mr. reiskin. >> good afternoon. i want to welcome ed reiskin to the muni head and wish you all the lot because you have a lot on your plate, and i am just going to add to it. i do a lot of work as a police volunteer, and i watch the back doors, and there are a lot of people boarding the back doors, especially 38 geary, that i ride every day practically. it is out of control. we're losing a lot of money. >> is there anyone else who wishes to address the board on the executive director's report? director nolan: seeing none, let's move to the next item. before we do that, i should have said to director oka's, earlier, that would be a concern if we get asked mr. -- if we could ask mr. reiskin to look at those as well. i also want to talk about recognizing people in the taxi industry for the contributions they make on a daily basis. i think that is a long overdue idea. >> item 8, citizens advisory council report. director nolan: good afternoon, mr. murphy. >> good afternoon. i am the chair of the mta citizens advisory cou

mr. rice kin also mentioned -- reiskin also mentioned psych sling joy. do we feel happy we arrived home in one piece or is it just fun and safe together? the figures show that the netherlands, cycling in the netherlands is the safest transport mode in europe. if you compare to it, for example, italy, which is very dangerous for cyclists. we do fairly well. the explanation is, to my opinion, in the fact that we call safety by numbers. the more you get, the safer it is. and i'll show you the next slide to prove that. this is the bike share in the u. where the netherlands is extreme left and the u.k. is extreme right. and third is italy, for example. denmark is second next to the netherlands. if you compare that with safety numbers, you see that in the netherlands, where we cycle a lot, not too many people on bikes got killed and it's just the other way around in it italy and the u.k. where people do not cycle but get killed if they cycle. and somebody can come up with the arguments that we have a lot of good bicycle infrastructure in the netherlands. that'

mr. council general. everybody. it's great to see such a great crowd here for what for us is an extremely important event. my name is ed reiskin. i'm the transportation director here in san francisco and very pleased to welcome you all here this morning for what we expect will be a very lively and productive couple of days here in san francisco. the san francisco m.t.a. is the agency that's charged with implementing the city's transit first policy, which is about getting people out of their cars and into more sustainable modes of transportation, such as bikes, such as walking and transit in our great muni system. as someone who myself gets around the city often by bike, and i do that by choice, but more importantly, i'm given the charge of our agency to get folks out oaf their cars. i can't tell you how exciting it is for me to think all of the brain power and enthusiasm for cycling that's in this room are going to spend the next two days working with us to help us figure out how we can do every -- even better. although we've done a lot in terms of bicycling and increasing the mode of bicycling as a transportation of choice an