Mention about director yekusiel. I said it right. I cant say i ever really met director yekusiel, but i wish very well. I really do. And maybe, maybe, perhaps, maybe i will meet up in new york city subway. True. Your time is up next. Speaker. Herbert weiner, director tumlin pointed out the importance of Small Businesses to the economy and thriving of San Francisco. Now it should be noted with the institute of corridors on mission street, taraval street and now gary street, Small Businesses have folded. And what is going to be done about the restitution of these Small Businesses . The projects resulted in diminishing revenue and too many businesses, Small Businesses had to give up shop. So my concern is the restitution of Small Businesses and the advocacy of it in the light of mta projects which were actually detrimental to them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello good afternoon. This is barry toronto. I want to wish director yekutiel hallelujah to him after what he witnessed in the last week or so. I would blame him for changing his priorities and for stepping down. But i want to thank him for his help with working with Small Businesses, including taxis. The problem is we cant get enforcement at taxi stands and we are Small Businesses providing a service for people to go and frequent Small Businesses in different areas as well. But but we cant get enforcement at the cab stands in these in these Small Business areas, such as 24th and mission, which brings about the bill about harassment of female pcos while theyre giving tickets over there. So itd be great if they were protected while theyre giving tickets at the cab stand at 24th and mission. But we cant get any help. We cant get any enforcement. So and the next thing about getting congratulations on. Ab 645 the only problem is what do we do about the errant scooter riders who run red lights and speed through crosswalks and also pedestrians who take risks and walk while the light is green in the opposing direction at intersections, the for the word is no longer a good word of jaywalking. But you taking your life in your own hands when you are crossing the street, when you have the red light at the pedestrian. So i think at the same time, while promoting this speed camera program, youre also promoting that pedestrians also observe the walk signals. Thank you very much for your time. And im surprised you didnt mention anything about jaime parks and tom maguire. Thank you. Callers. Okay that will close Public Comment. Please call the next item lisa is you on item number eight, the Citizens Advisory Council report. Good afternoon, directors. Its a pleasure to address you today. Director yukkuri will allow me to, on behalf of the cac, thank you for your service. Were sorry youre leaving the board, but weve always appreciated your passion for Small Businesses, us, and especially for the riders of San Francisco and especially district eight. So thank you. We had three presentations at our last meeting. It was a long one. The first one was on the 2024 legislative program and our motion was as follows. The sf mta cac recommends that the sfmta board adopt the 2024 legislative Program Priorities as presented. Im assuming they are coming to you soon and so youll see the same presentation. We saw something similar next. We had a very long presentation on the valencia bikeway pilot, which has been rather i know youve received a lot of feedback about it. Weve received a lot of feedback about it. Not much of if any of it positive. And our recommendation is as follows the sfmta cac recommends abandoning the current unintuitive and dangerous Center Running bicycle lane pilot on valencia and refocusing the street toward its core needs commercial deliveries. Bicyclists outdoor diners and pedestrians by pursuing a road geometry that disincentivizes nonresidential traffic. And finally, we also heard a very interesting presenter session on Autonomous Vehicles, which everyone is very interested in as of late. And our recommendation is as follows the sfmta cac endorses the sfmta sfcta and sf planning commissions request for a rehearing of the California PublicUtilities Commission august 10th, 2023. Approval of unlimited numbers of cruise and waymo vehicles charging for passenger rides 24 over seven in all neighborhoods of the city without doubt, an Environmental Impact report. Again, we i think like staff, we think there should be a greater level of transparency on Autonomous Vehicles and how theyre working or not working in San Francisco streets for to the benefit of everyone. Thank you all for your time. Colleagues, do you have questions for chair lee for. I did, if you wouldnt mind. Please go ahead. Director hinsey yeah. Um, i. Jennifer, thank you for your engagement. For those of us who missed the meeting, we know about your recommendation for valencia, but if you could provide a little bit more color as to maybe some of the reasons why your members might, might have landed on the recommendation that you did, that would be id be interested in know just a little bit about tenor, that discussion. Sure, sure. For the motion was not unanimously passed. And i think some people on the council were very concerned and we heard feedback from Small Businesses that are very concerned about having access to being able to park and for their employees. As we heard from a local bar owner who is in danger of losing her business that shes had for many, many years. I think some of us were swayed by that. And also, again, weve heard consistent feedback from cyclists that the middle bikeway is unsafe. They dont like it, they dont want to use it, and they either want to move to a geometry that has a protected bike lane on the outside of the street rather than in the center of the street, which would require i mean, its valencia is not a big street. Its small. And somethings going to have to give. And i think the thing that people think might have to give would be through traffic, which could probably be routed onto guerrero, which has a lot of traffic on it or mission, which has traffic on it as well. Um thank you for the thank you for that additional information. Very helpful. Sure. My pleasure. Ucucha. What do you mean . Get rid of through traffic . Im sorry. What traffic does . What does that mean . Exactly . What traffic i didnt getting rid of through traffic. Like cars that are just driving down valencia like a non resident because there are residences on valencia. So residents would want to have access to the street but not like people just driving down valencia. So the idea would be to have it be restricted to like folks that live on valencia would be the only ones that could drive on it. Hypothetically. Yes i think thats kind of what they were what we were leaning towards. Okay, thanks. Sure thank you. I also had sort of some follow up questions specifically on this last phrase, which is by pursuing a road geometry that disincentivizes non residential traffic. Just wondering if you could bring us in on your thinking. Were there are certain like scenarios you had talked about or what led the commission to make this decision . Again, i think those who supported the motion were really wanting something more where valencia is more pedestrianized and i think thats kind of where they were. I think thats where they were trending. And it was it was compromised language that we worked out to try and get them to get the motion passed because i think some folks wanted pretty much no cars at all. Other folks wanted cars. So we could have so it would be much more aggressive to say for businesses and things like that. But i think this was sort of the compromise that was reached. I dont know if that fully answers your question. No, its helpful. Thats helpful. Dr. Tumlin, can you remind us when the update is coming on valencia street . We talked about, i think december when we adopted it. I see sitting in the back livable streets lead. Jamie parks as well as soon to be acting livable streets lead. Kimberly leong, whos the currently the project manager for valencia yeah. Sorry hop on in. Hi kimberly liang, the project manager for the valencia bikeway project. We plan to return as soon as january 2024. Were in the process of collecting data right now for the project, and weve asked her to come back so we can give you a recommendation on on the pilot extension, because i think youre looking whether or not to extend the pilot in january. Right so in january. When we return, well have information from our three month evaluation mark. And as a part of that, well have any recommendations for where we should head next with this pilot, whether it be improvements or adjustments that need to be made. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Its our intention to give you a recommendation as well. Once we hear the data. Okay thank you for your report and for your service. Oh, sorry. I didnt see you. Yes, director. So go ahead. Oh, sorry. Sorry im always a little today. Im a little bit lag of my, my response was delayed, so i apologize. Thank you, chair. Thank you for sharing. All your input is very, very insightful and really liked it. And i keep thinking i actually live in the mission and ive seen the evolution of whats happening in valencia and yeah, we need to continue to refine this. And i like most part of your recommendations and i just keep thinking your last sentences, which our chair had brought up, if you can elaborate. And i thought of this morning, i spent my whole morning Holding Hands with one of my really Senior Mentor just to walk ten steps up to the alamo square park. And i know that i have a lot of my mentors that are actually we enjoy time to go to nice restaurant. And so spend like a morning and lunch or dinner. So if we can you explain to me your recommendation. So how am i going to get my mentor to actually enjoy these restaurants on valencia if she can actually walk really just just five steps or ten steps . Im just looking at people who actually cant bike, can row. Right. And they are relying on paratransit or their loved ones if theyre lucky and fortunate enough to have the resource, to have their loved ones actually drive them, to get them to where they can go to, to have their normal social life or sometimes simply some efficacy of community work. So i just wanted to see if you your, your your group had thought about the equity component of that was that yeah, we did get a comment. A Public Comment like that. And personally i think thats a very insightful comment and something that needs to be considered as we again try to figure out all of the competing priorities for that very slim street. But yeah, some people, a car is the only option really, especially if were not running transit down valencia anymore, which we arent. Its and its not really fair to say, well its only a block away and, well, a block can be a mile for some people. Exactly i think thats a very good point. Okay. Would you would is a good point. Would you would you refine your recommendation or maybe bring it back into to us to see what you. I think thats something well need to consider once we get the data and we come back with a recommendation in january. That would be great. Thank you. Thank you. Director hensley has a question for you as well. Sure i do. Sorry, charlie, for to put you on the hot seat today. But you did you did mention that you intend to come back to us with a recommendation. So im trying to figure out what your recommend for us today is or should we be should we be holding off basically until you come back with your. I think the recommendation in january. Yeah, thats a good no, thats a good point. I think the thrust of the councils recommendation today is moving away from the center bike lane. I think thats the real thats the meat of it. And then but youre still going to wait until the project is evaluated to come and write another recommendation. Yes i think we felt that since staff was going to issue a recommendation to you in january , we thought we would chime in as well. Okay got it. Okay. Thank you for your service. You bet. Lets open Public Comment on the cac report items, please, for those in the room. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. Board members. Luke bornheimer, i urge you to take the cac unprecedented recommendation and direct staff to immediately replace this valencia Street Center bikeway with either curbside protected bike lanes or pedestrianization of the street, which can include access for commercial deliveries. Local residents and people with disabilities. As more people are crashing or being hit, killed or injured on valencia with the Center Bikeway and significantly more than the portion of valencia where curbside protected bike lanes were installed in 2019 and multiple evaluation by sfmta staff showed that cars parked in the bike lane decrease their 99. Close calls decreased to 100, and the number of people biking increased 49. Curbside protected bike lanes work phenomenally well. Improved safety for all people, including drivers, and increase revenue for local businesses and they can be installed on valencia using quick build materials in months, if not weeks in an email, sfmta staff told me they didnt create a design for curbside protected bike lanes because the design wouldnt allow for car parking on both sides of the street. Only 56 days after the Center Bikeway pilot was officially started, an 80 year old man was killed on valencia. Countless other people have crashed or been injured as a result of the Center Bikeway and even more have had close calls which could have resulted in them being killed or seriously injured, including a mom with a kid on her bike. About a week ago, the people of San Francisco and our planet need you to take immediate action to make valencia safer for people, better for business and effective for fighting Climate Change. I urge you to take the unprecedented recommendation in and direct staff to immediately replace the valencia Street Center, bikeway with either curbside protected bike lanes or pedestrianization of the street, which can include access for commercial deliveries, local residents and people with disabilities. As you are the only people who can help us and we need you to take immediate action to protect us, our local businesses and the planet. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, stacy randecker. I could talk all day about valencia, but i did want to say to director so, so i agree with everything that luke said, although im all for pedestrianization for as much of the corridor that it makes sense at this time. I think at the lower end and the protected bike lanes are working fine and it doesnt have quite the vibe that the center of, of valencia does. As for your mentor and friend, i totally understand my dad who recently passed, he was he couldnt walk either. It would have been an issue for him. But what i would say is what do you do when you take them to the airport . What do you do when you take them to the mall . Thats the same thing that we would ask to be done for valencia. We do not want to limit accessibility to anyone when were talking about pedestrianization, but we have to change our mind about what accessibility really means. As i was out on valencia, ive been out there the last three saturday nights all night that its closed and the things that ive seen the people in the mobility scooters, the dad with the teen daughter with a like a glider sort of apparatus, theres its so wide. Theres nowhere else you can go. You could never do that on a sidewalk. You could only do that on like jfk. Great highway when its closed or a place like valencia, i dont know where they live. I was too know i didnt want to go bother them, but it just was like where does she have to go . Like this to see the little kids out on their strider bikes and stuff . We dont have that on our side of town. We need spaces like this. It does so much for the merchants. And if its not working, then we have to figure out how to make it work. Our city and our planet, the people who live here, we need it to be more livable. We need it to be a place where people can go and want to go. And there its full of life. Not just cars. We can do this. We need as an agency, as the city. We need to start saying how can we do it differently . Not like what is the problem . What is the one off case . How do we solve for as much as possible . Thats what we need to move forward. Thank you. Thank you. Any other speakers in the room for item eight . Seeing none, please open the phone at this time well move to remote Public Comment, not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. Members of the public wishing to comment on item number eight should dial star three to enter the queue. Each speaker will have two minutes. Moderator for speaker. Hello. Good afternoon again and sorry toronto. As you know, valencia street already is traffic calming because you you have to stop in every every light down valencia street unless youre going really slow. So its already not lights are not timed. The only problem is you cant get off of valencia street because you cant make any left turns in that area. So the center. So i applaud the for wanting to abandon in this failed experiment of the Center Running bike lane. I also want to applaud the cac for endorsing the rehearing request by the City Attorney and the city departments just the other night at bill graham civic auditorium, there was a rave like event going on at and one of the Autonomous Vehicles ran into the barrier blocking grove street between larkin and paul. It does not recognize these items that close streets off temporarily. So there has it has to go back to the drawing board to deal with these. Unlike unlikely situat