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Opportunities in haight one of the great things is were really lucky because theres a really rich network of Community Groups great history of public involvement on the haight and weve been working with some of our inter Agency Partners Planning Department and on projects in haight as well as improving bicycle access on the haight and weve also been able to do this Public Infrastructure the public participates and started a few working groups one in the upper haight and one in the lower haight a...

Retired and im very active for elderly folks and im concerned about elderly folks having to walk up there at night. Next speaker please. Good afternoon peter straus and im here for the San Francisco transit riders as i think you know by now were very much in support of this project glad to see it going forward. I think you should have a letter from us to that effect and from members supporting this project. This is one of the most important best Rapid Transit project that the city is considering...

Move almost the same vehicles as the original 3. In addition to that other policies which we had in place the electronic fair prepayment so that that people can tag their cards on the buses speed up boarding and reduce dwell time. This slide shows a planned view of the configuration that was approved as part of the environmental report. It will be be right side boarding so that we can use our standard trolley and motorcoaches in the corridor. The buses will run with a planted median along most o...

Enhanced infrastructure not only have signals going in but including pedestrian bulbs and countdown timers and all those improvements will go into intersections that do become signal ized so what are the benefits . Once again back to the 4 major points that were trying to address. Pedestrian safety. So i mentioned previously that 25 people have been hit by cars between central and in the last 5 years and if we had been able to install the pedestrian bulbs we would be able to have influenced 17 o...

Traffic lanes s will be able to move almost the same vehicles as the original 3. In addition to that other policies which we had in place the electronic fair prepayment so that that people can tag their cards on the buses speed up boarding and reduce dwell time. This slide shows a planned view of the configuration that was approved as part of the environmental report. It will be be right side boarding so that we can use our standard trolley and motorcoaches in the corridor. The buses will run wi...

Boarding for the transit vehicles and important features traffic signal priority to give our transit vehicles an edge in moving up and down the corridor and transit signal optimization for vehicle traffic so that the remaining 2 traffic lanes s will be able to move almost the same vehicles as the original 3. In addition to that other policies which we had in place the electronic fair prepayment so that that people can tag their cards on the buses speed up boarding and reduce dwell time. This sli...

The dedicated running way and dedicated platforms and boarding for the transit vehicles and important features traffic signal priority to give our transit vehicles an edge in moving up and down the corridor and transit signal optimization for vehicle traffic so that the remaining 2 traffic lanes s will be able to move almost the same vehicles as the original 3. In addition to that other policies which we had in place the electronic fair prepayment so that that people can tag their cards on the b...

Freeway, and where my issues come with the stoplights at haight and webster and haight and buchanan and when i moved in in 24 years ago our quality of life issue was crime and violence now its traffic and being hit by cars. Recently this week i was almost hit at buchanan and page and the thing i see with the stoplights i look at them as a quick fix akin to adding another freeway lane. In the morning the intersection are blocked and you are creating pedestrian nightmares. A permanent fix is the i...

Scene of the at that intersection and there there will no longer be uncontrolled left turns at broadway. We added a second turn lane there to deal with the extra capacity. Thank you. Interesting. One question on page 4 we note that theres 16 thousand daily passenger boardings within the passenger limit but i also notice golden gate transit using those lanes do we have any sense of id imagine with golden gate transit it takes that number of people who arent necessarily getting on the bus but are ...

Reduce dwell time. This slide shows a planned view of the configuration that was approved as part of the environmental report. It will be be right side boarding so that we can use our standard trolley and motorcoaches in the corridor. The buses will run with a planted median along most of the corridor separating the 2 bus lanes when we reach a place where we have transit boarding islands that median will taper down to a textured barrier between the two lanes to keep the buses separated and make ...