couple of key areas. wanting to develop the climate action plan that the agency produces. there are three other elements that really speak to the transportation system as a whole.