Analyst office and katie who did an incredible job on this now to present. Thank you. Chair farrell and supervisor mar Fred Rousseau from the Budget Analyst Office. I will provide an overview of the report and katie who is staff on the project and then i can respond to questions or provide more details. Could we get the laptop here . Great. Thank you. Quickly the scope of the analysis. We were asked by our office and you supervisor mar how sfmta bicycle strategy Strategic Plan could be funded and implemented. How much of the current capital and operating budgets are now allocated to bicycle mode projects . How projects and funding is prioritized by sfmta by mode in other words how bicycle projects are decided on . Were asked to look how sfmta delivers its projects and if there is room in improvement and project delivery, and we were asked to compare San Francisco investment in bicycle infrastructure and projects with other cities in the u. S. To start with we looked at the Strategic Pl
Absolutely improve bicycle spending and infrastructure in the city. Reaching the goal of 50 of the trips by transit biking and walking is an ambitious goal but i think we can achieve that by not looking at the muni system which is heavily burdend and how we get a good bang for the buck and increasing spending in the bicycle infrastructure as well and as i said muni cant do it alone and infrastructure is a key part of meeting the citys goals. Very low maintenance and operational cost of muni makes investing in bicycling really an incredibly Cost Effective way of improving our Climate Change goals of our city and our Climate Action plan as a city so San Francisco cannot afford to not invest in bicycling infrastructure according to the report and even the mtas own bicycle plan from five years ago to the plans of the bicycle strategy today in 2013 point us to really put our money where our mouth is and fund much more aggressively the bicycle infrastructure suggestions of the mta and i woul
Are arriving in athens showing cautious optimism about the health of the economy. These things are looking better. I shared optimism of the greek government, which is that they would like to access the program. Whether its possible, i think its too early to say. As you know, the program runs right up until the end of this year and will decide later on this year what the future will be. And a grilling on capitol hill, questions on how Safety Standards were allowed to slip as gm recalled another 1. 5 million cars. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. And a warm welcome to todays program. We start off with the latest pmi data out of the eurozone. We had the flash numbers a while ago. The manufacturing pmi down to 53. Thats what the flash was. It was 53. 2 in february. The pmi output index is up to 55. 6. Thats a little higher than the 55. 4 flash number at 65. 3 in february. And the pmi output prices index, 49. 3 as specd in the fl
Derivative and a turn arena were moving in the right direction the open space. Including the fact were proposing in the area that will be fully landscaped and assessable to the neighbors. Every step that has been taken in regards to preserving the space has been done tastefully. Hes been working on this for reinforces and made nightmares improvements in regards to preserving this green space. I urge you to look at the merits of the design. Dpw has approved the design. They went through the Structural Analysis and the architecture merits and approved that. We went through a hearing and have agencies that reviewed those things we went through all the steps. We specifically want to you analysis the merits of the case. The driveway has been done in a respectful way. And thats the small Property Owner which will be assessable to all. Thank you, supervisors we have copies of the presentation by the architect. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, im teddy live on clare done avenue ive lived there are
Was awarded with the position of a congressman when they were not electing republicans congressman pete celebrated his commitment to everything having to do with veterans. General you mentioned that the citywide which is there should be looked at youre absolutely correct but think as mayor ed lee said in about six or seven months youre going to be able to come back and see the memorial promised in 1932 and finally delivered in this administration and there are 3 members singularly responsible. About 4 years ago the general the secretary and max started talking about producing for the veterans and they have preceded to get everyone involved so im proud mayor ed lee of San Franciscos effort and im proud of those 4 warriors that have done what needs to be done and choorlt told if he wanted to do Something Wonderful youve got to be dramatic and youve like that and im going to show you that i dont need that damn cane laughter clapping thank you. inaudible and youve got a great future out th