resident participant level of 22 workers to date and six city- built construction placement. this is a union approved pre- apprenticeship program. we continue to work closely with the sfmta to receive the full funding grant agreement projected for december of this year. thank you and i look forward to briefing you on the successes of the central subway program. >> i appreciate it. >> moving on in our report. they are making preparations for the park project. the park has a bold new approach to parking management that contest weather sparked parking policies can reduce congestion and improve safety for pedestrians and private automobiles. they will test a package of

smart marketing management techniques that include real- time information about parking availability through the web, 511, and the text messaging, mobile device arena. we will be installing new parking meters, which will make it easier to pay whether you are using collins, smart cards, or a credit card. there will be incremental price changes that will be adjusted no more than every four weeks. time limits will be in the park to meet demand. new parking rates will respond to parking prices. the plan is to start much of these improvements in the spring of this year. we will come back to you with a specific launch date in the very near future. we look forward to success and the attention we are receiving

from around the globe. the chairman mentioned earlier that on friday, january 21, the silicon valley leadership group posted a summit in palo alto. the chairman was joined by over 200 people, many local elected officials. there were presentations from a san francisco supervisor elsbernd. and steve, who serves as the mtc executive director. the purpose was to kick off a six-month effort to identify sustained options beyond the current model which relies on funding on partners beyond the mta. the budget scenario for caltrans is extremely dire. that includes the elimination

of service south of san jose and the closure of stations as soon as july 1, 2011. for some of our new were board members, i served as the executive director. i also serve as a board member. i will be attending that meeting. various ideas being discussed include everything from agency consolidation, fare increases, advertising revenue, savings from advertising negotiations, funding from sites which include developer fees that would support transit operations. ultimately, there was recognition that a permanent, sustainable operating source will include some sort of voter action. the campaign will look at possible options over the next month and over the next six months.

we will keep you up-to-date on those matters. >> it was very interesting that todd train is a very successful system with about 40,000 riders per day. they are in the neighborhood of about 43%. ours is about 23%. it is an increasingly important revenue source. another important thing is that steve talked about the overhead cost of doing this. they are doing everything right, yet they still have very serious economic problems. anybody can guess what the long- term effect will be. >> that will be an ongoing item

of discussion. we will keep the board replies. >> the next item on my report this sunday streets. the mta will be hosting this year's sunday streets of events. our sister agencies include the department of public works and the police department as well as the bicycle coalition. 8 events are currently planned for this year. they will take place on the second sunday of each month. the eve3nt will be on march 20. april 10 along the great highway. may 8 in the mission. july 10 along the great highway. august 14 in the civic center, tenderloin area. september 7 in the western addition. we are in discussion about the

additional night event. we will give you an update if and when that occurs. staff will begin the process of planning for a more permanent venue that will connect various areas of the city. going forward in the future, we will look at how we can make this a permanent activity with a regular schedule year to year. my last item that i would like to bring to your attention is a report regarding a significant delay that we experienced on january 27 with outr muni system. a bridge failed to set properly after opening for a pleasure boat. the bridge opened at upon closing, it was on able to block and allow us to operate trains over that bridge.

-- unable to lock and allow us to operate trains over the bridge. there was a bust bridge to the mission bay platform. our service was a -- was impactive for seven hours before our staff was able to connect rods to the bridge locks. we will have a discussion to debriefed this actual incident. we will also work towards developing a suitable diversion. there was some difficulty in terms of setting up the bridges. we will look forward to setting up the future occurrences. this is the first time it has ever happened in terms of our operation. we will work very closely to prevent a reoccurrence in the future. with that, that concludes my

report and i am available for any questions. >> thank you, members of the board for coming. >> the only person that has turned in a speaker card. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. somebody using your name wrote something. i am interested in pointing out that taxi services has not had an employee honored by this in a long time. i am here to say that you should all honoredjarvis murray. i know you propose -- by proposed ricardo and he was honored with the name month. i think it is important that you honor somebody in that

department finally. you are calling us a stepchild or a foster child and that is not fair. i appreciate you honoring an employee today. i appreciate that and thank you very much. >> does anybody errors -- anybody else care to address the board? >> advisory council reports. i do not see mr. murphy here today. moving on, item nine, an opportunity for members of the public to address the public -- at the board on the items relating to the mta board but not on the agenda today. you have two people that have turned in a speaker card. >> good afternoon. >> i came to talk on a power point that they have presented

earlier from the community advisory committee on bus stop consolidation. i was -- i believe it was presented to you folks on september 7. it is an example of a distortion or misinformation based on statistics. what is scary about this is that this is being suggested for a pilot project. give some statistics, but it does not give all necessary statistics. it calls for a number of stops to be totally eliminated. you will see that the ninth san bruno will have 13% of its stops eliminated. the 28 line, 20%. stockton, 22%. there are other statistics beyond that. it does not make reference to the fact that several of these lines are overlap by zero other

lines. this does not say bank they will exclusively stop serving only the 30 line. there are two portions. to the western terminal and along columbus and from washington square to north point. all of the lines are overlapped by other lines. if you talk about taking out stops, you have to look at the impact on other lines, the number people impacted, the delays. this does not reference any attempts for better enforcement. i suggest this is given to you edit is incomplete and misleading. it does not allow people to realize the greater impact than what this shows.

>> good afternoon. i wanted to add another name to a person that was very good to me the other day. james was so helpful and cooperative yesterday in allowing me to do some research. i just wanted to let you know that you have another employee working the front desk, unlike another person that gave me a lot of stress. previously, we did not have just 4.5 hours to get in line to read our a card. we had seven or eight hours over at city hall. we are being treated like these idiots. we are paying $60-$88.50. we are being yelled that to

stand in line. youra card -- a card and driver's license out. we are paying a lot of money to be treated by a little kids. i know they are doing a tough job. it is difficult when you have a lot of people to deal with. i would ask you to allow people to renew their a cards without incurring a penalty for this. you are collecting a lot of money and sucking money out of the drivers without telling them about this. i had a dispute with one of the employes. the streamlined the process by eliminating a lot of the hearings. what are discovered, we are not being told by e-mails. find it on the web site. we are not being called on the

web site. we deserve to get loiinks to know who is going to get a reissued medallion. so that we know why we are being left out of the process. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am a taxicab driver. good afternoon, everybody. summertime is coming very soon. our giants team is coming very soon. i would like to mention the action in san francisco. this is market and third street. they do not know. they cannot see where the line is. the first time in america, the driver can see the line with the

blinking red lights. do not go across this light. there is a blinking red light. the driver does not have the eyes sight to see that. you have to put the screen up, please do not block the intersection. they do not know. the line is too long. we cannot cross because at the mission, people are blocking the intersection. you can blame the people. you can do straight ahead blinking red lights for the intersection. that is like a disco dancing lamp. please do not stay there. if bay blocke i --f they block it, send the a ticket to their driver's license. that is a good way to make money

for you. >> are for public comment on matters not on the agenda today. >> for the record, the first, the law does, the most accurate data generated was cemented accurately by myself in 1998. to provide a fair and objective of accounting of taxi service, that includes san francisco. i live, work, play, a vote. i do not live in san francisco. when in san francisco, i travel mostly by taxi or some other independent form of transportation. in my opinion, san francisco taxi service is unsatisfactory, good, or excellent. i think they are generally unsatisfactory, and good, or excellent because i would add a number of calves, not sure, or

no more cabs. the number of cabs it is, you are asked if your e-mail or female, address, neighborhood, zip code, states, or country. the age group, 18-26, 56-70 or older. i have submitted this data for the last 13 years. over 12,000 customers have been surveyed. i have yet to see one customer survey. i have yet to see the analysis of this data. i believe you do have these purposes and they are supposed to be held annually, as in this memo from 2004. i do not believe this has been amended. nobody has informed me this has been amended. you are required in between that

time to exhume the continuing force. i have yet to see that, too. >> next speaker, please. >> followed by christopher. >> good afternoon. >> how does this thing work? >> this is a minor issue, but maybe it is not a minor issue. i believe the city has been committed to getting illegal limos operating at helping taxicabs. you are looking at this side of the hall. ever since it opened, you will notice that there are no taxis there. some of them are not black.

they are picking somebody up. basically, they are just town cars and they totally blocked the street. i picked up three times on the other side of the street. people had to walk across the street to get to me. three or four months ago, somebody moved to around the corner of hayes and van ness. there is an entrance there. 90% of the people come out of this entrance. 10%, out of the other one. anybody that wants to go to will call as to what they bought from the cab stand. if they are a senior citizen, they can take the elevator. nobody talked to her about doing it.

this is another picture. these guys are sitting there. they are trying to solicit rides to the limo. those guys have been blocking traffic for a solid hour. the symphony is not like the opera. it is not a society event. people do not take limos. >> christopher is the last person who has turned in a speaker car. >> good afternoon. i would like to protest the structure of the review process. the means by which the taxi industry and the way it has been attempted or not so well attempted to be fit into the miscible transit authority. there is not currently an actual

forum. drivers can come to this meeting. this is highly burdened with other sorts of work. the taxi advisory committee as the only forum. its mandate is to review the medallion sales program. the taxi advisory committee is clearly meant to be a mouthpiece for your transformation of the taxi industry and perhaps an entry-level transit job in your organization. if that is your agenda, please let us know that some of us are unhappy with that direction. as an indication of that, some of us have noted that there are

no union representatives by your committee. the union did not agree with what you were pushing. it renders the taxi advisory committee less than fully credible. there are a number of side agendas. chief among which is the designer medallion issue that keeps getting discussed. designer medallions are not part of the taxi sales program. i would like to protest that we are being reduced. >> herbert. >> good afternoon. >> i am a former member of rescue muni.

i would like to bring up an issue that is familiar to this group and that is the bus lines. that has not worked to the benefit of people. people who are frail, ill, have to walk a block to the one california bus line. this is not the public interest. people in the richmond district want those lines restored. i believe the mta is supposed to act in public interest. they are not. they do not represent the public interest when we do this. i would like to see these lines restored. at a community meeting two months ago. it was in october. people unanimously wanted to have that restored to where it

was before. i think it is the responsibility to act in public interest. as far as i can see, the mta does not out in public interest. --act in public interest. this is a sterling example of this. other neighborhoods were able to get their lines restored. this is really unfair. a lot of people do not speak english in this district. i do not think they realize what the stakes were. >> this is the last person who turned in a speaker card. >> good afternoon, directors. i wanted to make a comment about taxi medallions distributor

issue that was on the agenda today. we have a pilot program here. my assessment of this, that is not only a long time coming, we did something that i did not think what happened in san francisco. addressing the people that do not have medallions. it is going to raise an enormous amount of money for the agency. i was at a conference in chicago last year. the other cities we were staying at were san francisco. are you saying increasing revenue by a selling taxi medallions would increase revenue because only qualified drivers would have them? although there are times that of the people can assess the s, this program has been a tremendous benefit to the industry. secondarily, i wanted to talk a little bit about pete time

medallions. --peak-time medallions. the idea of having these medallions in something that the industry can embrace. one thing i wanted to make very clear is that the taxi industry is not going to support the idea of the city replacing the medallion holder as the income earner. that is to sell the taxi medallion. if be city replaces the working driver, it is going to be fiercely resisted by industry. i just wanted to make that clear as we go down this path. >> thank you. >> directors, all of these items are considered to be routine unless a member of the public wishes to have a an item but severed and considered separately. >> i would like to ask your

indulgence and sever item 10.2, a-k on the consent calendar. it is related to cesar chavez streetscape project. i wanted to emphasize the pedestrian related parts of this project. pedestrian safety has been of great interest to you and members of the board lately. we are interested in working collaborative lee with the city. -- collaboratively with the city. >> on the remaining items, which are 10.1, a10.2 10, l-w, and 10.

>> is there a motion to approve? >> sutton. >> all of those who approved. >> aye. >> the mta has been working collaborative lay with other departments to improved thestreetscape for cesar chavez. this project spans the light of the street between u.s. 101 n guerrero street. includes street lighting, streetscape, signals, and reorientation of the travel lanes. we as a city adopted these last year and allow the various elements to be fully integrated and built up a work costs due to

department of scale with other departments working together. i would like to call up at this time come mike from our sustainable st. the vision to give you an overview of the project so you will understand what we bundled together with other projects. >> thank you. good afternoon, chairman and directors. i work with this division of the mta. thank you for a great introduction. i would like to get into the power point. i would like to answer the questions during or after the presentation.