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And allow us to preserve what we love about the city, so going to the slides im going to speak a little bit to where we are and what some of the needs are but i think you alluded to this in the opening remarks, so in terms of opportunities within the Transportation System here in San Francisco when you look at transit what we have going for us is that we have a very dense system with high ridership, High Percentage of trips again in San Francisco are taken on transit. I think its Something Like ...

Paying any transit impact fees potentially. We also saw when the renewal of the Impact Development came to the board of supervisors lasted year the board sort of partially eviscerated it in terms of reducing its ability to generate meaningful revenue for the Transit System to reflect development impacts. What can we do to make sure that development is consistently paying to mitigate transit impacts that support the Transit System . I think as my understanding that the main vehicle across the boa...

Government to expand and meet the demand that we have been talking about. We recently got a transit performance grant from mtc to improve service on some of the heavily traveled lines. We have 62 new buses. I think half of them are here and the entire bus fleet will be replaced within the next five years. Thanks to your leadership we got prop b passed and smoothing streets and pedestrian and bike infrastructure and also has funds for traffic signal infrastructure. But as you mentioned we have a ...

Own automobile so i think we have a lot of opportunities as we look to address the lack of investment as well as the growth that is coming. But the flip side is that there are challenges associated with our system, and i think you enumerated these somewhat, but theres a lot that we need to do in terms of reallocating the space on the public rightofway and prioritize transscpit it provides a better option. To capture some of that latent demand. In terms of the pedestrian environment i know all th...

Latent demand, a lot of folks who would be taking transit if it was functioning better so in other words a lot more people we have been serving and in terms of walkability were one of the most walkable in the country and there are a lot of Transportation Needs done on foot and done comfortably and enjoyably. In terms of cycling we see there is Strong Demand and laitant demand and even during the time when we didnt see improvements and we still saw riders and a tremendous investment on the infras...

Francisco live within a block or two of a muni stop so we have a dense provision of transit in the city, and likely a lot of latent demand, a lot of folks who would be taking transit if it was functioning better so in other words a lot more people we have been serving and in terms of walkability were one of the most walkable in the country and there are a lot of Transportation Needs done on foot and done comfortably and enjoyably. In terms of cycling we see there is Strong Demand and laitant dem...

I think its Something Like 90 of the residences in San Francisco live within a block or two of a muni stop so we have a dense provision of transit in the city, and likely a lot of latent demand, a lot of folks who would be taking transit if it was functioning better so in other words a lot more people we have been serving and in terms of walkability were one of the most walkable in the country and there are a lot of Transportation Needs done on foot and done comfortably and enjoyably. In terms o...

And laitant demand and even during the time when we didnt see improvements and we still saw riders and a tremendous investment on the infrastructure and the benefits of moving people and finally in what people call the sharing economy. Car sharing, electric bike sharing, shuttles, and bike sharing of course happening this summer. Theres a lot of new and innovative ways that people are finding that they can get around the city without needing to own and use primarily their own automobile so i thi...

The rest ill submit. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor avalos. Thank you, madam clerk. I just wanted to rise to say happy birthday to supervisor jane kim. Today is hader birthday. ~ her birthday. I dont think she knew that we knew. Now you know. I just wanted to wish you a happy 29th birthday. applause and the rest ill submit. Thank you, supervisor avalos. All of those items will be appropriately referred. Mr. President , that concludes roll call for introductions. Thank you. Mada...

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