savings would be realized. additionally it would free up parking spaces on that northern side. that would have been eliminated by putting in the expanded sidewalk. a side comment. >> your time is up. next speaker. >> good morning. this you for the opportunity to publically comment. my name is andrea jad win. i'm one of the authors for the letters that you received yesterday signed by some of my other neighbors with the detail about the plan. first of all we do

support the tep plan and we think sean -- thank the mta staff. we spent hundreds of hours trying to figure out the bits of this plan and how to support it fully. we do support it, but we have some issues that are still unresolved. we are 80 percent of the way there. we understand this is a fast track plan. we would like to board to consider some of the changes made here. parking, parking, parking. we thought we had agreement on the bulb outs and mysteriously the bulb outs seem to grow from map to map. they were longer when we thought we had agreement . we

would like the board to consider them. it's a massive concrete. it looks terrible. we would like mta to work with us on streetscaping. we are not a transit corridor for san francisco. we are a neighborhood of residents and families and children and pedestrians, streetscaping will make the difference between this project and providing blight to our neighborhood and being fully successful. thank you very much. >> mary mcgee? good morning. mary mcgee. i'm a red of the mission and work at san

francisco general and worked there as a nurse for 26 years. i'm speaking about the elimination of the 23 from potrero avenue corridor down to san francisco general. there are many many gems to the muni system and the no. 9 is not one of them. it's kind of the shame of the muni system. i really really ask you to ride the 9 some morning or late afternoon before you even thinking about eliminating the 33. it is so over crowded. people are so disabled. if they have to change buses at 16th and potrero they are going to be boarding if they get off the 23 to get on the 9 they are boarding an already crowded bus. you have people with

congestive heart failure, people with disabilities and people with wounds and people that go daily for methadone. actually that methadone clinic is a tremendous disservice to san francisco despite it's problems. it would be cruel to eliminate the 33 especially if the changes to the 9 have not been implemented and proven to work. it would be cruel. consider that. thank you. >> good morning. i'm speaking about the no. 35 bus and hope you won't run on wild street.

the reason is sort of three pronged. one is pedestrian safety. there are a huge number of school students who walk on the streets maybe going on field trips or maybe getting exercise. they do that all during the day. there are also a large number of parents bringing their children when they go to the grocery store on the corner. i am somewhat afraid with buses stopping frequently, children that run away when their parents are loaded down with grocery bags could be endangered. thirdly, the congestion. there are a large number of delivery trucks on wilder street everyday. there are even some as long as 48 feet long. those are awe fully big trucks to try to get around. with people double parking waiting to

pick up relatives from bart, at the end of the day, beginning of the day, it's very dangerous. that's it. thank you. >> elliot schwartz. hello, my name is elliot schwartz. my family lives a couple blocks east of portrero avenue. here to speak in favor of the portrero streetscape project. we take our four yield to a preschool a couple blocks west. i have him on the back of my bike and my wife picks him up on foot. crossing potrero can be scary on foot so the bulbs really help. there is already bike lanes on potrero. it's

nice having an extra bit of space when cars are passing. i often see other cyclist ahead of me when i'm walking on potrero. for anyone who says bike lanes aren't used on portrero they aren't seeing them. i'm a lil disappointed that these changes don't go far enough. in 5 or 10 years we'll regret that we are putting in the reserve lanes for transit in both directions, not just one direction. potrero is an important transit corridor for the 9 and should get the same treatment that van ness and geary are getting. we are going to be sad that we didn't put in bike lanes like other cities like chicago and new york are doing on their

arterioles because even a buffer is not enough. thank you very much. i hope you advance the portrero streetscape project. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, my name is bruce wolf and member of the neighborhood council. you received communication around the 6th. personally i agree, also as a person with a disability. i agree with many of the concerns that are brought up today. many of my concerns is that i served on the advisory council on the coalition of transit justice. my concerns then and my concerns now is for every change that you put into the tep, there is no cost or savings of time. so when i receive an update and see all

of these changes that are proposed, there is no proposed or estimate of time savings for each one of those stops. which would actually give some credibility to it. and so, that's a big concern. another one is most of this is band aid. we have to deal with the system we currently have. we know we need a paradigm shift. we know we have to think about that. this is constantly going on for 6 or 7 years now. it's time to think about a real paradigm shift that is causing a lot of concern and a lot of convenience and a lot of trouble for people in the city. thank you. >> feldman? good morning. i'm a resident of city of san francisco living here for the

last 20 years. i have been struck the lack of proposals on the efficiency measures that could make muni run more effectively and smoothly and increase the speed of the service in general. one of the proposals that struck me as i was sitting nr: here in this room this morning is the addition of the muni transfer dispensary machines which is the speed installation bus stops where people are able to purchase their tickets prior to boarding their respective mode of transportation which would generally save perhaps one or

one 1/2 minutes per bus per stop in my opinion and improve the efficiency of the service. now, on my way to this meeting this morning, i noticed how slow the railcar was moving through the street tunnel. i don't know if this has something to do with the infrastructure, but it just doesn't make sense to spend close to 10 minutes when you are in an enclosed space. so also whatever changes that you do propose, please consider parking. lackfer parking road conditions are major issues on city streets of san francisco. try to off balance offset

whatever proposal you have by additional parking. >> good morning. my name is elias zamary. i'm in favor of most of these changes. it sounds like a great idea. talk about transit first. i'm glad that you are able to do something about it. my brother lives in the upper haight and used to have to commute to fisherman. wharf and it was 40 minutes each way. i think speeding up the buses would help a lot for anyone trying to get anywhere and entice a large number of people out of their cars. i think i'm in favor of the changes on

potrero. the last time i road the no. 9 bus it was ridiculously slow. it stopped at every traffic light. every time it were to start moving it would have to wait for a gap in traffic. i think if the 9 bus would speed up there wouldn't be a need for cars and not a big deal to lose some parking. i'm sick of muni being slow, stuck in traffic, stuck at red lights and waiting for long periods of time and being told to move to the back of the bus because of crowding and that crowding is going to have an effect of people using it or not to use it or people's ability to use

it or told sorry, the bus is full, get on the next bus. >> joseph blaze? good morning. joseph blair, merchant, the sunset, progress hard wafrment -- you are proposing to move the stop on 9 and inbound. that stop has been there forever. it's the gateway to the park. you are proposing to move it south up 9th and confewest most -- confuse most of the people that come in and all the things that go on in the park

for 5 seconds. apparently from mr. white's statement was this is going to save five 5 seconds in the overall 90 seconds that you are trying to achieve. i believe just bumping the bulb out to 1 car on 9th should alleviate that what people are saying about the cars passing the street car at that area. it's dangerous. something will occur. but bumping it out to 1 car would looefd -- alleviate and the amount of cars and deliveries is going to cause i think a parking lot on 9th. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker,

please. >> dennis miss scoffian. good morning my name is dennis moss scoffian and i sent you a letter. here is an extra copy in case you didn't have it. through an extensive process working with shawn cattle, we worked out a consensus of numbers of key to the neighborhood. as andrea said understanding from your point of view the transit is most important. it's not just a corridor, it's not just a through way. i live there. i'm a native san franciscans and

a mile from my grammar school. i lived here bn -- before there was a district 5. we grew what we knew. shawn and others don't live where we live. in large measure what is reflective is the consensus we reach is reflected in the agenda. however it skipped a couple place. the length of the bulb bounce wednesday to taking 3 to four or 5 parking spaces. here is an extra copy for you in that letter. there are several things that we think is really important that are details that you need to pay attention to and consider one aspect. we still recognize that despite the fact that it is really important for

people to ride bikes. there is all these reasons to drive cars too. i would ask you to look at agenda m and tell you that you don't need the corner on irving and reduce that to 8th and look at the remaining items we spelled out. thank you. >> laurie leader man. good morning, my name is laurie leader man and 24-year resident. i would like to thank you in advance for your attention in so many details in impacting so many neighborhoods. i would like to thank mta staff for concerns and residents and merchants to reach compromises. it means that no one interest or group is fully satisfied and that

is certainly the case here. i would like to point out while there are improvement for transit boarding and hope for reliability and negligible time reduction, the lacking parking spaces make the health providers the big losers. this may cause some that are already on the margins to fail. i know someone will immediately dismiss the parking spaces to be anti-environment and stuck in the past. if people drive to shopping malls in daley set the because they can't get to these businesses. the compromises that we reach on the latest staff proposals. there are a number of

outstanding issues, the primary ones is the bulb outs need to be minimized. spending millions around the streetscape is not going to solve crowding on muni, it's not going to make the buses run faster. what we really need is focus on improved maintenance and service and more lines and more frequent trains and buses, thank you. joyce chin? i'm joyce chin. i have lived in this city for over 50 years and i have worked and trained here, but

now i'm elderly and i'm legally blind and i have arthritis. so i need to take the bus because they don't allow me to drive anymore and there is a lot of problems when you have to walk and you have arthritis. they locate the transfer points at inconvenient place where you have to walk a mile to get to a transfer. such as on third and market and you have to go to chinatown or north beach. you have to get off that bus and cross the busy market street and then after you cross that, there is a little island and you have to cross another street which is geary where the geary buses come through and you can't see what's coming around the

corner and i can't see anyway and they have two shelters there. if you were to turn left on third street, the shelter is about over close to a block away. they used to have a shelter there but they took the shelter out and if you walk over there, it's close to the mission street and there is no place to sit and when it's windy and cold, you freeze. so, that's one place and on fourth and market, they used to have places where the buses let you off and on the side of the street where macy's is and you can walk up to fifth and take the bus there. but, no, they cross market street and you have to cross. the bus crosses market street and you have to

turn back and recross market street. >> next speaker. fran taylor. >> my name is fran taylor the cochair of the community group that sphere headed the changes on caesar chavez and celebrated in the press by some of you and i'm here to support the changes on the potrero avenue. i know this is somewhat controversial because it's moving along faster and it doesn't have the benefit of the an organization of community groups and some of that opposition has taken the form of an online petition

which has some misleading language in it. the original one said this was a proposal to have a high speed transit link to 101 and i even had some comments from that petition to read. it should not be a high speed link to 101. would you like your grandkids playing other than this street as dangerous as it is now. a high speed transit would cause more across the corridor. you are concerned with those traveling outside the city than those living in the city. no one is proposing that anyone go over the 25 miles per hour speed limit. none of the buses on potrero even go on 101. they go on bay shore. they take people to public housing. this is not rich people in the peninsula being served by this. when we are talking about a hierarchy of needs. people take it

public transit to the city's public hospital have much more difficulties like the previous speaker than people losing a parking space in front of their house. the only way you can have a parking space in front of your house is if you have a driveway. if you have a driveway you have a garage. this is very important. >> hi. i'm scott wicky. since we last spoke in december, my neighbors and i worked really hard to develop an alternative to the plan to the originally proposed to the s 35 eureka.

it's been a great experience. we've learned a lot and we also generated 165 letters of support from my neighbors and all over the surrounding community for the alternative plan. i want to speak on bafr -- behalf of that plan and being a strong appropriate -- proponent of it. they have done a great job but not finished. what i want to tell you is there is a very important part of our plan which is the decision no the to use wilder to uruq a that is very important to our community. i want to work in the next couple of months to finish that plan that our community helped generate and make sure that wilder street alternative route is not implemented. there is a much

better way by working with our community that sf mta is working on a great proposal that works well not for just some members of glen park, but for many. thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> the san francisco bicycle coalition supports the approval of the changes. we believe it will be safer for residents. it'sian a general area of businesses for people walk and will provide a safer route and much needed improved area. it will also improve the connections to the southern neighborhoods opening up a

health and and affordable transportation method for people. it's a bike lane on 24th street and a way to accommodate the potential for people biking will be down for implementation. this proposal will make the lives of thousands of san franciscans who travel on potrero avenue easier, the majority that belong to minority and people of color. it will need pedestrian improvements included in this project. portrero avenue between 20 and 25th street is a high injury corridor. it's a through unacceptable state of affairs. sidewalk widening is the first step in addressing this situation. this project has exceptionally vetted by the community dating back to

community meeting efforts that were held in english with plenty of spanish translation. throughout the process we've also made sure to include businesses and area residents in the planning. i thank you for making potrero safer for people. >> i'm walter kaplan from the neighborhood association. i know it's difficult to maintain and improve transit in a dense urban environment such as san francisco and we in our neighborhood thank all of you as volunteers for sitting on this commission and undertaking this task and for mr. riskin for assuming the responsibility for trying to maintain and upgrade what is not a failed, but a breaking down system in san francisco and working to improvement

for everybody here. i'm here really to thank you. your people at the staff level heard us at the district meeting on transit and our concern again 2 weeks ago we turned out at the hearing, you heard us and you understood our concerns that our bus and the 36th that while it's convoluted line is a result of the merging of the 34 and 36th but you have agreed that it's important to maintain service to our neighborhood, i'm here to thank you for hearing what i said and all the other people whose staff heard us and responded to us very thoroughly with phone calls and let us know what was happening through the whole process is going to always be bumps and