Cities in europe, asia and latin america and they are banning cars in the city centre next year and they have already banned cars in the entire urban core the first sunday of every month and they ban cars on 75 miles of road every sunday. We have familiaren behind these cities and we have the opportunity today to join them and set a new standard at home. Please remember your commitment to the people. Todd minor. Hi, im jean the gored president of the San Francisco bicycle coalition. I support this project and i hope you will approve this project for the necessary safety and transit improvements and approve more projects like this in the future. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Todd minor. Alice. Rodney paul, brian, johnathan gaybats, matthew blayne. Ian armstrong. Olivia. Hi, im brian, im the president of the 1400 Mission Street board of directors. Which has car access currently off of tenth street. And ive had a lot of concerns for my residents reaching out to me. I should mention that we are a fairly unique project in our city. Were 190 units of all Affordable Housing created by the Mayors Office of housing that was built two years ago. And ive had a lot of concerns from families and people with disabilities about continuing car access since the western variance was added to this project. People are concerned that only being able to access by detouring multiple blocks around to 11 th 11th street and takinge jog to tenth street to access our homes is going to affect their everyday lives and be able to make it harder for them to move their family to and from the schools. And were just thank you, time is up. Next speaker, please. Rodney paul, johnathan, matthew blayne, ian armstrong, olivia ganbone. Im matthew blayne and thank you for sitting in this room listening to us. I live on 14th street for a decade and ive been hearing about the future of Market Street coming since that time. So i would just like to be sum or thsupportive. Staff have done an amazing work and this will push cars around to places like 14th and tenderloin. Not just for cars but bicycles and pedestrians are effected by the overloaded cars and frustrated cars so i believe the staff is aware with this and follow through with this. Thank you for your support. Next speaker, please. Rodney paul, johnathan. Tory carter. Hi, im zan. My husband and i have been here for over 10 years as a Bike Coalition member. Thank you so much for everybody who has put in so much work to bring us here today. I have a ninemonthold and i cant wait until she can bike. My husband rides to work and i ride as much as i can. Its fair a wife and mother are Climate Change and ill get call from the hospital that my husband and the future daughter were hit by a car so thank you for supporting this and make San Francisco a place is this is better at Climate Change and keeping my husband and i my daughter safe when we bike. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Is rodney paul here. Johnathan. Olivia ganbon followed by stephanie, tory carter and if theres anyone else downstairs, please come up into the room if you wish to speak. While its tempt to go give you both two minutes, the rule is one minute. The market and very glad to be here and we are moving forward with this and as i think about it, this isnt about bike lanes and transit lanes and this is about the kind of city we want to be and who belongs in this city and who has access to this city and who feels safe here. Who builds for her and all the people not building it for cars and i encourage you to move forward with this project as quickly as possible and consider other carfree spaces in our city. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Stephanie. Tory carter. Brian hoffer, rick lobsher. Hi, everybody, i ride my bike everyday on Market Street several times. Im going to try to recreate the feeling of what it means for me to be cyclist riding my bike on Market Street. Have you heard the earthquake last night. I dont know about you but it left me scared. I could be dead if it were stronger. What is it going to happen again . Thats how i feel after i had my best accident on Market Street so you guys cannot do anything against the earthquake but you can change and do something on Market Street. Please lets do it before i can die. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Is tory carter here . Brian hoffer. Elias. Rick lobsher. Jessica jenkins. The floor is yours. To the board of directors greetings. My name is tory carter owner of a African AmericanBusiness Owners, professional Business Owner and i am in full support of this project. Under the condition that you consider working with other African AmericanBusiness Owners with the services as well as the contracts. I thank you. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Brian hoffer, rick lobsher, jessica jenkins. Hi, im jessica jenkins. I biked with my 5yearold with his own bike for a few blocks. It takes a lot of bravery on both of our parts and skills way beyond his years on his bike. And also the rarity and shock of seeing a child on his own bike. It creates a protective barrier from us that were really its scary. And Market Street needs to be car free and many more spaces and they ned to have what we should have what any reasonable city should have which is children riding their bicycles to school everyday. Please, approve this project and lets kickoff like making more of our streets for kids and seniors and disabled to get around easily and safely. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Rick. Im rick president of Market Street railway nonprofit advocate for your cable cars. We support every aspect of the better Market Street programme and spacing the streetcar stops farther eliminating private automobiles on market and building the traffic loop at mcallister to speed f line service and add more service where needed. We oppose removing the western variant from haze to goff. Why . When the only lane is the track lane you are guaranteed to see regular delays of muni street cars and buses. The fact is, red lanes have always been under enforced. You are going to need that for bicycle overflow too in the future. Well detail our concerns in an email to you which hope you build it quickly. Lawrence lee. Zoie, those are the last people who have turned in speaker cards whose names i havent yet read. Hi, im elias is i think this project is awesome. I want to see it get built. I dont have much to say that hasnt already been said. Biking on mark set scary. Taking muni is slow and tedious. Ive been waiting for this thing for years and years. Maybe some details can be improved but i think it shouldnt be a reason to delay this. I hope that projects in the future like this dont get delayed so much. Thats it. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Ma lynn walker. Lawrence lee. Zoie, and those are the last three speakers on this topic. Hello, my name is ma lean walker and i have been commuting on Market Street for 10 years and i want to express a lot of gratitude to the city of San Francisco for how much better it is to bike today than 10 years ago. And its so amazing to see how that has created so many more people on their bikes and feeling safer. So i really hope that we can see even more of that in the future and i want also to tell a story about my previous home city which is in sweden where we cut off all the streets for cars for one day and when obama was there for a visit and the air quality got 53 better which is amazing. So this has to do a lot with not just being able to commute to work but also the air were breathing. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Lawrence lee followed by zoie. Hi, im lawrence lee. From spur and im also the citizens advisory committee. So spur has long championed the vision of Market Street as San Franciscos grand boulevard and a great civic space. Over these years, weve held countless numbers of forums and dialogs and recognizing that its getting more crowded, more people are getting injured and killed, more people are bicycling and we have a climate crisis. Old Market Street is failing us. Lets fix it, including the western variant and it disrupts the status quo and make it safer and implement vision zero and make it more efficient and net zero Carbon Emissions and prioritizing alternatives to the private automobile. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Next speaker please. Zoie, kevin carole. Those are last two speakers. Good afternoon. Im zoie. Im here as a board member of walk San Francisco, a member of the Bike Coalition. Landscape architect by profession. And and a resident who lived in Market Street within 20 years and worked within a walk of Market Street and still do. I have two teenage daughters that go to school a block from Market Street and they get around by themselves on their own and its important to me that Market Street is safe for them to walk. I want to thank you for all the incredible work thats been done to date. I want to support i want your support in making it come to fruition. My family and friends, peers are all part of the 500,000 people that walk on Market Street each day and they will all benefit from this vision. Thank you, very much. Thats it. Ok. Next speaker, please. Kevin carole. The last person for whom i have a speaker card whose name i havent read. Thank you. My name is kevin carole and im the president and c. E. O. Of the Hotel Council of San Francisco. Lifelong resident of San Francisco and im a major user of Public Transportation and obviously walking in the city as well. I want to thank the m. T. A. And the d. P. W. For the work thats been done on better Market Streets. Weve been involved and our council has been involved and ive been serving on the Citizens Advisory Group for the last seven or eight years with all the work thats going on so i want to thank everyone who has been working on this and Market Street and we think it should be returned for a incredible avenue for the city. One question we brought up and i want to thank the m. T. A. For working with us on this is one of the changes is changing on ellis street from stockton to and converting that back to a oneway that would go westbound and we have a couple hotels that its going to cause pretty good inconvenience so the mta has agreed to take that first year to look at that and make sure its going to be something that can workout but thank you very much. Thank you, very much. Great. Thats it for speaker cards. We have read through a lot of speaker cards and some people did not respond. Either they left or they did not have a chance to attend. If its the first thats fine. But if its the second, i want to make sure if your name was called, or you turned in a speaker card and you have not had a chance to speak yet, please come forward. Deputy, thank you for all your help today. As always, its appreciated. With that, we will close Public Comment and move on to directour discussion. I do want to clarify, i mean, were having fun because its a nice day and i was joking about the vote. I am one directour i do not vote for the board and theres no pre ordained conclusions and please dont take my comments as suggesting otherwise and with that well move onto the discussion of this. Are there any questions for staff . Well start with questions . Yes. If we can ask you to transport yourself up into the directors chair, well done. From there answer questions that vicechair board and others have. I have a couple questions. One was about the issue brought up around Fourth Street and the alignment of the stops. Like because that is a midblock spot, not close to the corner and in general, i mean, if all of us have been on buses when you shouldnt have maybe run to catch the other ones, why didnt we move it up. If i could ask take the question. Hi, im brittainer with the sfmta. Regarding the stop at Fourth Street, we have very limited space in the roadway and were working around all of the bart portals and so it was not possible for us to install an ada accessible transit stop in the centre and have a sidewalk level bike lane and accommodate the portal so in order for us to accommodate all of those things we needed a rapid stop at fifth street and however, hearing the feedback regarding the spacing we did modify the curbside stop at Fourth Street to make it a little bit longer and we plan to monitor how people are using transit transferring to central subway and we will make adjustments with that curbside stop in the future after central subway opens. And then i also started looking at between its between seventh and eighth, but the f9 and 9 are why we didnt move it closer to the intersection as opposed to what is in the middle of the box there. Its just wondering for a better alignment. So we have placed all of the rapid and the local stops close to each a civic centre. Its also close to the bart elevator that is there so we wanted do maximize that and we had to work around the portals which are near the cross streets. With the portals at eighth and seventh we were able to shoe torn in between the introduce blocks and Centre Access to the bart elevators. You mentioned the transfer station, can you talk about how that works . Because in talking about this new stop spacing, you mentioned the five is a rapid route in the future, they would get off their stop at civic centre and only walk about the lengths of a bus zone and a crosswalk in order for them to switch to any of the local buses that would be in the curb lane. Ok, great. I think that answers. Let me just say that theres no need to artificially bifurcate this between questions and comments so if there are comments youd like to make on the project go ahead as well too and other directors ready your questions and comments for one combined approach if you will. I do have a couple questions. Maybe you can point out a few of the loading and passenger loading zones like for example i know on Market Street for example between van ness and now theyre poles up between the bike lane but people are getting into ride shares coming out of those businesses and so, where are we going to put safer example like a passenger loading zone to direct people and from close to the crosswalk. I just want to, i think we didnt really get to look at that and id love to understand how it works. I mean, ill hand the microphone over to christina because she was able to pull the tool you talked about earlier and she can answer that question. Yes, so, first of all, and this is where you can get off the centre boarding island and then walk around to a local stop if you need to transfer to one of the local lines. I think we mentioned earlier in the centre will be the f line and the five and the five r and the nine and the nine r. So that if you need to take a 5 and you dont care if its a 5 or a 5r you are the one stop and due have to look at both locations. Lets see. We also talked about the this is the turn by turn web based map. The green point shows your starting point that you can move around the website and then the red is your destination so you can see how your route would change based on better Market Street changes. And then what was your most recent question . It was about a location. You may point out some of the passenger loading zones and the commercial loading zones and more passenger loading zones the commercial is probably a little easier because its not as many you have already the base for people who already deliver on market and most other people are not having their deliveries on Market Streets. There are 200 additional loading zones on the side streets. That includes both passengers and commercial loading and part of quick build well install our implement 100 of those additional loading spaces so you can see them. Theyre not colour coated on this map but there are maps on our home page where you can see exactly where the loading zones are and its part of your legislation. So again, im on our website better Market Street sf. Org and on the home page, you can find links to the loading zones, ill pull those up in a second. Generally i just want to look for and express my support for this project as a person that lived in haze valley and biked down Market Street to work. I was many times almost pinned between two commercial vehicles and a bus and a commercial vehicle. In the morning and between that and the tracks which are great because our f line goes on. There are many days i almost bit it in the track and to be able to be off those tracks will be helpful. It will mean so much safer for everyone to cycle and walk down Market Street. I know its always really especially at nighttime a really scary thing biking home if i wasnt with a crowd of people and sometimes it comes back late from a event after work and it was a little scary. Less traffic at least. But a little scary none the less. I do think its a vast improvement and i do i havent dug into all the Diffe