i am peter strauss i am on the board of the van ness association and many people approve the alternative which is running buses along the center lane as opposed to the curb lane which is where they are now. is the most effective project that can be design. it's important to remove the buses from the friction from the double parking from bikes from everything along the curb and that is why the most effective a alternative is to put them in the center we are never going to remove all the congestion on vanness. it is not going to happen. what we can do is make sure that the transit vehicles do not get caught in the congestion and do not get caught in that mess. because the congestion bus rapid transit on vanness is the most important place we could contemplate putting a bus route of this nature. yes, there are trade-offs there are always trade-offs. at the end, we are looking at better transit more trees and we will have a better functioning and yes, have a aa more beautiful van ness then we have today. that is the trade-off and that is what we should be doing today. sure it is a trade-off

. >> good morning peter strauss boferd san francisco transit rider jz part of the transportation justice coalition. we are here-this is a information item but here to strongly support this process of developing the transporitation expendsture plan. it is a continuation of the unmet needs identified or some identified as part of the 2030 process. we worked with sfr visor avalos and wiener and particularly with your transportation authority staff and thankful to tilly and maria for the time they have given us. this isn't the time to dwell on the nuts and bolts but would like to mention a few things. we very much support the transportation authority being the allocation agency for the expenditure plan. i understand this isn't something that is completely decided yet but it is embedded in what is at the board of supervisor jz feel this is pornt because of the continuity and expertise. we are in strong support of a element of the sales tax to support unmet service needs and in particular things identified as part of the transit exwuty strategy. like the evening and night service needs. things

i am peter strauss i am on the board of the van ness association and many people approve the alternativehich is running buses along the center lane as opposed to the curb lane which is where they are now. is the most effective project that can be design. it's important to remove the buses from the friction from the double parking from bikes from everything along the curb and that is why the most effective a alternative is to put them in the center we are never going to remove all the congestion on vanness. it is not going to happen. what we can do is make sure that the transit vehicles do not get caught in the congestion and do not get caught in that mess. because the congestion bus rapid transit on vanness is the most important place we could contemplate putting a bus route of this nature. yes, there are trade-offs there are always trade-offs. at the end, we are looking at better transit more trees and we will have a better functioning and yes, have a aa more beautiful van ness then we have today. that is the trade-off and that is what we should be doing today. sure it is a trade-off bu