>> molly pile and skip pile. >> i am kristin lucky, i am a community organizer on staff of the bicycle coalition. i am here to strongly support the valencia street project. it will provide much needed protection. valencia is overdue for a safe design to prioritize biking and walking. between 2012 and 2016 there were 268 reported collisions between market and mission streets. what is the city doing to make sure safety doesn't have wait on valencia. we have been working for well over a year to push the sty to put safety first. it is over subscribed. we see chronic double parking

every day. almost half of all bike collisions are due to double partlpartly --double parked car. this is our chance to change the street. we are showed up to committee meetings to make it clear the city is not acting fast enough. we were excited when the mayor expedited the process in september to have a chance to act with urgency that so many have been asking for. her commitment to deliver the improvements for thousands who bike valencia every day. our members sent in 450 letters of support and there is a clear message. we can't stop here. we must do more and we must do so quickly. i urge the board to approve the project and take this important

step towards people first valencia. thank you for your time today. >> next speaker please. >> i am molly pile. i am a sixth grade student at friend school. i bike. i feel safer with no bike you lanes. this leads me to believe the protected bike lane is a good idea. i feel it will make a lot of cyclists feel more comfortable and safe. i think they will stop for kid crossing to get to school. i have noticed when i am on the bike in the streets cars give me more room even more than grownups because i am a kid on a bike. cyclists will take care. nobody wants to hit a kid. maybe the older kids can help the youngir kid -- on younger kids cross safely.

>> you are a credit to the school well-done. >> next speaker please. >> thank you, chair men, members of the sfmta board. i am the parent of a sixth grader. my wife and i have been commuting by bicycle with our daughter from our home. i am taking time from work to come here today to support the valencia street bike lane design proposed by the sfmta. while i understand the concerns of the school, i think all of us, parents, administrators can rally to develop a plan to ensure the safety of our children as they move from the sidewalk to the dropoff area. my daughter suggested we enlist our 6, 7, eighth grader to help find solutions such as coaching of children and other creative solutions to come up with before

implementation which haven't been explored as the school community. the situation on valencia is dangerous. i know several people have haven injured and many experienced close calls where they were almost hit. as contradictly designed i do not like riding with my daughter it is unsafe for children during the afternoon and evening commute hours on the street. moving the bike lane so is it not in the path is the proven engineered approaches to reduce fatalities and injuries. there will be a period of adjustment where the road users are familiar with the new conditions. this should be met with awareness among the members of the communities. next school year will be an excellent time for the sfmta to work on the design and make sure

the area is safe. >> next speaker, please. >> sam moss, naught kramer. >> thank you, staff, commissioners. i appreciate the opportunity to speak. i am sam moss. executive director of mission housing. we are the biggest landlord on valencia in terms of affordable housing. we are having community meetings to talk with families to talk about keeping kids from being killed, we have to put the human beings first. i just want to make sure i came here today to say that on behalf of mission housing and 3,000 mission residents, we urge you to pass this. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> natt, cramer, mike, andy.

>> thank you for this community. i am natt kramer. i am the parent children in the friends school. i care deeply about theningvironment and affordability. i have dedicated my life to that. i about thousands here and invested billion this is san francisco. i chairman of the national solar industry and appreciate the city's leadership in getting solar industry kicked off and veteran. san francisco promoting a safe, affordable transportation is the right thing to do so is ensuring the safety of citizens. this project as a pilot will

wedge young children between two lanes of moving traffic one with motor vehicles and one with cyclists. vote down the proposal today, send back to improve it until it is safe for all. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you for the opportunity to speak. i am mike handnis head of san francisco friend's school, third year -- 33rd year as educator. i am grateful for the ways the members of the mta, members of the bike coalition participated in the true partnership trying to address concerns. we share values with mayor breed's zero vision 20, vision zero initiative in particular aspirations for safe environment.

my concern and requests are singular. the current design and location of this project requires hundreds of students, 5, 6, 7, 8 year-olds to cross a bike lane where there will be moving traffic constantly, particularly during the morning when they arrive at school and in the afternoon between 3:00 and 6:00. the current design and location make this less safe for those children. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, directors, i am andy gonzalez. community organizer. i am here today in strong support of the project. i want to share a story of a person i met while doing outreach on the streets. he is a latino man in the

mission street and bikes valencia daily to support himself and his family. this impacted me the most because people like him are forgotten in the planning process. i am going to speak in spanish to try to translate. it is important to hear why he depends. he explains. [ speaking spanish j. >> to tell you the truth, i am not sure if i feel safe on

valencia. i can stop riding my bicycle when i know i have to get to work. two years ago someone hit me. they were parked in the bike lane and he opened the door and i got doored. the driver seemed angagree. we couldn't understand each other. i was nervous. my elbow was bleeding. the driver asked if i wanted to be taken to the hospital. i said no. i did not want to police to show up. i don't have health insurance. i urge directors to approve this project for other people like him who rely on valencia for livelihood. the percentages do not reflect everyone on valencia. they are less likely to report. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name suaggie.

i am a voter in san francisco. i have never done this before so this is a huge deal for a lot of the parents in the san francisco friends school. it is a quaker school. community outreach and being involved with the community is very important to us. the school strives through the community involvement and core beliefs in inter relational community and school to work of the needs around it. there is great concern that insufficient testing has taken place. insufficient discussion has taken place to get this pilot off the ground. one meeting in november we don't think is enough. there is concern that this has been fast track without adequate consideration for safety issues that arise from running this bike path with a number of speed of bikes in direct path of the children coming and going from

the school. safety is our top priority. while we do not think the proposed pilot is ready for implementation, we will want to partner with all involved for a better solution. we are asking the city to either shift our delay the pilot as we feel the proposal needs more thorough community process. we need to see the impact reports more than discussed here to see what else we can do. the items on the site it says the mission goal is to protect all involved, improve safety. this is not taking into consideration the safety of the most vulnerable citizens, the children 5 years old. vision zero says valencia corridor has the highest injury network. do we want these children in harm's way?

they need extra care, extra safety. these are our children. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon, thank you so much for the opportunity to present to you today. i am the directtor of community engagement at san francisco friends school. we have been working with the stakeholders on the bike lane. the bike coalition the neighbors as well as parent the san francisco friends community to come up with solutions that will be safe for everyone including the students, cyclists and drivers and pedestrian. we appreciate the thought partner him the mta has offered. we field the overall design and speed of implementation pose a risk to the friends community

and greater community. we are eager to keep on conversations with the city with no proposal with safety for all. unloading san francisco friends school is committed to safety for all, not just our community but the greater community as well. while families from all over the bay area come to the school we reduce car traffic encouraging carpooling, taking public transit and biking and walking. many families and community members do this. in order to prevent the cars from cueing up we partnered with the transportation consultants to redirect the carpool down clinton park. we have been grateful for the livable streets. we ask it be shifted or delayed. if the pilot goes through as planned, we are asking for a

traffic signage lighting as well as crossing guard to ensure safe crossing across the bike path as well as expanding the copy of the project to look at loading and unloading areas for the school. thank you so much. appreciate your time. >> next speaker please. >> i am the parents of three kids at friends school. i am pro-cycling. i think most of our community is pro-cycling. i am concerned about the plans for loading and unloading in front of the school. i do not think it is safe for our children to be put on the small concrete barrier island then to cross an active bikeway with no stop sign, no stoplight, it has nothing to stop the cyclists from going down that street.

we have 450 kids. millennium school has kids, probably 700 kids on this one block of valencia every day. we cannot make san francisco safer for cyclists by making it dangerous for children. i would ask you to please, please take time to reconsider this proposal with respect to the loading and unloading of children and perhaps to shift the bike lane to the center to switch to diagonal parking like bay or to consider other options that we can live peacefully and safely together. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> doug foster, scott brow man, charles bellow. >> good afternoon. doug foster. thank you for the community to comment. i am a resident of koss traand

active cyclist in san francisco and parent of two children at san francisco friends school. i am fully in support of vision zero. i love sfmta to make this a bicycle friendly city. i have known a lot of people involved in accidents in bicycles. as the parent i do think the proportioned plan creates a less safe pathway to get to school. i strongly encourage the board to think of alternatives or to shift or postpone implementation of the pilot. there are hundreds of kids crossing the active bike lane based on numbers increases the chance of a cyclist and child colliding which i think would be awful to say the least.

secondly, i think that there is a great opportunity for to mitigates the collisions between cyclists and cars. i strongly encourage the board to think of alternatives that don't put children in harm's way. the times is during the academic year. i encourage the board to minimize the inconvenience to the school with construction and changing pant ways to school during the school year and you implement the pilot during vacation period. >> next speaker please. scott brow man, charles bellow, catherine president trump. >> i support the fast tracking on valencia street. i have biked for more than 25 years. during the past 8 years my daughter is on the back of my bike. i hope she will be able to ride

here own bike on valencia. i asked her if she would feel safe on the street she said no, because drivers do not respect the bike lanes. at did you school enrollment. the principal was aghast because i rode with her on the bike. i reminded her those injured were hit by a car. no one using a car is more important than anyone by bike, foot or bus. it is wrong to pretend otherwise. it is possible to have a traffic guard to get out and block traffic. i have done that when i take kids across vanness. i have taken 350 kids across the street many times each year. it is do-able, and putting bicycle lists is not what this is about.

this is to make it so everyone is safe including students getting out of cars and riding bikes. it is do-able with a protected bike lane. >> charles bellow, catherine plum. gerald findlay. >> thank you for this opportunity to speak. i am the parent. my son is a second grader. i implore you to slow down. we are not talking about cyclists versus vehicles. our children is a child and bicycle. this has amid dean strip -- the median strip where the child will get out and wait on this little island as cyclists who will be coming off market street, down valencia if they time it just right. i have done it, they will be able to go through the traffic

light to clifton park with cars turning right. we have children from kindergarten to eighth grade so excited to get home to see their families they are going to forget one-time that they are in an active bike lane. that is all it will take one-time where one of our children is going to get hurt. we are not cars. i want a bike lane on valencia street. i big you to slow down and think about this current proposal. this concrete island with children crosses is not the right direction to go. thank you for your time. >> next speaker, please. >> catherine plum. >> i am catherine bloom. i have three children at san francisco friends school. i want to echo charles' points. i don't feel this is pitting

children against bicyclists. there is a solution that can work for both bicyclists and children at the friends school and millenia and those on that one block of valencia. the information that kimberly young put up said loading on weekendss 40% blocked by cars double parked. that doesn't impact the friends school dropoff. it occurs 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. daily. school is over at 6:00 p.m. why are we doing this if the majority of issues are on weekends between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. it is overkill and notness. at the corner is there a way to look at this is with taking one block with 700 children out of the mix? there are smart people on the

committees, there has to be another option that works for everyone. i worry. i know my children don't always pay attention. they are excited looking here and there. if you have 100 kids there someone falls back or pushes. it is bound to happen. i really implore you to please find another solution for all groups involved. thank you again for your time. >> next speaker, please. >> harold friendly, matt blaxena. >> this shouldn't be a contentious issue. we are all concerned about safety. we know that we have created spaces of danger. we need to protect people from danger. children from the school, people riding bicycles, anything reducing car use is going to

help us. anything that cars out of space of safety from the danger we created is going to help us in the mission of the city. we really need to do more about not creating the danger in the first place, and doing the right human decent thing and keeping people safe. there is a lot of concern about children in the school. it is reducing car use to keep the children safer. the more people safely using bicycles on valencia the safer the children will be. the board is move anything the right direction that way. really what the board has been doing is creating the places of danger in the first place so we don't spend resources and time creating spaces of danger then

trying to carve out spaces of safety. making the argument over safety. we should make good chases from the start. you are taking a step in the right direction. you may quibble over details. the status quo is worst than anything you can do to impliment the bike lanes now. >> next speaker please. >> marcel barron. there is nobody left in the overflow room. >> thank you for your time. i am a resident of san francisco and ph.d. student in city planning at uc berkeley. i applaud the improvements including on 17th street, folsom and in the wiggle. cycles is dominated by young white men. provided safe protected bike

lane is the number one way to diversify the people bicycling. research has shown that building safe bike lanes benefits local businesses when parking is removed. people are much more likely to frequent those corridors than streets legs friendly. loading zones have been incorporated for the benefit of the valencia merchants. if you build for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. if you build for people and places, you get people and places. finally, san francisco has ambitious air quality goals and transitioning more travel towards bike use is a cost-effective way to advance both priorities. the recent camp fire demonstrated we cannot take clean air for granted. we make pollution free travel attractive to all residents of san francisco we must pursue

those options. missions in california, 41% where generated by transportation. i urge you to approve this measure in the current form and make san francisco a more livable city. >> next speak concern please. >> can i get the overhead please. i want to be clear temperature current situation ovalval in front of the friends schools is -- on valencia is dangerous. cars are the danger. undeniably. this is a parent biking his children to friends school. this is the bike lane blocked by parents and scars in the friends school -- cars from the friends school. >> quiet please. >> the design for this stretch

of valencia is international best practice if you visit cope pen hagan or anywhere in the fifthther lands bike pathses are next to the sidewalks. as we move to a climate conscious future. we are going to have to adapt to the design. the sfmta staff did a really good job working on a design that will be the future of san francisco. i am here to personally represent the safety of my daughter and wife. they are standing back here. my daughter biked valencia one hundred times in utter row. mmy -- i want to choose that climate conscious healthy

community first neighborhood approach to living in my city safely. my daughter may go to friends school someday. that playground looks awesome. i would love to bike her there. this is a first good step. we have a lot more to do on valencia. i will be back to talk to you about that. >> next speaker please. >> i am you tina beatty. thank you for the opportunity to speak. i am the parent of a current student at friends school and graduate. i urge you to delay this pick pilot proposal and gusto the time to think of ways to make it safe for all. when my graduate started at friends school in 20092009.

i have seen that section of the neighborhood change dramatically and traffic ask an issue for pedestrians and bicycles and drivers. do applaud the move to action to try to change things there. however, i do think that there has to be a better way for this because the safety for all is not necessarily being addressed as adequately as i think that it could be if there would be more time to invest in it. i am here today to urge you to vote to delay, please. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> sarah bertram here? michael felled dram. >> michael feldman. a parent of the friends school.

my message is the same as every other friends school parent. stop and rethink what you are doing and revisit the whole plan. it is interesting what i have seen today. it is uncomfortable for me and the people in the friends community that somehow friends and the bicyclists are against one another. i think in general both are supportive, i am sure. bicyclists don't want the kids mowed over. i can assure did you parents would like to see safety for bicyclists. i find thow whole think a bit strange. i guess one thing i would like to point out we keep saying that surely kids will get hid by the -- hit by the bicyclists. i believe that.

not on purpose but i will tell you i am sure some of you have kids, maybe all of you have kids. i don't know how old they are. you can recollects the younger days. you will will remember kids are space cadets. no matter good intentions the odds of the kid doing something stupid and get anything the way of a bicyclists is 100%. we don't want to see that and i doubt the bicyclists want to see that. i urge you to reconsider how thumb is done. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. thank you for allowing us to speak today. as i said here to listen the such respectful dialogue between the two parties who do feel we

are pitted against one another. i feel the needs of both are paramount. the safety of bicyclists is not what it could be. that video you showed, i see that a lot. it makes me worried for the bikers. the plan now is not, i don't think, taking into consideration this nature of the youngest children and most vulnerable at the friends school. crossing an active bike lane is not the safist improvement on that part of valencia street. my 6-year-old in the morning is trying to unbuckle the seat built and put on the backpack without falling out on the curb. the safety measures the school employed to make sure the kids safely get to school is important. they are not immune to other

safety issues. they have been on lockdown because of gun violence. they had to evacuate the front yard because of people in the front. this plan should be delayed and restructured to create safety for both the bicyclists and the youngest most vulnerable children at the school. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> . >> good afternoon. thanks for taking lead to put this forward. i will try not to have our family dominate the time here. i will beacon size. we have a couple of kids at san francisco friends, as lindsey told you. until a few years ago i worked in the mission and would commuter up valencia accrues

17th on a bike. i am in a car when i drop the kids off. i look at kids like molly on the bike. that would be saw some. i have seen the cargo bikes. i would love to do that. having ridden up valencia before i am not going to do that with my kids right now. i love where this is going. yoyou are not going to find parents pushing where this is going. i do not have confidence where these kids who want to sprint in for the 8 minutes on the awesome playground are going to have the presence of mind to manage this process. i love where we are going, i want to put this pilot in place, it is too early right now. thank you for your consideration. >> next speaker please. >> kaetlyn kavanaugh, jimmy.

>> hi. tosh honest i don't bike. i find it exhausting. accolades to those who do. i carpool all day every day to all parts of san francisco. i have two sons at san francisco friends school and my husband bikes valencia to work. my concern is the pilot program is being rushed and the children attending the friends school and parents and care takers involved in pick up and drop off are not being in consideration as much as they should be. safety is crucial, of course. i am not convinced neither should you this is the best solution. thank you. >> next speaker. >> jimmy, paul, natasha.

>> good afternoon, directors. i am jimmy. i am a san francisco resident since 2012 and recreational cyclist. i frontally ride my bike on valencia street. i want to thank you for the upgrades in response to mayor breeds' directive. improvements are needed. it is great to see it happening. i urge you to make the improvements a here's and -- a priority. valencia is dangerous four cyclists. i have experienced this many times from dangerously close passes by motorists to car doors to pedestrians walking in the bike lane without looking. i urge you to work towards a protected bike lane.

motor vehicles are dangerous. we should be using infrastructure changes to discourage the use. we can achieve this by making major corridors safer and more convenient to bikes and scooters. you can make positive changes by encouraging people to do the right thing. thank you for your time and attention. >> next speaker please. >> good afternoon. i am paul valdez. a valencia street cyclist survivor. the bike coalition, the people protected bike lane movement. thank you for expediting the mayor's directive for the pilot

project. the recent community workshop warpingworkshopwas appreciated. it including a protected bike lane with better intersection visibility and parking and boarding changes. i am here in support of the pilot. a no-brainer and teaser. the dangerous movement on the corridor as we know is the entire stretch of valencia. i know there is a long term project. i look to support the protected bike lane we deserve to be shield would from the tnc's on the streets that compromise our safety. let's get this built and the next phase of the improvement project can be constructed with safety for all cyclists,

families, students, children's and pedestrians. to the parents i will go out and cross the kids for you so they are safe. >> thank you. >> next speaker. tasha, nick, bryan. >> hello. i am natasha and i am a community organizer at walk san francisco. we are excited to see this expedited. this is important to making the streets safer for those walking and biking. i have been hit buy a car on valencia suffering a broken arm with a long time in the cast. if safeties improvements had come sooner that crash would have never happened. it has some of the highest rates of pick up us in the city.

there are dangerous conditions for people walking and driving. walk san francisco believes the changes included in the project will make valencia safer for everyone. we urge the board to pass the project. thank you. >> next speaker please. bryan, nick. >> i am bryan. i ride my bike on valencia every day. the current bike lane is dangerous by design. it is a parking lane for uber and lyft. the mta needs to separate the bike lane to mission on the south end. don't stop at 15th. let's get moving to make it all safer. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> nick barron.

adrian. >> good afternoon. i am a 20 year resident of the mission. i live on valencia street. i bike it daily with my 3 year-old daughter, and we fell off our bike last week going around a lyft. she got a concussion. i wasn't expecting that to come up in my head. i applaud these parents for speaking with the safety issues. we need the safety issues for all user also. i believe there are real concerns about this block of valencia street and those schools, there are also valid concerns about the entire length and safety of the bicyclists and those getting out of the uber and lyft on the streets.

valencia is a parking lot for uber and lyft. i understand the concerns of the parents. we need to look at the entire picture. on the block i believe there are already various measures taking place on the projects to mitigate the issues. there will be a railing. there will be yield signs and many of us are prepared and signing up to be traffic guards. a lot of schools do traffic guards for those commute hours. as someone who tried to get through that block when parents block the bike lanes, it is a really difficult issue. i think we need to look at the big picture. this is good for the entire use length of valencia. we should definitely work with the friends and millennium

schools. let's not lose sight of the need for valencia level transit improvements. thank you. >> i am glad your daughter is os okay. >> barron and taylor. >> i am nick. my partner and i have residents. we work downtown and we commute on valencia every day. it is an experience where we are fearful often. i think many people have addressed why the double parked lanes. i am certainly feel for the parent that have to have concern about kids' safety as well. payment as he stated we can't

lose sight of the big picture. if there are other ways to help those children feel safe with cross guards i think that would be a step in the right direction. also, i want to reiterate what many other people have said. this pilot is very important, however, i feel that the other parts of valencia are more dangerous sometimes. i encourage you to act swiftly not this but other parts. i have been hit twice on the valencia corridor. it is something that is personally concerning to me and my partner who is here. >> next speaker, please. >> aiddrea and emily. >> thank you.

thank you for letting me speak about this important issue to me and my community. i strongly support this. i live on valencia and 23rd in the mission. i would like to see it all the way from market street. this is an amazing beginning. this little stretch. it is little but it means a lot. it is the beginning of something huge for 15 or 20 years. i am excited to see the commitment to the four month time length set by the mayor. i hope to see the start of construction next month. i want to use my bike every day to go to work, buy groceries. i want to feel 100% safe while biking on valencia. i am not worried for the kids. i would like to bike on the

street for my kids without having to worry. this is the way to do it to get there. thank you so much for your time. >> next speaker please. >> taylor, emily, marsha. >> i am taylor. i am a member of the sf bike coalition and latino club. i am in support of the bike lane to save lives, encourage more healthy active transportation and getting people out of private cars. after witnessing the last fatal bike crash three months ago i saw another crash between 14th and 15th at valencia where the proportioned project is happening. after helping the man recover from the shock, we grabbed a beer together. he wanted to be here together.

he works as a maintenance worker. he is a 25-year-old latino raised in the mission. a few weeks before the crash he started bike to the tenderloin. he shared how the biking every day improved happiness and helped with depression symptoms. since the crash he stopped using his bike due to the injuries. the crash went unreported. there have been 278 reported crashes on valencia. there are thousands of others like the one that i witnessed and the one that he described a few minutes ago. if we add drawn out community process to every block, we will never achieve vision zero in san francisco. let's find the solution for the 700 children in the two schools.

a crossing guard seems like a reasonable solution. there are thousands of children crossing streets and bikeways throughout the mission at public and private schools. we can find a solution for the children. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> emily, karen. >> thanks for letting me speak. i am emily. i lived in the southern san francisco for 17-years biking on valencia street that time. i will bike over to the friends school to go to the services. however, during you typical rush hours times i ride on the red carpet omission because i find it safer surrounded by giant buses than to ride among parents in the s.u.v.s checking kids in the bike lane and ubers

afternoon lyfts and door bash earns and the party in the neighborhood and going to the suburbing to live in their mansions and gas guzzlers. that said i am in support of this block of the protected bike lane. i have a feeling of urgency about extending to entire length of valencia street. by framing this as parents concerned trolling over youngsters versus we who are trying to save the planet by getting the heck out of our gas guzzling vehicles, we need to be united anal lined to save the planet from drowning and burning up. that is my tw two cents.

>> next speaker, please. >> i am tamra marsh. i am a member of the bike coalition. i support protected bike lanes on valencia street. we need to do more. with working at mike's i don't go a week without hearing about something on valencia street. it is a scary place to ride. i got hit on 14th straight. i have -- 14th street. i have pins in my shoulder. two weeks ago my co-worker got hit on 22nd and valencia. pedestrians need a safe place. please approve this first part and work on the rest. >> thank you very much.

next speaker. >> karen, rebecca, georgia. >> i am karen reese. i am the parent of fourth grader at friends school. my daughter rides her bike every morning to san francisco with her father. her own bike. i am grateful the city of san francisco and the mta and made or breed are working hard to make biking safer in san francisco. i have seen great progress in the 21 years i have lived in san francisco to make biking safer. however, for the protected bike lanes i am concerned not sufficient consideration has been given to ensure the safety of the children attending friends and the project has been too rushed. i ask the board of director to delay the project to allow more

thorough assessment how children can be protected. i am concerned they may run across the bike lanes when they exit the car. would it be possible to have a physical barrier between the bike lanes and island, crossing guards and cyclists to allow the safe crossing of the bike space. can children line up to allow unloading of the cars payment? will the timing work for unloading car to avoid a backlog of cars during rush-hour traffic? i i know how important protected bike lanes are. i was hit by a car while riding my bike with my 4-year-old daughter in the bike trailer. i sustained a permanent compression fracture on two vertebra.

my daughter was protected by the bike trailer. i ask you to protect our children. at this stage there has not been given sufficient consideration. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> thank you, board and thanks to the mta staff. i am here today as a mom of two at san francisco friends school. i bike commute to and from the school extent for wednesdays we walk with about 10 kids. one day i carpooled six kids to the school in a mini van. i am supportive of vision zero and the bikeway and i commend all of the work of those in the room and the staff getting it where it is now. like many other parents for the changes proposed i am concerned

that adequate design considerations focused on bike traffic and things like a crossing guard which the school requested but was told it wasn't possible our moving the carpool to clinton park we were told it wasn't possible. as others said smarter people in the room can figure out better than we can haven't been added to this plan. i also feel like we want this to be a successful model for the im implementation around the city. lit's approach with belts and susintenders so it is -- suspenders so it is a model for other places around the city. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please.

>> georgia williams brat. is she here? no. devan brady? mural mcdonald. >> thank you to the board. i live one block and i bike on valencia frequently. i am in favor of this project and strongly opposed to delay. any delay will just increase the possibility of more life-changing injuries like described here. i strongly urge the board to make this pilot happen also kin it all the way to mission street, and i think fulsome street is a great month ticketed -- protected bike lane. i have not heard of anybody hurt

on that lane. people get off the bus and get to the bike lane esly. it is not a great safety concern. i wish that some of the streets are fantastic. more consideration could be given to closing it off to cars entirely. >> next speaker please. >> i am mooreial mcdonald. i bike valencia street daily as director of public affairstor skips scooters. as a cyclist and citizen i make a decision about when to ride my bike or get in a car based on safety. i have to weigh my desire to

bike and too get exercise and the benefits with that against feeling afraid. once in a while, i feel afraid and get in the car. i don't want to make that choice every day. i want to feel safe when i make the ethical and healthy decision to ride my bicycle. as somebody excited about the movement in the new mobility space. i see a future with many more individuals in the coalition of road users that need protected bike lanes. this can't come quickly enough for the safety of those currently riding bikes and those newly considering getting out of cars and adopting smaller lighter vicks that need protection.

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>> they do it all the time in market street and valencia. people just want to get to the outside. biking is extremely dangerous. it is like a slalom weaving in and out of uber who are jerking over in front of me. i almost hit 11 time but again i was able to swerve. we have to be alert. we are always alert. we are especially alert around