. >> jeff hoj. >> my name is kate hoj and i am the director of the san francisco coalition and i want to congratulate the staff for the hard work of developing the strategy. i am here today to urge you to direct agency staff to pursue the build out scenario from the strategy. i think that we are in a unique moment right now in san francisco, it is more popular, and our neighborhood haves 15 percent of people just commuting just by bike, this is great news for san francisco and studies have shown that it reduces overcrowding on transit and saves the city money and improves the economy and these are benefits that we must extend to the full diversety over the coming years, the good news is that opening up the bicycling the cheapest ways. and but not free. the mayor of london as you may have heard is investing $1.5 billion, over the next ten year. >> in san francisco we are asking you not for $1.5, but we are asking for funding for the bicycle far beyond what you are spending at 0.46 percent of your budget, this is a shockingly low number. >> choosing to invest in bicycling is not a new s