that is why most of the people in amsterdam go by bike.if your interested in funny and nice invidious, go to youtube. but you will see a lot of videos in which the bicycle and the car cooperate. these are some pictures and examples of how the public authorities can invest in cycling. this is a parking space for a cyclist. tend thousand bicycles can be stored there. -- 10,000 bicycles can be stored there. you can build a shelter for about 30,000 bicycles. now, what can employees do? many employees are working on the bicycle programs. this picture is a picture of a bicycle shelter at the company where my wife works. it is quite luxurious. that it is a lawyer's firm, 500 lawyers work there, and most of them, by bicycle. -- and most of them come by bicycle. many companies give their employees their bicycle with their name on that. it is a form of advertisement. many companies, the company where i work for, the chamber of commerce, they have bicycle and scooter sharing for the people to come by public transport. they can take a bicycle or a sco

. >> with the chairman of the society of amsterdam, they are also supporting this approach. they realize if they just press on the car accessibility only, in the end there will be no excess ability at all. they support strongly that only the people who need to come by car, they should be able to come, and the rest should make other choices. >> i think we are more or less at the stage where we are facing the same discussion. our experience is that a platform of business is much more open to try to find solutions which are not car- related, except for here and there. also, for the population, it is hard. they have in mind, if you are better off to have a car, and have the car in front of your door. it is still a long way to go for us. the mobility plans that local authorities are now obliged to develop, and the hearings that are organized because of that, are almost always concerning parking places. we have now a program where we are having one less car parking space. in the streets, you see, there is one car less because now bicycles can ride their bikes, but the comments are

>> two weeks ago, a new york, it was 400 years ago that new amsterdam was found at -- was founded. they convinced the general director of the new york port authority to put into action a bike accessibility plan, a bike plan for the more than 200,000 employees of the new york port authority. so they convinced these men that it would be a benefit to invest in bike accessibility. the thing is, i don't know, maybe you could put out an opportunity to meet them. we are mainly preaching for people who like our message, but i hardly meet people -- the opposition. i don't know, maybe there are some people who are against too much like accessibility in the room here, but up until now, we have not met them. >> back in my town, i meet them very often. one of the most, one of the best arguments concerns air quality and the problem of noise. also, the numbers of young families not wanting to have their kids growing up in town and moving out. they're really looking at what arguments can you put forward to say we cannot continue the way that things are going. >> think in copenhagen, the status of

so the bike is the grease in the amsterdam economy. you have to build less highways, you have to build less parking garage. you put the bike -- use very little space. where you have to build parking garage, they're very expensive. there are recent surveys that companies pay up to 30,000 euros, that's $50,000 per year per person to have them traffic by car to work, where as a bike costs only 250 euros so there are large benefits at stake. also, there is lots of surveys that show that people who live in towns where there is more cycling, people like to live there better than in towns where there is less cycling. there are an overwhelming lot of advantages on cycling and i'm going to put some -- and then this is what oakland should do as few of them -- recommendations that are put together oakland also could be used for san francisco. one thing is, if you want to have these advantages, for instance, if you're scared about all the money that goes to building highways, well, you can only reduce the number of highways that are to be built if

for instance in amsterdam, they build 30,000 cycle places. i believe they will be filled from day one on because there is an enormous lot of people who cycle in the netherlands. and yesterday people asked me, tell me a little bit more, what are the benefits? and the benefits are in two directions. one of them that you can't tell in money, but it's about life. it's all the things we care about. it's about when i was in oakland, i asked some kids, do you like cycling? oh, yes, we like cycling. when you ask people around do you like cycling, people like cycling. so it's about quality of life. it's about freedom, it's about convenience, and it's about health. it's about feeling good, living real, being there. but there are also benefits that you can put down, some pitches of -- pictures of, about amsterdam cycling. this is one of my favorite. someone picking up a bunch of flowers with a child on the back seat and this is what we call normal bikes in the netherlands which people use in everyday biking. but also people in formal suits just because

, and he and i got on a plane-- and i had never been on a plane-- and went to amsterdam, and the record execs took us out and bought us drugs, and it was like-- it was the most amazing thing that ever happened to me. i was thrilled that i was in the record business, and i was, you know, important, getting flown around, and i think that's when i was the most successful, 'cause that was an amazing transformation, just being able to travel and be part of a culture and actually be part of it growing within an industry. in some ways, your breakthrough came when you began to work with your brother and a friend, and run dmc came about. run dmc was-- i mean, run was waiting for an opportunity forever, and he and his buddy d.m.c. made these songs, and they were so honest. rap was going on a little bit of a tangent. there was some success in the rock clubs. that's where the only crossover existed. no mainstream. and so they were starting to assimilate to the rock stars, or they wanted to get out of the ghetto so bad that they were willing to trade some of their souls, you know, and their attitude

delft is about an hour south of amsterdam. and it's so carefully preservedn since 1246, that it looks like a medieval stage backdrop. canals, of course, and narrow alleyways and bridges. there's been royal intrigue in sweet-looking delft. wli oorge was assassinated here, and the bullet holes still mark his residence. d ai in establishing dutch independencees from spanish rule,idence. and his enemies hoped his death would reestablish spain's dominance. it was not to be. holland emerged from the struggle a world power. its power grewroitiniol and delft pottery, the town's claim to fame, carries some of that history with it today. dutch merchants roamed the world and brought back ideas and goods from all parts of the globe. traditional dutch pottery soon reflected these influences. won: isla cin, we see the 4 main techniques that were produced here. on the top we have the delft blue. in the middle, we have the polychrome, bad eopjoca omheediterranean area. down on the left, we have the pijnacker, based on the japanese imari porce

new york, boston, london, paris, amsterdam, all have fewer fatalities per capita than we do. two years ago, we spent $3.5 million per pedestrian fatality on traffic fatalities. what i would like to ask staff to do is conduct a study that has two purposes. first, to identify city agencies and departments working on pedestrian safety issues. two, let us know what teams are tasked with try to solve pedestrian issues, what are the working on, what are the outcomes, and what are the time lines for those projects? secondly, assistance in identifying funding sources. for current projects as well as future projects. what our potential revenue sources that will help fund this work? i look forward to working with the staff on this. commissioner campos: if i may, what level of involvement, if any, do you expect from the municipal transportation agency? commissioner chiu: i hope as much to get these answers done. commissioner campos: thank you. commissioner avalos? commissioner avalos: thank you. i would like to call for a hearing on the extension of the 14 mission bus to daly city bart.

. >> this incredible person, he entertained and set a tone in amsterdam. >> the nazis invaded, he lefthe art stayed. >> jewelry in the back and money and passports and they were on their way. they were on their way to one of the last boats out. >> on the boat, he fell through an uncovered hatch and was killed but his wife was able to row cover a book that showed every painting in the collection. after the war, allies returned paintings to holland, the widow tried to get them back but was rejected by the dutch government. 50 years later, his heirs resumed the request for the art. >> they were hanging in 17 museums. >> after years of legal batt his daughter-in-law reclaimed 200 works but nearly 1200 are still missing. search goes on worldwide. sometimes owners get it back but other times it winds up in court. >> while this is a success story about restitution, there are estimates that are hundred thousand pieces of nazi looted art out there still waiting to be recovered. >> this is why they wanted to share their story. >>> i'm kristen sze, thanks so much for joining us. much for joining

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i mean, like amsterdam is plat as a pancake we would say. brussels does have some, well, ups and downs. an important issue politically is that we have -- we are, in fact, giving big gross national product to the country, 20%, although we're only 10% of the population, but yet most workforce is coming from abroad, from flounders, from outs. so they are coming in at 9:00 in the morning and the workers are again leaving to the north or the south of the country in the evening and we have ourselves a population with also considerable amount of people who live in poverty. there is about 20% of unemployment. we do have for 20 years now our own regional parliament and government and i'm very proud of that because i really think that we have been able as politicians to put brussels solution on the brussels scale thanks to that legislative power we have. you see we have been quite ambitious. we voted already in 1997 a resolution in the parliament saying 10% of all mechanical transport should all be by bike. we also held a summit on road safety and, th

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