Examined or we ask the pilot be dramatically reduced from the 15 or 18 months it is now to a maximum of three months with concurrent Weekly Survey of the impacted neighborhoods nearby. And a systemic study of the impact on the neighborhood. We ask the board immediately direct relevant departments to conduct a study of the traffic and situation on haight street and surrounding neighborhoods and recommend changes to quickly alleviate an already dangerous and unlivable situation. Thank you. Next speaker please marcell patrick, kendall. Can i use the overhead, please . This is currently looking uphill page street completely dominated by a car parking lane, a car travel lane a car travel lane, double parked car and another car parking line. So drivers asking for more driving. My name is marcell. Im a sf resident and a student at uc berkeley and member of the bike coalition. The design of our street convey the value systems of our government and transit agency. Given that, too much of San Francisco values drivers above all other travelers, including cyclists, transit riders and pedestrians. We are a city with ambush Climate Mitigation goals yet a road network that makes it frightening for many to cycle. This is not just the case for major highways or stateoperated roads but in our densest neighborhoods by our schools, parks and public services. Before you today is an opportunity to take a bold step in favor of Sustainable Transportation. It will make cycling safer to riders of all ages and experience levels. I applaud the directors statement on building with children in mind. Page street runs along an elementary school. Theres no better way for our students to develop Sustainable Transportation habits for life than the ability to bike to school safe. The amount of children who have walked to school in the United States has dropped significantly. We are asking for you to approve this project without delay. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Patrick, kendall, rod. Im switching with my brother. Im rod schultz. Im a resident at 188th street. I have two Young Children that were born in that house and this neighborhood has become a disaster when it comes to traffic and backup. The traffic being proposed seems like and feels like an overreach. It is far too long. It is going to take all the traffic that mark spoke about and force it onto haight street. There is no solution for what is proposed right now. As was brought up earlier everybody in the haight street corridor kind of looks to a day where bikes and pedestrians are the top of the pedestrian food chain or travel food chain. Some aspects of this project are pushing it into that direction and that is fantastic but the aftermath of whats going to happen to that intersection and the amount of traffic and buildup that is going to create chaos in that area is not acceptable. The length of this project has to be reduced. The observeability of the project must be brought up on a weekly basis. I urge everybody to have coffee at the crosswalk once a week. Well bring the coffee. You can tell me what you think about these changes. Because the changes are going to be catastrophic and destroy our neighborhood for the people to cycle through our neighborhood. Next speaker please. Kendall. Okay. Hi, im kendall. I live on the 300 block of haight between webster and buchanan. I bike to work every day down haight and do cal tran via 14th. This project first of all as a bicyclist im not going to be able to get to this bikeway because there are no left turns allowed anywhere east of where i live. So there are a lot of problems in the return direction as well. Theres no left turn from buchanan onto haight. And if im coming down webster theres no left turn allowed onto haight either. So that basically makes our house into an island. We cant the detours to ride legally around this area are lengthy and they involve a lot of climbing. We are on the top of the hill. So anything that pushes us a different direction means climbing back up from different directions. So it looks like we are going to see a lot of the problems weve seen on page get diverted to our block. And we are going to have parking restrictions, tow aways, traffic, three lanes of traffic longer crossing distances a range of behaviors that are going to emerge as people run down the bus lane and try to cut in and do other things do all the stuff we have seen low lower down on haight. So i oppose this part of the project. I like the transit priority. I like the bike priority, obviously. But it looks like its going to turn our block on to a freeway onramp, really. We have no parking buffer by our house. We step off the curb and get hit by a bus. I really like we are just kind of shoving the problem under the rug. Thank you. Im sorry. Your time is up. Thanks. Patrick schultz david michelle, Miriam Goldman and then brian ruber. Are any of those laidies or gentlemen here . Hes left doesnt have to be exactly in order. Miriam goldman, brian r you are ber. I live on upper haight between page and oak so page is my goto street when im riding downtown. Ive had obviously sufficient opportunity to appreciate what others have adequately described as chaos in lower haight especially during the rush hours. I do support the long pilot. But i think a number of speakers, im surprised to say, pleased to say who support the general goal also seem to have reasonable concerns about the length of the project before its effects are reevaluated. I am going to support the current project but i think that maybe you should reconsider as a 12month or Something Like that. We know traffic patterns vary with seasons so i dont think three months makes a lot of sense. And i think i really want to say i have a lot of empathy for the folks who live in the neighborhood, the riders as well as the drivers. Nobody likes to be parked by a traffic experiment, which this is. But i believe im hearing everyone saying this congestion which is essentially the outcome of octavia parkway and the freeway entrances that existed before the 89 quake, this is an overall district issue that this is going to be part of the solution and its pretty obvious its not the entire solution. So i urge you to support it. But i would like to suggest you consider a somewhat shorter test period. It seems to me lots more can be learned in order to mitigate possible problems on haight street the people have been talking about. I want to thank you very much for your attention. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Miriam Goldman Brian ruben, kristin lecky, raphael hi, im Miriam Goldman. Im a ucff ph. D. Student and i go on haight street every day to get to ucff mission bay. I have almost been hit on the street many times. I bike early in the morning. A protective bike lane would keep me safe as a bike rider who rides there every day. I really really support this. I live on page street. This is the best way i have to get to work. Please support this. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Brian ruben. Kristin raphaela elizabeth. Good afternoon. My name is brian ruben. I live at 1162 page street. Im going to keep this brief. I love living on page street. I love how opulent it is, and most importantly i love how easy it is for me to get to School Every Day using page street. And for this reason, it really hurts my heart every day to just wonder if this is going to be it, if this is going to be the day that some car decides to make a right turn without signaling and thats it. And sitting here and listening to several of the concerns that residents particularly in the haight neighborhood, have raised, i really do encourage the board also to consider these concerns in moving forward with this proposal but at the end of the day this proposal would not only go a long way in making me safe but along with many of the other countless bikers who use page every day in order to get to work and to school. And i really appreciate the commitment that the board has shown to Public Safety and i encourage you to follow through with that value and pass this measure. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Kristin raphaela, elizabeth, rowan. Good afternoon, directors. Animy name is kristin and im the Community Organizer on staff with the San Francisco bicycle coalition. Im here on behalf of our 10,000 plus members to stress our strong support for the pilot. The project before you brings necessary improvements on page street that neighbors, elected officials and advocates have continuously asked for over the past five plus years. When you have the supervisor of this district both neighborhood associations that this project cuts through bicycle and pedestrian advocates in full support and nearly 100 letters of full support from neighbors, some of which i will scan and send theres no way this shouldnt move forward today. If this doesnt constitute public will, i dont know what will. This is a true pilot that can be easily moved. We know there will be design tweaks given the difficult traffic circulation issues we are dealing with. We look forward to having followups with staff during the pilot implementation to better understand the impacts and benefits. I want to acknowledge that we have heard from neighbors and merchants that they have concerns around parking restrictions and congestion on haight street as well. I would ask the board to direct staff to look toward Creative Solutions to these concerns. If we could install a similar traffic diverter at octavia im positive we would get the transit and businessfriendly street that neighbors and merchants are asking you for today. Since 2015 the sfmta collected data, interviewed stakeholders and hosted open houses. Its time we end this slow planning process and get this in the ground now. What we are asking you for today is to take the necessary action to improve the safety of those walking and biking on page street. I look forward to the approval of this project. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker please. Raphaela, elizabeth, rowan, jessica. Good afternoon, directors. My name is raphael. Im an antitrust economic researcher. I live on page street. And i take this street to work every single day downtown. As everyone as mentioned, i dont need to repeat it here, its a freeway onramp simply put. Cars back up three to five blocks. We are at constant risk of cars pulling out and hitting us, pedestrian children, its a nobrainer that this needs to move forward. Oak street, its meant to be an onramp, page street, its not. I dont think it needs to stop at page street as the director mentioned. If we want to mirror some of our behaviors to cities like copen hagen where we have a a friendly direction toward bicyclists, it needs to start here and expand to other places in our city. This is a good place to start for prioritizing the safety of bicyclists and pedestrians. In terms of the time span of the pilot, i believe 15 months is an appropriate length. If we shorten it to three, six or 12 we begin to lose the integrity of the data and measurement of trying to figure out is this appropriate or not are we observing seasonal swings, are we observing a short time frame phenomenon. We need the right amount of data to observe if this is the right decision for the neighborhood or not. I echo the sentiments of those who live on haight street and are worried if we are going to be pushing traffic onto that street. But this shouldnt start on page and end there. We need to expand the safety directives and expand on the haight street as well. Thank you. Elizabeth followed by Rowan Jessica and richard johnson. Im elizabeth. Im a tenyear resident and a small street facing rentcontrolled apartment on buchanan. When i moved into the neighborhood i referred to it as the sleepy end of lower haight. With years of Construction Projects on my street, gps maps and uber, my street has become congested. Its not uncommon for traffic to be backed up outside my windows as drivers try to avoid the octavia entrance to the freeway. The page street freeway access becomes closed with the goal of using oak or haight as the main access points. Its unrealistic to think drivers will remain on these streets rather than choosing alternate routes. I think its a good thing to get the ability to get around the city without use of the car and i agree page is a disaster zone. But the reality is people do drive cars and especially the people who live farther west and they need to pass through this neighborhood to get to the freeway. I feel for the people who live on page and haight. The streets are overly crowded. I dont want my neighborhood to become overly congested as well. These restrictions of no turning are going to force traffic to come to my direction to get to the alternate route to avoid the octavia entrance. I never received any information with an opportunity to give input on the condition of my neighborhood before the plank developed and up for approval. I think it was september the first time i saw a sign on the street post walking toward page street and didnt receive anything in the mail. I never received any surveys to share my experience during the planning stages of the project. So as far as i know we havent been included. Its been mainly page street focused for the issues they face there. So the things i would ask is we have to include people from my neighborhood to see what happens and also 15 months feels like a very long pilot. Rowan jessica, richard janelle. Good afternoon, board of directors. Rowan, a cyclist in San Francisco. Im in strong support of this project. Im happy to see that when i first heard of this project it was just going to be a traffic diverter in front of the elementary and that was it and some bike lane upgrades and since then the staff realized the root of the problem is the fact you can use page to get to octavia and the solution is to get it impossible and then the traffic will go away. They have now done this and i applaud them for this. Im excited by this project. I would like to express my disappointment about three things. One is some of the neighbors speaking here who either dont or do but do recognize but dont express the need that the chaos they are talking about already happens on page and some of what we pushed around i find it interesting that there doesnt seem to be a recognition that its just moving chaos around, which is not great, we should also close traffic on haight probably to get to octavia but this is not creating new problems. Its moving problems around. Lets recognize that. This is not coming from nowhere. I would like to express my disappointment that we are proposing to build another unprotected bike lane on page. That bike lane for one block is great so congratulations for approving 0. 1 miles of bike lane but it could be 0. 5 if the three blocks uphill were also protected. And thats a bit of prioritization that i would like there that im disappointed with. And the prioritization of muni on haight street im disappointed to hear that was even parking off hours to begin with, its not just another red lane. Its disappointing to have it watered down further. Haight is an important bus route. There should be a red line there. Thank you. Jessica richard, janelle and then scott. Good afternoon. My name is jessica. I live on the 500 block of haight street. And i strongly support the age street bikeway improvements. I walk and bike every day on page street going first down haight to make a left on buchanan to page. I dont see anything about the project that would prevent me from talking the route that i would already take. The main thing of having page neat street not be a freeway onramp right now is usable only by experienced cyclists. I bike with my kid to school. He usually using the on street bike infrastructure with me. Hes five. He uses it all the way to school except on page street, he is allowed to be on the sidewalk and im not so im in the middle with a lane of traffic and a lane of parking separating me from him for three blocks. I would fully support making it westbound only for buses but i think page street is a good priority to have, just when i was working fliering for this meeting, its just striking how many bicyclists are using it. And they are just being pushed into this tiny space for the benefit for people to not really be able to get on octavia street. Like five cars can get from page street onto octavia at each light cycle. It doesnt make sense. And also to put a plug in for the pedestrian improvements around john mayor, im planning to send my kid to school there next year. Theres a crossing guard at page and webster. There isnt one at page at buchanan and constantly in the mornings while kids are trying to get to school, theres cars in the crosswalk. Theres kids whose heads dont go over the hood of the cars walking behind the cars in the crosswalk. Richard johnson janelle wong scott nicky. Hi, my name is richard johnson. Ive lived at the epicentre of this since 1990. When i moved there the greatest threat as a pedestrian was being mugged or the high crime thats there. Now its when i walk out my door im a pedestrian and its the fact of being on guard of being hit by a car or a bike. Im in favor of whats going on here. But what i would like to say for a caveats are to me the very simple and ive been asking this for about a decade, we need to take out the right turns and left turns at both page and haight and do a traffic study that shows that that would effectively move more traffic through our neighborhood because whats happening now is cars are cueing to the lights and the lights are pretty much ineffective because 30 to 40 percent of the light is wasted for traffic to move through. And the other is air quality which ive been bringing up for a long time as someone who walks through the neighborhood and has to stop at the stop signs and stoplight it has become measurably, and if i understand, we are actually a hot spot for the city of San Francisco. I bring this up on a frequent basis. They say thats a dp environmental issue. And i think they need to look at that. The other issue in this is that of the winners here, its pretty much cars are still being able to do what theyve been able to do. Theres no promotion of getting the drivers out of their cars. And also you might scapegoat uber lyft but its the consumers that are the ones instead of walking or biking. And kudos to the bikes, i enjoy seeing the bikes coming down the hill. I envision this as an improvement. As someone who has worked in the neighborhood, also from an mta staff point when they say they cant enforce i and other Community Members have your time is up. Its