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

>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending

earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth.

>> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes.

>> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in

small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of

life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter

scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested

is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for

all right, everybody. it seems we got our issue resolved. our interpreter is being featured. if everyone can take their seats we should begin momentarily. >> first of all thank you for coming here today. welcome to mayor's disability council here on may 16, 2014. my name is derek zarda. the new elected cochair. i will