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
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
Valencia street. This week it was a hit and run. Last week there was a hit and run. Its increasing and the visibility of lack of safety is what is increasing and i work for a sunday streets and i hear all the time from participants they love coming to the event and it creates a safe environment and can ride their bike route fear of bit hit by a car and having safe streets like that everyday is very important like you heard from previous speakers the number of cyclists have increased and that is with a lack of infrastructure. If we can provide the safe infrastructure for people interested in being a cyclist i think the number will grow and definitely make an impact on the number of people that drive cars and muni and the efficiency of muni and i just thank you for prioritizing this. I think its really, really important to recognize that the statistics that were hearing about are not just statistics but theyre people and theyre people just trying to get to work everyday and they want to