we're here under this big tent, ed lee's tent, to wish all these good blessings on this site. i need you to kind of yell after me. may the spirit of peace -- >> peace! >> joy -- >> joy >> hope and love -- >> hope and love >> embrace this new ed lee veterans and family whatever. you know what i mean! this place. and turn to the burn to your left and right and go peace, brother, peace sister, that's it we're done. hey, do we get to do the shovels now? michael, you're in charge. are we doing the shovel stuff now? five, four, three, two, one!

dig! can you dig it! all right! ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the san francisco playground's hitsvery dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000.

in the 1950s, the sen consider was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong and arts can crafts. >> you can use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center, celebrating its renovation.

it was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries, community members and children in attendance. [cheering and applauding] ♪ ♪[music]

>> san francisco city clinic provides a broad range of sexual health services from stephanie tran medical director at san francisco city clinic.

we are here to provide easy access to conference of low-cost culturally sensitive sexual health services and to everyone who walks through our door. so we providestd checkups, diagnosis and treatment. we also provide hiv screening we provide hiv treatment for people living with hiv and are uninsured and then we hope them health benefits and rage into conference of primary care. we also provide both pre-nd post exposure prophylactics for hiv prevention we also provide a range of women's reproductive health services including contraception, emergency contraception. sometimes known as plan b. pap smears and [inaudible]. we are was entirely [inaudible]people will come as soon as were open even a little before opening. weight buries a lip it could be the

first person here at your in and out within a few minutes. there are some days we do have a pretty considerable weight. in general, people can just walk right in and register with her front desk seen that day. >> my name is yvonne piper on the nurse practitioner here at sf city clinic. he was the first time i came to city clinic was a little intimidated. the first time i got treated for [inaudible]. i walked up to the redline and was greeted with a warm welcome i'm chad redden and anna client of city clinic >> even has had an std clinic since all the way back to 1911. at that time, the clinic was founded to provide std diagnosis treatment for sex workers. there's been a big increase in std rates after the earthquake and the fire a lot of people were homeless and there were more sex work and were homeless sex workers. there were some public health experts who are pretty progressive for their time thought that by providing std diagnosis and treatmentsex workers that we might be able to get a handle on std rates in san francisco.

>> when you're at the clinic you're going to wait with whoever else is able to register at the front desk first. after you register your seat in the waiting room and wait to be seen. after you are called you come to the back and meet with a healthcare provider can we determine what kind of testing to do, what samples to collect what medication somebody might need. plus prophylactics is an hiv prevention method highly effective it involves folks taking a daily pill to prevent hiv. recommended both by the cdc, center for disease control and prevention, as well as fight sf dph, two individuals clients were elevated risk for hiv. >> i actually was in the project here when i first started here it was in trials. i'm currently on prep. i do prep through city clinic. you know i get my tests read here regularly and i highly

recommend prep >> a lot of patients inclined to think that there's no way they could afford to pay for prep. we really encourage people to come in and talk to one of our prep navigators. we find that we can help almost everyone find a way to access prep so it's affordable for them. >> if you times we do have opponents would be on thursday morning. we have two different clinics going on at that time. when is women's health services. people can make an appointment either by calling them a dropping in or emailing us for that. we also have an hiv care clinic that happens on that morning as well also by appointment only. he was city clinic has been like home to me. i been coming here since 2011. my name iskim troy, client of city clinic. when i first learned i was hiv positive i do not know what it was. i felt my life would be just ending there but all the support they gave me and all the information i need to know

was very helpful. so i [inaudible] hiv care with their health >> about a quarter of our patients are women. the rest, 75% are men and about half of the men who come here are gay men or other men who have sex with men. a small percent about 1% of our clients, identify as transgender. >> we ask at the front for $25 fee for services but we don't turn anyone away for funds. we also work with outside it's going out so any amount people can pay we will be happy to accept. >> i get casted for a pap smear and i also informed the contraceptive method. accessibility to the clinic was very easy. you can just walk in and talk to a registration staff. i feel i'm taken care of and i'm been supportive.

>> all the information were collecting here is kept confidential. so this means we can't release your information without your explicit permission get a lot of folks are concerned especially come to a sexual health clinic unless you have signed a document that told us exactly who can receive your information, we can give it to anybody outside of our clinic. >> trance men and women face really significant levels of discrimination and stigma in their daily lives. and in healthcare. hiv and std rates in san francisco are particularly and strikingly high were trans women. so we really try to make city clinic a place that strands-friendly trance competent and trans-welcoming >> everyone from the front desk to behind our amazement there are completely knowledgeable. they are friendly good for me being a sex worker, i've gone through a lot of difficult different different medical practice and sometimes they weren't competent and were not friendly good they kind of made me feel like they slapped me on the hands but living the sex life

that i do. i have been coming here for seven years. when i come here i know they my services are going to be met. to be confidential but i don't have to worry about anyone looking at me or making me feel less >> a visit with a clinician come take anywhere from 10 minutes if you have a straightforward concern, to over an hour if something goes on that needs a little bit more help. we have some testing with you on site. so all of our samples we collect here. including blood draws. we sent to the lab from here so people will need to go elsewhere to get their specimens collect. then we have a few test we do run on site. so those would be pregnancy test, hiv rapid test, and hepatitis b rapid test. people get those results the same day of their visit. >> i think it's important for transgender, gender neutral people to understand this is the most confidence, the most comfortable and the most knowledgeable place that you

can come to. >> on-site we have condoms as well as depo-provera which is also known as [inaudible] shot. we can prescribe other forms of contraception. pills, a patch and rain. we provide pap smears to women who are uninsured in san francisco residents or, to women who are enrolled in a state-funded program called family pack. pap smears are the recommendation-recommended screening test for monitoring for early signs of cervical cancer. we do have a fair amount of our own stuff the day of his we can try to get answers for folks while they are here. whenever we have that as an option we like to do that obviously to get some diagnosed and treated on the same day as we can. >> in terms of how many people were able to see in a day, we say roughly 100 people.if people are very brief and straightforward visits, we can sternly see 100, maybe a little

more. we might be understaffed that they would have a little complicated visits we might not see as many folks. so if we reach our target number of 100 patients early in the day we may close our doors early for droppings. to my best advice to be senior is get here early.we do have a website but it's sf city clinic.working there's a wealth of information on the website but our hours and our location. as well as a kind of kind of information about stds, hiv,there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for 15, 40 75500. the phones answered during hours for clients to questions. >> >>do you want to go ahead and

call to order this meeting of the san francisco municipal transportation agency. ms. boomer, would you please call the roll. [roll call] >> you have a quorum. please be advised that the ringing and use of cell phones, pa pagers, sound devices are prohibited. if used, you may be asked to leave the room. they cause microphone interference, and the board respectfully requests them to be turned off. >> approval of the minutes of

the regular meeting. >> do i have a regular comment on the meetings? none, seeing none, do i have a motion to approve. >> approve. >> second. >> hearing no opposition, minutes are approved. >> staff has requested that items 10.2 on your consent calendar 10.2p, q, and r, that have to do with establishing parking meter limits along street have been removed from agenda at the request of staff. >> thank you. >> item six, introduction of new or unfinished minutes by board members? >> yes. i was fortunate enough to run into mr. albert teaching a course of berkley and doing a lot of fantastic work in the city of san francisco. one of the things he's done, you may have seen the newspaper article, is taking school kids

from the fifth and sixth grade out and giving them a class on how to ride muni and read the map and be muni customers. i've asked mr. reiskin if he will come to a board meeting in may and bring the kids who have gone through his transit riding class to let us know what it is they've learned and anything we can do to continue to support them in that goal would be fabulous. if everybody agrees tho -- to that, we'll ask mr. reiskin to come in. >> item seven, director's report. >> good morning. members of the public and staff. a number of things we want to cover today. first, we want to ask the director of finance and information technology to come forward to acknowledge one of her staff.

>> good afternoon, directors. i feel like i'm up here every meeting, saying good-bye to one of our treasured colleagues here. so this is my mike hanrahan from our hearings division. he's leaving the agency. he came to the city in 1996 in dpt. he's been assistant manager of the hearing unit since 2000 and acting manager. he's been with us for 22 years. he also has the notoriety of holding one of the most controversial parking meetings in the city in the mission district where both mr. reiskin and director brinkman was there. i think director ramos was there too. it was a memorable meeting. he's been a bedrock of the hearing section. he's always calm and professional, which is what i lack but he has. he has served as a northern

california director at large for training at the california public parking association. so he's represented us outside the agency. he's conducted numerous hearing traffic hearing training sessions for people around the state. he's known as a personal to go to. he's extremely reliable and hardworking and really well-liked. so at this point, i would like to have those who came to share, stand up and show how many folks are -- [applause] >> also, he's a terrific golf player and has participated in many golf tournaments. i'm not going to ask what his handicap is. he's retiring in a month and will be traveling around the world. thanks for everything you've done, 22 years of service to the city and the public. terrific. thank you. >> thank you.

>> thank you, mr. hanrahan. on behalf of the city and the agency and the entire city of san francisco, thank you so much for your 22 years of service. i know you will be very much missed. we would love to hear from you. >> well, my co-workers accuse me of talking too much, so i'm going to keep that in mind. thank you, mta board members and director reiskin for this special recognition. also, thanks to my manager julie rosenberg and sanali bose. i want to thank my hearing section employees, past and present, some are here today, for being great people to work with. i've learned a lot from each one of them. i've made lifelong friends. i couldn't ask for a better workplace. i've made friends with employees. they, too, have contributed to my sense of extended family when

i am at work. finally, on a personal note, i want to say that i have a deep affection for this renown city. i worked here my entire life, my entire adult life, and my wife and two of my daughters were born here. i'm very proud that i had the good fortune to serve the city of san francisco as an administrative hearing officer. thank you. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> so, continuing with a number of different updates, i want to start with vision zero. some good news. the sf safer intersections program, which is education -- one of the education components of vision zero received a $2 million grant award to develop and implement the safe streets education program. back in 2014, after you all had adopted vision zero, we created

a number of different subcommittees for different aspects of implementing vision zero. the committee that developed an education strategy and identified three large-scale education programs to launch and continue over the course of the ten years of vision zero related to the top three indicators of severe and fatal collisions, which are speed, failure to yield to pedestrians, and unsafe left turns at intersections. top three reasons that people are hurt and killed in san francisco. so what this funding does is it continues the work of the programs that you've already seen. we had the it stops here campaign in 2014-15. the safer speeds campaign that's going on now. that started in 2016. and the next phase will be safer intersections. that will be running from 2018

to 2020. what we'll do, as we've done in the past s identify bracks in changing behaviors of drivers, and, in this case, those making left-hand turns. so we've been trying to use a very research-based approach with this education. we're not just necessarily slapping up billboards. we're trying to look and evaluate at what is going to be effective in impacting the behavior, piloting, evaluating, and then scaling. that's generally the approach that we're taking. so this work, this next phase, will kick off in april with the convening of behavioral change experts, public facing campaign that comes out of that research will be on the streets next year. we do want to share with you a new social media video that we're piloting, which highlights key safety projects and efforts that have met milestones, such as they've either been approved or construction has started, or it's been completed. the video for this past month,

february, focuses on our streets division and we'll be, panning it to more -- expanding it to more city departments, such as public works and the planning department. this video is going up on all of our various social media channels, such as facebook, twitter, posted internally, and on our external blog, as well as other places. we want to give you a little sampling of what that looks like.

there's supposed to be audio on this? imagine some audio. [laughter] >> good music and narration. [laughter] >> it gives you a sense of some of the work that we're doing, including projects that have recently been right here before the board of directors. so going from fairly recent approvals, in some cases, into

physical changes going into the ground, such as the ones we're seeing right here. >> sorry. the video i had did not have the audio on it. >> i'm sure you can imagine the audio. that gives you a sense. we'll be putting that out just to share some of the work that we're doing with folks that is actually hitting the streets right now. so i wanted to update you on a number of different capital projects that are good, important projects to advance the state of good repair of the muni system and improve its reliability. it will have some service impack packets. the first is the cable car project. you may recall the cable car

system has four different cables, and they're operated by motors that run through gearboxes. we started this project last year when we took the california cable car line out of service to replace the year box. i believe that work was done in a shorter duration than anticipated. it's the first of four. the second of four, which will be the mason line, is currently scheduled to take place in april. like we did for california, we'll have bus shuttles that will substitute for the cable car. obviously the entire mason line will be down. we prioritized mason to be next because it is the most worn of the remaining gearboxes. we were able to -- well, let me

just say we expect currently to have the project done by the end of 2019, like we did california. we'll have a comprehensive communication plan so no one is surprised. they show up and there's a bus as an alternative. we'll have ambassadors out as we did for california. one of the issues we're having on california is some oil leakage. we're likely going to need to shut that down at some point to make sure that our contractor who is on the hook will fix that problem. we'll be sure to let the public know about that when those construction dates are happening. we realize this is inconvenient work, but it's really important work to assure the reliability of the cable car system. that's likely coming in april. the twin peaks tunnel, which is probably our biggest upcoming large capital project. i think we mentioned it turned 100 years old last month.

on february 3rd, there was a great event at the west portal library to commemorate its birthday. i think there's more planned by the west portal community upcoming. not coincidentally, with the 100th birthday, we're about to invest in a major project to replace rails and make other components as well as seismically upgrade the tunnel, now that she's past her century mark. there's a number of other aspects of the project, such as the new crossovers that i know are ventureous to some members on the board. doing this work will require us to shut down that tunnel which runs from castro to west portal for 60 days. it's a large shutdown. we expect to start after pride weekend. so early july and service will

be completely shut down during that period. in advance of some of that work, you were awarded that contract at a recent meeting. we're getting ready to issue a notice to proceed to the contractor, and there's some preliminary work that we're going to be doing starting the weekend after next in order to try to keep the large shutdown as brief as possible. so some of that preparatory work will start the weekend of march 16th. there's up to -- and the contract is up to 15 weekends total. that could be that we'll make available to the contractor to try to make sure that we can stay within the largest shutdown window for this current -- for this first one, starting the weekend of march 16th, we'll close subway service at 9:00 p.m. on friday night. reopen and then close at 11:00 p.m. on saturday night. in both cases, reopening the

next days for regular train service. so a little bit of impact to late friday and saturday service, and we will, of course, have bus substitution, basically filling the gap before it begins. castro will remain open and act as the terminal for the outbound t trains and there will be no impact to the j and t service. we'll have ambassadors to try to manage the impact of these early closures. it looks like i have a question. >> the vice-chair? >> closures? >> i'm done talk about that one. >> why don't you go on. >> the other one is on the n juda. we have another closure scheduled for saturday, march 24th as part of the inner

sunset street project. the sunset tunnel work was substantial work that was complete. because the service needs to stop for the inner sunset street project, we are going to use that window to complete the punch list for the tunnel. it will create the need for an additional ten-day closure at 20 and 19 to complete some transit aproouchlts along the -- approvements along the route. it will operate between cal train and we'll have the bus shuttles that will be operating on the end from church and dl1ul0bose -- dubose out to the beach. we'll have a lot of

announcements. i think we've sent announcements out on both of these. since we've done that, we've been able to shrink the windows a little bit to try to reduce the impact on our riders, but, again, this is important work that we need to do, and i know the inner sunset has been under construction for a while. we've been able to keep the construction going without impacting service, but this is one opportunity that we'll have that we'll need to interrupt the service and, again, another ten-day interruption next year. i will pause for any questions. >> thank you very much. thank you for the update. this is partly my memory. i know we had talked about the ability to announce these closures on board, on the lines that are affected. my understanding is that maybe the new radio system will be in place for the large summer closure. will it not be in place in advance of st. patrick's day week? >> it will not.

>> i wonder if -- i mean, first of all, it's obviously not lost on you that that saturday is st. patrick's day. and that's why you've extended the service to 11:00 that night and made that arrangement. that's good. we do what we need to do on new year's eve to avoid any accidents. i'm not suggesting what people do or shouldn't do, but i know what they tend to do. i guess, is there some interim measure we can take on board those trains, even if it's just that evening? to have the operators let people know, for example, people going to the parade, people going downtown, just say, hey, everybody, please be advised that the system will stop at 9:00 on friday and 11:00 on saturday, just so that, you know, the people who are riding it inbound that day know and the people in the system know, i just think that, you know, system-wide announcements will be very good, if not before

those days, at least on those days. >> i think we can definitely do that. we would have signage and ambassadors, but the audio messaging would enhance that, so, yes. >> wonderful. >> and then the second question, on the bigger shutdown, i know you said you're trying to shorten it. is it still the aim to not have the tunnel shut down during any school days, correct? >> right. the tunnel shutdown will be july and august. >> right. >> okay. very good. thank you. >> so one other muni-related project. we're installing a second elevator at castro station. our goal, ideally, is to have at least two elevators at all of our stations so if one is not functioning there's still elevator accessibility to our stations. along with this project, we'll be widening the walkway above the station entrance by removing planters where feasible. we'll be regrading the surface,

replacing and widening the section of the market street sidewalk to match the depth of the current sidewalk. as you get close to callingwood, it gets close to narrow. we'll be having an open house at the eureka valley rec center to let the community advise on their preference for the structural and architectural look at the elevator. not the art or the design, but the architectural look. people will also be able to take a short survey and let us know what the elevator should look like through the project's website, which is sfnt.co sfnt.com/cast sfnt.com/castrosx. we want it to look good in addition to accessibility. sunday streets is kicking off

its tenth season this saturday, right? this sunday. it's called sunday streets. it's in the mission from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. it will be between dubose and 26th street. almost the whole length of valencia. i think you know, but for the benefit of those who do not. sunday streets is an annual event. turns each district into a day-long vehicle-free celebration. tens of thousands of people come out and enjoy the street and various non-motorized modes. there's entertainment, a lot of local groups and a lot of act vase in a street in a way that's not possible when it's in its normal mode. the sunday street season runs from march to october. just some data we know from the organizizer. half of them come from the host

neighborhood. it drops san franciscoens and folks from their neighborhood out onto the streets. for this particular one, there will be activity hubs. activity hubs will be between 14th and 16th and 24th and 26th streets with a number of different free activities, supported by local merchants. it is a great opportunity to come out and support our local merchants. the organizers have worked to help owners benefit. it's trying to make sure that as people are coming out there's good presence of and visibility to the small businesses that are there so they benefit as much as everybody else. so sunday streets will be running through october. the mission is usually one of the bigger ones, so encourage folks to come out this sunday, march 11th. related to changing the way that

we think of our streets, a new program called play streets launched as a pilot last year. it was at four locations around the city and received some pretty positive feedback. what play streets is is a residential city street closed to traffic to provide a safe place for children, families, neighbors come together and have safe places to play and enjoy being outside. it was developed through a collaboration between our agency, the planning department, and the department of public health. they're delivered in partnership with community-based organizations in the communities where they happen. they're expected to return this year to bayview and valley neighborhoods. the team has recently partnered with the chinese cultural center to host events in chinatown. program hopes to expand this year within other communities of

concern, which are disadvantaged communities, as designated by the metropolitan transportation commission and has a limited number of events still available for city applicants so people can apply to host a play street. three workshops will be held to promote the program and encourage independently organized play street sere ares for applicants -- series for applicants, and folks can get information on that online. the group efforts will be focused on the west side of the city to make sure we share the love on play streets. i don't know if it's up yet on our website, but i saw a great little video that was made based on last year's. if that's up, i would encourage folks to seek it out. it gives you a great flavor of play streets and what a great family friendly event it can be.

okay. last thing, last november you may recall that you approved a bikeway on 17th street in the castro district on the block between church and sanches that required complete parking remov removal. this is the block where we have the rails in the street. that was creating a challenge for people trying to safely bicycle through there. you had directed we come back within four months, after evaluating parking changes. the concern is: as you're losing parking, is there a way to offset the loss by looking at the broader neighborhood. so our folks in the intervening time spent some time looking at essentially about a half-mile radius around that block of 17th street. we also got some ideas from

residents. i guess the short answer, i would say, is we've not found any easy solutions or low-hanging fruit. the spaces are tight there. most of the parking is already regulated in the area, so we don't have a whole lot of room to play with. the rpp in the area generally goes until 9:00 p.m. so the idea of expanding later in the evening, 9:00 p.m. is skwernlly -- generally as late as we go. there's not a lot of opportunity there. i think there was only one block that didn't have rpp that we can explore. in terms of adding parking, all the streets that we think can easily handle angled parking already have angled parking. we've looked at things like removing, relocating a bike share station, removing a lane of parking -- i mean a travel lane to accommodate angled

parking. we can explore that. that would take time. removing a travel lane would be significant changes, such as on 14th and 16th. there's two lanes, i think, in one direction. and one lane in the other. so there's a little more detail here. we'll continue to look, but i guess i just wanted to report back that we didn't find any easy ways to add back parking on a add -- extend parking. the parking is geographically tight and already managed in the area where it is. that's the report back from your direction. happy to take questions on that or anything else. >> thank you. thank you, mr. reiskin.

just to go back to the tunnel and the weekend closure. can you describe to us what it says? three new crossovers will be added. most of those know, but can you explain what the crossovers are and how that's going to provide the operational flexibility. >> a crossover allows trains to switch from one track to another. essentially, you know, the more crossovers you have, the more flexibility you have in your system if there's a problem somewhere with the infrastructure or a train. right now, there's a crossover around castro and nothing out to west portal. you have to go over it to get to the next ones near st. frances circle. we'll be adding crossovers between the forest hill and west portal stations that will give our operations folks much more flexibility to switch trains and move around, either disable

trains or infrastructure that's problematic. so the good news is that infrastructure creates much greater flexibility for us to add flexibility to the scheduled service or unknown problems. the cautionary note is once the hard infrastructure is in, then there's work to add the software into the train control system so the train control system recognizes that crossover is there, and we can use the train control system to route trains that way. that is a project that we've started, but the implementation of the software can't really start until the physical crossover is in. and then that will take some time to prove out and test. so once that infrastructure is in, we'll be able to, on a manual basis, move trains from one side to the other, which is much slower and more labor intensive than the ultimate arrangement where we'll be able to use the train control system

to do so. it will provide great operational flexibility that may enter into scheduled service but will certainly help with unscheduled problems. >> thank you. that's very helpful. directors, any questions or comments for mr. reiskin? >> yes, director ramos. >> yes. part of my delay, i was held up on a bart train that had police activity. it was right in front of me. the train at 19th street. aapologize. >> if you're down there on the lower level on bart, you don't have a crossover. >> yeah. thank you. [laughter] >> i'm really excited about the starting of sunday streets. i've been to a few. eve always enjoyed them. i think staff does a wonderful job. i'm always wanting to make sure we maximize the potential for success. i would love to hear more at some point -- maybe not today, but just about the economic impact of the events.

i would love to be a promoter, but i want to be able to know a little bit more about what i'm talking about. i think it would help the public appreciate the opportunity as well. if it's public with respect to what are the returns on the events particularly in the way of sales tax revenues or what have you just so people can become more embracing of the idea. i think that when i've been at these events in the past, i've often seen restaurants or cafes that don't quite understand the concept that the sidewalk is totally available, and it's okay to block the sidewalk or what have you, in some places, i thought. if not, maybe we should make it. i do see people doing it. maybe it's not. apparently there's more work to be done about that. [laughter] >> thank you, director, board. i do think that it's important

to understand, like, what are the overall benefits in trade-off of what we're doing. i would love to talk about that more with everybody who attends those events. >> thank you, director ramos. i think that's a good idea. i wonder, mr. reiskin, can we have our staff do a presentation or ask the sunday streets organizers, which is under livable city, to come and answer those questions. i remember my work with them. there are a few more hoops to jump through to use that sidewalk space, but we should definitely understand it ourselves and get the word out. my understanding is the economic impact for the neighborhoods can be really good, but they have to understand how to sort of capture those. maybe we can schedule that for the future, to have a brief presentation. >> that's a good idea. >> directors, any other questions. >> you know me, i love elevators, especially at work. i would be interested in hearing

-- i know you said our goal is generally to have second elevators where we can. i would be interested in hearing updates on the plan moving forward with other stations and extra elevators in those places where -- i know it's a long process, but i would be interested in hearing those plans. >> maybe next time, we'll have a little bit more info on the capital budget. we can give info on that. i know of the central subway that will be installing a second elevator at powell street station. and we're exploring current ways of getting a second elevator into van ness station. those are the ones that i know are more imminent. but we can provide you with a complete update on elevators and escalators when we go over the capital budget. >> okay. thank you. if i have nothing else from the directors, we'll go to public comment. >> madam chair, you have members that wish to discuss matters

discussed by mr. reiskin. >> okay. david propel followed by matt prezina. >> good afternoon. david billpow. sorry. i didn't have an mta shirt. i want to note retirement. in the future, when people get those, it would be nice to stay for public comment so those of us who wish to thank them publicly, they're still here. mike has been a great hearing officer, very fair and impartial, always willing to take suggestions about the friday morning hearings. he and tom folks have made a great pair. i wanted to really appreciate the work that mike has done. next, regarding construction impacts of the various projects that director reiskin talked about. i've asked several times for some kind of better understanding of these large

projects and the particular passenger impacts, if there's a schedule or a single page on the website that talked about the big projects, whether it's twin peaks, inner sunset, the ucsf mission bay platform that' we are going to talk about in a few minutes, all the various projects have passenger impacts, and i am not aware of a public-facing document that expresses how many weekends will be shut down and when so that people can anticipate kind of the signer in jy of all these -- synergies on all the impacts. that would be great. i could consult with staff on that. what director reiskin didn't mention was the open houses coming up next week. if he may mention those. and the workshop on friday, i was not able to go to it, but apparently there's a webinar

tomorrow. if he could give information on that and what the public can expect from that event tomorrow night. thank you very much. >> thank you. i'm sure mr. reiskin will talk about those items under the budget, which is item 13. >> the last person to submit a speaker card to address topics addressed by mr. reiskin. >> hi, can i quickly get the overhead, thank you. to this addresses the 17th street protected bike lane. thank you so much for getting that in place quickly. my family uses it daily. it makes a difference. as director reiskin mentioned there's neighbors that want to drive more parking in the neighborhood. this may be a case where we can get more parking and more safety for road users. as you all know, there's a program to make red lanes on 16th street from dog batch up to church street. after that, that's what i would consider the most dangerous section of 16th street that's not being looked at by any

projects going on in our neighborhood. i will show you a segment of that street. so this is 16th between sanchez. i live a block and a half from here. that's a bike lane between two lanes of very fast-moving cars aggressively trying to get out to suburb san francisco. i think there's an opportunity to create a protected bike lane here as well as add angled parking. so we're doing the upper market turn restriction project. it's called the circulation study. there's upper market safety project. there's the 22 red lanes. and this section of 16th is not being addressed. i think it's an opportunity to both maybe add additional angled parking, create a protected bike lane. i will note in the middle of this block is our neighborhood library. so if anybody wants to get to that library from the north side, towards market, they have to go long distances, and they don't. they cross the street.

they need to slow down this street. i would lave to work with you to do that. thank you. >> thank you. mr. reiskin, can we have staff -- i think you mentioned your report that if we wanted to continue to look at something in that area, that sounds like that may be a good option. so if we could have staff continue to look at that, this could be a win-win for everybody, which would be lovely. >> sure. >> thank you. >> do i have any more public comment on the director's report? >> yes, mr. goverte? >> suggestions on -- thank you -- suggestions on an elevator, steam clean on the inside, inside the cage. in station, in view of the agent, of an agent. no around the corners. sites can't be seen.

civic center is a drug injection site. on the platform and by the elevator. castro elevator uphill, i've never been able to use. can i never get up that hill. so we would like it somewhere flat. onto west portal. can west portal and your crossovers handle two to four new trains on all the lines that go into west portal? that would be nice for everybody that's supposedly waiting for trains. it would speed it up and be nice. the giants were here. i remember director ramos saying he joined a co-op drive share.

it didn't work. it was just as expensive as if he had his own car. no? i thought it was close to. but i thought that maybe muni could handle with the giants setting up a co-op for the giants for a car share and reduce the amount of cars that have to be in the parking lot. and this would be part of muni. reduce and help the amount of people that need a car. thank you. >> thank you, mr. goverte. >> i promise i did not put the chair up to the question about the crossovers. she asked a question a lot more diplomatedly than i usually ask mine. i will try to be diplomatic here too. i always assume the answer to his question about the crossovers, they're not limited to the amount of cars, so one car could cross over in the same way of my wildest dreams a four-car could cross over.

>> thank you. >> thank you. any further comment on the director's report. seeing none, we'll close and move on. >> i do not see chairman weaver here. so there will be no report. item nine, public comment, the opportunity for the public to address the board regarding the mta but are not on today's agenda. we'll start with robert chshgs izana and then tom goverte. >> good afternoon, directors. i'm asking you to do something really simple. be nice to taxis. the reason i say that is this. mayor lee is no longer with us. and you have to remember that the board of supervisors last

year came to the conclusion that the population of san francisco will consist probably of 40% elderly citizens within the next 20 years. so it has to be in your plan that you need taxis because people like uber now have told drivers they cannot have any physical contact with passengers. that's because of molestation and whatever you like, but the truth is they don't help anybody anyway. and you need taxis to help an increasingly large population of old people who won't have cars, who have difficulties getting into these modern sedans, and

certainly one of the things you should consider is all go on a trip to london and look at what a london taxi can take a wheelchair in it. every london wheelchair taxi can take a wheelchair in it. here, we don't have any because we're all going bankrupt. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> malig, tom goverte, and the last person is herbert winer. >> i took today off work to come here to represent a community group of neighborhoods. i'm here to talk about biking infrastructure on the west side or the lack of it. we hear a lot about geography and everybody needs to do their

share. but this doesn't translate well into actions. the reason i'm here is because of bike sharing infrastructure for which is sunset has been excluded. this is a map of current and suggested. the expansion is not even considered in western neighborhoods. most of the others will be done by 2008. we learned that valencia was going to get bike share permits. at first, we were so excited because it can be done pretty quickly. however, not only would it be worthy to only one provider but also there was no requirement for the service to be citywide. once again, the sunset is forgotten and excluded. so today we ask that dcf amend

the permits and demand this service area to be citywide so other bike share providers are waiting to serve the city. we're going to have to remove many cars from the streets. the only way to get them out of the cars is to offer them options. bike share is one of them. thank you for your time. >> thank you, mr. malik. next speaker please. >> tom goverte followed by mr. winer and matt brezena. >> tom goverte. i'm tempted to come one time and just diddle daddal in front of the microphone for two minutes and not say a word, probably when there's a crowd. the reason for that is when we get on the bus that doesn't have a wheel lock