Which received a positive response. Finally, over 475 letters of support including letters from supervisor mandelman and supervisors ronan and over 25 letters expressing concerns with the projects have been submitted to the sfmta board in the past what 12 weeks. The pilot will extend from market to 15th street and its key elements are a parking protected bikeway, Pedestrian Safety enhancements, School Loading considerations and curb management improvements. Shown on this slide, is a block of valencia between the roads with north norse oriented to the right. With a parking protected bikeway , the number of conflicts between vehicles and bikes will be reduced and Pedestrian Safety will be improved with visibility zones and advanced lines at intersections. The intersection of valencia is one of the intersections within the project limit to receive a single up negative signal upgrades to provide separate raising for cyclists. The schools are all located on the block shown here. To address
Collisions are due to double partlpartly double parked car. This is our chance to change the street. We are showed up to Committee Meetings to make it clear the city is not acting fast enough. We were excited when the mayor expedited the process in september to have a chance to act with urgency that so many have been asking for. Her commitment to deliver the improvements for thousands who bike valencia every day. Our members sent in 450 letters of support and there is a clear message. We cant stop here. We must do more and we must do so quickly. I urge the board to approve the project and take this important step towards people first valencia. Thank you for your time today. Next speaker please. I am molly pile. I am a sixth Grade Student at friend school. I bike. I feel safer with no bike you lanes. This leads me to believe the protected bike lane is a good idea. I feel it will make a lot of cyclists feel more comfortable and safe. I think they will stop for kid crossing to get to scho
them with a scope of work that was approved by the variance because if you approved it for a larger scope of work that would not make sense because the variance would have been approved already for that limited scope of work. so essentially if the variance is upheld tonight a maximum extent is locked in. and if the variance is denied tonight, then we ll see them in another year when they come back they would have an option so the city charter allows, basically if you have a project disapproved, you can, one year later, basically apply for essentially the same project. or change the project, yeah. yeah, and right now, you d have to change it in a way that would be significantly different from the original project. you can t tweak the project and say it s a different project. it has to be a significantly different project. yeah. thank you. thank you. commissioners the matter s submitted. variance commentator. because i always comment? exactly. you have t
come to the podium. tom gilberti. seems like the 30 second warning bell is not working. parking space, inspirational offices. remember the grade schoolteacher, remember a high school teacher, the inspirational ones. what are, what were, what are their values to a people? muni, 700,000-plus rides perday, 24-hour cycle, a highly efficient except for the wheelchair elevator, vanness is a disaster. the elevator, kricivic center, powell, disaster, let s hope they can work, but for the most part, pollution reducing, climate control, great organization. then tell me why we can t have teachers living at 1 oak? why we can t have police officers living at 1 oak? the sheriff s in this room living at 1 oak? the grade schoolteachers affecting our children, high school teachers affecting our children, weaving our society. we take it for granted, and we re losing it. reality of the real estate industry doesn t have to be defined by the financiers of the real estate industry who put their
sir. i have just one mr. speaker card. good morning. thank you for taking the time to listen to us. my name is paul valdez and i m a 26-year san francisco resident. i m a volunteer for the bicycle coalition, a former member of the bay area families for safe streets advocacy group. bottom line, i m here to show my support in approving the additional funds that create protected bike lanes from market to mission. i choose to ride my bike in san francisco because i believe it is a wonderful, sustainable healthy way to get around in our city. i m appreciative of the current bike structure but my bike rides have less enjoyable because of the people who lack the wisdom to share streets safely. there are many situations i was riding down valencia and was forced into oncoming traffic because drivers from companies like uber and lift were parked in the bike lanes for several blocks. an uber driver swerved in front of me to pick up passengers and compromised my safety and the safety o