going to make that sxhoorth asker and some of the people many the cars i see sometimes, i get jealousy i think cars people in them want a better lifestyle and the bike ridership and the walkability of the city my slowing down traffic and making it safer for people on the streets that the quality of life we all wish for in the city and that's why the supervisors and our office is hard working with mta to investment invest and in october we have a huge opportunity the $500 million bond all goes to safer and sufficient streets will you join us in that movement (clapping.) we need efrnlz corporation it's

not easy to say yes, it's easier to see no, but we want our city better if there is any accountability reason the best is the reason for the kids they deserve a better city. thank you, everybody happy anniversary and thank you to the bicycle coalition (clapping.) thanks mayor ed lee we look forward to working with you no november to make sure we have the resources in the city this is not an anomaly so the great experience from market street to city hall is though the an anomalously it's the standard connecting the bay area and the excelsior and hate valley and everything else neighborhood in san francisco we've got to the support from the board of supervisors today we've had

commuter conveys we're thrilled to have 8 of the board of supervisors are here we've asked them to come up and reflect on what has changed in the city despite they started 20 are years ago and to kick you will i us off i want to welcome supervisor jane kim in districts 6 >> thank you to the bike coalition for organizing 20 years of bike to work day. (clapping.) >> so i was asked to reflect on the last 20 years i have to say a little bit over 15 years ago i moved here from another major city where i learned to drive sea bike so i felt the pressure here to learn how to drive a car

but nobody told me to look into the rearview mirror no one told me to lublt for bikers i come here on a bike and my fingertips in the bike coalition i think some of them are here said you need to ride a bike so they put me on the bike in one of the san francisco play yards i took off the who's also and the following year i didn't lead it i followed the contestant of all female bikers in 2012 and last year, i finally biked by myself to work and i'm proud to be able to do that. representing that district that sooshgd many of the city i see the congestion and all the

impact of the population growth and if we continue to grow and become a more dense city people have to get out of their cars there's no way to grow in a city and not only to make it necessary over 50 of our carbon people are drooichg their cars we think about urban planning it is important to grow smart we have to figure out 0 how to get people out of their cars that's my goal in my district that's important to the residents i represent and 20 years is too long this is where what i want to see up and down polk street

and up and down fulsome and golden gate folks like me are not going to get out of their cars by in 20 years vindication zero fatalities no one should die because they're going to work on their bike or walking to work so we have to fight for revenue. we have potential measures we've got to make sure they pass in 2014 but we have to continue to fight and i'll be there with all of you thank you (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor kim for your leadership we couldn't have a stronger advocate. i'm glad to recognize my supervisor supervisor campos >> thank you, everyone it was a

beautiful ride through the mission and go past the mayors contestant i think people felt fried in that chief of police was they're talking about the diversity of the people that are biking in places like the mission that are people from all walks of life that make biking a part of their lives and i'm proud but i want to provide context it is sad though that 20 years later we still s have a number of fatalities in san francisco. so what i would like to see it precisely with supervisor kim talked about that we have zero fatalities on the streets of san francisco. and i think that has to come

from city hall being leading the way and making the investment and so i'd like to see more immediately is complete one hundred percentage furlgd u funding for vision zero in our budget in city hall we've not only talked about vision zero but put the money to go into it and i think that we have an opportunity with this bunt coming up to make that happen and if we make the right investment we'll see the fruits of the investment thank you very much happy bike to work. thank you supervisor campos i'm proud to invite of supervisor wiener >> happy bike to work everyone so we gather here all the elected officials and department

heads we talk about what's going to happen to make the city street safer for walking and biking but, you know, it's not about the words that everyone says that's about the actions and the actions are really, really hard sometimes, it's up to you and the residents of the city to hold all of us elected leaders accountabilityable but doing the hard things. you you know the mayor rode up on his avenue and anyone that goes northbound it's a disaster for paragraph and biking we're going to be making go changes it took us years to get through the process it's what way, way too hard in terms of the bureaucratic process to make our streets safer it's politically

hard we need to push and get it done (clapping) and we also know in coming here today, i see everyday on bike to work that's not changing there were a whole bunch of double-parked cars i'd like tell you we've been trying to work on this the police department and other agencies need to stop this we have to stop do you only parker that's terrible for that muni and this is what people are doing. i want to say we've got to get the vehicle license fee passed for road resurfacing there's still way too many streets that

are rough and dangerous and if we pass this we'll have permanent sustainable funding to happy bike to work everyone (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor wiener our next speaker is someone who's no stranger supervisor chiu. >> good morning any cyclists in the house today thank you very much for being here. 18 years ago i've been biking to work for much of the years in the 19th street 90s it was left hand lane on the streets i don't feel so alone i want to thank you for moving the city forward and i'm going to be brief we have to come together in november in 2009 i proposed as a city we move forward with the

vehicle license fee i had 9 of us who wanted to put that on the ballot but the public wasn't ready we have to get this done this year director reiskin said we have thousands of dollars to get together but we have to come together from all corners of the city i want to welcome the final constituent thank you supervisor chiu and supervisor kim happy 20th >> thank you supervisor chiu i'm happy to welcome supervisor breed from district 5. >> good morning, everyone. how many of you biked to work? biking the wiggle is because of edward reiskin we got the bike

lanes put in ahead of schedule now we'll get polk street the ability to come from market street it was an amazing ride i'm happy to be a member of the board of supervisors where we xhvnlly advocate to make our streets safer for not only cyclists but pedestrians we have to participate to make sure we're watching each other's back and we're watching out for safety and holding people account it is is a joint effort we'll do everything we can and, yes supervisor wiener said it is hard but we'll prepared we're all in shape and walking the to work and doing everything we can so we can make the changes necessary to make i safe on the streets thank you very much for being here today

(clapping.) thank you supervisor breed we're thrilled to have our support i want to welcome up from district one supervisor mar. >> thank you leah good morning everyone i want to say i want to have apple apple for daniel silverman we've had other leaders but thank you very much for the bike coalition one thing we did in the richmond we came up to polk street but improvements like this are needed throughout the city and mayor ed lee has strong support we need to increase the funding for bikes lastly i was a student

at the uc davis and as what we look at another city and counties cities our city can't be left behind whether the mta or other agency we need to make sure it's a biking city for everyone thank you. >> (clapping) >> thank you supervisor mar. >> i'm thrived next to bring up our supervisor from district 10 yesterday we're honored that the bierlg coalition joined by mr. levy restoring more than 40 bicycles we'll be giving out in the bayview hunters point so welcome supervisor cowen. >> good morning and happy bike to work we had an opportunity to continue to build and bring more bikers here it's critical we give a lot of rest and conversation insuring that the

bike community is as difference as any community we're not only providing survivalist pamphlets in english but spanish as well as chinese to reach every member of the community and for i that live on the southeast part of the city it's been a challenge to connect the city the thing call the hairball i'm committed and we're going to fix that hairball. are we've got new bike lanes on bay shore and will get the railroad tracks over the boulevard and the southernmost part of the city make sure we're singing about biking being safe

and it's imperfect of the well-being of the desire city in november we've heard about the vehicle license fee but don't forget to about the other development for our infrastructure. we must do this thank you very much (clapping.) thank you supervisor cowen. sound like you had a productive ride he lets get rid of the hairball make sure we give that up from district 4 katie tang (clapping.) hello everything first of all, a shout out to the group from district 4 and carman that was a great ride. but really a lot of great change in the city when i started to

ride my bike my rode on the sidewalk and when supervisor kim went to college i rode my bike everyone i look forward to the improvements in the city thank you very much and hope to see you on the road again (clapping.) thank you supervisor tang. and i want to recognize rehad commuter convey from district 11 those supervisors couldn't be here we have a few more speakers and departments but before we do that i want to quickly recognize the many, many city leaders we're thrilled their investing monique from the san francisco border department and tilly championing

>> sheryl from the mta board of directors. carman chiu thank you for joining us i believe nicholas from the sf environment commission and suzy from the police commission in the sunset as well (clapping.) all right. and a few more people that are shaping our streets and sidewalks and literally the social part the city edward reiskin >> it's great to be here on behalf of the steering wheel and the rest of the sfmta board this is not only the bblgd bus it's the biggest because more and more people are riding to work and riding for a lot of trips because a lot of people are finding that riding a bike is a

great way to get around just since we were standing here last year, we've put in upgraded more than 6 miles of bike lanes and installed more than 8 that is parking spaces around the city working with the region and launched bike share we're doing a lot to make it safer and comfortable for people to get around the city so that tells us we know what we can do and we knows where to make the assessments to get more people on bikes in order to do that we're going to need he everybody's support for the vehicle license fee increasing and the general obligation fund it's great to have the mayor and entire board of supervisors i want to thank everyone it's going to take everyone it's

$1.5 billion to make our transportation system the world-class system it is so thanks everyone for coming out happy bike to work day. >> i want to particularly recognize our next speaker that has been the hero to biking thanks to his leadership at the department of public works we're going the public works team we think he's delivered the best project in the city please welcome the gentleman from the public works department. >> thank you and happy bike to work on behalf of the department of public works i want to let you know we've come a long way and our agency is working closely with the mta and the

port and planning department and the fire department and police we're hard working making our city safer but to do that you've heard everyone say november it critical so the two bonds the vehicle license fee and the bond on the november ballet will be very, very important to provide the funding to continue for many, many years to make san francisco a safe city. >> thank you director. >> and prioritizing safety on our streets i want to particularly appreciate the san francisco police department please welcome chufr. >> i think it if a point under

the leadership the supervisors we're going committed to vision zero to having no fatalities in san francisco. (clapping.) >>. sadly we're not going to make the goal this year nobody is happy when the enforcement is up but in partnership with the people in engineering and bike coalition and walk sf this city is safer and collisions are down 8 percent and bicycles down 18 percent and bicyclists over 20 percent involving cars are down it was important we have a blast riding in from glen park everyone is safer we stopped another all the stop signs and

lights we didn't see anyone texting and driving it's important to do that as we make this the safety city and let's keep going in the same direction (clapping.) thank you, chief. >> i'm not sure why he's so surprised of the ride our other chief partner is our fire department thank you to chief joanne haynes-white and her folks who go rode in today. >> thank you bike coalition the fire department is proud to be part of the bike to work and we're all about the pedestrian safety so thank you for the collaboration a as the chief said all the departments under messing leadership is working together and i want to acknowledge my deputy chief not

from the west side but from supervisor jane kim's district is district which and my office on second and townsend i learned a lot i'm usually in a car happy to fully embrace vision zero one more thing if i had to vote on the best bicyclists i vote for carmen chiu (clapping.) and that finally also working together for a safer san francisco i'm thrilled to bring up the district attorney. >> thank you to the bike coalition and thanks to all the city departments coming together to make that a refreshment it's a wonderful city is and cycling is great just want to get a great message it's wonderful when i heard about evidentially

stopping at the stipends and traffic light it's a shared that responsibility everybody must share the road and it makes the city safer very, very excited to looking forward to the day we'll not have a single traffic fatality if we all work together. thank you (clapping.) thank you so much to all our speakers it's been a power line up we, have a safer san francisco. quickly i want to recognize our bike friendly businesses of the year we had dozens and dozens we're honoring four institutions that exemplify each showing strong ridership and incentive

programs that regard drum roll please four categories the first is the nonprofit organizations like the family business of the year the electronic fund foundation (clapping) our large business award winner of the year is rock space (clapping) our medium size business is license plate to be (clapping) and last but not least our small friendly business is the bakery (clapping) and finally, i want to recognize our san francisco bicyclist coalition commuter who's been waiting partial with her the ones. we're thrilled that caltrain area her husband jim and her two daughters rode with us but

that's not usual their biking evidence to work and school to errands throughout the city so thank you family for the families throughout san francisco who enjoy the rides together and the commute (clapping) all right. we're going to wind down the unfortunate it thing about bike to work we have to go to work thank you very much for joining us and your support in particular the volunteer the 3 hundred volunteers that made today possible thank you (clapping) and particularly our bike to work sponsors key kaiser permanente the metropolitan transportation and, of course, the sfmta and the city of san francisco and levies and other and the public utilities commission thank you to all of

you for biking today and hopefully, he everyday happy bike to worto work >> so what brought you out here for the bike ride today? >> i grew up in san francisco but i have been living in new york. i wanted to see what san francisco is doing with infrastructure. >> cities are where people are living these days. the bay area is doing a lot with construction and the way to change the world starts here. >> we are about to take a bike ride. we have 30 cyclist. i'm

really excited to hit the road and see what the city has in store. >> i definitely recommend it to people. it's a fun afternoon and you learn so many things. >> this is so much fun. i go to parts of the city that i don't come to. this will make the city a more susta