Good morning, welcome to the october 24 meeting of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority im Rafael Mandelman i am chair our vice chair is melgar. Thank sfgovtv and our clerk is angela, will you call the roll . Yes, chair. Commissioner chan. Present. Commissioner dorsey. Present. Why commissioner engardio. Present. Chair mandelman. Present. Voice chair melgar. Present. Commissioner supervisor peskin. Present. Preston present. Why commissioner ronen. Present commissioner safai. Absent. Commissioner stefani. Present. Why commissioner walton. Present we have quorum. Thank you. I think you have a Public Comment announcement. Yes, thank you. For members interested in participating in this Board Meeting we welcome your attendance in person in the chamber room 250 in city all or watch channel 26 or 99. Or stream it live at www. Sfgov. Org. For those wish to make Public Comment remote low dial 4156550001, access code 2660 908 7338 and then press pound and pound again you will listen
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Encourage everyone to keep fighting for these protected bike lanes because i know we can. Thank you. Chairman peskin Public Comment is closed. Commissioner ronen. Supervisor ronen yes. I want to thank everyone who came out. It was very eyeopening. Not that we dont know what is going on. But to hear that bikers are using the red lanes for the buses as a safer alternative to what was supposed to be the bike corridor is just insane. And the crazy thing about it is it makes perfect sense. Thats how dangerous valencia has become. I have asked the mta several times to increase enforcement of double parking on valencia. I know supervisor sheehy has done the same. I see dillon in the audience. I think we need to have that meeting again because while we will continue to prioritize and fight for protected bike lanes, thats going to take some time. I share the urgency of all the public speakers today. Im very fearful that someone is going to get severely injured or killed if we just wait to get t
Sir. I have just one mr. Speaker card. Good morning. Thank you for taking the time to listen to us. My name is paul valdez and im a 26year San Francisco resident. Im a volunteer for the bicycle coalition, a former member of the bay area families for safe streets advocacy group. Bottom line, im here to show my support in approving the additional funds that create protected bike lanes from market to mission. I choose to ride my bike in San Francisco because i believe it is a wonderful, sustainable healthy way to get around in our city. Im appreciative of the current bike structure but my bike rides have less enjoyable because of the people who lack the wisdom to share streets safely. There are many situations i was riding down valencia and was forced into oncoming traffic because drivers from Companies Like uber and lift were parked in the bike lanes for several blocks. An uber driver swerved in front of me to pick up passengers and compromised my safety and the safety of others. To take
Clear that it is cheaper and better for citizens of San Francisco to have safe cycling. Thats just a nobrainer. Motorized vehicles and pedestrians and bikes have no business being in the same place. We have to have bike boulevards, pedestrian areas in this city. I ride valencia five to six times a week. I have to say it has been fab seeing so many fabulous seeing so many new people and the growth of bicycles. But it is horrendous with what has happened with cars on valencia. There are countless cars and trucks double parking as everyone has said. You need to weave in and out. You have no choice. These are just accidents like mine waiting to happen. I think theres a toxic mix in San Francisco today. You have a bunch of new people who have very fast cars and very fancy cars and like to go very fast. And then you have a bunch of new cyclists. [bell]. Public and they are all together and thats causing enormous problems. So, i think theres no question in my mind that we have to make things