, we >> board members, peter witt. like the trolley, i like to make noise, too. 23-year taxi driver, native san franciscan. i was wondering when taxi drivers are going to be recognized for their value in this city. we work awfully hard. we take dangerous customers as well as little old ladies to the church. i'm not going to talk trash here, but i'm still waiting for my driver's appreciation award. i do surveys of a thousand customers every year. well, a thousand users every year. taxi users specifically. i get a 93% return rate. 14 years i've been doing this.

500 the first year, a thousand there after. i was wondering if you would wonder how much money that would save you, how much a two surveys will cost you -- i noticed your best proposals -- proposals -- best practices proposals. i was wondering if you knew how much it cost to do two surveys. that's not to mention the data that's stored in these surveys, which is history. if you don't know history, you don't know the future. i was wondering if that's -- it's priceless information, actually. the information is worth far more than the study itself. the other thing there, the car sharing. cab sharing. hello. subway systems, you need to study how much business that will take away from cab drivers. peak time service.

we're still waiting for peak time taxis, peak time rates, or peak time devices. and howls.

i do not see anybody. are any of those folks here? >> mr. silva, mr. noble, are any of you in the room?

>> ms. chen? >> if you would like to address the board, the time is right now. ms. chen? >> good afternoon. >> our program, he main start is on peach street. we lost the spot and then got more than 50 people. i was concerned about that. >> next speaker, please. >> larry silva, followed by dick noble. >> good afternoon. i would like to start by thanking you need for their service. they are on our front door, and

we love them. we support the alliance and wanted to come where we are. we are nervous about the location of a stop. we have a big intersection right in front of us. traffic was, blockage wise, we are very nervous about it. what makes us nervous is hearing from many representatives, referring to the eir and the public, and then, which we do not feel we were meaningfully and notified. we want this measure to release take our input, not just where we missed public comment. we want our concerns heard after that. we like what the cac has done, and we trust them. listening to you guys, we kind

of trust you guys. our fate is in your hand. >> i want to be clear i understand. are you here representing the business community generally down there, or just a boy in a vista? >> buena vista. we are like one family there. >> your position is you want the f train coming to that area, but stopping at a different terminus. >> not at that intersection, where all that traffic is. we have seen what all the stops look like. i have seen what they look like in the dark, all the advertisement. we are nervous about those things. we have nightmare traffic already introducing a blockage. it makes us nervous. that is a very high traffic place. >> dick noble followed by james, and then brian harper. >> good afternoon. i have been a street artist for

35 years. i do not want to lose those bases. i do not want to see the congestion increase. there is a stock that will back up traffic all the way down beach street. if we have a muni stop right there on the corner of hide and beach, it is maybe going to not have room for the trolley to get there because of the traffic being backed up. it is quick to add to congestion. if another cable car is coming down hyde street and has to let up passengers while this is going on, people are going to be walking around, wondering where to go. the block before or a block after it, the congestion would be a lot less. >> james mallard followed by brian harper. >> we have a map and a him out.

-- hand out. >> i will use this. can we just hand these to the end of the people there, and they can take them? thanks. i do not know how to use this thing. >> you will be receiving a map and a flier on this issue. i have been in st. barts for over 25 years. i am the author of this petition, which gained nearly 200 signatures by street artists who are very much opposed to locating this train stops. you see the big board up there. according to the draft environmental impact statement, it would take up 12 parking spaces, which would knock out 30 street artists' spaces on that block. we have a total of 35 of them. this is not just us losing a few

spaces. this is us losing a major amount of spaces. that is the petition i will give you folks. remember there is a historic precedent here. we have had these spots for almost half a century. over 40 years ago, when the street arts program was started -- we have been selling in those spots there, and it seems unnecessary that the national park service and mta would be callous enough to put this train spot where our spots are. can i keep going? >> the other issue -- we went citizen's advisory council. we have long debates with them. the other issue that keeps coming up, you will see on your flyer there. you're going to create an inordinate amount of -- >> i am sorry. you have to speak into the microphone.

>> you will be creating enormous congestion. these stocks and waiting cars will act as barricades that stop the enormous amount of westbound traffic that comes from pier 39 to -- >> we will read this. we appreciate your comments. >> i am submitting a copy of the petition, and a letter from the director. >> brian hopper. howard lazar. >> if you look at the map once again, the photographs, there is already an existing muni stop just beyond market street near the maritime museum and across from jura delhi -- ghiradelli square. >> howard lazar. >> thank you for this

opportunity. i am the director of the street artist program for the artist commissioned for the last 30 years. i have been working with these people and have seen this program grow. it is amazing. street artists by law have to make and sell what they make. the cannot import their stuff. it is a cottage industry. if they get adversely impacted by a boarding platform, they lose business. it not only hurts them. it hurts their spouses, their kids, and their significant others. they cannot go wherever they want to go. these spaces are given to them by the board of supervisors, designated by resolution. they have had them for nearly 40 years. i am practically begging you to consider moving that. there are wonderful opportunities to move it to

eliminate the traffic hazard situation. you know all about beach street and hyde street, a congested that is. we came up with options. there would be peace in the valley. it would be a win-win situation for everybody. >> carolyn long is the last person who has expressed interest in addressing the board on items raised by mr. murphy. >> a presentation? >> good afternoon, mr. wong. >> thank you for the opportunity

to let me speak. i would like to talk about the john f. kennedy proposed the bike path. thank you for the update, as far as including the people with disabilities and the mayor's disability office and paratransit coordinating council, which i am members of. it seems to me when they proposed this pathway, the bike path is going to be against the curb. so everybody will have to be going across the pathway in order to get to the curb, the sidewalk. i am kind of concerned about people with disabilities, and families with strollers, having to make their way onto the curbs

safely. also, even when people are paratransit users, the lift is so large -- by the time they deploy the left, it is going to be on a buffer. when the wheelchair user gets off the lift, i do not know how far into the buffer zone would be safe in order to pass to get to the sidewalk. it is one of those concerns we had talked about in many of our disability committees. i just want to bring this up as a public comment. but one of these creative obstacles -- i would love to work with the park commission and everybody to make everybody

safe. thank you. >> would anyone else care to address the board? when are we likely to be hearing about this? when is it likely to be at this level? >> it is a project that is not being sponsored by the mta. the park service is going through an environmental process. what we will do is we will come back to you, refer back to you at a meeting soon, with status of the project. then in advance of when it is going to formally come to you for board review. >> i was thinking the decision of where to place this -- >> we would be it -- they are leading the effort to get environmental clearance for the f line extension. they would be looking to us for

how best to make the logistics, such as placement of the platforms, work. we will work with them and the street artists to make sure that we understand what the concerns of the situation are. >> public comment. >> mr. wong? >> hello again. there is another thing i would like to bring up. it is about communications in

the subway. i know that bart has this elevator update to notify people who are basically -- when the elevator is out, they will notify people to either e-mail or testing, sir -- or texting, so that people with disabilities who rely on elevators know the elevator is out of service. i know as the mta is doing a pilot program, but it is not working very well. it is very spotty. i would really like to see that improve, because we rely on the elevators. in order for us to get these notifications, so at least we

can plan our trip -- it is very spotty. i cannot rely on it right now. sometimes, they will notify you that the elevator is out of service, but they will not notify you when it is back in service. i would like to see it greatly improved to be able to serve the community. thank you. >> we need power for our tape recorders. >> now is the time to say something we would not want to record. [laughter] >> do you have it now?

>> charles walker, followed by martin robinson, and then bury toronto -- barry toronto. state your name for the record, please. >> my name is charlie walker. i have to say, like i have said before -- when this agency said they were going to put the light rail on third street, they promised the community they were going to have off street parking. if you had done that in the sunset district, or where we are building the tunnel, they have off street parking. it has been years since you finished that. nobody has thought to put the off street parking they promised us they were going to do when they put that streetcar down third street. what i am saying is what is the problem that bayview/hunters

point is the most neglected community in this city. nobody seems to want to understand it. it is very unfair to us. we ought to build something. you do not do it. i have complained week after week of the unnecessary no left turn signed you will not do anything about. it is just a way for the police to harass black children. a young child coming home at 1130 at night -- 11:30 at night, there is no traffic on third street, but there is a no left turn sign. they have to go six blocks to turn left. you know they are not going to do that. the police harass them. if they are not shooting them over there, the police are up to someone. -- up to something. it is unfair to the people in bayview. you said you w