eighth avenue is high traffic street when compared to urrounding streets. carries about two or three times the traffic volumes of six, eighth or ninth avenues. it does contain one of the dedicated at goldengate park. the effort of increasing safety and comfort for people biking and walking, we talking to residents and talking to f amilies who bike the park. traffic volume is really where the single biggest cause of the conflicts on the street. when you're biking on the s treet, residential street like eighth avenue, vehicles pass you at high rate of speed that creates uncomfortable s ituations. by reducing those traffic v olumes creating situation where that traffic is spread evenly across neighborhood streets. you can make a better street for people to use to get to and from the park. again, like i mentioned, we had several public meetings. we sent out over 25,000 mailers to a very broad project area . we had several opportunities for public comment starting with an initial pop up table of events a the local library. getting input from people where they fe