we need to be more define because you have the uber and sidecars requiring them to go a licensed mechanic for an annual checkout but they do their own internal inspection do we need are to have them have a certificate. >> i appreciate the direct answer to the question. >> again, thank you for being here we have a we have a motion and a second on the floor all in favor, say i. opposed? in the ids have it thank you very much. >> mr. chairman item 6 introduction of new e.r. unfinished business and i know we've had so much decision around vision zero i hear about it showing so much i'm wondering if director reiskin you feel it would be possible for us to get

a quarterly update on progress i know it's helpful to be able to tell the public what it is we've done towards vision zero and what hot spots we've fixed. >> absolutely i'll he give you information but we'll start quarterly update on february 3rd board meeting but highlights that's - it came from our suggestion that the policy and governance committee we bring this to the board. >> do i have to repeat myself. >> no response required but i'll be fair i've not forgotten about market street to eliminate private car traffic it's germane about slowing the taxis making it a transit corridor i know there's a lot going on but i'd

like to in fairness to you and the spirit of the unfinished business or new business really unfinished business category i hope this board has a concrete proposal to consider by your next board retreat and provides direction on that topic. >> so. >> again, you don't have to respond our welcome to. >> i'd be happy to respond we've started the public process for that and should have the legislation for the traffic changes coming to you i think in the spring not sure about february 3rd but give you specific timelines of when it will be coming in the spring at the lastly implementation by the summer. >> board finished business. >> a friend of mine the gps

number on the - she said it wasn't working for a long time and i was wondering why do we know why the gps has been disconnected. >> i was unaware that was the case. >> i literally checked that myself. >> today because of the wet weather and all the rain and infrastructure the cars are not running when the cable cars are down but when the cable cars with operating it should be working. >> it was not raining when i checked out several times so she spent years - and any new e.r. unfinished business and item 7 director's report. >> director reiskin and good

afternoon, members of the board and staff first of all, ask our taxi decorator to come back up we're doing a special recognition and as we started doing at some point last year not only for mta employees by others who provide transportation services in san francisco and today two taxi drivers that kate will wish providing recognize to. >> i'm going to call them up. (calling names) i'm not sure if mr. developing can made it today come on up i mean, i'll start with the gentleman he's received an award and recognized and honored i want to bring him before the board he did something spectacular i hear about things in the taxi

industry but positive things that happen everyday and he's been a driver since 2010 and currently drives for comfort cab last february he picked up a passenger that smoked pc p they were heading over the bay bridge and situation occurred in the vehicle he tried to jump off the break-in lost it and mr. chang saved this man he deslate the situation and subdued this man and his life was saved and want to give you a few moments ago from our prospective. >> it was really difficult

(clapping) i think it was really tough because we are were on the break-in but we got it under control i think i mean, that's how you control i controlled is good and this gentleman was on a drug i don't think he was ordinance a drug i heard it two months later about pcp and i didn't know about it i'm okay and he's okay we made ta it safe and we couldn't do it worse we made that one way it looked good and everyone giving me a salute i'm proud of what happened and the best thing in my life i'm

safe and he's safe thank you very much and thank you for the award. >> thank you (clapping.) on behalf of the board of directors we're proud of you, too. >> i want to read for the gentleman he came to our attention was noticeable and make sure those are those trips are happening he, in fact, was providing so much paratransit that everyday taking people to the doctors and doing their daily errands over the last 6 months 6 hundred and 50 paratransit trips he's serving the community and we'll make

sure he gets his certificate at our september - december 15th party for the drivers. >> thank you director reiskin. >> next, i want to ask our director of finance and information technology molly to come forward to recognize one of our hearing officer. >> good afternoon directors this is a great pleasure where did george go it's a great pleasure i'm going to honor george he's part of the hearing team in the serving since 1993 and started at an administrative officer he himself conducted the highest volume of hearing and hearing for parking citations so you

understand the kinds of issues he conducted hearing for the disability related complaints in transit he's a team player and helps the officers he has a good attitude and extremely positive and he's got significant skills in difficult situations and an excellent customer service skills he is a poly glad he speaks russian and ill and french and pep help to our visitors that come to the city this morning he handled a complained from a tourist member he's pun i can tell you and thank you, george it's my pleasure to give you this ward (clapping.) so molly failed to mention he

speak in english (laughter) i'd like to address you in that language but i want to thank the board and the chairman of the board subpoena for this honor and thank the city for providing me a great team to work with and great manager and all the resources we knew we needed to be able to perform at the high-level and thank you, very much. >> thank you for an extremely difficult job. >> i'll consider this task to continue (clapping.) >> next, i want to ask our central program director to give you an update on the many things that are happening with the central subway. >> good afternoon director nolan and director reiskin my name is john the subway program

director my presentation will provide you with a brief central subway construction you update and respond to some of the questions from public meetings from raised by members of the public on our tunnel contract both are complete the intentionally boring machines are dismantling and removed off-site the lunchbox is xhernd into a structure that will be complete in april of i 2015 and it the on time and on budget and on schedule this is a shot of the chinatown station contract

perimeter walls will be completed by the end of this year and the mass excavation for the head house about begin early next year currently 38 of the panels have been completed now this is a unique view of the union square market street station i probably haven't seen from underground you're actually looking at underneath stockton street and the roof of the future union square market street tradition now where can union square has been temporary paced for the holiday season and stockton street has on temporarily returned back to the public for the holiday shopping season hopefully some of you have seen it we actually, you turned it over to the public on the day before thanksgiving

now this is a shot of the yerba buena moscone center station the walls are complete along fourth street and the panels that will complete the balance of the excavation will be installed at the gas station site and it should begin early next year finally at last surface station work has gone south of brilliant street the work has been you primary to accommodate the fourth and brandon station all of the station construction work under what we call contract 13 is on schedule and on budget i understand that a previous

question regarding the palms located at 5 fourth street now the authority to remove the issue at the palms was the removal which a white zone in front of the building and the authority to remove the parking in front of the palms was approved in 2007 for the spill environmental review he and we're working with the representative at palms to temporarily relocate the palm essential this is the white zone and temporarily relocating on the i do of free long street and this is the future station now also a few months back a

whistle blower amble in the way it was reporting the expenses and forecasting its budget of completion as a result of that whistle blower they've reached it out perform an out of subway documents city krovlz rained it's firm of consulting out of the sacramento in march of this year to perform the anti and on november 17th the finding were the budget costs were inadequately recorded and projected that the project will not exceed the baseline budget and open the project as planned

now for a little bit of fun, i never imagine a subway project convert into a plaza as a result of the holiday moratorium requirements we had an opportunity to work with the union square bit improvement district thank you and opened up stockton street for padded plaza in the history of the city this photograph was taken on day one of the opening day before that's why that was amazing just removing the ribbon and people lloyd it was a warm sunny day but people were laying down sun bathing and enjoying the befshz that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any

questions you might have. >> any board members. >> as the white zone at the palms that's once the project is done that's going to be replaced how temporary is that location. >> i have a photograph - so this is the rendering of the fourth and brandon station the palms is the building in the back here so as a result of putting surface light rail on the center the fourth street we're essentially taking two lanes of twaf converting into a 2-way

street the palms was permanently removed and converting that parking lane into a northbound lane on fourth street as a result, the palms will probably be permanently loss the white parking on fourth street but have an opportunity to if they so desire to choose a white zone on free lawn street. >> great borne. >> a lot of people love that open space shutting down the street any thousand has that happened i know that people want to open that up but now that people are used to not going down way. >> that's not part of what was approved (laughter) but the planning commission or anyone else in terms of the permanent project but as you say

obviously people have gotten used to this this will you been that way for years to come this plaza may well wet the petite for folk and beg the question when the project is done at the end of 2018 should we put it back the way it was we currently have no plans to do anything different but certainly be watching and evaluating this winter the experience of working with the union square business improvement district to capture feedback should we want to go in that direction we would initiate a planning process for that. >> i'll agree with you director borden and it's funny congratulations i've been by there and the level of use of that after is amazing it's

gorgeous those sidewalks are over capacity this will be a great overflow and what a great thank you to the merchant for all the disruption we put them through the noise and scaffolding to be able to do this and make this incredibly welcome face i agree this is to wet the people appetites. >> thank you just two more items one the long waited double birthing what is a feature by which we'll have to trains or two groups of trains stop at the platform and unload and board passengers those who travel in the a.m. rush to montgomery

station some from the embarcadero we're in a situation you're at our designation yet the doors don't open to get off until the train in front of the of clear the platform so worse than the train gets safely to the platform for people to get in and out this saturday we'll be doing a live demo of the same you puc and we have only 23 folks to do the enforcement of t nc i'll mental illness that is stating enforcement unit be not only for the t nc but for other functions they regulate many thousands of lemon months and many things so that 23 number is

smaller than you think, however, the enforcement of regulation as a rail provider is much more rochet so we'll be demoing this for them we do want their sign off and hoping if we get their approval to be able to start this in revenue services on december 13th assuming we get to that point this will be a permanent feature it will allow passengers to get off whether in the second position the train will go to the first position once the train gives them we've we'll have ambassadors out there to make sure to explain to people and direct to people and signage and banners to direct people and have flyers and use other

outreach such the lab and social media novelist other stakeholders such as the board of supervisors as well. it's small and a but significant change for people who we were frustratingly looking at the platform we don't let them disembark and finally to the director brinkmans earlier request we'll be bringing a competitive report update open vision zero to the board in february but just to i guess wet our appetite a little bit there's been so much work by our staff and folks from across the city agencies just to a reminder that vision zero was a policy and goal to eliminate traffic deaths in san francisco by 2024 so adapting vision zero you were the first

city body to do so and before the police commission and board of supervisors and environment commission you were i you were the first to adapt vision zero to have a better and satisfactory street to increase the enforcement of the laws and the elective initiatives to save lives to create a cultural in the city where workers and visitors and everyone pirate intents traffic safety and what their identity in but public right of ways and it dovetails nicely with our strategic plan with our top goal of making the streets safe and choices available to everybody in san francisco we've been working since you've adapted it last february with a number of city agencies to develop a cooperated

strategy around the use of engineering and enforcement and education in this short time we've expedited two street improvements which you directed us to complete in 24 months we've got 9 complete already and up to 11 by the first quarter of 2015 adding mission and silver and turn pockets later this month and sutter street from mason early in 2015 we've developed do state street education campaign focused on driver behavior and pedestrian safety and working on citywide transparency and getting this much more in the for off the public so we've completed a branding for vision zero we'll

show you and you'll see soon working with public works to develop a public works dashboard so the members of the public can see what progress we're making and at your suggestion ma'am, vice chair we'll be reporting to the board the transportation authority has a committee next week and giving them an update trying to bring as much of the public both to continue to raise and keep awareness raised and finally what we're really aiming for is to turn the corner in viewing vision zero as an ambition but unchufbl goal someone in our community really building is chufbl we're starting to work on education

particularly the jerry really starting to internal lists this is chushl we don't have to continue to see people die in our streets more people are getting hit by cars than shot by guns it is something we shouldn't be accepting so we'll bring you more depth open february 3rd but materials come out between now and then we'll make sure to share them with the board and that that concludes my report. >> members of the public who wish to address the director's report. >> all right. we'll start with herbert weiner and others those are to address matters raised during the director's report >> good afternoon, sir. >> herb better with a question

of the vision zero now i can understand the concern about pedestrians being struck by vehicles in the intersection but there's also a danger on the sidewalks two which bicyclists ride their bicycles on the sidewalks don't walk them and pedestrians are struck by bicycles i want to see as part of the stauvenlgz not only sides by cars but bicyclists if no accidents the bicyclists have nothing to worry about if you want to protect the pedestrians protect them and remember no pedestrian every ran over a bicyclists thank you. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon mr. grace. >> hello, everyone i'm jerry

grace i live in the city question i wanted to ask about the subway you will get open i want to know how much longer you will go under the tunnel are you working on the subway down to mission and i'm not sure the subway going towards that way i notice that you've been working on that a long, long time thought to chinatown now i saw you that day down here union square and i saw the people down there in union square now i saw

it is more closer to market street i wonder when how much longer than on mission or the tunnel or be on market that's what i want to know what's the answer on that. >> first of all, talk to mr. funky that's him there. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon drol and directors i want to applaud you for hiring the presentation about the central subway project my concern is about the contractor breaking the rules in a way to report the lousy traffic control people there are inefficiency and