>> chairman brinkman: all right. so we are back into open session. all right. item 14 announcement of closed session, the mta board of directors went in closed section but no action. it would be item 15 would be appropriate for a motion to disclose or not disclose the information. a fir. second? all in favor of not disclosing? we will not disclose. >> chair, that concludes the business before you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you all for spending your tuesday with us.

>> it's tuesday, may 15th, 2018. can you read the roll? [ roll call ] >> you have a chorum. >> the ringing and use of cell phones and other sound producing

electronic devices are prohibit the. any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. we request they be turned off. for approval of minutes of the may 1 regular meeting. >> do i have any public comment on the minutes? no. seeing none, do i have a first or second? all in favor? anypposed minutes are approved. >> item five, communications. i know of none. introduction of new business by board members. i would like to welcome director borden myself back on the board. i'm sure we were missed. director heinicke had a fantastic job. i was on a student rush hour bust yesterday and it was fascinating. it's not a line i usually ride during the week. it's usually a weekend line for

me. the number of students using that bus going to san francisco state and various public and private high schools along the way was truly impressive. there were kids doing their homework on the bus. i know not a recommended study habit practice, but parents getting kids to day care, students getting themselves to school. it was a good reminder of how important the service that we provide s i wanted to take the opportunity to tell everybody we're doing a good job. the bus certainly could probably shorten its time with some muni forward help, but it was hea heartening to see. any other new or unfinished business? >> i did want to -- i would love it get an update with the cybersecurity threats happening more and more and last year we had that issue where someone asked for bit coin for us, i would like to get a procedure on what we're doing to protect data and things like that.

>> i don't have a cheat sheet on the director's report, but if this is not on there, i will say in my capacity as a rider, i have seen that the next train signs are not asac they usually are, at least for the past 10 days. i don't know if that's bad luck on my part or there's something systemic going on. i don't need a full report on it. it's just isolated and bad luck for me, so be it. but if it's not, we do have that new system and it would be great if they worked perfectly. >> if that's it, we'll move on. >> i'm sorry. do i have any public comment on new or unfinished business by board members? looks like i do. >> just wanted to say to follow up, yes, the two of you are back, and i hope going forward

that we have a better ctiointera at these board meetings. my comments from the rules committee stand. i look forward to working with both of you going forward as we need to for your upcoming term for the next four years. thanks. >> thank you. now we will move on, director reiskin. >> i look forward to working with you both for the next four years. i have -- >> you're on the hook for four ye you just said it. >> board willing. i wanted to start with some vision 0 update and then just a few other items. first as i'm sure you already know and have been celebrating for two weeks. may is motorcycle safety month. and as part of that, in addition tosical advertisements, such as business ads, patching for motorcycle jackets, and in-person outreach around the city, our social media will be

focused on safety issues facing motorcyclists. i didn't bring the data with me, and we have not had any motorcycle rated fatalities this year, but in past years, they have been disproportionally represented among our stats relative to the number of trips we have in the city taken my torcycles. it's apt we're focusing on motorcycle safety. we will be sharingur motorcycle safety video and shareable snippets this month on twitter and facebook and this to remind you is our third project. various city agencies are working t make our streets safer and are continuing to desire to make this report more interesting, we're going to show you a video to make this a multimedia presentation. give you a preview of the snippets. if we can t go to laptop,

please. ♪ [ music ] >> motorcycle riders 22% of the total road users, but they account for 20% of traffic fatalities. we need to change that number to 0. why are riders crashes? speed. some feel safe. there's plenty of room. sometimes cars can't see you and pull out too fast. nearly 60% of rider at fault crashes are because of unsafe speed. let's try that again. now it's a lot easier to stop and fully control yike. you'll hav have a better ride wn you take it easy. san francisco, let's make every ride a safe ride. get more tips for vision 0sf. >> maybe welcome back to more

videos. just tantalizing you a little bit. now you're going to have to wait. so moving on,elme back if we can get them back up. i wanted to give you an update on howard street, i think. we had some commentary on howard street. i wanted to give you a little bit of an update. you'll recall it was two years ago in 2016 that kate was killed at the intersection howard and 7th when a driver ran a red light. since then, we've taken a number of actions to improve safety at that intersection and along the entire corridor. on 7th street, we've removed a lane of traffic to create a traffic protected bike lane and install traffic signals that are 50% larger and more visible. the streetscape project on folsom is the next project. it's part of a larger project. we have installed improvements to enhance safety along the corridor which are having an impact. for example, we've completed

changes on folsom including a protdnd aig 8th and folsom.ylig ing alo the corridor and the addition of transit boarding islands. howard street has unique challenges because of the existence of the muni overhead lines, although there's not any regular muni service on howard. it's part of how the trolleybuses get back to the yard. so it is regularly used for non revenue muni travel. there's also a lot of diffuses on heard. it's where masconi center is. you can picture it between 3rd and 4th. it's not only right in front of the convention center, but it's right in the heart of the construction for the convention center expansion. so because of those reasons, we have not been able to put in near term improvements on howard as we did on folsom.

nevertheless, we are actively working with the center and the fire department andther to fstic out how we can address -- figure how how we can address those whi improving bike safety on howard. a couple weeks ago oraybe it was last week, we participated in a ride with about 15 cyclid o bicycle coalition to look at the facilities on folsom and get feedback on how they can be incorporated into the permanent project and that will inform our work on howard as well. when it does move forward and it's currently being cleared environmentally as part of the central soma plan, the streetscape project will be one of the largest streetscape projects in the city. we're hoping to be able to bring you legislation later this year assuming the central soma plan eirs certified and currently

have a construction schedule that will have the work completed by 2023. that's an update on howard. one additional bit of good news with regard toision 0 -- and you might have already read or heard about this -- last wednesday, we joined with members of our senior disability communities to announce a new s fm ta sta order for pedestrian unsel down signals. e time we give pedestrians to cross the street. so from this point forwa wherev we're touching a traffic signal, we will implement a new stard of 3 feet per second during the pedestrian count down. the current standard is 3.5 feet per second. this is the speed for which we set at the crossing speed. it used to be back about ten s ago, 4.5 feet per second.

we've been accommodating slower walking speeds or maybe we've been bringing our trance its -- r traffic signal timing in line with realistic crossing speeds for pedestrians. this will a play to the 1200 signalized intersections that we have around theity where we can't throw a switch and make this happen. we'll do it as we do signaling timing upgrades or other signal upgrades across the city. so it's a couple of seconds at smaller intersections. it's up to 5 seconds at larger intersections, but it was a good partnership with a number of ads, and i think it will be a good change for the city. did we have our video ready again? or do we give up on the video? to round out the vision 0 report.

♪ [ music ] motorcyclists have special situations to deal with. we get fog that's almost rain, oil build-up on stree with fog or rain make the road really slick especially roadway paint. motorcycles lose traction in the rain, much more easily than ow down to be safe. we also have muni tracks and metal plates just about everywhere. we crass more a easily at a 90 degree angle. hit them at your cruising speed without breaking or accelerating. if you need to slow down, break your enjoin before you apply the brakes. we have steep hills that you have to go up and down and up and down in stop-and-go traffic. not like that. you'll have a better ride when you're able to brake gently. san francisco, let's make every ride a safe right. get more tips from vision 0 sf.

>> do one more? ♪ [ music ] hello, san francisco. it's april 2018 and here are our mission 0 sf monthly highlights. our roundup of projects to help san francisco reach our goal of ending traffic deaths. the tenderloin welcomes the first protected bike line. construction began on the new protected bike lane connecting important paths along san francisco's bike routes. the kids size replica of a city block that will teach children with state was named after late mayor ed lee. this can be reassembled at eusols to teach students around the city.

the somewhere vehicle enforcement unit conducted a high visibility operation in fisherman's wharf, the marina, and the produce market area. they cited two dozen commercial vehicles for unsafe practices. there was an open house and library meetings to engage with residents about the traffic projected. they provided feedback on near and long-term locations for safeghborhood streets. on april 5th, as 10,000 donned their kicks and celebrated the 6th annual walk to workday, a crossing was turned on. for more information on what's happening in san francisco, go to vision 0sf. >> that one not motorcycle safety but a more generalized one. that's all available on the youtube channel. a couple other miscellaneous items. one, with regard to the central

subway, i know you've been reading or hearing quite a bit about that, so just want to give you a brief update which is -- so you can hear it from me, which might be different than what you hear from some of the media. , factually speaking, it came to our attention that the contractor that subs have laid down 17,000 lineal feet of steel rails which call figh h strength steel rails. the area where they've been installed so far runs from just north of the 4th and townsend intersection up to just south of the union square market street station. upon learning of this, we did send them a letter directing them to replace that rail with rail that meets the standards that are specified in our contract. the standard strength steel does

not pose a safety issue. it just won't last as long as the higher strength rail, which is why we tend to speck the higher grade rail. so we are working with the contractor to figure out what the best options are for moving forward as well as any schedule impact, which if th is any, we expect to be fairly minimal. i will provide for you in the upcoming weeks a more complete analysis of what happened, why it happened, what we're doing about it, and what the impacts are. just wanted to clarify for you where we are with that. this week is san francisco small business week. we are the s fm ta is a sponsor post for this 14th annual san francisco small business week which runs from yesterday through the 19th, small business week celebrates contributions of more than 4,000

members of our small business community. the small business honoree ceremony will be held at 2:30 to recognize an exceptional small business from each of the 11 supervisor districts. there are events throughout the week. i think i will be at one tomorrow. you can see and learn about all of those at sf small business week dot-com. saturday will be shop and dine in the 49. that being a program of the office of economic and workforce environment to encourage people to shop and dine here locally. and then finally, on sunday, the sfmta will host the beta breakers. we expect more than 100,000 racers and spectators to be out on the streets. this really just is the beginning of what tends to be a very long and robust special

event season here throughout the summer and fall in san francisco. in support of the event, we will be operating early rail service beginning at 6:00 a.m. along with 70 additional buses to get people to and from the race and to try to minimize disruption to everyone else in the city who is not going to and from the race. we will have additional parking control officers throughout the race corridor to safely move traffic and we'll work with police and public works to reopen the streets as quickly as possible after the tail of the race passes. we will have our department operations center activated so that we can manage the event and stay in contact with all the other city agencies and as always, each year, we take the lessons learned and apply them to the next year. we should get better and better at this as the years go on. that completes my report. >> thank you, director. the vision 0 motorcycle safety month, the back of the 21hayes

had a lower and safer sign on it which targeted motorcycles but something that we can all remember especially now that we have electric assisted means of zipping around the city and we can go faster than, perhaps, we're used to and might be safe doing. i will look forward to hearing more about the central subway. thank you for clearing some of that up. you're right. i think it's been a little confusing the way it's been discussed out in the press and in public. so thank you for that. directors, does anyone have a comment on the director's report? no? seeing none, thank you very much. do we have any public comment on the report. >> you do. >> 2 minutes, please. >> on the director's report, first today i'm wearing a dpw t-shirt. formally operated by director reiskin. i did note the announcement last week, i'm not clear on what the

impact will be long-term on muni operating speed and cost, and for that matter, the impact on other modes of transportation. ceqa issue, and so i don't knowa exactly how this was decided, if this is just a policy call, if this is actually something that's within the board's jurisdiction or if the director can simply change the crossing speed with whatever impacts that has andheth w this constitutes a project for ceqa. i would love to get an answer from staff on that. and then the last item, since last time the director unveiled the new logo, which i expressed displeasure about during the first two weeks under the new logo, by my count, there was a major technology glitch in the first week, which resulted in

systems being down for a significant part of that thursday involving employees, affecting passengers and a lot of people. there was the rail issue that was in the press, which was just discussed. and there was a minor earthquake that resulted in having to che tracks for safety purposes. in my view, not a good first two weeks under the new logo. thanks. >> thank you. mr. mcguire, can someone reach out regarding the pedestrian count down timing? thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> herbar winer, one thing about the vision 0 videos, i think they're very good, but i challenge vision 0 to do one thing and i challenge this board to do one thing. have a video about bicyclists riding on the sidewalk and crashing the red light.

this should be also a video. i challenge you to guys to put that one out, especially since three members of the bicycle coalition are appearing before me as i testify. the second thing, about the central subway, it has assorted history. remember the cooking of the books that was exposed by lavonda atkinson in? [indiscernible] has been in court i don't know how many times. so therefore, it's delay upon delay, et cetera. this really is a weather vane of mta. >> kathy is the last person to turn in a speaker card on the director's report items. >> good afternoon, chair and directors. hei' t policy and program director at walk san francisco,

and i couldn't miss the chance to come up and talk about our increased crossing times for pedestrians. this is a hugehange, a huge improvement in our city. i have other cities calling me up, saying, what's going on? how did you do this? this is amazing. we at walk sf and our fellow partners at senior and disability action independent living resource center, lighthouse for the blind. [ stand by ] test.

every time i see someone doing it i glare at them as if to say don't you know you're doing something wrong. often times i don't get a response back that suggests they do know they are doing something wrong. if we have the resources to make these -- i'm not talking about my children. they know what that glare means. if we have the resources to make eseth helpful things as chair brickman points out, put things on the buses and other things that educate our fellow citizens, i think this is a problem that does exist and it's not just a pet complaint that we hear from one or two but people are riding their booikes on the sidewalks, particularly downtown and riding their scooters on the sidewalks for sure. if we can educate people that's not the appropriate way to behave it would help and it

would help those of us trying to discourage that behavior try to communicate that message better as well. that's something i would favor. i suspect that the pedestrian advocates and bike advocates agree and certainly we would take any feed back they have. >> thank you. i think that's a good idea. st to c clarify, i believe that children under the age of 16 can ride on the sidewalk. >> non-motorized scooters on the sidewalk. what we are seeing no you -- now is a lot of motorized. >> that's a great idea and can help get the word out. thank you very much. >> madame chair, item 8. we are joined by frank who is the vice chairman of the cac. >> good the see you. thank you so much for your work on the cac. welcome. >> good afternoon, madame chair, board of directors. so i'm representing from our

last meeting we had two recommendations that i would like to present to the board right now. first one is on the east cater permitting process that you passed last timento recess. csc supports the proposed plan for these scooters. it's recommended that mtrovi p the guidelines on how and where the scooters are placed and we encourage sfpd to enforce the state law against sidewalk riding. it's recommending that sfmta with the scooter companies -- work with the scooter companies to share data travel information, user travel information so the analysis can be done to update a comprehensive plan, transit plan, which can ultimately reduce congestion. so in other words you want to have -- get this incorporated sgoo a plan. -- into a plan. the second motion we passed has to do with today's topic, which

is business of streetcars. that one reads as, recommends that complete cars in and then in re slated to be scrapped, not be scrapped or rather retained for the plan or a planned expansion of historic rail line service in the future, may not be just the e line but any new line that may come into play. as other cars are being moved to another storage area these cars can also be moved at the same cost of the cars. the cost of those storage and stripping cars is offset by moving the car -- by the moving costs of the cars thus keeping the cars in tact is far more beneficial. this is also because i have the potential for selling or trading with other transit properties. the argument places the cars

that are kept and stored outside for the past 15 years to an outside observer it makes no sense to scrap a complete car instead of a completely stripped car. therefore it is recommended that if necessary already complete stripped cars be scrapped in exchange for the three of the complete cars that you are planning to scrap. >> thank you. i will note that the disposal of the streetcars is 10.5 but it's going to be is -- severed so we'll be able to do that. >> thank you. >> public comment? >> no one has turned in a speaker card on that, madame chair. >> any public comment? seeing none public comment closed and we will move on. >> nine, general public comment. this is an opportunity for the members of the public to address the board on items not

on today's agenda. >> hank you, director. i thank you. some people had toome back, some people never got the paperwork. that's another issue but thank you so much for doing it. going forward and to this one, the report, you paid $225,000 and it's a surge report. they are totally incapable, item 1c that it should be given to one company. all the people came to the first meeting, second meeting, now we are done in the third meeting. nobody supported it. that shows how bad the report is, not a single person in favor of this report. going to item 2, about reducing the number of medalian, nobody

supported it. both items failed miserably in these meetings so far. so it's a waste of our money. you don't have one person saying there's anything to do in it. going further about this one, about the federal credit union, it's zerorom the government. they are collected at the height of the market, too much money they nevaid w will charge you instead of six person or two person. they made the money. they should not be paid anything. it was a business deal. fair, fair. they should not be paid a penny from the mta. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> on the way to the meeting i saw shooters on the sidewalk over and over and over again. you should have never given them a pass like that. this is to be honored with safety standards. they violated it immediately. the companies oh -- of the scooters have to be called into account. either you comply with the law or we run you out of town. it's as simple as that. i really don't like the idea of people's safety on the sidewalk being endangered. i'll say one thing for the motorcyclists, they never ride on the sidewalk, they never go through the red light. so anyway, please enforce your standards and start arresting them and citing them.

you only have to do this randomly and the word will go out. the public safety is endangered. you are mandated with protecting that. i say that in bold italic letters. please doso. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> david pillpail continuing with the item for rail and back on the twin peaks project which i've spoke b about several times, 50i7 wondering if the rail meets the specifications in the contract? was that high strength rail, regular strength rail, is that the rail that has been sitting along the boulevard for the last two, two and a half years rusting? is that rail going to need to be ground in the tunnel after being laid. is that going to reduce its life

span less to what was projected by staff? the issue raise these questions for you in which we are planning a three-day shut down for memorial day weekend and a 60-day shut down that will inconvenience passengers, especially those of us on t west side directors who have to sit on the west side of the room. that's very nice. so i have those concerns. in addition, the memorial day weekend closure has not been largely broadcast to passengers. that's supposed to be a week and a half from now. that's a three-day shut down which will inconvenience lots of people. the larger 60 day closure that's now planned in july and august has was discussed earlier as it relates to special, it will impact other special events, for example, the sunday concerts at

stern grove and lots of other things that happen over the summer for which people normally take the subway and for which if bus substitution is available will delay their trips significantly and they may not know that and may not plan acco ingly and will be further unhappy with the new agency with the new logo. thanks. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> the last two people to turn if a speaker card on this topic. >> chairman brinkman: mr mr. gilberte. >> thank you. apologize for getting here late and missing the director's report. scooter on the ground reminds me of people laid out on the ground. it's just bad. coming here i asked one in front of the department of education and that's a narrow -- with the trees and planting there, that's

a narrow walkway now. you throw a scooter in and it's bad. on saturday i was boarding the e-line at the 30 building and at the bottom of the ramp two scooter people were just leaving thei scooters at the bottom of rame for the wheelchair to go up. i said i hope you're not leaving them here. yes, they did. it's a tough play. sidewalk walk, we don't require helmets to walk on the sidewalk, especially if you're in a wheelchair or a low but people who we are allowing to roll on the sidewalk require a helmet. so there's a mismash of danger here. civic center, i want to thank you for trying something with people in the elevators. i came out of civic center last wednesday. the person inside greeted me and outside the doors on the walkway

not knowing very much about your -- urine, i'm wondering if urine can create a bomb. they don't pee inside the elevator anymore, the doors close and they pee right outside the elevator on the platform from the civic center. i had never smelled it so bad. i understand we have steam clean machines. we don't have the cause to use them. so we need to hire more. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker. >> mark gruberg is the last speaker to turn in a speaker card on this topic. >> thank you directors, mark gruberg. i also want to say a few words about the shallow report. i really feel it was a missed opportunity. the prime reason as i understood it for commissioning this report

was the broken medallion situation. there's nothing in this report that is going to help our ce at.th rtainly nothing directly. the only, you know, indirect help would be some vague proposals that theoretically, you know, could improve the management of taxis and somehow improve ridership. it's really nothing. there's no help for the building of ridership. reducing the number of medallions is only going to hurt at those type that is are fairly rare. there are times that you need these cabs out on the street.

the report is going to benefit maybe just two very large companies and small companies are going to have to go banging at their doorstep because those companies are going to be put in charge of airport dispatch. so, you know, that's not right and not fair. so i don't think that there is much of anything if anything in this report to recommend it. just to say a last word about the te e -- the behavior is or rent duhs. >> chairman brinkman: anything

else? >> moving onto your consent calendar. they are considered to be routine unless a member of the public or board wish to have an it item severed. you've had a request for 10.2pii, 10.4 and 10.5 be severd. do i have a motion toro content minus 10.2pii, 10.4 and 10.5. >> so moved. >> [roll call] >> consent calendar approved except for those item that is start with 10.2p. it was severed by a request of the member of the public on kirkham street. >> david pill pail. i oppose this intersection. it's not need.

it's an intersection that gets more traffic on kirkham and less on 16th avenue. i heard it was not a strong concern. if it was approved i would ask imlementation and consider revoking it in the future if it turns out it was not strongly needed. once again, i note for all of 10.2 that there's no section in the write up about stakeholder engagement that's present in all the other staff reports but none for 10.2. i would be interested in knowing for each of these proposed change ifs there was public comment or no comment so it's just recognimmended as a routin staff item. that's what we normally see but it isn't there

for 10.2. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you mr. pillpail. mr. mcguire could you speak on 10.2p on the kirkham street. >> good afternoon, directors. tom mcguire. director of the sustainable streets division. this location 16th and kirkham is at the base of the hidden garden steps. we had a question on the -- request on the 22nd saying that pedestrians with -- were hard to see and requests a stop sign be installed. it was taken to a public hearing on march 22nd at which there were no objections and that's why we are recogniz recomme it. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. any directors or a motion to approve. >> on the 10.2 item social security it typical that hearing those things constitutes public out reach and they got some sort

of notice for people in the area? >> that's right. the audience that we brought to you on the 10.2 consent calendar are items that went through the public hear and there was objection or minimal disagreement. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. do i have a motion? second? >> [roll call] >> chairman brinkman: thank you very much. as noted by the public commenter perhaps we can keep an eye on that one and if we hear any complaints maybe revisit. 10.2ii. >> chair, that item has to do with establishing tow way, no stopping any time on fell street at various locations. >> chairman brinkman: all right. i have public comment. >> yes. tim hickey. >> chairman brinkman: welcome. >> thank you. my name is tim hickey. i'm a resident of the north panhandle and with the north panhandle neighborhood association a board member. the board of the neighborhood association would like to request you approve this.

this is a high injury corridor had anlready had a fatality last year. we don't want more. the small step is something we think is necessary and we ask that you consider this. >> chairman brinkman: thank you very much mr. hickey and thank you for the work that you do in the neighborhood for safety and other issues. i have another public comment? >> we have several. kristen lucky, kathy deluca, charles stepeni. >> thank you. my name is kristen lucky and i'm here from the san francisco bicycle location. i'm here to support the lighting on the street, a corridor that seeing a high number of fatal collisions. pedestrian safety improvements are paramount. last year david greenberg was killed walking on his way from the senior home to the park. this is inexcusable. we can't afford losing one more life to crossing the street. david is among many others hit

in the intersection on fell street along the panhandle. daylighting makes crosswalks safer allowing drivers to see pedestrians crossing this iscessery to create safe intersections for everyone on the street. the closest spots to the intersections, a small price to pay for people's safe in the dangerous corridor. why it may seem small this is a dangerous intersection. i urge the board to approve daylighting to make this dangerous stretch of road safer for everyone. thank you for your time. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> the last people to turn in speaker cards. >> good afternoon, directors. i'm kathy with walk san francisco. i'm here to the the daylighting on fell street. it's just such a ridiculous term. it's

something that was adopted as part of a quick and effective vision zero package as just a standard treatment. t's just paint.xpensive. it's really easy to do. studies have shown that it decreases crashes by 30%. so if we have something that's inexpensive that we know works and the community needs then i urge you to pass this. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker please. >> charles followed by david. those are the last two people to turn in a speaker card. >> thank you. i'm the president of the north panhandle neighborhood association. i'm here to say -- i'm here to support the daylighting on fell street. as we all know fell street is located right next to a park. it's surrounded by senior living, surrounded by families, surrounded by everyone that lives around the northwest panhandle neighborhood. we believe by adding daylighting

it will help with pedestrian visibility andar visibility and driver visibility. i'm here to say support the daylighting improvement. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you for coming down. >> david pillpail is the last person to turn in a speaker card. >> on this item david pillpail. i have heard from people in the neighborhood who support and those who oppose these removals. i join with those who oppose these removals. this is already an impacted parking area. they already had somewhat significant parking removals as related to the bicycle plan and the wiggle project. in addition, the area is currently under construction for the masonic project.

it's not clear from the calendar item what the total amount of parking removal is proposed here. really this is exactly the kind of thing that's a corridor project and needs to have not just the specific changes but the total impact on the area. i believe that there are maybe accumulative impacts from this proposed parking reduce along with the previous parking reductions and i heard about the individual who was hit but i'm not clear on why this is needed. so those are my comments and questions in particular what the total parking removal is and, again, going forward i think for these corridor projects if not the agenda but the staff report should total up the parking removals on these. thanks. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. mr. mcguire, i believe that based on what i've seen in e-mails to the board that it's a

total of nine parking spots being removed and that's down fromn original higher first take at this? >> that's correct. there are eight blocks between baker and stanion. nine parking spaces would be removed to make these changes. >> chairman brinkman: this is a vision zero project done as the result of collisions on those intersections. i'm looking at the little chart and it looks like there's been a total of 15 bicycle and pedestrian collisions along that corridor on fell. so we think based on what was said about this reducing it by a significant number that we are going to be able to take that down? >> that's right. it's 16 bike and pedestrian collisions and 30 total collisions. there's quite a few auto as well. >> chairman brinkman: this will make it safe every for everyone's sight line. i use the intersection at baker and fell on foot and on a bicycle. the daylighting done there has

made i think a significant difference. it gives pedestrians a lot more space to see cars and pedestrians. i think this is going to be doing a similar thing. will we be marking them red or the beige paint? >> my colleague is the project manager on this. i'm going to ask him to ask. >> good afternoon, directors. so our plan is to implement just red curbs at this point. in the future we could consider painted safety zones is what we call them. we have implemented them on the west side, the fell and baker intersection. >> chairman brinkman: i am supportive of this. i'm actually worried that we are not doing as much as we sort of originally looked at. if we approve this today with the nine parking spaces removed and the daylighting that would

go forward with this whae we doing to do when we have another car or pedestrian or bike crash along that corridor? are we going tome back and look at those that we decided not to do at this point? that would be part of our response to any crash -- i mean, hopefully it wouldn't be a fatal crash. it does weigh on me that we're not doing as much as we originally wanted to do. >> so simple answer is yes that if -- hopefully there won't be but if there's a serious crash in this corridor we will make sure owniengineers go out there see what we can't done to make it safer. with that said completion of the ma sonic intersection will help. we think the improvements where the most hazards are plus the treatments of each intersection between baker and stanion we

think it should make a signature difference. >> chairman brinkman: directors, any other questions, concerns? if not do i hear a motion to approve? thank you both. >> approve. >> second. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. all in favor? all opposed? we will approve that one with the understanding that this is a corridor that we might need to look at again in the future. so thank you for the work of this mr. lucky and mr. mcguire and thank you to the public commenters who came down for this. 10.4. >> authorizing changes to rental fees for streetcars an amending the transportation code division 2 section 301 and 305 to reduce the special collection fee for fe tur timely pay or contest citations establed a low income boot removal fee and make first time eligible for first toe and revise low income towing fees. >> chairman brinkman: we have public comment? >> yes.

>> chairman brinkman: welcome. >> i direct the financial justice project in the office of treasure jose sisneros. we've been collaborating through our fines and fees task force. i want to thank the mta for san francisco people struggling. that will help them as they find themselves in a desperate situation. people for example like pamela who is a disabled senior who got her car towed for the first time for her 49 year driveing drive -- driving history. she paid it was unable to pay

her rent and thetation and was worried she would be evicted. she went to project homeless connect who i believe was able to help hay p her rent and citation to prevent her eviction. the reforms that are before you today would have made a big eror pamela. people living in poverty have a hard time coming up with the couple hundred dollars all at once. these reforms before your will significantly lower tow fees and boot fees for people under 200% of the federal poverty line and allow people to pay off their citations that led to the tow or boot over time through a payment plan or by doing community service. it's my understanding the these reforms would have been in place pamela would have needed to come up with half of what she did and she would have been able to pay off her citation over time making it easier for her to do so. with these reform fewer people like pamela will make the decision, do i pay my rent or

pay to get my car back. our joint work on these challenges is not done. the mta presented these reform to the stakeholder group as a step to this pro .we areill i a discussion of how to help people struggling with homelessness living in ok forward t continuing to. work with you and thank you much. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> jaime austin followed by david pillpail. those are the last two people. >> good afternoon, directors. fing poverty.is a non-profit since 2005 we raised and distributed more than $200 million to bay area non-profits. we applaud the changes that you're considering to citations for towings and tootboots. tipping point worked with tipco software to better understand

the impact of mta citations on low income drivers. we anaed 4.5 million citations covering a 5-year period and 1.3 million unique cars. the resultgeste that low income drivers were much more likely than drivers who are not low income to be assessed late fees. that low income drivers received more expense -- expensive citation types. low income drivers were less likely to use the proof of correction or fix it option than drivers not low income. we presented these to mta's leadership and the mayor's budget office. tipping point supporting the changes to the towing and boot fees that the board is considering today and encourages mta to consider other reforms that would have an impact on those who are low income or highly vulnerable. we see this vote as an important first step and we look forward to further policy changes in

this area. thank you. >> chairman brinkman: thank you very much mr. austin. next speaker please. >> david pillpail is the last person to turn in a speaker card on this matter. >> david pillpail. i was going to make a joke about incwe streetcar rental fees but i'll skip that. i have no concern about the modification. income is an seqa issue. the item proposes to revise fees that were just adopted in the budget but this is a separate action, the may 1st deadline for the budget has passed. this is separate from the budget approval. it's a stand alone item and this was actually proposed as i understand after the budget was adopted. so the seqa review that was associated with this item was back from february in connection with the over all budget. did not detail out the fees, include the specific set of

proposals. i don't think that the prior approval covers this item and i would likely contest this via an appeal to the board of of su the february seqa review was not a blanket approval. jhe agency can chano fees and fares is covered under 15273. the planning department has to conquer in that and actually needs to review the proposed fee changes. so you can, you know, approve this if you want. council can go discuss it with staff. i've already made my points. i would likely contest this unless this is an urgency item. i would s ressing this or putting it off. happy to talk to people about it. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. noels your opinion on this? are we okay to go ahead on this one? >> i do see sara jones in the

audience so if you want to take the next item i could confer with her briefly and just make sure that everything is set before you move forward. >> chairman brinkman: excellent. that's good. we will move onto 10.5. >> 10.5, authorizing the d disposal of streetcars. single speaker, david pillpail. >> staff is going to want to hear this as well because this is also an seqa issue. do you want me to proceed? >> chairman brinkman: yes, please. >> so is seqa issue here, you already heard from the cac they disagree with the staff recommendation. the issue is this is in any opinion not a minor change to a structure applicable to class one exception. these vehicles are 45 -- are more than 45 years old and the checklist does not so indicate. it marked the other box. the agency just lea