encourage the land use decisions to make that more feasible and economical in the future it's easy to explain why to build the subway and hard to explain it not to be built. >> members of the board have questions or comments. >> thank you all very much and congratulations on an informative for the and looking forward to seeing this process unfold it is good to see you all coming together from the different agencies i appreciate that that's the kind of collaborative effort we need to see more of i really like the idea of better connections to fisherman's wharf and the marina i want to

emphasize there's a need for the subway going to chinatown it is there's a serious level of indents on the thirty stockton f of it stopped anothers chinatown i want to get away from the idea a train to no where it didn't make sense to stop there it's a critical line to get to as fast as it has come and is now it makes sense to extend it for sure i want to - i certainly support the idea of continuing to explore and talk about that particularly from the prospective that we are a city that is continuing to be one of the most attractive places to live in the world everybody talks about paris we all love paris paris has a wonderful

metropolitan subway underground and comparing the performances from a subway versus on the street i would be inclined to think the subway is going to get more use it will most faster and not be caught up in the affiliation from the street activity that happens in the street i think while it is interesting to entertain the idea of a shuttle in the interim but the reality it there is such a demand already i'm confident that a loop our shuttle system as mr. wong suggested would be quickly overwhelmed and we kind of have that going roadway with the transit system with the busses it's at capacity we need to close off the streets to private vehicles to move

people in that way i don't see that happening i also like what mr. stras in her said let's keep going i will entertain looking at that as well i understand we have to be realistic with the someone said it doesn't include the cost the trains it's going to require more i think those are big hefty prices tags i hope ultimately we put together a project that's within reach of the expense so from the fta saying this will give us a lot of return i support continuing to vet out

what the best roultd options and he support it. >> i'm sorry in the report it was talking about positions and there was a reference to the e line definitely it said like it was coming on line in the next few years i was getting questions about the t e t line is that considered one? in our with the budget you've approved last year or earlier this year that's our intent to start e line services on the weekend this summary of 2015 address full service the year 2016 that's the plan at the time of the budget was approved we're still kind of working with that staffing and vehicle issues to make sure we can do that that

the last i know that was a plan weekend 2015 and summer of 234i78 >> question to the report thanks for a great report i actually went through it was exciting i'm impatient this is driving me crazy was wondering in terms of i guess i have a impression of the relationship between the 2015 deadline and i don't know what that date signifies but we can't do anything further without you additional environmental process like the i guess in terms of the next step this is for the studies but the may 2016 study there maybe an immediate.

>> so really this board approved two year lease that exteriors in may of 2015 and approved for the purpose of giving us a place to build a shaft to retrieve supplies that will take us two years so come may 2015 if anyone else happens we hand the keys back to the property owner and he don't what he does he has entitlements dating back to 2009 he's indicated he is indeed ready to move forward and now with that, after asking you the entitlements the recession came but times have changed now

so what according to our lease as paul mentioned we should the property owner decide he wants to sell we the city has the first right of refusal we don't know whether or not he has any interest but more importantly we don't have a funding or the environmental clearance we'll need that will endanger us within the transit agency to purchase the property it has to be for transportation purpose we have no approved environmental clearance so honestly, i think our options at the agency are pretty limited the options at the city are somewhat limited as well you don't know i don't think the city fully has the means to be able to go through a process to

secure that property on simple support notice that didn't mean or preclude confections between the city and property owner or other private persons and the property owner from happening i know that was a big response but it is not anything we'll be able to do but turn back the site at the end of the lease as intended the value of having the site available for construction is that the construction will take place with less disruption to the public right-of-way that's kind of akin to how we're building chinatown station with the public right-of-way with the traffic continuing to flow on stockton street the aflt is to union square where the traffic is not flowing and we're building in the middle of it it

the latter would be more disrupt active and cheaper so the advantage of building from the site is really doing so without the disruption it also could potentially provide some of the fingertip for a station through based the study it is less of the case the bigger challenge is you know there's not i don't think a realistic scenario whereby and advantage the project the design and funding lined up and any reasonably near term future to take a site slated for housing and leave it unbuilt and leave the neighborhood with an unbuilt site with a decade or more i'm

not sure this is - it's possible to be temporary possibility for the site it's complicated i don't see the path forever that happening readily. >> i have a question it sat vacant for a long time so are there active it's been so long i wasn't planning an approving the modification i feel like their entitlements will have to be renewed but it seems like i don't know. i do think anyone knows that obviously the entitlement makes it more valuable then the value of the land i got the sense the prove

or disprove was very open to the idea of the city moving forward with doing something there there i don't know in our conversations. >> there's definitely been conversations as the state of the entitlement i believe them to be active i don't want to speak to the planning or the property owner about emphasis tensions or willingness of we were willing to sell today depending on the status of the intimate through needs to be a funding source for buying property it's not clear what the path is for a public purchase. >> i'm excited about this when i came for planning to certify the eir we were disappointed we didn't study the dance at least we would be in a better position

for the allocation of thousands of dollars theirs not an existing environmental review so it makes it for dmaktd it makes sense to have this extension it is a no brainier for the city that is disconnected for the electrons options when you live in that part of town it was a bear to get to and from work you know when i hear the complaints about muni it's from my friends that live in that part of town and some people drive instead of taking transit obviously i live on the market street corridor so get to that part of town is existing i guess the only question i'm supportive and love to see this

but how we've had those issues about endearing and the bart and the western connection but prioritizing to make sure we do all of those i think that the important that the western side of the city gets that faster transit connection as well and do at least a good service that work well but i know that geary brt has been on the agenda for a long time i don't feel like i know where that is going. >> the more gentle answer really came in the last slide a number of processes underway or starting to feed into that this is where the perspire insulin happens it is looking at where the growth needs on our high

ridership corridors looking at 2040 will our capacity strategy will feed into that and that will start to prioritize the city's needs that will feed into the regional transportation plan geary brt is advancing we're going this month to the ta for the ta commission for a funding request we have a near term improvements strategy that will bring the improvements and advances that the full brt build out we'll start seeing improvements in the next year within the full project provided we'll identify the funding to follow it does have a pretty big unfunded component and every other good idea and part of what we'll be planning the planning

processes wher the current and future demand and we tomato make sure we're adequately serving the neighborhood we have a tremendous amount of work and we need to serve that growth and obviously that was geary in that area they're not growing in the same was if the indents and you know so connection with the t line is exactly where it's happening my final thoughts in terms of a final way it is itch more expensive if we can prioritize that there is obviously the speed that makes people choose to ride transit over other forms of getting around if we could do subway we can make sure that line is

successful than doing on a surface level train on an hour. >> thank you just briefly great report it's fascinating to read my take away i was pleased to see the requiredship estimates that pencils out better than the regional projects that have been built in the encouraging to see i think it hadn't curved about the warriors arena and this connection that comes so close to connect that event venue with that whole side of the city and i'm reminded of the map you presented to us the expected growth in retains and jobs across the city so it seems like this is going to do a really good job connecting that i agree

with the gentleman we should that big on that since we're in the planning stage and if our regret if we have arrhythmia with central subway we didn't think far enough and we've learned this is going to take a coordinated city effort we know how much our voters value the transportation this is encouraging do we have the city have the appetite and we'll have - maybe this have shorten the environmental review and it's great i also this tack away director reiskin this is not a

deal breaker it is easier to do the construction but on stockton we can do it and make that work on this area so this is really an exciting project and hope all the city agencies will continue to think pretty big on it. >> thank you very much outstanding report we looking forward to further dialog as time goes by. >> time is going by (laughter). >> i feel he left the board a day ago i want to acknowledge formerly david chiu he was a champion for the people he spoke he urged and helped to get the funding foreign the study so even though it came here in city hall a day after city hall i

want to acknowledge it's leadership. >> we'll move background 14 for the out board report.

>> this allows our customers to enter into my door by reducing the dwell time when the vehicles are stopped historically there's been a trade off between faster service and collection to reduce this buzz have generally required everyone to go through the front door over time some bus light rail systems outside of san francisco have's ticket vending machines for customers to prepay we've had anti door boarding that had been illegal until 2012 among our peers we're the only peers to legalize this system wide other transit systems outside

boarding is limited it a few transit modes prime minister because of the technicality vending marketplaces we were able to go system wide you're going a different he approach first, we have the inspections to look at the geography area with limited resources, and, secondly, we city allow our customers to pay cash on board so we don't need to get vending machines at all stops most of your customers prepay over 10 percent of rush hour involve cash tractionsactions so we'll briefly talk about the implementation it was the might want disciplinary effort throughout the agency

over 6 months we took various steps to prepare and we hired the inspections and lodged an internal communication strategy for that the stakeholders here are some works of our internal and external communications on vehicles online and here we have we also developed a comprehensive methodology for the program bans 3 goals first to reduce the time in stock, and, secondly, to make overlay transit 7, 8, 9 faster and third to at least preserve their compliance during our evaluation whatever possible we relied on fiscal observation to make sure we see the policies intact first-hand

those photos compare to what it was like before and after our customers figured out how to minimize their queuing time by describing themselves between the door with more bells there's better internal circulation so we'll take a look at how it effects our transmitted operation we know that the rear door boarding more hallway off our passengers are using the rear door as a result, the times have fallen by one and a half second for boarding that may not seem like a lee lot but it adds up waiting for a green light or natural we found that dwell time

consistency increased and this is an important factor in helping to reduce the vehicle bunches and gaps and making services more predictable we also wanted to see and aforethought boarding we went out to concentration of downtown shoerpdz and tourist we served different types vehicles regular two door buses and our f line streetcars regardless of the vehicle the percentage of the customers boarding through the doors increased significantly as a result we saw reductions in the dwell time now we'll take a look at the overlay travel times as measured have improved

miefldly their 20 percent of total travel sign so it impacts the boarding i'm sure you're aware of san francisco has grown with more residence and personal vehicles and muni ridership has gone up it helps muni to move in times of the city's transportation system finally we'll look at the additional board of directors impact on the financeds and the job compliance during the last 5 years the sfmta payment program has capitalized from 6 light rail lines to encompass the whole system that represents a 5 fold increase as measured that i ridership the sthav has grown but might have hadly in comparison to provide the geography coverage effectively

has an approach we routinely rotate our units to places around the city this strategy helps to keep things in check to measure that we induct a survey they ride the entire system and report how our riders pay we completed our scene checking over 50 thousand customers and found a continued trend of improved compliance with the fair rates estimated and 4.5 percent we estimate that it currently costs about $17 million annually in uncaptured fair revenue assuming everyone pace down from

5 years ago this is an important approach to make transit faster and more reliable we've achieved the goals we hope our experience what about informative to them thank you thank you, mr. lee and members of the board. >> thank you director for being the first vocal champion it's

apprehensive to be and thank you director reiskin we've had something done impressive and been a model for other agencies i know we have people complain about the inspectors and how we wait for the busses i appreciate them so much this is important it also makes the business feel safer and sometimes great so thank you. great presentation and congratulations for our work. >> i have a - >> director lee. >> question are reable to e equate. >> we've looked at our online performance there's been growth in the city it's hard to necessarily isolate all the

factors into ailment performances last week the does the vehicle start do we have enough the time in our schedule we didn't want to make a leap in drawing conclusions with that aspect knowing about the factors. >> well, thank you thing i think that let a lot of us to support the requested it's one of a 3 legged stool, if you will, to get on time frequent he reliable bus service i think that while it's clear we see and congratulations to you, you and ear team and thank you for your work the finding it hadn't increased the overlay speed at the time not surprisingly in the

sense even if you have the outdoor boarding you sit in traffic so a lot of the times you within the doors close and without designated lanes to really speed transit along i hope this is just sort of the taste that could come if brt like amenities throughout the system i'm grateful and really glad of the success and courage us to share the knowledge and the support i'd like for us to be thinking about how do we get more the transit lanes to compensate again with the transit only lanes if we had transit lanes we'd lose a lot of the times we would have saved by