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]

city agencies to make sure we take the opportunity to put it back better. we know it can be done. we have such opportunity to put it back better. our vision at the bicycle coalition, and we shared this with many of you, is to help the city meet its official goal. the mayor referenced 20% of all trips made by bicycle by 2020 to meet climate change goals, public health goals, our liveability goals and economic viability goals. we cannot accommodate 100,000 more residents the same way we've been doing business. we've got to change and think differently and our hope for that is to have your help in building out 100 miles of

city agencies to make sure we take the opportunity to put it back better. we know it can be done. we have such opportunity to put it back better. our vision at the bicycle coalition, and we shared this with many of you, is to help the city meet its official goal. the mayor referenced 20% of all trips made by bicycle by 2020 to meet climate change goals, public health goals, our liveability goals and economic viability goals. we cannot accommodate 100,000 more residents the same way we've been doing business. we've got to change and think differently and our hope for that is to have your help in building out 100 miles of bikeways by 2020. we're not asking the dutch to help us with all 100 miles. i think we've given you three or five miles or so. we will take it, we will take the five miles. and this is why we're doing it. in conclusion, the reason i know that we can do what the netherlands has done, perhaps even better, is we have the same kind of investment. we know we're doing it for the next generation. we know

we have this idea, a belief that san francisco can be a great bicycling city, internationally recognized. sometimes that vision gets challenged and that belief and waver a bit, i will be honest wit. my time in amsterdam, i could test that vision. is if all i make it out to be when i talk to folks. what i saw and what i experienced let me feeling without a doubt that

city agencies to make sure we take the opportunity to put it back better. we know it can be done. we have such opportunity to put it back better. our vision at the bicycle coalition, and we shared this with many of you, is to help the city meet its offici

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

and it may be approved -- a blueprint for bicycles in the cityand the rest of it but you have a responsibility to the citizens of san francisco and the pedestrian to walk the streets. this is not a utopia. these are hard questions that have to be answered. i think the residents of the neighborhoods definitely have a stake in this. thank you. >> last person who turned in a speaker card. >> i assume the presentation is on the mta board website or will be? great. although i have avoided being involved in america's cup and intend to continue to avoid being in its planning, i have a brief comment. i sort of agree with mr. winer on this one. to the extent that there is additional muni service added to this event, i very much hope it will not take away from their existing service elsewhere in town. this event is primarily corporate much in the northeast quadrant. the other three quadrants should not suffer less service as the results -- as a result. other lines should not lives service. i hope in the planning and implementation of this, john haley and t

one of the things i think is very important at makes bicycles work in copenhagen is that most people live in apartments in the cityand people have places to keep their bicycles. they did not have to bring their bicycle up three, four floors into their apartments. in san francisco, you have to take your bicycle up. if that was the situation in copenhagen, i think less than half the people who by now would bike. or people have to have wider bikes or folding bike. but having a heavy bike in a two-room apartment is very detrimental. i think that needs to be addressed in at san francisco. >> problems of bicycles and space needs. at least they're not having to carry their up cars up to their apartments. how you deal with that in copenhagen? >>

city center because the people who did not really need to go into the city are now staying out or coming in by public transport or bicycle. nowadays, the businessmen who need to go into the city with his car for a)> hour, always has room, always pays, even in the neighborhood of the business. there is a limit on tariffs. 5 euros is enough. [inaudible] most business people are afraid that making parking more expensive will actual impact their ability to do business -- will actually impact their ability to do business. >> it also depends on the sort of business and the sort of street. for instance, if the go on the street where gucci is and so on, and you need enough parking spaces. >> 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

i am a big believer in pedestrian bicycling as options to get around town. many citiesn the 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

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

to imagine my brother-in-law to choose to ride bicycles around the city, he would do anything rather than buy. they rode bikes all over paris for about three or four days. i think the opportunity for the bike share is absolutely massive. my concern with that going forward, i am glad we're going to do a pilot program for the america's cup and we have two opportunities to try it out. the one this year and next year. the expansion of that needs to be considered by s, by the board. i know it is something that the p.a. has expressed interest in. it can help with the overcrowding on the 21 hayes and the 5 fulton. i could be downtown on a bikeshare faster. this is a good opportunity. i am interested to hear what our plans are for by sharing post america's cup. again, i cannot overestimate what an opportunity by share is to get people who do not bite onto bikes and i see mr. maddox in the audience hopefully agree with me. that is going to be my concern. it looks like this plan is great. i will do everything we can to support the people plan for the america's cup. it is a great opportunity to

>> reporter: a bicycle is a great way to get around san francisco. i am on one of the steepest hills in the city. and i can pedal up it with no problem at all. very easy because the bicycle has an electric motor that does most of the work. san francisco is poised to be the first city in the country to offer electric bike shared. >> reporter: driving and parking in san francisco seems to be getting worse. >> i always walk whenever i can't. always traffic congestion. >> reporter: bicycles can park anywhere but there are those hills. these folks pedal up 1 of the steeper grades. never broke a sweat. >> you are not huffing and puffing. you feel like you made it. >> reporter: they cost a couple thousand dollars. why not just borrow one? >> reporter: the folks who run the city car share program are getting a federal grant to operate 90 electric bikes. it is designed to show case even greener vehicles. >> i am a big advocate of electric vehicles. i might use that. >> takes all the hesitancy of riding a bike. >> reporter: he sells electric bikes. 20 miles per hour. need no license and recharge in two ho

as mentioned before, we mentioned all the dutch people that are now on the bicycle in the car and who have a city that doesn't move anymore. it's congested for 24 hours. but there's more. the infrom structure use is more -- infrastructure use is more efficient. parking space is not so expensive when you park a car. you can park where you park a bike and you can park eight bicycles in the space of one car. when it comes to health, in-- it increases the life expectancy. you can live longer, three years longer when you cycle every day to work, to school, to shops when you use the bicycle more often and that longer life is spent in better health. it makes you live in better health for more than 10 years. and it also reduces the diseases like obeesty and the heart diseases, the most obvious ones and what struck me is alzheimer's disease that comes later or doesn't come when you cycle a lot. it keeps your brain fresh and going, i guess. and what also is very important that work absenteism is reduced for people that use the bike more often. as it comes to lifestyle, of course we also have lifestyle. cyc

. >> when gas prices skyrocketed in 2008, cities across the country saw a bicycling boom. a 70% increase in commuters in some cases, according to the league of american bicyclists and many are becoming bike friendly, with lanes and space to lock up those two wheelers. >> the sticker shock of filling up your tank hits you. you think wow, maybe i should be doing something else. we're going to see a lot more people choosing to ride their bikes as they realize that. >> tuning up an old bike is key before hitting the road. >> what are other options? >> or if you are looking to buy new, there are options, like a hybrid road and mountain bike or one designed more for comfort. >> if it's ready to go, you can strap your briefcase to. >> all that's missing is a bell. >> then there's this one. >> very light. >> it folds up if you are taking it on mass transit. some advice before you hang up your car keys, buy a helmet and make sure you don't run out of gas. >> you don't have to suddenly ride 100 miles to and from work. getting back in the saddle. getting into the feel of it is really

anyone who's got on a bicycle, particularly in one of our busiest cities knows that you're taking a life into her hands every time you do so. so we do need to do more to try and make cycling safer. the government is making it easier for council to install meters at junctions. were putting up 119 pounds into train for children, and 50 million pounds for better cycle facilities across the country. i think if we want to encourage the growth in cycling we've seen in recent years we need to get behind campaigns like this. [inaudible] [shouting] [inaudible] worth 224 million. in fear of the fact that there are record numbers of unemployed people, and that employees of his company had been arrested, what action is being taken to make sure that neither unemployed people for the taxpayer are victims of fraud? >> the honorable lady raises an abort an issue, and i understand this issue dates back two years to schemes run by the previous government. and it was, and i understand it was the companies sell that raise the issue with the relevant authorities. there's an ongoing police investigation so it

in mexico, the watch, the swarovski chandeliers, the water bottles, new york city condom, the bmw mini watch, local bicycle>> how do you begin? do you really take a bike and say how would i change it to make it work for me? >> i think we begin with the idea. this notion of how would we have a locally based form of transportation? i get inspired by how our lives are changing, how, you know, in this 21st century, people have new ideas about how they want to live, how they want to relate to others. >> should we take it for a spin. >> let's do it. >> how long have you lived in san francisco now? >> i've been here almost 20 years. >> and where were you before then. >> switzerland. there is such a dynamic culture here. the kind of personality of people that come here is the same, which is people who want to take risks, breaking new ground. all the people i knew in the design field were wondering what i was doing in silicon valley. it's so far away. the design capitals of the world are considered to be milan, london, paris, and i really felt there was something that was brewing here on the west coast. something t

city. this is a dense and highly trafficked, dangerous place for bicycles and pedestrians, because of the naturewhat it is. there are different challenges in balboa park, different from noriega and others. they are committed to working with the communities on the chosen districts. this is not a one-size-fits-all approach for street paving or sidewalks. it is about what the community feels like it needs. supervisor chu: end of the department? >> the department of public works is committed to geographic equity in all of our projects. and we stated that before we brought this to you. supervisor, i think that you inserted into the legislation making geographic location a requirement as a geographic equity a requirement as a bond. -- geographic equity a requirement as a bond. we will be bringing that money to the capital planning committee soon. the board of supervisors will be hearing about that as well. i want to add that we are committed to geographic equity over a period of periods of years. a lot of these projects, we do not get funds to do 11 major projects every year. it is kind of an issue of

city hall. and this client arrested for simply tripping over a bicycle. charged with blocking a sidewalk, resisting arrest. a pretrial conference hearing is set for next month. >> bank of america handed out hundreds of layoff notices to employee in concord, 450 positions were eliminated. and in said the units will be closing and the cuts are intended to consolidate operations and reduce costs. all employees can apply for other jobs or may be eligible for severance pay. >> tonight pg&e standing by a program zpits claims of slip slod work two. welders spoke before the california public utilities commission this week saying they saw took pictures of badly welded pipes including a pipeline running through san bruno. the site of the deadly explosion 17 months ago. they say the flaws could be lethal. pg&e says all 150 miles have been confirmed safe. >> so if there are weaknesses we want to get in, replace that pipe and make our system stronger for customers. >> the utility expects to perform tests on 180 more miles of pipeline this year. the p.u.c. says it will

extreme mountain bicycler turns on the helmet cam and rolled downhill through the city and the enormousbstacle course set up with onlookers. imagine that. riding longside. can you watch the entire video on the website and that is pretty neat stuff. hundreds of bystanders watched along in realtime. ealtime. . >> hello, everybody. i'm live in viera, florida. the first squad workout is tomorrow and that is the most optimistic camp since arriving in d.c. in tea. and there is no question about it. all of the naysayers are saying this could be a very, very good team. steven straussburg, a big part of the feeling. 18 months after tommy john surgery, he's raring to go and expected to be the ace on a very, very deep pitching rotation and is expected to be shut down after 160 innings. regardless of where the team is positioned. >> and you never know what is going happen. that is a tough situation, you know, hopefully i have a great year and that is really well and gets to that point where they can can potentially shut me down. i know it's going to be hard seeing how it was for jordan firsthand. r

city's commercial buildings. the supervisor is behind this idea. this will force commercial buildings to provide secure bicyclearking in their buildings or let bicyclists bring their bikes inside. the city's public safety committee will take up this issue on thursday. >>> it's 7:35. and biking might not be a bad way to get to work sometimes. let's check to see how things are going on the roads. >> your bike, if your are a bike rider i don't think today is the worst day in the world to ride your bike. there are some showers but not a lot of rain. as far as getting around, it's going to be a good way to go. this is a look at the bay bridge. if you have to drive and i know a lot of people have to drive from oakland to san francisco. today is not too bad although it is gusty on that upper deck. you will see slow traffic on the bridge itself as well as here at the toll plaza. lower deck does not look all that bad between san francisco and oakland. and all of the lanes are open. move along to a look at interstate 880. the wind not quite as gusty. the traffic is moderately heavy. i think right now 880 is a better bet

city's commercial buildings. supervisor is behind the idea. it would force commercial buildings to provide secure bicyclet their buildings or allow bicyclists to bring their bikes inside. now the city's public safety committee will take up the issue at the meeting this thursday. >>> paying attribute to music legend. the grammy awards took on a somber tone one day after whitney houston's death. >>> we're live in hayward where police are trying to figure out how a man's body ended up on a sidewalk in his neighborhood. >>> and greece is having a big impact on the global financial markets. we'll take you live to the opening bell next. whatcha lookin' for hon? ah, these new jeans i want. i've been looking everywhere. new blue jeans? oh, don't be crazy, i've got tons of blue jeans. frank! frank! get my jean bin, susie wants my jeans. no she doesn't. here we go. nice and loose. ohhh. those are loose, but i actually just ordered three pairs of this kind. ooooohhhh. oh. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay. >>> weapon come back to the county -- welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news. they are getting rea

city. in one of the shootings,s the victim and suspect were both on bicycle. >> the shooting occurred about 8:15 this morning on market street near 63rd on the oakland berkeley border. oakland police say the teen was riding his bike to school as he was identified. the victim was on his way to berkeley high school where he is a senior. some students were told about the shoolgt ning in their classes. >> we were all very surprised. i remember somebody left the room because she started to dry. vie felt very bad. >> the principal sent out a group of e-mails to keep them informed and also to prevent a potential rumor mill of fear and misinformation. >> i think any time you hear guns shooting, student together, that takes parents to their worst fears. >> the principal says berkeley police provided extra patrols when a clayses led out for the day and counselors were available. >> it has a huge impocket on kids. now the age of social media, things move fast. it's unsettling for our kids. >> students were rereefed the violence would some still fear for their safety. >> it's frightening. >> in berkele

bicycle facilities. >> yes, i have another question. this is more on the cost and maintenance. one thing that plagues american cities is the maintenance budget for maintaining public streets and public right of ways. we know very well that you have very high taxes and you have very high parking fees. could you talk about who and how you maintain your infrastructure and the streets? is that just a given, you decide to build something and somebody maintains it, or is there an agreement with another department to maintain it? >> the authorities in amsterdam, the infrastructure and transport department and municipalities, they financed it, they planned it, they build it, construct it, and they maintain it. i think that is the logical route. and is paid by the community's -- and is paid by the communit ies, and also from the state department. [inaudible] >> in the netherlands, if a road is really bad they will fix it. >> ok, there is a question in the back. >> our director of public works was in the back. he has a real problem here. maintenance is a huge bill. we do not have the wherewithal to maintain what we have. putt

city's 40-year-old transit first policy. by transit first, that policy includes not only transit, but pedestrians, and bicycles, all modes, other than the single-occupant vehicles. this also presents an opportunity to integrate impact fees with the ceqa process. believe it or not in san francisco and most places in the state, when developers or a project sponsor pays an impact fee, there are no ceqa benefits associated with that impact fee. it's almost like the two things live in different universes. i'll explain more of that later. it's part of an ongoing evident from our office and the planning department to attempt to streamline ceqa review. it can take sometimes, add years to a project approval which makes many new development projects in feasible or extremely difficult to finance. >> and then finally, this presents an extraordinary opportunity to fund a high efficiency transportation improvements that results in measurable mitigations on a citywide basis. in the past, the transit impact development fee has been charged on commercial uses, but it has not been particularly well employed and this is an opportunity to redesign

this is for us as an agency and as a city, give us an example of what kind of time or cost savings we could expect from a recent project going on, whether it be a bicycle pedestrian project or even a larger brt project or something? i want everyone to understand how important and the impact this could have. >> i could try. one of the main drivers of the cost -- and you cannot answer this question until you send your answer out for environmental review. -- >> you cannot answer this question until you send your answer out for environmental review. >> one of the drivers of environmental review is transportation analysis. that is for any transportation development project. there are other things. there are historic issues that can sometimes drive, but transportation is probably the most significant driver, and as we have seen, somewhat ironically, that has created cost and schedule extensions for our own projects, even those that on the surface would appear to be very clearly and parting positive environmental impact to the city. the bike planne -- plan is perhs the poster child for that. we are starting an environmental impact report process for a project

bicycling and wafflilking. i will focus on the local streets track. we've received over 500 applications. i think this demonstrates strongly the demand throughout the city prior to the program. before funding was even available for meaningful work, we are ready had 135 except and applications. right away we have high demand for our work. -- we already have 135 applications. the reason why the number is a range of 5-8 is we have those that work on projects that shift according to demand at the time. this is to give you an idea of how the staffing is. we split up into three teams. we have staff allocated whether it is a traffic calming, pedestrians, or bicycle traffic. there is an application process, and we analyze the request to determine if it meets the warrants for traffic calming. our goal is to address the worst, most severe problems first. that is the living document and the ships according to incoming requests. i am not board to go through every box, but this is giving you an idea of what the process looks like. i think the process has a good foundation and is very thorough. traffic calming evoke strong emotions from people so we want to make sure