Understand how people who suffered at her hands feel about it. It is like opening a scar and keeping it forever exposed. That is what we want you to know. Rose pack. Good afternoon. Im speaking on behalf of the c. M. A. We object just to the stop to include rose paks name. Supervisor peskin did not reach out to everyone in the community before making this decision of the naming of the stop. We did not receive any notice from his office. And he started familiar with our organization because we produce the auto moon festival and he attends it regularly. They cannot attend these hearing because they need to stay at their stores. A lot of them just want chinatown stop. Simple and clear. As you know, from all the testimonies that rose pak is not very well liked and shes a bully and we dont feel like a bully should be honored in this way. Chinatown has a long history and built by our ancestors and awful us in the community. The central subway should not be named after one person particularly someone like rose pak, the name chinatown stands for all of us, past and present in the community who made it what it is today. The city leaders should move not to divide the community but unite them to be inclusive, not exclusive. Therefore, i ask m. T. A. Follow their policy of not putting anyones name on a public federally funded transportation. We appreciate your listening to our position. Thank you, very much. Next speaker. I need translation. I would be translating. Good afternoon, chairman and board directors. I would like to respond to supervisor peskins aid comments at the m. T. A. Board meeting two weeks ago about the majority of the opposition not coming from actual San Francisco residents but from falon gung practitioners. Such statements are misleading. Over 8,000 San Francisco residents signed their names to the petition against the rose pak naming proposal. Many of them from district 3. We have sent you the online version of the petition. Opposition also comes from the Chinatown Merchant Association and a Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association who represent 09 of the chinatown family association. Among many other communities groups. In the meantime, not a single resident the chinatown or San Francisco came forward to supervisor meetings to support the naming in four weeks. If there is so much support for the naming, there should be people who are willing to take some time off their schedules and come to the city hall to speak. As we are doing now. So, this supervisor peskin speak out the truth or does he even know the truth . Falon gung practitioners are part of the San Francisco community. Rose pak had a mandate from beijing to suppress falon gung in San Francisco. Thats why shes been so hostile against this group and its why falon gung feels so strongly about the naming. Its a persecution continued overseas in america. The root of this opposition runs deep and spreads wide. Please listen to the publics voice not the one of politicians. Our political system is still one of the people by the people and for the people. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Final speaker is stewart. Just because she didnt turn in the card you can still speak but lineup on that side so we know you are coming up. Thanks. Just very briefly, this week the San Francisco weekly magazine published an article on the taxicabs. I hope all of you are reading it. Its very simple thing to note here though. It said you are not trying to remove medallions bought before dr. Bought before 78. I just would like to point out the contradiction of what is going on. You are not taking away the 78 medallions, all you are doing is charging twice as much to row knerenewthem. Thats 12. 67 versus 6. 14. Do you think it wont stop people from renewing their medallions. I would really love to hear an explanation of the dinnerren shall. 12. 27 versus 6. 14 what i would have to pay and it doesnt mean anything to you. Some of us have worked hard in the industry and tried to create some reason for it. I hope theres a specific of reality. Followed up by this kind of action. Thank you. Thank you. There is a member of the public, peter loud. Is that for some item or 11. You are the last person who submitted a card. Would you lineup on this side because its a fire hazard to lineup by the door. Thank you. Good afternoon. Board of directors. My name is peter lou. The resident of San Francisco for over 40 years. I am here to again name San Francisco chinatown subway station against rose pak. Let me remind everyone how long rose pak registered Chinese Communist party agent has been bullying San Francisco chinatown residents and San Francisco chinatown merchants. 30 years ago, october 17th, 1989, when the world series about to begin, between San Francisco giants and oakland as. At 5 00 or 4 00 p. M. The earthquake struck San Francisco with 6. 9 magnitude. Since then, whatever the political reason, the 480 highway was not usable and the beginning of chinatown projects. Rose pak has bullied San Francisco for 30 years. So i strongly recommend not naming rose pak subway station. Thank you. Thank you. Any final Public Comments . This is for general Public Comment. Things in the subject matter jurisdiction of the sfmta but not on todays agenda. Are there any other people that want to make a comment. The public is closed. Well move on to our consent calender. Item 10, all matters here are considered to be routine and acted on by a single vote. There will be no separate discussions unless a member of the board or public requests. I have received no indication to severe or remove the items from staff. Great. Motion to approve. Second. All in favor. Aye. That motion passes. Weve move on to item 11. Amending the transportation Code Division 2 section 601 to transit only lane on folsom street from tenth street making the Environmental Review findings and approving the proposed bike ways and traffic modifications associated with the full sub as follows i will not address all of them but there are many. Thank you, very much. Great. Good afternoon, vicechair borden, members of the board, my name is paul and im very excited to be the project manager and to present the folsom and Howard Street skate e project. It will implement bike transit and curb Side Management to 2 soma street, folsom and howard. Just to provide a little bit of context in the area, this say two streets that ive had the pleasure to present to the board. Within the past 18 months and just to provide a little reminder on why were here. These two streets are very interesting in the context of soma. They have a lot of diffuses. In the last year like i mentioned we have installed nearterm projects that provide a lot of safety benefits for pedestrians and psychists while were planning a much larger much more robust street scape project. Really these streets kind of tell the tale of bike infrastructure in San Francisco. There was a Industrial Area that focused on moving vehicles and heavy trucks to the area. Over the pfaff few decades, a lot more people have moved to soma and the street hasnt really kept up. Now were redesigning the streets with a less emphasis on vehicles and redesigning the streets for people. There are some guiding considerations. Just providing a little more context we are proposing these changes to folsom and howard. For anyone who has walked along these two streets in the past few years, it can be uncomfortable. If you are riding a bike, you are well aware that the bike lanes and people traveling is often double parking by vehicles and by trucks loading and unloading passengers and goods and if you are a cycle list, it can be tricky between cars and psychcyclists. This is the 13th city streets that account for 75 of our severe ansevere and fatal crash. 116 people have been injured on howard including a Pedestrian Fatality and psyche lists fatalities and on folsom street between 11th and second, 169 people have been injured on folsom including one cyclist. Its frustrating and sad of our work in San Francisco. I just wanted to acknowledge some of the people who have passed away on these streets over the past five years. Kate slat re, seth ross steen and emily lamaluck. A big corner stone of this project has been our work with the community. Up here you can see somewhat weve gone to understand the Community Needs and preferences and understand their vision for their neighborhood street. We have met with over 20 Community Groups over the process of this project. Some of them have included the united players, south of Market Community action network, the independent Living Resource Center, folsom street fair and San FranciscoFire Department, Betsy Carmichael and so one of the great things about these streets is theyre diverse in nature. We wanted to capture that and understand how the diverse residents and the businesses of these two streets wanted to see their ideals and how they can get their finger prints on this project. Since it is a really long corridor, nearly thro three mile had to implement nearterm projects and thats what weve done over the past few years and that has allowed us to bring forward the safety improvements a lot quicker. And also learn from them. So understanding the perspective of different people and how they use the street and really use that knowledge to inform the final design. And working with people who use wheelchairs and on the independent Living Resource Center and how they get from the loading lane to the sidewalk and what it feels like to get from the loading area to the sidewalk and having psyche lists somewhat riding quickly and what weve done is designed that from the working groups. In project team and members of the community we developed four project goals. The first one was to improve safety for all users of folsom and howard. The second one was to make biking and walking and somewhat more comfortable and pleasant experience and the third was to make changes to improve Transit Services along folsom street and the last one was to prepare for future growth in the neighborhood. Tying our project with the central soma program. So get nothing a little bit of the specifics from a different mode perspective, the first one is the Bicycle Safety improvement and what were proposing is a twoway protected bike way on both streets. Toe pro sect psyche lists and at intersections and so this sin includes to have dedicated and separate turning vehicles and psyche lists traveling through and example of this and implemented a year ago and we have received a lot of positive feedback on separating out and removing that conflict between turning vehicles and psyche lists and Something Else that we learned through the near term project are specific locations where we feel that raised crosswalks and there are few locations where psyche lists thg a quick turn trying to take a short cut and get to the freeway and were recommending a raised crosswalk in a few locations. In terms of safety, for pedestrians, were recommending six new signalized mid block crossings and this augments compliments some existing mid block crossings that we have in the area. This really cuts down object the lanes that people have to track during one side of the street or the other and it helps with connecting Education Centers and schools to after School Programs and soma and just providing safer channels for kids and their chapper owns to get between the two. Were proposing raised pedestrian crossings. Recommending corner to shorten distances for people were also recommending Traffic Signals with dedicated phases to protect evidences and turning vehicles. In terms of transit improvements, were recommending a in terms of loading improvements with all these trade offs the community has been aware of from the beginning, balancing the need for parking and Transportation Safety improvements for psyche s and pedestrians we will remove 27 of Parking Spaces along the two corridors and this is something that we havent done and weve gone out and met with hundreds of businesses to understand their loading needs and to talk to them about what the project is proposing and also hearing from them exactly what they need to make their businesses function a little bit better. Weve heard theres a real need more commercial loading on the two corridors and an increase in commercial yellow zones. So what were doing through this project and weve done to some extent to the near term project is doubled the number of commercial loading zones on folsom and howard. Something we heard talking with merchants owners in the community is that implementing parking meeters on folsom between sixth street and 11th street would increase turnover and increase turnover and provide a little bit more parking availability for customers in the area. And while we have done amount of outreach with merchants and residents in the area that outreach is going to continue as we go through the Detailed Design phase. Weve had a good experience working with folsom street fair and understanding their needs through this process. And tweaking our design based on their feedback. Something else that we have gained a lot of in sight working is working with John Elberling hearing how the building at 801 howard functions in terms of their loading needs and that is something well continue to do through the Detailed Design phase is work with these Different Community members and tweak our their needs and their loading concerns. In terms of project timeline, weve had a lot of planning process and a lot of preliminary engineering for the past three years and weve had eight open houses and the and well be in detail design for the next two years with public works going back to process and working with different groups and they have concerns about concrete median or whatever else it might be. And finally well have construction at the end of 2021 and we expect it to last two to two and a half years. So with that, if there are any questions . Public comment . Director torres. Yes. We have heard about raised sidewalks in the past, which i had supported because of the safety issues for pedestrians. Do we have a history or an awareness of what happened with those raised sidewalks . Have they been put no place and whats the result of their effectiveness. Specifically on this project . Previous projects. Sure, so we have them in many places around the city. Weve seen they slow vehicles traveling through an intersection. And they prioritize pedestrians and just makes them a little bit more visible in certain locations. Have you noticed less pedestrian accidents in those areas where these praised sidewalks have been pleased . Pl. Certain conditions theyre more applicable than others. Usually a onelane approach is where we like to see them. We wouldnt put them on the street like on market, or on folsom or on howard because its a wide street. Thank you. I noticed this plan doesnt go past fourth street. Are we looking at that . Is that in the future . Just out of curiosity if. On folsom theres the transbay folsom project picking up a design at Second Street carrying it to the embarcadero and it should Start Construction this summer. As far as Howard Street from fourth to the embarcadero its a phase 2 for this. As detail design starts for this project, thats going to be our job is to go back and do this process for howard from embarcadero. I really think, i think i mentioned this before this idea of a Center Alignment for the blocks with all the traffic if that could be something we can look at . I know its really unusual. Because of the loading needs, particularly in front of months conemocsoni tosee how it would u have a Center Alignment. Sure. Any other questions . Thank you. Good presentation. Im so excite beside this project. When i was doing my reading this weekend you may have heard my screech when i realized that it was a twoway bike way. This is the first one that weve done of kind of any length on a busy street like this, correct . Right, especially in soma. Im totally supportive and i think it will work well. I think the loading outside adding more loading zones in the loading outside the protected bike lanes and the buffer like baines can work really well. Where does it switch being twoway or do we anticipate have that being ultimately two way the entire length of folsom and howard . Howard is two way from 11th street to the embarcadero. On folsom, theres a twoway section at Second Street going to the embarcadero. The design for that is to have a protected bike lane on each side of the threw a combination of marking signal timing and signage, we feel pretty confident we can do that. Thats exciting. It will be great. I would just say lets be sort of as aggressive and cautious as we can when it comes to anything that is an intersection that is a mixing zone although i really like the improved folsom and howard. The mixing zone still continues to be a little sketchy because most not most drivers, a lot of car drivers dont seem to recognize what the little yield arrows mean. As director torres said, the raced crosswalks help so much maybe we can figure out Something Like that if we have mixing zones in this thing. Just something to get the attention of the car driver where those sharks teeth, just dont seem to work with a lot of drivers. Right. And to be clear, this would not include the mixing zone. So you could have a curb side bike lane from intersection to intersection. Thats where the upgraded signals, Traffic Signals come in where you have separated phasing similar to what we have at eighth and folsom. You would allow psyche list cycd going through the intersection. This look great. Thank you so much. Thank you for paying to this design from an accessibility standpoint. It will create a better design. I had a quick question, i know were putting in the signalized intersections, will they have signals . Yes, if were upgrading them and we have to upgrade every single traffic signal, it will be included. Thank you. I have to confess, my ears perked up about the twoway idea as well. It would be an alternative because you dont have enough room . So, this is an area the city where theres projected to be a lot of growth and people are going to have to figure out a way to get from point a to point b. There are a couple reasons. One is to provide more options for people. We heard because these blocks are really long, amount of people are riding the wrong way in the bicycle lanes already. Were providing a safer option for people to get to a midblock location on folsom and howard for instance. The other concern is sometimes howard is closed for events and cyclists have to go around to get back on to Howard Street. This provides a little bit of redundancy in our motorcycle Network System in soma. So how wide is it . It varies in width depending on the need of that election off that streets. Eight feet wide to 14 feet wide. Like i said, its based on the need of the street if we need more for loading or transit lane but its something that we worked on with the Fire Department and understanding for certain buildings what is the access that they need and can they use the bike way as an access point. And they have. 14 feet is their clear width they need to access. With the growth and the use of electric bicycles, you are not worried about speed conflicts like that . We are proposing raised crossings between the concrete parking buffer and the sidewalk so it will slow down anyone in the bike lane when you are a skate boarder or electric scooter or whatever it is. Prioritizing pedestrians and creating a safe connection between people who are parking and trying to get to the sidewalk. Wow. The other question is unrelated. I didnt see much in your presentation about enforcement and i just didnt know what the general Agency Posture is. When you make a big change like this, special lio lie especiallu create p. C. O. S on it. We noticed because theyre only paint and post is people can still maneuver in between those and park against the curb if they want to. This design is taking that out of the equation. So the bike lane will not be a place for people can maneuver between post and park against a curb. So this is the next iteration of bicycle facilities on these two streets. With anything that we implement thats new we work with our Enforcement Division providing encouragement to the public to use it correctly. Any other questions at this time . If not well open it up to Public Comment and thank you. I have a few more questions before its all over. We do have some folks who have turned in speaker cards. The first one is charles. Good afternoon, welcome director hemmingger. So this folsom and Howard Street project will transform two of our busiest and most dangerous bicycle lane corridors into safe, inviting and livable spaces for all people. Were asking you to approve here today some of the things that weve been asking for for years if not decades so twoway 14food wide bike lanes. Concrete buffers, separating bike lines from auto traffic and protected intersections, raised crossings at allies. Really topnotch bicycle infrastructure here. This is a visionary project. One that will fundamentally shift how people experience these major streets in a fastgrowing part of San Francisco. Just the last sfmta board meeting, you all passed a policy so we can see protected bicycle lanes built in weeks not years. We of course fully support quick action just as we support this longterm effort to transform our streets. I really want to be clear here, urgent action and longterm investment are not mutually exclusive. Quite the sop sit. This street scape project has been informed by the quick changes you have made to these streets in the last couple of years, its really one of the better examples we have of how getting quick built projects in the ground sets up up to build well designed Capital Projects with public support. So yes, we need to make our streets safe now and yes, we have the plan for the future of our streets. We dont become copenhagen with paint and posts we do it with curbs and signals. Projects like folsom and Howard Street scape are how we get more people riding and keep them safe for decades to come. I really want to thank staff, especially paul stan is and bradley dunn for leading a Collaborative Community process leading us to this great design. Lets get it built, thank you. Chair board and members. For the record. As im sure i have spoken many times. I am evolving into a frequent user of twowheeled vehicles of the power variety both the bicycles and the scooters. And i want to say for San Francisco, i believe we can take quick action to build our protections. We also have to invest in our future. To be honest, riding the folsom bike way down around between seventh and tenth it feels like a wash board. I remember one time spending about six hours driving interstate 40 from one end of arkansas to another and it was continuous wash board the whole time. I have lots of experience with that. So i dont think we should be riding along wash boards so we have to start now and invest in this program. I support the twolane, the twoway bike lane because operating in that south of market corridor, i often find myself where my destination is often run against the traffic flow which means that there are times when i will be getting off the bike in an intersection and pushing it down a sidewalk in order to reach my destination because i dont ride on sidewalks and i dont ride against traffic. So you will sometimes see me pushing the bike or scooting along to get where im going. So i think all of this is reasonable because i want more bikes. And i want more transit. Because as a frequent rider of twowheeled vehicles, they also help me to get to and from muni which i have a monthly pass for. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, im david highman. I work with the leather and lgbt cultural district and i cant speak for them but i want to say that on behalf of our community we appreciate the major effort to make this neighborhood safer and more attractive and more vibrant and welcoming to locals and to residents as well. I admit i had trouble finding all the details about this on the website until just the last couple of days. Maybe a couple more maps would help. Ill specific generally. I particularly appreciate your attempts to respect the needs of our community for example, the folks on the street events and their need to avoid the concrete islands that would be a problem for the folsom street fair and similar events and in general, all the the things you do to listen to our community and recognize the importance of the culture to the area so that you are in fact still open to adding plaques and street crossings and appropriate colors, signage, and other elements that reflect and recognize the history of our culture and the fact that its a living culture as well. Keeping the spacek sis able and welcoming to visitors another important priority for us. Ill just minor suggestion, be great to have a bus route directly from folsom to other tourist centers. Thinking forward, i know your definitely looking forward to the growth of the area and thinking in deed about the increasing in shopping and the increase in both daytime and nighttime entertainment spaces. Be ware that we are probably looking forward to 4 00 a. M. Closing of bars and it may have an impact on these issues and i appreciate the efforts to provide additional motorcycle parking and in general thank you for listening to our community. Next speaker. Hello again. Thank you. As mentioned my name is jane and im here to speak in support of the proposed changes on the folsom and Howard Streetscape. I think these are major improvements to corridors, not just for people like me who get around by bike but by a lot of other means. The two way projected intersections are exciting. Theyre going to build off of all the great work youve did not doing and im excited to see and whats interesting about this and is great its not just bike lanes but spaces for Civic Engagement and looking how we can make muni better. This is just a lot of benefits to everyone whether you are biking, walking or taking the bus. As has been said already, folsom and howard have both claimed too many lives already. The most recent death. I myself have been on howard and i know what experience is like and its not pleasant. The short term i a improvementse changed that. No one has to deal with that pain. Lastly, i just want to acknowledge the great work of staff and show appreciation for the outreach process here. We can do these things but it speaks to the positive comments so far today about what we can do when we call come together and i look forward to seeing this project go forward, thank you. Thank you. Nadine denmark. Good afternoon. My name is nadine denmark. Im in support of making folsom and Howard Street safer for sick lists. I am from the mission district, i ride to and from school a few times a week. I know its safer than riding on Howard Street but still riding a bike there is scary. When the bike lane is not protected, cars feel they can merge into the bike lane. They block me and i have to look left. Its frustrate what is there could be a parking protected bicycle lanes and cars could not as easily merge into it. The parking protected bicycle lane on the way to my dads work makes my rides year. If i am on a bicycle that means theres one less car on the street. Which means less traffic for cars. Now if you multiply that by 1,000, our city would have less car hordes. Think of how peaceful that would be. The flimsy bike lane protectors are better than nothing but if we can have parking protected bicycle lanes that would be so much better. Vote in favor of parking protected park lanes on folsom and Howard Street because other people, including me, would feel safer riding bikes and more people would ride. Thank you. Thank you. Caro line denmark followed by thor denmark. Hell o my name is carolyn denmark and i was born in San Francisco and i have grown up in the city for 12 years. I live in the mission and my family bikes a lot. Im here talking to support putting in parking protected bike lanes on folsom and Howard Street. Im so tired of cars merging no the bike lane and blocking my path. When it happens it agitate me, especially when theres an empty sparking spot. I want to be able to ride to the mission from the mission to the metro on folsom street to see a movie. With protected bike lanes, that would be possible. When it comes to biking theres so many more pros than cons. Biking is the answer to so many different problems and to get more people riding their bikes rather than driving their cars would have to feel more safe in their own city. The answer to making people feel safe is protected bike lanes. I think adding the protected bike lanes is one of the first steps to making San Francisco an even better place. Thank you for your time. My that i am is thor and i support the Folsom Howard improvements. My wife and i have lived in San Francisco for 20 years. I have been a daily bike commuter since i lived here and before that i road everywhere i needed to go growing up in new york city. Thank you for proving a few short term improvements last year. They demonstrate a new prospective on transportation. They are physically protected from cars, motorists, see the consideration of psyche list snow squalls now becoming a period and with parking protected lanes, collisions decrease, retail sales improve dedicated turn lanes and traffic processes better and those of your constituents who are interested but concerned with safety, they actually started riding their bikes. Its a win for businesses and motorists and pedestrians and psychcyclists. Recently released reports show that of half of our citys Traffic Congestion is due to companies such as uber and lyft. With no ability to regulate those tens of thousands of cars entering our city and one way is to build more infrastructure more cycling and more driving. You cant fix this problem by double decking streets and clinging to every last car lane at some point when they gridlock our city people will chose alternatives and now is the opportunity to make those alternatives safe. All that said it gets us one small step closer to fulfilling our goal of vision zero. Thank you so much. Next speaker. Its great to see kids coming out to speak to this board and saying how they bike to school themselves. I bike to school when i was younger than them until through college. Thats because i grew up somewhere where that is possible and safe. As charles said, you dont build that with concrete. Lots of it so im happy to see the m. T. A. Take steps in that direction. I think this is i have some minor qualms with the design of some the protected intersections but this is the best bike lane project that i have seen in San Francisco so far and i think this is going to surpass the folk street lane as the best line in San Francisco. And i also would like to thank the members of this board for asking when are we going to do more . As director borden just asked. This is a big change in not just how the m. T. A. Staff designs bike lanes and i thank you for that. Thank you. Obviously i support this. Thank you. I am therefore very much looking forward to the longterm improvements for folsom and howard that prioritize safety by creating comfortable bike ways. I am like the director, very excited about the lum nation of mixing zones and the addition of twoway bike lanes. This will support not only psyche lists feeling safe on every block but all street users for the user so i thank sfmta for the work on the project and i look forward seeing it on the ground as soon as possible. Next speaker. My name is tatianna. I support the new project and today i want to share with you some problem in this area. I want to say about traffic and seventh street. When often big trucks, cars and buses blocked and stopped in the crossing and makes it difficult for the distance for exactly for kids and also, drivers stuck in traffic for long time and cause for increase from drivers to pedestrians. Its a very sad when you see aggressive driver near an Elementary School and when every day kids, some kids walk alone to school. Secondly, i want to say about negativity activity that increases for period in the street in when a lot of people live on the street and sell drugs and a very difficult and very sad when i everyday see how kids walk near people with negative behavior and syringe. Thirdly, i want to share difficult situation and folsom and intersection when we have im sorry, your time is up. Thank you so much for your work. I work at tenderloin as a in soma and i want to be shared my situation in this intersection. They have. Its first coming across. This time people cross in this intersection. So, i think its better to be its here at the traffic light and forecast in folsom and its grown for this street here. Like i saw that is in north and golden gate. Its close for open and open for cars stepbystep. The other problem is its between colombia and folsom. Its for the bike its coming and from folsom and here all the stop sign where its light for colombia or for bike to be. The car it coming from colombia its stopped at bike and its go. Or opposite. Ok. I think about its mostly a your time is up, sir. Next speaker. Hello. Thank you for taking time to listen to us. I want to mention i reapprove of this project. It looks great. I live in berkeley in the east bay and i commute by taking transit everyday to the transbay terminal so this project helps a lot of people to commute by going through different areas of the city from the transbay terminal. I used to work at eighth and harrison so we used howard and folsom streets to go back and fourth from work to the trance batransbayterminal. I use the bus so its not one more car on the road and i think a lot of people are doing that. Theres an irony here where i have a partner who works at fifth and howard and who could also take the bus but instead she gets on a crowded bart every morning because shes afraid of biking every morning on howard. We have transit buses who sometimes are half full meanwhile she gets on a crowded bart for that reason. So its a very, very important corridor for our commuters. Theres a lot of cars who stop and park on the bike lanes so i approve of the concrete separation there. I also want to mention that those lanes are not just for bikes will you also for scooters and skate boards and really any solution that can give people away from driving and just using anything to get around the city. Thank you for your time. Next speaker. Hi, directors, im scott fee knee. I live in the mission and commute to soma and folsom and howard are the two streets that i bicycle on the most frequently. Im really excited about this project because its bringing a Higher Quality bike lane to San Francisco than weve had so far and im grateful that you all have changed folsom and howard with the shortterm projects that is greatly improved my experience of getting around and i think that this is going to be even better because the current amount of protection is still not enough for a lot of people. I know they feel confident riding so i hope it gets more people on the streets. I want to second the twoway bike lane for reaching destinations for the oneway streets going against where you want to go. Its a frequent problem for me because the blocks are so long and often times i just hit the red light at 11th and ill just hit the red light at tenth, ninth and eighth. Over all, im very happy with this project and i think that in addition to the bike i think its really going to be good for soma as a neighborhood so please move it forward today. Thank you. Next speaker. Stephen solomon followed by justin flynn and alicia whitney. Good afternoon, im stephen solomon. Thank you for your time. I bicycle for everyday trance and i wanted to throw my support behind this project. Right now i see soma as more like a freeway grid from the industrial era and this is more of a residential neighborhood and we need to change the character of the streetscape. Im always looking for the safest outside t roots to impros and i think this is a great improvement in safety. I am expecting well have more bike list and scooter riders and and definitely more ebikes. I can see ebikes proliferating in a city with hills like our city. I think this project will make this neighborhood much more livable and more oriented towards residential. I think that theres a cycle. I talk to a lot of people that would like to commute by bicycle but they dont feel safe enough. The more that people see a network to get from their point a to their point b protected bike lanes the more people get on though bikes and it means more capacity on transits. And fewer people in cars. I know change is always resisted and its part of human nature. But what is new becomes normalized. What is normal gets embraced often. And i love to see what looks like a freeway now go the way the embarcadero freeway. Please, move forward this project and please move quickly. Thank you. Thank you for your time. [ please stand by ]