Teen e seen an interest in institutions and museums that are key to form new partnerships with pavement to parks is an enter agree program the any of us parts are lead by the the partnering partnering with the mta so theres a lot of numbers of tasks and responsibilities we royalties pavement to parks a increasing niflg the analysis of the impacts of those demonstration those temporary places have in the community we get questions all the time about parklets address mrardz are impacting Public Safety and the performances of local businesses and cb d this last summer we launched a initiative to look at the impacts arrest plaintiff as mentioned pavement to parks has technical guidance as well other kind of programs over the worldwide well have the privilege of meeting with the representatives of japan and places you under your regular calendar transmittal and talking to people in london other cities around the country and world are looking to San Francisco as the original terrors of this
Be speaking on matt on behalf of hes the ceo of the Parks Alliance this is a wonderful 6 our most existing programs it creates new spaces our parks in a very crowded city were a dense and growing city and the on spaces we have under incredible pressure were looking for new places to create new opportunity for greenery and people to get together and subcontract i remember one of my first experiences with the park let was parking day. Completely different experiences to sit on the street with a car going by 35 mileperhour with 3 feet away from you it gives us a sense your clinging that separates and taking offer something that rightfully along these or books to you, we think of streets as dangerous but creating those new placing and parklets in the transportation right of ways is starting to reclaim some 69 space and calm the traffic there are more benefits that come along with the pavement to Parks Programs some of the great things the pavement to paradoxes like persia triangle offer ar
Our criteria of really is pretty strong we have a lot of projects we looked at the physical aspects and social aspects so the physical meaning is that a potential Public Safety and there is an area that doesnt have enough open space a road too wide or big for just for cars and so we looked at that and lack of education we think about social components of this project we looked at a definitely local interest well not look at the interest that are not interested at the local level we have a Supportive Community support when the Community Support is there it is well documented and built this long or long term stewardship in the neighborhood we have consider land use and pedestrian activity so i come back later and talk about plaza so any colleague robin will talk about the next program thank you. Well take a few moments to drill down into pavement to parks as we enter into our 6th year of existence its increasingly important to be to how open spaces unequally are described different neigh
Exposed to the measles. And good morning. Welcome to mornings on two. You are taking a live look at union square in San Francisco. You can see the barricades are up the bleachers are up. This is the site of tonights Chinese New Years parade. Starting this afternoon and people start early. Hundreds of thousands of people lining the streets to watch fireworks, floats and preformers. Good morning. Looks like fun out there. This all started, this hard work started three months ago. The floats are decorated with about 800 pounds of glitter. Its a challenge they say because there are only two manufacturers in the world. Who knew about that. The glitter industry. They add another 20 during peak production. The floats take three months and thousands of man and woman hours to complete. Thank you for including both. Its saturday march 7th. Thank you for joining us a big day here. It is a big day. We are excited. We have been talking about it all morning. We were down there last year and every ye
Top stories we are following on this friday. Damage and Power Outages all over the bay area due to high winds. This is a look at how windy it is on mt tam. Well tell you how long the gusty winds are expected to last. Fifty years ago today, president john f. Kennedy was shot and killed. Well show you how the late president is being honored today. And hate crime allegations erupt at san jose state university. Three students are facing charges as hundreds come out to protest. We have the latest. Right now bart is experiencing major delays system wide because of a technical problem. 500 to 1000 passengers are still stuck on the track on 19 different trains. The problem started at midnight when the Computers Systems in Central Control were not communicating properly with the track switches. Train operators and track crews are manually cranking switches into position to route the trains properly. Computer technicians are working right now to restore normal operations. Bart Officials Say the