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 curb. so everybody will have to be going across the pathway in order to get to the curb, the

sidewalk. i am kind of concerned about people with disabilities, and families with strollers, having to make their way onto the curbs safely. also, even when people are paratransit users, the lift is so large -- by the time they deploy the left, it is going to be on a buffer. when the wheelchair user gets off the lift, i do not know how far into the buffer zone would be safe in order to pass to get to the sidewalk. it is one of those concerns we had talked about in many of our disability committees. i just want to bring this up as a public comment.

but one of these creative obstacles -- i would love to work with the park commission and everybody to make everybody safe. thank you. >> would anyone else care to address the board? when are we likely to be hearing about this? when is it likely to be at this level? >> it is a project that is not being sponsored by the mta. the park service is going through an environmental process. what we will do is we will come back to you, refer back to you at a meeting soon, with status of the project. then in advance of when it is going to formally come to you for board review. >> i was thinking the decision of where to place this --

>> we would be it -- they are leading the effort to get environmental clearance for the f line extension. they would be looking to us for how best to make the logistics, such as placement of the platforms, work. we will work with them and the street artists to make sure that we understand what the concerns of the situation are. >> public comment. >> mr. wong?

>> hello again. there is another thing i would like to bring up. it is about communications in the subway. i know that bart has this elevator update to notify people who are basically -- when the elevator is out, they will notify people to either e-mail or testing, sir -- or texting, so that people with disabilities who rely on elevators know the elevator is out of service. i know as the mta is doing a pilot program, but it is not working very well. it is very spotty. i would really like to see that

improve, because we rely on the elevators. in order for us to get these notifications, so at least we can plan our trip -- it is very spotty. i cannot rely on it right now. sometimes, they will notify you that the elevator is out of service, but they will not notify you when it is back in service. i would like to see it greatly improved to be able to serve the community. thank you. >> we need power for our tape recorders. >> now is the time to say something we would not want to record. [laughter]

>> do you have it now? >> charles walker, followed by martin robinson, and then bury toronto -- barry toronto. state your name for the record, please. >> my name is charlie walker. i have to say, like i have said before -- when this agency said they were going to put the light rail on third street, they promised the community they were going to have off street parking. if you had done that in the sunset district, or where we are building the tunnel, they have off street parking. it has been years since you finished that. nobody has thought to put the

off street parking they promised us they were going to do when they put that streetcar down third street. what i am saying is what is the problem that bayview/hunters point is the most neglected community in this city. nobody seems to want to understand it. it is very unfair to us. we ought to build something. you do not do it. i have complained week after week of the unnecessary no left turn signed you will not do anything about. it is just a way for the police to harass black children. a young child coming home at 1130 at night -- 11:30 at night, there is no traffic on third street, but there is a no left turn sign. they have to go six blocks to turn left. you know they are not going to do that. the police harass them.

if they are not shooting them over there, the police are up to someone. -- up to something. it is unfair to the people in bayview. you said you would create off street parking. they were going to look into the no left turn sign, yet nothing has been done about it. what are you going to do about it? when are you going to do about it, ok? >> my name is martin robinson. i am a merchant at third and peru. i want to echo the comments that mr. walker has made. it appears to be false promises that have been made by this agency about construction of the light rail. they were going to assist some of the merchants who were impeded by the construction phase. not one merchant receive 15 cents from this agency. in addition to that, we are dealing with the social plight

and the economic blight that the city and county has not addressed through the redevelopment agency. your agency is part of that because you are riding the rails through the third street corridor. in addition to that, when you come for the approval of the rail going from king street to bay shore and the visitation valley, you came with the promise of jobs. the only jobs received were flat positions for the residents of the neighborhood. it is really making a statement that false promises to get a project approved and cosigned through the community -- it never works out to be the things of the past. we do not have the jobs. we have disturbance, we have social blight, and all the folks blighted do not affect the mta, but it does affect the residents. comments made before me about the off street parking. we have parallel parking on all the side streets. we have the problems with three lanes going southbound and

northbound. we had two lanes and with the bus stop, there is one lane. any time a coach bus stops, there is one lane. you have impacted the neighborhood but not brought any solutions with that. >> good afternoon. i want to say that it was a very touching, sensitive, and wonderful presentation, and i watched on line when you honored that cabdriver, i acknowledge you did honor a cabdriver, and i hope you can do it at least once every three months. it was very touching. i am almost as excited as when i woke up this morning and heard that carson polymer will be joining us in the bay area. the exciting new system here that he is a very nice person.