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Clear that these projects are priorities, that we finally have more funding to do complete street projects to improve pedestrian and bike safety to make our streets safer we finally have more funding we have various policies in place and better streets plan and the mayors pedestrian strategy prop b i dont know how many more times the voters and the mayor can say we want safer and complete streets. And yet we have this push back and sometimes it seems like the political will is not there to say we need to move forward with these projects so i wonder if you can comment on how to go about doing t...

Continuations and it looks like the various conditions i believe have been met and i was going to ask if staff could brief us on what our options are. Commissioner mar thank you for the pointing this out we have actually just received the Maintenance Plan for mta staff we had worked out with them to receive it and its reflected in the resolution before you that we would receive it by friday. We can forward it electronically to the board right now. We understand from mta staff that they would like to move forward with the allocation today and they are here to answer questions that you may have ...

Corridor its a whole new paradigm of delivery and Community Involvement in the outreach process to really discuss what were wanting to see on the street how quickly we should be responding between plan and design and construction phases and being more efficient as we do our complete streets resurfacing with our Capital Project and see working with partners in the community including folks like the Fire Department who are also raising concerns. So i believe were having that discussion led by our board and other leaders including the mta and to the extent we can do it up front thought fully i th...

That about 38 Million Dollars per year if we were to do it by 2018 as was discussed at the hearing so this question of how much investment is not a concern i dont believe for us because its really about can we get it done quickly in a timely way and to really discuss how were going to do that neighborhood by neighborhood and corridor by corridor its a whole new paradigm of delivery and Community Involvement in the outreach process to really discuss what were wanting to see on the street how quickly we should be responding between plan and design and construction phases and being more efficient...

Communities really allowing those projects to go in efficiently we can accelerate it with a concerted effort by the community by staff and new ways of doing business to implement these projects to design them faster and get in them in the ground faster and i believe theres no reason why we couldnt keep the pace of that investment but at the moment were deliverying five Million Dollars per year and the new investment levels represents a large multiple of that about 38 Million Dollars per year if we were to do it by 2018 as was discussed at the hearing so this question of how much investment is ...