. >> harold friendly, matt blaxena. >> this shouldn't be a contentious issue. we are all concerned about safety. we know that we have created spaces of danger. we need to protect people from danger. children from the school, people riding bicycles, anything reducing car use is going to help us. anything that cars out of space of safety from the danger we created is going to help us in the mission of the city. we really need to do more about not creating the danger in the first place, and doing the right human decent thing and keeping people safe. there is a lot of concern about children in the school. it is reducing car use to keep the children safer. the more people safely using bicycles on valencia the safer the children will be. the board is move anything the right direction that way. really what the board has been doing is creating the places of danger in the first place so we don't spend resources and time creating spaces of danger then trying to carve out spaces of safety. making the argument over safety. we should make good chases from the start. you are