quarom it's a significant challenge for new director sue and others to try to rebuild that trust with again members of the public, members of your staff and others in support of future policy and funding challenges. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon mr. page. >> good afternoon mr. nolan and members of the board and director riskin i'm here to urge you to slow the progress of the tunnel boring machine at washington and stockton and prevent it from moving forward to north beach perhaps you want to hold a hearing on this. what's interesting is that we've learned today that m u.n. i has an operator deficit of 70 million dollars and we know there's a structural deficit of

5 hundred million it just so happens that the tunnelling between washington and north beach will cost about 70 million dollars and if you eliminate that and stop the line where it was originally intended which is chinatown and stockton street you will be able to save the agency 70 million dollars and give all the residents of north beach a second chance on how they want transit to be brought into their neighborhood thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> next speaker please? >> good afternoon. >> hi my name is -- thank you for -- when i talk with the families in the community they are happy about this program.

i'm often been working in the community in bay view i hear these stories about people having a really hard time trying to go home or trying to go to doctor appointment or any other activities they have to and after the day i was here and heard the stories in the community it happened to me. i finished with my thing and i had to go back home and i had to pickup my kids and i saw the sign in the train said 15 minutes i'm okay i can be on time to pickup my kids but after 45 minutes the train doesn't come and i don't know but if you have to pickup your kids at a certain time and you are more than 30 minutes for pickup your kids it's horrible and i cannot imagine all these mother and see families that have to do this all the time and have this kind of feeling and i don't think it's fair that place is where a lot of

families live a lot of families of color and it's really hard to wait a long time to go to school or anywhere you have to do so i think this has to stop and really it's more important that we start getting the things to work this train has to stop this. [inaudible] okay bye thank you. >> thank you bye. >> next speaker please? >> good afternoon. my name is -- i actually reside in bay view and i'm here to talk about the train turnaround from my perspective i really feel like it's really unfair and un equitable to have a service that leaves families on the

platform for long periods of time. my personal experience it's very overcrowded and inconsistent and the times 15 minutes jumps to 30 and 45 minutes or longer and after you wait you have to get kicked off on marin street it happened to me several times and i talked to people regularly it happened. i've seen it happen. i've waited and seen mothers and elders in the cold at 7 and 8 o'clock at night. i think it's unacceptable. i can do it 1012 blocks for somebody who is an elder who is not physically able to or who has several children or bags full of

groceries it's not normal it shouldn't be the expectation or the standard for this city. i think that it's an issue of inequity because there's a lot of families like i said . highest concentration of people in public housing the people who need the transit system the most to go to work find employment that there is not in our neighborhood and we have to wait long periods of time in order to do that i ask that you resolve this issue and improve the service to bay view. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon. >> hello good afternoon. i'm an organizer with power and i want to thank you for all the work that you have done with us

for youth issues i've been doing a lot of outreach in the neighborhood. i'm talking to families who haven't heard for free m u.n. i for youth. a lot of people have said the t train replaced the 15 bus and the 15 bus was a lot better. it would go from fort may mason to fisher man's wharf while there's a lot of trains that go from bay view to downtown not as many trains coming back so a lot of times people have to wait over an hour almost 2 hours to get home from embarcadero this is a small city it's only 27 miles around

this city so people shouldn't have to wait that long it's already particularly an urge nt issue there's no other ways to get home in this neighborhood. in other parts of the city if service doesn't come you can get frustrated but you can hop on another route. people have to walk in the dark alone or even with new friends that they have made on the platform that are also dealing with this issue. there's an article she got to the embarcadero and didn't get to lasalle until 9: 45. i've been trying to connect with her. i'd like to ask you to please investigate this issue and make this an agenda item so we can talk in

more detail about how we can adjust this issue. >> marry maguire last speaker. >> not really for the bay view residents that doesn't surprise me at all. i'd like to request that you have a discussion today to respond to these speakers. and i would like to address the town cars at the special events. at second and brannon they are jamming up the streets and the cabs can't get near and concerts and the cabs can't even get into the street and that's like 2 or 3 in the morning any way i'd also like to talk about the illegal ride

shares and ignoring the cease and desist order surprise surprise. the regulators try to regulate and their regulations just getting ignored. are we going to span stand for that? those cabs should go on strike just like in september 2002. also the i'd like to sort of it brings into question how is the regulation: the town cars i see 6 or more people getting in they have the same number of seat belts that we do. these town cars are coming from the midwest now they have heard

that san francisco is wide open. uber runs a pretty tight ship but they fire people all the time. they are soliciting on the street every day every night. >> thank you. anyone else care to address the board under public comment? >> good afternoon directors again. we talked about the switch back several months ago one of the concerns we have here we have combined the k and t that needs to be divided up so lines serve one neighborhood. we when it says it's going to be a certain place we need to be honest as to where it's going to go. if you don't know by the time you get to embarcadero station then there's something really wrong but more fundamentally you have

got widely separated stops you have tps great suppression separation yet the thing still runs like a dog. we need to go back to square one again and figure out how to do rapid reliable transit system. i was on the 33 bus last week having a chat with an operator and she said you know what's my incentive if i have a collision it's a career ending event. there's limits when you are competing with cars and so many cars now with the new luxury condos with people driving their suv's. >> that will concludes the

public comment portion of the meeting. most folks have been here for a number of occasions. we can ask our director to respond and come back. especially the suggestion that it happens way more often on the t than the other lines so the members consent to bring something back at a meeting sometime in the near future okay? >> we're encountered this before with the l train and i think with the announcements making sure people know when a switch back is going to occur especially when they are in a sheltered station as opposed to a non sheltered station. so that would be great. >> thank you very much. next item. >> ladies and gentlemen we're

moving on to the consent calendar. for the record directors, we have a request to pull item 10.1 traffic modifications. 10.2 with respect to washington street escape improvements and 10.6 san francisco bicycle plan project and traffic modifications. and that's it for items to be severed. >> the motion on the consent calendar 10.1, 10.2 and 10.6. >> aye. >> 10.1 has to do with approving various traffic modifications requested by members of the public.

>> you moved a little quickly just then with the action that you approved took to approve the balance the consent calendar on 10.1 it occurred to me there's no resolved section here referring to environmental review these are discussion ree approvals and so i think that's a deficiency in the california calendar item. those documents need to be linked and somehow available and i note some of these relate to a bicycle lane i don't know how that relates to item 10.6 so you know it's

difficult to comment on the substance not having the environmental review document available. perhaps we can get that addressed. thanks. >> you want to speak to that? >> good afternoon mr. chair and members of the board. the holloway slash bicycle lane project on the consent calendar was one of the longer term bike projects that was approved as a package back in 2009 so we had previously come up with a plan to kind of address the traffic aspects by moving the parking from to create -- we put it

out in the field as a pilot and as a result the residents did not support that concept they found it confusing and the street was only -- so this one for current proposal keeps the bike lanes but keeps the parking on one side of the street for half the lanes and on the other half still creates the kind of shift type of effect but maintaining the bike lanes. >> is there a motion on this one. >> a motion to approve. >> second. >> aye. >> 10.2 parking and traffic changes for street escape improvements associated with the washington street development. finding that the

eir is adequate and adopts and incorporates the motion. the first speaker will be e r.n. estine -- [inaudible]. >> good afternoon my name is er nest stine, weiss first of all it should never have come on your agenda. this had to have gone before the ballot and the jumping the gun it's a bit premature don't you think to put it on this agenda? the people are not being served in this city. everybody is pushing through this thing without regard to the people's wishes come on it's time you all listened. as far as the traffic is concerned, the

intersection at washington street is impossible right now. the traffic connected to the bay bridge now it's awful it's not sustainable. i'm directly involved with all the development from long ago with the giants etc. i can't even imagine the traffic that's going to take place with all this development and the giants with the huge development up here 337 is just going to be outrageous you have to consider all these factors before you do this. please pull this from the agenda until the voters have at least had a chance thank you. >> anyone else care to address the board on this one? >> yes.

>> my comment was not addressed. i believe that needed to be attended to. the resolution essentially the calendar item on page 6 of the backed refers to the planning commission board of s ups and puc have approved their further approvals to come on that with respect to the resolution itself on page 3 the large paragraph in the middle -- i'm not sure that the mta board makes the findings about revisions to the project and the need for additional revisions to the eir i believe under 15162 and 15164 and section 31.19 c those determinations are made by the environmental review officer

and not the decision-making body which you are i'm also not sure if in the next resolve you actually approve the modified project itself or just certain implementation actions and on the final resolved it refers to the parking traffic changes to widen the sidewalks but doesn't specify them they are sort of referenced in the first where as but it's not a very tightly written set of causes in my opinion. and although reference is made to the planning commission approvals, i wasn't able to find those particular approvals i was able to get the addendum to the eir i think that there are some significant issues with regard to these matters also there's a reference in the calendar item to alternatives that infees

feasible the c u.s. todian of records is not named for either the mta or planning department. thank you. >> good afternoon president nolan and members and director and -- would you spell your name again. >> i did want to spopd respond to the objections and i'll start with mr. kopel these findings are absolutely accurate they were reviewed with the land use attorneys. and i do want to emphasize that

the addendum that's referenced in the findings are absolute ly adequate. the file is in the addendum and the final environmental impact report and the findings were done with meticulo u.s. care. and returning to miss weiss's objections this is a project to be clear only for the height of the project nothing else is subject to referendum for example the dcw hearing officer issued an order so that's

already been done this is normal course of business if you will for a construction project public improvements like this take a long time to get. certainly when we do them these will be wonderful public improvements and again you want to be mindful these are not taxpayer funded they were offered up. i would highly recommend you do this and this is an adequate approval motion. >> okay members of the board? >> okay any further discussion on it? all in favor say aye. thank you very much. >> aye. >> the bicycle plan project and related actions reapproving

david kopel? >> hello again on this item this is a 182 page document it doesn't have the pages numbered so it's -- there's a reference to the c u.s. todian of records commission secret ary i would note that she's no longer with the city. the changes to the findings aren't highlighted anywhere so it's difficult to compare this document to the previous document. i am requesting at this time the

original and the current document and if there's a document that has the tract changes i'm interested in that i think it's difficult for you to take action on this without comparing them and seeing what changes were made to the text with respect to the findings i would note and i think mr. solomon is going to talk further about the transit impact they are significant so these are not you know minor league changes but have some significant impacts on transit that are not mitigated here and in some cases the old findings refer to m u.n. i lines that no longer exist and in some cases they may not exist and. and although references made to your board resolutions on 9105

and 09106 it's not set forth directly here so the near term improvements are not called out and i think that's a further deficiency and i don't want you to act until those changes to the findings are made obvious. thank you. >> thank you. >> mr. solomon? >> good afternoon mark solomon again. of course you should approve the bike plan. however the significant impacts -- there's a pyramid there of impacts but a wide range of impacts down to 10, 22 nds they

basically add up to your savings it's difficult to tell there's many contingencies on different options but we can not be digging ourselves deeper on the transit system. the transit for sustainability has to be paramount we can't be delaying that. we're going to end up with a really bad transit system. people getting into their cars further slowing the system down. that's your capital right there and to give it away for any project no matter how good you guys can't

stand for that. because if we've seen the population grow over the past 15 years by a hundred thousand we're already seeing transit delays. you know how many more cars are out there and how much more dangerous it is. there is no free lunch here we have to balance this equation. this is ronald, reagan's environmental law. otherwise they do really bad environmental work and that the costs of that are outsources to hundreds of

thousands of people and it's your job to prevent that from happening. >> good afternoon. >> i'm the director for the san francisco bicycle coalition i urge you to readopt the bike plan. in january of this year the california court of appeals found it to be very sound indeed . we urge you to approve this and move longer in creating a safer biking experience in satisfy san francisco. >> motion to approve? >> is there a second? >> second. >> further discussion? >> all in favor say aye.

>> aye. >> this is the last item on the agenda today. the long-range vision for transit and initial policy analysis