. >> good afternoon directors howard stras ner one this thing started off with the discussion saying oh if you have signals you can speed up traffic and morphed around and everything is going to slow down traffic you have a hard job here. i think that the bus bulbs will move some paragraph off and traffic off and the signals they have countdown signals even for the short crossings. a lot of people are beginning to understand these things. it's not like new new york city. the other thing -- taking out people don't like bus bulbs -- a position last month no parking on the opposing side you mentioned taking out a parking place and that affords a lot of safety for pedestrian for pedestrians because you don't have to look all the way out to see the cars you can stand there and cars can see you and the pedestrian can see the car so that's really a lot so if you don't want bulbs. people are concerned that people will speed on the streets crossing haight so if you have bulbs there then you have shorter walks for pedestrian that's one way around it. this is really up in the air. good luck. th

. >> howard stras inner ner. >> i'm one that supported this project and it's finally coming about that's so great. you talk about all these improvements but the people in the the people in the city won't believe it until they see it happen. we got to get a project that really shows that happening and we find the statistics and also want to answer some of your questions and my friends at the opera and ballet some some of the senior citizens we walk from van ness. i hope it stops north of market that would be terrible to cross market in order to get to the opera house. so i don't think they have a real case. we walk it everybody can do it it's not a problem. for access to the middle lanes that one of you brought up it's really so you walk halfway one time and halfway the other time. it should be safe and of course the -- so i just want to get started on this thing. one of the problems that comes in parking people will probably come and talk about parking. i remember we were maintaining most of the parking and caltrans came in i guess they were salivating for 50 years to get back to 12-foot