Really rich network of Community Groups great history of public involvement on the haight and weve been working with some of our inter Agency Partners Planning Department and on projects in haight as well as improving bicycle access on the haight and weve also been able to do this Public Infrastructure the public participates and started a few working groups one in the upper haight and one in the lower haight and specifically the bulbs and thats one of the concerns thats been kind of driving the city planning publics realm process creating a real field for haight not just another neighborhood but Something Special and we, you know, weve done a lot of good outreach but theres a lot left to do obviously we got a letter yesterday from some merchants along haight that note they are not fond of shelters and issues like that. Were going to be working with them for the next 6 to 12 months and obviously the legislation before you today related to the curb work and that will be worked out as we
Opportunities in haight one of the great things is were really lucky because theres a really rich network of Community Groups great history of public involvement on the haight and weve been working with some of our inter Agency Partners Planning Department and on projects in haight as well as improving bicycle access on the haight and weve also been able to do this Public Infrastructure the public participates and started a few working groups one in the upper haight and one in the lower haight and specifically the bulbs and thats one of the concerns thats been kind of driving the city planning publics realm process creating a real field for haight not just another neighborhood but Something Special and we, you know, weve done a lot of good outreach but theres a lot left to do obviously we got a letter yesterday from some merchants along haight that note they are not fond of shelters and issues like that. Were going to be working with them for the next 6 to 12 months and obviously the l
Enhanced infrastructure not only have signals going in but including pedestrian bulbs and countdown timers and all those improvements will go into intersections that do become signal ized so what are the benefits . Once again back to the 4 major points that were trying to address. Pedestrian safety. So i mentioned previously that 25 people have been hit by cars between central and in the last 5 years and if we had been able to install the pedestrian bulbs we would be able to have influenced 17 out of those 25 so about about twothirds of those pedestrian incidents so we think were addressing a large share of the Pedestrian Safety concerns and i mentioned it takes 11 minutes to ride on a muni that 1. 5 mile corridor and our proposals were expecting a 3minute travel time saving about 25 25 percent savings in travel time cht time were going to continue like i said working with neighborhood groups to identify how the bulb look and how specifically long and how wide the bulbs are going to be
Freeway, and where my issues come with the stoplights at haight and webster and haight and buchanan and when i moved in in 24 years ago our quality of life issue was crime and violence now its traffic and being hit by cars. Recently this week i was almost hit at buchanan and page and the thing i see with the stoplights i look at them as a quick fix akin to adding another freeway lane. In the morning the intersection are blocked and you are creating pedestrian nightmares. A permanent fix is the issue with fell and oak and instead of letting the google buses you should be partnering with them to move more transit similar to like what the subway system does in new york express versus local and finding out how we can get more people from the avenues thats where most of the traffic is coming from and thats why you have the delay in the bus schedule. One other thing id have to say about the sfmta is their method id have to say i find it just its a very difficult issue and i think that you sh
Create congestion and creates a domino effect if cars have to drive around looking for spaces id advocate against the bulbs they are not necessary. You say the buses need a bulb theres no traffic its a dead end so no traffic coming. The bus stop there is perfectly adequate to serve the needs of what they are trying to do to increase our travel time that that shouldnt be an issue. You are taking away our loading zones and we need our loading zones we have about fifty deliveries a week and hundreds of customers bringing in products as well take away our loading zones and people will double park ups and fedex now how is the bus getting by . Whoever has planned this hasnt informed us giving us a chance to respond and communicate with them in a in a way that we can do this together in a way that makes sense. So just to come here and tell us you are going to take away our loading zones and weve been providing money and taxes for the city is not fair. Thank you. Good afternoon. Hi im joe gold