narrowed the bike way to about six feet wide to fit in that curbside transit stop. with the bicycle way going behind it. on the right side, where we have a centre boarding island, we have maintained the sidewalk level bike lane at about eight feet but that buffer space is eliminated. however, throughout the whole corridor, we're still maintaining that street life zone which is a buffer between the bicycle space and pedestrian free zone. i'll go through the other transit stuff. >> that was the fastest this project has moved. [laughter] >> we're done. all right. so, we've spent a lot of time and part of that eight years has been trying to workout all the design details.

one thing we're careful about is maintaining commercial look access so loading can occur on market street but we want to minimize conflicts with people biking on that sidewalk level bike lane. with the bike way, we determined that it's best if we retain the loading bay's concept like we have today where there's designated loading spaces on each block but we've brought it up onto the sidewalk and created a flex zone and there's a cross section and this space is 16 feet wide and leaves enough space for commercial vehicles to get up onto the sidewalk on a one-foot curb. the commercial vehicles can pull over to the side and there's enough space for us to maintain a clear space to be bikes to get around the commercial vehicles. we want to minimize the times we have commercial vehicles crossing the bike space. and so we're pairing this design with commercial loading restrictions. so the morning when bikes are going downtown we have no loading on the south side of the street and similarly in the evening we would have no loading

on the north side of the street. if loading needs to happen during those peak hours there would be additional loading spaces on the cross streets. muni service will see an improvement with this design. combined all of these changes will improve muni service increasing travel we are extending the muni only lane and we woke tend it all the way to main which is where we have the most buses running in any street and i don't know why there wasn't a money' in the first place and in addition to keeping the taxis out and because there would be lessor no bikes in the curb lane and we would encourage the curbside service as well. we have the slain with rapid service with the f and the nine and the nine are and the five

and the five and the remaining routes providing local service every block in the curb lane. on the bottom left i'm showing you what it looks like in the centre. they're about twice as big as our current transit stop in the centre and they all provide a wheelchair ramp access to the f line unlike some of our current transit stops and and the local stops on the bottom ryan are designed to minimize conflict between people biking and people accessing the transit stuff. we have used railings and shelters to carefully channel pedestrians into two or three marked crosswalks across the bicycle way at each of the stops. and these crosswalks will have yield triangle zoos that peopled to people accessing the transit stops. those unable to make the walk, would be able to transfer between the rapid and the local at civic centre where we have

closely spaced the rapid and the local stops on purpose. i'm doing something wrong with this pair point. i apologize. another exciting element of better market street is the f loop. we have much more demand for riders -- for service on the f loop and between fisherman's war of and in order for us to provide more service and fisherman's warf we're adding a turn-back loop allowing the trains to come on to mcallister and turn southbound on to charles which is an ex tense of seventh street and turn back and head east. during the daytime we will double or service and maintain going out to castro.

and we've been we have tracks on streets and we have agreed to only run daytime service so that hotel guests are not impacted by the trains at night. car-free market. we've been hearing a lot about that. this is where i will go into the details about that. we are restricting private vehicles from using market street from 12th to stewart and in both directions except for eastbound from 11th to tenth and from drum to stewart and those two exceptions, which are shown with the green arrows so we can main local access to the buildings on those blocks. commercial vehicles, air transit and taxis would still be allowed to use market and of course private vehicles would be allowed to cross market. if you are on stockton, you can just continue on to fourth street, golden gate goes to sixth street. you are just not allowed to turn

on to market within the red dash areas. there's a higher level of restrictions proper posed around van ness avenue which is shown with a different dash pattern on the left side of the drawing. and that area we are also proposing to restrict commercial vehicles and that's an added level of restrictions which i'm going to go into on the next slide. we will be adding more than 200 loading zones for both commercial vehicles and passenger loading on the cross streets so that we can have safe loading for people who want to get to market street and we have a number of changes just outside of the area that are complimenting this package. first, we have two streets that were converting to be two way. again to maintain local access and that is jones and sphere for their first block away from market street. and we're also proposing to make ellis one way, away from market street for two blocks from stockton just like it's already one-way westbound and that is

allowing us to reduce congestion at the intersection of forest, ellis, stockton and market and also do some additional place making and pedestrian safety improvements at that intersection. we're proposing to add additional turn restrictions from eastbound market on to valencia to deal with issues with cars turning right there and bikes coming quickly down the hill. and also from mission on to stewart in order for us to make market car-free starting at stewart. i have to learn to not press the down arrow. >> we have restrictions coming out of the city planning department's pub planning process and the pub is looked at all the developments of coming into the intersection near van

ness and 5,000 units and expected to be one block within this intersection so the planning process developed these proposed and it takes of the advantage we have much less of this point and we have six and seventh going west past van ness and we've accounted for the value widen and significantly and ensure we can retair rada that bike lane. >> wove to make it muni and taxi only and remove the curbside lane. private vehicles and commercial vehicles will not be allowed to travel eastbound or westbound. this allows us to move the westbound turns to the west side of van ness to both our transit

stops are on the west side allowing us on the eastside to make a great improvement to connect bike boys and also it allows to sim not fight and i will prove the f-track but it's called a y track on 11th street to make the track which is there more efficient. to see the benefits and we have a package that will implement in january in january of 2020 including market market car free from 10 street to the east with expending the lane and and painting safety zones and the most dramatic is the battery bridge where you have a slip lane on to mark wet no private

vehicles. as part of the quick build implementation we will include the two-way conversion of jones street and the one-way conversion of ellis which we will make sure that we're aware of what the impacts of that has as well as some additional turn restrictions at la ven see a for bike safety and turns at mission and stewart that i mentioned. we'll turn it back to christine a better market street project manager. through out the project we've had a robust community engagement process and we've had five rounds of community workshops and open house and we've held hundreds of stakeholder meetings and we have an active community working group who has met over the past eight or nine years.

our website up-to-date and we have a turn by turn web map that shows you the change in your travel patterns given better market street changes and we've done surveys and mailings and multi lingual posters and we've held tabling events and also a pop-up at the strand theatre. we've received several comments and letters and which provide input and feedback from the community. we've heard strong support for our project goals and as well as the separated sidewalk level bike way and the car-fr car-froe market. and having the narrow the pedestrian area and bike way where there are bart and muni portals, loading zones or transit boarding islands. there is also discussion about the conflicts at the sidewalk

level loading zones and concerns with more see vehicle access around market street. we have received input on the design itself including the separation between the sidewalk and the bike way. the photo and the bottom line of this slide shows our study at pier 38 this past sum tore identify a detectable separation materials and we've received input about the locate of our loading zone on side streets. we've received numerous comments about the surface transit with regards to stop spacing, 85% of transit riders surveyed support walking further for faster transit. we've also heard concerns about the rapid stop spacing in the centre lane and connection to central subway. this has resulted in a local rapid transfer points at civic centre station as well as a modification to the curb lane

stop at fourth and market. with regards to the f-loop we've heard support for operational benefits from the waterfront and fisherman's warf area but this is us modifying the stop location and exploring noise-reducing designs and construction techniques. with regards to the vehicle circulation in the western variance, there's been concerns about a less district car route due to the car-free zone as well as the new one-way on ellis between stockton. there's been concerns about transit operations with only two lanes near van ness and market. this is our environmental review schedule and project approvals. we started our environmental impact report in january of 2015. just last thursday, october 10th, the planning

commission certified the e.i.r. for project approval we held a public works hearing last friday and our directour approved the project this morning. today's m.t.a. board meeting and then because we have federal funding, we will also be getting federal environmental clearance and we have an environmental assessment, which is underway. and we expect the final e.a. in early 2020. also part of our implementation, we will be converting the pilot between goff and 12th street into a pilot for better market street. this means adding or raising to a walk level which is six inches high and the separation and we steady last summer anstudy last.

quick build to begin january of 2020. the pilot project will be next spring or spring of 2020. we'll advertise the construction contract for phase 1a in 2020 and we hope to begin construction in either late 2020 or early 2021. and we expect construction of the first phase to take two years. that would be followed by construction of the f loop which is scheduled between 2023 and 2025. the schedule for constructing future phases is depending on securing additional funding for the project. we've also received a lot of concerns about construction impacts to businesses. we are working closely with m.t.a., puc, office of economic and workforce development and

other city partners to develop a construction mitigation plan which would include our marketing campaign or signage and embassadors to help direct customers. incentives for our contractor to complete the work ahead of schedule and direct business support, a project office wheree people can receive services. having strategically placed staging areas that do not disrupt people trying to walk along market street. a detailed muni transit service plan including f line replacement and transit improvements on mission street. a little bit more on the funding of better market street. to date, we have secured almost $144 million for planning environmental review, design of phase 1a as well as construction of phase 1a. you can see from the slide that 106 million has been secured for the construction of phase 1a.

the over all total project cost shown on the slide is $604 million which was based on a 10% design of the full corridor. funding for phase 1b has been programmed in the two-year budget and five years capital improvement programme which will be coming to this board early next year. we're also looking for additional funding which could come from federal state and local sources. shown here including fta, one bay area grant funds, regional measure 3 and possibly even the tnc tax. to review the board actions for today, this is a summary. you will be approving the better market street project, adopting the seek wha ceqa findings and e mitigation monitoring and reporting programme. you will be approving all of the parking and traffic changes that

are proposed for market street from stewart to octavia and you will be amending the transportation code division to for transit-only lanes. thank you. >> thank you, very much. how much public comment do we have? >> 66 people have turned in speaker cards. >> of those 66 people, how many folks want to see this project approved quicker? [laughter] i can give you a rea really easy to have it approved. i would not have brought this tie vote if i didn't have four maybe more votes to approve this. this is everyone's hall so if you would like to speak, you may. you will have one minute each. when your name is called, please lineup over there by mr. gilberty or the camera so we can -- tom, raise your hand

again. you can't block the door. thank you. i have one minute each to speak on the better market street proposals. are there any clarifying questions for staff before we go to public comment which i would like to do before we have our discussion. if there's a burning question that you think will inform the public comment, please ask it. >> i just would love if you could just show on the website there's an interactive map to walk people through it. i think that it's hard when people are talking to visualize exactly and maybe you can just point out some of the additional loading zones and the intersections that are changing. because i think if people can see it, it's a better conversation. it helps with people's comments as well. i'll ask a question while you are getting that going. you talked about mitigations during construction and you mentioned a bunch of city agencies but were you working with the bcds and all of those people because it's not so much

just the customers but the delivery people and the loading of the delivery and all that sort of stuff for the businesses and the public will figure it out. the businesseses need to figure it out. >> i should have mentioned our community partners. we're working with the chamber of commerce and the cbds and other business groups. business organizations along market street to make sure that we have their input. the chamber of commerce has been supportive but they want to be a part of the discussion moving forward and part of developing those support services for businesses. it doesn't look like we have an internet connection so i don't think i can bring up the website. it is available on bettermarketstreet sf.org and if we get an internet connection i'll pull it up. >> would you call the first five names, please. >> clerk: ron mcgill, christopher peterson, james

bryant, jim morshell, amber castleburg. >> i'm ran mcgill. i chair the better market street working group and it's a stakeholders. they are all representative and have been pretty much since they asked me to chair the first committee in march of 2011. we're finally there. i appreciate the fact that you want to move this along. i do too. i'm not going to be here much longer to see this happen. move it along. >> thank you for your service. >> christopher peterson followed by james bryant. is mr. peterson here. >> i songly support and going

forward this project, how can you ensure that the construction proceeds as quickly as possible. again, that's repeated problems. it will raise serious problems and buses have to be diverted off market during the construction and the plans for how that will be happening as far as i can tell why nebulous at this point so i hope you push to ensure that those plans ensure that those detour is done as efficiently and hopefully for a shorter period as possible. >> mr. bryant. >> james bryant, jim, amber and. >> james bryant and i'm here to discuss with the you and first of all i support the project and second of all i want to make this clear that the new director, whoever that is, along

with the board members you must understand the african american business community and part of this project. it should have emphasis having our community partners and our community. >> the outreach was terrific. the coordination between planning your staff and the whole hub process was excellent. i'm glad i showed up in the old man commenting to the planner photo that you showed. i'm glad that you went with the western alternative. it's an improvement and the outreach process was better for having been able to get that into the plan and interesting to

see and the article about 14th street closing to traffic and how it had unexpect and no problems and it's for the same here. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> amber jeff rick and representing nature in the city today. as you know last time, market street underwent major development and trees were planted and we're excited to see that it's a part of the street tree pallet because the western swale butterfly has used and will continue to use market street for habitat. we want to encourage the city to key prioritizing wildlife, habitat and biodiversity in all of its plans and we want to make sure that the city prioritizes,

planting planters when they can be supported and we'll continue our advocacy efforts and fundraising efforts to make sure that this plan also includes wildlife. thank you, very much. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is jeffrey pinrod and i represent nature in the city. i would like to follow-up to amber's comments sharing a strong term strategic goal for our tigers on market street project which we are seeking a partnership with the city, bart and corporate sponsors to bring to life the vision of living roofs on the new can pees that are being built over the transit entrances on market street.

in closing, we would like to ask for your assistance in finding city leadership to champion this partnership we're proposing and we recommend moving forward with the better market street project. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> welcome. >> hi. i made a -- i want to suggest since there's 66 people, maybe you could give us an e-mail address that we can e-mail so i would leave now. >> ok. if you would move the microphone closer to your mouth that would help us to hear you. thank you. so you can e-mail the bored and i've told folks about comments and if we want to speak on this item, now is your chance to speak because we'll be voting after it and we'll any e-mails

will probably be received after the vote. i will tell you -- >> we know how you are going to vote. >> thank you, sir. >> god bless you. >> one thing i wanted to mention the mission street and it's really crowded and congested so i was thinking i doubt you want to move the 14 over there but you could make inbound on mission and out bound on howard street. they're both one way streets and it would help. >> very helpful, sir. thank you, next speaker, please. >> welcome. members of the board, thank you my name is morgan bell and i'm speaking in support of the better market street project. i'm here because $132 for blocking a bike line is ineffective. people in companies who is

afford $132 hold up the rest of the us on the bike lane or the bus all the time. as someone rides extensively in the new bike lines i wish we could revoke loading beyak cease for those who dissard the bike line but i just dressed up like harry potter and i don't have his magical powers. the companies don't care how many tickets they get. consider graduated parking fines for repeat offenders. i am inspired by supervisor haney and mayor breed who work together to build bicycle lanes with unprecedented speed. please extend carrie instructions as soon as possible before we lose anymore lives. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> harold findley. kevin stall, stephen sears, neil patel. >> we know cars introduced danger any time they're allowed to operate. we know that they shred the fabric of our cities. both physically and human

mobilities is restricted and creates social hostility with conflict on them. we know everything is ba bad abt it. we look at other streets of our city and it's inverted and the cars are viewed as more important than the safety of all being other people. we need to invert that backwards and pass this measure and make market streetcar free an street. >> thank you, very much. >> kevin stall, stephen sears, amman deep and neil pa tal. >> good afternoon, my name is kevin staal i am the pedestrian safety organizer at the central centre collaborative close to market street. i am with my colleagues here and i organization is in complete support of this project. many of our clients who live in the tenderloin use market street

for their important daily lives going to school, going to the store, going to work, et cetera. and they deserve to feel safe using market street either walking or biking and this project is way overdue and needs to be done sooner rather than later. so thank you very much. we are supportive. >> thank you. >> steven sears, neil patell. pete you are strauss, hiedi pettersson. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is neil patel and on behalf of lyft i'm here to support this project. these safety permits are long overdue. this project aligns with lyft's vision to provide for market street as a corridor that provides safety and inviting mobility for all. we encourage to you a improve this project but act fast and start its limitations as farther as you can. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, very much. >> next speaker, please. >> stephen sears, is mr. sears

here? peter strauss, hiedi peterson, rowen, cindy baker, jordan wang. >> welcome back. >> good afternoon. peter strauss on the board of san francisco transit riders. i've also been working on this for eight years. i hate to not be part of the chorus but we have a number of concerns, however, we do fully support the traffic changes and very much look forward to the quick build. we also support the separated bike lanes. however, we have a number of physical concerns primarily related to stops. we note that with respect to accessibility it only creates full accessibility by removing. >> take your hand off the mic. >> sorry. >> it only provides full accessibility by removing all of the non accessible stops. we're very concerned about the half mile spacing. according to the data provided by staff, speed still remain

only seven and a half miles per hour or so and and -- seven miles an hour or so and travel savings are only one or two minutes which we don't feel justified the removal of all those stops. thank you. >> if you have more concerns, feel free to put them in writing to us. >> you have a letter and our comments on the e.i.r. >> hider peterson, rowen, cindy baker, jordan wing, dianne shang. are any of those people here? i will read the next group. giles hollbrow, he had perion, greg rosemary, rick girling, jody maderos. are any of those people here. >> please come forward, sir.

jody, please come forward. if you hear your name called and you are in the overflow room, the light court, please let our deputy sheriff, come back to the room and let the deputy sheriff know your name has been called. >> good afternoon. i hope that this is one of the happiest days of my life. my name is jody and i'm the executive director of walk san francisco and i want to thank our city's team for create ago project we can broad of. this project also is your chance to not only make san francisco one of the words leading cities, in terms of creating car-fro space but to do a massive and much needed safety improvements. in line with our vision zero goals. i do want to ask you approve the western variance that extends vehicle restrictions as far as west as possible. ensuring we have planning for the future. and i also urge you to pair removal of cars off market street with the sfpd and major changes to track patterns will not only be easy but require for

a small and safe transition. please move forward today. for a car-fro market street and let's get this in the ground this year. the quick bill part. let's build bold transformative solutions in san francisco. >> hiedi peterson, rowen, cindy baker, jordan wing and dianne chang. >> i want to support this project. i'm a cyclist and sometimes a pedestrian and sometimes i take the scooters and i've driven on market street. it's not great for any of those users right now. my mom 55 one year she drove up to visit me from southern california her first car accident in her life was market and van ness. it's not -- let's extend it as far as we can and make it as good as possible and people put a lot of time and effort into it. thank you for doing this. i really support the project. >> thank you, very much.

>> cindy baker, jordan wing, dianne chang. jill hollbrow. >> good afternoon, board of directors. my name is ron. i keep it short. this is the project of the decade and it's one of the most amazing projects i've seen come out of the staff so i'm happy about that and i urge you to approve it. i think that this can be your 14th street bus way and manhattan just launched a very successful project on 14th street where they basically only allow buses on the street. the reason it is successful in manhattan is because they have traffic hops everywhere and enforcing that all the time. it remains to be scene how successful it's going to be when traffic crops go away but i urge you to do the same thing. we've seen with previously terms restrictions on market street they're not respected and they're not going to be unless there's a lot of enforcement and that includes traffic hops and cameras and that includes a lot of things. thank you and please vote yes. >> thank you, very much. >> next speaker, please. >> cindy baker, jordan wing, i do an chang, jill hollbrow.

>> my name is cindy. i haven't had a car for almost 20 years now and i've done a lot of biking on market street. i was force off-the-record my o. i've witnessed the improvements from the painted white line giving a bike lane to then a painted barrier, green lane, a physical barrier, i mean, biking in those bike lanes is golden. however, as a pedestrian, the sidewalks are super crowded. the auto drivers seem to be in a rush and there's just, you can't put up physical barriers for the pedestrians and we've reached the limits of our engineering for safety and i think the enforcement is lacking but anyway, pedestrians are incredibly vulnerable for failing to yield and crosswalks right turns we need to snip the problem at the root and remove private vehicles from market street. everybody walks.

thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> jordan wing. >> good afternoon mta board. i wrote myself a lengthy message before this. in support the better market street project. i'm happy to hear i won't need to read that today. so i will keep it brief. i want to applaud the board for their incredible work on the better market street project and everyone at the mta, i sincerely hope this is the beginning of something new for the city for substantially improving bike infrastructure in the city and as someone who just started biking down market street a month ago, i did it for three weeks and got tired of fears their my life every morning and evening. i hope this happens as soon as possible. i'd lick to encourage to you do this as quickly as you can. and follow-up with as much better pedestrian and bike

infrastructure as you can. thank you again. and i hope this project passes today. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> dianne chang, jill holebrow, ed, greg rose marin, charles debarge. >> good afternoon, my name is dianne and i'm a regular bike riders in san francisco and i've had so many close calls that would have been prevented by protected bike lanes and so and i'd like to say and working i'm excited to and as previous commented as mentioned try to increase enforcement to make sure that cars are abiding by what the vision is so that we can have a safer place for people first on market street. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> clerk: is mr. hollbrown there.

no. all right. stephen sears, man deep, ed perion -- >> my name is ed. i've been biking in san francisco since i moved here about 11 years ago or almost 12 years ago and i'm excited to see these changes happening. i've been biking on market street that whole time and it's been amazing to see the increase in cycling that happened even with the safety improvement that's have been made and use of these new facilities and the only thing i would ask is that this be happen faster in the future and happen in more parts of the city.

>> i'm a frequent cycle list in the city and i'm here today because i tell my friends a lot they should bike and i'm afraid one of them will listen to me and what the consequences might be. i'm thankful for all the hard work on this project and i urge you to move it forward and implement similar elsewhere in the city. >> next speaker. >> rick girling, charles, daryl, tom and shannon dodge. >> good afternoon. i want to say thank you for bringing this forward and moving it as quickly as possible. i want to speak to two issues. safety and tourism. first of all, i'm a victim of being run over by muni bus, it happened to me 15 years ago and i'll never forget that day. that cost the city a lot of money and not only that, it's crazy the number of people that get killed on our streets. i think it's 16 this year.

it's crazy. crazy, and it has nothing to do with vision zero. so this is the first step of many steps. the other thing i want to say is my wife and i travel to europe because we like to cycle. we've cycled 1,000 miles and like 90% of it is without cars. 90% of it is without cars. san francisco should be the tourist destination of cyclists in the united states. >> thank you, very much. next speaker. >> charles, daren, tom, and shannon dodge. >> good afternoon, directors. charles, senior community organizers on staff at san francisco bicycle coalition. vice-chair of the better market street community working group and on behalf of our commerce please approve this project today. also out front on the steps and filled with hope for the future of the market street. not an hour ago we had 300

people san franciscans and all demanding change on market street. this is the time to reimagine our boulevard but also the time to put our city on the path of prioritizing people over cars. i get asked what will it take to achieve vision zero. what will it take to hit our gomes. how do we get people out of their cars and i've asked of this board bold action, time and time again, and today we're looking at bold action. better market street is how we get to zero. let's get cars off this year and get these bike lanes built and if we don't we're not going to reach our goals. we're behind and this is the type of project we need. >> thank you, very much. >> next speaker, please. >> daren fuel, tom, shannon dodge, two mark, ben chambers, shirley johnson. >> hi, good afternoon. my name is daren null. i'm here today to urge that this

body not only approve better market street but implement it as soon as possible. taking cars off market clearly going to save lives. i've been out flyering to the public to notify people about this historic opportunity and ace talked to people about cars restrictions on market street. the only thing i heard was, it's about time. i hope you approve this plan and push firmly for each phase to take place. put in the auto restrictions by this year, break ground on phase one of the project by the end of the year and 10 years of delays has been enough. so thank you. next speaker, please. shannon dodge. two mark and chambers shirley johnson, paul valdez. >> good

>> i live in the castro and i

bike down market street. i just want to express a lot of gratitude for making this happen. i know a lot of hard work has gone into this and i hope that this can be replicated across the whole city. we can use this as a blue print and really take this and replicate it in many places. both for safety, one of my colleagues was injured when he was hit by a bike two weeks ago. so this hits very close to home. and also since we're in the midst of a full-blown climate crisis, i really hope this is something we can show leadership with at the municipal level and do more than is being done everywhere around the country. thank you, very much. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> shirley johnson, paul valdez, patrick lineahan, matthew sheffield. >> i spoke for everybody when i speak -- >> give us your name. >> my name is mark. >> thank you. >> i speak for everyone and i

mean, that means animals in like. we all need more air and it's fresh environment and market street is just a beginning and i just got in an accident on poll being street and i hope you have two lanes for the kids to get to school on polk street. i talked about it as a emergency lane and when we were takin than they wermaking thebasketball stt somewhere with the emergency lanes because we need them.

>> good afternoon, i fully support this project and i'm excited you are the board that is going to approve it. i ride by mike i don't own a car. i was in the east bay talk to go another cyclist and he said you are from san francisco, you ride your bike in san francisco and i said yes, i do, he said that's playing with the varsity team. it won't people play enough to brave with the varsity team so thank you very much for all your work and your service on the board and we really appreciate it and we look forward to an exciting and welcoming market street. my name is paul valdez residing

in the mission with the bike commute down market street for the last 10 years. for me, the approval of this project and the possibility of a quick build safety solution at the intersection of market and sut ser what i desire and i'm sure others here feel the same. you all understand the benefits of restricting private vehicles and protected sidewalk level bike way when not only providing the comfort and enjoy ability for those biking on market street but my chances of not being killed by someone driving a car. it would diminish. i used to have a silent mantra that said market street will be the end of me. to jump start the efforts to keep the car free element i woulmove, pleasetake out your pp them on silent and can i have the overhead, please. >> that's your time, sir.

>> open your uber up and delete it. >> patrick lineahan. >> is ms. boyle here. >> good afternoon and thank you for having me here at the meeting. my name is dr. john. i retired after some 40 years of patient encounters as a healthcare practitioner and i think you were all aware that those who participate in active transport and public transportation are much less likely to encounter diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other manifestations of metabolic syndrome.

at a recent continuing and meeting it was made clear that 75% of the healthcare spending in this country is spent on treating the active transportation are the way to go. thank you, very much. >> matthe hi, i'm matthew and ie especially to talk about climate change. the bike lane went on on va lynn see a in 1999. that was 20 years ago and it was paint and people used them but the lowest of low hanging fruit is bicycle commuting, we don't

need people driving their cars under five miles to go to work. the paint doesn't work, bicycle commuting should be boring. my mom should do it and my grandmother should do it. paint doesn't work. we need serious infrastructure. there were more people, more blocks that were covered in protestors during the climate strike than there are car-free streets in san francisco. that seems ridiculous to me. this is the lowest low hanging fruit and please, please, please. support the market street. hello. i'm aaron and i just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of voices here supporting better market street. i've been commuting on market street by bike for four years and have had plenty of scarce.

i got in two accidents and it ended find but that makes me lucky, it doesn't go that way for everyone and i look forward to the day that i will have a barrier between me and all of the other cars. thank you all of you for working on this and fora for voting yes. >> next speaker, please. >> ben summers, dill an, julie, calder, forest railing, cat carter. >> are any of those people here. >> i'm julie and i would like to say i strongly support this project and i encourage you to move it as far west as possible and i encourage you to replicate this project throughout the city and other places. particularly in some of our lower outer neighbourhoods we also need car-fr car-free space. thank you. >> is ben summers here?

no. ok, dillon deart. forest rye ling. cat carter. mark james. michael ducker. >> good afternoon chair and board of directors. i'm cat carter with san francisco transit riders. this is an exciting day for san francisco and urban sustainability active transit vision zero advocates everywhere. removing cars off market street is a milestone and historic. i hope this is just the beginning as many people have said. however, as a transit riders and as head of this transit advocacy organization i have struggled especially hard the past few weeks trying to support this project. this seems to leave the transit riders behind. we don't need a 600 million-dollar project to remove cars and separate bikes.

this removes stops rather than make them access and prioritizes transferring is the only one location and the project has curb stops in a way that forces people into limited pathways to access where they don't have a clear signal against bicycle traffic. the project has prohibited long distance between stops. some say it's transit first, it is not rider first. we've been working very hard on this following time and continue working for it. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> if there's anyone down stairs if you could come up when you hear your name that would be appreciated. mark jane, is mark here? >> michael ducker. nema rahimy. see era reid. jerry riva, simon bertrand.

>> i am with spin scooters and i'm seeing our policy council and as a company ex customers out on the street using our products we know one of the key factors helping keep us safe are users safe is a street met work that keeps them safe. we understand market street is the third more dangerous corridor in san francisco and one of the top priorities that the city vision zero strategy and this project will address that. the better market street project will protect people riding scooters and bikes from vehicle traffic and sidewalks level bike lanes providing a space that is calm, comfortable and safe for everyone. private automobile restrictions along the corridor will keep market street hope opioids to people as citopen.we fully suppd look forward to a trance forward market street that better reflects our city's values. >> james see vert, see era reed. if you are hear your name raise your hand so we can -- jerry

riva. simon bertrand. tyler coffee. jeffrey hover. todd miner. all right. anybody in any of those names? all right. >> come on up, sir. >> michael ducker. >> hello i live and work here in sf. i strongly support better market street restore our city's public infrastructure for the people. we should not stop at market. all neighbourhoods of sf deserve red lines for faster bus services and safe sidewalks and access to shared' bikes and scooters without supply caps or vendor bands and of course the choice of safe streets. thank you for the staff for all their work and i hope we can bring this to the city. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> james seafort, see era reed.

>> jeff hover. directors, thank you for the opportunity to comment today. thank you to the various.

>> good afternoon, i bike to work in san francisco. i'm here in support the better market street project as the part of the vision for a car-free market street. this complete transformation of market street, the busiest corridor for biking, walking and transit, is an essential step towards our city becoming people-first, community-first instead of car first. the better market street project will not only redefine san francisco to follow in our

footsteps and this project brings. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i'm going to read names. tyler coffee, todd miner, nancy lee, jean ka, alice. >> i brought my biking with me and i have been a cyclist here for five years and i bike to work twice everyday and and one time and in a smile of mike etel and it was in revers and and broken my wrist and when i was side-swiped by a driver making a illegal you turn and and i was not hurt but for the safety and play leap frog with all the buses on market street and

grateful and part of it and i would encourage us to please move as fast as possible on the quick build initiative. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> todd minor. nancy. jean cow. alice, rodney paul. >> hello, i bike or scoot to work everyday. we have in front of us a unique opportunity to solve safety, congestion, equity and connected to this issue all at once here today. in order to make the city safe and serve the greatest number of people with the limited street space we have on market street, we must plan in a way that projects and prioritizes our bikers, scooters, walkers and transit users. we can incentivize these by building for them and that's what i encourage you to vote for today by voting yes on this