group. i urge you to support all door boarding. it will put us in the same ranks as many other cities across the board -- country and many of the parts of the world. i want to address some things. one of them as education. i find that one of the things i have issue with, a lot of times, the rider is not educated. as to what is happening. i would urge you if you do all door boarding to do a really great educational campaign to let them know what is going on. obviously the back door, you will have to take off that thing that says you cannot come in the store. -- this door. they do things in other cities to better inform riders. they will be of better.

there is an issue of people getting on and off the bus as we speak today. that is kind of because people are not educated as to the basics of getting on and off the bus. you did at dawn until people have come off. what happens now is people try to get on the bus at the same time people are trying to get off. if we were to educate people that is not necessary, you wait until people get off to get on, we would alleviate that difficulty. i want to say that i agree with several people here. it is important to be consistent about our inspection periods it is at issue that people have been inconsistent. i urge you when you do the inspection and to be consistent, this is the best thing. this is one of those things where they benefit the most.

>> our next speakers. >> good afternoon. for the handicapped boarding on any bus, it truly concerns all of us. here in this nation that has seemingly gone insane, here is my message is simple and plain. knowing how most religions cater to pigeons, as politicians to bankers and morticians, the people, the workers, the students are looking for heaven, the general strike be slighted and will be set and we will began this 9-11. 40 days and 40 nights, let's be clear. the strike continues until we free leonard peltier.

comes now the power to seize man in his great and all of the antwerp. i have a message here for steve jobs. you have made zillions selling air as the economy that does lead. accept this deal that you may heal. speak publicly these truths about lying. for the chinese prisoner does not have a chance but for some reason, the almighty provided you with a reason to dance. tell them for 30 years and delivering 24-7 subliminal sub- phonics into every cranial cavity. so the message remain on their asses as man is blind. tell them for the media bows to you. tell the public why, house selling air such wealthy did occur. i dare you to act mystified or deny these tricks now told. i made you looking so you shall say the technology was 50 years

old. it is about mind control programs that have been implemented in everybody is mine. we wonder why we talk about king and gaudy and chavez but in 40 years, things are worse. it is time to cease this curse. put away your foolish miss chains. listen to your heart and to yourself and it is time for york general strike. i have said it, it shall be so. chairman nolan: next speaker, please. >> former member of rescue -- i have fantasies, this would apply to the jersks at the financial district to evade the fares. what can we do? an extreme fantasy. they wrestled to the ground and get electrocuted if they do not

pay their fair share. you cannot do that. the human rights violations would be flagrant. we would never been relieved from lawsuits. one way i think we can do it. this because there are limited fair inspectors. it can increase the amount. you can rotate the fair inspection. they can be random. maybe it once a week there would be in california and sacramento and polk street. another time they will be a powerful and gary. they should be rotated and random so no one can be sure that if they invade the fear there will not be cited. if you do randomly, the word will not get out. i am sick and tired of people

coming onto the bus without paying their fares. i cannot stop them because i do not want to be punched out or something by these elevators. in order to avoid this, let's and force it on a random basis so no one can be sure as to whether there will be cited for fare evasion. this is one way of making use of limited personnel. we should have more fair inspections. thank you. chairman nolan: next item. >> item 14. authorizing the director of transportation to execute an agreement to conduct implementation consulting insurgences foexecute services t effectiveness project not to exceed four years. >> it is an excellent report. very comprehensive and detailed.

i know you spend quality time with us this afternoon. i know members, we have a couple of speakers. we can hear from the speakers. ok? would you like to hear from the speaker's first? >> the only people who have turned in the speaker card. >> the tfe was approved a few years ago and the irs is starting. there is some delay there. i would like to encourage the mta to whatever can be expedited, what ever does not need to go under ceqa to get done as soon as possible. within one or two years. thank you. chairman nolan: thank you.

mr. cabrera? >> when i saw this piece of paper, the review, i stopped and think prior to today, last time, there was an firman to review, what -- the mta called for a fiscal emergency. i am afraid of doing that again. some communities lost some service. because the fiscal emergency grants to that. to pass the ceqa. please do not let that happen again. you are the keepers of transportation for all citizens. i'm not against approving this

consultant for $2 million. i want to make sure our communities are aware of what is going on. not to find out after the fact like we did before. thank you. >> herbert weiner. the last to turn in a speaker card. >> the transit effectiveness project should be called a transit elimination project. what has happened is the [unintelligible] has been truncated. i believe it has been proposed to reroute the six masonic. the haight-ashbury line. what is going to happen is, if you reroute that line and it was proposed it goes straight

through haight street, and not go up masonic avenue, what will happen is, you are going to have people who are elderly and frail. how do you expect them to get to their homes? are they going to have to crawl? right now, people are inconvenienced with the 2 clement line. you have to walk to california street and that is a long block. why do you on the board tried to walk that walk on a walker? suppose you are on oxygen. suppose you have hiv. it is a gross injustice to do this and i have brought this to the attention of people. they simply ran this thing through. this has been an ill-fated idea to begin with. you need more buses and need more drivers. $2 million for contractor, you can have it for the buses.

if you can get those lines downtown, you can get them through the clement. you have six digit salaries. this is a disgrace and it is cruel to the most probable in san francisco. this has to stop. this is a twisted idea from the world go -- word go. >> the report you are given does not seem like it is a contract recommendation which is somewhat disturbing. you may want to improve the contract. i accept and understand that. i am suggesting the need to have more studied than just ceqa. you need to make a look at an additional contract, may be with somebody else. historically, ceqa and nepa

were passed before the ada. that is the more honorable population that would be affected disproportionately by what you start off by saying, stop spacing and then you go to orwelling doublespeak. stop optimization. you lose credibility when you use a term like that. people began to small rat. this is distasteful. -- people begin to smell a rat. it ignores some of the data. in san francisco, seniors are disproportionately the pedestrians who were injured and injured severely. when you make seniors are people with disabilities walk, they have to cross one or two more

intersections. you are not looking at this has a two are putting them through. you're not looking at the fact that when people are at two stops and it is consolidated, they're clustered more. that may mean some of us who are not as fast and agile do not get on the bus. there is double the number of passengers. that is one of the problems you are overlooking and is not part of ceqa. i will suggest you need to do that. mission high school students last may suggested there may be some stocks added. they saw places in the mission that were destinations for them and muni has no clue. >> that is the last person who wishes to address you on this matter. >chairman nolan: is there motion? all in favor? thank you. it is nice to see you.

>> item 15, discussion and vote to conduct a closed session. chairman nolan: is there a discussion? all in favor? so ordered. >> it will take a moment to put this into closed session. -- us into closed session.

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anticipated litigation. they did take action on real- estate litigation. authorizing a payment to use d im sum restaurant -- resulting from the condemnation of the property. item 17 will be a motion to discuss -- disclose or not disclose. chairman nolan: all in favor? let's adjourn in memory of the fourth member of the citizens

advisory committee. we can sent a letter to the family. thank you all very much.

>> the next time you take a muni bus or train, there could be new technology that could make it easier to get to your destination. many are taking a position of next bus technology now in use around the city. updated at regular intervals from the comfort of their home or workplace. next bus uses satellite technology and advanced computer modeling to track buses and trains, estimating are bought stocks with a high degree of accuracy. the bus and train our arrival information can be accessed from your computer and even on your cellular phone or personal digital assistant. knowing their arrival time of the bus allows riders the choice of waiting for it or perhaps

doing some shopping locally or getting a cup of coffee. it also gives a greater sense that they can count on you to get to their destination on time. the next bus our arrival information is also transmitted to bus shelters around the city equipped with the next bus sign. riders are updated strictly about arrival times. to make this information available, muni has tested push to talk buttons at trial shelters. rider when pushes the button, the text is displayed -- when a rider pushes the button. >> the success of these tests led to the expansion of the program to all stations on the light rail and is part of the new shelter contract, push to talk will be installed. check out the new technology

making your right easier every day >> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the

plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists and plant scientists. they all seem to have some

little plant tucked away in the corner of a greenhouse that maybe they weren't supposed to have. i got interested in this idea that maybe there was a dark side to plants. >> the white snake root. people who consumed milk or meat from a cow that fed on white snake root faced severe pain. milk sickness, as it was culled, resulted in vomiting, tremors, delirium and death. one of the most famous victims of milk sickness was nancy hangs lincoln. she died at the age of 34, leaving behind 9-year-old abraham lincoln. he helped build his mother's casket by carving the woodallen petition douche the