. >> thank you, director heminger. >> can you tell us how these were chosen specifically. >> very goodquestion. some of the corridors we are most interested in we don't have control offer, 19th avenue and lombard. we are working with cal tran, which controls those corridors for approval for hov lanes in order to facilitate not only our buses but higher occupancy vehicles on the state highway network. other corridors we have at capacity. our constraint right now is the availability of workers. we wanted to get started on corridors where there was less. our immediate priority whether engineering issues were simple. local neighborhood and board of supervisors support and it was coming back first. the critical corridors we received clear feedback from members of the board of supervisors. they wanted to see some advance engagement with members of the community and businesses along the way they wanted to take more time to come second after engagement while tame supporting the process of doing the substantive engagement by observing how the traffic patterns change as a result of the pilot pro

. >> the last is global and built off director heminger's comments.i think it's just quite understandable that people are going to be concerned and in riding transit because they've been socialized so well over the last few months and conversely, so that as you mentioned is going to be challenging and i just think conversely the trend is going the opposite direction is that many people are getting off the bicycle in their base basement and enjoying riding for the first time. i think there's a larger narrative here which unfortunately and the trend of biking and the trends of walking and driving and biking and i just think that this could be a real opportunity as we face these very, very challenging financial waters because there's no on operating costs and we look at these cuts of generally supportive of keeping the positions open and i think it's a strategy that make sense but i really want to make sure that if we're going to look at biking as a way to possibly take some of the support from people who are not comfortable making transit trips, are we

>> director heminger: yes, a comment, too. maybe i could start with the comment. i just want to compliment all of the mta staff folks on the line and all the way up to leadership that are working on this program. it may have come from nowhere, but it's gone somewhere in a hurry. and what i like about it is how untraditional it is. and i guess to some extent i want to dissent a little bit from the hand-wringing that i'm hearing in this meeting about outreach. because one of the things that a program like this can do is the program, the projects can be the outreach. [inaudible] -- you can pick up your sandbags and go home and try it somewhere else. i realize we can't go around town stealing the march on every community organization there is. but as we all know, it is so much easier to stop things in san francisco than to get them done. and i think you found a scale of project where we're going to do minimal damage if we try something out and it doesn't work. and we have been able in the alternative -- and that's what has proven to be the case -- we've been able to d

with those comments i will make a motion to approve if director heminger is happy with that compromise. >> staff did make a previous request, if i may. the motion to amend the resolution to establish no left turns except muni between 8 and turk street would delays the pro habbition for you. >> do i need a motion to amend first. >> yes. >> motion to amend. >> second. >> roll call, please. >> director borden. >> aye. >> bring plan. >> aye. >> eaken. >> aye. >> heminger. >> aye. >> the motion to amend is approved. >> i need a motion on the main motion. overall package. motion to approve as amended. ready for a vote? >> motion to approve as amended? >> can we discuss. i like director aaken's idea about -- eaken's idea getting insight. there is that information gap between, you know, we know the three and everything else is invisible. >> wha what is your suggested amended motion? >> i am not sure i need an amendment as long as we have commitment from the director to bring us back something later in july. >> we are planning to bring item to you in july on the rail service changes. this is pr

>> director heminger: yes, a comment, too. maybe i could start with the comment. i just want to compliment all of the mta staff folks on the line and all the way up to leadership that are working on this program. it may have come from nowhere, but it's gone somewhere in a hurry. and what i like about it is how untraditional it is. and i guess to some extent i want to dissent a little bit from the hand-wringing that i'm hearing in this meeting about outreach. because one of the things that a program like this can do is the program, the projects can be the outreach. [inaudible] -- you can pick up your sandbags and go home and try it somewhere else. i realize we can't go around town stealing the march on every community organization there is. but as we all know, it is so much easier to stop things in san francisco than to get them done. and i think you found a scale of project where we're going to do minimal damage if we try something out and it doesn't work. and we have been able in the alternative -- and that's what has proven to be the case -- we've been able to d

. >> the last is global and built off director heminger's comments.i think it's just quite understandable that people are going to be concerned and in riding transit because they've been socialized so well over the last few months and conversely, so that as you mentioned is going to be challenging and i just think conversely the trend is going the opposite direction is that many people are getting off the bicycle in their base basement and enjoying riding for the first time. i think there's a larger narrative here which unfortunately and the trend of biking and the trends of walking and driving and biking and i just think that this could be a real opportunity as we face these very, very challenging financial waters because there's no on operating costs and we look at these cuts of generally supportive of keeping the positions open and i think it's a strategy that make sense but i really want to make sure that if we're going to look at biking as a way to possibly take some of the support from people who are not comfortable making transit trips, are we