Kevin stall, and a rider of the bus line. And a major advocate for Pedestrian Safety and a lot of the changes here will help improve the corridor a lot. One of the major thoroughfares south of market with a lot of people walk, ride their bikes, drive, and take muni down this street. And with the number of people who are going to be moving into the neighborhood with the new projects, the potential of having a lot of families with children and possibly seniors and maybe people who are disabled who frequent this corridor a lot, the changes will most definitely help the people feel safe, and unfortunately we have 22 people in our city killed, pedestrian fatalities and the number is growing. So, any and all improvements to make sure people feel safe is much needed, and i fully support the project in its entirety. Thank you very much. Thank you. Paul, cat, simone. My name is courtney, here on behalf of supervisor matt haney, district 6. I think its a rare evening when the board of supervisors is done before you all. Im just here mainly to express our strong support for this project. Im sure as many of you and the folks in the room are really tired of the streets being treated as freeways and for soma having some of the most dangerous streets in our city, and we are appreciative of the work you are doing to advance important projects and making sure, and very transformative for the project, and eager to see in particular the gaps in our protected bike lane network be closed in soma as well. Thank you for moving this forward. Look forward to seeing the quick builds in the ground in the fall, and i also wanted to thank the staff and all the advocates who have been integral to building out the proposal as well. You have our full support. Thank you so much. Thank you. Charles, cat. Thank you, commissioners. Charles lafarge with the San FranciscoBicycle Coalition. Every time, just about every single time i dare to ride 5th street i see something that gives me a chill and its inexperienced riders, often tourists riding, sandwiches between trucks, busses and parked vehicles, often with their children and with, you know, scraps of paint encouraging them to be bold and take the lane. They are on fifth because its on the Bicycle Network, the apps. The city is encouraging people to take this really broken street from market to caltrain. Its really only a matter of time before somebody gets hit and killed, we know that at this point, lets not wait until that happens to move here and thankfully we are moving pretty quickly. So, today we have the opportunity to reverse this embarrassing, unacceptable part of the Bicycle Network and continuous protect the bike lanes can create new space for people riding. Not only the north south connector between 2nd and 7th. So, not only will the project save lives but will open up the network, its important we get it right on 5th street. The unit from market to mission, one of the busiest blocks of the corridor. You have the active valet, hotels north of market, so protection for people riding on this block is a, is a crucial component to the overall project. A break in con at this continuity, and priority over automobile access, yes, and slight transit impacts as well. Im excited to see the Lessons Learned from previous quick build projects and get things in the ground this year, timeline, and thank you to staff. We look forward to this going in the ground. Thank you. Cat carter, simone, marcell. Cat carter, San Francisco transit riders. We are excited to see 5th street improved with protected bike lanes and the bus bulbouts and the safety features that will make it a more livable street, and make it more welcoming for everybody. However, we are disapointed to see busses forced to share a single lane with cars. The northbound 27 bryant will be sitting in 5th street congestion downtown Traffic Congestion for three blocks and this will add at least a few minutes travel time. And make the 27 bryant even more unreliable than it is now. As you probably know, the 27 bryant is part of the equity strategy, low income, senior riders, and the north side of Market Street and sfmta did so well on that one. Gains made on the 27 north of market will be wiped out by this project south of market. We have suggested a possible solution, namely a combined busbike lane pilot project. Again, we like pilots. It has been done in other major cities. Busses only every 15 minutes and the shared bike lane would be three blocks long. We really ask and urge sfmta to consider this pilot. We cannot have another project that considers transit as an afterthought and impacts be ok. So, i ask you to consider, if any other recent street Improvement Project has actually made muni worse by design, and i urge you to alter that part of the project. Thank you. Simone, marcell. Im a concerned citizen of San Francisco and dedicated biker. I strongly support the 5th street Improvement Project. Its a sorely, sorely needed project that improves bike infrastructure. Finally finally a protected bike lane for the entire corridor. Music to my ears when i hear that. I biked 5th street a few days ago, and dangerous for even an experienced biker. And as director brinkman said we needed them 5 or 10 years ago. If we put them 5 or 10 years ago we would not have the vision 0 problems we are having today. Its not enough. Protected bike lanes often still have dangerous mixing zones and other items im sure will be continued in this project today. The excelsior project today only had four blocks of unbroken bike lanes, only four blocks. And then 2 to 3 more years to get transit improvements. The sixth and Taylor Project has been going on for years, and no bike lanes in the final design. I went to one of the outreach meetings and sfmta staffers had no data to keep bike lanes out, even if it was in the original design. And mentioned before, stockton street was entirely returned to the cars after, you know, all of that central subway construction. Based on evidence, i dont think the sfmta takes vision 0 very seriously. We need more carfree streets for the tenderloin, more protected bike lanes, protected intersections, transit only lanes. Articles in newspapers often only asked merchants and dont ask transit riders. With reliable transit and bike lanes, people will ride them. As director borden said, people dont bike because it is dangerous. All of these things need to happen on every project. Thank you. By default. Thank you very much. Time is up. Marcell, harold, michael. Thank you. My name is marcell, im a resident of San Francisco, and ph. D. Student in city planning at u. C. Berkeley, and a proud member of the San Francisco bike coalition. Tremendous momentum today in terms of improving Sustainable Transportation options in large part due to decisions made by the board in regard to our streets. Today represents another opportunity to move the city forward encouraging and protecting bicycling. Research shows that unless bike lanes are separated and protected, only a small section of our population will use them, namely young white men. Protecting bike lanes is the best way to diversify, women, older adults, and children, and people of color. In addition, study after study indicates that building protected bike lanes improves sfoot traffic and success of businesses along such corridors, as opposed to maintaining private car storage. In particular, 5th street represents Market Street, union square, and beyond. Two traffic lanes in each direction and private car storage on each side. We can flip the scale of the street towards bicycling and transit. Thank you. Thank you. Harold findlay, michael borden, kevin carol. Harold findlay, ive ridden my bike all over the city. The main thing i notice, besides the city streets me as a second class citizen, the main thing i notice is that im so exposed to danger, especially the vehicle im just moments away, just a momentary lapse, a judgment by a driver, or attention by a driver, or maybe a momentary burst of aggression by a driver and im down. People are putting up the bike, im not here talking. It just its frightening, and then when i get past that, i just think how ridiculous it is. We are a fifth of the way through the 21st century, we should be done with having cardominated streets but we are not. Its everywhere. And also, you know, projects, create places of danger, we need to protect people from the danger. Thats part of completing the projects. That should be natural. You know, crucial to create the danger, then protect people from it. Dont make them come to meetings and protect you from protection, be satisfied with bulbouts and stuff like that, protect them. You insist on having it. I know you all know this, but our streets dont reflect that at all. And i guess ill say one last thing. Director heminger, i am mad at you, and you know, you are right, people just are not coming up and telling you and i and director borden, i understand completely the analysis you gave but you have an ethical problem allowing people to die while you wait for Community Sensibility to reach the right place. Michael borden. Good afternoon, michael borden, im 68 years old, and i get around the city when i can and i feel safe. My first choice is by bike. Everyone else has already just said when i feel about the conditions of the 5th street, probably more eloquently than i can. So, just thinking of something new to say. Bear with me a moment, you may think im having another senior moment. But just rereading the novel, ian foresters novel, howards end, and a wonderful quote, those of you who saw the wonderful movie, Emma Thompson says to anthony hopkins, and that is connect, live in fragments no longer. Now you can take this in a very literal way, commissioner hemingers statement of our need for bike Transportation Networks that connect or what charles pointed out, the need for connections between the 5th and townsend and howard and Market Street bike lanes. A literal way. But i would like to talk a different way. I dont really think of myself as a senior, i think of myself as a 68yearold man, lucky enough to be still hobbling around. But i do feel seniors through ageism are unaware, and sometimes put in a box of, the city talks about improvements to, to transportation, for seniors, i always see muni and walking, which are poriimportan me and with some with a disability like myself, and some seniors bike and i am included, and how i connect to the city is keeping my involvement up with my friends, with my volunteer work and my social networks and getting there. Thank you. By bike is the way i do that. So, please help connections, please approve the bike lane, thank you. Bye. Thank you. Kevin carol, jodie, jake shumano. Kevin carol, president and c. E. O. Of the Hotel Council of San Francisco. I live in San Francisco, a heavy user of Public Transit and public transportation. For me, im here today to speak in support of the 5th street project. I have one question, one concern that we have been expressing throughout the process. I want to thank the m. T. A. , and especially talia lange for the multiple meetings she mentioned and meeting with our group specifically, and i know others as well. But i also want to thank the walk s. F. And the Bicycle Coalition who have come out and met with us and our teams as well. I think its important that we understand what each of each other are looking at with it. As far as the overall project, we obviously support vision 0, and protected bike lanes. I think as charles mentioned, our visitors bike all over the city, our employees bike as well. And then obviously we are pedestrians and our guests are pedestrians as well. The one concern we have brought up along is the constriction of two lanes to one lane on northbound 5th street and that case, i know some adjustments that are made, especially coming off the freeway and crossing market and we do appreciate those adjustments. We still have a concern on, and ask the very thorough evaluation plan thats developed looks at what the impacts are. I think its important for all of us to realize our supplies arrive in, through traffic lanes, and many of our visitors arrive through busses and other modes of transportation, its not just all single drivers in cars that are using the lanes. And we do feel that there will be a constriction there as part of it. So, we do ask that as you do the evaluation thats taken seriously with what the impacts are going to be, and thank you again for your time and especially to the team at the m. T. A. For the work they have done. Thank you. Jodie madiros, jake shumano, mike sizemore. Good afternoon, executive director, walk San Francisco. This safety Improvement Project cant happen soon enough. As the sfmta presented and pointed out, this corridor has been a Pedestrian Safety nightmare. Lives have been at risk, especially those of seniors and seniors with disabilities. This neighborhood has one of the highest senior populations in the city and streets must be designed with this in mind. And as we know, pedestrian numbers on 5th street corridors are going to increase as the new developments are put on. Walk San Francisco has been working on this project for many, many years with the neighbors and sfmta. We have gone and done street side outreach and talked to literally hundreds of people on or near 5th street at outreach events and our surveys shows 94 expressed the desire for safe intersections, the biggest number one ask. The plans will go a long way toward safer intersections, and huge improvements to intersections like brandon around the flower mart. Incredibly pleased a no right turn policy will be on 5th street for the improvements and we strongly support a no right on red to prevent all collisions in the city and see it as a widespread policy. Finally, we support the separated bike lanes, to calm the street and improve safety. And a group has been working with the sfmta on how to design protected bike lanes to ensure accessibility and hope the 5th street design including the quick build is going to incorporate the work groups nine Design Principles for this implementation. Thank you very much. Look forward to hearing you on this project. Jake shumano, brian vice chair and commission members, Development Manager with real tech, inc. On behalf of investors, and proposed mixed use multifamily development at 300 5th street at the corner of 5th and folsom streets. I would like to acknowledge and thank you the sfmta and talia lange for mentioning the development coming to the area. I think its an important aspect of the future of the street improvements and who will be using the streets. Specifically, our firm has been proposing a development in this location since 2016. Currently proposing plans for 130 apartments, small ground floor commercial street with 0 off street parking. Our project received preliminary street design comments prepared as part of the project review. Comments included a statement indicating that no on street loading would be available on either of the project street frontages. It includes some correspondence with talia and her team and i would like to make it known to the public records sorry, but basically she and her team have shown through this design that you can accommodate an on street loading zone on 5th street, the tune of 112 feet long. Given our ability to add the onstreet loading in this location, the sponsor is very supportive of the plans and feel it will go a long way to bolster pedestrian and cyclists safety. Our time is excuse me, our team is grateful for the design considerations and hard work of miss lange and her team. Thank you for your service. Next speaker. Mike sizemore, followed by brian clofuss and jeremy. Mike sizemore, 5th street resident and daily 5th street rider. Again, i am one of those young white guys that can survive 5th street. I just want to give you a glimpse of what riding on 5th street is. Typically every day i experience one of the following. People accelerating close to me, trying to pass me, people have thrown Water Bottles at me, frustrated im on the street. Ive had somebody pass very, very close to me and clip me with their rearview mirror, and then turn around and blame it on me, and get out of the car and try and fight me. Ive had somebody merge into me and i tap on their car as they are merging into me, which proceeds them to roll down the window and tell me they are going to [bleep] end me. You know, this is the reality on 5th street. I want my community to be accepting of people. I hate that my neighborhood is an on ramp for highway 80. Lets create this community. I dont want to grow up in this community, you know, i plan on having children, i plan on putting them on bikes, i plan on having them walk around the city. This is not going to happen if they are being tailgated by people with people laying on their horns, if the street continues to be this hellscale for anybody that is not in a car. Again, im also up here because i am a constant rider and nothing is more powerful than, you know, if i do end up dying on the street, to have a recording of me making the warning, so i do wear my helmet, i do practice safety biking, safe biking on that street, but at the end of the day if this could be used as an action to get faster bike lanes or more safe streets in our neighborhood, i will be happy for that. So thank you, and please push this forward as quick as possible. We hope its not a record for that sort of thing. I hope so, too. Brian, jeremy. Hi, brian clofuss, here in support of the 5th street Improvement Project. I bike and walk every day and bike down 5th street once or twice per week. This project is great, the entire length will have protected bike lanes, it will make me feel safer. I think it should go further, red light cameras and speed cameras mid block. Thanks. Jeremy, the last person. Hi, jeremy frisch, i have come before you