And ill say that although i certainly would have liked to roll out thousands of bicycles we were disappointed to roll out 300, 350, that has afforded us an opportunity to do things a little more thoughtfully. If we had rolled out with the initial number they would have been in that service area and the initial thinking was when we got the missing 150 bicycles we would indeed fill in the gaps in that service area but weve been thinking about it hearing from people watching how the system is being used and our thinking now is today ahead and move into areas where we dont have stations now that are basically contiguo u. S. And go around the corner down mission and valencia into the mission and this doesnt mean filling in isnt a good idea but right now if we have to prioritize, sure would be nice if it went to where i live a little more or where i play and i think mission and upper market definitely fall into that category. I have an couple of slides that explain our thinking more on that.
It for political reason. To get them open, and its very important. Its very important for the wellbeing and the student and the parents tucker so kids should go to school, thats the new position. You may have thought this was a debate that you settled conclusively in the 19th century when we banned 8yearolds working. If they want their kids back in the classroom in september and every poll shows that. Most kids and most teachers probably feel the same way so who is opposed to opening schools . Take a guess. Teachers unions. They would like less work and no accountability and much more pay. At least one chapter of the American Federation of teachers is plenty to go on strike if they have to work this fall so many administrations and School Districts have no choice. In Miamidade County in florida is one of the countrys Biggest School systems. The superintendent has warned that his schools may have to stay closed and the fall. I will not reopen our School Session august 24th if the condit
To open the schools to get them open and its very important. Its very important for our country, very important for the wellbeing of the student and theer parents. So were going to be pushing a lot of pressure when opening the schools in the fall. Tucker so kids should go to school. O thats the new position. You may have thought this was a debate that we settled conclusively in the 19th century when we banned 8yearolds from working in factories. Parents are certainly on board with that. They want their kids back in the classroom september. Every poll shows that. Most kids and most teachers probably feel the same way, so who is the most opposed to opening schools . Take a guess. The Teachers Union. Theirsr position on every questn is always the same. They would like less work, no accountability and much more pay. At least one chapter of the American Federation of teachers is planning to go on strike if they have to work this fall. Many administrators and School Districts have no choice
And the fact that we can see a similar similar trajectory here. But the other things that we care about thinking about expansion are geographic equity and social equity we care about jobs this system has the Great Potential to create a lot of great jobs for San Francisco ans and we care about universal design to continue to improve the design of the system so that it really is accessible to everyone and blends into the public right of way and in a way that doesnt create obstructions for people. They all approach them in a slightly different way so for us these things are critical when we think about expansion. We want it to create local jobs and we want to achieve equity and we want the design to be the best that it can possibly be and it all hinges on getting the right fund er as quickly as possible and how that all plays out is a little bit uncertain at this time but were continuing to talk about it and we have a high degree of urge see in terms of expansion because were trying to do
Residents topography bicycle use walking theres a few more as well i cant think right now but id be happy to follow up with you on those we have a whole paper to explain the methodology. So if you zoom in on the suitability city wide obviously and if you look in the black and upper right our initial service area then you look at upper market and the mission, these are areas of extremely high suitability for bicycle sharing and when you look at soma we skipped a large number of the stations early on there are pockets of extremely high suitability but theres also pockets next to high suitability. In terms of prioritizing makes sense to go with the suitably areas so this is exciting too. These are maps i havent is shown yet. Much like other cities we hosted a bicycle sharing crowd sourcing map on our website allowing people from the public to go to the website and placing a dot suggesting a bicycle sharing station likewise you could like somebodys dot and so that graphic which i dont have