[applause] >> david becker and then matthew lambert. >> good afternoon. my name is david becker. i live in north beach. i walk and bike the embarcadero at least once a day. right now, embarcadero's kind of the worst of both worlds. it's very, very crowded. when i walk, i'm always scared that bikers are, like, flying around me. as a biker, if i take the bike lane, i'm just terrified that a car will just pull right in front of me. and from those pictures, they show cars, like, jumping in front of you. but even -- even when they're standing still, you don't know if somebody's going to open a door right into you, and i've had many, man ae close calls where i'm just riding my bike straight along the bike way, and i have to react, and if i would have just reacted a little bit slower, i would have just been on the floor. this is -- i understand it starts oh, like oh, let's do a shared lane here. it's incremental, but based on the traffic we have on the embarcadero, it's time. it's time to give bikes a dedicated lane, give pedestrians their own space. it just makes so much sense. and the