taking hoover and lift now and they only have to pay their own private car payment >> thank you let me call the next round of speakers (calling names) those are all the cards i have bay. i'm - >> i'm karen thank you for holding this hearing. i run a bakery and restaurants in the mission our hours are from 7 in the morning to 10 at night our backers start.

the first train to get to work arrives at the 24th street bart at 505. just does acquit make it and i so appreciate the scope of what's being discussed i want to say that since we're talking about late night i want to put in a plea as we think about those people who provide early morning sort of critical to our community services like starting to get the food out in time for the 9 to 5 people to get to work it would be beyond painful if we took care of the late night problems. i also want to say i do said the contains that bart works with

and i constantly make the new york comparison but it's not legitimate to have something that we refer to as the regional bay area transit i'm excited about the pilot bus thing but the frequency has to make sure our staff a safe waiting for the buses one of the things we want is protection so that will have to stay in the communication >> i think i read our piece. >> i know thank you. >> thank you for being here. >> next speaker. >> >> thank you characterize wiener and oogsz others. i'm going to speak briefly from the california association that protects entertainment and microscopic in san francisco.

we applaud that conversation. 12 years ago, it was started at the entertainment commission and building it or not we heard the exact same things. this fresh approach i want to leave the room with we have have an information on that we don't have regular transportation at night so people have found ways around that. if we had angle app that said i want to go from here to there and call the public transit for cabs and others it will give information at different times of the day and night but also provide a much needed service for people out there. if you're a doormat at the night club and someone says what's the

easiest way to get to sunset dollars no way to get that to them they are a drunk patron and can't get to the sunset. so through an mta grant this and that grant we can develop a app that will give you the information you need for the next meetings and provide a service in the meantime getting people on a scaleable fashion on their ride home. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello good afternoon to everyone in the tenderloin. i'm keeping you informed shall i'm here as a working person and resident and also one that utilizes transmission. i have a comment i want to know

what percentage which crimes is captured on video recorders signatures taxi and bart and muni and is there any relationship between robberies and assaults and others things that would justify an emergency division option in the city if there isn't one in place already and if there is what department handles that >> thank you that's a question for mta so. yeah, >> hello i'm going to have a couple of different hats this is my hat as the owner of vigil sea room a bar in the region

district we're on mission street between caesar chavez and court land we have a small night times business we have thirty bars and routines many of which stay open till 2:00 a.m. and maintained we serve thousands of customers from i do not say the city and bay area. we apply hundreds of workers from across the city and the local areas. when those customers leave the bar at the 2:00 a.m. i don't know if you folks have cleaned up a bar after hours our employees don't often get out until 330 in the morning and it's not secrets those employees are casing cash and become

targets of violent crimes my mugings. we've seen that a lot. this is lovely to be on an outline line but you can't ask on employee to stand on mission and 25th on mission and caesar chavez with hundreds of dollars in cash waiting for transportation. increasing the night transportation is a critical public safety issue for workers and customers in san francisco. we have more workers living out future because of the rents here. we need to increase their options to get to and from the place of business >> it occurs to me we can enlist if we could pass the bar

legislation maybe we can close bars easily to get to bart. >> (clapping) >> we're going to enlist bart in this effort. would you like to speak now, sir? >> i'm bob. i was on the grand jury that on 2000 realized the industry and late night services so i predate tanner's allen's services we found the difficulties we got stuck on the grand jury how to get back home so i'm glad you're calling for some kind of late night transportation group. i'm uneasy and concerned you

should exercise caution in considering appointing any body from tmc they don't fulfill their obligations under the americans disables act their vehicles do have the capacity to serve everybody and even in distances there was a person who is using a guide dog was refused service so an agency that doesn't provide service for everybody to get invited does deserve that. an industry that says we don't know how to serve blondes and protein instance and others

they're not serving everybody and that maybe from a faulty decision but at the same time noticing nobody has pointed out the finger of glamour their neglecting their duties for failing to provide the services for the disabled if you invite them in you're calling into question reputations >> we do have a board rule asking people not to make clapping or boo if you want to support something do a thumbs-up it works well, so (laughter)

>> next speaker. >> >> hello, i'm with him, i on the 18 avenue and in supervisor yee's district. good afternoon chair winn and supervisors. i'm a culture arts musician with the san francisco battle orchestra we have my institutions in the theatre the herb's theatre in renovation and all can benefit from intelligent night transportation planning. i see people coming to the ballet and with their children with little kids with the legs and those grandparents and parents need all the help to get

to the parking arrests. i'm concerned with the musicians with their instruments. bart and minnesota is frightening for our musicians carrying an instrument and employees must arrive on time and this displacement of parking short term parking keeps disappearing as surface lots are developed and parking spaces due to used by culture arts leads to lose of revenue. i hope san francisco government is capable of achieving a balance so san francisco remains an important designation for the culture life the entire bay area and please remember the restaurant and bar people and the musicians in your late night

deliberations about transportation and parking. thank you very much >> thank you very much. next speaker. i'm call up a few more names (calling names) sorry about that. >> i thought you called my name already. >> if i called our name that's fine i can go to the line. >> okay. >> yeah. that's fine. >> i'm sorry if i - and i'm in the middle of calling names now can you hold on one second please (calling names) those are all the cards i have.

>> i apologize. >> supervisor cowen i want to say house the lift service i was a muni paraded for over thirty years it's not considered to be a safe system and late at night is less safe i was out in richmond as a bartender got off late one block away this lady didn't take bart she takes a cab pr i used to work late night on the 14 mission and i guarantee a lot of people didn't feel safe out there. the mta and the mub management thought the years has refused and city hall has failed to

provide proper safety so the safety impact has got to be taking into consideration and the police department didn't have the personnel to provide service on muni. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please i'm joni also am a professional musician with the san francisco opera and battle i've been working with them since 1979 thank you for this hearing. i do want to reiterate what my colleague william said and speak to the balance between night time transportation and short term or parking spaces in the civic center it's been in good balance up until 5 years ago until the states property got sold. we're competing as employees

with our patrons for parking and they still are not quite on board with transportation as it exists today and we applaud any way to improve that mix. this balance any effect our companies the symphony is a balance to keep to going interest attests night time and people are concerned with their saved we have musicians that carry valuable instruments to and from work maybe more designated parking on the street for van pools we have a lot of employees that carpool and if they have a place to park that would be open to anybody

involved in carpool. so i'm here to express any views as an employee and i've seen stress happen thank you very much >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi i'm treber i'm with the cab association at the technical director. i've been a proponent for late night activities in the city both in the night life industry and taxi industry if bart had a twenty-four hours service and the railway service was expanded we'll have wonderful things happening we're seeing thousands and thousands of vehicles on the streets that are not licensed to be there that are making it

dangerous for pedestrians especially. it's - they are closing the congested areas to taxis 4 to 1 if you need a taxi you're looking at down the street at the 50 cars and only a future of them are taxis. drink folks what weight another 15 minutes to get to their bootie call a 6 years old isn't going to lose her life by watching something >> thank you, supervisors. i am here to speak as a business

owner and the expansion for bart and muni across the city would be extremely important as you know parking is hard to come by and the cost of living in the city has gotten up and for a city that don't a great job of flat the playing field it as the people that are leaving our businesses late at night they have to take a cab or drive and those who are coming early in the more than for clean up they're forced to drive. the police department being understaffed but we're not talking about late night transit being turned off overnight bs but as the police department grows thank you for supporting that legislation we want to see

the options increased as the police department grows. one others thing i want to say is the cable car runs twenty-four hours it starts up at the 5:00 a.m. actually 2:00 p.m. if you want to talk about a waste of city resources because nobody t is on that thing from maintained to 2:00 a.m. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm a taxi driver 90 in san francisco. taxis are violate to the first and late mile of any transportation mix. as far as the cable cars going go if the cable cars can run that late and they have more

maintenance issues than bay area rapid transit can find a way it didn't have to be by 0 train bart is saying they're in the train business and not cars they should get some for friday and saturday night. they and ac transit they should have a bart system they need to have outreach they need to have more mrublt and help people to use their service and see how their service fits into their lives and pamphlets at bars and twenty-four hours restaurants and an easy we are talking about simple enough for a drunk to

figure out. that's not sensitive if they have a reliable service many people defenders their trips while the bay bridge was closed. the f line it would be wonderful to do late night in modern buses not on the village cars and may i suggest that muni right now provides for gay pride week and has the metro going at the church street station and service station don't cut it off you leave people straighten and they get weary and hostile >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> i'm colby michael's i live in district 6 near the entertainment district. a couple of notes the speaker

before me stole my thundered. i want to mention ac transit our south bay people are not neither since i live near van ness and market when i tend to come home i see the connection and i know from the budget point of view you have 0 analysis per cost how many people use it. i think it's a good service identify only seen two people get on it on fridays and saturday nights. that needs to be looked at. with bart i also proposes keeping them open during pride weekend and chinese new years eve which we could have used this year. as the last speaker said we need

a promotional tag no counterpart left behind. i was glad to see that ac is big on that and my last thing is people need to even the employees like dog patch and south of market and castro so you do have a better monitoring exactly who is using this and in addition to the late night schedule i've had to endure at the castro and market at the 3:00 a.m. to add express shuttles to run in addition to the current service that will alleviate a lot of the problems we have >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> first of all, i want to thank ac transit for not going

on attack the city would have shut down. i lived in the east bay i take bart and ac transit and muni four days a week. i think if there were better condominium conversion between the systems we could make-do with what we have the perfect world is dowel immaterial and drop another tube in the bay so with, have duplication of services. i would love 24 system. during the city when you have our last bart train is at 12:20 a.m. we need to do limited l these on the 90 and up mission

to feeding all the muni's to the last bart train which we have now in the system we have regular muni buses taking their regular routes and a person can't come out of the their job and make it to the last bart on time. if you ran ls throughout the city they can get to the last bart >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi i'm barry i'm president of the san francisco can be drivers association and i've been driving a cab in san francisco over 25 years i take great office of those companies calling themselves peer to peer they're full of deception and they're really taxis state and

federal codes described them that charges by distance. you have a regulated cab story your charring thousands of discolors for medallion and nobody is enforcing any rules. who do they have enforcing that this is san francisco sfmta investigators. we don't mind competition but fair competition that's it let's have everybody play by the same rules they're all community investment & infrastructure commission insurance fraud by relying on their own personal insurance when they're they don't have a customer. if taxis were allowed to do that only being insured when on calls we do have big problems. we need to all play by the same

rules. there's a big problems are taxi dispatch we have had those and you c you can bypass the so-called t nc they call themselves anything but taxis to avoid regulations >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm the president of the pride parade and celebration i've helped a lot of my firstborns with marketing and fund rising. i have two points but i will audio that the experience and decisions to come to san francisco is effected by how much it costs when you look at the cost of hotels and food and transportation a lot of those people on vacation want to come

and be out after midnight they're forced to take private cab service but no public option after midnight and pride parade had a lot of clfls in traffics so the second point i'm lucky enough to have a car but since 87 a lot of any friends working in the castro industry i notice a decline in business at bars and restaurants some have closed early in the castro and admiring the midnight hours a lot of you restaurants are closed people having to leave to catch a bus. you can either forward a car the

high cost and the congestion or the high parking and if you walk it's dangerous if you take your car it's not safe and not good for the rest of the community. this is a huge step in the right direction it will help everyone in san francisco. thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> mary maguire taxi industry who is going to pay for the increased late invite service. over the last 4 years the taxi rates $40 million just in the medallions and 15 millions in fees yet nothing is