>> so, if we could go to the slides. what we have laid out, and i believe, previously, was kind of the process by which we are going to advance this strategy. and it was this, there was not a plan, as in the previous bike plan it was a strategy meant to provide a framework for how we would advance that part of our strategic plan that directs us to shift people to make it more attractive to people, to get out of their cars and avail themselves of other forms of transportation, including active forms such as cycling. so, we started you may recall, by doing establishing the needs assessment methodology. and i don't know if we are going to go back and review that. but, yeah, i guess that we will. it had to do with basically using this kind of comfort index. and that we presented to you

back in january. and we then, applied that strategy, or that method, and that methodology to our bike network and we have completed that assessment and so now we know basically looking across the city at the bike network, what routes are at what level of have what level of need in order to bring them up to the standard that we ultimately would like all of them to be. and the next steps including establishing 8 to 80 bicycle team and 8 to 80 referring to the desire to have the facilities at a state where they are comfortable and attractive for people from the ages 8 to 80. and trying to use data that we get from people out there. as basically data points to crowd source from them. to enhance data collection. and what this will all do then

is that it will feed in to our capitol program. and i know that is going to be probably a subject of a lot of discussion as really how do we fund all of this stuff? we are really trying to refine the needs assessment so as we go into the next capitol budgeting cycle, that we have, a good, understanding of what our needs are. and a defined capitol improvement program to be able to recommend. and from that once we have the capitol budget in place, then it is really implementation, which is what the... what is on the right side of the slide and of course, it will need to be a phase implementation depending on the funding level, but we are trying to do what we can to figure out ways to implement the efficiently and effectively as possible. >> so just a little bit about

the methodology. we basically start with a full level of 5 points and then, detract or subtract from that five based on different characteristics, such as are layed out here. and such as speed of the prevailing speed of traffic. and proximity to some of our rapid network and kind of a crash history. and so those are things that would bring the score down. but then there are things that could bring the score up, notably the infrastructure such as a bike lane or a bike path. so, this is basically what we use the framework and fairly simple. but we wanted something that was easily doable and understandable so that we could evaluate the over all bike network and this is the methodology that we used.

what this slide shows is different levels of traffic stress. which is everything from, you know, where we would like to get the level one is where everybody feels comfortable to ride and this is really the 8 to 80 goal that we think that we would need to ultimately really achieve significant mode shift to make the bicycling more attractive for a much higher percentage of trips than they are today. the next level is where adults feel comfortable to ride. so kind of narrowing that age band, the third is you have to be enthused and confident in order to ride. and which probably reflects a good deal of our network today. and then the foulerth only the strong, and fearless and this might be more of the bicycle messenger are much narrower than a graphic and we need to accommodate before we are going to significantly shift modes. >> when we apply that criteria

to the existing network, this map shows you what it looks like. and while there is a little bit of dark green, which is really where we want to be, there is a lot of red and orange too, which is really representative of the enthusiastic and some that call themselves not fearless and many of them tell you that is not a comfortable or pleasant experience. >> can i ask to make sure that i am reading this right. >> you have all of market street of what appears to be from the headquarters to the water as red. >> ha is correct except for the first couple of blocks where there is some separation. we have been able to get out of the red. and i think that some of the recent work, in terms of repaving and restriping, and i

don't know, maybe that will get us up into the orange for some of the stretches. but yeah, i mean, it is good to point out that our busiest and most important bicycle street is predominantly one that is not attractive to a very wide range of people. >> in fact it is the bike messenger category that you described before. >> correct. >> and again, if you look on market street it is more than bike messengers that are riding on market street. there was a hearing today on the board of supervisors a lot of folks talking about market street and saying this they ride it but it is uncomfortable. >> you know where i am going so i will stop leading questions and let you continue. >> so as it says here on the bottom, we have less than ten percent of the network right now that we believe is comfortable for that broad range of folks that need to get cycling. >> or that we need to get cycling in order to achieve the

board's strategic plans of goals. so we are trying to look at this kind of from a key quarters perspective and we can't do everything and we need to prioritize some what. this is one of the questions that we brought to you in january, do we go to all of the reds and start bringing them up? or should we focus on the corridors where the rider ship is the heaviest? and i think that we are looking at doing the latter, and this kind of outlines the key paths that people take that you know there is current ridership where we think that there is latent demand. and then an example of how we will apply this methodology and here you can see more detail and speaks to the earlier discussion about the market street and taking that whole corridor going all the way across the city and in terms of what it looks like and you can see where you have made some

investments and first of all our page, jfk drive and there is investment and infrastructure that brought it back up for a better level and then the actual things that they took to get the separated bike lanes through the eastern part of the park, and really gets that into a facility where most people could be comfortable riding similarly, and going through the panhandle. and it is essentially a separated bike lane, and it is off of traffic and then we start to get into some of the difficult areas, obviously, the contentious decisions that you made recently to approve the oak bike lanes. that will turn the yellows into greens, a much different speshs experience, the oak side back open now and much a different experience for anyone who used

to travel and in that place but really a key connector there and passing through the wiggle. you can see that that is currently in the yellow. and we do have some green back shares there. and but we are still, a little place really for all modes of transportation going through there. and just this past week or maybe it was last week, we conducted a public workshop with a public utility commission, in the lower haight neighborhood to identify what things we could do to bring up that stretch, because that is the critical connector from the west side of town to market street. and then, as we discussed, on market, a good chunk of it, remains in the red, about four of the place and where we have put in the separated bike lanes, the posts and a few years back. and so this is an example of how this methodology applies and how it really points us to

where the strategic investments are needed. >> so just some xham examples a key hot spot going on market connecting to the commission and previously on the street going south, we had to cross two or three lanes of traffic and the muni tracks and if you were doing it, as you were using your way to the south and your wheels are in line with the tracks and a pretty significant hazard there. and so what we did just in the last six months, was put in this right turn pocket as well as bike traffic signal. and so now, the southbound traffic can go off to the right and the bike traffic to the right and wait for the signal and cross perpendicular to the tracks without the conflict with the vehicles. and compliance is not great with that right now, a lot of

people still do it. the dangerous difficult way. but we are creating options here for the folks who don't want to fight the two or three lanes of traffic and the street cars and the tracks. so this is just an example of how we might fix the hot spot, and a little bit better version of it where you can see the people using it. and you can see that the bike signal, up there, and you can see one car not keeping clear of the area that is meant to keep clear but at least the cars are not moving as the cyclists are trying to make the ways across and they can go perpendicular to the tracks. so this map shows where some of the strategic opportunities are that one in valencia and market is one one of many examples where we have critical exceptions that represent the gaps that we want to close and

what this map also shows is the current, it is maybe a little bit hard to see, but it shows based on, census data, i believe, and some current mode share information, percentage of the trips being taken by bikes and some places in the mission, we are up in the teens in terms of percentage of mode shares. so ten and even more than 15 percent of the trips, in a few neighborhoods in the mission. and around the civic center are already being taken on bikes and so it shows that there is pretty strong potential. we all know of the growth that we saw in cycling even in the absence of our ability to implement the cycling infrastructure and has taken off and so we are using this kind of analysis to help us prioritize where the demand and appetite is. where the opportunities are in terms of the terrain.

so, then, the fun part is what do we pay for and how do we pay for it? our current funding as was laid out in the capitol plan of last year is not adequate for us to meet our goal so what we have identified is in order to meet that strategic plan scenario, you would, we had agreed to a goal of getting up to 50 percent of trips in san francisco, taken by forms other than private automobile in order to achieve that we estimate that we need to get the bike chair up to eight or nine percent and we estimate to meet that we need something on the order of 200 million dollars. and which is a fair but more than we currently have in the five year cip. and so at a minimum, and in order to achieve the strategic plan code goalie we need to figure out as we develop the

next five year cip and two year budget that we will bring to you later this year and early next calendar year and how to close that gap and that is one thing that is on for the mayor's task force as well. if we wanted to jump up to the more build out and turning all of those reds and oranges into greens, that will cost quite a bit more still. and something on the order of 600 million. and i am sure that you will hear the thoughts on which one of these scenarios we should aim for, but, clearly, in any case, we all agree that we will need to make more investment if we are going to get those folks who are not fearless or enthusiastic to get on to their brakes. as i said, this is what we will be benefited by the fact that the mayor's task force is looking and does have this as one of the things that they are looking at. along with the ped strategy and

of course all of muni's needs and we should be seeing recommendations from that group around september or october. so that will help us as that is right when we will be starting to develop our next proposed five year cip. we want to use this opportunity to get feedback on just the approach and from that, from the approach and the assessment, identify, specific list of projects, that we will build into the cip and the capitol budget and obviously the number of projects that we can do and how we do them will depend on the money available and so that is the plan coming forward. we are doing all of this to lead up to the next cip.

and to think that we are going to easily be able to find something on the order of $600 million. is a little bit difficult to contemplate, where that might come from. but, again, just to meet our strategic planned goal based on pretty rough estimates here that we would need considerably more than we have now and we have a significant challenge just to get to that point. so i will stop there and happy to take any questions and i am sure that there are folks here that will also... >> i assume that we have members of the public that likes to speak to us. >> yes. >> one person. >> jeff hoj. >> my name is kate hoj and i am the director of the san francisco coalition and i want to congratulate the staff for the hard work of developing the

strategy. i am here today to urge you to direct agency staff to pursue the build out scenario from the strategy. i think that we are in a unique moment right now in san francisco, it is more popular, and our neighborhood haves 15 percent of people just commuting just by bike, this is great news for san francisco and studies have shown that it reduces overcrowding on transit and saves the city money and improves the economy and these are benefits that we must extend to the full diversety over the coming years, the good news is that opening up the bicycling the cheapest ways. and but not free. the mayor of london as you may have heard is investing $1.5 billion, over the next ten year. >> in san francisco we are

asking you not for $1.5, but we are asking for funding for the bicycle far beyond what you are spending at 0.46 percent of your budget, this is a shockingly low number. >> choosing to invest in bicycling is not a new separate burden, it is an essential way to address all of the goals particularly making muni faster and direct the staff to pursue the build out scenario today. >> thank you. >> paul galligar. followed by herbert winer. >> good afternoon, i live in knob hill and i moved here in november and if i could just provide a little antidote, or example for what kit was saying. first week i was here i sold my car, bought a bike, and that is

how i have been getting around since. and while i think that san francisco is a great place to bike i think that there is a lot of room for improvement and i encourage you to pursue the system build out scenario and i think that as you know, the saying goes if you build it they will come. and i think that in the long run, it saves money, for the city, and it makes san francisco more vibrant, and healthy, and i know that i find myself stopping, at businesses, and things like that. because i am on a bike whereas if i was in a car i would not be able to do that. and i just met so many people through that community, and i think that it is a great investment. so i just want to encourage you to pursue that. >> thank you. >> herbert winer, followed by

tony lee. >> stake holder, i will not sell my car and get a bike. i am 74 years of age and i don't think that it will work. one thing that i want to correct about that report, you know for that... area on market street that the messengers take, is bicyclists, i observe on market and samson street and market street that they are not messengers and they go through the light with reckless abandon and that is what makes it dangerous and that is not in the report. and i think that you should do something about light crashing. >> because it is dangerous to pedestrians and bicyclists. they have got to stop crashing. and you know, when bicyclists get run over by automobiles i wonder how many times they didn't go through the red light.

and so, this is something that should be mentioned in the report and it should not be glossed over. >> next speaker. >> ton lee, followed by tim hickey and brian smith. >> i am a taxi cab driver. we have a lot of angry business owner driver and citizen, and you met on the policy that you make. all of this anti-, mta policy, probably altogether with the sore that i think that we are going to happen. and they are going to make a big organization against the mta, or visit the website or coming very soon, i think, and this i mentioned... (inaudible) because you are making so favor. all of this bicyclists are very elegant and blocking the front

of cart and they will move the bicyclists and (inaudible) driver, and this happens all of the time. and you are making the policy that don't care about the people that live here. old people, a lot of people, live here. and you are making this 10,000 bicycle list and you are making this some kind of favor policy but this anti-, anti-power... and all of this business owner because of the government. and they are becoming a big organization and the economy and i think, and i think. >> and yesterday i take a woman she said, i paid the meter at 6:00 and i said yes, these are a lot of trick at the post-age signs and you don't know. i think that a lot of people get told. i know how to fix it. but i don't... this is not my application. but i know how to fix, you can really lose 60 or 70 million,

if you pick the sign and because the definition of this sign has some kind of unclear. and the business out of town people and tourists are becoming a target just like us, the tax it driver are an easy target. and you don't complaint and because we are just the taxi cab driver, they are weak, thank you. >> jim hickey followed by brian smith. >> good afternoon. >> thank you. >> my name is jim hickey and i live in the city and so does my wife and son and i commute every day by bike and my wife does too, i want to build a safer city for my son to ride a bike in. right now i feel that i live by masonic in the north panhandle neighborhood, you did a great job with oak and i would love to see the full build out to the study and completed of the

full build out scenario, realized. and kind of i do want my son and other kids to live in a safer city. so i am hoping that you will vote for the most thorough and complete program for this, or for the city. i do want it to be a safer city, i think that tourists will benefit from it because they will prefer to ride, i think a bike in the city and they can get around a lot easier than a car and stop and enjoy things and i think that it will be safer and decrease the amount of congestion and increase the population that is coming. and we need to have alternatives that are better, than, a muni which is challenged because of the fiscal constraints and because of the share of the ability for the streets to handle the cars and so i think that it can handle it best if you can accommodate more bikes and healthier for the city. that is my request. >> thank you. >> brian smith.

followed by hons, sue, kim. >> good afternoon. >> i live at masonic and mccalaster i would alike to oppose taking away the parking, i have a family and it would be impossible to put them on a bike and they have to have grocery and park and take them up to the apartment or whatever they have to do, so in the strongest terms i would like to oppose the removal of parking and making that a route for bikers which i think are unsafe as well. thank you very much for your time. >> thanks. >> and okay. >> sue kim, followed by... >> i should come up more often talking about bicycle issues, in a previous life i owned a shop and i was a bike racer and so i have a lot of sympathy for our challenges as a commute and

i used ko commute regularly on a bike and i don't do that now, i once talked about cyclists with a taxi and he said that is line (inaudible) and which is mortal enemies and i don't think that is the case. i came up to speak because i do support and i know that this is the affordable and i do support a build out like this, but let's remember the tee is only 7 by seven miles we should have the best taxi and cyclist plan and as we build this, what i see is a lot of gaps in terms of the taxi industry, not being at the table.

>> members of the board? >> that is the last speaker card. >> members of the board? >> howard. and i noticed that in looking at the map in the scoring system that bicycles don't feel comfortable near where we want and the best transit system and that speaks to many, about and in the bicycle did not make an issue at all about losing lanes and not being able to be comfortable driving on vaness in the future. it speaks to me that they should certainly get a good route on polk street in the next block over and i also noticed that the bikes are not going to be comfortable in the neighborhood on 19th avenue. maybe you can find, one of the parallel streets, 20th or 18th will work better for them and get more green on your map. and be cheaper than maybe some

of the other things that you have to do and also, as you think of these things, each group comes to you as bikes, bikes, bike and like a transit, >> we want a group that is the adults in the system and we look over all, and we see everything. and now that is my point of view when i have to write your forming, city charter change. you see that people, and they want, you want teenagers and you don't want to give up fraoet parking at the same time that we had a reporter struck me about 82,000 for a parking

place near the ballpark and so i sent them stuff, showing that in downtown london someone paid $22,000 to park and someone responded to me when i put that out and said in boston, they paid $560,000 for tan tum two parking places. and so, you are getting your way free and stop doing it, thanks a lot. anything else? >> thank you very much for sitting in on the presentation and you did a good job and that is a credit to you that you know everything that goes on in the agency. i want to start off by saying to address some of the feedback that we have gotten. we don't need or expect everybody in this city to ride a bike and certainly this is not about pulling people out of their cars and forcing them on to a bicycle. >> we do need a city in which everyone who wants to ride a

bike feels comfortable riding a bike, as i said before, this city is a safer place because i don't have to drive very often because i am a horable driver, when i drive i am nervous and it makes me more dangerous and i drive as least as possible. maybe it is safe because mr. weiner does not have to ride a bicycle. that is good. that is fine, everybody gets to use, the method of transportation that they feel comfortable. however the reality is that we are adding residents to the city and we are real locating space in order to move more efficiently. >> we have done it for bicycles and we have done it for pedestrians and this is all part of that, we need to remember that this is not just as miss hogde pointed out a return on to help us reach our goals and to carry out our strategy and mode shift people out of