of 25 miles 25 miles per hour the current speed limit and the roadway is designed to encourage drivers at 25 miles at 25 miles per hour which is not what the current conditions promote and thank you you have our support we want to see designs for build outs and we want to make sure that they are as large and safe as possible so thank you. thank you. next speaker please. howard stras inner ner. i m one that supported this project and it s finally coming about that s so great. you talk about all these improvements but the people in the the people in the city won t believe it until they see it happen. we got to get a project that really shows that happening and we find the statistics and also want to answer some of your questions and my friends at the opera and ballet some some of the senior citizens we walk from van ness. i hope it stops north of market that would be terrible to cross market in order to get to the opera house. so i don t think they have a real case. we wa
retired and i m very active for elderly folks and i m concerned about elderly folks having to walk up there at night. next speaker please. good afternoon peter straus and i m here for the san francisco transit riders as i think you know by now we re very much in support of this project glad to see it going forward. i think you should have a letter from us to that effect and from members supporting this project. this is one of the most important best rapid transit project that the city is considering because of the congestion on van ness and we re glad to see it moving . that said, i want to mention two comments that don t directly pertain what s before you today and we hope you approve all of the traffic changes today to allow the project to go forward but as we go into final design design we re interested in a lot of the details that emerge we understand how we moved away from level boarding and many people s frustration that that became necessary and final design that t
stop is going to be is directly in front of our building. now it s a little bit over between hickory and oak and in june or may of last year i called and spoke with brt to see whether or not the stop is going to be changed and i was told at the time it was going to be on market and van ness. we started a neighborhood watch through the safe program here in san francisco we ve had beatings there and pit bull attacks and muggings and all kinds of stuff car break-ins 10 times a day and real concerns about large groups of people in front of our building. when you think about from 6 o clock in the morning until whatever midnight you will have anywhere from 8 to 16 thousand people moving through the corridor i would ask that you really consider the residents that live on van ness there s a lot of residents on van ness besides just us. so i m a former nurse just retired and i m very active for elderly folks and i m concerned about elderly folks having to walk up there at night. nex