i work at somcan and soma filipinas. i usually work in community engagement, creating community planning workshops with youth, seniors, and parents, and i urge you to take note of this process whenever you design something in the south of market so that the designs and the feedback that you will get will be culturally competent. in terms of the central soma plan, the reality of global warming coupled with high concentration of automobiles in the south of market lead to an urgent need to take proactive steps to address greenhouse gas emissions and poor air quality. there is such a lack of green space and greenery in general in the south of market and just last week i was in a community planning workshop with seniors from mendelsohn house, and they were complaining that there's such a lack of green space in soma. and they would actually going to washington park at kearny street, take the 30 bus to exercise, to do their daily exercise. and i also urge you to think about, you know, these seniors who were a result of the past

are here fore the next hearing, i was hoping you could address the questions asked by members of somcan in regards to use of red lanes. i had assumed that red lanes were only to be used by muni and buses, but if you could clarify that and what can be done. >> sure. just to clarify, the use of red lanes that are marked as bus lanes or transit lanes in the city is governed by the california vehicle code. in the case of a red lane that is marked with the words bus lane or transit lane, that lane is available for private buses. we also have many lanes in the city that are marked muni only or muni and taxi only. those lanes are only allowed to be use the by the muni buses. so looking forward to the central soma implementation, we'll have the decision how we want to mark those lanes and make them compliant with the c.b.c. >> supervisor kim: and who has jurisdiction over that decision. >> ultimately, the decision how to mark the lanes would be done by the m.t.a. board. >> supervisor kim: okay. so in terms of the request from the community that we consider muni and cab only transit red lanes, t