>> (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 in 2009.

and since then there has been right now in the planning pipeline crossing to director ram another 68 thousand units being built on the polk side we have outdated traffic information we're looking at as well as the development of the polk street plan as wrarpts to the corridor balloon with the hospital and have changes in the employment dominate when we started 51 percent of the hospital workers lived in san francisco now we're down to less than 40 percent more and more people are consulting in from longer distances to work in our hospitals and other critical businesses operation of the hospital and of so many other businesses in san francisco but particularly in

the van ness corridor a hospital cannot operate without the brt the brt must come first we strongly urge you to have environmental impact report done thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names) good afternoon. >> good afternoon marching i'm here with the coalition of san francisco neighborhood and i represent a number of people that counter be here today, i'm going to hand in written - oh, sorry is that better sorry clearly no one is happy with the plan the bicyclists don't get enough lanes and cars to the park and not bother to pass this plan right now we no idea to have a cooling-off period for

people to adjust to what exactly is going on we need to see what is the happening with van ness we really are messing with the traffic that is 101 traffic going north and south from bridge to bridge we built a huge bridge with billions of to bring thousands of people into the city in their vehicles it if makes sense to have parking or krooifg so it makes no sense to cut off the north south arteries i'm going to see the particular things that concern us are limiting the terms on van ness that puts more traffic into polk street this will increase the illusion pollution in the area and the transfer jams will result in

slower response times for that emergency vehicles any loss of power creates a problems are a city that depends on the pier grids and we don't need toll tankers and people we're going to have machines uneverything i want to see wheepz when the power goes off. >> several people are lined up over here. >> rose campbell. >> hello, i'm chris not bierman. >> no. there's a chris p. >> well, this is chris bowman do you not have mop. >> go right head. >> okay. fine on the 240g9 of january i'm surprised my - the secretary

didn't get it is made out to tom nolan and ed reiskin and others as well as with the board of supervisors i read the 19 page review from the planning department what is called for an exception from ceqa that was complete based on traffic data and in mid-day and at 4 o'clock as people testified the draft is worse between 5 and 8 o'clock at night inform studies about those and that was years ago we have the two lanes of traffic going to polk street there's not going to franklin it is already jammed you're going to have c n mc a densification

of housing under plan bay area both long polk and van ness none of those issues were taking into account the coalition of the san francisco neighborhoods asked for eir that has absolutely essential about you go forward you need to see the human impacts your only advisory committee called for environmental impact report before you go forward as to the impact of taking away thirty percent of parking on polk street that is only a pine it is all the way to union taking away 60 percent of parking i'll ask you delay this until after the studies thank you very much. >> there are two christopher's in the room i'm going to stop

calling both names. (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon. i've been a merchant on polk street for 13 years born and raised i applaud that plan in theory i don't know how studied or how many merchant were interviewed i've been to the meetings on church and the out reaches but polk street logically in size is narrowed because it's an older street i'm not anti bike or pro car or pro bike and anti car i want to look at an ideal legacy plan to make that work for both sides it is just not seeming to work for this we've been at this for two years didn't make sense for

a small area to have this legacy pilot program with the congestion that's not been studied which that is the most dangerous from 5 to 8:00 p.m. i'll urge to look at this before approving it and think this over if it's a great idea in theory but in practice take a closer lock thank please (clapping) (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> i'm rose i have a different idea bikes want to use polk street because it's flat they can move to a different street the businesses can't but van ness is pretty flat very wide situations and very few

pedestrians and the new bicycle complain not buses every single minute why couldn't the bikes travel in the bus lane safely or make a lane for those very wide sidewalks are through could be one think each side be safer for pedestrians and safer for bikes for the elimination of the traffic on polk street it's no one really wants to be walking we have to save the parks and the businesses why can't we look at this thing it is just as flat as polk so the bikes should like it (clapping.) (calling names) is the gentleman here.

>> (calling names) >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon my wife and i have lived in the polk street neighborhood for 33 years it is a vital part of our community we believe that the streetscape project eliminations of one hundred and 50 parking spaces for the borderer it hive detrimental to the bike community the purpose informative the plan is the exception of the bicycle safety in the chronicle the bicycle facilities in 2014 bicyclists were restraining order responsible for all 30 fatalities and running a at the scene other google fast and another one eating the changes to polk street will not fix this kind of foolish behavior but have a significant negative impact mayor ed lee has a vision zero plan but it cannot be built

from concrete not adding behavorial problem with a continuous program safety is the shared rocket ever drivers and bicyclists and pedestrians that common courtesy is an essential ingredient for this streetscape project ultimately the bicyclists do have a responsibilities only 7 percent of trips in the corridor are bike why not join the 50 percent that walk it is more safe and transit their better options and green and specific elements for black history month are without the negative of safety parking for these another mode with buses that is polk street didn't make sense it work in many parts of city that are flater but polk

street is noting a solution please safe polk street and not implement that plan. >> thank you, sir (clapping.) (calling names). >> good afternoon tom nolan and members of the board i'm here. >> your name is. >> ervin i'm here to speak for moving the plan forward lower polk is so beautifully designed americans best place for bikes that's the good news for all of the two to three blocks south now to improve 20 or more blocks i have 3 additional points to make protective bike lanes do more

than help biologists get out there they essentially benefit pedestrians by keeping the bicyclists off the sidewalks that is one of the best safety measurements and by preventing the weaving he's fierce to do they benefit motorists my second point i suspect that 7 percent figure for bicyclists will go up please add bike reacts to the plan i didn't see it in the presentation it might have been been there and the most controversial is it so my understanding that an environmental impact report is not required for doing bike lanes and therefore if you want

this plan to move forward i'll ask you to do so without the eir or whatever environmental review is doing there small business more necessary. >> thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> it's berg. >> good afternoon. >> thank you okay polk street is my community i'm a native san francisco girl went to public school and the scariest thing i don't drive my mom didn't i've also walked and rode my bike i've never feared for my life i'm a consciousness bike rider it seems really

insensitive and almost discriminating against elderly and families those are people i don't need to drive but there are people that do and saying you can't co-exist is not right and sell finish i can ride my bike you do you know we need 0 co-exist with everyone it is what makes the city great if you take that away we become a city of one if they can't ride bikes they will move and comfortably live and find parking and go from here to there they can't get parking in san francisco or they can't drop their kids off so i just think this is so

short-sighted to do something like that and that this is the future it is not the future it is the present and not okay to think that way elderly and disabled people and families and communities are just as important thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon. >> my name is kelly live in the lower knob hill neighborhood and bicycle and shop on polk everyday imagine this the judge's year is 2024 polk street is better than it was in 2015 when the city constructed it's water down plan but still bicyclists and car collisions happening at a rate

one per month among other things decided to fought why and in invasively the data the half manufacturer of 2014 were not enough for the interests in booirj there were other correlations in the data too collisions occurred in more places the plan was the weakest there will be one hundred and 20 kinds of the seriously injured between 2014 and 2024 some might be in the room right now we're more than statistics we're flesh and blood people by building protected bus lanes on boo sides of street you might be saving my life or someone's life don't

build a water down plan so in 2024 vision zero can be a reality>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon ms. johnson. >> i'm shirley johnson i live in the mission district i ride my bicycle everyone on polk street and courage you to put separated bike lanes the whole project i reside my bicycle to polk settlement to shop and go to restaurant. >> you have an opportunity to encourage more people to ride their bicycles to polk street they will do it i'm an experienced kinds of the for 15 years i am scared on possible street i've nearly been hit on polk street not an easy street to ride supervisor kim said

she's a beginning cyclist people need a separated blooik bike latent print the future is four cars let's not get stuck in the old tired car syntrick mentality i don't own a car i'll continue to ride my bike people that are 80 years old will reside their bike please protect the bikes lanes on polk street let's look for the tenure we want no pollution not traffic congestion a happy polk street i'll be waving at pedestrians as i ride by thank you (clapping.)

(calling names). >> good afternoon. >> my name is mitchell berg first of all i'd like to thank the sfmta staff they god got to know the staff by talking with bicyclists and business owners the investment in time from sfmta and the energy they came up with a plan balanced it is every time the merchant and bicyclists as many bicyclists that live in the neighborhood make sure that the design for polk street increases the safety well 345i7bd or maintained the majority of parking polk street needs to be assessable for all people and the demographics change from one street to another the people living in russian hill or knob hill people

need to be forced to spend more time in their cars not less in the bike lane were put in to union street nobody knows the street better than the people that live in the area those people are not interested in stopping a practice writing project that works they want to see a project that works to the benefit of you'll not a small majority the plan that was critiqued by the sfmta helps cyclists and pedestrians and on that takes into account all the needs of those invested and as a community we should be pleased with the recommended plan the 7 to 10:00 a.m. parking zone if you remove that everyone will be >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names)

and good afternoon. >> good afternoon i'm amy and i'm a resident and merchant of the polk street community when we first started this process someone told you everyone gets something and no one gets everything that means compromise i thought that he was resemble i believe that was what the sfmta has accomplished with what is being presented the one thing that everyone can agree on no one is getting everything it would be nice if we feel good about what we're getting the dedicated bicycle lanes from mcallister and from pine to union i'm a resident of the upper 20i7bd without a car i walk everywhere i think that in order for all kinds of

businesses to survive on polk street those businesses need to be educational to everyone and every mode of transportation i'm hoping you'll approve the recommended plan before you today. >> thank you>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names) i see ms. schneider is here; right? and is john latin-american kin here. >> no. >> good afternoon. i'm nash the executive director of walk sf and thank you for your time today and the staff who put countless hours if in who wish providing input on behalf of walk sf i want to support of the pedestrian improvements in this project i want to remind united states that a year ago a little over a

year ago we duped vision zero and that came out of a serious crash on polk street a 6-year-old lost they are life and when that happened a person turning are the onto polk street making a quick right turn didn't see here xrooum u presuming the sophia and her mom her mom made and concoct walk had you have the green light and still she lost her 6-year-old drought parent need help in the city walking around polk street and the tenderloin any of the community with are high corridor we need safe streets we cannot rely solely on parent to make

the best decisions when our transportation infrastructure isn't as safe as it could be i'm asking you to support the public safety improvements make sure they go in as as quickly as possible and consider the modes of transportation and hold to place did human life before all else and make the streets safer for everybody >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names) >> good afternoon i'm sorry good afternoon my name is skooeven stall i represent district them and resident of the city who walks polk street a lot i've noticed that laugh of the intersections are conspirator dangerous i wholeheartedly support of public safety improvements has part of the plan, however, ami i've

noticed this presentation there are flaws i'd like to talk about one the eloquently prt line and the hospital going in for the c pmc they're not factored into this project i feel the impacts of the traffic congestion will make a huge impact on polk street making that important dangerous as far as parking there needs to be more parking on polk street for businesses and patrons to be a part of this vibrant neighborhood i'd like to see if possible the plan to he'd those are as well i want to see the various life pedestrians and bieftsz and residents and business owners all working together to make this area of

the city and city of san francisco a continuing growing and beautiful place to live and work so i would like to see the pedestrian project enforced but some should be tabled for a later date until it's resolved thank >> thank you. next speaker, please >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> i'm andrew i live on california street and so when i consultant to a from work it's polk street it's flat when i'm riding that now it is kind of disappointing to see how the bicycle infrastructure slowly sdoirpdz as you bike on possible from the protected lane to the green bike lane to the

unpainted bike lane and share a protected bike infrastructure would be great to have on polk street thank you. >> thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names) julie is she here (calling names) is is many chin here. >> yep. >> (calling names) >> good afternoon ms. chin. >> i'm ami i didn't i live in the marina i ride polk street about three to four time a week i'll come from the ballot one thing i've noticed it is getting worse late at night the issue of double parking i'm stavnt having to dodge people that are looking

at their phones or trying to pick up a fair their innovate paying attention the only way to protect is with the, if you will if he protected bike way i side it in middle and upper and lower polk so wanted to say i fully support the bike lane for the entire length of the >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> hi fellow karen i'm mary moore resign living in san francisco over 20 years i'm a mother and homeowner and i also vote one years ago i sold my car and bought on electric biefl bicycle i do that with all my errand i

love san francisco and want to do my part ta to make polk street safer so for my family and other families the current design of limited protected bicycle lanes or lanes didn't do enough to protect human life please support separate bike lanes for the entire length of polk >> thank you. next speaker, please >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> hello, i live in the relinquishing and work on fourth and fulsome and ride my bike everyday to and from work on polk street and it is dangerous