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Opportunities in haight one of the great things is were really lucky because theres a really rich network of Community Groups great history of public involvement on the haight and weve been working with some of our inter Agency Partners Planning Department and on projects in haight as well as improving bicycle access on the haight and weve also been able to do this Public Infrastructure the public participates and started a few working groups one in the upper haight and one in the lower haight and specifically the bulbs and thats one of the concerns thats been kind of driving the city planning...

Retired and im very active for elderly folks and im concerned about elderly folks having to walk up there at night. Next speaker please. Good afternoon peter straus and im here for the San Francisco transit riders as i think you know by now were very much in support of this project glad to see it going forward. I think you should have a letter from us to that effect and from members supporting this project. This is one of the most important best Rapid Transit project that the city is considering because of the congestion on van ness and were glad to see it moving. That said, i want to mention ...

Move almost the same vehicles as the original 3. In addition to that other policies which we had in place the electronic fair prepayment so that that people can tag their cards on the buses speed up boarding and reduce dwell time. This slide shows a planned view of the configuration that was approved as part of the environmental report. It will be be right side boarding so that we can use our standard trolley and motorcoaches in the corridor. The buses will run with a planted median along most of the corridor separating the 2 bus lanes when we reach a place where we have transit boarding islan...

Enhanced infrastructure not only have signals going in but including pedestrian bulbs and countdown timers and all those improvements will go into intersections that do become signal ized so what are the benefits . Once again back to the 4 major points that were trying to address. Pedestrian safety. So i mentioned previously that 25 people have been hit by cars between central and in the last 5 years and if we had been able to install the pedestrian bulbs we would be able to have influenced 17 out of those 25 so about about twothirds of those pedestrian incidents so we think were addressing a ...

Traffic lanes s will be able to move almost the same vehicles as the original 3. In addition to that other policies which we had in place the electronic fair prepayment so that that people can tag their cards on the buses speed up boarding and reduce dwell time. This slide shows a planned view of the configuration that was approved as part of the environmental report. It will be be right side boarding so that we can use our standard trolley and motorcoaches in the corridor. The buses will run with a planted median along most of the corridor separating the 2 bus lanes when we reach a place wher...