stephen solomon followed by justin flynn and alicia whitney. >> good afternoon, i'm stephen solomon. thank you for your time. i bicycle for everyday trance and i wanted to throw my support behind this project. right now i see soma as more like a freeway grid from the industrial era and this is more of a residential neighborhood and we need to change the character of the streetscape. i'm always looking for the safest outside t roots to impros and i think this is a great improvement in safety. i am expecting we'll have more bike list and scooter riders and and definitely more ebikes. i can see ebikes proliferating in a city with hills like our city. i think this project will make this neighborhood much more livable and more oriented towards residential. i think that there's a cycle. i talk to a lot of people that would like to commute by bicycle but they don't feel safe enough. the more that people see a network to get from their point a to their point b protected bike lanes the more people get on though bikes and it means more capacity on transits. and fewer people in cars. i know cha