. >> thank you, miss galani. directors, do i have questions for mr. smith? oh, do we have another public comment? oh, i'm sorry. i thought that was our only one. >> i'm not here for myself on this item, actually, 'cause i live nowhere lower great highway, but i'm here for a friend that thought this was going to be at, like, 2:00 or something, and had to leave. i'm a dad of two young children, and i live on 40th avenue. i'm here to speak on behalf of the 240 folks on the west side, best side. it is difficult to say that we are in support of the significantly watered down of the pedestrian safety improvement. of course we support these, but they do not go far enough. so what's the problem here? the completely hysterical resistance to parking removal led by a couple of neighbors. [inaudible] >> what's the issue here? several times we've ask the sfmta to provide us how much parks was available at the any time of day. i never got any answers so i did my own surveys. last night, i went on the highway and counted how many actual spaces it represented. around 10:00