. >> good afternoon again, andy thornley with the san francisco bicycle coalition. very pleased to see this come to you. the coalition is very supportive of this. as you heard, this is the latest in a long-running conversation about reconciling our practice of ceqa with our city's wonderful adopted policies, and let's stop confounding those policies with a crazy practice of ceqa. we decided as a city quite a long time ago that we didn't want to use l.o.s. and ceqa. you saw that transportation authority in 2003 initiate an s.a.r. a couple of years ago later the board of supervisors unanimously resolved to ask the planning commission to stop using l.o.s. in its practice of ceqa. so that has been decided. it's taken a long time to figure out how to get out from under ceqa and it looks like this is at last going to be the way. when next fall we, if all goes well, we bring an ordinance to the board of supervisors and adopt it, it will have been 10 years. so it's kinds of nice that this item follows the california high speed rail item. makes it seem like this is moving ve