change the character of that intersection from a neighborhood intersection to a car oriented intersection as someone already pointed out there s a lot of through traffic on laguna. the signals will speed up that traffic and there s no need for it. right now there s a proposal for a bus only lane. there will be there will be one from buchanan to laguna and the buses won t be held up by a stop sign so for these reasons and others we oppose the signal at laguna and haight thank you. thank you. last two speakers mr. chairman. good afternoon directors howard stras ner one this thing started off with the discussion saying oh if you have signals you can speed up traffic and morphed around and everything is going to slow down traffic you have a hard job here. i think that the bus bulbs will move some paragraph off and traffic off and the signals they have countdown signals even for the short crossings. a lot of people are beginning to understand these things. it s not like new ne
as possible and calm traffic as much as possible along that corridor we know this is a main arterial and speeds can be adjusted with signal timing and really focusing on making sure that speeds are not in excess 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 bal
and camp out and nothing is being done about it and all of a sudden you are taking bus stops away we don t have enough parking so people have to rely on bus on bus to patron ize our businesses so taking those bus stops away and putting them every 4 blocks it will make it harder for people to shop with us they will go go to the malls or something so consider on behalf of the merchants who actually pay taxes and they have already a hard enough time with the internet and everything else you know we need to bring the public to have access for them to come to to our stores. thank you. next speaker please. yes, sir? good afternoon i own a property and also two businesses for almost 30 years we need a practical solution to haight street i m not sure if statistical for example anywhere else in san francisco would apply to us. board member lee you had a practical idea the minute you saw this slide you saw there s a way to approach this we we need to get together with the commu
possible that we really make that crossing distance as short as possible and calm traffic as much as possible along that corridor we know this is a main arterial and speeds can be adjusted with signal timing and really focusing on making sure that speeds are not in excess 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 answ
tourists a bunch of people lie on the street they have dogs and camp out and nothing is being done about it and all of a sudden you are taking bus stops away we don t have enough parking so people have to rely on bus on bus to patron ize our businesses so taking those bus stops away and putting them every 4 blocks it will make it harder for people to shop with us they will go go to the malls or something so consider on behalf of the merchants who actually pay taxes and they have already a hard enough time with the internet and everything else you know we need to bring the public to have access for them to come to to our stores. thank you. next speaker please. yes, sir? good afternoon i own a property and also two businesses for almost 30 years we need a practical solution to haight street i m not sure if statistical for example anywhere else in san francisco would apply to us. board member lee you had a practical idea the minute you saw this slide you saw there s a wa