in that i think that there are and also doesn't matter really appreciate the space and i want to link to great highway as well. again, it's a cumulative impact that commissioner mar has talked about with golden gate park. i think ultimately, while we do enjoy this recommendation space, we also want to make sure that there is access and that we can travel from point a to point b whenever we need to safely and efficiently. so i think i'm going to leave

that. it's not easy, i think to be somewhere in between and trying to find solutions and it takes awhile and i think patience is a virtue. i'm having way too many cliche comments today and i just want to throw it out there and encourage everybody to be engaged and continue to engage in the process. >> chairman: thank you, commissioner chan. commissioner mar. >> supervisor mar: thank you. i just wanted to clarify the future of jfk drive and also the great highway and also just, you know, reflecting on the many comments that we heard during public comment and the e-mails that we received. i do think they really showed

how deeply they felt so while i do support the vision throughout golden gate park. i believe this vision represents we are living in the present. [please stand by]

. >> chair mandelman: got that, madam clerk? so items 8 and 9, we are continuing to the next meeting.

please call item 10. >> clerk: item 10, introduction of new items. this is an information item. >> chair mandelman: anyone? okay. item 11. >> clerk: item 11 is public comment, and we have one public comment. [inaudible] >> chair mandelman: we will stick with 60 seconds each for public comment. and just out of curiosity, how many do we have in the queue? >> clerk: we have five. >> chair mandelman: okay.

thank you. [inaudible] >> clerk: thank you, caller. >> please, thank you. >> clerk: hello, caller, your minute begins now. >> hi. this is patricia eric on behalf of concerned residents of the sunsets. i've been listening to supervisor mar repeat the same thing several times. also in the sunset beacon, he said that the lawsuits are inadequately addressing the traffic volume in the coming months. that volume is already here. somebody needs to be courageous and open the upper great highway during the week so commuters and residents feel safe again. we have an extremely safe situation, and no one is doing anything about it except more

studies, and supervisor mar says safety on our streets need to be the primary consideration. i have yet to see that be an issue with anybody. >> clerk: thank you, caller. hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> good afternoon, supervisors. roland -- [inaudible] >> in the interest of time, i will be submitting my comment in writing. thank you, and enjoy the rest of your afternoon. >> clerk: thank you, caller. hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> hello. charles perkins, district 7. throughout today's hearing, i've heard repeated reference to vision zero and climate change, two things that seem to be cited readily when it's to one's convenience, but i want to go to the closure of the great highway, and this also

relates to closure, as well, but with regards to the great highway, it's not even debatable that the rerouting 20,000, 18,000 cars off the great highway that has no cross traffic, alternate routes, off to other streets to support vision zero. why anyone would be supporting this is beyond me. secondly, moving cars off of j.f.k. onto streets in the inner richmond or sunset makes no sense to me. you rob peter to pay paul. >> clerk: thank you. hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> hello. this is stacey randecker, and i

find it hilarious that people are advocating for opening streets by citing how bad traffic is and how dangerous it is with all these cars. what they fail to realize is they're telling on themselves. cars are the problem. cars are the problem. they hurt our city, they hurt or environment. the solution is what we adopts long ago, that we are a transit-first city. we need more transit. we need better transit to serve people. we don't need a study, we need everyone served fairly at a rate that they can afford. yes, people on transit get people out of cars make so much more available to people who walk and bike and don't have to be chained inside of their vehicle. i don't understand how this is so difficult. please lead us. >> clerk: hello, caller.

your minute begins now. >> hi, thank you. i just wanted to ask, i wonder how many people the commenters realize that the city has goals of 80% of trips need to be made by 2030, and if the commissioners aren't doing it, how they expect the residents to do it themselves. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. caller. hello, caller, your minute begins now. >> hi. this is luke bornheimer from

safe s.f. i am encouraging all of the commissioners to visit the great walkway and the lower great highway and the outer sunset to experience those places because as we look forward to the district 4 mobility study as well as the study regarding the great walkway, it would be great for all of you to be aware what the reality is out there to see the joy on the great walkway, and to see the relatively small amount of traffic on the lower great highway and other streets thanks to supervisor mar's great work on the m.t.a. i also invite you to come out this weekend to our annual rally where we will have over 500 people and 200 children celebrating the great walkway and advocating for it to stay, so i hope you --

>> clerk: hello, caller, your minute begins now. >> hi. this is adam. i live in soma. i'm just calling to reiterate what others have said about cars being dangerous. we are a transit first city. we should emphasize that. things like the great highway being open to public, it encourages equity, it encourages access, it encourages the entire city to be out and about, especially with the limited things we have. paris is a great example. it used to be transit friendly, and now, it's pedestrian friendly. we have a choice. we can either be pedestrian friendly or an inequity city that caters to a car-first society, and honestly, the car-first society in america was developed by red lining.

we shouldn't be car first, we should be transit first as the city policy is stated. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. hello, caller, your minute begins now. [please stand by]