it started out on the embarcadaro, the first pilot five years ago and has really now spread across they. we've had a full season of events proposed. as of this date we've got approval for the first four of them which will be that first embarcadaro route which will be march 10th. the route through mission street or the more popular ones on april 14th. the bayview on june 9th and the great highway on july 7th. and as the rest of the calendar gets secured and approved, we'll bring it back. we'll bring information back to the board. in addition to sunday streets is a new component that's going to be added into the mix this year called play streets. i mentioned this a while back that when the grant award for play streets came through, but it's a pilot program of four smaller one to two -block events, also featuring car-free streets. particularly in targeted areas where health disparities are high and open space is limited. so, it's kind of like a targeted mini version of sunday streets. the funding is provided by the blue cross/blue shield foundation and partnership for a healthier america.

before coming here tonight, i told the mayor, i walked the embarcadaro. i do that quite often. i wander around san francisco. it's always amazing to me because as i wander around san francisco i'll see something or experience something that has come as a result of the most open, the most directed, and the most people-sensitive government anywhere in this world. and it comes as a result of two extraordinary people who gave their lives so that we can enjoy, and enjoy we must. thank you. (applause) >> thank you, mr. mayor. that was wonderful. i kind of messed up on the timing here. i apologize. but, so, i'm going to introduce assemblyman tom ammiano next and then we'll have the gay men's chorus and we will go to jonathan. so, just before tom gets up, tom was one of harvey's volunteers for many campaignses. he walked precincts and he was a very brave person being a teacher at the time. and when no on 6 was an issue in our state and they were trying to use the state proposition, was trying to out law lesbian and gay teachers in our schools, tom, a gay teacher himself, spoke out and

the reality on the ground is blanch street is a one-way street going eastward towards the embarcadaro. and in general, what you will see on the ground is the backside of this project and the blanch street frontage. so, if you do approve this project, please ensure that bryant street gives back something to the community. thank you. * >> thank you. next speaker. >>> hello, my name is rick carp, i'm the president of cole hardware here in san francisco and i'm asking you to please reject this project based on the formula retail issues. it's been my passion since the early '80s to try to keep big box and formula retail out of san francisco. i'm the veteran of the home depot wars that went on three to four different times when we finally lost about five years ago. they left because of their business model that screwed up at the time. lowe's came in. my whole deal for that whole time period was if you let one big box into san francisco, then all of their cousins follow. since we lost the home depot, lowe's moved into their project. best buy has come into san francisco. there's one target op

along mission and along market bringing passengers from balboa park all the way up to as far as embarcadaro. this is the fast pass was not available to be used on bart. sfmta would no doubt incur additional expenses to carry those riders on their buses. so, we are providing a service. sfmta does set the price of the fast pass. not only the original price, but also the differential pricing that was put in place a couple of years ago. they control the price of the fast pass and level of service that they offer connecting to bart stations. so, we provide supplemental capacity in those corridors and i believe it is a valuable service. so, and then lastly just to note, before the $10 price differential was put in place, muni still collected all the fast pass sales revenue and a abortion of that fast pass price supported the payments to bart for the service. so, that gets to the point from mr. rose's office that the subsidy from sfmta to bart is $5.6 million. so, there is a portion of the original fast pass price that also goes into the subsidy. and that $5.6 million is approximately the level of

along mission and along market bringing passengers from balboa park all the way up to as far as embarcadaro. this is the fast pass was not available to be used on bart. sfmta would no doubt incur additional expenses to carry those riders on their buses. so, we are providing a service. sfmta does set the price of the fast pass. not only the original price, but also the differential pricing that was put in place a couple of years ago. they control the price of the fast pass and level of service that they offer connecting to bart stations. so, we provide supplemental capacity in those corridors and i believe it is a valuable service. so, and then lastly just to

from santa cruz all the way north to santa rosa, the damage in the marine ya, the collapse of the embarcadaro freeway, all of that damage totaled $6 billion from that one event and the price of the new bay bridge? $6 billion. which to me is amazing. >> we're also talking about the price of a lot of lives that can be saved by the new design. >> and we're also talking about the time to do it which in political style added billions. >> the original bridge was built from scratch in the 1930's in three years. this bridge has taken them since they really started back in 1999. it's going to take them 14 in all. >> the end is near. >> nothing like progress. we'll be right back. draft proposal to reform immigration. u-s-a today reports that it would allow the mented to become l gldz. >>> welcome back. the white house has come up with a graft proposal to reform immigration. "u.s.a. today" report it is would allow the undocumented to become legal permanent residents within eight years. >>> a controversy in los angeles related to the upcoming selection after new pope. retired cardinal roger mahony is sti

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