Special responsibility because this place provides us with the opportunity that most other places dont. The geometry and geography of San Francisco is up that it is easier for us being in a city of short trips to veil ourselves to other alternatives to the car. So when we want to reclaim the street and the public rightofway and the public realm for people and basic human needs of access to the humanities that urban environments provide, we have a better shot at than, say, other places where large distances have to be traversed in most American Cities to kind of get to the places you want to get. Here in San Francisco, we have been blessed by the geometry where our trips are short where 40 years ago we realized that this was the way we will have to kind of meet our future. The iron call part of that is at the same time europe also discovered that and they made strides to towards actually implementing these alternative choices, we have found it very difficult to kind of wean ourselves fr
As you all know, the German Marshall Fund vehicle very kind to provide us with this has been very kind to provided us with this opportunity to have four of their european experts in bicycle planning, bicycle implementation and bicycle programs and they are experts on all aspects of the bicycle. And here in San Francisco, you know, we are at this point trying to after a hiatus of three years because of courtordered injunctions trying to implement our bike plan. So we all a collective goal, i believe, to increase the environmental and nick sustainability of the world around us that we participate in and especially in San Francisco, but we do have a special responsibility because this place provides us with the opportunity that most other places dont. The geometry and geography of San Francisco is up that it is easier for us being in a city of short trips to veil ourselves to other alternatives to the car. So when we want to reclaim the street and the public rightofway and the public real
Those particular corridors how we have a peaceful coexistence and the point of my constituents i think that many would love to go back to and be patron and customers of the clubs and bars and the restaurant but unfortunately dont feel comfortable doing that. That is the long term goal and if we do that, we can get to continuing the wonderful social, come munal and Economic Activity that we want to see and strive for, thank you to everyone who has participated in this. And the conversation will continue. Thank you, supervisor weiner. Thank you and, you know it is interesting despite the spirited three way discussion that we have been having today, i think that there is quite a bit of common ground. And i know that even though i have been a very fierce advocate for the night life, i also have been a fierce advocate for increasing the Enforcement Powers of the Entertainment Commission to be able to come down hard to bad actors. I know that supervisor campos and i work on a lot of issues i
Implementation and bicycle programs and they are experts on all aspects of the bicycle. And here in San Francisco, you know, we are at this point trying to after a hiatus of three years because of courtordered injunctions trying to implement our bike plan. So we all a collective goal, i believe, to increase the environmental and nick sustainability of the world around us that we participate in and especially in San Francisco, but we do have a special responsibility because this place provides us with the opportunity that most other places dont. The geometry and geography of San Francisco is up that it is easier for us being in a city of short trips to veil ourselves to other alternatives to the car. So when we want to reclaim the street and the public rightofway and the public realm for people and basic human needs of access to the humanities that urban environments provide, we have a better shot at than, say, other places where large distances have to be traversed in most American Cit
Excuse me. Lets open it up for Public Comment on the minutes. All right, seeing no Public Comment on the meeting there is a motion to move and accept the minutes. Without objection. So moved. So. Madam clerk, number three. Recommend authority sizing the executive director to execute memo of agreement with the San Francisco department of public works for the preliminary Engineering Services for the 19th avenue transit streets bulb outs projects in total amount nottoexceed 120,000 and authority the executive director to negotiate the nonmaterial terms and conditions. Good morning, and i am in for chester fung who is on vacation, i am here to discuss the bulk out. I want to give you history because it has been a while since we have been in front of you. It has been the subject of significant improvements, for example, in may of 2008, the Transportation Plan was adopted and since then, signal up grades, and curve grants and striking have been implemented over the last few years and curve b