and a special thanks to the air district, staff and our partners at sfmta, dta, and you know the beautybout launching this program in san jose and san francisco we are going to learn a lot. we are going to learn about how bike share works in the hills and on the flats and so we will be able to take that knowledge as we expand across the bay area and i want to extend a thanks to congratulations to the bicycle coalitions who are such incredible advocates for this program and we look forward to your help in expanding bike sharing throughout the bay area and as he mentioned, the bay area's single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions comes from transportations that represents about 40 percent of the ght in the region. and so in response to this, in 2009, and mtc created, the climate initiatives program, which includes a 33 million dollar test bed for innovative strategies aimed at reducing transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. and this amount, and mtc is allocated over 7 million to the bay area bike share pilot program and is committed to making this program a success. and t

and a special thanks to the air district, staff and our partners at sfmta, dta, and you know the beauty about launching this program in san jose and san francisco we are going to learn a lot. we are going to learn about how bike share works in the hills and on the flats and so we will be able to take that knowledge as we expand across the bay area