This project but act fast and start its limitations as farther as you can. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Stephen sears, is mr. Sears here . Peter strauss, hiedi peterson, rowen, cindy baker, jordan wang. Welcome back. Good afternoon. Peter strauss on the board of San Francisco transit riders. Ive also been working on this for eight years. I hate to not be part of the chorus but we have a number of concerns, however, we do fully support the traffic changes and very much look forward to the quick build. We also support the separated bike lanes. However, we have a number of physical concerns primarily related to stops. We note that with respect to accessibility it only creates full accessibility by removing. Take your hand off the mic. Sorry. It only provides full accessibility by removing all of the non accessible stops. Were very concerned about the half mile spacing. According to the data provided by staff, speed still remain only seven
Pettersson. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is neil patel and on behalf of lyft im here to support this project. These safety permits are long overdue. This project aligns with lyfts vision to provide for Market Street as a corridor that provides safety and inviting mobility for all. We encourage to you a improve this project but act fast and start its limitations as farther as you can. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, very much. Next speaker, please. Stephen sears, is mr. Sears here . Peter strauss, hiedi peterson, rowen, cindy baker, jordan wang. Welcome back. Good afternoon. Peter strauss on the board of San Francisco transit riders. Ive also been working on this for eight years. I hate to not be part of the chorus but we have a number of concerns, however, we do fully support the traffic changes and very much look forward to the quick build. We also support the separated bike lanes. However, we have a number of physical concerns primarily related to stops. We no
Peter strauss, hiedi peterson, rowen, cindy baker, jordan wang. Welcome back. Good afternoon. Peter strauss on the board of San Francisco transit riders. Ive also been working on this for eight years. I hate to not be part of the chorus but we have a number of concerns, however, we do fully support the traffic changes and very much look forward to the quick build. We also support the separated bike lanes. However, we have a number of physical concerns primarily related to stops. We note that with respect to accessibility it only creates full accessibility by removing. Take your hand off the mic. Sorry. It only provides full accessibility by removing all of the non accessible stops. Were very concerned about the half mile spacing. According to the data provided by staff, speed still remain only seven and a half Miles Per Hour or so and and seven miles an hour or so and travel savings are only one or two minutes which we dont feel justified the removal of all those stops. Thank you. If y
One thing were careful about is maintaining commercial look access so loading can occur on Market Street but we want to minimize conflicts with people biking on that sidewalk level bike lane. With the bike way, we determined that its best if we retain the loading bays concept like we have today where theres designated loading spaces on each block but weve brought it up onto the sidewalk and created a flex zone and theres a Cross Section and this space is 16 feet wide and leaves enough space for commercial vehicles to get up onto the sidewalk on a onefoot curb. The commercial vehicles can pull over to the side and theres enough space for us to maintain a clear space to be bikes to get around the commercial vehicles. We want to minimize the times we have commercial vehicles crossing the bike space. And so were pairing this design with commercial loading restrictions. So the morning when bikes are going downtown we have no loading on the south side of the street and similarly in the eveni
Any comments, questions, or corrections . Hearing none, call the question. All in favor . Any opposed . I abstain since i was not here. Yes, the motion carries. And now, item 4, the directors report. Good morning, commissioners, and welcome, commissioner spears. It is great to have you here and its also great to have a full commission. I think its been several years, so very excited to work with all of you. I think i want to start with kind of the National Level stuff. I just came back from the National Association of area agencies conference on ageing and board meeting, im a california representative for n4a. It was in new orleans, and you know that meeting in new orleans in the summer was a little harsh. I was talking about our approach to ageing in San Francisco. In addition, we had Katrina Williams who works in the Human Resources division who came and did a training on implicit bias and equity and inclusion, and it was really well received by participants in that workshop. The oth