alan jacobs talked about san francisco's mean streak. ben grant's article, i think it's great. i didn't give you the "dead trees" thing. but i think you should read it. the other part is how the buildings meet the streets. you can have lovely streetscaping and landscaping and fancily materials and so on but if the buildings are really harsh and hostile and cold, you're not going have a great street. i think the two ordinances together one that was recommended by the commission in play, that was really looking at districts with the mixed uses. this one was aimed at residential to compliment the work on the street. if you look at all the examples that were shown, think about what those houses looked before. has a garage tucked under one side and then the steps. virtually every one of those houses, i'd like to get the before picture, had steps coming down to the street. tucking the garage under the housekeeping that front step would have been much more in character with the neighborhood than the solution that's proposed. i don't love any of thasm and i don't thip it's actually ver

>>reporter: jacob alan roberts is head of a delegation from ithaca currently visiting sweden to see how they might implement their own system. he believes prt could provide the kind of super convenient public transport to get americans out of their cars. >>roberts: the triple a just did a study that said on average the cost of owning an automobile is 8-10,000 per year regardless of the model, regardless of the socio-economic status of the owner so i think a lot if public transportation becomes a viable resource in america which it used to be a hundred years ago i think more and more people will be happy to put their car in the garage or become part of car share for those times when they do want to take a drive in the countryside or need a van to go pick up hard ware or something like that. there's a use for those kinds of services. but for the 90% oftrips to just get to and from you're basic every day, you know, routine, public transit works really, really well. >>reporter: once things are up and running, prt's supporters hope that it will demonstrate to the world that podcars are not o

>>reporter: jacob alan roberts is head of a delegation from ithaca currently visiting sweden to see how they might implement their own system. he believes prt could provide the kind of super convenient public transport to get americans out of their cars. >>roberts: the triple a just did a study that said on average the cost of owning an automobile is 8-10,000 per year regardless of the model, regardless of the socio-economic status of the owner so i think a lot if public transportation becomes a viable resource in america which it used to be a hundred years ago i think more and more people will be happy to put their car in the garage or become part of car share for those times when they do want to take a drive in the countryside or need a van to go pick up hard ware or something like that. there's a use for those kinds of services. but for the 90% oftrips to just get to and from you're basic every day, you know, routine, public transit works really, really well. >>reporter: once things are up and running, prt's supporters hope that it will demonstrate to the world that podcars are not o