i bike. i feel safer with no bike you lanes. this leads me to believe the protected bike lane is a good idea. i feel it will make a lot of cyclists feel more comfortable and safe. i think they will stop for kid crossing to get to school. i have noticed when i am on the bike in the streets cars give me more room even more than grownups because i am a kid on a bike. cyclists will take care. nobody wants to hit a kid. maybe the older kids can help the youngir kid -- on younger kids cross safely. >> you are a credit to the school well-done. >> next speaker please. >> thank you, chair men, members of the sfmta board. i am the parent of a sixth grader. my wife and i have been commuting by bicycle with our daughter from our home. i am taking time from work to come here today to support the valencia street bike lane design proposed by the sfmta. while i understand the concerns of the school, i think all of us, parents, administrators can rally to develop a plan to ensure the safety of our children as they move from the sidewalk to the d

ride my bike. luckily, now i get to ride on harrison street in the soma. they have a wonderful protected bike lane. i saw this morning they are adding folsom street coming back both of my rides are safe, but anytime i think about going down particularly to 24th and valencia, i used to think that 24th bus and the taxis were bad ten years ago, but it is a nightmare now with cars picking up door --dash services, and stuff like that. as much as i am filled with anxiety, i think about other early -- other differently abled people or kids who do that path. i have seen more and more kids writing really fun bikes on valencia street. want to hear about the parents of bicyclists, i get that anxiety again almost like when i got hit. it makes me terrified for what happened. when i was hit, both times the cars pulled into the bike lane and nudged my bike. both times i was okay. i am one of the nonreported statistics. i loved what happened on the bike lanes in the soma and i can't wait to see something happen li

have ride to people on bikes have the right to use the lane whether or not in the sharing bike lanese protected by parks e.r. parked cars and stay out of separated bike lanes unless an emergency dashed bike lanes are a shared zone four for vehicles to change lanes slow bike lanes allow the circles their unusually sprayed before me from other traffic some bike lanes are built to the level higher than the street but lower than the sidewalk they provide a safe separated space sponsor cyclists are around vehicles the box areas are marked with the stencil at intersections act as advanced limit lines for people to garter at a red light this increases the 1r0ir7b9 to drivers people will ride past stopped vehicles at the fronltd of the intersection give them room and stop short of limit line behind the bike without objection and cross only after the green light and people cleared the bike box bicycle traffic lights allow people on bikes to proceed while vehicles are stopped be unaware aware of those bike san francisco general hospital but stay alert and only skrans when the vehicle is cleare

bike employs six people. guys or should we test the motor and generic stefan cush was designed the bike taxi a quick check to make sure everything's in order before it took over eight years to develop the prototype. bike taxi will set you back ten thousand euros. to sweeten the deal the engineer has designed a vehicle to accommodate. bike gets a small part of the cost of most of the admin new goes to the driver it takes about five months to pay back the value of the bike taxi. stefan cush have begun building bike toxics seventeen years ago he's even designed a solar powered version. bike taxis can be found in one hundred twenty cities around the world including munich tokyo and caravan. some two hundred by taxis are already on the streets of fairyland. to whom one has just completed his first bite of the day. as a session it was really great and everything was well explained i'm sure we'll do it again sometimes it was. for to lie it's time to find his next passenger is. not in here has a thriving stand up com

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it's been great and successful. >> and the popularity of biking, they have inspired a bike club where kids could ride a bike before and after schoolery, most of the clubs don't get that much people, i think there's a lot of excite prime minister for biking. >> and so while the adults try to learn more about what this means for our brains, in a world where it is like everything is about a screen, these children are figuring out just how beneficial it can be to sometimes just enjoy the ride. the ride. >> i was jealous of that bike unit, it's a lot if fun, then go off campus, that school in particular has an off road course they go to, the parks and they're going home and biking with their families. >> that's great, do you think it could help my brain? no. >> they're accepting grant applications, you can think if my school can use that, now, is the time. >>> mark tamayo has the forecast. >> it's a great day for a bike ride if you want to hit the trails and go outside for a little bit. we have clear skies and high clouds and patchy fog, and look at the beautiful colors to start off for yo

. >> is this the same size as my bike right now? >> reporter: captain derek and his son landon are assembling bikes and rebuilding children's lives. >> that's why i wanted you to come. i wanted you to see how important it is to help others, people that are in need. >> reporter: alameida county sheriff's deputies deployed to butte county during the devastating camp fire. >> it hit home. all the loss of life. >> reporter: deputy chris delima wanted to do more. bikes for butte were born. >> we went to dick's sporting goods. i talked to them. they called me a couple days later. hey, we're going to give you a hundred bikes. >> it grew and grew and now we're at 400 bicycles, plus another $20,000 in sporting and activity equipment for kids. >> reporter: donations are coming from all over. this trailer, the truck and the drive time are being donated by search and rescue member. tho they'll load all the bikes into the trailer and take off friday morning. every bike comes with a hell mitt and a sense of freedom on two wheels. >> when kids can

to pay back the value of the bike taxi. stefan cush of the gun building bike toxics seventeen years ago he's even designed a solar powered version. bike taxis can be found in one hundred twenty cities around the world including munich tokyo. some two hundred by taxis are already on the streets of foreign lands. to whom one has just completed his first bite of the day. as a session it was really great and everything was well explained i'm sure we'll do it again sometimes it was. for to la it's time to find his next potter is. now india has a thriving stand up comedy scene and increasing to as a growing number of women have joined in the using laughs and jokes to touch upon some horrific button topics previously considered taboo for public discussion many of them also have their own shows on the internet our correspondent saw me off on the got caught up with one of them in delhi and found out what it takes to make a box in water steam and all boys school. now. this is a this is great. and unusual sight at the popular comedy c

facility a green bike, yellow bike, read bike and motorized vehicles would have a combination of the green, yellow and red balls and areas to indicate who has the right of way. some other additional elements that are getting incorporated into the design our transit signal preemption -- preemption technology. it is infrastructure in the signal and is compatible with the actual vehicle fleet. the media vehicle seat see transit vehicles and other vehicles that would communicate between the signal system and the vehicle to make them no proximity to one another so the phasing of the intersection can be changed based on a variety of factors. you still have to program this and determine. it is pretty typical for major metropolitan cities to have busy corridors. we will be working with the city family to figure out the best way to program that. >> the general topic will have a red light while the bus has a couple seconds or some ability to get to the front of the line so they are not sitting behind the last car waiting at the signals. there is also emergency vehicle preemption technology whi

. >> last year i had the bike unit and i didn't know how to bike. >> reporter: hood he rides today he rides and with confidence. >> when you find you can do something you couldn't do so for long it opened his world up. it was a miracle. >> reporter: there are dozens of schools signed up from across the country. >> they are really nice biked compared to the ones i have at home. >> when specialized came to us with this opportunity, we decided to take a look at the data. we started looking and noticing that we have high numbers of special needs students. >> reporter: the foundation was started by mike. he believes cycling can help everyone but he is focused on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. neither of them took medication. >> reporter: what is the goal? >> the goal is for parents and kids to realize that there is other alternatives for augmentation besides taking a pill. this is nationwide. and at some point doctors say your kids need ride and there is a prescription to ride a bike. >> reporter: he was inspired by an article, riding is my ritalin and he is so passionate about

the most common bike crash type was during, and half of bike crashes involve loading and unloading of passengers. a concentration of these collisions occurred on the stretch of valencia between market and 15th street with about 30% of the total current -- collisions happening along 22 % of the corridor or. in addition, this will fatality it was a hit and run pedestrian collision occurred within the proposed pilot project limits. the intersection of valencia and defoe has the highest frequency of overall collisions among all modes, and the intersection of valencia in 14 has the highest number of bike crashes at 13th these numbers alone emphasize the need for safety improvements on valencia between market and 15th street. on september 26th, the mayor directed the sfmta to expedite the bikeway his project and to design and implement a protected bikeway pilot on valencia between market and 15th street within four months. the sfmta is committed to making incremental improvements on valencia to improve the overall safety. therefore, for the past ten weeks, the sfmta has retired dutch worked

you can drop off toys and books and bikes beginning at 5:30 this morning. this is not a jefferson street at the until 1 tonight. >>> christmas came early for 300 children in san francisco with new bikes thanks to the firefighter toy one eight-year-old girl asked for a bike not for herself but for her brother. >> reporter: a warehouse transformed in to santa's workshop. this bike and toy giveaway made possible by the san francisco fire toy program and volunteers. >> up feels amazing. i get to help out people less fortunate. >> reporter: kids have to write a letter to be considered. >> they ask why. >> reporter: volunteers pick 300 observing kids. she wrote a letter but not for her cell. i wrote letter for my the only picked >> i have a bike and we can ride together and apartdid not stop there. >> merry christmas. >> reporter: the mayor stop by and is a big fan. >> it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet the mayor. >> we can't let her walk out of here without a bike for herself. it is great. it shows even at an early age, kids are thinking about others

that is with the bike and that concept. we still have a lot of users commuting across, as well as tourists and others. to get to where we are today, we are in 2018. we just finalized our last outreach for this phase of the project. it got us between -- depending on what phase or area of the project we are, we are at different levels of design, but we are really only about ten and 30% design, and we just really looked at the pitfalls. there aren't exactly a lot of environmental fatal flaws, primarily the challenges will be historical properties and that sort of construction. it will be difficult particularly with traffic control and being able to take lanes in the middle of the night it will be quite difficult day today. funding is probably our number 1 driver. the estimate for the project, at this point if we were to start today, is around $350 million. however, we don't have the funding for it. we are seeking other funds too, and the same pots of funds that. is looking for. we are trying to look for opportunities on -- the

it's at some bike races and bike lane running. that's what really enhances urban cities because you want to be near entertainment. they want to be able to walk to the grocery store. they want to be able to get to all of their needs quickly. when you think about the infrastructure and i'm not talking about physical infrastructure, a talk by the of the things that the city whether its hospitals or colleges and universities. i said one of the things baltimore, another thing baltimore doesn't get promoted as is it is a college and university town. johns hopkins has a $1.9 billion investment by bloomberg to make sure that your people who come to that university don't leave in debt. morgan state another $5 million endowment for young people to go to college. we are also going to become we call the cybersecurity of the east coast because of where we are located because it was happening with the 13 cybersecurity company that already moved there. that's why at hanover st., bridge is important to us. that's $150 million investment that need

you convince him to take up bike riding? >> he has his own hobby set.e respect each other's hobbies. david: there was a plane called the concorde. hurdle.e economic that airplane was never economically viable. you will see an intersection between commercial and high-speed travel and space travel. that will evolve with the -- over the next couple of decades. david: have you tested out any airbus? dennis: not so the guy have -- so i have pursued it. the report to hear my people like flying on boeing airplanes. preferhow many people boeing? ok. i guess you are right on that. a, some mightad call it a wobbly. are you not worried that the chinese of the japanese will get into this business of making commercial airplanes? that futurenow competitors are coming. we have a strong marketplace. a $7.6 trillion marketplace. it is a growing industrial marketplace, it creates manufacturing jobs and ripple benefit, china is emerging as a important commercial market for us. they are a future competitive. to art of this business is collaborate and compete and competitio

a new bike from the san francisco firefighters toy giveaway. here is the story including an eight-year-old who asked for a bike not for himself but for a brother.>> reporter: a san francisco warehouse transformed into santa's workshop. this annual bike and toy giveaway made possible by the san francisco firefighters toy program, generous donors and volunteers. >> it feels amazing because i can help out those who are less fortunate than me. >> reporter: to be considered for a bike the kids have to write letters. >> saying why firefighters should make their day. >> reporter: 300 deserving kids are picked. eight euros in they wrote a letter but not for herself. >> i wrote it for my brother because he didn't have a bike and she got one. >> reporter: her brother is in the only one to right away with a bike. she was surprised with one too. >> we can write together in the park.>> reporter: the excitement didn't stop there. the san francisco mayor stop by the event and zulu is a big fan. >> it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you get to meet th

biking. you're looking at origin, destination, i want to plan a trip now. it is searching for different modes. -- we areed on fortunate now because we have all of the real-time data. we have models that predict in real-time what is travel time, what is the energy used and what is emissions for every single user and for every possible option out there. initially, we are showing you three options. we have a travel behavior prediction model customized for every single user. susan, the longer you use it, we will learn more about your preference and which mode you like to use, and then we will custom design these initial options to show you. if you choose to drive, you get here in 12 minutes. bike, it takeso longer, 16 minutes. incentiveive you more to use transportation modes that reduce congestion and energy use. the bottom line is rideshare. >> driving, three points. walking, i would get 108 points. i didn't make the best choice and i only got three points. >> which is fine. the next time you u

to replace off-street car parking with bike parking. that is not part of the f.u.d. planning did go back to look at the r.h.1 and it's not to be used for living space which puts additional pressure on space for size and by removing the requirement the space that would have gone to parking can now be counted towards a living space. removing the requirement can actually take away unnecessary parking and allow the proj sponsor to build more usable living space without expanding the building envelope. we had the conversation with those who came and our office is also following up with supervisor ronan and they stated they'd be happy to work with the residents on control if they need to be modified. we know monster home say -- is a concern and they're looking to build as many housing units as possible and not just the largest homes possible. our office and the planning department did reach out to every single neighborhood and association and merchant association we were given and sometimes supervisors don't respond to us and i'm not sure what to do when that happens we ca

scooters and bikes should be living harmoniously. it gets a lot of click bait, the data across the industry shows that scooters are safer than bikes. you hear more about scooters in the paper because the hot new thing, when the first step on autonomous vehicles. when you look at it online and you see bike insurance, can't remember that. we get higher utilization rates. and 7 or 8 times later. you think this is revolutionizing micro-mobility for the number one issue because one death is too many and another key point is the cards, the riders, not the people on the scooter that is at fault, but people riding the cars. in one case somebody ran a red light. the case in cleveland where a woman, not to act on the scooter but but what happened in that situation. we are seeing the opposite, there are accidents and it does happen, the potholes fly out. you have the right policies in place to grow the industry. >> the new york-based company motivate -- america's largest by shared service. what is going on? >> the transportation, doing so is pr

. >> the issue deals with taking away ang single par space so that more bikes have places to park. transportation reporters found o out, the small town has a big opinion on the matter. >> church street in vienna. it has charm. >> we have brick sidewalks.d we have per lighting. >> reporter: i has character. c. has traf lots of traffic heading to the shops here. it alsobo has controversy taking away a single street parking space to put in a bike rack. >> every parking space matters on church street. and as much as we want people to bike and to walk and that cuts down on traffic, you know, people drive. >> douglasoble is a vienna town council member who believes taking away a parking space for bike parking is justified. we t's a question of how do serve the most number of people? >> reporter: while one car takes up one space maybe with onetwr people inside, using that same parking space for bikes allows a dozen or so cyclists to co come to the new. location >> don't want to take the park is space? >> no. >> and, of course, cyclists say they need more resources. >> we need to be able t

in this case, he's attacking it with one of the e-bikes.t's got a little electric motor as well. >> that's incredible. >> you can find more on the instagram page. >> if yor in a hurry for your coffee, don't go to this coffee shop that day. >> he's poking holes in it. >> something tells me these aren't going to be ready to go soon. >> stop it. that's really cool. >> he starts the art work and it becomes like pop up art. >> he makes that famous logo on the starbucks cup and kind of recreate it is. . >> you sit in a coffee shop and need a new idea. he's staring at his cup and he got it. >> i think he was a dude alert in class. >> he was that kid. in this case, he uses the entire cup. >> that would be cool if he gets hired by a coffee chain and gets a special cup. who knows. . he has a wall in which he showcases his art. it's a new way to show it off. >>> set off to soar down the slopes. you can never be too careful. how they speed and swerve through the snow, next. >> that had to hurt. >>> ladies hyped for a new dude. >> but fire does not go w

bike lane. you have to interface with community buses and all of that. i'm glad that is the priority. i'm asking about the infrastructure needs, the capital needs of market street. are there any that are critical that we should be thinking about prioritizing in phase one east fifth street? or what is critical is the repaving and the bike lane. >> what is most critical is the paving and the bike lane. but all of this infrastructure needs to be updated. most of it was installed with bart in the seventies and we did some additional work in the eighties but we know that we do still have 10-15 years of useful life for both the track and the o.c.s. system. that factor into our phasing plan. we know we need to replace us in the coming years and we are trying to get our critical area first. >> that is where my question lies. i know we can't fix everything in phase one, but i want to make sure that we are addressing the most critical component versus the more visible component of better market street. we

more bike lanes mean a cleaner city. we know the single largest offender to our greenhouse gas emissions in san francisco is vehicle transit. we need to make it more attractive to bike, walk, and use mobility options in our neighborhood. we also know we need stronger bicycle corridors. in north beach, the vacancy rate has more than doubled in the last three years alone. transport london found that those who use nonauto modes of transit spent 40% moreover a four-month period. i hope this does not block our commitment to very important other projects, the first being the embarcadero enhancements, and the second being the long-missing plan for construction of a true bicycle connection from north beach through to downtown. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. is there any additional public comment? mr. tannen? >> yeah, peter tannen. i just wanted to second the comments of the bicycle coalition. when this was presented to the c.a.c., i noticed that the bicycle routes didn't connect to other bicycle -- official bicycle route

gave him a christan points out that this model is the rear is d k w bike of all only three hundred of them were built in one thousand nine hundred sure money was in the middle of the great depression and few people could afford luxuries like motorcycles a super sport six hundred cost about the same as a small car like the opel p. four production of the six hundred was cancelled in one thousand thirty three after just three years christo says that's a real shame i think i know diabolo. in one nine hundred thirty four dk w. motorcycles started using reverse scavenging exhaust technology in all their engines this allowed better engine performance and improve fuel efficiency. christof says the dk w. supersport six hundred is a bike for real man big powerful and built like a tank if you took a machine like this on the road in the early one nine hundred thirty s. you were in for a real adventure and the six hundred engine served as the model for the one used in the first german passenger car with front wheel drive the dk w f one up until the one nine hundred fifty s. they hardly changed the

. >> reporter: now this was theac al space where the bike corral was. you can see it is not that much space. for such a small area, it causeg some controversy. >> and a lot of people bikes in is area. >> reporter: he is a councilmember who believes taking away a parking space is justified. >> in my mind, still a question of how do you serveer the most nuf people? >> reporter: he argued while one car takes up o spac using that same parking space for bikes allows a dozen or so cyclists to come to the same location. eut drivers don't seem to want the new bik area. >> not to take parking spe. >> yes. >> we need to be able to park our bikes and be convenient. >> reporter: so it has peen on hold until the town can figure out how many wheels they can accommodate. >> you'll to have see how that shakes up. >> it seems like a lot of fs over one parking space. >>> the news4 team has been working this for months. >>> and doug is tracking possible possible james: this is alana, a very busy mom. she and her husband reginald wanted to grow their family. but alana is o