safe sf. i urge you to save the great walkway and support the full four lanes seven days each week to move to a more livable someplace. the pandemic and supervisor mar have given us a chance to see the kids safe space and equitable space for people to enjoy and use for recreation, connection and sustainable transportation. we must take advantage to save the space and allow the agencies to make it better. there are solutions to challenges that don't require ruining this space people love. please empower us to make the improvements to have a safe and sustainable public soace. now is the time to be leaders for the city. we need you to act and lead. thank you.

>> thank you, caller. >> i am paulina, 28 year resident, pedestrian and active on the safer sf. please request the petition of safe sf. on this item re-open the great highway. day-to-day realistically the foot traffic will not be there. look at the slow streets. many i have observe would have hardly been utilized. upper great highway is particularly isolated and cold. bicyclists need to share roads. it is not reasonable to divert vehicle traffic to be accommodated on the great highway to residential streets. stop aggressively shutting down public access to people who drive. yes, people. the city has re-opened.

we need to be pragmatic about the needs of people to movie efficiently through the city as they choose and must. parks and rec stop being overly idealistic. >> thank you, call le. >> your minute begins now. >> kids safe sf. i am in full support of great time walkway. we are a climate emergency 80% of trips in the city should be by means other than driving by 2030. great walkway is an opportunity to live up to the value to put the space to better use. more people enjoy the great walk kay and i have supported the small businesses. it is the second most popular space to turn to highway is climate change denial.

we need to act now to address traffic issues. full-time promenades will allow it to be mitigated so we are not back here in 18 months. this is one of the few good things to come out of this awful year and we need to keep it. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> your minute begins now. >> i am steven hill. i lived in district 4. this is a massive land use change. tens of thousands of people's lines are affected. where is the data on 19,000 drivers per day and working people impacted. people are ramming this through. squeeze is ballan.

balloon. autos are not stopping at 45th avenue across from children's playground. we can get to win-win. based on concept two. we have $13 billion. federal money is available. we need strong leadership with vision. add to staff support. we can handle by allowing autos on the inside close to the sewage plant. ushsee from 1900. it has barely changed. >> thank you. >> hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> that is my minute now? >> yes. >> thank you. good morning. thank you for having me. re-open great highway. the road is critical for first

response the city is consulting with the fire department. i am a local resident for 13 years. witnessed countless rescues. traffic is now compounded. great highway has four miles of rescue. s is key. with the fire department current access rescue could be complicated let alone when crowds pack during hot fall weather. we don't want that. it would be in the best interest for the s.f.m.t.a. and parks to result san francisco fire and lifeguards out of golden gate recabout the pros and cons of closure. >> thank you.

>> your minute begins now. >> hello. i am richard roth man. i live in the richmond district. i want to associate with my supervisor chan. i support concept two. one thing the study did not do is did not evaluate who commutes. most of the commuting groups live out of the city and the commuting comes from the va hospital. i think the study needs to evaluate and talk to the va hospital to you to reduce car traffic north and south in the city. i support no concept should be reported and further study needs to be done on traffic pattern in the city. we need to share the city. the city is for everybody. we have to learn to compromise.

thank you. >> thank you, caller. hello, caller, your minute begins now. >> george willing. i oppose the great highway resolution without amendments. it is clear that concept three closure of the great highway will be the board final selection. transparency is a myth in san francisco. these traffic decisions are been gerrymandered by jeffrey tumlin and phil ginsburg. please develop one full transparency on data gathering, clear a clear framework for resident outreach. future plans for outreach. thank you.

>> we transform to a park it can save lives and make people proposition lives better. it will just break my heart if you put it there. you can't do it. driving there is over. think about noise pollution of cars. it is so quiet down there there. is no place like that in the city. how do you measure sha? measure the joy and peace and

mental wellness that brings. think about that. >> thank you, caller. your minute begins now. >> i would like to focus around the june 10th joint meeting regarding the great highway. director heminger drew attention this is a survey saying i don't think these are useful. asking for the public as a whole. commissioner stated the usage numbers are exaggerated. mcdonald asked for independent agency. residents have been ignored when we experience the impacts of closure daily. they stated this is car free and the great walkway. they do not apologize but they

oversee the data. this commission should find that. thank you. >> i am jean in. i live in district 4 on 48th avenue. i am in favor of 24/7 car free on the great walkway. we can get around the city and familiar with transportation challenges. i use the great walkway as car free space every day to commute to businesses. i have plenty of other proceedings. every other avenue i can drive on. compromise will not provide accurate data how closure with additional improvements could

impact the conditions to not allow improvements for the parks and bikes. i support the city to make traffic improvements for the next two years. >> thank you, caller. >> your minute begins now, caller. >> good morning, supervisors or afternoon. i am mike chan, district two. in favor of two year 24/7 promenade. it is good for the city. we should be proactive how to make the city more friendly towards options better for the health of the people and walking and better for the environment.

i appreciate your support. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> i am a resident of district one and member of the open the great highway group. i urge you to reject the report as presented. there are flaws in the data. the hesitancy of commissioners to commit to a particular option or approve as written illustrates this closing the great highway is unreasonable. there is no consideration for residents and quality of life has declined. some speak as if there is no recreational area. there are ample opportunities in place in this spot. it increasings the recreational use that exists and decreases

driving rates that are in greater demand. this does not make sense. it was built at a historic highway for enjoyment of all and closing shuts out motoristst that should be allowed to share this route. thank you. i appreciate your time. >> thank you, caller. >> your minute begins now. >> i am judy from open the great highway. the concern resident of the sunset. mire signature on one of the 8750 signature on the petition to open great highway. i urge you to reject this report and do note go forward with the two year pilot plan to continue the 14 month closure disaster for the people living near the highway. include option two well thought out in the ocean beach master

plan. i urge you to discuss the surveys and data collected by agencies with an agenda and consider the scientific based comments sent by the senior research science at the institute. consider your vision goals and the fact there were no vehicles involved in collisions on the highway preclosure in 2018, 19, 20. we have had property damage and injuries since the closure. big rigs are taking down -- >> thank you, caller. >> your minute begins now. >> good afternoon. i am a senior committee organizer at the san francisco bicycle coalition. thank you staff for the report and commissioners for taking time to hear us calling in towed. i am here to give strong support

for adoption of the report before you. i want to add that we need a permanent 24/7 closure the space providing open space for neighbors and visitors creating regional benefit beyond the immediate parallel streets. we have a new 17-acre park in san francisco for people to bike, walk, play and protest. we rarely get an opportunity like this. it has great success. look at embarcadero today. we don't choose the coast. it is decided for us. we see impact of climate change every day. think about the future what we can do to improve the health of the coast. i hope we don't miss the mark. the future of the coast is -- >> thank you, caller.

your minute begins now. >> hello. michael coffman in the richmond district. problems with the closure. i will summarize. 1. closing benefits far fewer than open to traffic. weekday use will continue to decline to 2000 recreational users a day. one tenth of the 20,000 that used this road daily. >> 2. closing the great highway is more expensive. staff estimated the city would need to spend millions of dollars to counteract complications from closures. 3. staff claims it is consistent. closing the great highway makes safety worst, transit worse and more climate change than any increased vehicle used. >> thank you, caller.

>> your official begins now. >> i am a retired public schoolteacher. 66 years old injuries sustained from being run over by muni bugs while cycle -- muni bus. our free great highway is huge improvement. disasters can happen. there are two to four times each week with my wife. it is great to see freedom by people of all colors, ages, making use of this resource. people are riding bikes, scooters, roller skates and while chairs and pedestrians walking sometimes with walkers.

keep it open. >> thank you, caller. >> your minute begins now. >> resident of richmond children going to school in sunset. i urge you to reject closing the great highway to vehicles. no one has considered the emergency response plan of 2017 specifies that great highway is one of the three evacuation routes of the outer sunset and richmond. before this can be a closure you would have to cord made with the office of emergency preparedness. the department of emergency management would work with local public agencies. to close the highway only for

specified days. much like we do with other roads in the city where you could for five or six days each year announce the closure when the weather is best and a special opportunity for those who wish to ride bicycles and use the great walk kay to do so. >> thank you, caller. >> your one minute begins now. >> i am a resident of richmond district one. i want to say i appreciate supervisor chan's comments and president walton's comments regarding the need for survey databased on income and diversity and demographic backgrounds. i support 3 foreclosure. if that can't be done a concept

4 the periodic weekends or seasonal closures. i drive south to south san francisco and i have not seen the backups and jams i have seen other people talking about on this call. support concept three and thank you for making this as transparent as possible. >> thank you, caller. your one minute begins now. >> hello. i am a resident of the outer richmond. i strongly oppose the closure of great highway. it is the validity of what they collected with the traffic data. i question validity. traffic was down everywhere except on chain of lakes road. on that tiny road through the

western em of the park increase in 38% of the traffic. city-wide traffic was down dramatically. what is going to happen when people go do work daily. putting lights on mlk, the number one park in the city. more traffic through it. nobody talked about intersection of chain of lakes and jfk which is a mess. what would that look like with more cars on there. thank you for your time. >> thank you, caller. your minute begins now. >> i am steven. i am a 40 plus year resident of outer sunset. i strongly object to any adoption of pilot program now. it is premature. the data is insufficient. i echo the comments of the

president of the board of supervisors of more data needed to accommodate all people. i am in favor of concept four or two. concept four is fine. concept two might take more effort. i want to say that it seems like mr. ginsburg and tumlin have made a predetermined thought that they want it closed. therefore it will be closed. there are parks everywhere with accommodating drivers. also, they like to bring up the embarcadero. there are bike lanes and cars. why can't that happen on the great highway? >> thank you, caller. >> thank you very much for your time. >> your minute begins now. >> i am paula. i live in district four.

five blocks from the great highway. i strongly urge you to adopt the staff report. i support three opening great highway and closing to vehicle traffic. it is safer than two and four. if you squeeze everyone to two instead of four lanes there are bound to be accidents. i love walk on the great highway. it is wonderful to walk with open space and the views of the pacific ocean. it bringings joy and exercise. it reminds me every day i live in the most beautiful city in the world. i see families with kids, families with strollers and senior citizens and bicycles. it will be a major attraction. please support concept three.

>> your minute begins now. >> good afternoon, commissioners. jody and i am executive director of walk san francisco on behalf of everyone walking in the city. thank you for the staff for putting together the thoughtful study and recommendations on all of the options. i hope you take these to heart. thank you supervisor mar for closing the great highway. this has significant car free and low traffic space and the climate forward are making bold changes to prioritize people. this is an opportunity to make san francisco an international leader as progressive city. please adopt this report and put your support behind the 24/7 two year pilot so they can get started in determining and implementing traffic solutions. we can mitigate traffic and keep

this new ocean safe 17-acre park. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> your minute begins now. >> eileen. d4 resident. opposition of the great highway final report. this evaluated a very narrow set of options. at the joint meeting on june 10th. the concept presented was presented by a member of the public concept widen paths to accommodate additional bikes and pedestrians while leaving the roadway open for vehicle vehicles and non emergency traffic. this will allow a broad range of

users. i urge the board to instructed staff to evaluate this option approach rather than just their preferred options. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> your minute begins now. >> heather. we need the great highway to stay open because we don't have a car-free place for people to roller skate, bike, run in a large long open area. please support the pilot of opening up the great highway. thank you. >> thank you, caller.

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begins now? now. >> hi. i am peter parolli, a district 7 resident and one of the thousands of signatories that the highway should be opened. we have a nonscientific survey that is not representative of district 4 or of san francisco. collision data collected in the midst of a pandemic, data studies that don't include the traffic issue in [inaudible]

park. the traffic modelling shows that 19,000 additional vehicles will be dumped into district 4 every day, 5,000 additional vehicles will be running through our residential streets on our doorstep. this is contrary to vision zero, contrary to the visions of district 4, and will dump more vehicles into predominantly nonwhite districts. >> thank you, caller. hello, caller, your minute begins now. >> yes. i am a native san franciscan born and raised on 48 avenue. please open the great highway. reject this report. you're doing nothing but inviting cars into the neighborhood, causing traffic accidents and congestion. they did not properly do the study, as my mother still lives

on 48 avenue, and she never received a survey, nor have her neighbors. have you reached out to the sffd? how are they supposed to get to the many surf rescues at the beach? has the closure caused death because of delay? please open the great highway now. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> hi. i live on lower great highway. i would like to understand were transportation officials are qualified to voting infrastructure with significant regulatory requirements and associated budget considerations. what i heard reading between the lines is the folks preparing this report have not been collaborating with the

different stakeholders, full stop. that's why sharing concepts makes sense to me. separately, other than acknowledging the obvious new congestion issues, the staff acknowledged the report does not contain emergency and evacuation requirements. please, we're in a quake zone. wake up. >> thank you, caller. hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> commissioners, don mike, and i live in district 7. please open the great highway as soon as possible because this is turning into a class

issue. essential workers have been forced to suffer additional commute times because of the emergency closure of the highway. the majority of the highway who desire to have the highway continue to be closed are affluent white people who don't have to go to work while the neighborhood suffers predominantly. there are only three southern exit routes, and the [inaudible] one is the a disaster waiting to happen. the emergency closure was supposed to be temporary. it was done with no input from public or people who live there, and now you want to make it permanent. how can anyone trust you -- >> hello, caller. your minute begins now.

>> [inaudible]. >> caller,? caller? we'll come back to that. hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> hi. my name is ross. i live in the richmond, and i fully support the total closure of the great highway to cars 24-7. i commute now on the great highway on bicycle, and i can't believe we even need to have this discussion. so many people need the great highway to get to work, and if you close it, where are we going to go? i want to put one number out there to emphasize the severity

of the situation. 50 avenues. we have 50 avenues. why can't we close one to cars and make it safe? that's 2%, 2%. now i understand every avenue's different and every homeowner's different, but i've got to believe, in two years, in a pilot program, we can find a way to make 49, 48, make them work. i bike path chain of lakes, i bike path the highway, and i do have sympathy because as a biker, i see that, too. [inaudible]. >> caller?

caller? hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> hi. my name is [inaudible] and as someone who lives in district 6, i'm asking the sfcta to prioritize car free space on the great highway. this welcomes thousands of people walking, biking, and rolling every day from all sorts of sizes, physical health, and modes of transportation. our city's largest contributor of carbon emissions is transportation, and you have an opportunity to prioritize people first safe on a corridor already being impacted by rising sea levels and climate change. this will help us reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make it possible to restore ocean beach's natural

ecosystems. i'd like to see [inaudible] taken to limitation. thank you. >> thank you, caller. hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> hello. my name is jerry riva, and i'm a resident of district 3, richmond. i'm in favor of a car free great highway. as we open up our state after a global pandemic, we can't forget how important protecting mental health is and has been. completely car free spaces provide respite in an entirely unique way and are indispensable to mental health.

i'd also like to point out that the emergency service providers have had no problem accessing the surrounding area. as a city, we need to get busy addressing climate policy now. thank you. >> thank you. hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> hi. i'm michael decker, and i'm a voter in d-5 and an lgbt patient -- parent, and i'd like you to [inaudible]. >> hello, caller. your minute begins now.

>> hello? >> yes. >> my name is -- am i on? >> yes, you are. >> hello. my name is rosemary newton, and i'm a member of open the great highway. totally opposed to this pilot. i walk the great highway three to four times a week, and the number that you are using, i just cannot justify them. i was never asked to be a part of a survey, and i live in district 7. the claims of 18 to 20,000 cars being pushed into our avenues, how many people are in those cars? i mean, you're counting people. people are in the automobiles that are being rerouted, so please, we need to open the great highway. there's plenty of room for everyone: bike lane, walkway, and, you know, it sounds like

everybody's forgetting we are not closing it to people. we want it open for all. people can walk-through the walkway from lincoln to point -- >> thank you. hello, caller. your minute begins now. hello, caller. your one minute begins now.

>> hi. i'm [inaudible] a few minutes ago, i looked out my window, and i saw two to three walkers. i agree with supervisor chan. she's injecting a note of reality into this fantasy that people have that this is a good decision to completely close this highway. i have no trust in the three agencies who have been working nonstop the last 14 months to shove this down our throat. i think the most important thing to remember is the usage numbers were adopted in the third wave of the worst pandemic in 100 years. they are not applicable to the situation now. >> thank you, caller.

hello, caller. your minute begins now. caller? >> my name is jonathan roman -- >> hello, caller? hello? >> my name is jonathan roman, and i've lived in the outer sunset since before the loma prieta earthquake. make note, i do not support the full closure of the great highway, and for that matter, slow streets as a cyclist. the great highway is a major artery inside and outside the city. again, i do not support the full closure of the great

highway, and the pandemic is essentially over. open the great highway. it punishes the people in the richmond and outer sunset to use their cars for whatever reason. i support opening the great highway with the possible exception of driving to the lakes between 4:30 and 5:30. >> hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> hello? >> yes, caller. >> is this me? >> yes, it is. >> thank you. it's hard to tell on the call. so i think we should open great highway to cars. it's crazy with schools closed to try to judge the use. i think keeping is closed is easier for rich folks and harder for families with kids

and contractors who need to use their trucks for places. i live on 44 avenue, and it's more dangerous with the great highway closed, even with fewer cars on. i reject this study now. try it again in a year. open it up to cars, then evaluate the situation. thank you. >> thank you, caller. hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> my name is jean barish. i'm a richmond district resident, and i support supervisor chan's request for revising the report before it's approved. the closure recommendations are premature, and a report including them should not be okayed. closing the great highway was an emergency measure during covid skprks what we've seen is a hot mess, and commissioners

chan, mar, and melgar have expressed the public's trust in the city's decision making progress. the great highway should reopen, after which there can be a competent environmental study. until then, do not recommend any closure. thank you. >> thank you, caller. hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> hello. my name is g.b. chandler. my family and i live in district 4. i'm calling to support a full closure of the upper great highway. in many ways, san francisco is a hard place to have a family. our kids have to have limitations on where they can play and what they can touch. every day, they're confronted with very difficult social issues like homelessness,

crime, overwhelming amounts of litter. my heartaches for that, but since the closure of the great highway, no longer do we need to keep kids within reach for fear of cars racing past. we now hear the sounds of a stunning natural environment, not the revving of cars. it's a gift of my two young boys, and i hope it'll still be here for my third when he arrives in the fall. thank you. >> thank you, caller. hello, caller, your minute begins now. >> hi. my name is heidi peterson.

i'm from district 5, and i thank supervisor peskin for your statement. i've recently gone to several different jobs where i commute by bike in the sunset, and i've tried all the recommended routes. they all have more hills and unsafe drivers, so i'd like to note that. i would also like to compare the speeds of transit and pedestrian and cycling routing options before promoting further car amenities in reports like this. assuming that car traffic will resume is assuming that we're failing in the study. thank you. >> thank you, caller.

hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> hi. my name is david. i live in the richmond, zip code 94121. my voice is not included in the outreach survey. i was not airrelevant with a -- aware of it. i want a city of all beings, a city worth living in. this is a beautiful place, cleaner air, cars already rule our streets almost every where else. the oceans and the dunes will reclaim this land, and cars themselves are inequitable and

driving [inaudible] are our own destruction. >> thank you, caller. hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> hi, there. my name is -- thank you for taking my call. my name is lea chang, and i live in supervisor chan's district, and i don't drive, and i get around by transit, foot, and bicycle. having the great highway open to cars, just, like, it, like, makes more -- i can go more places by car, and as it's more safer to bike and walk, more and more people will bike and walk.

>> thank you for your comments. hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> hello. my name is [inaudible] and i've been a resident of the richmond for over 60 years. it's essential for you to visit the sites on different days and weekends, different hours. while many visitors come from outside the area, the burdens of the closures are on the richmond and sunset neighborhoods. the past year should be included in any two-year study rather than restarting the clock for an additional two years. open the great highway. thank you. >> thank you, caller. hello, caller. your minute begins now.

>> hello. my name is [inaudible] and i live in district 2, and i'm calling to support a completely freeway great highway. myself, my son, my partner, and my senior aged mother have all used this space and enjoyed it and its safety. we do not need years of study in order to make this visionary concept a reality. we need our leaders to lead, much like paris, where [inaudible] are turning into walking streets, we just need to do it. please keep the great highway open to all, not just those in personal vehicles. thank you very much. >> thank you, caller. i'm checking the calls right now, and it looks like we have about 20 more callers at this time, so let me move onto the

next. hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is parker day, i'm a resident of san francisco and [inaudible] because i deeply care about the great highway park, i want to [inaudible] great highway promenade. san francisco's number one source of greenhouse gas emissions are cars. for the great highway promenade to meet its full potential, cars need to be removed from it, as they are right now. no one wants to read a book, relax, or let their kids play next to cars going 50 miles per

hour. the great highway has full potential, and this is a huge opportunity. it could be even better than it is today, but returning the space to the cars will hurt or mission of combatting climate change. thank you. >> thank you, caller. hello, caller. your minute begins now. >> hello? are you there? >> yes, caller. >> my name is sam, and i'm a resident of the outer sunset. i'm 81 years old. i can't ride a bike. i'm too old, so please don't take away the great highway to cars. i hear people saying that doing that is going to be good for the environment, but how can it be good for the environment when cars are now racing past my house in the outer sunset and the chain of lakes drive is

like a parking lot? those 18,000 cars don't stop driving because you've shutdown the road, they just go somewhere else. so it's the -- having the golden gate park jammed with cars, how does that help us? i don't understand. there's lots of places for recreation around ocean beach already. that's why i live here. i love it here. but when you close down the great highway, you're turning life to crap out here. you're shutting down the city for people who can't get around here out more. i really -- >> thank you, caller. hello, caller, your minute begins now. >> thank you. i am a -- i'm sheela stewart. i'm a resident of the inner richmond. i urge you to reopen the