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times in small claims courting we can't do that this is the carrot and stick approach this time it is terrible. >> the only thing i can say the final insult with my discount pass is increased it's adding insult to injure this is the regard for the injury over the bodies and under the wheels >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names) those are the last two speakers under this section of the agenda. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon mary maguire a talking about driver i want to address a situation for constant gratification companies and mulch on other things and get
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around and speed rocket a medical marijuana delivery service what they have in common they're all have the uber model and they are not required to pay business tax in san francisco treasurer told they don't have to pay a business tax we pay as other businesses those are businesses are they not i also would like to address theirs safety concerns last saturday night a driver felt uncomfortable with a passenger he was fold by a squad car he rolled through the stop sign and the passenger fled with a bunch knife in the backseat drivers are robbed at gas
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stations and getting rob's robbed from the cabs where are the emergency radio procedures that was put if place no one knows they exist and the panic bottom something 0 if you have a sense of danger you are all alone what do you do the dispatcher services are moving to las vegas how can you allow this to happen or do you know about this new york model is set up for the passenger safety not the driver safety i hope as you move forward you'll - and your time is up. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> last speaker barry toronto. >> good afternoon mr. toronto.
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>> good afternoon tom nolan. >> i have a couple of major issues to the addressed the article in the could chronicle about the traffic issues and it is there are other issues involved that are creating traffic besides the flickal issue all those delivery services that have blossomed because of apps and the laundry and dry cleaning and food delivery and a medical marijuana delivery that's why the streets are getting crowded if you go and drive the streets drive down polk street on a friday or saturday night there's lots of empty taxis on the streets pulled over double-parked and
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blocking crosswalks waiting for the riders gets into their vehicle that is that not appropriate the second subject is the baseball they've now closed second street and kevin is a great guy, however, the enforcement of the cabstands is nil nil why do we have investigators. you're not going to help us fascinate picking up the ball park and tow the vehicles with the drivers in them i tried to use the cabstands at the holiday inn at 58 street and overdrive he started swearing at me and closing i took someone in a wheelchair from the ball park and i thought that was a bar
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admits would a left e lyft be able to do that, please take the message seriously and help us >> mr. chairman that's the last speaker card your next is the by one resolution in the form or forms listed below. if discussion is desired, that item will be removed from the consent agenda and will be considered separately. directors several consent calendar items have been severed 10.1-c g and e have been severed and the rest of the consent remains as is. >> members of the board is there a motion to approve. >> >> new discussion. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? the i's have it 10.4 c. >> barry toronto. >> hi good afternoon barry
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toronto again, i'd like to point out on c a request ton traffic lights there's justification 19 and delores is a t intersection with no steebz maybe try a stop sign or the issue to make sure that two concerns that their minded with the other lights on the street so they're all red at the same time with the other existing lights or their you'll green because all you're going to do is create more traffic with the extra cars so i'm thrumming it has got to be minded and at 19 and delores some can be flashing i think it is important to look at like in chinatown it works wonderfully after 9 o'clock at night all the
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lights are flashing except for sacramento but their flashing i worked with a traffic engineer it works great the evidence of pedestrians a minimal on stockton street so maybe looking at especially 19th street and taylor's to have flashing lights or after a certain hour because they're only maine for pedestrians but taylor's is heavy during the day but after 9 at night they're by cars it is important not to implement traffic but by safety if safety there's no one to have safety so so i appreciate your time and also the light out here for example the light out here it is important that the light in front of the city hall matches
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the lights in the intersection it didn't seem to be working that. >> motion to approve. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? the i's have it now 10 point one g. >> gordon right now. >> good afternoon, sir. >> i'm here to comment on the stop sign on san jose and lake view about a week ago a child was killed i wouldn't have been killed if there was a stop sign in the intersection the day bra he was killed i got off the m a car came barely through at 35 mile-per-hour not stopping behind the car and they give me the finger when i complained we were not stopping muni cars need bigger signs i
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want to see something big and red and flashing not this stupid let's go tiny sign everyone ignores 3 blocks away from this intersection is the m line a thousand people a day are dumped into traffic at that intersection one thousand a day thousand days two years that's one million people dumped into traffic and muni has no plans to fix that. >> there's no handicapped ramp over the freeway at niagra and snows that's 50 feet from the bar entrance and 40 years avsh after bart people in wheelchairs are risking their lives going over the freeway on
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90s after the m comes out of yard and constantly blocked by cars blocking the tracks you had a man chasing heed of cars for about a week everyday he chased away the cars you know you have a problem and haven't fixed it what are you going to do about it. >> that's the last one for this item one g. >> motion to approve. >> on 10.1 g. >> (inaudible). >> come forward please. that's okay. that's outlook. >> i'm sorry if you could speak into the microphone so we can capture every word. >> i'm shawn i live nearby and
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my daughter was hit by a streetcar in 90s i was hoping to they would put traffic lights they hit the mediums i've seen them bounce off you can see you've respected the signs several times if you guys could put a stop sign along there. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please sir good afternoon. >> hi, i'm norma and i live on lakeview and 90s 90s avenue i've lived there for the last 27 years and seen an increase in
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traffic especially in the morning when people see it is bump to bum they go down san jose avenue for the geneva entrance into the 280 freeway we've heard a lot of accidents on the lakeview and after about that child that was killed two weeks ago and i didn't see anything but i heard you know and i saw afterwards when it was a horns o horrendous horrendous accidents my concern as a mother is that i see a lot of ladies crossing that street i see mothers are babies in strollers crossing that street and handicap i see people with canes
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crossing that student and it is becoming too-too dangerous i'm afraid that the board didn't do anything about it something else might happen thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> mark. >> good afternoon and thank you for hearing us i take the m train along the san jose that's a dangerous at the scene the gentleman said we need a stop sign all the visual cues it there should be a stop sign and drivers stop that creates a hazard bus other people think there should be one it is absolutely a great idea to get one in and i want to reiterate on the m train we're going to have a serious did when the
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train is departing it zips out to san jose if it is a train it is in front of of the handicap spot so if someone is waiting on the train and wanting to pay cash they need to tell the driver they have to walk into ongoing traffic it is really dangerous i've seen two or three really close calls so, please address the m train at the park station in addition to the other lines. >> members of the board. >> motion to approve. >> discussion. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? the i's have it. >> mr. chairman 10 point one e colleagues, any questions or comments? >> and those are the two last speakers that submitted a
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speaker card on that matter. >> good afternoon. >> hi hi sleep is the primary resource needed to make good decisions police strip us of our resources to recover from our circumstances and interrogatories know that sleep depravation is a form of torture the new existence is breaking the law and those signs are telling me i don't have the right to rest those since those new parking signs have been posted my vehicle is not safe drug using and dennis herrera kate and urinating around the vehicle and
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lost energy broken into they've stolen tools and materials and supplies to keep the vehicle in working order i'm treated by the meter maid like i'm a criminal and sfoelg spoken to and prison listed by the crimes being perpetrated the sfmta allows the meter maids to terrorize me for my own good and without education or correction it is appalling though it is my responsibility i'm not the cause of my homelessness again, i ask the sfmta board of directors for a safe place to park without your help and support i can't overcome my circumstances and thus i'm a scapegoat of society hypocrisy
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they strip me of every single resource required to do so thank you very much thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> okay kelly. >> i'm in this case a volunteer on the coalition of homelessness i'm here to oppose this i think what you're going to see happen what was going to happen on alameda street where the signs are placed at showcase square i reanticipate this problem to reoccur if you see where the people are parked they'll park over on another street it is perpetuate discrimination with people without housing you need
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to listen to melody i'm a realistic i thought i'm assuming you're going to pass that and disregard our testimony it is an important issue taking a break on the posts signs with the business owners to try to create a safe public parking place don't disregard our testimony thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. i'm kelly with the coalition open homelessness it got put through the initial like larger ban on the offer sized vehicles on a lot of the recommendations of alternatives one of the things was the interfaith community and findings a safe parking program that has not been followed up on no alternatives presented
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but the band continues to widen more and more streets we've been here for the last two years and the bans continually go through so we need to step up and create some alternatives and provided everything liken with lawyers and stuff my brother sells church insurance it is random but i asked it's a liability he checked out with his lawyers and stuff it is actually written into their policy for liability but the city needs to take action that hadn't taken place find a hole until we find alternatives. >> members of the board. >> i will yes. i'm sorry as we've decided every time one of the oversized vehicle bands
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comes to in front of us this is not a problem that we hear in that agency and on this board can solve and i will go ahead to move to approve the item. >> discussion. >> i guess i know how many more of those are coming before us into the future have an idea of the docket. >> can you respond i don't think we have any in the next two weeks with you i haven't looked at ahead that is the last until august. >> can i ask mr. maguire are those supervisor or neighborhood driven. >> this request came from a couple different locations there was a request by cyclists that rietdz on the street and member of the sfpd to ban the vehicles
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on both sides when we visited the site we recommended open the south side there is not a wall of vehicles on the north side and i think that is just the work that the pd has to broken a history of stolen bikes is one of the reasons i guess the question so people can park on the north side. >> we'll not be banning the north side right. >> i mean because this is not something for our agency to solve for other departments and we've brought this up we're work with the ben's office and time to have them could be we're put in a difficult position every time that comes before us to know that we have designated or the city is coming up with,
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however, it is church parking lot or other places for people to park i'm comfortable to support this but on the other side of the street didn't solve interesting this problem. >> i'm not going to support this it is reasonable what the alternatives are this is not our department so director duffy so come in but we have a motion and second. >> any discussion. >> i also am renewal to support this i feel as to the inspection that mr. maguire is helpful for everyone in whatever case i've said this before in the past i hope in the future when we hear things region there's more
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context at the struggles melody is saying are real we don't know where to send those folks we have to come up with a strategy to pit them someplace in their not displaced i'll hope that some of the communities will step up to the real needs that the city has i think i'd like to ask that in the future we don't have to call on the inspection that mr. maguire gave us we'll talk about that more deliberating. >> their safety issues i'm concerned this is no place for folks to go i think this is in napa county a church has a large parking lot so perhaps our friends at the interfaith and coalition will help us we have a motion and second roll call
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vote. >> director borden director brinkman pr director heinecke director nolan. >> no. >> director ramos nay the motion fails it can come back in a fairly short period of time. >> we we recommend a discussion of the overall context before we come to the board it is not worth bringing this back weekly. >> whatever mr. duffey's office is doing and have a comprehensive strategy all the neighborhoods in the city. >> i'll state a differing point of view if our police department and our traffic planners feels those are presenting a safety issue i think that is an issue we need to deal with right away
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if we have neighborhood groups that feel that is a risk this is not an issue we can wait on i'm happy to hear a comprehensive professional out of our scope but not waiting for a comprehensive proposal to cause us to forego our duty which is to make sure that the bicyclists and the drivers and the residents and you'll that have safe streets in san francisco. >> how long mr. maguire. >> this is an update i think we can come back with an update in - >> that committee is june 16th that's two weeks. >> right. >> i guess - we don't have any of those coming before on that ground. >> it is okay in august. >> it's a good point safety concerns it is helpful that to
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know. >> back in july or august. >> we'll come back. >> it is disturbing there was a plan of police and social workers on the same page not just evicting people we ought to know that, too. >> we can speak to all those issues. >> thanks. >> okay ms. bloomer. >> first. >> there was one issue raised during the director's report it is not an issue i've heard before it is an issue i've encountered we heard from a couple of the riders and citizens about the pedestrian of the terms of the m line, however, i wonder if that is an issue sending back to staff and talking to the residents that can identify their concerns and see if there is something we can
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do with the stripping or coning or signs to help that state is an issue we have boarding and unboarding. >> the speakers and your comments are absolutely on point and their right now going on several alternatives in both directions around the m line terminal at the intersection both with the m line trains coming out of geneva that causes it we've been looking at a range of potential traffic changes starting with viagra and going towards the terminal we happy to come back there's a lot of going on we have the rail project and dealing with the platforms so it will be from the boards pleases we'll come back with a summary of those. >> that will be fine but for
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the sake of our residents that came down to share their experiences which they've please know that director halley is working on this so director hale why if it makes sense to have the information but we have three or four active citizens get our comments to director halley okay ms. bloomer. >> mr. chairman that concludes our consent calendar the regular calendar is the installation of parking and traffic notifications around the 16th street and muni transit corridor with the capital improvements and travel proposals and there are several them them i'll not read. >> mr. chair shawn kennedy about make the overall
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presentation i'll highlight back in november you asked us to take into account the plans for the feedback and neighborhood comments and merchant comments we've received over the last several months we were able to do that what's in front of you today is a request to advance a series of action that have been that shaped by the input we've received so mr. shane kennedy b will give us the highlights of those action. >> thank you shawn good afternoon, directors and thank you so as mr. haley said i'm shawn kennedy the project manager and mta i'm here to talk about some of the changes to the 7 proposal so back in november this board protectiveed projects along the
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hates street corridors but to make sure some of the stakeholders along the corridor work with them i'm her through the issues and list of items coming out of that discussion so first off there are transportation issues and across the entire city not only on hate but pedestrian safety and to transit reliability moving forward is the program that sfmta is working on among the major corridors to address the policy goals and all the projects you've protected in november and the ones we've discussions are developed to have those needs and issues a quick reminder on hate street obviously there's a lot of issue on hate not only transportation