we can be a great bicycling city. we look forward to your help. i want to invite everyone here, please come and invite friends to tomorrow night's closing ceremony. as hille mentioned, we're now going to lock these good folks in a room for two days to help us come up with exciting and doable, that's important, implementable plans for mid market street, for polk street and the wiggle route through the lower haight. they'll be coming back miraculously tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. to share their design ideas with all of us. this is open to the public. 6:00 p.m. tomorrow night at the war memorial building in the green room just across the street, across van ness avenue. please come, and you will learn what the dutch experts and what our local experts and stakeholders think we need to make san francisco a truly great bicycling city, which i am sure we can do. thank you so much for coming today. we appreciate your enthusiasm and hope to see you tomorrow night. [applause] [older man speaking foreign language] richie! richie! [speaking foreign language] yo

bicycling. this is another great sign that our parks want to draw people to the city's. ride bicycles. california academy of sciences wanted to visitors to come by bike. restaurants, cafes, and never did see the value in drawing more people, whether it is locals or tourists writing by bike to come out to the neighborhoods. it will be number one in the nation soon on that. we're on our day. the launch of park wide is a sign of that, one more commitment. it is a commitment responding to a demand. we know more and more people want great biking conditions. as the mere mention, it has been nearly as 60% increase the people biking in the last 40 years, and that is growing. i would love to see the day where you see the front of the academy of sciences filled with by cracks in the front and filled with tiny bikes, so that -- filled bike racks in the front. so people are coming to learn about the importance of sustainability and the importance of our future fabric of our planning. but actually, riding the ride, walking the walk as well. kids see how they can integrate sustainability and environ

it would make me feel more comfortable bicycling in the city. i always they want to bicycle more, but it is difficult to start. i also have a bike. but as an environmental fights later, it is a great idea. it will help with reducing traffic. it will increase at people going outside and enjoying the park in general. also, i feel like the parking issue is a little bit trivial. the whole point is to reduce people from using their cars in the first place. it is great ee

it would make me feel more comfortable bicycling in the city. i always they want to bicycle more, but it is difficult to start. i also have a bike. but as an environmental fights later, it is a great idea. it will help with reducing traffic. it will increase at people going outside and enjoying the park in general. also, i feel like the parking issue is a little bit trivial. the whole point is to reduce people from using their cars in the first place. it is great to keep as many spaces as possible because everyone still drive their cars. i feel like it is not as important when the purpose is to get people on the bike, like do not worry about the spot because it will work itself out one way an

a dedicated bicycle lanes to become the friendliest bicycle city in the country. >>if you do not shovel away the snow on your sidewalk this winter you may get a ticket alderman tom tunney is proposing that crackdown he said the streets and sanitation workers have blackberry's which can easily record violations and trace the property owners he also said that people would get at least one morning before they receive a ticket >>the results are and chicago has picked up this year is a daley plaza christmas tree is the 55 ft. koro spruce that resides in the spangler family front yard in western springs @wthe spangler street lost in the final round of voting last year but beat out finalists from northlake and glenview this year by 700 votes the spurs will be put up at daley plaza friday november 4th and the spangler family will take part in the tree lighting ceremony that is scheduled for wednesday the 23rd of november >>next we will introduce you to an academic rock star who is also our teacher of the month and later in the medical watch the hormonal imbalance that cou

he is 100% supportive of increasing the bicycle use in this city. been focused on the development of places like central market, which is one of the focus areas of this workshop. without further ado, i'm happy to welcome up to the mike our mayor, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you, ed. morning, everyone! welcome here to city hall in san francisco. delighted to join this wonderful opportunity here and council general, thank you very much for bringing a wonderful team from netherlands to help engage us even better and to excite not only us who work here at city hall but our traffic engineers, our bicycle coalition, our educators and all of the bay area guests. we have guests from even san rafael council here as well to share in this experience. as ed mentioned, i am a very big enthusiast but i want to be more than just a cheerleader for this. leah knows this as well. i know that there will be times where we have to challenge ourselveses to go a little further because there are great secrets that we don't know today that will be unleashed. and one o

transit-first policy in the city's action goals. increasing bicycling with an increase in protected bike lanes would further the city's goal of cleaner air, more people taking public transit or other alternative modes of transportation. we have seen a lot of other cities around the country that have been increasing their biking infrastructure. and we have also seen it that bicycling is not only good for the environment and for help, but is actually good for business. i believe you have seen the letter of support that the mayor submitted. he points out a couple of examples where we have seen increased activity in the areas where we have calmed traffic and installed new bike lanes. we put in a parklet on divisadero that didn't -- that removed two parking spaces. we day and evening activity, by 37%. on in valencia street, where we have put in a number of new bike lanes, 65% of the merchants have said they had a positive impact on their business. we do expect that there will be an increase in activity in the park as a result of the bike lanes. i have been w

growing number of bicycle riders in the city. basic bicycle riding to navigating through traffic. another event is planned for next month that will give away 1,000 pairs of bicycle lights to keep bicyclists safe at night. big change in the weather and here's rosemary with what's ahead. >> i'm sure you felt it. here's 10, 15 even 20 degrees cooler. satellite view gives you an idea of what's going on. we've been watching this system just over southern california now continue to push east. that's brought us high clouds and low clouds. this dip you see here, that is bringing us a cooler weather. on shore breeze. and eventually will help lead to fire danger. partly cloudy cooler for today. tomorrow this system is going to be moving off to the east. that will continue our cool down and going to become breezy over the hills. as this is replaced by high pressure, become north easterly. tuesday night or wednesday night high fire danger. gusty off shore winds. humidity levels low at some point. north and east bay hills. definitely going to get the gusty conditions tuesday night through wedn

number of trips made by different transport options in the city -- we have a 60% mode for auto, 20% for transit and walking, and 5% for bicycling. that is actually pretty good for the united states, but compared to our six dozen best practice cities, it is nowhere near where it could go to be more sustainable. our goal is to bring the cars down to 30%, bring transit up to 30%, and bring in walking and bicycling to 40%. that is more in line with cities abroad in europe that are the same size as us geographically and density whys. they have met these goals. it is not out of left field. it is doable. but it takes a concerted policy changes to make this happen. what is our role within the transportation system? again, we tend to be labeled as muni, with a focus on transit. you can see these other modes that really need attention to make a complete transportation network work. some corridors work better with public transit. some work as bicycle corridors. some will never use -- will never work unless we get land use tools correct. transit is not a be all, and all for the city. in some quarters, it makes sense. others have a better v

bicycles. while we initially had a finite demographic, it has broadened to every part of the city. we've seen every demographic. mothers with children. seniors. people who claim to be disabled cannot walk very far but can ride a bicycle. we are going to see a broader application of bicycling in the city. we wanted to push them forward. here was the existing bicycle route network. we're basically seeing a more comprehensive network. we are 50% of the way there. we have completed more than half of the near-term projects. we are excited to wrap up. what do we do next? how we push the little beyond 5% and get to 15%? on taxi every charge in situations, our strategy is working on greening the taxi fleet. taxis on average drive six times more than residents. there are six times more opportunities to green our taxi fleet than the private vehicle fleet. not to say we should not do that, but in a constrained environment of resources, it is good policy to work on those flights. we support the expansion of electrical vehicle charging for the entire public. that gives you a broad overview, quit

city. we all know that we are way behind even in transit first as we talk about it. even with the glowing reports of bicycle collision. we are not quite ready yet to have a full working transit policies over the rest of the cities of that those corridors that will be affected by this legislation leave the rest of the city running high and dry because the people, all of a sudden, they can't get there anymore. the transportation is not in place to create that. it is the same thing with bicycles. i know of the struggles have been regarding the -- you and i have talked about that at great length. it is not quite responsive yet to the needs of the bicycle movement in this city. we still read about the instances of unsafe intersections. we read about the accidents, so all of that is a good idea. we might still have to protest the physical realm of how that plays itself out, it is who we really are. it is with a clear reflection that transit first, the transportation system for other reasons, it is not quite up to snuff where other cities in this country, not to talk about four examples. there is a whole bunch of

i am a big believer in pedestrian bicycling as options to get around town. many citiese world have far more people working or on bicycles into blocking or on bicycles. they are pleasant most of transit and are efficient. -- many cities in the world have far more people walking or on bicycles. they are pleasant and efficient forms of transportation. that will take cars off the road and make it easier for those who drive. if we want to create a world- class transportation system, we have to make a commitment to each of these modes of transit to allow us to move where we need to go. >> is it safe for pedestrians on the streets? >> it is not. in recent years, we have had too many pedestrian accidents. there are estimates it costs our cities several hundred millions a year because of traffic accidents, injuries, and fatalities. i am asking one of our transit agencies to study where we're spending our dollars around the district and whether we invested more money would help to reduce our overall costs that come when a pedestrian is hit by a car. >> let's talk about crime in y

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 can see that schoolchildren use the bicycle very frequently for education. and still businessmen use the car a lot. and social recreational reasons. a reason for using the bike and shopping. we like to go shopping on our bikes. come to that later. and when it comes to gender. who's using the bicycle. i'm told that the netherlands is very typical on this. we have more women on bikes then -- than men. and the most intense users are girls from the age of 12 to 18 and that's easy to explain because i once was a girl of that age and to me, mabika was my ticket to freedom. i didn't want my mom and dad bringing me by car somewhere and then say well, i'll pick you up at 6:00. i go on my bike and i'll try to make it at 6:00. most of the time i was there. 6:30. and then later you can see at all ages, women still use the b

city. it is today as of may 2011 raid of the most dangerous -- actually, both those judges of octavia and golf are rated the most dangerous bicycle junctions in the city -- both of those junctions. we have great concerns about what they are planning to do, which is essentially take those nine traffic flows and run a bus through that junction as an additional flow. we think that is dangerous. it is going to attract more pedestrians and cyclists to the area, not less. they are going to meet that group of traffic coming into the city. we do think that also, this will create significant legal exposure for mta because you are proposing to move forward with a project despite very clear public objection on the basis of safety. this is the way the junction is measured. it is very dangerous, and it does not make sense to run a bus line through it. i have worked for planning before. very dense area. you do not run buses through a very busy area. last point i'll make is if you do the traffic calculations, which i have done and filed this with the board, you will find that because of the 18 bus crossings, it is assumptions from the mta, you

bicycle. if you enjoyed the facility and the get a fabulous part in our city and neighborhood, even right here in the concourse, it would be a great advantage for people to be able to lock the bicycle, perhaps at a picnic, and get back on the bike and go on to another location. that is something i hope to explore and to work with the bicycle coalition to see where we can put these in bicycle racks. with that, thank you all for coming. >> thank you, david. the recreation and park department has a great partnership with the san francisco bicycle coalition, in addition to their support of park wide, we're working together to create a dedicated bike lane in golden gate park. we have worked together on a sunday streets and send a street closures and also healthy saturdays. yes, we want more bike racks. to talk more about our partnership, lia. >> thank you for your leadership. i know staff has been working so hard on this. she was so much to mayor lee and supervisor mar. almost 15 years

. >> the new city-wide bicycle rental begins today.you can rent it at several spots and drop it off at another location. >> i like that. >> it will be available at union square, marina green and two spots in golden gate park. only costs you 9 bucks. >> it's a bargain. >> much better tan a parking ticket. >> absolutely. >> thank you so much for watching. join us tonight at 5:00, bei6:0 and 11:00. >> and join us all day long at nbcbayarea.com. have yourself a spectacular day. [ male announcer ] at the safeway pharmacy you can get a flu shot from an experienced professional. we've given over 5 million flu shots over the last 10 years. [ male announcer ] hey, but who's counting? get your flu shot from a specialist you can trust. at the safeway pharmacy.

working on a regional program to be launched next year which will be initially pilot of 500 bicycles in san franciween city hall, anh of market-waterfront area. there are also other luxury pods. one set -- that pilot is successful we will seek more funds and sponsorship to grow it. more towards the panhandle area into the waterfront. i am excited, looking forward to that. president olague: i talked to a lot of workers and they ride their bikes to work at night. that will reach a lot of these areas. >> the other area is education and outreach. on this cool -- bicycle and pedestrian safety. president olague: we could dedicate the whole day to this. i wanted to ask one additional point of interest. commissioner moore: there is the america's cup which will require ingenious planning because people are very concerned giving the eir comments that that will be one of the ways -- i am interested in hearing what other ways there are to do this and make the city shine. if you could in your next meeting with us give us some ideas about what you're planning to do. >> we are working on the people plan so we could prese