because as much as we need a corridor for us this is still a major change for our residents and katie liedel who heads our south beach rincon mission bay association and alice rogers who is part of our south park improvement association who hads fought for it finally this year we were able to cut the ribbon on the beautiful new playground and park at south park and bruce part of our trance bay committee and patrick valentino who often came and were maybe the only voices or were minority voice saying we need wider sidewalks and protected bike lanes even if that meant loosing parking spots and loosing lanes of traffic onto the bridge and i'm excite inside is finally happening and this is the corridor that our neighborhood deserves and millions of dollars have gone to this both from the san francisco county transportation authority as well as other granting authorities so i want to thank them for working to make sure that we were able to make this again this promise a reality for our neighborhoods so congratulations and i look forward to working with everyone during the construction process and