tragedy in the south of market neighborhood highlighted how the killing of a 24 year old young woman emilie molek highlighted how thoroughly our major infrastructure improvements are need. and i commend supervisor kim for her leadership on the safety needs in that part of the city. and i also applaud the mta for moving forward immediately on a pilot project to place separated bike lanes on folsom street. but we can't just react to individual situations and piecemeal approaches. i don't want the city to only respond death after death until the system is slowly funded and built. we must be proactive and systemic and deliberate and i don't want to wait until someone in the richmond is killed, for example. and i also want to have this conversation well before the mta comes before us with their next two-year budget. if bicycles are to be part of our transit network, it needs -- they need the same funding political leadership and attention other important parts of our system has. so, today i'm introducing this hearing to request and discuss the finding of the budget and legislative analyst office and h