we believe this is a walkable city, and it should continue to be safe and fun and livable, so thank you very much. i'm proud to introduce a great leader of our city, mr. ed reiskin. come on up. >> good morning. thank you all for being here. happy walk to workday. i'm ed reiskin, director of transportation here, and i think we all know that san francisco is a great city to walk in, one of the most walkable cities in the world, but we want it even more so. we want people to be save and we want people to feel save when they're walking in san francisco so they'll choose to make more trips on foot that you've heard from the folks behind me. that was really behind our embrace of vision zero in the city in 2014. during mayor lee's administration, we came together as a city and decided we're not going to accept the fact that people need to be hurt or killed as they're trying to get around our city. we did it the ed lee way, by working together with all the different city departments, with all of our community partners, neighborhood organizations, individuals, because mayor lee recognized it wou

we celebrate that san francisco is one of the most walkable cities, but encouraging people to walk for short times that they may otherwise make and other modes, we're -- as you know and as you'll see, particularly in item 12 today, we're making significant investments in making our streets safer, so walk to workday is also a good opportunity for us to see some of those improvements and celebrate them. we'll be turning on a new signal in the south of market on thursday as part of the walk to workday activities, so hope to see you all there. shortly therefore is annual bike and roll to school week. the week of aprilth is bike 6 and roll to school week. if any of you are around schools for morning drop off and afternoon pick up, you can see why this is so important and how beneficial it would be to -- for school communities, the kids who go to the schools, parents of the folks who go to the schools, and the neighborhoods who go to the school. bike and roll to school week is really about trying to again, get kids and their families acclimated to different ways to get to school that are mor

it will make our cities more walkable and enjoyable. it will change real estate values.ill get parking lots that turn into parks or housing, so the changes we see in 10 years will be the largest physical infrastructure changes we have witnessed in our life. emily: when it comes to lyft building its own driverless technology, you are clearly behind. what will it take to make that happen? john: we are honest with the team and ourselves that we are coming from behind. just as we did with the original business and taking market share from uber, we are making up ground every day. there is also not just the data advantage we have come a but -- have, but starting now, sometimes in certain industries there is a second mover advantage. there are a lot of technologies that did not exist five years ago when others were starting their autonomous efforts that exist today that allow us to leapfrog. emily: we know over time during the lifecycle, you considered selling the company. i am curious when did you most seriously consider selling the company? john: as we said, lyft is never for

it will make our cities more walkable and enjoyable. it will change real estate values.parking lots that turn into housing, so the changes we see in 10 years will be the largest physical infrastructure changes we have witnessed in our life. emily: when it comes to lyft building its own driverless technology, you are clearly behind. what will it take to make that happen? john: we are honest with the team in ourselves that we are coming from behind. just as we did with the original business in taking market share from uber, we are making up ground every day. there is also not just the data advantage we have come a but starting now, sometimes in certain industries there is a second mover advantage. there are a lot of technologies that did not exist five years ago when others were starting their autonomous efforts that exist today that allow us to leapfrog. emily: we know over time during the lifecycle, you considered seriously selling the company. >> as we said, lyft is never for sale. if someone comes in with an offer, we have a responsibility to our board to look at it. e

you know, we have many city workers who have gone to school, who specifically design cities so they are walkable and work for people and there is substantial infrastructure to support the residents who live in those cities. and it pretty much eliminates in a very radical way that thoughtful development and work that many san franciscans have engaged in, in making neighborhood plans. and in being involved in the future of what our city looks like. and i thought we had so much debate. i think it drove supervisor tang crazy over home sf, but it was a worth while debate, it went on and on and you very thoughtfully, supervisor tang, got us all to a place we agreed. here is a package that allows for density and height, where we need more housing to be built, but captures back the value for affordable housing and this would eliminate home sf and make it a pointless piece of legislation. that doesn't make any sense to me. i could go on and on, but i'll spare my colleagues. i just want to say this piece of legislation, however well intentioned, is so fundamentally flawed that i believe it is absolutely n

city. but all of san francisco is walkable.line back. the week before we walked from land's end and took the 38 back. i encourage everyone in san francisco to walk all over this great, great town. and from district six where we are standing, supervisor jane kim. [applause]. >> thank you, supervisor. it is always great to be here on walk to workday. this is now my eightth walk to workday, and elizabeth stamp reminded me that when we did this eight years ago, we walked from civic center to city hall and it was just the three of us, but it was great, and it has since grown every year. this issue has been an issue that i have long worked on. in fact, the very first hearing i called for when i joined the board of supervisors in 2011 was a pedestrian safety hearing, and it was while campaigning that i learned that more individuals in san francisco are killed by cars than by guns in san francisco. and these deaths and injuries are 100% preventible. so i was really proud to work with supervisor norman yee who i'll be introducing after

having been to hong kong and singapore, which are much more dense cities they still feel livable and walkable and they have a combination of a lot of, from the time you land in the airport you see nothing but highrises but at the same time you still see trees and greenery and in singapore there's a sense of calm. we have to be realistic about the future and we always complain about traffic congestion but if people can live here, right, if we can actually build enough housing where people to live here you would take cars off the road like in those cities. surprisingly traffic isn't as bad as you think it would be. it's actually rush hour in singapore, it didn't bad. which was surprising considering how dense it is. we have to be creative and we have to think about a vision and we often think that we're only san francisco is in the situation that we're in and you could be other areas in the world where they've done it effectively. we know it can be done we have to believe it can be done and not let old thinking limit us from reaching the potential of our future. >> thank you. >> do i have a sec

aaa believes part of what's driving that surge, particularly in urban areas, as cities have become more walkable and have encouraged people to cycle to work, they haven't built structures like this, where there's a divided area for a bike lane that's protected from traffic. >> that's a picture of grandpa. >> reporter: john was riding his motorcycle when he was struck and killed by a car that ran a stop sign and took off in june of 2007. >> we've gone through and we've tried to, like, figure out what happened and how this could have been prevented. >> reporter: she says the driver who killed her father was a 17-year-old using her cell phone. in 2016, nearly 2,000 deadly hit and run accidents claimed a record 2,049. pedestrians and cycles make up 65% of the deaths. this dash cam caught the most common type of hit and run crash. one that results in property damage. watch as the driver of this dark colored suv side-swipes another vehicle and just keeps on going. >> obvious potential contributing factors might be distraction for pedestrian, cyclists and motorists alike. and also as more people are ou

walkable neighborhoods. russian hill neighborhoods are devoted itself to protecting pre serving and enhancing our special part of the city for almost 40 year. we have weighed the benefits and risks of this proposal and we believe that approving the whole foods project will be good for the entire neighborhood. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> my name is peter faller, i am a board member at 1500 jackson, opposite the proposed development, so our building would be one of the most negatively impacted if we believed in the negative impacts which we don't. our association has polled positive for this development. if you walk ten blocks going south, there are numerous empty storefronts and we need an anchor tenant to revitalize this neighborhood and for our part we are willing to bet that the whole foods 65 is the best way to do this in the near term. we would hate to have to live with another two years of the blight that we have lived with for the last three year. >> my name is molly hit and i live at 1500 jackson street. this particular space has been vacant for too long and is a real problem in the neighborhood, the hom

city. we saw a lot of information about the hunters point shipyard phase 2 plan, there is a lot to like about it, emulating thei e walkable neighborhoods, saving the fantastic buildings out there. the whole bulldoze and everything new, this was new redevelopment. and this is preserving a lot of the distinguished buildings out there. but i'm here to talk about the part of the plan that didn't get much coverage and that's the candlestick point portion. a lot of the hunters point, that's in the future. if you read the paper, 5,000 units of housing that were going to be built on the phase 2, the hunters point portion have been delayed indefinitely. i want to take you back to the earlier part of the meeting, housing, where do we build more housing? in the city, i think the answer is looking again at the candlestick portion, particularly the retail centre. they didn't show a lot of images about that, maybe they're embarrassed about it, and maybe they should be, because unlike this. there is a center, it's regional, automobile oriented retail, mostly single story that is going to occupy the candlestick portion. i look at the cit