conference here in san francisco. 3 it' called designing cities conference and it will be here october 22nd through the 25th. it's going to be taking place down at the park 55 hotel. it will have really the best minds of urban transportation from across the country. city transportation folks, other academic and professional consultants, really the best in the country will be converging on san francisco. so, it's pretty exciting. themes will include reimagining rights-of-way, he economic benefits of sustainable streets ~, bike and car sharing, pedestrian and bike safety, strategies to create public space using low cost temporary materials. a lot of things we're doing some of here, some of which we've learned through other cities, some of which we've been at the lead of, but this will really be an opportunity for us to all share best practiceses and continue to learn from each other. it will be kind of a compilation of break out sessions, workshops that are active forums, not so much sit in the room and listen to

somebody drill on with a powerpoint, but much more interactive and engaging session. i've been to the last two of these conferences. they've been pretty high energy and pretty lively so i encourage folks to consider attending nacto.org is where anybody can find more information. it should be a great opportunity for the sfmta to showcase what some of what we've been achieving here in san francisco. and finally somewhat along those lines we have similar of a safety theme today. tomorrow is walk and roll to school day. tomorrow morning some of us at the mta will be joining other elected officials and department heads, betsy carmichael school at south of market seventh and harrison is the elementary school there. we're going to start with what's called a walking school bus which means a bunch of people will be walking with

kids to the school from a park that's nearby. the purpose, as you can imagine, rock and roll to school day is to encourage active transportation and safer routes to school for kids getting from their home to school or from wherever they get dropped off to school to encourage physical activity and reduce traffic, protect the environmental and of course to make them safer. while we'll be doing the event at betsy carmichael it is a city-wide event. there are at least nine of our supervisors are going to be walking to schools in their districts with students from their districts throughout the city. nearly 90 schools and more than 13,000 students are expected to celebrate the day which will be a new record in term of participation. so, the school district and other schools are really stepping up the city through rec and park, department of public health, the mta and

other -- the police department, strong partnership to try to raise the awareness of walk and roll to school day. the safe routes to school partnership in san francisco, of which our agency is a part, helps organize the day. what the partnership does is implement the federally funded safe routes to school program to encourage more families to walk, bike, take transit or car pool to and from school. dph, public health is the lead agency and has lots of other public and private partner. so, it will be a good -- should be a great morning if the weather holds a it should, given that it's october in san francisco. it should be a great day. we should see a lot of kid out on the road and everybody should be extra safe and driving tomorrow and encourage everybody who can to participate. and that conclude my report. >> this is interesting. members of the board, questions or comments? member of the public? >> we have two people who have indicated an interest in addressing you, members of the public. this is an opportunity for members of the public to

address the board only on topics discussed by mr. reiskin and not on other matters not on the agenda. herbert wiener followed by tom lee. >> mr. wiener? [multiple voices] >> mr. wiener is right behind you, mr. lee. >> mr. lee, if you could have a quick seat. mr. wiener is first. herbert wiener. just a fast question. can nina tend the transportation conference or is it restricted? >> it's open to the paul. natumimabvv ~ public. nacto.org. thank you very much. >> mr. lee. good afternoon, mr. lee. good afternoon, mr. nolan, chairman of the board, and mr. reiskin. i'm so glad to see that you are

promoting the safety issue and driver. they are so happy. there are 170 drivers, but a know, you have 1800 muni drivers. 170 is only 10% of your workforce for the driver fleet. they are the most safety. if driver of the taxi is only 10% safe, we are way out of business long time ago already. but we are fair employment. we have to drive, be more careful than the muni driver. muni driver [speaker not understood] no dui, go home. you are cut off from everything. they make a mistake, mostly they are nice drivers. i know that. but the thing is that is you have to concern about our taxi business also. yes, safety, everything you're talking about safety, i'd like to talk about safety also. you are promoting a bike lane, bicycle, whatever it is, that

may make people more in danger because not everybody like mr. nolan biking on the street -- i'm a biker -- [speaker not understood] because i'm biking, biking, biking. but the thing is not safe. i don't do bike. whatever is, if i can afford it, i walk. yes, now better and better, but i still see a lot of accidents for muni on the street on the newspaper. so, yes, better than nothing now. i'm ll be coming before you every other week. i have to pay. i'm a citizen of san francisco ~ and cab driver, i need to bring my own issue to you. i hopeedththctiontion next public comment that i can bring somewhat [speaker not understood] and i hope you can [speaker not understood] on that also. thank you. >> okay, mr. lee plea. >> moving on to item number 8, citizens' advisory report, i do not see [speaker not understood] here. therefore moving on to item , public comment, this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board

that are on the matters within the jurisdiction of the mta and not on today's calendar. we'll start with hahn sue kim followed by herbert wiener. ~ >> good afternoon, mr. kim. good afternoon, chairman nolan, board members. hahn su kim de soto cab in san francisco. recently there's been some bad press about the new ride services here in san francisco. you might have heard about the hammer attack recently. you might have heard about both district attorneys in san francisco and los angeles talking about illegal activities of these services. well, there isn't a day that doesn't go by without drivers telling me what are you going to do about this, what can the city do about this. one of the things i want to say today is we've talked with several attorney about state and municipal law and we've put together a white paper with members of the taxi industry that we're going to present to you at the next meeting. this white paper clearly shows that you have the right to

regulate on-demand services in this city. right now when i say enough is enough, it is outrageous. this is not about competing about technology. i'm all supportive of great technology. if people want to book for technology that's innovative and works well, but what we're talking about here are companies that are facilitating private citizens acting commercially without the same rules applying to them a it does to taxicab drivers. there are 2000 licensed cabs roughly in san francisco, 10,000 plus people in their personal cars picking up the public. it's really not that different from hitch hiking.com, which i'm calling it now. we don't mind competing against those that have technology, but an industry can't survive when it has to compete against others that have a different set of rules doing the same

business. the taxi industry is hanging by a thread and we talk about public safety here. it is in the city's interest to know who is picking up 20 to 30 stranger a day. the type of car that they're driving, it needs to be done immediately. thank you. (applause) >> herbert wiener. shawn lee, way lau. >> hello. herbert wiener. i have a question about the recent muni fare hike. it's my understanding that under the proposition ee that raising the fares was contingent upon public performance of muni, that when you raise the fares it was on the basis that muni improve the service delivery. the fact that muni service right now is at an all-time low makes that -- it would seem to make that raising of the fare inappropriate. and i think it is illegal to do

so and i would like clarification on that. also, with respect to the previous speaker i think the public is at risk with these ride share cars because we do not know the backgrounds of these individuals. they could be ax murderers released from prison the day before. they could be severely disturbed individuals. and i think this board in its right mind would not want to take ride share because they may not be appearing at the next meeting. so, i think it's very important that it be regulated. these abuses are happening on your watch and you bear responsibility for any disaster that occurs. thank you. >> next speaker. >> tom lee followed by wei lau then homg umgo. >> mr. lee. thank you so much again. [speaker not understood] and

members, please, we need your help. we need your help for restriction of taxi business and layer. now our breaking point $140 a day before we start making money. we don't like your muni driver hourly making money. we have to take everything. it's 140 bucks. so, we need the new city free car scheme for us to run our business, just like new york. new york driver didn't pay any car [speaker not understood] fee. we have to pay for that. and we had to pay [speaker not understood]. we never can claim this money. [speaker not understood]. we don't need to pay for this. we have now obamacare already, even undocumented care children care by the government. why should we adopt every medallion carry 2-1/2 family make a living? why you not thinking about how this driver, how the driver and medallion?

if you can put the new city free color scheme, your medallion put up the price, i guarantee you. the driver be more [speaker not understood] to do their job because now we have too many uber everything. before we started to make our own money, we had to make $140 first. then we start making our own, a little bit blog. ~ income. how can we afford to do in this kind of environmental? 8,000 uber on the street. muni is not attention to our business. please do something for us because a cab driver struggle. you look at a lot. lucky if make if furlough. [speaker not understood]. because you cannot take care the yuber, we need time to live, we need time to make a payment. please give back the new city car layer. as the independent car driver we join the independent. >> thank you.

>> wei lau, [speaker not understood]. >> good afternoon, mr. lau. my name is wee. [speaker not understood]. i'm pleased the city should help us to lower down the cost. and about the rush hour, a lot of people not getting the ride, not having other cabs because just like every business when it's rush hour, people have to wait. there is a cab right there. it's no way to -- nobody can be 100% happy on that situation. i think -- ubers, they are really hurting us. they are really, really hurting us and they have no regulations whatsoever. i don't see that. but please help us to lower down our side of the cost.

thank you. >> thank you, mr. lee. >> [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. ibrahim [speaker not understood]. >> good afternoon, sir. good afternoon. my name is hong [speaker not understood]. taxi driver. and i come here today to talk to you for the color scheme -- we want color for the city like new york and maybe we can [speaker not understood] for the color scheme. right now we don't have the driver when we have to drive every day about 15 hour day and 7 day week, and we don't have time with no family. and if we make less money, we can take a break more little bit. and all i come here to say that. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please. >> xiad masri, abraham [speaker not understood]. last person to turn in a

speaker card is cad ami. >> good afternoon, sir. we are struggling. if the cost is so high, we even cannot compete with the others. the lower the price from the companies like yellow, like de soto, we couldn't compete with them. like he said, we work so much. we work hard. in the city everybody ignore us. we only go to the airport. airport is full. they kick us out. we have to go around every time, 20, 30 minutes we lose. we're not making like we used to be making. so, we bought the medallion to relax a little bit. we can't find the drivers. we can't even relax. we can't make money. it's like a nightmare to us. thank youthv >> thank you, sir. next, please. >> abraham [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood], those are the last two people who

turned in speaker cards. >> good afternoon, sir. good afternoon. my name is abraham, i am a taxi owner and i drive with yellow cab. the same thing with my friend, the cost of the medallion, we really have a hard time catching the drivers. you know wintertime is coming. i pay $150 to yellow cab. [speaker not understood]. you know it is really -- it's not like all this before because of other companies in the city. can you help us just to make the payment? i live in fairfield. most of the time i park my car because i cannot find a driver. if you go to the big company, you can see a lot of medallions sitting there. so, 1,150 to pay the yellow cab, it's not too many cars like before. so, please help us to do the same things with the fleet. >> thank you, sir.

thank you. >> [speaker not understood] is the last person who turned in a speaker card. not here? all right, mr. chairman, that completes -- >> thank you. i'd like to say i think -- we as a board look forward to seeing the white paper mr. kim referenced. clearly it is a very important issue what the other cities are doing. we look forward to it with great interest. [speaker not understood]. >> mr. chairman, moving on to consent calendar these items are considered to be routine unless a member of the board or public has asked to have an item severed. no one has asked for that at this meeting. so -- >> is there a motion on the consent calendar, then? >> motion is approved. >> is there a eked all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed, so ordered. next. >> item 11 is improvement of various parking modificationses along the transit a route [speaker not understood] capital improvements and travel

time reduction proposals. there are multiple ones and i will not read them. >> thank you. we have a presentation on this this afternoon? >> yes, mr. chairman. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, directors. sean kennedy with the sfmta transit division and i'm here to present capital projects that will improve the reliability and on-time performance of the 9 and 9l on san bruno. but before i do that i wanted to give a quick update on a pep moving to work forward project. and go over progress being made on some of the implementation projects that we're pursuing. if you recall on march 28 when you adopted a tep e-i-r finding, there were also a few capital projects that you approved and legislation has been going through, that

implementation process, i wanted to update you on though. and then talk about the 9 san bruno project specifically and then cap it off with a quick kind of what's next or what's expected over the next six months. >> good. >> so, the tep as you recall, the tep was going through environmental review process for several years. that process culminated on march 27th when the planning commission certified our e-i-r. and march 28, the next day this board met and adopted the findings from the e-i-r as well as legislative several capital projects are associated with that. now, up to that point the transit effectiveness project or the tep was in the planning stages. we held hundreds of community meetings, got a lot of feedback and then ultimately reviewed those projects and that feedback in environmental document. at that point we're now kind of looking forward into

implementing those projects. and, so, we thought it was a good opportunity to rename the program. we're going to name it now muni forward, much more action oriented, less kind of bureaucratic and planning sounding. but moving forward isn't -- doesn't just encompass tep. there's other projects, great projects that both muni as well as the larger city family is working on that will improve muni. really trying to address the two biggest concerns we hear from constituents all the time which is one, mound is unreliable, and two, muni is crowded. and there's a lot of great projects going on. people, it's hard to communicate those projects to people especially when you're talking about an escalator rehab here, what does that mean for munich re liability. renewed bus there, how is that improving munich re liability. the idea behind muni forward is to have a larger umbrella, i guess you'd say, over all these projects that are working toward making the system better.

and there's really four buckets. the tep directly influenced the first two buckets which is creating a rapid network on our most traveled routes in the muni system. and improving reliability on all routes, not just those on the rapid network. but we've added two of the buckets that making the system smarter and enhancing safety and access, making the system smarter project would be transit single priority would fall into that category. the new line management center that is helping us monitor and manage the system better. those are both examples of projects in that group. and enhancing safety access, the new fleet procurements will really help both access and safety issues, also escalator rehab and repair, things like that. i'm just trying to make the point that muni forward is a lot broader than just the tep. and one of the kind of exciting things about that is we're able to put out some advertisement.

so, these are examples of two types of collateral that you should be seeing on our system within the next several weeks. the top one is talking about the red lines on church and that was a tep project but now it's in a muni moving forward banner and talking about the new bus and new bus procurement we're going to replace the entire bus fleet within the next four to five years. both of those should be showing up on our system soon. i'm getting the word out about muni forward. so, back to the tep specific projects, i do want to start off by noting that some of the projects you approved on march 28 have already been implemented. this is a picture of a bus on columbus, columbus and green. already been implemented, constructed and is in use, super exciting. that lead us to some of the other fast-track projects that are going on and i wanted to run through this list really

quick with you. all of these were approved on march 28th and i just want to run over where we are in the process. n judah there is a 9 block street between th and arguello on irving that is in detail design right now. it is looking to be advertised in the may time frame. i do want to point out all of these projects were approved to take advantage of coordination with dpw. all these corridors, dpw is working on repaving and, so, we wanted to be able to take advantage of that work going on both from a cost standpoint as well as an implementation disruption standpoint. so, that's why these projects have been -- are moving forward rather quick pace. n judah also on 28 we're adding a few accessible stops. and that project has already been issued an ntp and construction should be starting imminently. on the 5 fulton between 25th

and great highway, in detail design should be released. the project should go out for bid the end of october so really soon. mc allister and fillmore, there's bus bulbs going in. there are some turn pockets. that's part of a repaving project on part of mc allister already in construction. the san bruno, the 9l on potrero i'm going to talk in a minute about the two segments kind of each end of this potrero segment. the potrero segment super exciting, a really great project for improving transit and transit reliability for the 9 and 9l. and that is moving through detailed design right now. and i think they're planning a release for that project to start construction bids in november. 14 mission is a few bulbs at silver and construction. haight street, several bulbs between fillmore and lion and

that's been advertised, it's going with a repavement of hayes and hayes is going to be repaved first then they'll pave hate part of the same contract, though. finally a few more bus bulbs on columbus that will be implemented as part of the d aphelion w repaving on columbus going out to bid in november as well. ~ dpw so that is the capital projects aside from just construction coordination. we've been working with on dpw, we've also been doing outreach on the next round of corridors. i want to start off with the [speaker not understood] really exciting project that is going to extend the contra flow on sampson right now. currently it runs from sutter to washington and this project will extend it three blocks from washington up to broadway and say approximately three minutes for both the 10 and 12 so we don't have to go all the way over to battery and kind of make that hook around the corner. that project was legislated on

a consent calendar in front of the board on september 2nd. i'm going to talk in a second more about the 9 san bruno, that's why it's highlighted in red. we're also working on outreach on 5 and 71. the 71 just on haight from laguna to stanyan and the 5 is from market to sixth. so, before i walk through this slide, i do want to point out or reemphasize the process that we've been going through. obviously the last several years we've been in the planning environmental process stage. we've had hundreds of meetings. that feedback did environmental review on that. we're now in the process of coordinating with and moving for projects both in the vision zero and walk first fields making sure that those are within our -- anywhere in our corridors that we can. we put those projects?

~ in and then going out and doing implementation round of outreach. 9 has gone through that. i'll explain that more in a minute. but all of our corridors are going to have to go through additional outreach before we are ready for legislation. and then after that second round of outreach we make changes. we're doing detail design and then ultimately once legislated and we get funding we build it. so, on the 9 san bruno specifically we did door to door outreach on both 11th and bayshore talked with both business and he residents. if businesses and residents are concerned or had questions about the project, we met individually with them. we had stakeholder meeting world we talked to them and worked through issues and problems that people had with the project. and ultimately had a public hearing beginning part of september on the project. there's two types of proposals.

safety, on safety wise -- safety wide improvements, pedestrian bulbs, traffic signals, turn pockets. on the liability side, of course, bus bulb is a priority, stop relocation. specifically on 11th we're talking about installing two bulbs in a transit island. i'll explain more about the island in a minute. removing several stops and removing around five parking spots on that. on bayshore three bulbs two transit islands and [inaudible]. so, just to walk through a few examples on 11th, i'm doing one on 11th and bayshore, on 11th at hair aston and 11th on the inbound side, currently a bus zone now. we're going to replace that with a bus bulb. originally we were contemplating 110-foot bulk

which is still a fairly long bulb, but working with the local residents in a daily lounge, i think barry is actually here. he has a [speaker not understood] there right at the edge, 30 feet from the edge [speaker not understood]. we're working to make sure we incorporate that into the design. he's also concerned about bikes and bike access. so, we're working on making sure we have up to date bike racks there on the bulk as well as anything we can do to improve bike safety through there. on the outbound side, very interesting, 11th, we originally had just a regular bulb planned for that and now we're doing a transit island after we talked with our livable streets colleagues. it will allow the bike lane to be more protected and go between the island and the curb and will provide extra protection for bikes. on bayshore at oakdale the original stop design was to go

far side at oakdale. right in front of the clam house, talking through issues with the clam house we decided to relook at that and we think the end result is actually even a better project for transit. we're moving it down near side of flower, which is essentially kind of mid-block. it will allow us to put a transit island there because we still get transit single priority because it's far enough in the intersection. we'll still see those benefits. down at bayshore at cortland, we are putting the stop far side, moving it from near side to far side and putting a bulb in. are proposing to put a bulb in. that would take the green zone for a small shop right at the corner. we originally talked with them about replacing that green zone. they would lose on cortland ~. their feedback was that wouldn't help them because most of their customers are on bayshore. they need the green on bayshore. so, we're going to -- proposing to t