But a process be established to come back to this, and work towards implementation. Thats the overvie katie and i are happy to respond to questions. I have no questions and i know we have from the mta tim and the staff that that is here and i dont know if they were prepared to respond to a number of different issues that mr. Rousseau and katie raised in the report but i would like to invite you up if you would like to make any remarks and we have a number Public Comment speakers as well. Good morning. I am with the mta. I wanted to clarify a few statements that were made. I think that the way theyre written is a little misleading, specifically the number of staff that is dedicated to bicycle projects and 37 people part of the traffic calming bicycle pedestrian, pedestrian safety, and school guard crossing program. The 7 million of the bike projects that some of the staff work on. Its not all 37. I wanted to clarify. I ask for that to be clarified. In addition we are worked on all of th
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
Juries and Everything Else and the board needs to include this in the Strategic Plan of what youre doing in that area. We also need to do a lot more in advocacy and evangelicism as far as it goes and i will make one final comment. Students are thinking about their future life in terms of driving or their transportation decisions. If we can cover in education the last three years we can get them out of the situation where they may make the mistake of getting a car, depending on a car, and then requires a job and gets them into that cycle where they cant pursue the education and academic training they need to do and its critical at that particular age. No one is doing that now and part of the hearts and minds to get to 20 . Thank you very much. Thank you mr. Hill. Next speaker. Good morning. My name is priy [inaudible] and a Community Organizer with the collaborative. I am here today in full support of the bicycle strategy for San Francisco. I work for the low Income Community and we wan
Tracking projects better, having more systematic ways of overseeing when projects are scheduled, and what the budget is, and being able to readily compare actual to budgeted funds and time tables. Our recommendations quickly are for the board of supervisors to urge the agency to implement the controllers recommendations, particularly regarding the paint shop. Thats where some of the problems where and germane with bicycle projects and has to do with striping and getting the lanes developed and maintained and they have implemented some of the recommendations but there are still some regarding the paint shop to develop this is for the agency and develop a tracking system the agency is in the process of developing an Electronic System that will be agency wide and allow for all kinds of project tracking and management controls, but its still a couple years off by the time it gets to sustainable streets and projects r and our recommendation a less sophisticated system in place so that the m