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Staff, particularly on the bicycle strategy where on the last page we were asked if we wanted to ask staff to focus on hot spots or corridors. And we dont obviously cant stay with us. Discuss it today, but i wonder if we need to come back and retouch on that. It occurred to me on this weekend when i was riding that we have a bike strategy, we have a pedestrian strategy, but we dont really have a corridor strategy yet, which i know will evolve out of those two strategies. But, again, i worry that weve not given good direction about how, when it comes to transit, bikes and pedestrians and privat...

Happy to announce the fifth season of sunday streets which starts just a few weeks away. March 10th is the kickoff for our festive season. Sunday streets is presented by the sfmta and its nonprofit partner livable city with support from the Mayors Office and a lot of other city departments. A lot of people come together to make sunday streets happen every year. As you know, sunday streets promotes open car free space for Healthy Family oriented activities, and also a chance to explore San Franciscos diverse neighborhoods. It started out on the embarcadaro, the first pilot five years ago and ha...

So, thats the item before you. As the board president referenced, there have been various concerns by various members of the community, surrounding various aspects about this. I think theres one category of folks who have consistently not supported the general project and theyve raised a number of concerns that we have been able to address in writing and i sent you a copy of that last wednesday night. There are i think some very legitimate concerns of the immediately abutting Property Owners. Now that were not on the public rightofway, the impact, construction impact to the great majority of n...

Embarcadaro route which will be march 10th. The route through Mission Street or the more popular ones on april 14th. The bayview on june 9th and the great highway on july 7th. And as the rest of the calendar gets secured and approved, well bring it back. Well bring information back to the board. In addition to sunday streets is a new component thats going to be added into the mix this year called play streets. I mentioned this a while back that when the grant award for play streets came through, but its a Pilot Program of four smaller one to two block events, also featuring carfree streets. Pa...

That we have our federal environmental clearance. Weve been working with them all through this process. Theyve been at the table from the start. So, we expect to be able to secure that. And then with the final action of the board of supervisors once that special use district goes into law, well be able to move forward with the demolition of the building starting within the next couple of months so that we can keep our original timeline, which youll recall that was to have the shaft built in time for the tunnel Boring Machines which are set to arrive about 12 to 15 months from now in north beac...