. >> clerk: yuri dbiski, tariq mahmoud, and rachel heiden. >> hi, everyone. thank you for this opportunity. i first visited san francisco seven years ago. there was bart, muni and private car at that time. my memories was that bart works most of the time. muni seems to work awesomely with occasional delays. and trying to get to golden gate park from mission was mission impossible because the connection of the buses was missing and there were delays and it took an hour to get there and at the time there were no ubers and lyfts, so it was a tricky situation. i don't know if that has changed too much as far as ground transportation goes, but underground is still looking. i chose where i live because i'm close to the muni station. it's reliability to get in and out of the city. i also bike a lot and i love biking. i think it's very healthy and i haven't heard much conversation about the long-term health implications on people depending on the mode of transportation. as far as i'm concerned, i'm trying to bike as much as possible. and i would love my friends to do

my name is rachel heiden. i'm the executive director of san francisco transit riders. i'm here to invite all of you to participate in san francisco third annual transit riders week. this week is about celebrating transit and all of those who ride it and drive it. it's the one week of the year that our organization works together to bring riders and driver's together and thank them for doing the right thing: for keeping or air clean and keeping our community safer. i'm here today to invite all of you to participate in our transit week challenge, which is to pledge to ride transit at least once every day during transit week. i also would like to invite you to participate september 24 and ride along with your constituents, so we'll meet at a location in your district, and we'll meet at the steps of city hall. i want to go ahead and thank -- supervisor brown has already pledged, supervisor mandelman, and supervisor peskin, i've been working with your staff to reserve the steps of city hall. if you are going to participate with us this year, i ask that you either sign or sc