of the surface transportation act. [unintelligible] and i know that several people in congress have been grappling with this. prominently [unintelligible] a very strong bicycle activists. when there is a prospect for real action there will be a type that you are talking about. for municipalities to look for cheaper municipal transportation systems. which is what everyone has said today about bicycle investments. this would seem like one of those logical steps that can be taken by the federal or other governments to incentivize the behavior we are looking for.

the facility investment in infrastructure is complemented by the encouragement of view so that we get the results we are looking for. that is not a trivial issue. i go back to some of the things that in said earlier, which i think are very sobering and important to remember. we have the most european of environments here in the u.s., but it is still different from places like amsterdam, paris, or florida -- or florence. we need to come up with a homegrown solution. we can have a very good utilization levels that very much justify the investment that we need to make here. in order to get to that, it has

to be a package with mark -- marketing components, education components. it must have the other incentive components to a more balanced system. so that you do not have 70% of people driving. at the end of the day we need policy decisions that are local about the right of way that we have. that is going to be a debate that happens in the context of the package of policies. not just to get the next 10 feet of roadway, but how it will be used and the bank for the buck. -- bang for the buck.

with a long-range transportation plan you can demonstrate to people that the other modes are not being personally affected but rather getting to an overall system that makes sense, getting to the issue of achieving not just the goals related to the bicycle network, but also assisting ability. we will have to do something about that in the face of continued growth of demographics and jobs in san francisco, which is one of the elements we can use to address that challenge. supervisor chu: -- supervisor mirkarimi: i look forward to that debate. supervisor chu: thank you to the commissioner for his excellent

and informative debate all around. as we go forward i would like to talk about involving other partners. i do not think we will be able to get there unless the school board is on board. i think it we shall also reach out to the city college of sentences go, with over 100,000 students. i think we need to think of ways in which other agencies outside the city can be a part of this objective. with the bat, is there any member of the public that would like to speak on this item? if so, please come forward. seeing none -- oh, please come forward. three minutes. >> my name is peter cannon, i am speaking on my own behalf, not the cac. i am delighted to see and listen to this discussion today. i worked for the city a couple

of years ago when there were bike lanes and hardly any funds. things have definitely changed. i was amazed what they had done in new york city, which is a dense, urban area. as a bicycle program manager, i had been skeptical about separating bike paths like in europe. it was not really done in the united states. having seen what they have done in the united states, new york, they have parking protected by planes. ñithere is a separate area nexto the curve. with special bicycle signals so

that there would not be conflicts with turning cars in the bicycle lanes. if they can do something like this in such a crazy and dense area, like manhattan, they should be able to do it in san francisco. new york allows bicycles on the subways, even during the peak times. somehow it works. they do not have restrictions and it seems to work. i support and agree with what i have heard here tonight. besides europe we should also look at places like new york and chicago as examples of best practices for what can be done in seven cisco. supervisor campos: any other member of the public? seeing no one, the public comment is closed. commissioner, thank you for the

presentation. if we could now call the next item? >> item #5, recommend allocation, with conditions, to the municipal transportation agency of $508,000 in prop k funds for traffic calming - planning, evaluation and outreach and $214,000 in prop k funds for planning and design of new pedestrian signals, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedules, and amendment of the traffic calming 5-year prioritization program. supervisor campos: great. good morning. >> good morning. i will do a brief presentation on both allocation requests for this item. this is a $722,000 allocation requests for two projects. there are new pedestrian signals planned for a total of $214,000.

the out -- and planning item has six separate aspects. the first is $150,000, a large, area-oriented. smaller areas are six blocks to a blocks. one of them is on clayton in the ashbury heights neighborhood. the next, do we, everything north of the circle, this project will begin in april of 2011. third is the jordan park and laurel heights area. the project begins in october of 2011.

a bit of a longer, a bigger project, this also includes evaluation of traffic applications. the mta goes through rigorous evaluation. this includes contacting the applicants, going out to do speed counts and feel the investigation. between 30 and 60 each year, there is a variable. this is an ongoing program that provides funding for us. same with the final piece of this, $12,000 to make sure that the website is up to date. the second major project in this request is $214,000 to plan and

design pedestrian signals for the pedestrian countdown signals. the first part of the project is expected to be completed by june of 2011. within that peace, mta will decide on a list of eligible intersections which ones they will move forward with for the planning of the countdown signals. we will know by the end or middle of next summer which items are moving into design phase. at that point we will release the remainder of the funds associated with the project. very quickly, the traffic calming peace requires an amendment because of minor cost increases in the plan. basically taking money that would have funded future of arterial traffic projects,

adding it to the pot for these projects. we have staff here to answer any questions. supervisor campos: colleagues, any questions? no questions. thank you very much. thank you for your presentation. is there any member of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing no one, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we have a motion? the motion is by dufty, without objection. next item? >> internet -- item number six, introduction of new items. supervisor campos: are there any new items? members of the public that would like to speak on this? seeing no one, public comment is closed. next item. >> item #7, public comment. ." supervisor campos: is there any member of the public would like to speak on any public comment

within his jurisdiction? >si no one, public comment is closed. item number eight? >> the journal. supervisor campos: thank you very much. this meeting is adjourned.

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my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in

the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to conquer these hills better than a cable car. nobody wanted to live up here because you had to climb up here. with the invention of the cable car, these hills became accessible. he watched horses be dragged to death. cable cars were invent in san francisco to solve the problem with it's unique, vertically challenged terrain. we are still using cars a

century old >> the old cable car is the most unique thing, it's still going. it was a good design by then and is still now. if we don't do something now. it's going to be worse later. >> the cable cars are built the same as they were in the late 1800's. we use a modern machinery. we haven't changed a thing. it's just how we get there. >> it's a time consuming job. we go for the quality rather than the production. we take pride in our work and it shows in the end product. >> the california line is mostly locals.

the commuters in the morning, i see a lot of the same people. we don't have as tourists. we are coming up to street to chinatown. since 1957, we are the only city in the world that runs cable cars. these cars right here are part of national parks system. in the early 1960's, they became the first roles monument. the way city spread changed

with the invention of the cable car. >> people know in san francisco, first thing they think about is, let's go i'm the president of friends of mclaren park. it is one of the oldest neighborhood community park groups in san francisco. i give a lot of tours through the park. during those tours, a lot of the folks in the group will think of the park as very scary. it has a lot of hills, there's

a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is

heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his best friend. early in the morning people before they go to work will walk their dogs or go on a jog themselves with their dogs. joggers love the park, there's 7 miles of hiking trails and there's off trail paths that hikers can take. all the recreational areas are heavily used on weekends. we have the group picnic area which should accommodate 200 people, tennis courts are full. it also has 3 playground areas.

the ampitheater was built in 1972. it was the home of the first blues festival. given the fact that jerry garcia used to play in this park, he was from this neighborhood, everybody knows his reputation. we thought what a great thing it would be to have an ampitheater named after jerry garcia. that is a name that has panache. it brings people from all over the bay area to the ampitheater. the calls that come in, we'd like to do a concert at the jerry garcia ampitheater and we do everything we can to accommodate them and help them because it gets people into the park. people like a lot of color and that's what they call a park. other people don't. you have to try to reconcile all those different points of view. what should a park look like and what should it have? should it be manicured, should

it be nice little cobblestones around all of the paths and like that. the biggest objective of course is getting people into the park to appreciate open space. whatever that's going to take to make them happy, to get them there, that's the main goal. if it takes a planter with flowers and stuff like that, fine. you know, so what? people need to get away from that urban rush and noise and this is a perfect place to do it. feedback is always amazement. they don't believe that it's in san francisco. we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park,