dealing with the demand. two more items of note. next, next friday, there is a community-based effort where a number of community organizations are calling a number of city agencies, mta being prominent amongst them, to discuss street crime and public safety. i've believed that this is regarding the things that happened in the bayview -- i believe that this is regarding the things that happened in the bayview over the last few months. leaders from the apartments will be there. this will be a dialogue on how to improve safety through the bay view. of course, servicing an important part of that community.

something of myself and others will be participating in. finally, we want to remind you that one week from tuesday, our the chart dedication event. -- beach yard yar dedication ev. this is the historic navy yard, where the classic vehicles are housed. we will be putting up signs and a plaque, honoring friends, family, and great service to the city. mr. chairman, that concludes my report. >> a final message there about dedication. several of us were there when the transit association honored the board member of the year.

it was a great outpouring of love and support. [unintelligible] >> the best way to honor him is to hammer the director. [laughter] just kidding. >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> i am glad to hear about the upgrade that is going forward. frankly, from my personal experience, compliments to mr. haley, the issues that we have been experiencing and had experienced over the last few months are getting better. the one thing that we had talked about was some sort of reporting on when there are actually delays, so that the public can tune in and find out why they

sat in a bus or train for a certain amount of time, getting some reports on what is being done about it. i think that that is still something that we should pursue. something that we should continue to pursue. the one issue that i heard a fair amount about, regarding service, and maybe this is something that you can report back on, it had to do with the recent confluence of events in the city. fleet week, the bluegrass festival, and so on. i had heard an enormous amount of concern that those events had not been properly planned for. that some of our lines were very crowded. i do not mean to suggest that

there is an entirely new problem, but as we get ready for the america's cup, i wonder if we as a board could get a report back about what we, as an agency, do for this once per year. we plan for them. perino when they are. we have buses going down there. i wonder if there is something more that be could be doing for these large events that are nevertheless not scheduled as regularly as sports games. such as special cells for the harvest, bluegrass festival. i do not profess to have any of the answers. this is just something that i heard. i have got more feedback about this this year than i usually do. i think it might benefit the board to have a low report on how we plan for these events.

>> [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