bicycle council. it was a group of people, experts from all sorts of organizations, both governmental and nongovernmental, and they put together the forces to implement more information, more things to do, improve bicycle facilities and bicycle policies and the bicycle council is not working for 10 years. we celebrate our 10-year anniversary next month. and what will come up next, we don't know but we're still not at the bike use level of the 1950's, so also we can improve. and in the netherlands, i also have to explain the benefits of cycling. sustainability, accessibility, health, livability and economics. and what do i tell about it? well, for sustainability, cycling is emission-free, uses hardly any oil, only to produce the bike and to have your chain go well. it reduces the global footprint for the person. we all have our global foot print, what we use from this earth, and the footprint of the country and it alleviates global warming. what can be more sustaining except for walk something accessab

we have more -- to bicycle ownership. we have more bicycles than people. so you can imagine how many bikes there are. you can find them on every street, every street corner. denmark is very good. second. and then you see it all the way down to spain. oops, now i see a mistake in my slide. uh, where -- if you compare the netherlands with other cities, we have 27% bike share. so this is the use. we own many bikes but we use them a lot as well. we use -- 27% of our trims are made by bicycle, average in the netherlands. denmark, 18%, germany, 10%. and in the u.s., average in your country is 1%. the latest figures i've got. and as i've told you it's the average, 27%. but if you have a closer look and you look at short-distance trips then it's 34% on the bike and 15% of trims up to 10 miles we also use the bicycle. still a great share. and we have two cities that are top of our bike use. the city of gronig and the city of shola. over 50 october of of all trips daily made by bike. and for regional use of the bicycle. got some figures compared to a car. then you c

we also have great public transit to accommodate bicycles. we also have great routes to get us around the hills. as we showed our dutch friends, most of us know how to get around those hills. the weather is another major difference. this one we have going in our favor. they do not slow down with the snow. with howard gorges temperate climate, we are several steps ahead of the netherlands and where we can go when bicycling. what i learned most of all is what i think many of us already know. when you build it, they come. when the government has done, what the community has done is invested in great bikeways. when you create a dedicated to save space, this man and his kids ride. this woman and her dog variety. this man and his daughters ride. this man and his daughter ride. there is one on the back, you can barely see her foot sticking out. it was difficult to not get photos of multiple children on bikes. three people with kids loaded on the bikes. grandparents picking their kids up from school, their grand kids from school. this is a typical tr

i am the executive director of the san francisco bicycle coalition. we're thrilled to be cosponsoring this event. for your support, enthusiasm, commitment, bringing fantastic talents. we will work hard in the next few days. huge thanks to the political family at the support. this would be an exercise in vision and dreaming. if it weren't for the fact that myself and so many others have the faith that we will actually produce results in the next few days, this will not just be draining envisioning. we will take many, maybe all of your ideas and to move forward. because we have such tremendous political support. i want to recognize and the mayor in the last 67 months of working with him, i can't tell you the difference. we're thrilled to have such a partner. i want to thank you for the support and enthusiasm. i want to thank you from the police department, the port, and we really have the commitment we needed to move forward. that is why i am very optimistic. i want to say thank you to the teams that put this together. big thanks for jennifer with the d

-- a bicycle room for storage. it does not extend the short- term visitors or messengers who will enter temporarily for a couple of minutes or an hour or so in the building. it is for the tenants and people who work in the building who would have access based on their relationship in the building. this legislation has also been supported by the building owners and management association. we felt it critical to consult with them as the people who are most understanding of how the bike access issues will be carried out. especially in the commercial real estate sector. it has the support of the san francisco bike coalition as well. i want to thank the by coalition for working together to make this ordinance a reality. i want to thank also my legislative aide for her work on this as well. i cannot talk about this legislation without mentioning one of the persons who brought the idea of for me. that was jeremy pollacuck. i hope to have your support and thank you for your consideration. rote thank you. i want to thank yo

businesses could take bicycles overnight, for their employees to bicycle back and forth. that would be kind of an enforcement issue, but that is another option that does exist. those companies -- scott sanchez: like a car-share program? commissioner borden: they make available these bicycles. the company pays for it or their employee does. they can take the bicycle overnight from the hotel to their home and bring it back for their work shift. just so you know, that does exist. i do not know how you can force that. i do not know if it makes it more complicated. president fong: any other general overall comments? commissioner miguel: i was going to make a motion. i would move the department recommendations with two specific comments. one on the schenic sp -- scenic special sign district, that time and enforcemetnt be covered. and maybe refer to political science for consistency. the other -- i quote from your summary. in the scientific natural life -- the sign's natural life, i think that is such a nebulous phrase that i do not know how you would deal with it. i do not know

it really is rich with bicycle rental opportunities, and the bicycle lanes are pretty crummy. making this better for all of those that come to visit cannot help but rain slowed-moving hungry traffic with dollars in their pockets going past these businesses. we think this will pay for itself very quickly. we support this. we look forward to helping bring it forward. thank you. >>president woo ho: any of the public comment? commissioners? >> i think it is fantastic. i am very excited i have a question, as you were talking about the lost revenue and ways it might be made up, would we then not be charging additional rent for restaurants or others that have kept pace on the expanded sidewalk? this would be additional space if there were to have a sidewalk cafe or something along those lines? >> yes. i believe they have a lease for the restaurant itself and there is a license to use the space in front of the building. there is a percentage of rent as part of the business as a whole. if that business increases, that happens. several other restaurants have a license for the space, and

bring it back to the bicycle rental company. which is frustrating. it is probably the densest bicycle rental market per square foot in the western hemisphere. more are being rented -- rented there that i know of. by itself, it is an enormous economic engine as a tourism industry aspect. based on that area of the business, this is an important investment. it will be important for the america's cup, important for all sorts of reasons that we move people through their. i totally agree with all the points on equity. we have streets that are in bad condition that need investment. on behalf of a coalition, i have been persuaded by the economic multiplier argument. we like to thank, and we believe that it is true, that bicycle business is going to be a giant piece of that economic multiplier. we hope that you will support this, and we look forward to having visitors and locals in joining a better jefferson street. -- and joining -- in joining -- enjoying a better jefferson street. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker, please. >> ♪ i

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i have a question, what's the difference between a cycle track and bicycle lane? >> we're using terms, there's no federal guidance on this. a bicycle lane is a lane that's striped on the side of the street, that's usually adjacent to the curb or adjacent to a parking lane. what we're calling cycle tracks, they're protected bicycle lanes that have the safety posts. these are more permanent designs where there would be either a little bit elevated off the road or just below the level of the sidewalk, traditionally used in copenhagen and amsterdam and european and asian cities, as well, where they have the facilities where you are literally separated from the streets. in the u.s., they're called cycle tracks. i think it's the term of art being used right now. commissioner borden: i guess it's surprising how costly it is to do -- out of curiosity, $53 million to do folsom and howard. it seems like a lot of money. what takes up so much of the cost, i just wonder. >> concrete, asphalt. >> it's sewage. >> it's utilities. >> a lot of it is utility relocation and storm wat

we talked about bicycle thefts and burglaries. campbell playground is another issue and the issues there with the homeless -- homeless population in members that frequent the clinic close by. we have a mix of student population there from the high school and the school that is right there and lunchtime crowd. it is a mix that our officers received an e-mail today and responded for a large group of people. that is something that we're going to focus on and to make that area safer for the residents who go there, as well as the students that have launched their. we talked about the mcdonald situation, and target enforcement. any of our target enforcement, whether it is a decoy operation for a pedestrian officer coming in across rock -- crosswalk or other issues we're dealing with, it is all meant to get people to comply with traffic laws, and criminal activity that needs to be taken elsewhere. it is not just moving it around the city, is just that if we can get them out of san francisco, the more, the better. going back to traffic sa

are you carving out the two parking spaces which take 10 bicycles to add that to the f.a.r. calculations? i am in support of not doing that. i was wondering why the planning department wants to take on any additional enforcement actions, to figure out whether they are there or not. you enforce the bike parking regulations, but it is checked by sfmta, correct? scott sanchez: the enforcement process currently allows $50 a day to the office of the summit administrator. we recommend it changing to section 176, which allows up to $250 a day. at the time the parking legislation was introduced, we did not have as robust a parking system as we do now. commissioner moore: if that is what you want to do, and obviously supporting it. the one item i have a little problem with -- i support every other way of increasing and supporting bicycle ratio. this is partially because people who come to the city, in 99% of the cases, they rent the bicycles. most people, and i happen to be living near some of the larger hotels in the city, people come by car and do not care about bicycles. what are

if i have nine burglaries, six of them are bicycle related. that is a high number and something that we are trying to address. >> just in general, with crimes in general with the city, the general trend is down. we have slight upticks and downticks from time to time, but crime on the whole is decreased. while the crime in the park district is one of the lowest compared to all the districts. >> thank you. neighborhood court. we have been reading about it, hearing about it. what kinds of cases have been heard in the park district? who is hearing the cases? i know we have an assistant d.a. -- >> we just got him. he spent four days there and now he is on vacation for two weeks. i let him know that we were having the meeting and he wished he could have come. with regards to that, it is very low usage. we are seeking to increase that. when officers have a citation or report for an infraction or misdemeanor crime, like graffiti, not rising to the level of felony, and they can put the original citation in a box for the district attorney. the assistant

it could not matter more to someone on a bicycle. the numbers of people boking in san francisco -- the numbers of people biking in san francisco are skyrocketing. that is good for our environment, public health, and quality of life. it is also good for our local economy. more people biking and walking means more people visiting our commercial corridors, shopping, eating, in the local economy. that is for all the neighborhoods in our city. there is a great new study by -- i have to get the name right and give them credit. the political economy research institute in baltimore. the new study shows infrastructure projects around biking and pedestrian projects create more jobs than traditional road projects. on average, the projects create 11 to 14 jobs per $1 million spent. traditional road infrastructure projects create on average seven jobs per $1 million spent. we are really proud of that. we want to make sure we're pumping more money into our local economy with more jobs, more people biking, and frequenting our commercial corridors.

of the court injunction against the bicycle plan. following this board's policy action, we will work with bart, caltrain, mta, and dph, with input from the bicycle committee to ensure a steady stream of projects ready to be implemented. we prioritize funds for by product planning and design. among those, the open field bikeways, cesar java's, masonic avenue, and market street. we revisited and approve the five-year prioritization program for the bicycle project, in addition to the one for traffic signals. on the next page, we've also have a record of projects funded using the transportation fund for clean air, which is the funding source that comes from the bay area air quality management district. in 2011, we program over $1 million in funds to pedestrian and commuter benefits, right batching, electric charging stations, and emergency ride home, and other projects and programs that helps to clean the air by giving people alternative to driving. those bonds leveraged four times their weight in other funds. we managed a total investme

urban bicycling is fast becoming a trendy mode of transportation. for men in suits and fashionable women. wait, can she do it? yes. even in heels. d.c. is becoming what advocates call a multi-- >> whether people choose to use the car or ride a bicycle or walk on their own two feet, our goal is more livable cities. >> reporter: cycle track like this 1.5-mile stretch on 15th street northwest are being constructed at a relatively low cost in the district slowing traffic to safer speeds and getting people to ride a bike. >> studies have shown the advent, the creation, the implementation of bicycling really draws people who normally wouldn't cycle in an urban environment to get on a bike and ride. >> reporter: the u.s. bike craze became quite political in the 1890s giving women a new found sense of independence. and now it seems to be facing somewhat of a yummy reputation here in --upy reputation here -- yuppy reputation here in d.c. but some of our european residents beg to differ. >> i'm originally from scandinavia from denmark where the most popular m

if i ever get to amsterdam, i'm not going to rent a bicycle.fish one out of the canal. >> dove in auto your own, fish around for probably about 10 seconds the. >> and then you would go to the hospital for metal poisoning. >> we've seen all the little kids pull and wisdom teeth removal. >> i'm about to get my wisdom teeth out. >> no, you already got them out. >> and her husband is taping her just as she had her wisdom teeth pulled. >> no way. >> she is obviously a little loopy because of the influence of the gas. >> were you wearing a hat? >> yeah. >> where did it go? >> i don't know. >> you can see the wheels turning, but i don't think they're turning very fast. >> i am so -- i don't believe you guys. >> she's watching. >> are you going to take them out now? >> they're done. do you want me to get them for you? >> so the nurse offers her to bring them back the teeth so she can verify that they, in fact, pulled her teeth. so when the nurse leaves -- >> how do they have to take them out? >> don't let them charge us. >> what she doesn't remember is

we ran 70 then sanchez i'll most it taken off from bicycles all the time. >>> i am more careful of bicycles losing around them of cars. >>> was upset and devastated. >>> in the thornton of the san francisco bicycle coalition said the group's 50 workshops held to avoid accidents like today's. the work closely with police on bicycles safe writing rules. >>> and early with pedestrians will have to obey the rules of the road. >>> in the coal that collisions new bulletin the best chance right away is the first of several walls listed. it's not hard to find ways bicyclist breaking the rules along the embarcadero last summer the 23 year-old kid and killed the 68 year-old woman in the crosswalk. he ignored the red light. >>> there's some people criticize bicyclist in particular saying they had the sense of entitlement to the city. there are a lot of opinions about various groups of the people. i can't speak for all bicyclist. >>> but i wouldn't think that that is so. degrees below this neighborhood say this intersection that castro and market is particularly treacherous. they're hoping today's acci

i will get taken out from bicycles all the time and more careful of bicycles was the around the corner them i was upset and devastated in the garden of the san francisco bicycle coalition says the group's safety workshops held to avoid accidents like today's. to equate the work closely with police on bicycles safe writing rules. and dealing with pedestrians and vehicles and bicyclist everybody just has to remember they all have to obey the rules of the road. in the coalition's new bullets and pedestrians right away is the first of several rules listed. >>> still is not hard to find bicyclist breaking the rules along the embarcadero last summer 22 year-old randolph had hit and killed a 68 year-old woman in the crosswalk. he ignored the red lights. >>> there's some dibble criticized bicyclist in particular saying they have this sense of entitlement. did wasting their lot of opinions of various groups of people. i can speak for all bicyclist. i wouldn't about that. >>> so people in this neighborhood say that this is sent to the marketing castro is so treacherous they're hoping today's acc