there remains a great deal of work to do. we made progress here as well as at the same time made progress in the other venues the conversations were taking place. we had all the time we needed today to make the progress that was achievable during our time in new york city. our next question. michael borden from the wall street journal. sir, following up on that. senior state department official, the same person who spoke to us last night, also indicated that the united states hopes to persuade north korea that its security doesn t depend on nuclear weapons. you have had three meetings with them and spent some hours with them. do you feel that you have been successful yet in doing that? or is the difficult and suddenly this issue the reason why president trump is now talking about the possibility of having two or three summits and not just trying to break the back of the issues in a single meeting? yeah, this is look, make
this is a difficult, difficult challenge. make no mistake about it, there remains a great deal of work to do. and we made progress here as well as at the same time made progress in the other venues the conversations were taking place. we had all the time we needed today to make the progress that was achievable during our time here in new york city. our next question goes to michael borden from the wall street journal. reporter: sir, following up on that, senior state department officials, the same person who spoke to us last night, also indicated that the united states hopes to persuade north korea that its security doesn t depend on nuclear weapons. you ve now had three meetings with him and spent some hours with him. do you feel that you ve been successful yet in it doing that? or is the difficulty in settling this issue the reason why president trump is now talking about the possibility of having two or three summits and not just trying to break the back of these issues in a s
attend. the workshops helped members of the public and myself kind of understand the various needs, it defined them. we were able to give feedback on the approach to the problem-solving. we were able to understand the range of solutions. and we were able to provide feedback to all the various solutions and designs. it helped us understand the drawbacks to the various proposals. and the absolute need to balance the all the numbers of needs that were presented to us. there was discussion, there were videos, there were stations that focused on individual issues. and so i d like to thank the mta staff for involving the community, particularly the lower haight where i live. and it s a neighborhood that depends on transit, bicycle, and pedestrian location connection. also, personally, i do live on the path east of the project area. so i appreciate this effort. many of our members of our organization were able to attend and our board and land use committee were heavily updated a
a barrier between the panhandle and wiggle, people wanting to cross the city to get to work, see their friends or whatever. my girlfriend for example would love to bike to work downtown but it is currently by the status of fell and oak. as a pedestrian fell and oak are unpleasant and feel dangerous. traffic calming would be welcome, i also think it will bring more people to the neighborhood and make things pleasant. as a driver i also support it. removing parking spots will improve safety forever hundreds of people every day and will help transform the neighborhood into one fit for neighborhoods and visitors alike to enjoy. for local businesses concerned about parking, valencia street highlights vast improvements which can be made by a project like this. thank you. chairman nolan: next speaker. dean heartily, lawrence lee, ben or bev lyon. good afternoon, mr. chairman, members of the board, my name is dean heartily from the inner sunset. i ride a bicycle, and a transi
with all due respect to the sfpd i ve never seen anyone pulled over for speeding. when i ve been on bicycles late at night or in day i ve seen near collisions or drivers think they might want to stop at the argo station and they pull over. i strongly support the plan as it stands now on fell. also the same speeding problem on oak, even though it s flat, a lot of cars, it s a very wide boulevard and they ve treating it like a freeway. so we need separated bikeways. there are compromises that everyone has to live with in this crowded neighborhood but i really urge that you implement this plan. thank you for your consideration. chairman nolan: thank you. next speaker please. richard borgman, dean heartily, lawrence lee. good afternoon. i m a local resident as well in the neighborhood. i m a user of fell and oak as a pedestrian, often walking my dog, ago a cyclist and driver. i fully support the proposal to improve the fell-oak bicycle provisions. i m a relatively experie