Point and hes saying there is more to do with infrastructure. San francisco residents need to be told by the city why they should take up cycling. They need to be encouraged. Theres an Organization Called the noarj California High School Cycling League about 60 to 70 cycling teams in northern california. Guess how many are in San Francisco . Anybody . Zero. For a city that is aiming to have 1020 road share of bicycle in the future that is not a encouraging statistic but i thank you for your work and for introducing this today. Thank you and i think mr. Hill from the cac suggested that infrastructure is important but education and advocacy is a critical part of it as well. Next speaker and if there is anyone else that would like to speak, anyone that has been called or anyone else come forward now. Were going to close Public Comment in a moment. I am jazz [inaudible] and a a lot year resident of San Francisco and i would like to echo the statements of the last speaker. I feel so much is
Aggressively take an approach to improving the infrastructure but also education and advocacy as well. I wanted to say that mr. Jawa from the conservation of league of voters mentioned bicycling for bicycleelists but for others and the equity issue and others brought that up and sustainable environment is critical and alternative transportation including biking is critical and this is about a healthier San Francisco as others brought up as well, so full build out benefits many for many, many reasons and health and safety and for others the environment. I wanted to say that the budget analyst made some suggestions of having the mta, and i think it was said there are already efforts to come back to not only the mtas board but the board of supervisors with a progress reports. I think there is a recommendation from the 2011 controllers report on a number of those items and i am guessing those are already being analyzed and lookinga at reports and the budget analyst reported to us from the
Funding and we talk about these projects but the opportunity is funding the network and like all networks the more et cetera canned it is the better it does for everything it tries to do i have 30 seconds to say that given that if we really get serious about funding the full build out, not one of the partial plans, but the full build out, the improvements will be much more dramatic and than the half percent were seeing now. We will get a much larger increase in all of the goods that bicycling provides us so i really hope that you start looking at the recommendations which was to come up with actual funding options. Thank you. Thank you. Im going to call a few more names. I am jenna lee and with the fran Bicycle Coalition as a community organizer. Many of our 10,000 plus members couldnt make it in today and we had letters send emails and i know you were copied on them as well. I want you to know there are many people in the city that would like to see the board pursue the full system bu
Bicyclists. First of all i wanted to thank you for your interest in this topic and the mta staff for the report on funding. I am struck by a couple of things but the biggest is we have been getting lucky for a long time; right . We have been spending less than 1 of the transportation budget on bicycling but were already at 4 of trips. That is like a dex in terms of what we spent and the benefits were getting. As was said its clear we dont need to debate the merits of this. If we want to improve the Transportation System bicycling helps. If we want healthier San Franciscos bicycling helps and if we want to reduce emissions and Greenhouse Gas emissions biking helps. There is a whole host of things it helps. The thing i wanted to draw more attention to is the equity piece. We often talk about funding and we talk about these projects but the opportunity is funding the network and like all networks the more et cetera canned it is the better it does for everything it tries to do i have 30 se
However, we should be angry that the house should not take up comprehensive immigration reform. For one year and five months, the Senate Version has sat past and we have been unable to take it. All during this time we have heard our country, our economy and our families. The time has come to make a decision. Now, while the president may have put this decision off, this decision will not work. It is the right thing to do. It is the american thing to do. And with gods help, it will be done before the conclusion of this year. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. For what purpose does the gentleman from South Carolina seek recognition . Mr. Wilson madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house and to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Wilson madam speaker, a , the go last june president ignored these signs and underestimated the strengt