>> [inaudible] >> if i may, with regard to the notifications, we started putting that information on our website. at your request. it should be there, if you go on to the website. it is on the right hand side? >> [inaudible] >> what is the link? >> members of the board, we did put up information about two weeks ago. go to the homepage, on the far right it says the muni-post incident summary. you are able to find out about incidents. >> in addition to that, i know that i do not have to tell you, as you are all fervently following a son twitter, but you have seen the s 78 twitter

counts doing ongoing service announcements. particularly during rush hours. having your eyes glued to your twitter account each day, providing after the theft of information -- after the fact information and whether they might want to consider different paths. >> well, i appreciate that. the good news is, i have no reason to look for the next few weeks. let's just be clear to our fans and detractors alike that out this website we have the ability to check, after the fact, the incident of a delay so that you can know, at the agency, but they are doing about it. and if you are involved in

something that was not posted, that is your opportunity to post about what was involved and we can backtrack. >> all of those in agreement? >> regarding the central subway utility, starting to wrap up and going into shut down, i do not want to miss the opportunity to get more feedback. i remember him saying that he went to an emergency meeting in expecting to be raked over the coals, finding that they were actually quite thrilled. moving into that holiday shutdown, it would be interesting to get that kind of feedback from everyone in that area again. i do not want to lose the opportunity to improve surface

conditions on stockton, as we move into central subway construction. >> i just wanted to make a couple of comments on the improvements you have been working. a couple of comments to build on, with respect to passenger information. first, i agree that the asset and tsa on the twitter feed, i am wondering if there might be a way to create individual lines. there are so many of them. often, we cannot get to the ones that are relevant. there is a man out there who does nkuda, and there might be a

way to get a mark down that line. as someone who spent years on the 28 as a student, repelling up and down that line -- i still take it -- i was there last week. i still feel that it needs a lot of work. without looking at future solutions, i would love to be able to see a breaking out of that route. -- breaking up of that route. perhaps the consolidation of stops. stopping may be at only major transit points. 8:00 at night, 9:00 at night, it feels like it is always busy. it seems that we could do so

much more. maybe even looking at a long- term thing, like claims for dedicated lanes on something like that. a long way off, some improvement can be explored. i think that that is all that i have. yes, extending the hours of the 28l. it feels obtuse, and there is still so much passenger traffic. thank you. >> i would like to thank the staff on the siding that came out of the contract. i think it as -- at it is

appropriate to have news for the first time about employees who are converting. also, the second part of that, coming next monday. >> i believe that all of the operators are completely new to the mta. current, full-time operators are moving, part-time, but i imagine there would have that opportunity, if they would like. the new round that we are training, there is the same question. a crew in training now. we will continue, we have a fair amount of demand. i expect that most of them will

be coming from the outside. we will make that opportunity available. let's all right, thank you. what's been limited to items that were addressed in part d, 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 proposed this pathway, the bike path is going to be against the