my mother's 62, learning to bike. she just moved into our house as well, and my father who moved in gets around in a wheelchair. upper market is a dangerous sphere through our neighborhood. i support these changes for lower upper market, and i will be back here, advocating again for protected bike lanes the rest of the way on upper market. if i can just use the overhead. i'm also the organizer of the people protected bike lane. in early december, we had between 70 and 100 members of our community who biked this route, standing on the line, defending the safety of cyclists on this very dangerous road. these changes are going to make this stretch safer, but for the rest of upper market all the way to castro, what i encourage the department to do as a temporary measure is to change the speed limit to 20 miles an hour on that street. it is unsafe -- that bike lane is unsafe for any users. we are forced by double parking into the road. cars travel on that road at 35 miles an hour. we shouldn't encourage people to ride on i

thank you. >> i'm with a local bike company, san francisco bike rentals. i don't have real organized prepar prepared comments but it may seem to those of us present i think the discussion was called because a brewing conflict between large actual billion-dollar companies such as ofo, jump, slash, uber and ford. so here we are, the small bike rental industry. i just want to re-er reiterate this agreements in place such as between the port of san francisco and protect and honor a natural distinction between the bike rental and bike share market and ford is doing its best to honor and we're meeting regularly to make sure it's honored but nonetheless they're trying to honor it and we're hopeless introducing ourselves to this discussion how are we going to deal with uber, ford, ofo, how are we going to handle the needs of the bike share market. we think there's a natural distinction. it comes down to a long-term recreational transit option such as bike rental, two hours-plus and two hours under. those are basic principles. we hope we'll be invite head to table

bikes. and there's different operators. jump was the first operator that was eligible for a permit under our program. jump submitted its initial application in july of 201 prior to any other company. it developed as the first and only company to fulfill all the permit requirements with the november 2017 submittals. one requirement was the data sharing requirement. that's something we heard a lot of reluctance from from other companies and jump was the first to operate e-bike. >> was there a set of criteria about what the sfmta was looking for? did it say in october when these got ahead of transportation technologies did you say to the potential world of stationless bike sharing companies, we are looking for e bikes. that is a criteria. we're looking for data sharing as a criteria. if you do not have these you'll be considered incomplete. >> yes. we developed permit application materials based on the legislation that were very detailed in what we were requiring from the operators including de

as jump bikes, was the best dockless bike share operator for san francisco. so in particular, i'm looking to understand the criteria that was used to decide that jump bike was most complementary to motivate ford go bikes, also the city's bike share programme and truly the best option to use bike share as a mode of transportation. my office has received numerous e-mails and feedback from a number of bike share companies that were in the application and permit queue with m.t.o. and don't forget -- they feel two things. one, they didn't feel the communication about the process was adequate and, two, that the offerings of the organisations were understand and considered by m.t.a. so, these are serious concerns that have been leveled against the m.t.a. and i'm concerned by the suggestion that m.t.a. didn't conduct a thorough and competitive process before bestowing jump bikes with the sole pilot dockless bike share permit for the next 18 months. so the reason why i called today's hearing is because this matter is, frankly not only a matter of fairness, transparenc

bikes. some stationless bikes are free standing and the bikes themselves have integrated gps units and internal lockal mechanism and accessed by smartphone apps. there's half a dozen or more in circulation alone. this creates significant issues for maintaining safe and orderly bicycle lines as you see in the sidewalk but has shown to be a promising tool and goal of the mta. the first stationless operator in san francisco was blue go go in early 2017 rather than watch what happens and respond later which is often the case with technologies we developed san francisco specific regulations for stationless bike share to ensure it would serve the public interest and worked with the board of supervisors and with the board of directors to pass the division 1 and division 2 transportation code legislation. it passed in 2017 and established the stationless bike share in san francisco and accompanying violations and fines. it has gone bankrupt since taking millions of user deposits with itsome issues w

all the bikes are electric... and >>> a new bike sharing company headquartered here in san francisco says its riders can expect much less pedaling because all the bikes are electric and they don't need a special dock. >> kpix5 susie steimle spoke to the founder of jump bike about what makes his company different. ck bikes this >> reporter: it's the next bike share company on the block in san francisco. jump bike got the green light from the city to launch 250 dockless electric bikes this january. jump bikes top out at 20 miles per hour. >> it takes the sweat and frustration and difficulty out of biking, particularly in a city like san francisco with a lot of hills. >> reporter: if you're looking for a workout, this isn't your vehicle of choice. jump bikes are meant to make cycling easier. >> this is a pedal assist bike which means it measures how hard you're working and gives you a boost. there's no throttle on the bike. you ride it like you normally would. >> reporter: it costs $2 to rent a jump bike for 30 minut

win to bikes also known as fat bikes are essentially mountain bikes with outside the bikes are now available all around the area every january bike fans descend on. bikes were invented in the united states to take on sand gravel all snow during snow bike festival the riders even race them frew cowsheds. but riding fast bikes can be just as much fun for holiday cyclists. they're allowed all most of the winter hiking trails botts bikers always have the right of way. these two riders have packed a special treat for their outing. this is our fondue backpack it's nice and comfortable and it's total back here you have everything you need for a tasty outdoor fun do at any time of the year even in winter so you. can read. the quintessentially swiss iching experience with a pot of melted cheese tastes even better and rustic alpine countryside. in the gestapo region vacationers can also learn about local traditions like paper cuttings. practiced since the nineteenth century the delicate images depict typical local motifs. very popular subjects include the chalets you see all around the region or the w

jump bike got the green light from the city to launch 250 dockless electric bikes in january.out at 20 miles per hour. >> it takes the sweat and frustration and difficulty out of biking, particularly in a city like san francisco with a lot of hills. >> reporter: if you're looking for a workout, this isn't your vehicle of choice. jump bikes are meant to make cycling easier. >> this is a pedal assist bike which means it measures how hard you're working and gives you a boost. there's no throttle. you ride it like you would normally. >> reporter: it costs $2 to rent a jump bike for 30 minutes and seven cents a minute after that. another dockless bike company blue go go launched earlier this year in san francisco without a permit. that company received pushback from city leaders, not just for launching without permission, but also because blue go go's dockless bikes were found piled up all around cities in china where it first launch. brian said that won't happen with jump bike because the user will continue to be charged until the bike is locked and gps shows it's where it should

it's not difficult i go by bike and i take a backpack along that's usually enough plus i have my bike basket and if i need to buy something fall the life you create of water i can borrow a hand cart it all works out fine. just. could carfree living be expanded to entire districts towns or cities. because john peel heads transport research at the german aerospace center the program is based in cologne motor vehicles play a huge role in the life and layout of major cities all over the world peter says that has to change. because for a city like cologne i don't think we're going to find the single fix that will solve all its problems we need a range of measures at the level of urban planning it might mean for example planting more greenery along the ring highway when it comes to transportation the priority should be expanding public transport at encouraging and enabling more biking and walking. this is what the city of the future might look like major arteries will be downsized there will be more open space and greenery a radical turn away from the internal combustion engine and private

day one in the story of our new bike. first the perspective owner's measurements taken in a three d. scanner. the new bicycle tailor made for his body. this production method with scanner and printer makes every bike one of a kind. the bike industry works with a limited number of frames sizes but people are so different each with their individual length of legs and upper body what sets us apart is that we can respond individually and build precisely the geometry that fits each person this passed. the bike designers can change the frame on the computer to perfectly match the rider. the next day the design meets up with a three d. printing expert getting the measurement data in the right format is a bit of work but three d. printing technology is developing at a huge pace. there are new developments in four different areas of three d. printing number one is the increasing diversity of materials then the volume we can print because objects the printing speed is also going up it now takes half or a third of the time previousl

this scrap heap is the fate of the many millions of bikes in beijing there's about one rental bike for every ten people in the chinese capital the two wheelers are one of the cheapest means of transportation in beijing they can be rented for as little as seven u.s. cents for half an hour less take. home day it's convenient but sometimes there are too many bikes. i feel people don't take care of the shared bikes because they're not their personal property otherwise they'll protect them very well wouldn't they. the rising number of bikes in beijing has brought more chaos to the streets. better regulation of the bike sharing industry the company themselves. they should have been able to do her analysis. but her operation. transfer all of them to not making them on the straight. on a bike fate appears to be the scrapheap. lack of ownership lack of response that's it you're up to date with the latest from the world of business for more check out our website that's t w dot com slash business or find us social media business for you at the top of the hour. in the snow we all go. forward to a

the more cars or bikes you have, the pie expands. users are just starting to use bikes.see is that with more adoptions comes the need for more bikes. we have yet to understand what the true total market size for bike sharing can be, but it's going to be a lot larger than where we are right now. we have about 20,000 bikes in the u.s. we think that's going to be a lot larger in 2018 and beyond. emily: i just interviewed kaifu lee, a chinese investor who has invested in bike sharing. take a listen to what he had to say about the future of the market. >> i think shared bicycle is definitely a winner take all market. consolidation has happened. there are two players left. either one can kill the other or they will merge. emily: he is talking about another player that is china-focused. do you think this is a winner take all market? chris: i don't know if it needs to be. i think it is too early to tell. people have said that about ridesharing, and you are seeing two players in the united states and multiple players around the world. i think it's too early to tell if this is a t

you are talking the bike lane. you will talk to the bike coalition as well. that is point one. question one is this. does your design anticipate anything from us with traffic as you know i am very of an advocate for private career striction on market -- car that is restricted on market street. i want your plans to consider what we may be doing from traffic regulation. are you anticipating a private career striction or other restrictions as you did make the design? >> that is a great question. we realized we had left out the private vehicle restrictions which are part of this proposed project. they are part of the project since four years ago. the current proposal is to restrict private vehicles over than commercial and taxis and bicycles in the easterly direction from tenth street to speer street -- to main street. tenth to main on the inbound. on the outbound it is from stewart to vanness. there are a most of other changes to traffic circulation which would come in front of this board for approval. some two-way streets and associated traffic changes to support those basic traf

the dockless bike rides in d.c. are very popular, but is the convenience becoming a nuisance at least for some. people are calling 911 when they see the bikes left lying around away from their docks. lambert is live at georgetown with more on this. >>reporter: we found these bike s lined up neatly along the waterfront here in georgetown, but we had some tough questions for one of those dockless bike riders. sir, do you know if what you're doing is a crime. >> i don't know about that. why would you riding one of these colorful bikes rnlg it's affordable where are you trying to go. >> home. >> your public enemy number one right now, did you know that. >> i deept know. there's going to be a poster with your face all over it. why are you doing this? >> why are you being such a terror to the community? >> no comment. so we did that to show you just how ridiculous this is and thanks to that bike rider for playing along. the nine # # calls about the bike's last week, martin as you ter mule with neighbors were encouraged to

the bikes are often left in precarious places. the police department says it recognizes people's frustration regarding the dockless bikes. but it's urging residents to "not" officials are now clamping down against what they say are frivolous 9-1-1 calls. they say if you call 9-1-1 to complain about the bikes, you could be charged with a crime for filing a false police report. seven is on your side with a consumer alert -- if the post holiday blues have you dreaming of a winter getaway - book your flight now! there are some big deals this month. website fare compare crunched the numbers - finding the cheapest dates to fly from next week through most of march. tickets are as much as 36-percent below average prices. for example -- you can find cross country flights from new york to san francisco for just 119-dollars each way. experts say sites like "hipmunk" and "google flights" can help you search for the best deals. at xx time for weather. toss to eileen - frigid start for back to work & school; sunny & cold afternoon - watching co

steep hills in san francisco are no joke especially when riding a bike. >> the ford go bike bike shareadd 250 bikes from a company named genze. they provide extra power as you pedal. they won't cost any more than any regular bike. the company that operates the system in the bay area does hope to expand the bike system in the future. a bike and leave it wherever. it just issued the city's first permit to operate a stationless bike share service part of a pilot program with jump bikes. the mta says you'll be able to park your rental at a bike rack or in the furniture zone of the sidewalk. okay. the city is trying out the program for 18 months to see how it works and go from there. >> that reminds me when you were a little kid, you throw it wherever you want, and then your mom gets mad at you. >> the furniture zone of the sidewalk. >>> this morning a mountain lion cub is being nursed back to health. >> the six to eight week old cub was found on the side of the road in bad shape. the other cubs came to the zoo in early december. all those cubs -- the two, i should say, the other two were f

to be a bike medic at the airport. >> okay. okay. chief gonzalez? >> i was just here for support. that's all. >> oh. >> chief ali is absolutely correct. it's not just staffing at the airport, it's staffing up here. and down there -- they have different

the bike share service will add 250 e-bikes from a local company named genze. the e-bikes provide extra power as you pedal and they will be available for the first year these bikes will be docked only in san francisco, and they won't cost any more than the regular bikes. the company that operates the ford go bike system in the bay area says it does hope to expand this service in the future. >> sometimes you could use a little extra boost. the world's tiniest wearable device is about to hit the market. what it does, it could save your life. >> people responded in a big way to uc berkeley's call for photos of last august's solar eclipse. now it needs your help in analyzing them. >> and this high-tech treadmill promises to help you stick to your new year's fitness resolutions. what it's going to cost you. first this morning's "tech bytes." >>> in today's "tech bytes" apple under investigation for its iphone slowdown. >> plus, apple apologized for slowing down older iphones and said it was necessary to avoid unexpected shutdown due to battery fatigue. >> a criminal

and why these bicycle graveyards have got china's blaming bike sharing industry into trouble. more snow is just developing once again this slowly brightening tops as it came through nevada into colorado will develop further i think and that's the picture we have the sunday ahead of it there is clad in him to something might want to develop but look at the time she is there back up to twenty one in dallas eleven in d.c. minus one alter was still but this is been a warm trend what's been happening with pacific seaboard stormy weather has resolved itself into a streak of snow from british columbia right down to northern california rain a look that is pushing study south and dying this this snow has come across the northern plains the midwest and you got a good lawn a developing right to the south that could be quite stormy but it's rainy season not snow and this warm trend of course will start to melt some what's already on the ground even the great lakes much fun the ice becomes a little less solid to the sas and we've got the well the familiar picture of cloud around the coast

we're happy to provide bike parking. it's just we can't conform to bullet nine because everything is on a slope, so there is no 5 foot path on a place you can park your bikes. we're happy to provide some racks in the light well, if that's amenable. we're not relocating laundry or tenants. somebody mentioned something about a media room and removal of the unit space. i don't know anything about that. we don't have a media room. thank you for your time >> all right. thank you. dr requester, you have a two minute rebuttal -- oh, sorry. public comment in support of the project. you can speak during rebuttal, though. all right. dr requester. >> okay. thanks. i just listened to some of the comments from the project sponsor, and just wanted to, you know, respond to those. she is right, that there have been a lot of contentious conversations around the way trash is handled, not only currently in the building, but with the current proposal, and the sense that we have always gotten is the project sponsor and the building owner ori

and why these bicycle graveyards have got china's moving bike sharing industry in trouble. welcome back we'll stop by look at the weather across southeastern parts of asia nothing remarkable here at the moment for a few showers around much as you'd expect the forecast given. some heavy showers across parts of the southern philippines otherwise for bourne are not looking too bad a fair amount of sunshine here for java and we're going to see some heavy showers to consulate's west at times but through them in a pinch the just the usual scattered showers much as you'd expect for bangkok in thailand it should be fine for much of the day and fair amount of dry weather across cambodia now as you head down into wards straight here you can see all this shower activity across north an heiress are seeing some significant rainfall here southeastern are still looking pretty hot wagga wagga has seen some very impressive temperatures of us twenty four hours temperatures in excess of forty degrees people struggling hard to keep cool in those weather conditions temperatures still quite high

bring some significant improvements, and getting protected bike lanes, so that people can bike around i also think about my daughter, 12-year-old, public school kid, and we bop around all over town. pedestrian safety is absolutely critical. but if i can make one point. school starts again on monday, so i hope, as you are reporting today, you will encourage people to slow down, to be mindful, to recognize that you're going to have more cars on the street on monday. you're going to have more kids on bikes, more kids walking, and that's one of the great things that the transportation authority has been supportive of and the mta, is getting kids to get to school without necessarily having to be in a vehicle. and the education of kids on using public transportation and using -- and biking and walking and walking school buses is an innovation that is in my neighborhood i think is really great. kids are going back to school about it, but they're not going to be happy about it. they're going to be dragging their feet to go into school on monday, but please be mindful, be safe, and thank you.

this scrap heap is the fate of the many millions of bikes in beijing there's about one rental bike for every ten people in the chinese capital the two wheelers are one of the cheapest means of transportation in beijing they can be rented for as little as seven u.s. cents for half an hour less than a subway take it. from there it's convenient but sometimes there are too many bikes they block the roads. i feel people don't take care of the shared bikes because they're not their personal property otherwise they'll protect them very well wouldn't they. the rising number of bikes in beijing has brought more chaos to the streets that's why some are calling for better regulation of the bike sharing industry the company themselves together with the government they should be able to do a better analysis but her allocation off them better operation of them the better transfer all too not making too much of them on the street until then a bike's fate still appears to be the scrap heap. well china is cracking down on polluting cars a state run news agency shin cost says beijing has banned the maki

the blue bikes were just put in at the rockridge b.a.r.t. station in oakland, but they're right in front of a memorial for the victims of the 1991 firestorm. re now respon ncerns. some call that disrespectful. kpix5 reporter da lin tells us city officials are now responding to those concerns. da? ll br >> reporter: ken, that's after a lot of neighbors complained about these large bike racks. they're located right in front of this firestorm memorial and the neighbors are saying it's very hard to see it now from the street. ting a bike share station in front the vietname war memorial in washington d.c.> the rockridge community plan t bad planni oakland city contractors installed these brand-new racks for the ford go bikes yesterday at the rockridge b.a.r.t. station. >> it would be like putting a bike share station in front of the vietnam memorial in washington d.c. >> reporter: the rockridge community planning chairman calls it bad planning and incensive. it's right in front of this mural made up of 2,300 tiles dedicated to the 25 people kille

we believe the government should do more to help the amount of shared bikes should be on the basis of a city scale just forty years ago you knew you'd made it when you had a bike along with a watch radio and sewing machine it was a family's most valuable possession a symbol of pride now for some it stands as a symbol of national waste a dream brown al-jazeera beijing. this is out there these are the top stories at least five people have been killed six injured after gunmen stormed a five star hotel in kabul afghans paschal forces have been battling to take control of the internet intercontinental hotel two attackers have been killed but two more are still inside the building one hundred people have been rescued security analyst says the hotel is usually heavily guarded they have really taken the security for the question really is that how can such sophisticated attack can take place and there are rumors around is that there must be some sort of support for the attackers otherwise looking at the security arrangements around or get inside or tell it's pretty impossible to to enter. int

, getting protected bike lanes so people can bike around.c school kid, we bop around all over town, pedestrian safety is critical. school starts again on monday, so i hope as you are reporting today you will encourage people to slow down, to be mindful, to recognize that you're going to have more cars on the street on monday, more kids on bikes, more kids walking and that's one of the great things that the transportation authority has been supportive of and mta, getting kids to get to school without necessarily having to be in a vehicle and the education for kids on public transportation and walking and biking and walking school buses is an innovation that is great that i have seen folks in my neighborhood implement. if we could be mindful monday that kids are going back to school, not a lot of them are going to be happy about it. you're going to have grumpy kids dragging their feet and be slow and mindful. thank you. (applause) >> great messages, which i hope you will help us convey. two of the leading voices that challenge us are walk san

we believe the government should do more to help the amount of shared bikes should be on the basis of a city scale just forty years ago you knew you'd made it when you had a bike along with a watch radio and sewing machine it was a family's most valuable possession a symbol of pride now for some it stands as a symbol of national waste a dream brown al-jazeera beijing. this is our top stories afghan special forces are battling gunmen who stormed a five star hotel in kabul and took hostages two attackers have been killed and lived to more so in size eight people injured security forces are fighting from floor to floor at the last i heard has more from kabul i want you to reach in so there is no doubt kids close up the intercom of course are. still to source also be insolent to our. children and like to know our platters. and their possibility on the seventh floor of the building now and it's due to sources telling us that at least twenty people who tried inside the hotel have been instituted turkey has begun an air and ground offensive in the african region in northern syria it's an enc

it's definitely a waste because the occupy public spaces during peak times bikes pile up at bus stops according to the government of china has more than twenty three million shared bicycles recent photographs on social media show numerous dumping grounds for abandoned bikes the operators insist there are clear rules about where to park them and it's not their fault it's not happening. you can hire a bike like this for just seven cents for half an hour there are also other obvious benefits it's good exercise and better for the environment than driving but there's also one obvious problem excessive oversupply now the inevitable zuckerberg several operators have gone bust with one owing investors almost sixty million dollars. the city of tianjin has a long history of bicycle production despite the overcapacity these it destined for the rental sector china's free market policies made this private factory possible now the owner hopes the communist government can come to the rescue. we believe the government should do more to help the amount of shared bikes should be on the basis of a city

you are looking at a class one bike looking at a you are you are looking at a class one bike lane inrancisco, it is completely protected from trafficnats: ambiance it has if own traffic signal it even has a stop sign. but it appears to missing two . or make that three things it's missing, bicyclists i say that only because i haven't seen one on the bike path entire time i was here. it's also missing parts of the fence. in random locations so you walk through here a lot? i walk through here fairly regularly, i just noticed they are missing part of the fences you come through here more than i do so what did you notice well i definitely noticed pieces of the fence are missing apparently someone borrowed close to a quarter mile of fence and not many people noticed.. now it looks like some of the fence was run over, you can tell that by the bent poles sticking out of the concrete barriers however in some cases it appears as if the poles were sawed off . which makes this protected bike lane not so protected this is a really nice bike path i usually just walk on the sidewalk or the bike pat

bikes. motivate, which operates the ford go bike system in the bay area, hopes to expand it in the future. the system currently has 2600 bikes available and more than 260 stations. >>> three-day tickets for the bottle rock napa music festival are sold out already. yesterday the lineup was announced. bruno mars, the killers and muse to name a few are headliners. at the twitter account posted that three-day tickets were on sale. about an hour and a half later, they were gone. sold out. single-day tickets go on sale next wednesday. the music, wine beer and festival will be may 25th through the 27th at the napa valley expo grounds. >> so many good acts. >> really. >>> the music and lights are going to keep going a little longer in san jose. >>> tonight, how much more time you have to enjoy this interactive artwork. >>> and there is controversy surrounding a floating community of homes in redwood city. it comes with a cost. plus -- >> i had deputies running into burning houses to save people. i w

we believe the government should do more to help the amount of shared bikes should be on the basis of a city scale just forty years ago you knew you'd made it when you had a bike along with a watch radio and sewing machine it was a family's most valuable possession a symbol of pride now for some it stands as a symbol of national waste a dream brown al-jazeera beijing. you're watching al-jazeera these are our top stories turkey has begun a ground operation against a kurdish controlled old slave in syria's african region but this follows a day of artillery an air strike that killed at least six people turkey's president says the next target will be men being another town under kurdish control and we have breaking news coming out of turkey that the now the town of a hanley which was hit by a missile from syria says that one syrian national was killed and thirty two others injured. a course in iraq and sentence a foreign woman to death for joining eisel the german female of moroccan dissenters yet to be named she was captured in the twenty seven mostly fence event charged with taking part

bikes. which operates the ford go bike system in the bay area, hopes to expand it in the future. the system currently has 2600 bikes available and more than 260 stations. >>> three-day tickets for the bottle rock napa music festival are sold out already. yesterday the lineup was announced. bruno mars, the killers and muse to name a few are headliners. at the twitter account posted that three-day tickets were on sale. about an hour and a half later, they were gone. sold out. single-day tickets go on sale next wednesday. the music, wine beer and festival will be may 25th through the 27th at the napa valley expo grounds. >> so many good acts. >> really. >>> the music and lights are going to keep going a little longer in san jose. >>> tonight, how much more time you have to enjoy this interactive artwork. >>> and there is controversy surrounding a floating community of homes in redwood city. it comes with a cost. plus -- >> i had deputies running into burning houses to save people. i want to rem