road congestion for emergency vehicles and other people that must drive. my family bikes almost every day using it as a safe route to get to school, doctor appointments, grocery stopping and everything. and san francisco should help people use bikes over cars. and slow streets is a good start. and san francisco leadership should commit to thet work across the city to people can safely travel without a car. which is now possible with e-bikes. a connecting network of slow streets is answer. please do the right thing and approve and expand the slow streets. >> thank you, your time is supe. >> thank you. we've got the person here to speak, go ahead. >> okay, hello i live in district 1. like we maybe saw in last election like most san franciscoian especially walk in richmond where drivers are a little aggressive towards pedestrians. i want to thank the sfmta, and the people listen, they're not closed they're just safer for everyone. and i think this is going to be a great program. people who spend their time, maybe not the primary concern of san francisco ans. but, safer infrastructure and i think everyone should have that opportunity and not advocate. >> y you can speak. >> i'm patrice and i'm here to say that i would like lake street opened like it has before. it's a zero traffic problem street where as california and geary are high accident places, and it's made of great mess, it's worse on california, worse on gary and clement is not just, it's not a neighbor, it's really a high commercial zone. i'm in the outer richmond, patrice and i want lake street open. older people don't have access, it's been a long day. the emergency vehicles can't get through. and we're being settled in on lake street and just being pushed in. and this seems very strange to me. thank you. >> thank you very much. is there anyone else that would like to speak at this moment? we're going to go back to the online callers. hello? it's very noisy. >> sorry, let me move. can you hear me now. >> yes. >> speaker: i'm josh, i ride a bike i've been hit three times by motorist prior to the slow streets. and this gives me a way to commute downtown that is much safer than any other ride that i can take. that is not a solution for a commuter, that is only for people looking to have outdoor recreation. i have problems making the delivery, i sometimes drive a car, i have no issue on california streets. so please keep slow lake and thank you. >> thank you your time is done. next speaker please. >> speaker: i lived on potrero hills for over a decade. but i never understood why the bicycle route was placed on 22 street. >> pointed out today's slow street slides has almost 3000 cars on it for day. i think it would ex as cer bait on neighboring streets to put our slow streets there. using 23 street and cut through traffic in the entire neighborhood. thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: i'm georgia, i've been a san francisco resident for four years. i'm speaking in support to help lake street. lake street should be a private street. traffic congestion for the rest of us that leave, we all want but that is not feasable. no one has to speak for them. those either meet, where you're suppose to lead is getting something for nothing. >> 30 seconds. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: hello my name is nate, i live on 20th street. i'm asking that the 20 street from washington to potrero avenue originally creating the pandemic, continue into the new slow street program. as you heard from several people, moving to 22 street would be problematic for them. i think that this street is doing well, where we are. my girlfriend was recently hit by a car and we observed vehicles driving by now. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: thank you. and fear that removal of the slow streets barrier would have consequences to the neighborhood. it's an essential corridor to get from potrero to harrison to valencia. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: i grew up in the sunset but also lived in the castro and lake. including lake street. i learned to ride my bike as an adult just a few months ago. part what took me so long, is there is a gap due to unsafe streets. you don't have to risk your life just to practice. most streets provide an entry point. every grocery run or errands needs one less car on the road that day. freeze up parking spaces and makes street safer for pedestrians, children and people with disabilities like my parents. i know change is hard but also necessary. and again slow streets are an entry point. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: hello, my name is janet and i live on scott in clay and i strong lea pose the slow street program. i'm not a biker but i'm a walker and i use public transit. cigarettes dangerous situation. scott is an extremely busy street and the three intersections by alt plaza park, are range russ. the dark street even more so. the amount of bike and pedestrian and car traffic on clay is minimum, i rarely see everyone walking down the center of the street. thank you, next speaker. i've been here for over 14 years and i support the slow lake, preslow lake. it was a very difficult to pull out of the driveways, people didn't stop at the stop signs, they did the california stop and rolled right through. 6th and 4th avenue and handout tickets for crossing for rolling through the stop signs. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: is the, is to ensure that the treatments that have been put are barriers for people with disability. and there is steep slopes. i just would, if you're going to open it up, please do proper treatments. that would make things accessible and safe. >> thank you, next speaker. >> thank you so much for taking comments. i'm kimberly, i'm expressing my full support for staff recommendation. i love the slow streets. i respect all of their feelings and please look at the data, the public health professional who sited 61% have been reduced please move forward in approving all the streets. >> 30 seconds. thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: hi i'm a d5 resident. i heard a lot of people and everybody can agree on, is they make people feel unsafe. so many parts feel disconnected if you don't have a car. public transit is good but it gets stuck, at our bus lanes, my boyfriend didn't learn to bike until recently because he didn't feel safe. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: other cities are moving to this too, in u.s., new york, chicago, i prefer to lead. we can't keep doing this street. the decision has been made. we need to approve, and speak to implement it, and barriers. >> next speaker. >> speaker: hi, can you hear me? >> speaker: i'm an 18-year-old student. and here to urge you to support a support, no data shows increase in traffic on street parallel to street. away from from cars xating the climate change. all agree that there are community cars. and necessary part of the shift is to provide a city wide network that they can use to drive safety. as a reminder, no parcel in the city will lose auto access, so they only stand to make san francisco a better place for all. please have forward vision and commit to keeping all existing flow streets and building physical calming infrastructure. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: i'm calling to ask to you support the staff recommendation to create a permanent slow streets program and to continue to strengthen the program by incorporating the following three changes from the people slow street plan. one approve all slow streets, two, continue to connect entire network especially in equity neighbors. three, increase the speed to 15 membershipser and 1,000 vehicles per day, low and slow. >> 30 seconds. >> let's keep going. study after study shows that encouraging transportation like increase and business for brick and marter businesses. le of economic recovery. while we no longer live on 12th and lake avenue, my husband and i still spend a lot of time in the richmond because we can get there by bike. >> thank you, next speaker. speaker you've been unmuted. moderator let's go to the next caller and come back. >> speaker: hello. >> yes, go ahead. >> speaker: hi, my name is carry and i'm the resident of 20th and lake, and i have four children, when we lived in new york city, i road a carrier bike with my children because the kids all went to the same school. but since we moved to san francisco s the sfufd placed my khifrn in four schools. it's impossible for me to get my children via bicycle. i spend hours a day and i want you to reopen lake street because it respect my commute and every day. my kids bike to the park, to the library and music lessons and farmers market. but we cannot bike to school every day because we're in three separate schools. we lived in the city for three and a half years and it's still the same situation. please reopen lake and appreciate the situation. >> your time is up. next speaker. >> hi my name is matt, we have three young kids. lake streets has been one of the reasons that we stayed in san francisco. a lot of our friends have moved out as we had kid but we stayed and slow lake has been part of that. i bought a cargo bike and i take my kids to and from school. soy urge to you keep lake street slow. >> thank you, next speaker. moderator, next speaker please. moderator next speaker. we might have a some difficulties right now. looks like we have about 114 listening and 79 with hands up. it is finding their place in the queue. thanks for your patience. >> speaker: good evening, i'm mayor of san francisco and heavy used and other slow streets in the program. please be affirm lake street is slow. and sadly shows the close mindedness of some who can't support transformness, program. give me a break. as an organizer a community bike ride who honors those who ride their bikes. i take offense to those speakers who think it's for the privileged few. >> 30 seconds. >> who lost their loved one simply because there were no safe streets. those who have come out in support of slow streets, all have several common threats and joy, community calmness and care. our network are proven to make san francisco safer and you must adopt the slow street plan and amplify the program seener, rather than later. >> thank you, we're going to move to one in-person comment. >> thank you so much, i understand that people have a hard time as a cyclist, i cannot use california street or fulton street. i stick to lake street. where i can go at my own pace and not slow down traffic. the few places where i can bike to get from point a to point b without having the fear that i'm going to get hit by a car constantly. it makes a difference in my stress definitely and life to be able to use that street to get somewhere. it's the only stress free of travel through the richmond, thank you so much. >> i think we have another one person comment. >> i just got out of work. i'm here to speak on, this is a new thing for her. she was not able to bike before because of the dangers of getting around the city. but she is now a bicycle list, since we don't have a slow streets network, it's difficult for us to navigate the full city. so i'm advocating on behalf of the full slow streets network so we can get all around the city. so thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. back to online. >> speaker: welcome i support the sfmt a recommendation to make both programs permanent. that shows that there is less injuries and impact on traffic. more people sighting and walking, makes this city a bert place to live. and network of permanent slow streets is sustainable and more equitable san francisco. that supports friendly ways to get around. >> 30 seconds. >> please commit to making slow streets permanent, thank you so much. >> next speaker, please. hello. >> speaker, you've been unmuted. we're going through it. >> speaker: i'm a community worker and member of the filipino community. i'm calling in today to ask you to support the afmta staff recommendation program. but please strengthen the program by incorporating changes from the people grant. please keep them in the effort. so many community members especially working class. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: work immigrant and families with small children and seniors and people with disability in the community do not have the vehicles. and walk every day and use their school to get around and they want to feel safe. a connected network of slow streets would provide easy access to school and park and commercial corridor. with that, we strongly encourage to you make every slow street permanent. >> thank you, thank you. your time is up, sorry. next speaker please. >> speaker: hello, thank you so much for take the time and listening to the comment. i'll keep it short. i'm calling in spo to* support the program. i'm fortunate enough to live near the street. i've walked around and biked nearly every day since the inception of the program. i'm asking staff consider lake street and pacific street which have been excluded. i encourage you not just here but especially in under served communities as well. thank you so much for your time. >> next speaker. >> speaker: i'm 46 year resident of the richmond district and the parent of two children age 6 and 9. i'm a huge fan of lake street and use it every single day. it's way that my children travel to and from school and including being able to ride their own bikes because it's a safe space. this timed of year used to be terrifying as a parent of small children trying to bicycle in the dark down this very crowded lake street. i also have a friend who had her car totaled by a driver speeding, prior to the street program. and just over a year ago, family members of ours died while being instruct by a driver while riding their bicycle, fortunately not in san francisco. our children when we first started at school, we were one of about four families. >> your time is up, thank you sir. >> good evening, this is bob lou, i live between lake and el camino and we've been here 29 years. even during common commuters hours. so i encourage you to open up lake street. strength is a ded end street. >> thank you, next speaker please. hey, this isal. i'm not really angry, thank you guys for staying late. i'm just calling in to support the people slow street plan and to continue slow street. i think anybody who votes against it is going to feel like a fool. they're going to look back and think, why, why did i do this? look at the data and look at the joy. please keep it and expand it and make it accessible to everyone in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. hi my name is nick adams and i want to support the staff recommendation of the slow streets program. i also want to urge the sfmta board to continue to expand the program to voe ride a complete network across the city. as well as following the people's recommendations. >> speaker: hi i'm a resident of lake street, it's prepandemic implementation of this slow street application. i would like to offer my support for all of those who speaking of favor of slow street. i would also like to offer to anyone concern of the speed of vehicles. and onans a, permanent installation have gone and provided a speeding and carelessness that we may normally see on the road. we have seen that here on the lake street. more vehicling running through. i hope that this can change, thank you for your efforts and time for us today. >> thank you, chair board in-person comment. >> yes, please. i'm here to voice my support and ask you to greatly expand. for people who choose not to drive private cars or lack ability to use one, a frustrating experience. sidewalks and narrow, broken by cars. you have the data safe streets are useful. and no cost to or exclusion of anyone. you and your staff have been, over the ability to drive straight and fast on one street. all we want is to get save on one street. >> thank you, resuming one line comment. >> hello. >> speaker: my name is mary anne, i moved to richmond district in 1975, i'm a grandmother now and i have not been proud of san francisco since you implemented this slow street. my grandson learned to bike, they walk to school, two different schools, i am thrilled with this open space. i will positive that lake street is the entrance to a park and also the entrance to a freeway. perhaps on the west side of park lake street is a safer street. but since the barriers were taken down two days ago, people are racing to turn right and skip the stop line. safety environmental concerns, please keep slow lake street. please. >> next speaker please. lake street is not a good candidate both of which are designated high injury network street. it does not seem prudent. i urge you to take lake street out of the slow streets project. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: 56 majority report at the mta survey. thank you so much for the that you do. >> thank you, i want to see lake street reopen. come stand on this corner on any night and listen truck gears grinding and drivers shouting with each other. when my window are open besides the noise pollution, the silt is an indication of how much more pollution is being daily. equitable for all of us. >> 30 seconds. thank you, next speaker. you've been unmuted, go ahead. just one moment, finding your place in line. >> speaker: hello, hi i'm responding to some comments. closing lake to cars makes it a private street, no, every person still has access, it's only certain vaokz not people, driving a car is not right, cars are not people. i think what they meant to say is that drivers don't pay attention when they drive their car. >> 30 seconds. >> if you have vision or mobility issues, you should not be operating a two-ton motor vehicles, try paratransit instead. closed streets create conflicts, that's true. but berkeley and palo alto have been doing this for years. every few blocks to prevent cars through traffic. the streets belong to the people of san francisco, not the residents who are there. >> thank you, your time is up. next speaker. >> speaker: good evening and thank you all very much for staying with us, i understand the couple of board of directors have had to step out, so hopefully my comments will get to them. i'm an california street, i take care of an elderly woman who is 87 and has severe mobility issues. she cannot use lake street because she can't get there, however what i really want to say is san francisco consistently is among the top three in every list about bike abilities, commute ability and cyclist friendly. more importantly, especially lake streets brings out the worse in san francisco. pedestrians and cyclist getting in front of soak list and motorists. people are banging on each other cars. >> thank you, thank you. >> i just wanted to make clear that we have a tv and everything in the back room and they're fully able to see and hear everything that is going on and it's just in the back room that people are taking a little break and having dinner. we're all, everyone is paying attention. next speaker please. speaker you've been unmuted. >> speaker: can you hear me? hi, you may hear my toddler in the background. i know change is hard. even though it's not in the best interest of the community or environment. i worked in richmond for almost a decade. the argument by closing at the traffic has made it baffling since becoming a slow street, to be able to bike leisurely, without trying to avoid cars sipping through rush hour. it's allowed him to use without having to navigate and passing pedestrians. for those who have encountered conflict i ask for--once we set that lake street should be for people except of cars we can move forward and future generations. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. can you hear me. >> speaker: i'm merideth, i know it's been a long day so thank you for listening to the comments. i'm calling in to urge you to keep lake. i use lake every day, it's a vital low cost option for accessible transportation. i witnessed the positive impact that they've had on the local community. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: i'm tim can the association and i just wanted to remind you, we did send a letter in in full support of lion and golden gate street specifically. >> we cannot hear a comment on this item right now. if you can please raise your hand later when we hear lion and golden gate, next speaker, please. thank you. >> speaker: hi, can you hear me. thank you for your patient, i know it's late. across the street and city. and i don't use it lightly. in the night every week and they're available, i would not say take midnight. anyone who uses, would cause speeding even the lake lane is scary to bike lane in the night. they're other bikers and pedestrians moving. there is one example when you tribute unsafe. we're fighting so much for so little, making lake and other slow streets, and people like me not to worry about our safety. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. next speaker. >> speaker: hi that will teach me to take smaller bikes. i was going to sing a song and my wife said absolutely don't do that. i'm a supporter of slow lake. the data that you collected shows that slow lake does not cause traffic. i ask you to follow the data. totally different than the parks speakers have mentioned because it's flat. it's been amazing place for bicycles. >> 30 seconds. >> contrary to what speakers have said, it's not closed. it's used by many many people and even used by cars. to people who say i can't drive someplace. i pull out and it's fine, i just drive really slowly so people know that i'm respect ising the fact that it's a slow street. >> thank you, your time is up. next speaker. >> thank you, thank you for not singing. the range of people who use it from elderly folks to young families. i am a strong supporter of the network, i think it's the direction that the city needs to sit in and i'm a particular fan. thanks for your time. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> speaker: i'm a member of the green hill but i'm not here to speak on half of the ortionz. today i'm speaking as a parent of six-year-old. served as an important vocal point including bike lesson, clean up day and are now strong. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: the safety of our streets depend on the network throughout the city, not just minnesota and the other 14 streets identified but slow lake and streets in every corner of our city. we heard a number of opponents object to slow streets. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. mofpd from the sunset because of slow lake. i would like to ask that you reaffirm and implement a design. demonstrating that including richmond are strong support. living on slow lane has been phenomenal, i safely lost my dog. i ask you to keep lake a closed street. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. i've been an add vift cyclist in the city. i used bike safely for over 30 years. as you know, it was set up as a temporary measure for social distancing during the early days of the pandemic when we were all told to shelter in place. sidewalks are for walking, streets are more motel rised vehicles. please end the slow streets program and open lake and cabrillo streets as well as 23rd avenue. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> hello can you hear me? >> i just want to support the street that is the slow streets, and i echo what everybody has said. and i have nothing more to add and i've been in full support of this. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> hi my name is charlotte, i entered the first street meeting with sfmta in october of 2021, two months after they decided to close the street permanently. i was part of a group who wanted to open lake for a variety reason. we were told we wanted grow the group if we wanted any say. so many people who you've been listening to a few voices tonight have been negatively impacted. just sent him to college this year. so my son and i cycled on lake regularly using the bike lane, we never had a problem. i've had serious problem getting my child to extracurricular activities, since the closure, you need to offer safer travel. a man brandished a gun on the 44 bus in front. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello. thank you, i lived in intersection of chat nuga street. which is likely know is an elementary school. long before 22 street, there have been many bicycle lists going uphill on 22nd. unfortunately the stop sign on 22, run by speeding speeding vehicles, because seemingly because chatunuga is on the street. this is an extreme danger. safety to the elementary school children and many cyclist on this route. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> speaker: hi, permanent adopt all the slow streets including the lake slow streets. we live on the streets and noticed no difference in the car traffic. as a family of three in a one-bedroom apartment we've been so grateful, our 7-year-old can ride his bike safely. we're dis heart end the barriers have been removed. please save our slow lake street, thank you. >> thank you. >> speaker: hell o, can you hear me? i live with my husband and slaoe small children. i'm asking you to please please open lake street. data in california and being affected art clean so we need to rely on experience here. simply is not safe people in favor of slow lake, do you think cyclist with stopping at sidewalks. we reduced speed at 100 miles per hour. we expect not. the city is bless with beautiful parts. and i encourage more safely defined for commuting. we can all use lake and drivers alike the barricades have been down for the past two days and it's been so lovely, and cyclist. >> thank you your time is up. sorry, thank you. >> i live on lake street and i have a car. first when people talk about the of 0s, the sub jekt, you want to get hit by a car or bicycle? of course slow lake is better, it's safer than the regular traffic. for really the people that come through number 1. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: here, then the last comment i want to make is, why not back of my car from the garage, i got yellow bicycle, but again, when you say the pedestrians, the seniors, the family walk on the street with a smile, hey, just dust it off. and also the third con ponent i want to make. san francisco is an amsterdam but we should -- ~>> thank you your time is supe. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> hi, i'm completely against all the slow streets that you've set up. because you did it without even thinking. that's why you close things down because nobody was there. california street is so hard to navigate now, that i don't even like going over there. i don't want to go to clement street so you figure those people are losing business, people from marin don't want to come here. you've made a mess. we've got 250 parks and playground walking distance from everybody's house. how stupid can you be not nothing there is there to teach your kids to ride a bicycle. you've got thousands of trails and you don't see a car and you're wining that we need to learn a bicycle. get a clue, maybe move back to the midwest. >> thank you, next speaker. hi accountser my name is jamie, my family and i live on street. i'm a driver and a pedestrian and i'm here to support and expand the street program. i'm, lucky enough in some ways to live in the corner of really busy intersection. previous to the entire implementation of closed street. i really seen that street become remarkably safer. and our quality of life. >> thank you, next speaker please. next speaker. >> speaker: i'm erika, i live in castro, approve all slow streets, lake street and 20th. i implore to keep network so every san francisco have a safe place to go. and injuries are at an all-time high. speaking as somebody who cannot dry, i feel safe enough to ride my bike or walk. we have solid data and tells us majority of the residents have. four seconds of driving is not worth it. currently use them as well as the slow streets. a small group do not speak for the entire community. i implore you to do the right thing and connect the slow streets program and keep every slow street on the chopping block. thank you. >> it appears we have an in-person comment. >> speaker: hi i'm adam, i live in d5. they got me out of my apartment every day and for the first time ever in a city feel comfortable riding a bike. they also make me feel connected to san francisco. last year, i moved to the haze to be connected with another. i love the existing flow of the streets and i ask that you make them all permanent. but it's not enough. we need a fully connected network that are traffic diversion not just traffic infrastructure. so everyone including drivers are welcome. please vote to make all slow streets permanent. thank you so much. >> thank you, next speaker. >> resuming online. moderator. >> hello. >> yes, go ahead. >> yes, thank you. my name is dar, i want to start by saying i'm a supporter of slow streets and other programs that are aimed at reducing traffic streets and other using alternative forms of transportation. i'm concerned about the proposal to move the 20th to 22th street without the impact that that would have. there is several schools. many children are walking to those schools from different directions, not just east west on 22nd street. >> 30 seconds. >> intersection close to the schools in the morning and i worry that pushing more traffic after 23rd street will be safe conditions for consider walking to street. i would ask sfmta to consider evaluating the impact that closing the street would have and adding mitigation. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker you've been unmuted. >> hi, my name is ben and i'm calling in support of the street network. i've had many friends in covid times start writing because of the slow streets roll back slow streets like what is happening on lake streets. those people are going to go back in their cars and reduce our climate goals. in particular, you know, we're talking about one street here, not the whole richmond, i don't understand why they can't have one road, just one. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: safe place to ride bikes. and we really need a network, the network is only as strong, i strongly urge an expansion of the street so people can get across neighborhood. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. speaker you've been unmuted. >> speaker: i'm christina, i live on the corner and california and 7th avenue. i have seen a grow on traffic on california street. and when i come home from work, i'm circling the block looking for parking which includes going on lake street. i've been yelled at just for simply looking for parking that should indicate where i live. but there is just a lot of safety around california street. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: so i'm strong leo posed to this lake street. i'm in favor of adding speed bumps or anyway that reduce. thank you for your time. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: hello. hello. >> yes, go ahead. >> speaker: hello i'm michael i live on lake street and our family and the commuting love lake street as well as other streets. family en bit, environment ben firkts the walker benefit and walkers and the city benefit for model and innovative action on climate change. just now, just over here, the card to driving so fast on lake street and it's right by the park, it's action traoemly dangerous for the kids out there. we've been coming on every day and never experienced any harassment or changes on our commute. kids love lake street. they use commission unanimously voted, please consider our young citizens and make lake streets slow again. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hello. yes, go ahead. >> hi, my name is margaret and i'm a long time resident. i live in second and california. less become slow street that traffic and california to one lane. driver and pedestrian and i urge this to keep lake street so pedestrian and street noefrm in europe, san francisco being processive city it is, it should lead america in that regard. thank you for the program and i hope you approve it. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: hi, my name is alice due baker and i'm a d4 resident calling in to the sfmta staff recommendation for the slow streets program. slow streets have been a great way to move around the city and build community. it's been a place where i can walk around san francisco without fearing for my life. and with need our city to be designed around people and not cars. cars are not people. none of these have been close. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: treated outside of cars like working drivers to move more slowly. we can only achieve by providing alternative. the current close street are a life line and we naoet to create a better network. i'm going to ask you to strengthen the program by incorporating the plan. and finally, i want to ask how many more teem are in line to comment. >> it appears, we have about 30 hand raised but people are continuing to call in. >> okay. >> go ahead. >> speaker: i'm drew and i live on 25th avenue. did you know that--let's stop wasting time with these car burning folks, and increase our carbon goal. make driving as expensive as possible. ban cars, i love slow streets, thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> thank you all for your patience, i really appreciate it. i live on 28th avenue one block north of lake. i lived here for six years. i'm in favor of reopening lake streets. i enjoy the ability to walk and run and i have three children who have enjoyed lake street but i also drive to work, i'm a car brain, i think i was just called by the previous speaker, i do rely to drive my children to school and work, and i can tell you that california street has become more dangerous because of being closed. so i worry about the safety of our community, if we do not have lake as an ak tes point to cars as well. that's it, thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hello my name is brian, i support the plan and i'm asking you to approve the streets comprehensive network. i'm not here to talk about me but about my little sister who has down syndrome, she will never be able to a drive a car. she loves driving her bike but her imperfect balance like the ones on lake streets are down right dangerous and unuseable for her. 30 seconds. there are countless individuals like here in san francisco with similar disability and they deserve city infrastructure that can accommodate her needs. they instead dpraitly extend their independence, mobility and safely made available to them. when you vote, please think of my little think with sin syndrome have a good night. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: hi i'm leslie mire and i live in california with my husband, two children and dog. i support opening lake street as safe bikeling making it a. there is significant more traffic diverted into the neighborhood and in san francisco, does not need another street in part of the city. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hi my name is jennifer and i live in fourth and lake, and i'm in favor of keeping lake closed to cars. it has givener the neighborhood, it's a beautiful draw to the neighborhood, come and visit, i'm also a driver. i have not noticed any real impact from the slow street on california. in fact, the lake changes have more of an impact than slow lake did. so please consider keeping slow lake slow as a benefit to so many families in san francisco. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: hi, can you hear me? >> yes, go ahead. >> speaker: i'm catherine and i run a small business in the mission, a lot of our customers come from out of the mission and sometimes out of the city, parking is always an issue for them as well as driving. act like it will impact my business and located on 22 street and also the people who go around the mission after coming to my establishment to do this. that's what i would like to say. i'm in favor of not doing slow street on 22. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good evening, i would like to suggest that we spend our resources by increasing the physical transit system throughout the city. and tht time, we need to table the slow street program so does it not bring out the worse in us. i think it's a luxury that we can afford but after we have a greater more inclusive that does not exclude neighborhoods in the west side and areas, bicycleling, there is been a lot of people talking about that but it's just not possible for everyone to bicycle. i also think that the increase of driving that we experienced needs to be taken into account. and lastly, i'll just say that a lot of the reduction in accidents is wonderful. but we need to take into account the fact that we were in a stay at home situation. >> thank you, your time is up. next speaker. >> speaker: good evening, board members and thank you for your time. i'm a regular user of almost all the slow streets. this streets including lake are crucial on the biking routes that i use with my own children as well as other children. please keep lake street slow and expand on the slow streets to create a functional network that our families can use within every neighborhood in the city without having to drive. please make the streets permanent. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: hi, my name is amanda, i feel like we already have designated spaces for people to walk and bike. we have very safe sidewalks. i also feel like driving on the slow streets, it is been difficult to interchange in the signage. >> and so this has slowed my commute a lot and i actually for various reasons drive all over the city and the slow streets have caused me problem all over the city. so i'm against having a slow streets in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> people only place i feel biking is on safe street. i'll be forced to drive which will contract to car traffic even more. anyone who knows about induced demand knows that slow streets don't increase traffic. it's no question that cars are deadly, op miezing our streets for cars and speed literally puts people lives on the line. i'm not sure why we're having a debate about perceived traffic. keep lake slow and expand the slow street network so that everyone can travel safely in san francisco. not just people rich and enable enough to drive deadly motor vehicles. cities are for people, keep lakes slow. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: i work with the community. i ask that you please approve all streets so much slow streets are important community spacis and it's crucial to keep it safe for the network. it is a gateway and thanks to the highest injury, fatalities and the city and transit vehicles share and freeway traffic. traffic congestion makes it difficult for people and people with disability to walk. 20 seconds. >> in addition to the city's budget and legislative analyst, district 6 resident in the entire city. district has more space in district 6. across san francisco, the average is 36 times of what district 6 has. with that, i encourage you to make every street permanent. our neighborhood deserves to be included. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hi, my name is tom, i'm not supportive of, slow lakes street. slow lake street in my mind is sad california street. we're just quaoezing the water balloon as many said. people talk about how safe lake street is, but that correlates with a dangerous california street. lake street has a bike lane it's on the street. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: it's just ex as cer baits the traffic on other streets. so i'm not supportive of lake slow streets. >> speaker: i'm not fortunate enough to have slow streets on my district something i hope is mitigated. unlike many of our sidewalks, they're wide and flat and easy to sidewalk on with support. i understand that slow streets mainly people in private vehicles spend a few minutes more on their trip, this is a fair trade for us, that want the city for recreation and arrive alive. commenters say we need cars on older people, people with limited mobility. i support not just with words but with my action, my city's commitment to transit first, vision zero environment. i hope that you our represent will do the same. thank you. thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: i'm karen, i've been a resident of on or around lake street for 50 years. and i think this is a street was so brilliantly designed same way for at least 45 years. it has been fantastic bike lanes on the street. and it's got sidewalks for pedestrians and two nice lanes for driving. i'm supporting the opening of lake street. and not keeping it as a slow street because i think that there is room the way it's designed for everybody to do what they want to do. unlike many of the other streets in san francisco, that don't have this brilliant design. i also think that, keeping the street open to car traffic, makes it safer. >> thank you. >> speaker: for runners. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> speaker: i'm david, i'm 78 and i live on 15th about dwaoen california and lake. i urge you to reopen lake street. because slow lake concept no longer makes sense. i walk across a lake to and often three times a day, seven days a week. i've had more than ample time to observe that even in grave weather few people use lake. we have ample sidewalks and bike lanes but i only city a handful of cyclist and runners. it's been so for the last two years. meanwhile traffic is forced off to california street like me when i drive to the supermarket and the avenues that connect, this includes 15th where i live. what is the purpose here? no one has provided a track and answer. so please reopen lake street. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> speaker: hello my name is betty louie, i have to deal with traffic in california. until mta that cars are not going away. and until we can get up and running on a full schedule and until the majority of commuters and bikers we'll need streets for our cars. people's tempers are short fused while using california and i see more dangerous aggressive driving now. i'm not opposed to stop signs and speed bumps and other traffic calming measures, please open lake street, thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: hello. san francisco all tris tick goals, slow lake while necessary public help measure during the pandemic, no longer serves its purpose. san francisco well residents should not enjoy a private drive at their leisure, provides ample opportunities as well as corridors for commuting to work. furthermore, future legislation will limit our alliance on gas powered vehicles as passed in sacramento recently. >> 30 seconds. >> this does not have sufficient parking or public transit access for low income residents in return turning slow lake for wealthy and nim byous residents. thank you, i appreciate your time. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: hi i'm serene, and i'm 8 years old and i love lake street. here are my reasons, i can walk and exercise with family and friends. but when there are cars around, no one can play on the street. if there are no cars, i can roller skate and roller blade and go in long walks with my dog. when i'm, when i'm aware, i have to wear a a mask but i feel free to exercise. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: my friends and i love lake and walk to school. one of my friends bikes all the way to school. i see a lot of use lake. i see a lost kids riding bikes and roller blading and walking with their friends and families. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> speaker: i live with my partner and two daughters, we regularly use the slow lanes to walk and bike. i hope you will make history by establishing the slow streets program. i urge you to reaffirm lake streets and to implement a design that is consistent with other programs. please also adopt the people's slow street proposal. reduce per day and speed limits to 15 miles per hour or less and implement traffic diversion to achieve these metrics. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: yes, hello can you hear me. i live with my family, we have two children and i'm also car oern. i urge you board members to please keep lake street as closed street. as a driver i do notice more traffic on california. however, i feel that it's a very small price to pay for having a small space for my children to ride their bike safely. we also have a obesity epidemic. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: and also this is a good thing to do for us to combat climate change. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: i'm, founlder of out reach of cal bike riding tourism study funded by caltrans and vice chair of caltrans district 10, bike pedestrian advisor committee. first streets is also about expanding tourism opportunities. networking all streets in san francisco. slow streets are being planned in l.a., san francisco, boston, denver and ready. as out reach manager for the bike valley, bike study, we have stakeholders, lanes creates more tourism dollars, yes said the report, we how creating a bike network makes economic sense. party in the san francisco gate today, slow streets and tourism. my wife and i vacation in san francisco, we come to stay, dine and bike ride. it is done. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> speaker: listeners, you may be--listening to all speakers when you may have already made up your mind. the fact that these issues are so divisive should be indication that it's flawed. is simply to advocate traffic restrictions. honestly, if you could have started a program from scratch, this is not how anyone would have decided. >> 30 seconds. >> there is a lot of understanding on how to use and not use. many mistake that roads are closed vehicles. while many believe that they have the right away on the streets. this has lead to many conflicts. for these and many reasons, please start over and develop a comprehensive and support before design designating any. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> hi, my name james. including lake street. needed near the commute, i've seen no commute in traffic. i would like to highlight, on safe streets and have been multiple times and can see drivers speeding. less experience use, bike safely in the city. people are aligned painted in the city, i feel safe not to try cycling in the city. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: this will allow me to cycle safely and not use a car for majority of the trips. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> speaker: hello, i'm 11 years old and highly recommend keeping slow streets. i live on a slow street and bike or walk everywhere i go. when i was 9, i hit a bike and i'm just glad it was not a car. and then, here today, please consider this there is 26202 streets and only two of them are slow streets. and also emergency vehicles do have the right of way. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: i'm deidra, i lived off lake streets for 28 years and i'm avid biker. i'm for opening lake streets as i feel that making it a slow street is make iting less safe. a few days ago, i was riding my bike and a van appeared directly into my bike lane going towards me and i had to veer off on the sidewalk to avoid it. the, i'm all for stop lines for elevated sidewalks and for speed bumps. however, lake street is not safer as a slow street. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: hi, my name is debbie frittas and i'm in full support of opening up lake street. i lived on the corner in lake street for exactly 21 years. slow lake was implemented as a response with no warning to our residents and it's still has unclear guidelines. safety is my primary concern. and the added traffic on gary street is not safe. people walking and running down the middle of the street, especially at night, is definitely not safe. >> 30 seconds. >> the self appointed street monitors who street a toughen vierment, are not safe streets. thank you so much and thank you all your board members for your time. good night. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> hi, lake street ded ends for the past 25 years. i'm for opening lake streets and declassify as a slow street. i do think that lake street is unique from the other designated slow street, many people have addressed this. you know, i drive down california, i see, definitely an increase in the traffic and frustration level. harder for my observation for walking, walk across the street to get. >> 30 seconds. for me, lake really never needed to be slow but here we are, please open it. thanks. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: i'm daniel, i live in on 25th avenue, north of lake street. i'm in full support of reopening lake street. i've been finding california street has been accessably packed with cars and people are always in a hurry because they don't have a place to drive. and i'm constantly giving her kapts. i support get back to lake street. thank you so much. there are great lake lines already. already a very safe place to walk. i'm inposed to making cayuka. they've been experiencing auto brake in and illegal dumping especially since covid. two days later, >> 30 seconds. now i'm living under the at mission street and the freeway. and this is in part because the fencing have allowed easy access. i prefer, clean up the traffic graffiti, the over passes. increase police patrols. >> thank you, next speaker. >> next speaker thank you. >> speaker: hell i'm a resident of district 2. i don't live on lake street but i live near enough to have used it frequently for 20 years. fre pandemic, it would have never occured that lake street would be closed. next to a massive park. when my kids were in preschool, the entire class walked across online to get to the and visit st. an nursing home. it waser a great place to teach kids about traffic. you need to move the designation entirely, study the new traffic measures and report back to the community at a later time and open lake street to cars. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> hi there, i've been resident for 36 years on 6th avenue. but i want to keep lake street safe from dangerous traffic. i would love to see the program expanded in the sunset. i would also like to see some ensure the cars are not slowing down the street. and dangerous. another point that the painted bike lanes are not thick, the paint does not protect you from a dangerous vehicle. and i like to walk my dog and she does not like car noises, they scare her. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> speaker: hi i'm louie and i'm calling to support the slow street program. and to be improved with better car diverters, motel filters and lower speed limits. the people should serve as inspiration and it will help the city reach its vision zero goal. as in addition, i would like to see the return of 41 and/ortega slow street. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> hello. >> yes, you're here. >> hi, thank you. thank you, board and allowing me to speak. my name is brigita, i'm four generations and three generations in street. and i'm very partial to keeping lake slow and permanently slow. i want to talk about the historical perspective, lake has always been a slow street. i can remember the military, when it was enacted base and the truth would run down the milled of lake street, chanting a new song. i remember the mounted police. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: today is an epi center for thousands of children during halloween and hundreds of kids are taught safety. it is, an essential street that i'm hoping that you will consider and allow it to remain a slow street. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> speaker: hi i'm brad, sul man, i lived next to lake for years. if this is a decision which way to go is better, it's easy decision. you have wased a hard ship for thousands of neighbors for closing lake street, in exchange for what? a little more room for biking and walking when it was already there. this is hurting people. i'm worried this is about idealology, the people for slow streets who want it to be venice and i'm worry mta, wants the same thing. if it's about doing the right thing and not harming people, you'll keep lake street open. it's an easy call. stop hurting people. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: hi, can you hear me? >> yes, go ahead. >> okay, sorry, my name is stephanie and i've been a resident for 15 years. i urge to you reaffirm lake street close status. we have three young kids. most of our friends are also young people and we all love and take care of lake, it's been a gathering where they ride bikes together. i truly believe that we need to start prioritizing, biking and walking and outside space if we want to keep san francisco a a desirable place for families to stay long term. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hi, i'm andy nakahara and i live between lake and california. it's time to reopen lake street. first of all, lake street is as slow lake. it's a mess, neighbor against neighbor, you've created a horrible condition. mentioned, it's a balloon and so many cars driving and trying to race from california, now that slow lake is closed. because all the traffic is back on california people do whatever you can to get through. you're just creating a huge problem for all other neighbors who don't live on the street. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> i have two young kids, 11 and 13 and i'm also a biker and i'm in support of opening lake streets. as the other speakers said, california has become so dangerous, for me to take a left, it's become a major danger. the cars are often in gridlock, they don't keep the intersection open. and it's just so dangerous. >> next speaker please. >> hi my name is sack i'm in favor of keeping the program. this slowly street has been able to go out and trust that really learn to bike, walk around. while running and running stop signs. i urge you to continue to keep streets open and others. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hi, can you hear me? >> yes, we can. i'm tina and i've been living in california and 10th for over 25 years. i oppose slow lake street. it's not people slow street. i used to be proud, i don't feel proud anymore. i never felt so unwelcomed and excluded until recently. making a dangerous street more dangerous. it's unacceptable to divert vehicle traffic on to california street. >> 10 seconds. >> i'm terrified of getting hit on california street. it's inequitable and unethical to hurt disadvantage people. we all deserve safe street. i support people slow street. exclusive is not there. i urge team board to improve the safety of people on california street and remove from slow streets. thank you for your consideration. >> thank you, next speaker, please. my name is elliot, i only seen the positive of slow streets, encourage the people to bike and it's much easier too do so. also necessary for children, biking gives kids more a come maoe rather than to go driven. it's a beautiful city and let people safely explore it without the annoyance of big cars. continue to expand the system, thank you. thank you, next speaker please. >> i'm brent on richmond resident and renter of ten years. i'm a mother, i'm a walker and i'm a nervous biker. i listened from a lot of great feedback and temporary infrastructure versus the lack of shared desired to share our streets safely. i know i responded to every survey when the four proposals came through for traffic calming, i left comments, i urge the board to push it further. so if you want to take the time evaluate the impact of calming measures and place, critic alt, but please don't throw away the joy and benefits out with the bath water. my children and your kids deserve to walk and driver, we're nuts half the time we're driving into the sun. >> thank you, your time is up, thank you. >> speaker: i'm 11 years old and i live near lake street with my family. i believe lake street should be reopened. to close it safely with my family and i have done beforer the pandemic and during the pandemic. and it is very unsafe to have a bunch of cars speeding on california. reopening lake street would allow it to function the way it was designed and dangerous coalition on california. please reopen lake street and make california safer. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hi, i'm a kid human, and i wholeheartedly support all slow streets including slow lake. it's objectively more hope as a flow street. in a city where we still use to prioritize cars throughout 99 percent of our shared street. it's a better vision for boulder brighter future. anecdote by those who only drive. neighbors are not ruined just look at the joy. anyone can see that. any of you can see that. can just look at how people are loving this and enjoying, it's just a great win. and let's keep it going, thank you. >> next speaker please. >> speaker: i'm in favor of slow lake and making all slow streets permanent. i also support extended connected network. slow lake has been contributed to traffic in california. here on lake, including the diverters that we see. san francisco leads the state country and the world in so many ways. let's keep lake slow and show world what bake friendly looks like. thank you. thank you, next speaker. >> next speaker please. >> speaker: thank you hear me. i running home california on 11 street. unfortunately, closing lake street made a huge negative impact on the safety of driving and parking. just on our block before we get the cars out of the garage. one has to get to the street and just lit calorie to stop so it could be safer to get out. >> 30 seconds. my clients start today have serious concerns about parking safely in the schools. that's very concerned, you need to open lake city. people are not using that. lake street is empty, 95% of the daytime. it is. >> thank you. thank you. next speaker please. >> speaker: i'm jay, i'm born and raised in san francisco. joi, that's my son jay, and he loves every slow street. can i bother you on the queue in. >> sorry. >> update on the length of queue right now? >> i don't know what the length of the queue is at the moment, we'll tell you after your comment. >> speaker: okay, thank you. >> next speaker please. >> it does look like we have over 40 in the queue, people are continuing to add. next speaker please. next speaker. i will say we're not voting based on the number of people that speak, you don't have to all speak. >> speaker: thank you, i do appreciate the opportunity to comment, so i appreciate you all for your time being here. i'm a grad stud inter and urban planning but i used to live around the corner on california street. i've been pretty engaged program foerlt last two years. going to' vent and going to organize and taking clean up and offering surveys that you offer. i trust you guys to give us a program that prioritized safety of all modes, is what we've seen for recommendation. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: from a policy perspective, impact we've seen and the general has been no negative impact, except traffic. pretty benign in terms of sticks and given that we need to reduce fed death and we need to reduce overall driving. it seems the next generation is learning. >> thank you. thank you. next speaker please. >> speaker: hi, can you hear me? >> yes go ahead. >> speaker: i'm bonnie, i live in d2, i've been a cyclist for 11 years. i lived in san francisco for about 90% of my life. as a cyclist i want to say, first of all i'm calling in because i actually am not supporter of the street. i do feel that it's a bit narcissistic to expect drivers to drive slowly behind me. i've always just fine using the bike lane. it seems like an odd thing for san francisco to implement this program in san francisco. i'm a fan of slow streets and that's all i want to say, thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: i'm scott and i'm a big proponent, i use the streets every day and cannot emphasis what a gift it's been to our community. every day, i see commuters safely biking and massive decrease. and these are few of the many benefits to this program. i'm asking that you please approve and expand this program to include permanent calming measures, thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: this is susan glen, i live on 6th street. i raised three kids .d and i'm in favor of declassifying lake street as a slow street. i feel that california streets have become very dangerous. drivers are frustrated, running stop signs and lights trying to get to parts of the city, coming from the other direction. there is absolutely no audit so it seems crazy that we have stopped cars from being able to drive down the street when there is side sidewalks and bike lanes. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> hi, can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> i live on 17th and lake, and i lived there for 23 years. i just wanted to reiterate that there are very very few bikers and walkers on lake street. it's perfectly empty, most of the time. and it's a little bit e leadest to get it closed. kids have to get across town. it needs to be open. california is a mess and so is geary street. and we just, it's not a luxury that our neighborhood can't afford. so please open lake street. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hello i'm calling after you guys know, the richmond district is a very narrow neighborhood by means of by comparison to any other neighborhood in the city. they closed off one of the streets is, just causing so*fp havoc on the other road. there is some callers and you know, i think there is been enough said how it's dangerous. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: sure, thank you. i want to respond to some of these callers calling about the joy and that that should be preserved. i also want to point out where i also see joy is a block north, the richmond district has ordered by the golden gate park to the south and richmond district to the north. >> thank you, thank you, your time is supe. next person please. >> speaker: hey, my name is jason, congratulations on the marathon this is great. they're how my family gets around. we have a car but we choose not to use it, because we have closed street. call it going to a friend house. a while back, i moved to san francisco for a second time, moved here for a second time. when i came back slow streets were a thing, and i made a match and that map color coded. and it went super viral, it was weird and crazy. one of the times that my stuff went viral. it illustrated how runing repeople were for safe places to use to go from a to b. thanks for your time, love you, good luck. >> hi my name is west side homeowner and father and i've been in san francisco for 20 years. my wife is a native. look at the data on slow street. they say that slow streets are safer. i recognize there are people who feel and i wanted to acknowledge that some people feel some of the streets are safer that the data does not bare that out. traffic deaths went up that's because the cars around us, were able to go faster. we are not going to go back to five days a week of people going the opposite. we need to remove car space if we want to keep people safe. the data does not bear that out. please keep the slow network. thank you for your time. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> hi there my name is drew, i'm a d one resident and i'm calling to support the program like the others. i think it's pretty clear from looking at the rate of injuries and deaths per pedestrians and bicycle list when they're using the streets that have cars that cars do not coexist well people. it's important that we keep and expand the flow street expandable and make the improvement permanent. thank you so much. >> thank you, next speaker. i'm a 16 year resident of lake street, i support slow lake street. the data supports this and my experience supports this. i've seen no negative impact. le but i also drive to work and have no problems unlike my other speakers. with this the system is easy to coexist. and prior tolt pandemic, the traffic on the district was dangerous. when we first moved here, because of waves people started to cut through lake. >> 30 seconds. >> thank you very much, i strongly support keeping wake. >> thank you, next speaker. >> we're entitled to this, it's an urban experiment. my parent will not let me ride my bikes if it's not a slow street. these are real comments where residents are being drowned out by people with special or personal interest. lake street has extra wide, parking on both streets and bicycle lanes on both sides of the street. a majority oppose slow street designation. with approval number represents 384 respond enters out of a total of 3000 residents. please remove lake, do not fend to the dummy dogs and listen to what the people want which is to reopen lake street fully. thank you, i yield my time. my kids grew up in the city and they have to deal with cars. so some everybody else, thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> it's looking like just over 20 more callers. >> great, don't get ideas to call in speakers. >> speaker you've been unmuted. >> speaker: is that me? >> yes, that's you. >> speaker: my name is vivian mcdonald, i live between 22 and 24 avenue, one block north of lake. and i'm in very much of favor of opening lake street. most of the callers, that have called in tonight, are speaking from ideological point of view, they're speaking about the general item of slow streets which i do not disagree with. i think lake is the strong one. it's the only street in the slow street program which only has one street next to it and the park on the other side, so it's not only makes no sense but it means that all the traffic is pushed on to one street instead of sharing on all the streets. so there is no problem with the slow street idea but lake street is the wrong street and i very very strongly support opening it. also all these people that are not on lake street because there is not anyone here. >> thank you, your time is up, sorry. next speaker please. hi can you hear me. i lived in various cities and germany and also in u.k. and one thing that i appreciate is the metal that protect the street that still allow emergency vehicles to go through. moved in, into air crash of coming into and not seeing. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: and also to extend the have beener [audio cutting off] >> can he can't hear you. >> speaker: can you hear me now. >> yes. >> so the, >> you seem to be going in and out if you're on a headset device. >> speaker: yeah, is this better. >> that's better. >> speaker: okay, cool, i was saying i lived in germany in the u.k. and various cities and one thing i appreciated is the met cal ballers to protect the pedestrians and i've been near crashes in san francisco in the last year with cars weaving in and out of bike lanes including yesterday where a tesla nearly ran into me and my toddler, i encourage expanding the program. so that the they're connected as well as investing in more permanent things such as metal ballers to protect pedestrians and cyclist. and i do encourage expanding that includes lake street as well as some of the other proposed slow streets and actually going forward with those and then figuring out to expand them and protect them with metal ballers. >> thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> association transportation, city over half my life. i'm skaulg to approve the permit and strengthen it, as the previous caller said, paint is not protection. i'm comfortable riding but my partner is not. of going to take paid street and transformative. lake street is an important part of that, that allows us to access--it makes it ideal for biking. this is about creating a connected network allowing people to correct. the debate is the one that brought down the 'em barca dero freeway, please continue that work. thank you so much, bye. >> next speaker, please. >> hi my name is sarah, i support proposal. election and countless survey show that everyone in san francisco got to vote on this. it really should require how many people vote for the slow street, because city is not of the committee but it does have a mandate these cannot be achieved without slow streets because we will not get people to use modes of transportation. >> 30 sebds. >> so if i bike to school and parents can ride to school can kids. slow streets have increased on slow streets and on california street byway and people including from the one-third of san francisco without cars will get hurt if this network is not maintained. please call and approve all the slow streets. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hello, my name is gus and i wear many hats but we have become a participate in the group called slow shot well, where i reside. we're supportive of the slow streets plan as created by staff and we're glad that shot well. we ask you to improve about being ambitious about slow traffic by adopting people's slow grant and including all the current slow streets. specifically about 20th street in the mission. we have been hoping that mt would make 20 the street and improve it. however we're advertised not to remove from 20th street until 22 slow street is implemented. with the understanding we support piloting in 22 street, as well. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker you've been unmuted. >> speaker: hello, can you hear me? >> yes, go ahead. we can hear you. >> speaker: i'm sorry it's not coming through. >> we can hear you. >> speaker: okay, hello is roselyn, and i live on 8th between lake and california for 37 years. i'm for hoping lake street as we all want safe streets, we welcome stop lines and have been asking for them for over 20 years. this is nothing but bike coalition implementing their will. we've been manipulated by the slow street position of sf bike and kids sf, community spaces. their reach is over 120 people. --120,000. if you are really cared about climate change, you would focus on one thing that would move needle, san francisco maoun', not safe and not function and short not reliable for the functioning person. the number one responsibility. >> thank you your time is up, next caller. >> speaker: hi, i oppose slow lanes. i went to mountain park where i was able to run and bike. enjoyed still adjacent as well. slow lake is necessary for elitist, bicycles harassing people in cars. come to real compromise. the common measures are part of this. thank you for your time. >> 30 seconds. >> we have somebody in the room. we can let that person go. >> okay. >> speaker: hi, my name is jade an, i live in d3 and i would like to urge you to support keeping all the slow streets permanently slow. this is an issue of life or death, you know, both on the streets themselves and across the world due to the climate crisis. if the vision of the world who want to keep the vision, where cars exist indefinitely is allowed to dominate, there will be famine and there will be death across the global south. this needs to turn somewhere and i hope san francisco is that place. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> all right, resuming online. >> hi, my name is josh, and i'm a very long overdue to open lake street. i'm a long term resident which is near lake street and within walking distance of golden gate park. my family uses the two amazing parks for our daily parks. we are avid walkers and jogers i see no purpose or need for the closure of this public street. it's very important the mta's program is only divided once united in the day. >> thank you. >> i support so we can start to heal. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: hello my name is i'm a resident of san francisco get outed of your car, get out of yourself driving car, your gigantic tesla, you're going to kill somebody, just ride a bike. doesn't it make sense. why make your life so inconvenience, you eat too much bread and drink so much coffee and drink more water and ride your bike. breathe some fresh air. you're wearing a mask alone in your car. get out there, what are you doing? >> 30 seconds. >> thank you so much. and i'm here at the mayor's house, paul valdez, bike mayor san francisco please support the bike for coalition, it's not a political thing, it's life or death. >> next speaker please. >> speaker: hi my name is eric and i just moved to inner richmond, i love biking since i moved here. please approve all slow lanes and decrease metrics for 15 miles per hour. before the pandemic, i road my bike occasionlely but mostly, now that there are many slow streets without the city, i feel safer riding around. i urge you to go and see people and joy that they have. ride a bike on slow streets. friends have gone car free and biking and walking are far more fun to move about the city. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, my name is luke, i live in district 5 and slow lake. i'm calling on behalf of my husband who is in class tonight in city college and he depends on our slow street. you got a an ear full and it's clear that one group is not pleased, they really want to drive fast all over the city but especially on slow streets for some reason. and the other group loves how slow streets are working. they allow drivers to move slowly to coexist and seniors and others on bike. and we love how they compromise p to better align with the city's transformation goals for a vision for a more connected network and better signage and diverter and other improved infrastructure. please continue to expand this program. lower the speed limits to 10 to 15 miles per hour and create a more connected network throughout the entire city for everyone. thanks very much. good night. >> thank you, next speaker please. next speaker please. >> you've been unmuted. >> this is stanley and i support the opening of every other street which is closed to through traffic. not that i have to say this but i will. streets were created for a good purpose and that purpose still exist. you know, we need a way to move services throughout the city. there are people who want, they say this used to be a playground. not in safety: it would be nice to think about the greater of the city. i suggest that, you either learn the meaning of living in a city or get out. and all other streets that are open to will you traffic, thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> hi i'm ray and i lived on lake street for a decade. and i urge you to reaffirm and to implement a design for lake street that can sustain with other closed street. i'm a driver and a biker, i use slow lake and other close streets to bike safely between destinations in the city instead of driving. and it's a easier choice to bike. it makes a huge difference. lake street is critical part of the slow street program. it's the only east west corner connecting the north side to the richmond district to the eastern and the strength of the network is how it ties the city together. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: hi i'm a resent graduate in urban plan ing. i also work for a car company. i'm calling to confirm the support for slow streets. overwhelming evidence shows that, it saves lives and more spaces designed for pedestrians and bicyclists. i have been in to--bikes and get a yeah, thank you. >> next speaker please. next speaker? you've been unmuted. >> moderator, next speaker please. >> hi my name and i'm a native effort. you support both the vehicle street to get san francisco an a viable transportation network. jfk if speeds could be kept below 15 miles per hour. thank you guys so much for suffering through this comment section this evening and for all of your hard work. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> speaker: i strongly believe that lake should be included in the slow streets network. my friends and i skateboard everywhere and my parents are happy because we're not going to get hit by cars. it's a lovely workout and enjoyable ride. my mother was nearly hit by a car a couple of months ago, pretty scary to think about. she does not want me riding on open streets anymore because the same thing may happen to me. to help young kids ride across the city safely. i'm currently at a stage where i'm independent riding my bike but there are younger who image. >> thank you your time is up, thank you. my name is linsay i'm 80 years old and i've been living here on california street 50 years. please open the street, on california terrible, and i'm having a hard time to getting into driver my way driving too much and faster and over. i never had any problem when this was open, please open. thank you. next speaker please. >> speaker: hi i'm cindy i'm a 12-year resident of san francisco. i just wanted to say that there are 200 parks in san francisco last i counted. and every county lives within a ten-minute walk in the park. i like parks and recreation yes we should have more of them but not where people drive. people need to drive, that will never change. i think it's dangerous and ridiculous to teach kids that they should be walking in the milled of street. it's very unsafe for them. i'm also very confused where they do not implement more speed bumps if they want to prevent fatalities. all they seem to be doing is slowing a street is closing a street. because people avoid those street and they don't want to hit people. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> about 20 more. >> good evening. slow lake is an amazing thing. slow lake street helps climate change and connect people with our community. i used to wait a long time just to cross the street. traffic was dangerous and it seems like cars did not care to slow down. after one after one day of opening, i can barely cross the street. why are we listening to people make lies about how bad lake is. i learned to roller skate and bike. it's improved the community. we're learning about climate change in school and actions that we can take. it's a great step that san francisco can take. please keep lake streets closed. thank you so much. : i'm outrage that it is open for discussion. we have have to fight for scraps for anyone not in a car. i also oppose the number of opening lake streets versus closing it, it's now open for everyone, including people driving. it's never been more open or welcoming than it is right now. the previous dollar said they have a purpose, they do. it will be around long after. cars, they're not meant for cars and they're meant for people. we need to connected network for transportation, not just for recreation, it's not a park, there is a connected network that we need, not just safety but the perception of safety for all people, not just young and strong bike riders. there was a strong mandate including the safe network up close. >> sorry your time is up. >> hi my partner and i live in the richmond district. i'm speaking in favor to create a permanent slow streets program. and i'm calling on the board to add on the program, one approve all existing slow streets. two, make sure the future routes are connected and prioritized in the communities. and three decrease the speed to 15 miles per hour and a thousand vehicles a day. i bike all over the city especially as a trans foernl tiff experience. date night activity is take a long lovely walk down lake mostly to patronize the wonderful restaurants and walk back home along the street. so my most san francisco have been walking or bike entire distance in the northern bay front along the slow streets. the future for us is less pollution and violence. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> hello. >> go ahead. >> is that me? >> yes, that's you. >> hi i'm calling from i first want to say you should approve the site, so streets and all others. particularly the and expand into the communities in the south of the city which is under served and communities of color. i'm opposed to any situation to the people who probably would not be opposed to the red lining of the 60s and the car dominant culture. just about, and i'm for the people's streets proposal and there needs bert connection and hardening of flow streets. all i was killed twice if i had not avoided cars. and it's ridiculous that as a comfortable bike rider have to experience that. and people who are cared, it's >> next speaker please. >> i'm 16 years services and my jung family and i live in district 5. we commute mobility and we are, eager to ability network. [audio breaking] culture and, fundamental, trash. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: san francisco are nothing less than a resistance of few narrative and heart break between pathways of people. 11 years ago, i moved to the district, and result of this particular fresh. every 15 hours, and clock work. made it -- ~>> thank you, your time is up thank you. safely to school and social businesses. let's make history tonight not mistakes. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please? >> speaker: yes, hi, can you hear me? this is barry, i'm, i enjoy speaking for myself this evening. but i want to say that when you consider the slow streets, consider the importance of puting value on the residents of the streets and the adjourning blocks or whether you want to look at whether it fits into the network of slow streets for the rest of the city. i think it's important to give huge way to the people on the street and impact in terms of providing, delivery services and services such as transportation to the senior and disabled. i lost money and a customers as a taxi driver. so you need to make these considerations. >> about 15 more. >> okay, next speaker please. dear board members, i strongly urge to you keep, i live off lake street and provides me with a safe place to do those things. it's a great recreational space for kids like me. as a society, we need to reduce the number of cars on the road and get around for the sake of our planet, thank you. >> next speaker please. slow lake has impacted traffic involves and neighboring streets and not giver in to antidotal observation. thank you for staying late. >> next speaker, please. next speaker. >> moderator, next caller please. >> speaker: can you hear me. >> yes we can. >> speaker: i'm david i'm a resident of richmond i'm calling from near my home from a stop sign, here comes the car, that leaves was going at least 5 miles per hour with unsignaled. there is a car that tried to stop but really did not. a place that is not worried about what drivers are doing. i've been out here for 20 minutes and zero cars have stopped. including two 31 buses, cars. >> thank you, your time is up. >> next speaker please. >> speaker: i'm will and grown-up in the city, learning to ride, my bike on the with the bike lane that existed on bike exist. i have two young kids and dogs. made it more dangerous. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: slow program has created neighbor on neighbor problems it's my recommendation that you, remove the slow lake street and return to the way it was before, you made the changes. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. our number has increased to over 20. >> my name is we support staff proposal staffing a permanent streets program. however we urge you to incorporate the plan. weaver concerned that so much has been removed from the initial program list. and when so mal is an entrance to major freeway traffic congestion makes it difficult for children seniors and people with disability to walk or travel. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: has created adverse problems. also the least amount of park in the entire city. we urge you to include the closed street, please keep that in the current program. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: hi, my name is jackson and i'm calling in support of keeping the streets well. i live in the outer richmond and the streets program, went into affect, i didn't own a bike now because of the slow lake in particular. i sold my car and i commute to my car and exclusively ride my bike. we should expand options to as many people as possible. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hello, can you hear me? >> yes, go ahead. >> hi, my name is emily and i live off of slow clay. i'm the mayor of slow clay. i support the people's slow street plan. i bike on clay every day to get to school and work and dentist and anywhere else. people in their cars often seem to be in a hurry. while people who bike are already in the hurry, we want to finally have a safe way to get from one side of the city to another without worrying for our fr*ik en lives. if we want to get people to bike, we have to make it safe. >> your time is up, sorry. >> speaker: speaker you've been unmuted. >> speaker: can you hear me. >> go ahead. >> speaker: i'm alex and i live in district 10, live near minnesota i love it as a way to get to the embarcadero, to somebody trying out biking and since moving to san francisco, i made great friends. we love slow streets and slow lake in particular on our route. so please keep and expand this program. after we keep the slow streets program, we love to see more space on embarcadero. >> 30 seconds. thank you, thank you. next speaker. >> speaker: that's all i've got. >> next speaker. >> speaker: hi, can you hear me. >> yes, go ahead. >> speaker: hello. >> go ahead you're unmuted. long time resident and firsthand impacts they've had throughout the neighborhood. i represent all including the left out in the public forums. i'm sure you know the forum tend to, and comments until the 8:00 o'clock at night. >> 30 seconds. >> speaker: i want you to know that triangle has support for the slow program. and i encourage you to do the right thing. thank you very much. so for that reason i'm gensz the slow streets network i'm a hard core environmentalist and i'm worried about the air pollution and i noticed commute time for everyone is going way up. i'm against the slow streets program city wide. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> my name is sharyl, i was at 318 avenue and i've been observing the traffic pattern on both lake streets and california for over 4 years. the truth is that lake street is very safe. and with the improvement it's even safer while california has become more and more congested. and we really only need lake street during the commute hours to relief the congestion. meanwhile most recreational users can enjoy an almost empty street most of the day. so why not reopen lake street, collect in real data. and make a decision. hello? >> yes, you can continue speaking, your time is almost up. >> speaker: okay, reopen lake street, don't make another street like california more dangerous in order to make lake street safer when it's already safe. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: hi i'm meghan and i live at 4th and california. and i'm speaking today in support of lake street. my husband and i moved to the area a couple of years ago and we walk on lake almost every day. i also i'm biker but i'm afraid to bike on streets, and safe biking. i urge you to implement the design for lake street that is consistent with the program. please also adopt the people proposal and also limit it to fewer than 500 cars per day and limit to 15 miles per hour to we can feel safe at least on one street. next speaker please. >> right now, native, just moved here and calling for support removing the barriers a caos the city. there is more dogs than are children and working class and middle class are under attack. i'm a working class man, i work in construction and they don't make it easier. so support and removing the streets and listening to the locals. thanks. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, can you hear me. >> yes go ahead. >> thank you for your time and also for the opportunity to share my input. i'm manuela and i live in district 1. during the pandemic, it's been incredible literally a breath of fresh air and great opportunity to bike and walk. i don't think it's elitist to bike or walk to any destination in your city. and i'm a driver and also a biker. and low and no car street has been embraced for years and proven to really citizen of quality of life. i hope that in ten years, people will look back and will be proud in keeping slow lake. thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: hello i'm valerie i'm one of the many san franciscoians who have mobilities and does not drive. and for making trips to golden gate park. the close street network is an important start to provide across the city. i urge to expand the network and improve the safety with infrastructure. based on data and goals and giving into the safety reduction. also if california is as invested as people are saying, it's time to start looking into the wild. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> speaker: hi. hi, my name is bunny, thank you for having me. i'm one from over 100,000 people who did not get a survey because of student street. i had part of my spine removed which is dependent on in order to pull my grocery on to a cart because i could not physically carry them. basically, minnesota be removed as it was placed in access. what happened them with months of this all over the street but never actually being removed. they kept on being removed. including last night, it's been impeded by the signage. my a d.a. is being ignored and this is not acceptable. only way to ensure my access and everyone else's will not be impeded going forward. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hi, my name is ben and i live on lake street and i wholeheartedly support slow lake. i'm tired of hearing that nobody used slow lake, a month ago, i counted 300 people just in one-hour time. i drive to work, driving in california has slowed down i admit that. i recently bought a e-bike because i cannot do so on d street. i and many of my neighbors were devastated when we saw mta remove all the barriers, have shown overwhelming strong support for keeping lake street slow. the voters are spoken on prop i and j, we want this. i'm asking mta to listen to the voters and not the nay sayer and keep slow lake. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: i'm jacob i'm a 16 resident live between lake and california. dear board members if you look at the results of the most resent election you can see that vas majority of san franciscoians want more car free zones. close to two-thirds vote today keep jfk car free zone. please listen to the vas majority of voters. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> hello i'm phoebe and i'm a resident of san francisco and i'm calling to support the slow street program that people bike program, and sort of proposal that they have. more step time and cane. accepted pleasure to ride on a slow street or walk. i think when you're in a car, it can be not be automobile how much your car makes it make walking. and it's a great transformative thing for the city. we should affirm this. we don't have that much mileage and we should use it for the best upon >> directors first of all, thank you for operating this is new hampshire i'm on the corner of two slow streets i'm in support of coping the slow streets slow and 23 is 0 slow it is is it is interesting 23 is a a- slow lake is an awesome thing for the city and i encourage you to keep to closed and as a one comment from the folks we agree with that is definitive i have and i think due to the indecision of the city and the lack of education and enforcement to i encourage you to keep the slow lanes slow but educate people it mayor de blasio to have unquote unquote slow traffic slow. >> thank you next speaker, please. >> i hello go ahead. >> hi. my name is kaithd republican and i've been listening i supported the slow streets program and especially the current streets which i think are really crucial to connecting the city it is safe for people i'm a driver i don't have kids and - but able to get across town in a way not terrifying and the closed streets have allowed that and i'm in support of 15 mile-per-hour less (bell ringing) and all of the the. >> 30 seconds. >> thanks cross streets keep the streets closed thank you for being here. and thank you, let me by (laughter). >> a next speaker, please. >> hello. >> yes. >> go ahead. >> sorry um, i like to like to give support important had this slow streets program and the expansion but in the district like the better market street it is doing pretty well. >> if we have hasher enforcement of it more like a slow streets that will be better there be constantly people from 23 to 8 street a will constantly running red lights. >> (bell ringing). >> muni and busy it is like in ways of crosswalks and thank you for your time i hope you expand really come. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hey what is up i'm chris i live on the corner of 59 for 20 years and have a few exempts and like closed streets they're not closed. um, you can still use them if you have a car it is a across street of safer not cut there is where make that more safe and i wanted a network of that and keep lake street going i know (bell ringing) the other streets were removed from this. >> 30 seconds. >> and what we'll do to make that work better thank you, have a good night. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello this is um, mark can you hear me? ? as yes go ahead. >> thank you. >> um, so i'm calling against the streets my primary concerns i noticed emergency vehicles have gotten struck in the intersections trying to turn and to me a single emergency vehicle and concerned they're blocking traffic and causing cars to so get zucchini in the middle of intersections foreclosed streets- >> 30 seconds. >> so i time to make sure at the end of the day, that's really all i have to say and thank you for your time and the marathon. >> thank you next speaker, please. >> hi you'd like to voice any support for the slowed streets proposal and ask a lake street it is closed i think pioneering program the kind of city i want to live in as a pedestrian and cyclist and i'm really thank you for your time and fewer work thank you for the closed streets please add lake. >> next speaker, please. >> how you wanted to comment on for the first streets in keeping lake street permanently slow i have not heard anyone talk about prior to the pandemic. and every time to concert and with the art fair any time that is in marin lake street is a gridlock this is dangerous for people walking and biking and skate broad i've not heard anyone public sidewalk u talk about that a cul-de-sack and cars are constantly running red lights. thank you for your time. >>. thank you. >> next speaker, please. hello. >> i'm gordon i'm a resident 0 of richmond district i urge you you go to have the design for like street closed and that is important, important san francisco vision zero and climate action plan and need to invest in safe infrastructure. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi just that is ryan i want to voice my opinion basically, you know, i don't think that makes sense to have traffic in that area and the traffic calming program you have initiated worked well precovid 19 please reconsider my street and part of program. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is melissa i live in dog patch minnesota and 19 street should not have been closed and 1,000 students- immunity can walking and biking in the middle of information 0 blocks and have is traffic signals and like tennessee 10 that- data collection has been taken and on sent to the property owners and . >> 30 seconds. >> 129s were included we were important members of this community. >> this portion of street need to be gone. >> didn't this is a street light i've been hearing about and access to get to the places where we work and open up minnesota between 19. >> thank you next speaker, please. >>. thank you for your time. >> you're almost finished this is john. i'm in the outer richmond district one i love this slow streets i love it so much. just to- i know you know the right thing i'm looking at a student music transportation agency why are you taking the public comment you're the agency you're professionals and know what urging to do right thing to do and make history that will be great that's it audience thank you, (bell ringing) next speaker, please. >> hi, thank you for staying to late i live in richmond district and currently i'm at lake and 21 with my too young kids and husband we walk a short entrance and i urge you us to refirm lake streets status and consistent with other streets in the program. >> the director spoke- and (bell ringing) 15 mile-per-hour. >> 30 seconds. >> san francisco is a leader in so many areas and a wealth avenue streets and i urge you you to keep this and should move he transportation and (unintelligible) san francisco must modernize the streets and infrastructures. please keep lake street (unintelligible) (bell ringing) . thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. hi this is frank lee i live on california strait near tenth avenue and live in a multi generation all household with my too young children and partner that is important to reopen lake i'm and avid hiker i don't know understand why the sidewalks are not preferred to walk on i prefer to walk on the sidewalks angst as a biker i enjoy go- >> (multiple voices). >> (bell ringing) >> totally save i think you need to listen to the asian-american community in the richmond have need to be able to drive on lake street in order to assess mountain lake park we're 40 percent of richmond please listen to our community we feel we're not listened to at city hall and important part of that city. >> thank you (bell ringing) next speaker, please. >> hello my name is phil mcdonald i live on three 2 avenue and california street i'm a bicyclist and i have always enjoyed going down lake street and noticed the street is diverted to california street makes that difficult that way so i think we should open lake street before and where was was before. >> thank you next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is- i appreciate the idea that some spoken san francisco has too many parks and recreation places but the purpose of transportation provides and say way for people not in cars get around and appreciate lake street but those are 5 feet that is legal minimum so people don't know what they're talking about and provide protection and from- from children nearby (bell ringing) >> 30 seconds. >> i also appreciate the drivers that recognize for example, california street perhaps turn california into a slow streets have a safe corridor as well and to vision zero and sustainable goal please keep the slow streets open for people worse case scenario and oppose cut through private traffic. thank you. >> (bell ringing) >> next speaker, please. >> hi my name is jay d and want to call in and voice any support for the slow streets especially for the street near me. >> we're not taking comment at that time on that street. >> i'm a supporter of lake street. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. hi, my name is patrick and i'm an 5/individual driveway and crossed blake street frequently and calling in support of the plan please keep lake street slow and limit to 15 more like and limit the number of cars and we have so far to go to get to the point please don't go backwards keep lake slow and adopt this (unintelligible). thank you very much. (bell ringing) >> thank you next speaker, please. >> my name is carton bill i live on 7th avenue and my family has been there over 20 years. >> i see people walking down the middle of street and pushing babies in the middle of street and three and 4-year-old try councilmember bonin in the middle of a street streets close to vehicular traffic i wonder what happened to code 6 and i'm not talking about the great highway when you a center it was open to vehicles (bell ringing) >> 30 seconds. >> it is ridiculous um, we continue this and i hope you'll reopen that street as soon as possible, and, secondly, ask that commission to take a look at the way the staff managed this program in 4 years around thank you government i've not seen anything so disingenuous and as this exercise (bell ringing) >> your staff. >> thank you you're time is up. >> any more callers online we have a person in the room go ahead, please [off mic.] >> hi board my name is luke a dmurnt organizer and createer for the slow streets helped to energy thank you to the staff for this project and grateful for all you're done and our city is a beautiful thing to close streets and need to prioritize is to an amount of joy and community not to mention the public health created by those public spaces watching kids ride their bikes is a tremendous value and potential this program has for the city and world. i ask you to approve this program for all closed street including lake and lowering the maximum permitted cars per day by 5 hundred and the maximum he speed to 15 miles-an-hour and have traffic diverted today you have an opportunity to lead the community for a safe and liveable future please lead our city. thank you. >> thank you. >> and okay go back to online. >> online we have a few more. >> (bell ringing) >> next speaker, please. hello, my name is- (unintelligible) live in the marina and say thank you for closing the streets during the pandemic, however, we're no a different situation and not flavor of closing lake nothing is slow about the bikes (unintelligible) program for us an approach for us and primarily (unintelligible) pedestrians (unintelligible) and closing lake (unintelligible) (microphone feedback) and change (microphone feedback) increase the number of bicycle lanes. (bell ringing) almost roundabout and constant with that, please initial when i have listed a number of vision zero and actually increased in 2020 and (unintelligible) last year. >> lake was closed like i said, i also like to say (unintelligible) (bell ringing) >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> go ahead hi, i'm anderson i live south of lake street my family has lived here since the 60s and like to say we used to use this during the pandemic ubers with the google map and drive and park on lake street but um, i never had an issue, you know, going to the blocks to the nearest cross street to it california like. >> 30 seconds. >> and with the lights no big deal and yeah, like one of the things that has been so great about lake streets the sidewalks not against the- but often on the portions of lake not enough room to walk in groups or ride the bikes initially, yeah i want to say i want to determinecy that process is divided. >> thank you. >> next caller. >> hello, i'm ken, i was in the richmond and 52-year-old senior and up until the last few months able to ride a bike and any feeling will the mta you people um, waged a war on cars and up to the first day that first weekend i rode my bike down lake and it was a revolution to me but. >> 30 seconds. >> like (bell ringing) and just since then i've reevaluated the mta board and all you're doing to make san francisco a more environmental and liveable and keep make this a one wonderful thing i was interested in seeing the barriers along lake (bell ringing) thank you, next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is (unintelligible) and i'm a group in the richmond and two years ago our family went from two cars to zero and first had physical jurisdictions and i was injured by a driver while biking and painted bike lane we honestly it is scary and to bike with my kids in california lake is the only safe route for walks. >> 30 seconds. >> we are two cars lessen the road but note to make a insist for the country impacts living on the front line of choice crisis and that is how we get 20 percent trip thank you, (bell ringing) thank you, next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm calling to um, let you know i support the staff's recommendation to end the designation of a closed center the it is impropriety for many reasons and staff found they agree with us so thankfully. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm terry i'm 14-year-old and live between 14 and- i'm in support of keeping lake street slow. and i used 23 avenue to get to school everyday and a it is safe place not worrying how to get to school and just a safe way to- and also use all the slow streets and just. >> 30 seconds. >> finally has helped me get on psychiatrist bod and ended up losing 25 pounds and finally i'm no support of the decreasing the amount of mile-per-hour to 15 and less than 5 hundred cars on the street thank you for listening. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is christy i'm a resident of um, mission terrains an, an opponent especially coming to the avenue location i'm in support of people program. i'm excited for the city to hopefully expand it to community especially community in the southern neighborhood that currently don't have access to those streets and programs. um, yes excited for this program and for support and have that to our neighborhood after not having it come from the original program thank you. (bell ringing) >> thank you next speaker, please. >> in support of the slow streets program. >> speaker. >> - and i'm in the outer richmond no one has talked about. >> excuse me - we're going to do that after. >> (multiple voices.) >> and so we're in- >> (multiple voices). >> yes we're not deciding that at this time we'll- >> (multiple voices). >> have to be another meeting. >> no, when we get to the comments version we'll actually going on with that (microphone feedback) will that be tonight a yes next 20 or thirty that minutes depending on the speakers. >> we have not discussed cabrillo. >> no, thank you sorry believe me i wish we had (laughter). >> next speaker, please. (laughter). >> hi hello? >> go ahead. >> hi, my name is felicia and 66-year-old san francisco native my husband is also the same second adjudication and we both live on telephone avenue in the sunset and name a slow streets a 6 block street with golden gate park on one end and dead end opened the other never asked if i wanted a (bell ringing) >> slow street. so i- this is never any intact from the residents and it is so- with lake street and it is- people have in the area and the surrounding area need to know thank god they reopened kirkland a block (bell ringing) >> thank you. >> i'm sorry you're time it up next speaker, please. >> hello, hello this is calling long time knower but been a transitory resident and shout out to my folks 26 and i have not foreign please- larry berry on sacramento and cherry sit down i gathered the ashes on lake street and like to request (bell ringing). >> he's a big fan. >> thank you. >> is that everything. thank you. >> (laughter.) >> next speaker, please. (laughter). >> hi um, i. of want to implore everyone on the phone please make comments to please hang up and let everyone make a decision now (laughter) i think we've heard enough we're going to check anyone let's go get moving here. >> one more. >> okay. >> hopefully. >> we'll see. >> one. okay. next speaker, please. my name is greg aim a resident of presidio and clay a frequent yours of the street since the pandemic and like to say increased in barbs on closed street to eliminate- and oftentimes been on closed streets and cars are doing what they do driving through at a maximum street to their designation (bell ringing) and recommit to vision zero and with the insubordination of it and like to see san francisco stand up to marketing and car company marketing and make a positive change.. thank you for your time. >>. thank you. >> next speaker, please. is any more speakers. >> no more >> (gavel) (laughter). >> all right. directors. who would like to leadoff? >> i said to thank everyone for all our comments and thoughtful effort and advocacy on the topic thank you for being respectful of each other forefront and start with director heminger. >> wrong mic thank you, ma'am i do have an amendment i like to propose is now the appropriate time. >> sure the many the motion to amend the item before us to add lake street. >> do i have a second? >> second. >> okay. >> and let me offer a word or two of plantation and my rachel norton, you know, it does pain me to see a lot of microphone my neighbors at odds about this and both understandable pride in many neighborhood one thing we've learned tonight property didn't turnover on lake street very often because it is great street. um, and i think the question that i think is before us to make that a greater street still with the slowing treatment and my communication is yes. i base my conclusion on at that time we will have received from an evaluation of program 25 streets were evaluated and lake turn out to be the second highist bike use of those streets during the slow streets it was the 7 highlight combined pedestrian and bicycle uses in any of the streets evaluated and taken as a whole the slow streets program um, reduced vehicle speeds by 14 percent that was was it was to do and 36 reduction in collisions and lake street was better at having percent but the numbers are what we are i concluded that slow lake as worked and should continue at the same time the knock on effects other california street is usable some likely diversion from lake that number is more likely because as reported out a number of times most of the slow streets have a reliefer on their side but the park is north of that and didn't you'll recall we approved the program in an effort to reduce collisions and reduce speeds contributed to additional fueling on the streets we put those three things together and um, and i especially we got work to do. i--i don't know that is a choice been should we have slow lake and do what we can to midst the effects on california we should continue the slow lanes i appreciate tom a commitment under you tonight we'll evaluate reasonable litigation measures to that we develop the one i heard the most about the notion of individually a left-hand turn signal for presidio as a way to clear out the backlog at certain times of the day. so i see the nodding of your head i take that as a yes. and there is another issue i would like to raise not just relate to lake um, and it may be that other directors want to raise more simple tisk issues the one and i think that some of the bad feeling that has preelevated this program because the rules are not clear to folks. and folks have taken it on themselves to enforce the rules as they understand them may not be with the rules actually are we rely on the police department and other neutral people of the authority to enforce laws not something the residents should be doing. and so i do think if we took a simple step posting the rules like the parks department posted the rules when you going to golden gate can't do this and that and essentially have something like that and talk to the police department about some kind of enforcement program they've got guys on bikes and this will be a good use to put them to. i think that point will the rules will knowing what they are and havingcy officials enforce them and not citizens makes a lot of sense and i hope that is something we can included in the permanent programs as a way i have best practice so again, that is my motion madam chair and i appreciate the recommendation to make it. >> thank you director eaken. >> thank you madam chair and all who are still here (laughter) and who called in to share your thoughts i tried to capture a theme to accept the discussion here with my colleagues the first name i want to call out a terminology the idea we have in the room with open lake street on their shirts and hats and those streets are closed. and i my finding from staff is that our vision for the slow streets program is clearly not that any street is closed but it is shared street able to be used surveilling and like staff to be chick-fil-a and let me start first of all. >> slow streets are open to all users of the roads drivers and pedestrian and cyclists and dog-walkers, etc. but all users need to go slow that is that's my $0.02 i appreciate much of signage has a anything else message of closed traffic if this program is permanent to come up request more transparent and more positive side. >> absolutely to echo it beginning the covid 19 program we didn't get the message out and i think that is here in next step we have this opportunity be to polish create and new program want to start fresh with the inclusive terminology and mentioning that all are welcome on the closed streets we have a plan to open up new messaging and communication and letting people know about the rules. >> okay. great. thank you and next theme to talk about is the metrics and data we heard a lot of people weighing on, on those volume. you got to ask staff two metrics and i mean this has an fascinating what is the purpose of a closed street and becoming and two metrics that are defining what a slow street is going forward that is supposed and that is volume. so those are the two things we'll use to define what a slow street and to scrutinize and all those numbers have an effect of creating the slow network citywide and has caused a shift for the modes of traffic. the staff recommendation that talked about a range of 15 up to 3000 cars on the streets per day and then talked about telephone 2 miles per hour to 25 miles per hour and a maximum. and i just wanted to share some perspective feels this is meant to be a low stress network of 25 is not effectively a slow network and it opens the right design target i want this to have this for my colleagues finding to have a slower traffic given that it is a slow street and meant to feel safe and echo we heard a lot of calls for 15 mile-per-hour as a target that is the school area safety speed limit to me some rational to talking about so many people talking about families using those streets and so many children making an effort and 15 is something to consider in a board motion to an amendment and 15 forward and then volume piece we heard some 5 hundred and some 1,000 vehicles per day. um, what i wanted to just recognize that in the data you've shown us like i believe 10 of the streets that we're considering do i have volumes below 1,000. for the majority of streets already there. and i wonder if 1,000 is the right target research setting a targeted to increase traffic volumes on the streets that are working effectively i wanted to i want to put that out there maybe staff and reactions from my colleagues. >> you can respond to them [off mic.] >> and staff to clarify. >> this damn thing. that um, what i saw in the was two numbers can you clarify which number you're recommending? >> um, i saw 15 hundred vehicles and 20 mile-per-hour. >> the current resolution language didn't actually put in the numbers in the resolution says vehicle good news victims volumes and like this i'm proposing 15 mile-per-hour and 1,000 of the number of vehicles. >> well in terms of feedback from you're colleagues you mentioned if we have something to hang 20 mile-per-hour on; right? the state law we took action i think today um, to impose that in a series of locations i guess the question is coming where we ought to treat slow streets like roads or treat them more sprinklely i have to say i would peace officer to hang our hat on something we have already established. in our policy and in our approach which is fwro mile-per-hour i have a lot to say about the number of vehicles i'm aware i think we have something to attach that to. >> a recommendation. >> oh, is that? that is the way to evaluate that. >> was that [off mic.] >> the staff i mean, maybe staff can speak to it they have a range. >> sure. >> good evening directors for sfmta and talk about the recommended series in the staff report came from um, echo the national organization of the officials a group of franciscans of the city transportation around the country and- and have a published guideline for all (unintelligible) and volume for traffic volumes and speed so the one hundred and fifty came out at&t's as the tart if you want to share the streets feel comfortable for all 15 to take a as suggested that's why we're suggesting 15 hundred and in the sort of just trying to boil it down to what that means many people don't think in average but one hundred and fifty hundred cars a day one car in each direction after that it is long (laughter) one car per minute in each direction during the peak heirs and 15 hundred a day [off mic.] (laughter.) >> yes all right. >> keep going. >> yeah. yeah. >> so the next theme the slowed streets are left out we heard comments about why are the summer streets not recommend for continuous and 20th street came up and some others. and so just wanted staff to sort of speak and address those why certain streets are left out and what it looks like to bring some of those back if we feel like sufficient community support for those. >> sure i'll start and so the streets that are recommended in the staffs recommend are ones where our data first of all, good use there is not, you know, overwhelming or strong and no conflict with any other land use or anything else so the ones we're confident would go in the cornerstone of a slow streets program can be added in the future the fact you mentioned 20th street and selma were not the recommendation didn't mean their terrible slow streets but have a low use or a less opposition in support. the question what will we bring back i believe the resolution talks about sunsetting the pandemic program in fy23 and there was a desire to be slow coming for the recommendation we could bring that back before you. >> okay. great. i think that is we should do that. >> yeah. >> and another one i want to talk about the connected network many, many commenter want to see a bigger network and pieces of that network here and called on staff i believe director i've been asking staff for a decision of the larger network for sometime, i wanted to understand whether that is something staff want to be responsive to and like to see something like the larger vision. >> yes. we are- have kicked off our active community plan upper market the bike lane that is not updated since 2009 and we are bringing an informational item to the board to update you on the fact that the schedule and what we're going to achieve in that effort. >> all right. and i wanted to just sort of second and agree with the director director heminger about the confusion we have a falling down and not taken responsibility and found out in the communication what is a slow street and how you use it and sort of phenomenal policing the brown act with neighbors thinking that is their job so- they're not allowed to drive on the street that is not any of our decision how to long this works. i want to enforce the call for posted rules of road but also love to hear staff reflect on where we go from here? forward to sort of help especially lake street that seems like it is- to allow residents to come back together and share the streets which is the intent of the program. >> i agree starts with the- with the posting clear rules of road we pretty abusive behavior in all directions and shannon said early in the presentation the rules of 2020 have changed with recreation and now is about a citywide network the purpose changed we need to a better job of the signage and improve the slow streets ambassadors for the community every community. we have a plan to. >> post signs on corridors start with like in particular around the themes what the main ideas a closed street if you're street and please go slow. those are unifying themes about all the corridors and we want to start with the signage that reflects that and um, we're present as early as this week with the rules of road specific how should people behave on closed streets who has the right-of-way. i agree. >> and . >> last agree we heard a lot of concerns about networking and stakeholders who have experienced traffic volumes and speeding on california street i think those are very important concerns for us to audience address and i don't know if something in the final motion to address that the cost effective measures um, to traffic congestion and address them speeding and safety concerns. on california street. um, i have a motion to make maybe i'll wait to hear from other colleagues about the changes i'm proposing. >> that would be great director hinze want to weigh in on that. >> sure. i simply my colleagues have spoken. so the themes i want to speak on we would (unintelligible) but i think not speaking to lake a lot of that opposition could be assuaged a little bit the fact i know that staff and (unintelligible) campaign really is the core to what we should be doing to next. the networks but (unintelligible) across the city; right? we don't want this program to (unintelligible) we all want. so clear communication and to have (unintelligible) have some how (unintelligible) and then the second big theme is that who supports may support a connected network if we're instead of (unintelligible) like we are tonight i think we ought- rededicated particularly to understand i know that currently don't enjoy the benefits of (unintelligible) to sort of even out the resources here. um, i think for example, i know i talked about do tenderloin but there are ideas (unintelligible) associates and (unintelligible) successive and dedicated to having activation and look forward to (unintelligible) protocol like (unintelligible) that would i think really benefit from the closed street and all pockets of the city not considered today and um, staff indicated to me that closed street as staff is assuming would say regardless of our, you know, of they're not in the resolution i think we're going to do that we should (unintelligible) closed streets so we (unintelligible) come before us and otherwise i'll say i'm sorry, i have issues i couldn't second the motion at that time because my computer was going crazy on me but if i could i would have helped. i can say like director heminger with data and trusting our staff does due diligence like lake and the traffic calming letters to community on the streets keeping lake street open. but in regards to i think that is important to think about this in the network and do think that grace is an important connector but believe that whatever tonight so the community can start to he'll and maybe work together on a design that everyone can sort of reclaim the streets. i think i'll be in favor of any guidance this board would like staff to really take a look at california and lake street adjacent. i think that is (unintelligible) that's it chair and director cajina. >> thank you madam chair i will say i do agree with how the colleagues have spoken about this program the fact we're not closing a street we're slowing a street; right? that is important to make that distinction and important to capture this program if that way. um, i would be i would be remiss not to call out the public comment today this is very concerning and came out tonight we heard a lot of folks with public comment about engaging our neighborhoods in this project i feel that is something we the address. um, one of the things around that and both my colleagues called this out a lot of neighbors policing neighbors and in equity neighborhoods to make sure the equitable implementation of the program that is going to be a concern for me. um, i do have concerns about um, what effect people are comfortable with the closed streets in different neighbors the feelings that neighbors are policing neighbors or policing people. and what they do for a lot of folks i want to make sure we are doing our utmost to address that and so in 34 vein wanted to ask the staff to give me more of a engaged in the culture district the culture district have two closed streets there in the proposal that i (unintelligible) in the culture district and get a better sense of that how that was engaged in the process. >> absolutely as part of the sign process after the boards decision to authorize the streets last fall we engaged with several communities and helped held a number of public meetings for families to residents along shower street specifically metro to insure that we could communicate clearly about the desires of program. we in response to some of the meetings we changed where the limits are and able to adjust some of our paper marking placement and our crooks they focused on decorative crosswalks we or committed to continuing that level of outreach and before any thing on 22 street we'll reach out to the community engaging with (unintelligible) and with my other culture institutions that you recommend to make sure that our closed streets are in line with the goals of the community. >> and one other thing that was talked about a lot of community members are utilized closed street in many ways so i do want to make sure we're intentional with the community members and reach out to them to make sure (unintelligible) so in neighborhoods like the mission district or the 11 with- a lot of the events that occur in those neighborhoods already and that our design and our different treatments of street respect those sort of community altercations set. and that will be important for me aim supportive of closed street and a lot of discussions over the connecting network for bikes the neighborhood like elsinore in the use to be able to walk the streets safely and (unintelligible) so i feel mostly we are talking about biking a lot but a public safety a way for us to get closer to our vision zero goals. >> director yekutiel. >> (laughter.) >> hi colleagues. how are you? we're now we're talking to each other start with thank you's to the staff that had to be on the front line shannon and jamie and tom and the other one has to bear the brunt of this work and not forgetting that employees are part of this town thank you for living in here and thank you, christine and all the folks on the commission staff literally thousand and thousands and thousands of e-mails back (clapping.) to members of the public still watching we are receiving e-mails from christine at three and 3:30 and 4 in the morning and one request to add to the appeal. >> in general (clearing throat) the day i turned 15 and a half i got my permit to drive and a brown velvet interior that my father purchased in from an auction and i felt free i could go anywhere in any city a mill new doors were opened i see 151/2-year-old boy of a rabbi father telling you i needed new doors to walk there if that part of my life and thinking about recently about the debate around closed streets and wondered about the root of distinction and play out here tonight and i think understand what is about. the root of this centers on freedom the thing will driving in a car girlfriends whoever in the driver's seat regardless of portional wealth the ability to go anywhere windows down and music on and can be the best feeling in the world. i know that. i know the feeling of freedom that can happen when you get into a car to drive anywhere i got it. i got it how road closed signs and things say do not enter and requiring to you slow down maybe feel like an offense and i got it. but here's the thing the world is changing. and we need to change with that if we're going to lead. repurchasing some of the streets not all but some to facilitate a new way of getting around in my opinion not too much to walk forward together. here's the thing the streets are not closed but have treatment to get folks to slow down this program is a just an in the intricacy the whole city needs to come together to make them successful and in my mind that looks like beefed-up treatment to make them slower and safer we can't put heads in halfway measures and expect them to work we need to commit and we need to do better by each other the tenure of this conversation especially online is embarrassing you that people were talking about the a liquifies and called- and calling staffers our staffers our agency staffers lying snakes. it is sad. one public comment commenter mental illness folks are to anger people are spitting on each other think about that for a second. spitting on each other in san francisco in 2022 because of an effort to slow down traffic we've bone there a patching a global one we noted to protect each other so for people walking and biking no more of this atomic energy. and to the folks opposed to the effort give our agency the punt opportunity to build on that and putting streets from my estimation is split i want you to know to reopen lake street to cars in the way it was before the fact we're here tonight we're listening i spent a lot of time listening to lake street physically going to lake street with lake street folks and seeing with my own icing i eying wherewith that split as a board member do the right thing so what the do the right thing? >> the right thing to do so provide for the future. to build for them. and to me that is make permanent all the slow streets including lake streets and more to build a true citywide network. so that o to my request that will surprise no one until we have a truly connected network we're going to continue to have those fight pitting neighborhood