match the pier is to the mta. the mix of transit mode -- the structure in size, its budget and the aspect of its day-to-day management. agencies that operate similar transit is suitable in bench marking analysis. this chart shows the trips that each agency carries by transit. you can see that the piers are similar to mta and the predominant mode are bus and light rail as shown my the dark blue scales. it's similar to mta accord to go the other factors and one of the few transits that operate trolley bus services. annual operating expenses shows indicators. jerry you can accord to go the

measures, they're -- we compared san francisco to its piers according to 20 performance and the other topics you see here. i'd like to highlight beginning with operating cost of mode with transit. this figure shows the total cost broken down by motor transportation. mta is in the middle, it has higher cost. for both light rail and trolley bus rail. for example, mta operates nine fully staff, and newer has been

able to operate with less staffing. the likely hood for mta higher cost, it has more vehicles than its piers. you can see that in this chart which shows the average numbers of vehicles and mid and weekday service. on a week day, mta operates between 3 and 14 times. the number of light rail operates nearly double than seattle. it makes since that mta cost are higher for these modes. when you have the operating cost as we have done with mid rail, there's a correlation between the two variables. this chart make it's clear that mta cost are in line the train established. the mta cost are higher, they do not seem to be

unreasonably so. this is coverage throughout an agency service area. the chart make it's clear that mta stands far apart. this is out of necessity because many parts of the city would have charter fee. a high number of miles per square mile may indicate routing. in some cases that may be intentional such as lines that have lined on on or expressed -- >> continuing with the theme of acceptable and availability have compared fares across the system. this shows the bus fares during peak periods of operations and the cities are sorted from highest to lowest and you can tell by the shading that the fares are lower throughout the categories.

light rail fares is similar. with extensive coverage, it shouldn't be a surprise that mta has high rider ship. the number of ride rail boarding per person is the next highest city and the number bus boarding is the next highest city. it does appear that our high rider ship comes at a price in terms of vehicle speed and the top chart shown here, the idea of highest speed -- it's plotted on the vertical session. our vehicle was slower on average for both modes. buses is an apparent reason for that. there's a high correlation. this makes sense because each time a vehicle stops or boards, it experiences a delay. but

again, you can see mta performance is in line. one of the mta's challenges is figuring out how to elevate the green dot in that bottom figure despite increases in rider ship. vehicle speed depends on more than rider ship. we have seen the improvements that mta is implementing such as the use of a priority system and that can reduce travel time. the more these are implemented, it will be interesting to see how it is presented compared to our piers. i'm going to discuss revenue miles which is used as an indicator of delays that arrive due to equipment problems. vehicle fail yours are divided into two categories. one presents a present or starting its next trip because

of safety concerns or movement of the vehicle is limited. a minor failure is one that prevents a vehicle, but that's because the vehicle should be taken out of service. this chart shows the average number of miles between -- between vehicle failure, of either type, major or minor. you can see for buses -- it is common if the industry to look at the number of revenue miles between major failures only and when we do that, you can see our performance increases substantial from 617 miles between total failures to more than 2500 miles per failures. our peers increase and they have a high number of miles between major failures. these number was

generally consistent with data from prior years so they're not reporting errors you we're not sure what was behind them. it could be allowed to do more investigation into how these investigations achieve these numbers to apply the practices here. that concludes our presentation and we're happy to take any questions you have. >> very interesting. >> thank you. >> members of the board. brinkman. >> no specific questions but i find all of this data fascinating because as a bench marking exercise, this will be great to have as we move forward with our improvements. i'm sure it said in here, the year that we looked at this. >> yes, all the data is based on 2011 which is the last year of data that we had when we began the analysis. >> this was before signal

priorzation. q. -- >> the take away is for cost. we provide more service and with we carry a lot more riders and we have vehicles that are slow and they break down a lot. the improvements that's represented by the tep and funded by the general bond and address that the and vehicle replacement that we have since -- they have started on the rubber tire fleet and we'll be moving forward on the light rail fleet. we'll address of the vehicle fares as well and the funding license increase that the task force

recommended that would allow us to increase the number of vehicles as well. i think the task force is a funding that comes from them including on what's this november addresses those issues but i think it was interesting to note that more higher density of service and still at a relative cost compro ability. >> the slides are interesting and a lot of the information both good and bad at least to me can be explained by gee -- geography. when you look at houston, it's a different kettle of fish, but i do hear all the things you're saying. can you go to your last slide which

was the light rail. mr. haleigh will be mad at me if i didn't ask them question. >> i'm sure he'll be happy to provide commentary to the slide as well. >> we have all these charts where it lines up and we have these comparisons where okay, san francisco is more dense and more transit riders and then you get to this slide which is the last slide and you're like, this doesn't line up. if this was a chart, we wouldn't be on the chart. it's a very significant thing. so i guess my question is, why? i mean, there's got to be some answers because we failed to do mid life rehabs in the last administration, is it because that our light rail vehicles leave right away and don't have to operate in the streets more than others. is it because of the nature -- what's the reason? there's got to be something that comes to you right away as the reason for the fact that our light

rail seem egg shell fragile compared to everyone els. >> again, i'm sure mr. haleigh could talk for hours on this. what i would summarize and if you'd like him to answer, i'm sure he'll be happy to answer as well. the number of riders put more train on viewer vehicles. and the design of the rails and 120 moving parks and the doors and the steps mechanism is a high maintenance design. it is a very high failure design. we think that vehicle design wasn't the best and we see the manifestation of that and the failures. and the third is, i think, not having the resources to invest in the mid life overhauls where they have done some components specific, mid life overhaul

investment and replacing the wiring and the harness that connects the vehicle or the trucks that the vehicles ride on. we've soon some benefit from that, but we're not doing that overhaul on all of the vehicle systems as the manufacturer recommends and like we would do with the license fee revenues. those are my top three reasons why we're off the charts. i think there is probably some measurement difference from 200,000 to 300,000 but i don't doubt we're at the low ends and those are my guess at the top three reasons. >> this jumped off the page at you. >> he have -- we haven't had time to look into that. >> it could be --

>> i suppose. okay. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. speaker: thank you. stevenson. >> public comment? >> opportunity for members of the public to address the board. mr. winer. that's the only person who has turned in a speaker card. >> winer. >> herbert winer. one thing that is interesting about this report and i grab the density with the factor in this evaluation but we have the second highest density to new york city and i would have liked to see new york city in this and also chicago who has a good transportation system which i'll enjoy this weekend. also has a good system. those are major cities that should be compared. now, another factor regarding our density and this is very

important. the bus runs that existed 40 years ago reflected a density of the city, but the transit effectiveness projects does is removes it from the neighborhoods and thins out and does not reflect the density of the neighborhoods. this is a major problem and i think what we have to do is we have to address this. so these are the aspects of the report that i'm noting and i hope the board notes it too. thank you. >> thank you, certificate. anyone else like to address the board. >> this was only a presentation. item 12 is a discuss to vote a closed session. >> motion to conduct a closed session. >> any further discussion. all in favor say . >> item 13. the board of directors met in closed session

and just the abu d a verses the case of the poured. they voted to discuss the case. they took no action and there was no discussion of litigation. item 14 to be appropriate to disclose or not disclose. all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> we're adjourned. thank you very much.

(clapping.) >> let's see can everybody hear i'm mark buell the wanting of the recreation and park commission (clapping.) thank you. i want to welcome you all here today and want to welcome some distinguished guests i'm to read names if you could hold our applause and let them know you appreciate them. our da george (laughter) >> now you know who started clapping the general manager he's in charge of everything excuse me. george and our purifying and gloria and tom harrison and all my fellow

commissioners on rec and park chief suhr our councilmember ferraro and cindy wu and appearance park president and jim the sincere vp and reverend chang now give them a big hand (clapping.) i have two art commissioners roberta and abby i apologize give them a welcome. (clapping.) >> art at this stage of the program i need lilly to help we a.k.a. donna. so i thought rather than giving

you my interpretation i'll tell you what wikipedia has to say about her. lilly hitchcock fire bell was considered eccentric and smoking cigars and wearing trousers before it was acceptable and an avid gambler and she dressed up as a male to do so. as a young woman she traveled to europe and married howard the caller for the san francisco stock exchange he passed away in 11885 he saw the fire department respond to telegraph hill and

helped them get up the hill this was in the days when everything was outsourced to private enterprise but she get them up first and treated asia mascot of the firefighters and after her return in the 63 made an honoree of the engine company and rode along where the firefighters or which were in parade she tend to prove this relationship with firefighting throughout her life. she died in 1929 and left 1/3rd of the estate to 76 to be used for the purpose of adding to the beauty of the city the city adduced r use to see to build the tower on itself hill and it is the statute of 3 firefighters

down in washington square so let's here it for this beautiful lady (clapping.) thank you >> thank you do you want to say a few words. >> all of that is true and even if you're not a firefighter your pretty cute but really thank you, thank you so much for this beautiful restoration of my gift to the city it's incredible and enjoy it and take care of it. >> thank you lilly (clapping.) i would be remiss if i didn't mention a special guest he's a firefighter in san francisco but more importantly he's the grandson of victor who managed the development of the murals on the coit tower so welcome pete

thank you pete (clapping) all right. moving right long we have a distinguished guest arriving sometime soon so rather than buy time i may introduce the next speaker on the program that's i want you to recall it was the board of supervisors who decided to appropriate this money that lilly left to do the right thing in san francisco and that altercation keeps going with the president of our board of supervisors david chiu (clapping.) good morning, everyone. the sun is shining on telegraph hill i want to thank you for being part of this wonderful, wonderful event and let me start by saying i think for every person here we all have our personal contentions with

telegraph hill my coit tower 22 years ago i visited san francisco and climbed up the stairs and looked at the bay and moved to the city a few years ago 18 years ago every sunday i ran up here to the top of coit tower this is a special place and we all know for decades coit tower has banana amazing similarly place starting in 1893381 years ago you look great but thank you lilly for your friendship >> thank you to our grandfather in 1933 i'm sorry during the

great depression painted 27 murals that depict our strugglers of working families and labor here in san francisco that really is a very much part of what our city is about and who we stand for. over the decades we've had so many members of our community the friends of pioneer park struggled to put together the resources and visit in where we are and more recently thank you to the telegraph hill folks yes give it up for them (clapping) are so many of you who handled the baton to protect the symbol of san francisco thank you all for your effort i know the mayor

is coming but the mayor responded to the request of all i have us on telegraph hill and working with our rec and park and our arts commission thank you to close to $2 million of restoration work that combined to a structure and institution that will for decades bring tens of thousands of san franciscans to the city s to call coit tower one of our favorite landmarks in the world thank you very much for being here have a wonderful day (clapping.) so as we wait for our special guests the next speaker i have to tell you if last year for the park bond issue that was on the ballot that 72 percent of the people in san francisco said they like the job it the rec and

park department is doing and passed the bond by a large number and i believe that's due entirely to the staff of rec and park and the job they do and under the leadership of their general manager phil immensely beggar (clapping.) wow. what a beautiful day, huh? what a similarly beautiful day and after danny sank the natural anthem to mr. president, please if anything the shout out it will show up on my performance elevations i was overcome by the celebration and beauty of the day this is a special mom that we should all be proud of.

it is a great and proud moment for coit tower a great and proud moment for the rec and park department and arts commission a great and proud moment for the friends of pioneer park and the telegraph towers it's a great moment for the city and county of san francisco it really is. it is so important that we preserve our culture hermg in this city and a thailand time in this neighborhood alone on saturday we had the pleasure of being down the hill of the ribbon cutting for the north beach library (clapping) that sits think joe deimagine plagued that's up next. the library has anizing towards the future and keeping families thriving in the city today is

about our past and have preserving our past and focusing on our culture heritage a special time for us because today is coit tower and next year down the road the palaces of fine arts and the "x" pay any attention when san francisco welcomed 20 million visitors after the great earthquake they came through the newly opened panama canal and it was the moment when this city of the back from the earthquake this moment has a context we're proud to welcome you here. the funding for this project came from sooifgz e savings nearly $1.7 million from savings from our bond measures i'm very

very proud of that (clapping) with that funding we were building to obviously restore the murals and murals have been restored here over time and the reason it didn't take quite frankly because lilly your building was perfect but not waterproof. so we replaced the roof and repainted the lobby ceiling to bring it up to date and i can't wait for you to see that the murals pop and it didn't look like the coit tower you've ever seen it's truly particularly we've renovated bathrooms and thanks to our proud partnership our new vendor we've improved the visitor experience it's

really, really beautiful (clapping) you will see not only the murals but the museum quality gift shop this contribute to 19 thirty comes from the gift shop this is the first purchase of our new gift shop its stylish and the benefit of our partnership with terry and our new vendors one percent of the precedes will be put to workshop the murals and others things this is a thought of and well-designed partnership one intended to last to thank you's it is about gratitude from our mayor to supervisor chiu to identify the funding for coit

tower they gave us the authority to spend it. without their support we wouldn't be here today. i also want to recognize my department staff and some of the partners in this project first of all, our property management team working with our coit tower vendor this project received unanimous support from the board of supervisors and it's the hard and scompleks structure our capital planning team don and mac and others ceo tran and his team a very, very special shout out to our partners the san francisco arts commission tom you'll hear from him and worked closely with the architecture group to