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 (clapping.) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i think we have more companies anywhere in the united states it's at the amazing statement we're not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were >> one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the

orchestra. the most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think he's a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think we're not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. i thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are great stories for on opera.

i was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. a friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. why isn't it are that i have the support now we can do that. i realized that was something that wasn't being done in san francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in san francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality >> you create a conceptual idea

for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision that's the final product felt opera. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the daily. >> so much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work there's great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs we've worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. i had a model they have a

professionally music yes, ma'am assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor i'd be able to work with them and it's helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial >> it operates as a laboratory we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. that's part of the opera lab >> i was to investigate that

aspect of renaissance and new work so that's why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. >> there were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and it's different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and that's part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. >> so one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be

entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. >> that's what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people don't like it and some people do we're concerned about that. >> it's about thirty something out there that's risky. you know, disliked by someone torn apart and that's the whole point of what we're drying to do >> you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ >> i think it ae's public and private property. i'm against graffiti. >> who can get it out the most who can be noticed the most. >> i i've seen seniors doing graffiti. >> the city is art, other people who have their names tag -- >> [inaudible] our unit there are 2 sections we are doing one is abating and others are notice of violation to private

property. all the utility boxes in public right-of-way we abate. >> we abate calls that come within 48 hours. >> we are a small group in g f graffiti. we don't have enough help. >> i have a group in town down and china town and the north tunnel. [inaudible] the graffiti we abate everything is coming up to the areas now. >> i'm willing to take it on. i think -- >> you are telling me you are ready for this? >> i think so. >> okay. >> there you go. >> all right. >> all right. >> ready to do it. let's go. >> want to get the gray signses

this over here and the garbage can and normally we don't do private property since it's on the corridor route you can come with me we will use black. >> we had a lot of changes in the graffiti unit. we do private property if someone moved we remove it and send it to the attorney's office and they take appropriate action. >> damage their property there. it's important to write the color in case they want to say what part of our house you abated the graffiti on. >> using your safety glasses the gloves. >> you got it. >> you know some places we

gashi, people appreciate that. you know, a lot of timeses they say, thank you. >> the time where it's visible. a lot of people put it on the ground. >> i like when tourists come and say, you do this for your city and you get paid for that? >> we use the [inaudible] for the holes and the retaining walls. [inaudible]. white on the fire hydrants. fire box red for the fire boxes. our brown for the pg and e

poles. >> we are not painters we do our best. >> i'm assuming it has to do with gang activity. >> if it's territorial i mind. >> in case it's gang related and they are marking our territory i would like to paint it over. >> anything with numbers like x iv or x 13 west side mob and the bay view those are gang related. with gang related or profanity we will abait it as soon as possible. >> i consider it an art. there are circles of people that form around it whether or not

they should ruin public property. >> this is art work i'm for it. unless it's on someone's property and they don't want it there. judge kids with silver paint expressing their ego needs doesn't belong on our property. >> graffiti is when you don't have permission to write anything on their property. >> eighth street is part of your regular rout? >> yes. >> everyday. >> eighth street. divisidero street. irving street. every block they going through they paint 3 or 4 streets in the block the poles the utility boxes, mailbox. >> thank you. >> okay. >> put the drop cloth. come on around.

>> there you go. force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate graffiti. we are abaters not painters. get that out of the way and keep moving. >> how many of these do you do a day? how many poles we do a day? >> yeah. >> depends on the location. may be 20. >> do you like working with the team? >> yes because i'm a people person. i like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get especially from the good job we do in the community.

>> goodbye.

all right. (clapping.) >> so good evening, everyone. and welcome to the