District and are close as the crow flies, they are far as the bike rides.

There is no bike infrastructure at the northern end of the Webster Business District, so to get from one end or the other, the rider would need to take either 5th or 9th Street.

This significant distance suggests the station location on 5th and or 9th could be prudent.

These potential locations are within residential areas, which are very important to serve as the tubes get the most condition congestion with residents leaving and entering the island for work.

One location that I think would be excellent is 9th and Pacific, as this is a current slow street and near future Greenway.

Um, in addition to make the route uh between the main street ferry terminal and water taxi or any other similar routes successful, the gap at Singleton Avenue should be fixed.

The most recent active transportation plan says that this street has a continuous bike lane, but uh in helping update the bike walk alameda map, I've realized that there isn't a bike lane here.

Lastly, I don't know if this would need to be put into a signed agreement, but I think it would be great for the city and bay wheels to consider collaborating on a bike to work week sale.

One free ride might be all that's needed to get people to initiate motion.

Thank you so much.

Our next speaker, Denise Trapinier, then Arshing Hoffi, and then true record.

Welcome, Speakernier.

Thank you, Mayor and City Council members.

Thanks for the opportunity to speak to you tonight on this really exciting opportunity.

On behalf of Bike Walk Alameda, I strongly hope you'll approve Staff's recommendation and move forward with implementing the bike share pilot program.

As we mentioned in our letter, this is a key project identified in the active transportation plan that you approved four-ish years ago, and we're excited to see that this is finally moving forward.

There's a number of reasons why this is so important.

First, there are quite a few Alamedans who live in multi-story buildings or other housing unit types that don't have access to secure bike parking like a garage or a shed.

So unless these folks are willing and physically capable of carrying their bikes up multiple flights of stairs, bike ownership, especially heavy heavier electric bike ownership, is not feasible.

This bike share program will give those folks an opportunity to reduce their car usage.

That's a goal we have in every one of our adopted plans, which I won't list now.

Um, secondly, as staff mentioned, those of us who live on the west end and drive are about to be significantly impacted by the OAP project.

While we all love the water shuttle, people still need to get places in Alameda once they disembark.

Having the ability to hop on a bike to complete your journey will be a game changer for those looking for alternatives to driving during the whole OAP mess.

Um, but I want to stress how important it is that we adopt this program.

While we know that Alameda is a very special place, we're still part of a larger region, and we should be working to increase our connectivity.

Link 21 has a stated goal of increasing connectivity amongst all the homegrown transit services, and that's a worthwhile effort.

We shouldn't be adding to the number of transit as we're trying to consolidate and get better connectivity around the region.

So thank you very much, and please accept staff's recommendations.

Thank you.

Next speaker, Ars Singh Hothi.

Welcome.

Honorable Council and Mayor, thank you.

And I promise to try to keep this short.

And also I appreciate the opportunity to speak in supported bike share for West Alameda.

My name is Arch Singhofi.

I'm the general manager of the Alameda Transportation Management Association.

As you guys know, it has Alameda TMA.

We provide transportation to ban management for thousands of Alamedans and in partnership with the City of Alameda run the Oakland Alameda water shuttle.

I speak tonight in strong support of a three-year bike share pilot in West Alameda.

The proposed expenditure for this program is overshadowed by the amount of public good it will produce.

Public investment such as this program pays itself back twice over, once through the work that it creates for the planning, construction, and management, and more importantly, again through the local businesses and the households holsters throughout its design life.

In our work on Bay Pass and the water shuttle, we have learned that the number one limiting factor for a transit-defended commuter is rarely the long leg of their trip.

It is a short distance between the dock and their office, or um the bus stop in the front door.

Bike share closes that gap.

The post pilot is also exciting because it integrates Alameda into an existing robust bike share network with the anchor city, San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, and San Jose.

With that kind of connectivity, an Alamedan could wake up, get out of the house, go around the corner, and grab the bike, maybe take the water shuttle, and go all the way to UC Berkeley to study or SAP Center to watch Sharks Game, Fox Theater.

You understand.

You get the point.

The point is all without docking their bike until they reach the destination.

And that doesn't matter if they take BART or ferry.

They can take it along with them.

That is the seamless experience that intermodality is supposed to feel like.

Besides that, there's a letter of support from me and Alameda TMA as well as a loose coalition of hospitality businesses.

Thank you so much.

We appreciate that.

Next speaker.

They lowered their hand, the remote speakers, so I guess the two.

Oh, nope, raise the back up.

Drew record.