I have two things actually. First of all, i want to bring up at our policy and governance meeting on friday we had a good presentation from enforcement commander regarding muni safety date a. It was impressive the level of data they have and how theyre able to use it to try and increase safety on the buses. So, im wondering do we have or will we be getting that same level of data for bike and Pedestrian Safety . I know its not as easy to gather since i think a lot of those muni calls either involve the police or are 311 calls. But it would be interesting to know if that same level of data exists for bike and ped because it can help in our safety quest. We can ask [speaker not understood] reiskin. One other item. I feel that from our day long strategy meeting that we may have left some sort of hanging Unanswered Questions from staff, particularly on the bicycle strategy where on the last page we were asked if we wanted to ask staff to focus on hot spots or corridors. And we dont obvious
You how this all works that company, most of those 41 different sites in the world are leaving this disk under the ground. All were asking in north beach, to not interfere with the successful neighborhood church, residents, businesses adjacent to pagoda palace, is to write into the lease with the pagoda the possibility, should it become possible to do this in the future when the machines arrive in north beach, to leave this disk, not the train 300 feet long, but just this 15foot disk in the ground. And thats how its done in many places around the world. Thank you so much. Thank you, mr. Bruno. Anyone else care to address the board on this subject . If not, okay. Members, questions, comments . Let me speak to that, mr. Reiskin, the comment about leaving the disk in. Is this something we looked at, considered, would that be a viable possibility to try to build Something Like that into it at this point . The answer is yes and yes, it is something that we looked at i believe originally as
So, that i think summarizes what we have before you. I just want to thank the many staff and the mayor and the board president for their work to get this done, and happy to take questions either now or after public comment. We can certainly ask members of the public to come forward at this point. Do we have some names . Yes, for item 11 greg gi ber, howard wong [speaker not understood]. Those are the first three. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. Thank you for allowing me to speak here. Just now and again at the january Public Meeting on north beach, director reiskin assured us that this boring site, this would only be for the removal of the tunnel Boring Machines. With that restriction, i support this project, but really only as the better of two not so attractive options. I dont think its particularly difficult for one to figure out that the economics of taking this thing out of north beach versus the more traditional methods of backing the machine out, bearing, cutting the heads
Five years ago and has really now spread across the city. Weve had a full season of events proposed. As of this date weve got approval for the first four of them which will be that first embarcadaro route which will be march 10th. The route through Mission Street or the more popular ones on april 14th. The bayview on june 9th and the great highway on july 7th. And as the rest of the calendar gets secured and approved, well bring it back. Well bring information back to the board. In addition to sunday streets is a new component thats going to be added into the mix this year called play streets. I mentioned this a while back that when the grant award for play streets came through, but its a Pilot Program of four smaller one to two block events, also featuring carfree streets. Particularly in targeted areas where Health Disparities are high and open space is limited. So, its kind of like a targeted mini version of sunday streets. The funding is provided by the Blue Cross Blue Shield found
Mark gruberg followed by [speaker not understood] zamud. Mr. Gruberg. Again, to continue and conclude along the lines i was speaking of before, despite the fact that the cpuc has a rule making proceeding going on, you still have jurisdiction over people who are providing illegal services in San Francisco that are, you know, the equivalent of taxi services. If you didnt have that jurisdiction, you couldnt stop somebody in their private car who was picking up on the street either. So, all the drivers in these companies which are violating the law, the drivers themselves are also violating the law. And im not suggesting that, you know, a 5,000 citation. I think it might be nice to start issuing some warnings to them and, you know, give them a few weeks to get their act in order and then start issuing some citations. I think this is completely within the realm and scope of your authority to do. I think in the Public Interest you should do it. And i hope you will. The other thing i wanted t