we're looking at now and to the right there there's a parameters view. that's where we'd be able to do things like set geographical fencing. whatever we can do to incentivise that, that gives us the capacity to draw those geographical boundaries and monitor for that. i think this is a really

wonderful transition to monitor and respond to the taxi need. >> thank you. [inaudible] come back for comments. >> sure. and i just want to acknowledge the great work that the staff as we as our it staff has done to get to this point. we have the regulatory system we wanted and got the outcome we wanted on the e hailing side so both great steps forward and doing a lot less money than we had anticipated. few other things, one, we were here in the last meeting on the transportation 2030 program and last thursday at the board of supervisors, mayor lee and all 11 supervisors introduced the first piece of the transportation 2030 program which is a $500 million transportation bond and all 11

of the board signed on for getting that on to the ballot for this coming november. bond is a pretty critical element, being able to advance a lot of the good work we've been doing. most notably the capital investment. it will provide funds for transit stop accessibility improvements for muni maintenance improvements, pedestrian enhancements, as well as complete streets project, so critical funding for this agency, for the city. it will be the first time that the bond has been on the ballot for muni in 48 years so long overdue, very grateful for the mayor, supervisor tang who is the lead sponsor, but all 11 members of the board. the board of supervisors has

this until july 22 to place this on the ballot. should they do so like every other non education bond it would require a 2/3 vote by the public. we have started with department of public works a rounds of meetings. we have one tonight at [inaudible] at 6:00 pm. one tomorrow in richmond. all the information is on our website, sftransportation2030.com. great milestone there. last week -- i guess it was the week before or week-and-a-half ago, we celebrated our 20th bike to work day. thank you to the board members that joined for that as well. the mayor and almost the entire board of supervisors there, a really strong turnout. 76 percent of all the trips travelling along eastbound van

ness were bicycle trips. it's one of our indicators of how much bicycling is happening on bike to work. that's more than double than when it first started. great improvement. one of the -- it's just one day, it's a day to encourage people to try people cycling for the first time and every year we have stories of people who try that first day and then continue on. it's a time to bring awareness to cycling and recognize the good work that we as a city have done and mta staff has done. in the last year from last bike to work day into this one, we completed ten new projects which created 6.3 new miles of bike facilities, getting our network at 218 miles. that includes some big projects, such as folsom.

the then there's something called a cross bike and bike boxes at the corner of market and cannon to try to organize the traffic where the bikeway comes on to market street right by the mint. and [inaudible] signals on full ton and north point to create a green wave and i just happened

to ride on folsom today. it was amazing from 11th by our building to 24th street, i only had to stop one time, really fast trip, probably less than 15 minutes from our office at van ness and market to 24th and folsom, so great, low cost project, but can really make a big difference in cycling. lots of great to stuff to report out. it was a great bike to work day. thanks to everybody that participated in that. last week [inaudible] we changed our service plan a fair bit. big credit to muni in particular, as well as our folks in the enforcement division. a number of changes that i think saved us a little bit of money but helped us better move people. we tried express service on the

fulton corridor. i think all in all, a pretty good outcome for everybody trying to participate or just spectate, which lots of folks do. it happened on a day where we also had a baseball game and didn't have any issues in managing those two events as well as the street closures up at the end -- north end of the city for another sporting event. you may have heard we're piloting reconfiguration of seats on a light rail vehicle, at the request of breed and wiener, who have been getting complaints about crowding on vehicles and not being able to get on. we took one of our vehicles at the shop getted overhauled and rather than putting it back together with rows of two

seats, we have places where there's rows of single seats so i think we removed about 20 seats or so on the vehicle so it creates a much wider aisle. there's less seating room, but more standing room and more overall capacity. we'll switch it over to the [inaudible] and soliciting feedback. we have a survey at sfmta/seating pilot. we want to hear from the public. it's our fourth yore year as an agency [inaudible] that are in san francisco and actually i

guess last week was small business week, but we partnered by providing transit ads that featured multiple small businesses. we had an information booth available for small business owners for information on how to do business with the mta and we participated in a number of small business events and were happy to do so. and then finally, the advertising contract that you approved a number of meetings ago for our vehicles and facilities was heard at the budget and finance committee a couple of times. it was moved to the full board because of a couple of concerns, specifically about the number of wrapped vehicle that the contract permits, as well as the permissible use of digital advertising so it's on the board of supervisor's

calendar today. i believe they'll get it approved with possible some modifications and if i step out of this meeting for a moment it's because i'm down there to help that process along. that concludes my report. >> do we have members of the public who wish to speak? >> herbert followed by [inaudible]. those are the only three people for the director's report. >> you talked about this pilot project for muni metro with the reduction of seats. it may be called the [inaudible] muni metro or maybe single seat occupation. is this to provide the seating of all seniors and disabled. some of them may be forced to stand on the bus, especially if it's crowded. are people going to be standing on the bus from downtown to ocean avenue as a result of the

reduction of seats. what you need are more coaches, not this plan. you can take a look at the end muni metro. sometimes there's only one coach instead of usually two coaches and that's when it really gets to be crowded. now, [inaudible] cost $300,000 a pop. that could certainly be used for the purchase of more vehicles and this agency is not a poor one, at least in the financial sense. in addition, i'd like to express another concern. i'd like to see a monthly report on late buses, missed buses, accidents and break down. there should be a monthly report before the public. we have a right to know these statistics and i think the board has a right to know them to. >> thank you.

next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm president of desoto cab company. i want to make some brief comments on the electronic cab system where the vehicles are and so forth. i do want to warn though that the company that has this contract that has a new name now is a company that has bragged not only to me, but to

other cab companies in the past that they would end up controlling our companies through the equipment in the vehicles. so although we are not there now and i'm pleased to support the program as it is now going forward, i just want to say on the record that we are very wary of this company. maybe they'll do a great job, but because of comments made by them in the past. >> next speaker please. >> [inaudible]. >> good afternoon directors. [inaudible] $400,000. i don't understand why you're throwing the money away. you're taking money out of my pocket and then throw it away. this is your job.

[inaudible] $400,000 [inaudible]. you don't need this information what speed the information is going. you're not watching the [inaudible]. you don't need [inaudible] to stop anybody anywhere. the issue is uber and the money going out of my pocket. if uber is right now on a $300 [inaudible] collecting $60 and you have 3,000 cars at any shift [inaudible] with two shifts a day they are collecting $131 million a year. $131 million going out of our pocket. this idea is ridiculous. [inaudible].

the taxi director has taken you in the wrong direction. [inaudible] now this taxi industry is going to van niche within a year or two. it's not going to be [inaudible] let's get to a point where we need it and the system seem like uber today and you've been burning three years and i lost money. i don't have money to buy a shirt and you are just waiting. >> [inaudible]. >> tom. >> pardon me? >> thank you. excuse me for not putting in a card. i just want to say i think we have missed a golden opportunity by not having a single app that every taxi in

the city can adhere to or brag about and we can go to the public and say if you want to get a taxi this is the app to use. this thing is -- it's just going to fragment and who knows how many directions and this is just an awful lot of shortsightedness and missed opportunity here. thank you. >> thank you. seeing none. director heinick. >> i have a few -- i mean, this isn't an action item today, right? this is just a report item. i have a few questions, which are probably best directed to [inaudible]. first of all, congratulations to you, chris. this is sort of a challenge that we had in front of us and required you to get some cooperation and corralling. i think the companies who were involved and assisted you all, be it maybe with a sword over their head on the equipment

deserve some praise too so we saved money, didn't have to put a new device in the car and are getting the regulatory information. the question is what's next is what some people alluded to and the e hailing apps. you said most of the fleet is now on fly wheel. how many of the 1500 or so cabs are on fly wheel? to we know for certainty?

>> and then use some of this money that we've just saved to advertise to the community to let them know that fly wheel exists and they can get a taxi and bigger fleet than uber has. i guess my question comes back to is there something we can do from a regulatory standpoint that will help steed what you're describing, which is this migration to fly wheel. >> mm-hm. >> as we've discussed before, we had dispatch requirements. you had to have a certain amount of cabs under dispatch under the old dispatch. is there something we can do from a regulatory standpoint that will expedite to transition to e hailing on the taxicabs and if so would you consider coming back to us as a board to help you with that? it seems to me that the natural progression here for the good of the industry and riding

public is to get as many cabs as we can on to an effective app and let the public know there is this very large fleet ready accessible through the app. and i want to know what we can do by mandate to the industry to assist that transition. >> well, we're thinking alike because one of the activities i have done is get on the phone with the companies and app providers and say let's put the gas on here and get more of these drivers set up. second, we've agreed to start running those bus ads in june so in june you'll see the fly wheel ads promoting, using the genuine taxi driver and we're

continuing to collaborate the taxi promotional efforts we might be able to do in both fly wheel and open the door to taxi magic as well. we're interested in promoting taxis as an alternative. >> i'd appreciate a report back on where this stands and whether we should be imposing a regulatory mandate to make sure all our cabs and drivers, however you think it best -- it's time for the entire industry to come into this generation and if they don't it has consequences for everybody else along the lines. i'll look forward to that report. >> i just have a tag along question. i've never used fly wheel, that's bad on me, i should try it out. i was wondering if it has the information you were talking about from the public's perspective if i'm a wheelchair user or have a guide dog or

something like that. i know there's a button to provide info to the driver, but is there a possibility for [inaudible]. >> we have very regular productive conversations with fly wheel management and they said absolutely we can do that. we can then provide that to other app providers and say these are all the vehicles, these are the ones that have bike racks, that sort of thing. >> great. >> that partially answered my question, which is is fly wheel and are the other apps -- they are now able to use this data that we have mandated be collected, correct? >> no. they're not able to because currently they're getting data from their own systems and that

data is fast data and that's what they need to be commercially successful. our data is slow data so until we can put our data into a place where it is commercially viable, then i don't think we'll have anything to offer to these private app companies, but maybe in the interim the momentum is doing what we always wanted it to do is to get the info on to a smart phone. >> our goal, i feel like it got reported in the press a little oddly -- our goal was never to create an mta taxi hailing app on a smart phone. our goal was to facilitate the apps out there be the best they could be by mandating the data available. >> that's absolutely correct. yes, our goal was to collect all of the data, get it into one place and then offer it to private app providers to say

today you only have 200 taxis on your system. i'm offering you 2,000 taxis with this day that we have, but it's not really a commercial grade at this point. >> even though the data we've mandated isn't there yet, we've leapfrogged or the existing apps have leapfrogged ahead already to make the e hail systems a little more viable. >> chutely. absolutely. i belief the work we've done has pushed the private parties into doing what we wanted them to do. >> and the part that's been visible to the public is that regulatory part -- they'll be able to see some of it with the lost and found and compliments and complaint section, but the regulatory part is not helping just the complaint staff, but the [inaudible]. >> i think there is a selling point to the public. this is what we sell as a taxi

service. we know the driver, the car, we know where the car is now and we can tell you a lot about that particular trip. we can find a particular vehicle at a particular time. this is the message to the public about why you want taxi service instead of these other services. >> thanks for your hard work on a very difficult area. >> thank you director for the report on the ballot measure movement for the bonds measure, but i'm wondering what's going on with the dls measure. is that lagging by a little time or -- >> ed left. [laughter] >> i think there's still discussions going on about the bls. at this point there's still

desire to move forward with it, but maybe director when he returns has additional information. >> thank you. >> as i recall there's more time for putting that on the ballot and the bond measure. >> that's riekts. right. >> thank you very much. >> r >> moving on to item 9. public comment. this is a time for members of the public to address the board of directors about items not on today's calendar. >> two concerns. one is the panels for the arrival of buses are not always accurate. if the panel says the bus will be arriving in 12 minutes or

30 minutes and then you walk away from the bus and then suddenly it shows up and these really have to be straightened out. another concern i have is the proposed elimination of transportation on the [inaudible] corridor. it's been a street of small businesses, ranging from [inaudible] street to 32nd avenue. there are restaurants, businesses, services along that corridor. with the proposal by the transit effectiveness, the only stop will be 8th avenue and 6th avenue before the tube turns around. this is the resurrection of the four southern lines. what you are doing is cutting off access to small businesses and how you can have a booth

for the small business administration and shut down accessibility along clement street is beyond me. you're really doing a disservice to the businesses of the city and you need to re-examine this. this is just one of the harebrained ideas of the transit effectiveness project which is turning it from a science fiction movie to a horror movie. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> president and owner of desoto cab company. what i'm going to say here today is the most important thing i've said in front of this board. very rarely do i agree with [inaudible]. the taxi industry is about to go under. it's about to go out of business. i give it a life of maybe 18

months or so. the fact of the matter is the taxi industry cannot compete against the new forms of service that have no regulatory oversight. they're supposed to on a state level, but even on a state pcp level, we have all kind of on demands services now that don't pay a dime to put out a vehicle on the street. my company, we pay $400,000 a month plus to put out our vehicles to service the city. $5 million a year i have to pay the city to put out a vehicle to service the city. all my competition, uber, lift and so forth, they don't pay a time. i pay $1 million plus for liability and $1 million for workers compensation. i can't compete in an environment anymore where