the podium. folks, i am almost done. i just want to talk about the t- line, get clarification. so, tell us the overall strategy. >> the overall strategy for the t-line -- we have transit fare at inspectors. there was an audit conducted about a year ago, with the concern that the t-line, the fare increase was the highest on the t-line. the fare inspectors were moved to muni metro, so they could have a more concentrated effort, and that is all the way up to a third straight. you have more of those folks up there.

there are folks that are completely dedicated to that area. supervisor cohen: is this a standard approach to fare evasion? or is this unique to the se? >> i'm not going to say it is unique, because we have targeted this line. i do not want to say it is just 33. we have a concentrated effort on the line. it is a high target area where we see the need for fair enforcement. supervisor cohen: ok. ok, folks. i am done with my questions. supervisor mar: i think we should open this up for public comment. supervisor cohen: i think we should. i would like to call up linda richardson. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

thank you for putting this together. i just want to establish there are substantial improvements on the t-line. we attribute that to a substantial improvement in public safety. i think in the last year, supervisor mar mentioned with the killing in hunters point, i think muni has gone beyond the call of duty. i am here today, representing the bayview/hunters point land use committee. supervisor cohen mentioned that we worked very tirelessly.

i think the fundamental issues we found have still not been resolved. i think muni actually did not consider the t-line to be a dedicated line. hunters point spent months working with need to try to change that, and. -- with no need to try to change that. the fact that you are combining heavy usage, and you would have that, and again, it is not a coincidence. sooner or later, we will have the problems that we are having right now. you are pulling in and you are pulling alps -- pullng out, and

it seems to me at some point they do not have the right of way. one of the problems come up when you are at the subway and to try to track the moment -- the movement, we are sitting there, and you can track the end and everything else. it is somewhere. it is no where. the only thing about the t-line -- at that point some of people are nowhere to be found. that needs to be corrected. a think when you look at the growth in the southeast -- i think when you look at the growth in the southeast, the mission bay, this is the lifeblood. this is going to be the largest sector with the population, and so, let's deal with that right now. have the t as a sedicated line. and you need to tell us what the

start or end point is going to be. [chime] and it needs to work. it will cost performance later. supervisor mar: thank you. >> first and foremost, in this deliberation, i think the right question needs to be asked. you know, supervisors, you ask like commissioners or something for the san francisco transportation authority, right? you have a commissioner from district 10 who should be here. do we have that person here? if you do not have that person here, you need to find out why. there used to be a person who represented us, and throughout

that time, she has not been doing her work well. having said that, when we have the 15 and third, it was a perfect system. you could take the bus from city college of the way to chinatown. the third street, all this deliberation, they talk the talk, but they cannot walk the walk. there are many factors. non-and the main factors is we do not have the software. we have all trains. the second factor is. if you take a certain portion of the lines, the third light rail

perform somewhat well. the other day, i was waiting, and 3 trains -- not one, not the law -- not two. we waited 50 minutes for the train. supervisor mar: where was this? >> the bay shore. it is quite a popular hub. you wait for 15 minutes. you have an algorithm. you can use the algorithm and reduced the statistics. this is the point. in the past, the fifteen and

third performed well. today, the third street light rail should be given an f-minus. that is my analysis. what i heard today was an analysis of the paralysis. we do not need that. when it comes to the language, most of the chinese constituents take a different line to get to chinatown you bang -- to giant dump. many others who speak chinese. -- to chinatown. they need others to speak chinese. [chime] >> good afternoon, supervisors.

i am it long time in muni -- i am a longtime muni rider living in district 10. thank you for holding this meeting and for your sensitivity to the diverse riders in district 10. i want to suggest that in addition the finding of broadcasters on the buses, muni bad -- add 311. this is easy to transition over. if the project is supposed to have riders, this department

would have been assessing our diverse residence for all these years, and not just this year. muni would have recommended -- rather the tep would have recommended to muni to repair these, especially in the front. it is really problematic, especially in the morning and early afternoon. so riders are very vulnerable. how can anyone forget the video of that helpless woman who was thrown off last year. tep should do periodic trilingual oral and written input from our diverse

residents said they are really serving the residents of the southeast areas. >> walter paulson. ♪ i'm sitting downtown hope the minu is on time sitting downtown waiting for the t-line why don't you fix it? we have been waiting long, and i hope you fix it fast please some are even faster like you always see so i am saying to you i am sitting downtown

hoping the muni t is on time sitting downtown, and i hope it comes around in it is going to be fast again on time ♪ supervisor cohen: ok, thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is joe voss. i am probably hear more as a resident than anything else. i very rarely use the t-line, because i cannot afford the extra 12-15 minutes it takes to get from my house to the city.

pete improvements were supposed to be made -- the t-line might have originally gone across the third street light rail. in makes sense -- it makes sense. at this point, i am trying to be very supportive of muni's need for more rolling stock. do indymac. if you put the 15 back -- do the math. if you put the 15 back, you might find there would be a great amount of savings. maybe, that would be the magic answer.

i realize there are federal funds and all these other things that could be impediments. on the right-hand side, they put everything you can do, and on the left-hand side, you put everything you can do, and i just finished pulling the appeal of the permanent -- permit. the coach facility to replace the kirkland yard. it will be a diesel facility.

however, there are not a lot of hybrid diesels yet. i did go on and on. but need has to show up to the meeting where two people with any knowledge. we asked for the questions to be transcribed. could we see them. we have to answer. we will see if you wrote down what we think you are supposed to cover. i just cannot say enough about my frustration with muni. maybe they need more employees. i do not know. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

thank you for spreading the information on the e-mail's. we have an opportunity to communicate and share. i live on the most beautiful street in san francisco. in an engineer -- i am and engineer and there are a few prospective i have. also, i have been part of the state's deep product to the department of public health. before coming here, i surveyed

a few members blinis domino games. -- a few members playing these domino games. the communication issues were highlighted before by mr. deco sta and a few others. the design intent is not being met. supervisor cohen, i am glad you're asking some many good questions. we have senator feinstein and senator boxer and others. they have worked so hard to get the system going. i want to implore the officials -- muni officials.

look at light rail as an organic entity. also, all of them, they are modern designers. these urban systems are treated almost as living entities. we are just barely able to makee discomfort and dissatisfaction. in these to go beyond. -- they are showing the discomfort and dissatisfaction. it needs to go beyond. say, wow, that is now my job is there. that is out. that is the benchmark. [chime]

thank you. these are $2 i did not pay for on the fair coming here. i will make a donation to the treasurer's office. thank you. supervisor cohen: thank you. well, to wrap up all the public comment and testimony, thank you to mta. thank you for answering questions. although we did not have any members of the public that actually were lined out the door, believe me when i tell you -- and i have the data to prove this -- i hear from residents all the time complaining about their dissatisfaction with service. the entity is organic, and it as dynamic and ever-changing, and i would like to ask the chair to

file this to the call of the chair so we can revisit this discussion, and i look forward to having my questions answered, and volume reaching out to you because we really need to work together -- and i am reaching out to you because we really need to work together. supervisor mar: thank you supervisor cohen -- thank you, supervisor cohen. without objection, continuance to the call of the chair. are there any other items before as. supervisor mar: thank you, meeting adjourned.

>> there has been an acknowledgement of the special places around san francisco bay. well, there is something sort of innate in human beings, i think, that tend to recognize a good spot when you see it, a spot that takes your breath

away. this is one of them. >> an icon of the new deal. >> we stood here a week ago and we heard all of these dignitaries talk about the symbol that coit tower is for san francisco. it's interesting for those of us in the pioneer park project is trying to make the point that not only the tower, not only this man-built edifice here is a symbol of the city but also the green space on which it sits and the hill to which is rests. to understand them, you have to understand the topography of san francisco. early days of the city, the city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they can't see it where they are. they get the idea to build a giant wooden structure.

the years that it was up here, it gave the name telegraph hill. it survived although the structure is long gone. come to the 1870's and the city has growed up remarkably. it's fueled with money from the nevada silver mines and the gold rush. it's trying to be the paris of the west. now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest people lived on the top because it was very hard getting to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the beginning. and a group of 20 businessmen decided that it would be better if the top of the hill remained for the public. so they put their money down and they bought four lots at the top of the hill and they gave them to the city. lily hitchcock coit died without leaving a specific use for her bequest. she left a third of her estate for the beautify indication of the city.

arthur brown, noted architect in the city, wanted for a while to build a tower. he had become very interested in persian towers. it was the 1930's. it was all about machinery and sort of this amazing architecture, very powerful architecture. he convinced the rec park commission that building a tower in her memory would be the thing to do with her money. >> it was going to be a wonderful observation place because it was one of the highest hills in the city anywhere and that that was the whole reason why it was built that high and had the elevator access immediately from the beginning as part of its features. >> my fear's studio was just down the street steps. we were in a very small apartment and that was our backyard. when they were preparing the site for the coit tower, there

was always a lot of harping and griping about how awful progress was and why they would choose this beautiful pristine area to do them in was a big question. as soon as the coit tower was getting finished and someone put in the idea that it should be used for art, then, all of a sudden, he was excited about the coit tower. it became almost like a daily destination for him to enjoy the atmosphere no matter what the politics, that wasn't the point. as long as they fit in and did their work and did their own creative expression, that was all that was required. they turned in their drawings. the drawings were accepted. if they snuck something in,

well, there weren't going to be any stoolies around. they made such careful little diagrams of every possible little thing about it as though that was just so important and that they were just the big frog. and, actually, no one ever felt that way about them and they weren't considered something like that. in later life when people would approach me and say, well, what did you know about it? we were with him almost every day and his children, we grew up together and we didn't think of him as a commie and also the same with the other. he was just a family man doing normal things. no one thought anything of what he was doing. some of them were much more highly trained.

it shows, in my estimation, in the murals. this was one of the masterpieces. families at home was a lot more close to the life that i can remember that we lived. murals on the upper floors like the children playing on the swings and i think the little deer in the forest where you could come and see them in the woods and the sports that were always available, i think it did express the best part of our lives. things that weren't costing money to do, you would go to a picnic on the beach or you would do something in the woods. my favorite of all is in the staircase. it's almost a miracle masterpiece how he could manage to not only fit everyone, of course, a lot of them i

recognized from my childhood -- it's how he juxtaposed and managed to kind of climb up that stairway on either side very much like you are walking down a street. it was incredible to do that and to me, that is what depicted the life of the times in san francisco. i even like the ones that show the industrial areas, the once with the workers showing them in the cannery and i can remember going in there and seeing these women with the caps, with the nets shuffling these cans through. my parents had a ranch in santa rosa and we went there all summer. i could see these people leaning over and checking. it looked exactly like the beautiful things about the ranch.

i think he was pretty much in the never look back philosophy about the coit. i don't think he ever went to visit again after we moved from telegraph hill, which was only five or six years later. i don't think he ever had to see it when the initials are scratched into everything and people had literally destroyed the lower half of everything. >> well, in my view, the tower had been pretty much neglected from the 1930's up until the 1980's. it wasn't until then that really enough people began to be alarmed about the condition of the murals, the tower was leaking. some of the murals suffered wear damage. we really began to organize getting funding through the arts commission and various other sources to restore the murals. they don't have that connection or thread or maintain that