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 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 private out to walking and but also a public health win that those separated and opened up and the days that i ride my bike, i ride three more miles and i will ride back because it is nice and fun and it is plenty and comfortable. and the separated bike lanes that opened up extended even further, there is our orange gap in the middle of the parks there that they are addressing so i want to remind everybody that we don't want to force people to do anything, but we do want to make this as comfortable as possible for everybody who wants to ride if you want to ride with your small mild on the back of your bike you should feel

comfortable doing that. a lot of parents who have said that the experience of the city has changed dramatically by the ability to bike with their children on their bikes or on their own bikes. and i agree, that it is not going to be easy. we don't know where the money is going to come from yet and we do really need to, strongly, push for a full build out of this. we are going to be left behind by other world class cities, people make choices where to live now, and based on how they can live in the city and how livable the city is and we need to be one of those cities that is incredibly livable for everyone and so i am going to definitely support that we have it come back to us at some point that we make it clear that we want a full funding build out that the mayor's task force knows that we are looking for that money and we try to allocate that money in our capitol funding as well.

>> thank you. >> i want to thank everyone who came out and spoke today. >> i am in agreement with the vice chair and we would like to suggest that i recently came across the figures that walk san francisco put out that i thought were terrible and horrifying. and suggesting that we see an average of three people hit by cars every day, in this city. and that has worked out to about to what i understand, nine people so far just this year have been killed by people in cars. in this city. that works out to an average of 20 people per year killed by cars. in this city. and it seems to me that one way that we can make our streets safer is to offer more people more choices. then getting in their car, i know what ends up happening a lot of times for me when i get

passed up by our tras sit that is busting at the seems and there is no way to squeeze on, instead of running in my apartment and grabbing my car which i think so men of us do, i jump on a bike because i feel safe to be able to ride my bike. i know that i am probably not representative of the average 74-year-old out there. but i do like to hope that some day we can get to a place where we do have a city where it i was 74 years old i would not feel like i had to jump into a car to get around and if i had the comfort i would hope to be on a cool tri cycle with a cool grocer getter in the front. i think that it is important that we are not talking about making everybody or forcing everyone at getting into a car or turning a car or what you have. we are talking about creating equal opportunities of

different modes so that other folks who really want to be able to get on to a bicycle can feel like they can do it in a safeway and the ultimate nd the end results of that would be that instead of seeing these transits packed with people, the streets are not giving them the safety and assurance that they need to doing so. if you go to other cities where they have safe bike networks.

we need to be able to do more with our streets and that includes making aiver bicycle network, i think that we will need to see more of that as we get more bicycles going, every time that i am on a bike, i see the tourists riding bikes and thes a great city to be

outdoors in and i would like for us to be able to encourage that and capture that and so i am going to support the staff coming back to us with some kind of a resolution that we can take at some point, but we can strive to go for the build out scenario, at some point, thank you so much. >> i think that the strategy is a great plan and it clarifies the direction that we are going. is there way that we can get feedback on what we have implemented and the impact on the local businesses? yeah, we have not, i guess a few thoughts, one is that we have not done much by infrastructure yet and in the areas where we have the small businesses or any businesses. some of the ones that are on

the table now, polk and second street, are getting us into that realm where we have bike streets, or bike lanes in areas where there is commercial activity and a lot of the ones that we have done so far have not been that. so i am not sure if right now we will have to go back and look at what areas there might be. so what we are doing, is we are working with the controller's office. to do some economic analysis generally about the street scape improvements to try to determine what the impact is not just on businesses but more general economic benefit and new york city about down analysis like this where they looked aat a dozen of streets which were bike lanes and the

property value and we are going something similar so it might not be as specific as bike lanes and retail, or business but we are working to develop some of that ourself sos that we can understand what the economic impact is and be happy to share that once that work is complete and in the meantime if there is anything that we do have that might speak more specifically to the top of my head of what that might be and if we have something we will be happy to bring that back in the interim. >> do you have the data from the experience from the new york or anything like that? >> they did publish a preliminary report. >> do we know what that showed? >> yeah. it showed very positive impact, and they did, i don't know if they did before and after, i know that they did, the improved streets and then they

had a control street for each one that had similar characteristics. >> thank you. >> the question is if we build out the places that already have the big ridership, it seems to me that we are just building out the places where based on your premise, riders are already comfortable and to me, the la tent demand is a critical issue. how do you measure the demand? how do we know that the people want to ride bikes but they can't because it is not safe. >> i think that it was mainly looking at dem graphic data and looking at growth. for example, on the slide, that showed the corridors that there is one part of it that goes

down to the south east part of the city. all the way up the green way that is proposed to connect the whole shore line, right now there is not a lot of rider ship because there are not that many people there where the shipyard and the development will be, and so coming up through there and dog patch and mission bay, that is an example of the demand as defined by better said of the future demand. and there is a lot more, and if we are going to be able to accommodate all of the trips, we need it to be on the bicycles. >> and so i agree with that as a way to look at latent demand and not to disappoint our chair. to me, there is where there is growth of people, number one and because there will be new people that will need to find options and hopefulli

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