Pettersson. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is neil patel and on behalf of lyft im here to support this project. These safety permits are long overdue. This project aligns with lyfts vision to provide for Market Street as a corridor that provides safety and inviting mobility for all. We encourage to you a improve this project but act fast and start its limitations as farther as you can. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Stephen sears, is mr. Sears here . Peter strauss, hiedi peterson, rowen, cindy baker, jordan wang. Welcome back. Good afternoon. Peter strauss on the board of San Francisco transit riders. Ive also been working on this for eight years. I hate to not be part of the chorus but we have a number of concerns, however, we do fully support the traffic changes and very much look forward to the quick build. We also support the separated bike lanes. However, we have a number of physical concerns primarily related to stops. We note that with respect to accessibility it only creates full accessibility by removing. Take your hand off the mic. Sorry. It only provides full accessibility by removing all of the non accessible stops. Were very concerned about the half mile spacing. According to the data provided by staff, speed still remain only seven and a half Miles Per Hour or so and and seven miles an hour or so and travel savings are only one or two minutes which we dont feel justified the removal of all those stops. Thank you. If you have more concerns, feel free to put them in writing to us. You have a letter and our comments on the e. I. R. Hider peterson, rowen, cindy baker, jordan wing, dianne shang. Are any of those people here . I will read the next group. Giles hollbrow, he had perion, greg rosemary, rick girling, jody maderos. Are any of those people here. Please come forward, sir. Jody, please come forward. If you hear your name called and you are in the overflow room, the light court, please let our Deputy Sheriff, come back to the room and let the Deputy Sheriff know your name has been called. Good afternoon. I hope that this is one of the happiest days of my life. My name is jody and im the executive director of walk San Francisco and i want to thank our citys team for create ago project we can broad of. This project also is your chance to not only make San Francisco one of the words leading cities, in terms of creating carfro space but to do a massive and much needed Safety Improvements. In line with our vision zero goals. I do want to ask you approve the western variance that extends vehicle restrictions as far as west as possible. Ensuring we have planning for the future. And i also urge you to pair removal of cars off Market Street with the sfpd and major changes to track patterns will not only be easy but require for a small and safe transition. Please move forward today. For a carfro Market Street and lets get this in the ground this year. The quick bill part. Lets build Bold Transformative Solutions in San Francisco. Hiedi peterson, rowen, cindy baker, jordan wing and dianne chang. I want to support this project. Im a cyclist and sometimes a pedestrian and sometimes i take the scooters and ive driven on Market Street. Its not great for any of those users right now. My mom 55 one year she drove up to visit me from Southern California her first car accident in her life was market and van ness. Its not lets extend it as far as we can and make it as good as possible and people put a lot of time and effort into it. Thank you for doing this. I really support the project. Thank you, very much. Cindy baker, jordan wing, dianne chang. Jill hollbrow. Good afternoon, board of directors. My name is ron. I keep it short. This is the project of the decade and its one of the most amazing projects ive seen come out of the staff so im happy about that and i urge you to approve it. I think that this can be your 14th street bus way and manhattan Just Launched a very successful project on 14th street where they basically only allow buses on the street. The reason it is successful in manhattan is because they have traffic hops everywhere and enforcing that all the time. It remains to be scene how successful its going to be when traffic crops go away but i urge you to do the same thing. Weve seen with previously terms restrictions on Market Street theyre not respected and theyre not going to be unless theres a lot of enforcement and that includes traffic hops and cameras and that includes a lot of things. Thank you and please vote yes. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Cindy baker, jordan wing, i do an chang, jill hollbrow. My name is cindy. I havent had a car for almost 20 years now and ive done a lot of biking on Market Street. I was force offtherecord my o. Ive witnessed the improvements from the painted white line giving a bike lane to then a painted barrier, green lane, a physical barrier, i mean, biking in those bike lanes is golden. However, as a pedestrian, the sidewalks are super crowded. The auto drivers seem to be in a rush and theres just, you cant put up physical barriers for the pedestrians and weve reached the limits of our engineering for safety and i think the enforcement is lacking but anyway, pedestrians are incredibly vulnerable for failing to yield and crosswalks right turns we need to snip the problem at the root and remove private vehicles from Market Street. Everybody walks. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Jordan wing. Good afternoon mta board. I wrote myself a lengthy message before this. In support the better Market Street project. Im happy to hear i wont need to read that today. So i will keep it brief. I want to applaud the board for their incredible work on the better Market Street project and everyone at the mta, i sincerely hope this is the beginning of something new for the city for substantially improving bike infrastructure in the city and as someone who just started biking down Market Street a month ago, i did it for three weeks and got tired of fears their my life every morning and evening. I hope this happens as soon as possible. Id lick to encourage to you do this as quickly as you can. And followup with as much better pedestrian and bike infrastructure as you can. Thank you again. And i hope this project passes today. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Dianne chang, jill holebrow, ed, greg rose marin, charles debarge. Good afternoon, my name is dianne and im a regular bike riders in San Francisco and ive had so many close calls that would have been prevented by protected bike lanes and so and id like to say and working im excited to and as previous commented as mentioned try to increase enforcement to make sure that cars are abiding by what the vision is so that we can have a safer place for people first on Market Street. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Clerk is mr. Hollbrown there. No. All right. Stephen sears, man deep, ed perion my name is ed. Ive been biking in San Francisco since i moved here about 11 years ago or almost 12 years ago and im excited to see these changes happening. Ive been biking on Market Street that whole time and its been amazing to see the increase in cycling that happened even with the Safety Improvement thats have been made and use of these new facilities and the only thing i would ask is that this be happen faster in the future and happen in more parts of the city. Im a frequent cycle list in the city and im here today because i tell my friends a lot they should bike and im afraid one of them will listen to me and what the consequences might be. Im thankful for all the hard work on this project and i urge you to move it forward and implement similar elsewhere in the city. Next speaker. Rick girling, charles, daryl, tom and shannon dodge. Good afternoon. I want to say thank you for bringing this forward and moving it as quickly as possible. I want to speak to two issues. Safety and tourism. First of all, im a victim of being run over by muni bus, it happened to me 15 years ago and ill never forget that day. That cost the city a lot of money and not only that, its crazy the number of people that get killed on our streets. I think its 16 this year. Its crazy. Crazy, and it has nothing to do with vision zero. So this is the first step of many steps. The other thing i want to say is my wife and i travel to europe because we like to cycle. Weve cycled 1,000 miles and like 90 of it is without cars. 90 of it is without cars. San francisco should be the Tourist Destination of cyclists in the united states. Thank you, very much. Next speaker. Charles, daren, tom, and shannon dodge. Good afternoon, directors. Charles, Senior Community organizers on staff at San Francisco bicycle coalition. Vicechair of the better Market StreetCommunity Working group and on behalf of our commerce please approve this project today. Also out front on the steps and filled with hope for the future of the Market Street. Not an hour ago we had 300 people san franciscans and all demanding change on Market Street. This is the time to reimagine our boulevard but also the time to put our city on the path of prioritizing people over cars. I get asked what will it take to achieve vision zero. What will it take to hit our gomes. How do we get people out of their cars and ive asked of this board bold action, time and time again, and today were looking at bold action. Better Market Street is how we get to zero. Lets get cars off this year and get these bike lanes built and if we dont were not going to reach our goals. Were behind and this is the type of project we need. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Daren fuel, tom, shannon dodge, two mark, ben chambers, shirley johnson. Hi, good afternoon. My name is daren null. Im here today to urge that this body not only approve better Market Street but implement it as soon as possible. Taking cars off market clearly going to save lives. Ive been out flyering to the public to notify people about this historic opportunity and ace talked to people about cars restrictions on Market Street. The only thing i heard was, its about time. I hope you approve this plan and push firmly for each phase to take place. Put in the auto restrictions by this year, break ground on phase one of the project by the end of the year and 10 years of delays has been enough. So thank you. Next speaker, please. Shannon dodge. Two mark and chambers shirley johnson, paul valdez. Good i live in the castro and i bike down Market Street. I just want to express a lot of gratitude for making this happen. I know a lot of hard work has gone into this and i hope that this can be replicated across the whole city. We can use this as a blue print and really take this and replicate it in many places. Both for safety, one of my colleagues was injured when he was hit by a bike two weeks ago. So this hits very close to home. And also since were in the midst of a fullblown climate crisis, i really hope this is something we can show leadership with at the municipal level and do more than is being done everywhere around the country. Thank you, very much. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Shirley johnson, paul valdez, patrick lineahan, matthew sheffield. I spoke for everybody when i speak give us your name. My name is mark. Thank you. I speak for everyone and i mean, that means animals in like. We all need more air and its fresh environment and Market Street is just a beginning and i just got in an accident on poll being street and i hope you have two lanes for the kids to get to school on polk street. I talked about it as a emergency lane and when we were takin than they wermaking thebasketball stt somewhere with the emergency lanes because we need them. Good afternoon, i fully support this project and im excited you are the board that is going to approve it. I ride by mike i dont own a car. I was in the east bay talk to go another cyclist and he said you are from San Francisco, you ride your bike in San Francisco and i said yes, i do, he said thats playing with the varsity team. It wont people play enough to brave with the varsity team so thank you very much for all your work and your service on the board and we really appreciate it and we look forward to an exciting and welcoming Market Street. My name is paul valdez residing in the mission with the bike commute down Market Street for the last 10 years. For me, the approval of this project and the possibility of a quick build Safety Solution at the intersection of market and sut ser what i desire and im sure others here feel the same. You all understand the benefits of restricting private vehicles and protected sidewalk level bike way when not only providing the comfort and enjoy ability for those biking on Market Street but my chances of not being killed by someone driving a car. It would diminish. I used to have a silent mantra that said Market Street will be the end of me. To jump start the efforts to keep the car free element i woulmove, pleasetake out your pp them on silent and can i have the overhead, please. Thats your time, sir. Open your uber up and delete it. Patrick lineahan. Is ms. Boyle here. Good afternoon and thank you for having me here at the meeting. My name is dr. John. I retired after some 40 years of patient encounters as a Healthcare Practitioner and i think you were all aware that those who participate in active transport and Public Transportation are much less likely to encounter diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other manifestations of metabolic syndrome. At a recent continuing and meeting it was made clear that 75 of the healthcare spending in this country is spent on treating the active transportation are the way to go. Thank you, very much. Matthe hi, im matthew and ie especially to talk about Climate Change. The bike lane went on on va lynn see a in 1999. That was 20 years ago and it was paint and people used them but the lowest of low hanging fruit is bicycle commuting, we dont need people driving their cars under five miles to go to work. The paint doesnt work, bicycle commuting should be boring. My mom should do it and my grandmother should do it. Paint doesnt work. We need serious infrastructure. There were more people, more blocks that were covered in protestors during the climate strike than there are carfree streets in San Francisco. That seems ridiculous to me. This is the lowest low hanging fruit and please, please, please. Support the Market Street. Hello. Im aaron and i just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of voices here supporting better Market Street. Ive been commuting on Market Street by bike for four years and have had plenty of scarce. I got in two accidents and it ended find but that makes me lucky, it doesnt go that way for everyone and i look forward to the day that i will have a barrier between me and all of the other cars. Thank you all of you for working on this and fora for voting yes. Next speaker, please. Ben summers, dill an, julie, calder, forest railing, cat carter. Are any of those people here. Im julie and i would like to say i strongly support this project and i encourage you to move it as far west as possible and i encourage you to replicate this project throughout the city and other places. Particularly in some of our lower outer neighbourhoods we also need carfr carfree space. Thank you. Is ben summers here . No. Ok, dillon deart. Forest rye ling. Cat carter. Mark james. Michael ducker. Good afternoon chair and board of directors. Im cat carter with San Francisco transit riders. This is an exciting day for San Francisco and urban sustainability active transit vision zero advocates everywhere. Removing cars off Market Street is a milestone and historic. I hope this is just the beginning as many people have said. However, as a transit riders and as head of this Transit Advocacy Organization i have struggled especially hard the past few weeks trying to support this project. This seems to leave the transit riders behind. We dont need a 600 milliondollar project to remove cars and separate bikes. This removes stops rather than make them access and prioritizes transferring is the only one location and the project has curb stops in a way that forces people into limited pathways to access where they dont have a clear signal against bicycle traffic. The project has prohibited Long Distance between stops. Some say its transit first, it is not rider first. Weve been working very hard on this following time and continue working for it. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. If theres anyone down stairs if you could come up when you hear your name that would be appreciated. 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