we will tk to a san francisco pnning and urban research about public transit options. stay with us. we wi we are back with "beyond the heaines" talking about urban development. spurs was called san francco urban research but now its much, much bigger. >> we have opened in san jose, which many people don't know is not only the largest city in the bay area but all of northern california. >> a lot of people needto get around there. >> what do you do? >> i'm the regional plning director so i am trying to tink about the bay area as we a today and wre we're going and how we get there. the urban policy think tank b we are also a group with members. we really try to bring a lot of the urban planning ideas out to the people and to t decision makers to think about where do we go? >> how doou do that? hall meeng? >>e have an urban center. we just opened an urban cy. we ve speakers on a wide array of topics. >> weave about 400,000 people who r on public traportation daily. >> about 10% of people are taking public transit to work each day. it equateto 1.5 million trips. it i a critical and cruci