. >> bev or ben ly lyon, mark dresser, michael borden. >> good afternoon. as you've heard already from one of the speakers there are alternatives to riding your bicycle up and down fell and oak. i don't ride my bicycle up and down oak street, and i avoid fell. i use page, i use hayes. what you're doing here is balancing a matter of convenience for bicyclists to the extreme inconvenience of the neighborhood. the neighborhood has been making many, many objections. we've got problems that have been voiced by the elderly, by the infirmed, by the handicapped. we've had complaints by the businesses, by the churches. most everybody that you speak to in the neighborhood is opposed to this project. and a lot of it boils around the issue of taking away, you know, parking or doing something which is changing the current conditions to make it much more difficult and in some people's perk unsafe for them. let me say something about oak street. i think that's really an interesting thing to notice. people that use oak street bomb down that hill. they go very fast. i've wi

next speaker. >> michael bordon, neel patel. is mike detail borden here? neel patel followed by. >> my name is neel patel community planner with the san francisco bicycle coalition and on behalf of our 12,000 members i enthusiastically support this project. i'm proud to be here today, one, i'm proud to have been a part of the community planning process for this project. i don't think i've seen a process that for only six blocks has reached hundreds of thousands of people, dozens of business owners, multiple times over one year process of this project. i'm proud to be a san franciscan and a city that develops proposals that prioritize the safety of people walking and biking. i hear a lot of stories from people who love biking in san francisco and due to your work, your agency's work we hear a lot more of those stories. but there always the but president the but i hear most is i hate biking on fell and oak between scott and baik. i hear it more than any other street in san francisco. so you've all received the over 350 letters of support from various individ