thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon. >> i'm thomas on all sides of that i own a park and office building i bicycle to work this is a complex meter from the heights association what is the cost benefit it is lives it is my life and my fellow bicyclists lives we can't trade that off 3 years ago my wife got a major concussion almost every other week i see incident of having a close call this morning i was almost hit and a press us the driver was super nice off i'm so sorry you don't i did not mean to do that when you bike everyday there are two major moments that cars don't think about you when they get stuck in

a box they swerve into the box lane and when someone is turning left and we don't want to wait behind the person and swerve into the bike line had there are the cherry rows the car swerve into the lanes when there are dedicated lanes it is previous aggressive but a hard solid lane keep poems minds on a bicyclist 3 could be in the lane we support that stuff i the last point i want to make i was driving in i realized that sorry biking in every business was closed if they're saying hey, you can't park here we want to have the access to the

businesses let's suspend parking when we do the street sweeping to have clean lanes without taking away from parking thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm here on behalf of a woman that wrote this letter but to support our letters. >> i'm sorry are you maurice. >> hi, everybody i'm maurice (laughter). >> the woman that wrote this letter is john an i'm reading here letter points to make videotape made february 2, '75 p.m. rush hour notice a kind cars. >> muni and corporate buses and heavy vehicles and bikes and

motorized obscurity and tourists and the volume is from overflow on van ness avenue and the how 101 this is not going to get better on worse with the opening of 3:00 p.m. st. hospital on endearing and van ness it is difficult to safer everyone 0, however you should do any environmental impact report before making decisions related to the bike lanes and other restrictions address residents concerned and w width of the street this is about quality of life for residents clean air, cease to parking noise safety for families and seniors and

children scenario one and two imagine our an ambulance on the way to a hospital stuck in traffic returning home after a hundred plus million dollars from commuting from the south bay you're keeping people from getting home to feed their children taking their elderly parents to get their megsdz from walgreens. >> okay. thank you, sir. >> thank you. (calling names) >> good afternoon. >> i'm steven the transcript chair for a russian hill neighbors a 6 hundred member neighborhood organization that represents neighbors and businesses in russian hill we're here to stroeng support this plan and would i believe that is

the best plan we can have for polk street at this time we've spent a couple of years in workshops and hearing and on houses and concentration with the mta staff and others on the project we found others we need to have a compromise among the various interests and uses the street is not big enough to get everyone everything they want you're going to offend someone what we want is a neighborhood serving street recognizing that, however you get there whether pie bicyclist or automobile walking or transit you become a pedestrian so the first one is the pedestrian safety and save street for all people we then want to we acknowledge

earlier on with bicycling we're the first people that signed on to the brilliant idea our staff wake up with a bicycle in one direction and shared in other direction and parking and providing more space for pedestrians in russian hill this promotes maximum missed safety what is going to happen you're going to narrow down the street in russian hill we have stop signs that slows down the traffic we urge you to adapted this >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon.

>> donning tren everyday again. >> i'm barbara been if loosening and washington for 20 years not a problem walking the streets of polk street i have been threatened and by bicyclists more than i'd like to say they are dangerous and i don't hear anything about the responsibility that cyclists have to take in mayor view they have - i feel there's no shared options when a bicyclist wanted to do we they want to do they do it the side streets is a way for cyclists to have traffic for themselves and i'm curious as to why there is no one on the board that represents the

automotive aspects of our population polk is the is important for so many people and make that xvr important for cyclists yonldz that (clapping.) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir. >> hello, i'm steven i live on market and washington as well everyone here has given you difficult aspects of the same issue different aspects the residents and all it is based on other than the same thing there are inherent flaws in this plan that will mean it is going to get worse so the reduced parking for the books that oufbs there's

no clear corridor let's face it the road is too narrow it accommodate the needs and not all of the concerns have been addressed by itself safety changes in particular almost all the changes relate to parking co-laid so the problem is it is not the parked cars it hit bikes it's the moving one you may not royals this but rush hour polk street is an alternate pathway i've seen it packed the entire distances the current plan to fusible more bicyclists without a clear apathy that is suicide people are going to die because of this and if this happens if there are increased injuries there will be personal

injury lawyers will be 3i9 up signs. a few people sigh larkin is good, i agree but over that lay that with a map and come up with a map that shows a list of bike riots that enter connect with the city's bike lanes >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> hi, i'm a 47-year-old san francisco native i live on hill and church and am a frequent traveler to polk street i

support the manufacturer mentioned i support in plan and support the amendment to the cyclist tracks i support that after all people are is a right to bike and move around san francisco safely this is not giving us this is self-employed 0 no one has the right to park their car whatever they want creating the best walking and riding bikes it creates room for people that can't walk or ride a bike or coming long distances let's design san francisco students to are safe for everyone based on human rights not privileges when you do the right thing it is like a multiple indication factor like peoples rights to get around

safely without a car let's good luck for emergency vehicles and financial savings and individual that don't need to own and store a car and increase the happiness of people including the jobs and great health and cleaner air and less glshl too many benefits you'll never go back, please start this on the right foot and don't compromise the redesign thought possible street let's make it a model to san francisco and the world thank you (clapping.) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon.

>> good afternoon my name is is dawn i'm the chairperson with the polk association i thank the sfmta for you're good work and say that polk street defines our neighborhood i understand this project has many elements to it including the toxic arrangement of sewer lines and water makes sense this will late 18 months for merchant and have a lot of help and recovery for the city for added support we have many users of polk and the designation hospital is estimated 20 thousand plus cars everyday to the north quadrant of the city document from 9 hospital plan shows a lot of those cars will

used polk street and look for parking that that eliminates the parking and only provides westbound travelers that will make a series of left turn turn exemption from the document states the project is not anticipated for additional pollutant a shortfall of park in the proposed project will be minor it states it is stepped up to the plate he e expected that the drivers will go he is e elsewhere so for parking this is heading for the new designation block review of parking how is it that all of those cars will not raise pollutant negatively and impact our quality of life those are just a few examples of

the environmental analysis falls short and finally the 10 tow away zones is a hash trade off. >> thank you thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> 17 hours rather than the current. >> sorry for the last few minutes. >> thank you. >> (calling names) good afternoon. >> good afternoon in the war and how long we're lived here i 2k3wr5u9d from elementary school over 60 years on polk there the this is not new we started this bike thing 15 years ago polk street had 3 lanes on polk street we eliminated one of them that's 1/3rd the traffic on polk street was eliminated 250i789d to add

the parking and add bike lanes where they couldn't fit this started a long time ago we did the enormous changes my business really saw that in its truck deliveries coming in we get 44 foot trucks twice a week it is hard to park those trucks we have other huge changes coming to polk street not the bikes as we heard the hospital is coming in with upwards of 20 thousand car trips per day to the hospital when they made their application where are those cars going to go those cars will be circling looking for parking spaces what about the left turns

on van ness those cars and trucks and buses will be using polk street i'd like to see a comprehensive stud of what is going on polk street when the construction starts and what's been going to happen to the businesses afterward we would like to have a study and i'd like to submit that for further use. >> thank you for your time. >> congratulations. >> (calling names). >> go ahead. >> good afternoon, sir. >> tim two things everybody has agreed on including our supervisors that public safety is a priority and parking on polk street is very difficult so it did i fizz logic those cars consul general around looking for no parks is going to

make public safety worse so my proposal i said it to you folks mid-market to build a couple more garages like on mission and polk a lot of people don't royals there was a garage it has downstairs businesses and if you build a couple more of those i give you locations you can take the cars off the street mitigating the problem of working within a park and do other toxic things to the street including macro pain and suffering much better so i've said that many times i've taken off work because it's important to the viability of the neighborhood and have to horrible to have those cars in consul general and it is dangerous important the bikes and everybody else thank you

(clapping.) >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon, sir and good afternoon. thank you i'm dana fifth san franciscan my daughter a 6th generation san franciscan safer streets for bicyclists and the neighborhood that's what is bringing us here today it is a valid convenient effort sometimes beer not on the same side but we are here today the neighbors and the thousands of medical practices and music schools and bakers and pizza places where you can get our hair cut and other fantastic places to eat nearly all of those are traditionally mom and pop businesses and don't have penny

arcadia nor wax museums this is a good services for the families and the feasted demographic the elderly with over 5 thousand signatures we're not just a handful of businesses but with support of over 40 other neighborhood groups throughout the city we encourage the city to have a balanced plan for all including the families and the sdablgd on a april of 2013, the original project for sfmta the intersection are by far the more dangerous part of situation it is all about count down signaling and high visibility sidewalks and bitter signage we're making leaps not just steps started towards better safety and new better polk will

solve the safety issues but the proposals with exemption of the 84 away zone i support this proposition. >> (clapping.) thank you in the light. >> mr. jefferson is mr. jefferson here oh couldn't read the writing.

>> several times, in fact, he wrote to this board a senior citizen she's terrified to get the food and everything she nodes at the drugstore she a sentencing o senior citizen there's families and sdablgd people out there, yes there's a bicyclist i see the 7 percent number of the bicyclists i have to tell you everyone i talk to an polk street neighbors everyone is terrified of this i'm terrified i'm going to get run over by a bicyclist there's been pedestrians in the city because bicyclists they run the red light the city negotiates

you negotiate with the bicyclists and itself coalition and nobody asked for anything in return we don't expect them to stop at the stop sign and all day long we've been talking about the diagnostics no one wants anyone to die not drivers or pedestrians or bicyclists so this board has a really big job you've got to cut through the rhetoric and look at it some of the numbers and get an eir thank you (clapping) >> thank you. >> is leslie she's here (calling names). >> thank you good afternoon. >> thank you. i'm leslie i've lived in about polk street areas and i've seen the congestion

over the years i know that is issues we need to address my concern is polk street as hundreds of small businesses and is surrounded by neighborhoods who's residents support them and other patrons to visit the businesses and may need parking why destroy the businesses and change the neighborhoods that made san francisco the great city it is suffice it it seems you're not interested in visiting the businesses please consider those are not people that have the physical ability to walk and they can take the bus thank you. (clapping.) >> >> thank you. next

speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon and thank you for your time. >> my name is john ami i've lived on jackson and polk for thirty years we've watched the diversity of the businesses along polk street the hard working merchant have made this a fun community. >> community who's resident businesses have worked together 9 issue before us is about the quality of life on polk street not only from beautification the plan addresses 20 blocks north of mcallister over the last two years we've been working with the sfmta to reach a common sense plan to dialog and to compromise we all know as mta project at lewis montoya said polk street

is kind of narrow and polk street which mandates to 44 street north of posting is not wide you enough to accommodate everyone's needs quote/unquote the compromise plan put polk in a half is a reduce to 44 photo this is consistent with improvement safety goals by the mta and the california highway patrol that says half of the accidents are in the area of mcallister park to say to have protected bicycle lanes is totally against a sense of compromise that the community and others have arrived at safety is important that is nothing henry safe about bicyclists it didn't equal safer streets i hope the board considers those of us who live

in the neighborhood and not those who patios through >> thank you. next speaker, please (clapping) >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> hi, i'm dr. daily have a practice on polk street and lived in the district for 35 years the doctors in the building were acquit concerned with the loss of parking that has parking for elderly people and families that come from all over the city and outside the city i'm a pedestrian on polk street i walk that street all the time and it is the loss of parking is going to be a serious problem for us especially we're losing the parking on van ness i wanted to let you know that the doctors an polk street are

concerned about that we're concerned about the merchants the thing that makes polk street polk street is the merchant thank you (clapping.) >> (calling names) is ms. chang here okay (calling names). >> good afternoon. thank you. >> i'm stephanie chang the delete for the coalition - >> i'm stephanie chang the delete for san francisco neighborhood a resolution was adapted by the coalition on february 17th i'd like to read into the record and present a copy to you. >> dear sfmta board of directors the coalition for san francisco neighborhood c s f n

come down or 40 neighborhood organizations at a dealer noted meeting of its general assembly on february 17, 2015 passed the following resolution on the changes being proposed to polk street resolved the c s f neutron supports the retention of parking on polk street the eliminations of the proposed 84 wu zone from pine street to baud on the east side of polk street and the preparation by it sfmta the city and county of san francisco of an environmental impact report eir on the impact of the polk street escape project on the polk street neighborhood before any 0 further approval the implementation of the project thank you. >> (clapping.) thank you. >> that it be -

>> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> ruth campbell. >> hello, i'm marlene the president of the k45g9 neighbors association i served on the coalition that negotiated with california pacific medical center that was approved by the board of supervisors in 2013 we were involved in this for 8 years and did extensive traffic studies ended up with the grant and the transportation improvement that is a very complex number of work on the transit transportation bicycling public safety part of the hospital and the study started in 2001 and the ended