need and the express buses when they have finished their stops and start to go downtown can go into brt lane. the problem with left-hand turn lane they are talking about stopping half of them in the richmond and that means those they have left will increase issues of pedestrian injury. they need to also think about coordinating the call buttons for the walk lights with the pressure plate for the left-hand turn so when somebody pushes a button it stops left-hand turns. if they don't have a push button, the left-hand turn has a priority and it's like every other light at their turns. i believe they have to go back and reengineer this so that we push the most amount of traffic in the commute direction. it not the off hour traffic where you need that second lane. and what we are talking about is cutting the cost down and maintaining the number of stops for seniors and people with mobility problems. beyond that, when we had two street car lanes on geary up until about the 1950s, they were discontinued because of issues of safety. i had a great aunt who broke a hip getting off one 1 of those stree

pulling the buss out of the right hand lane and we think this alternative provides transit ride benefits to the most transit riders including the local riders and the brt riders. finally this preserves parking. on street parking is one of the concerns we heard from the community. this alternative preserves most of that parking because we don't need to provide a bus passing lane that would have been needed otherwise to allow for the brt buses to pass the local buses because they are all stopping at every stop in the richmond area. so that's one of the things that we think responds to the community input that we have heard in this ace. so looking at the corridor as a whole that's what the recommendation is for side lanes from the downtown area from the east through fillmore and masonic sections and coming into center for the richmond area before going back out to the side an then as we get passed 33rd avenue we don't see the need for bus lanes even though the buses will continue to go all the way to 48th avenue. taking a look at the cost and funding. our cost estimate for the projects are between $225 million and $260 million. $240 million is the mid-poi

and with the right side loading and consolidated local and brt stops in that area up until 27th avenue and out to the side, for a side bus lanes until 33rd avenue and then the mixed flow and so that is the configuration and staff recommended that we are presenting to the public at this point. we would like to release this in the summer of 2014, and in the fall, we would like to bring in an item to the transportation authority board to select and endorse this alternative and then include it in the final environmental document at the end of 2014. so this is not the last opportunity to comment on this alternative but this is the first opportunity that we would like to take to share with the public. with that i will conclude and i just note that we are having some out reach just had a meeting and last week we had a meeting at the library and the 5:30 to 7:30 and continuing to make the presentations to the other stake holder groups and we also have a meet thating we are planning in the japan town area for 2014 that we will >>> it's a light rail. the public utilities commission stated that the only way to relive the congestion is a