for tuesday, june 5. happy election day. could you please read the roll? [roll call] we're waiting for sfg-tv to get with us. all right. [roll call] you have a quorum. directors borden and torres will not be here. prohibition of sound-producing devices. ringing of phones and pagers and other electronic devices are prohibited. if one goes off, you may be asked to leave the room. cell phones on vibrate cause microphone interference. the board requests they are off.

approval of the minutes. >> do i have any public comment? seeing none. closed. do i have a motion? second. all in favor? approved. >> communications, madam chair. i have none. new or unfinished business? >> any new or unfinished business? seeing none. we'll move on. >> director's report. >> good afternoon. members of the staff and public and board, want to recognize some of our employees. i want to ask our director of sustainable streets, tom mcgwire, to come forward and recognize one of his staff. >> good afternoon, tom mcgwire, sustainable streets director. i'm here to ask you to recognize thomas moyer, trainee for our colored curb program. he started last year and took

over the responsibility of a color curb program clerk. quickly learned the challenging job of running the colored curb program. he has pcessed more than 2,000 311 curb requests as well as email, phone, and in-person requests, to the point where you think you see freshly painted yellow or white or blue curb, thomas probably had something to do with that. if you see something with the great logo, thomas definitely had something to do with it. he's been instructal in training personnel and passing on his expertise. want to recognize the human services agency. thomas came to us from h.s.a.'s trainee program, a program that connects people on public assistance with opportunities to work for 6 to 12 months in a job with the city and county to improve job kills, hard and soft skills, and prepare them to

enter employment in the city. we're happy to have been part of the partnership with h.s.a. and happy to have had thomas on our team helping us to move the colored curb requests forward. >> thank you. thank you so much for the job that you have been doing for the agency. it's another one of those unseen jobs that is so important and we appreciate your work so much and it sounds like your co-workers also appreciate your amazing baking talents as well. [laughter] would you like to say a few words, please? >> i would like to thank you very much for this award. it's -- it means a lot to me. i also would like to thank mr. nehaw for being a great manager to work for and everyone i worked with, it's an incredible environment. i really appreciated it. learned a lot. enjoyed a lot. i'm wondering, is this a lifetime meeting pass? [laughter] thank you very much. >> and thank you. [applause]

>> and next i want to ask our director of transit, john haley, to come forward to recognize a group of folks who are involved with a much more visible part of the sfmta operation. >> mr. haley? >> good afternoon, board members. i will introduce you to 22 individuals who did a remarkable job some time ago. on the morning of may 25, the friday of memorial weekend, we heard a sound that is one of the worst sounds that you can ever want to hear if you are in the rail passenger business. and that is -- [alarm sounding]

you may not recognize that, but that's, in fact, something called a derailment alarm that occurs on the vehicle. and just after 6:30 on friday morning, that alarm sounded, which told us in our vernacular that we had a 732, which is a derailment of an outbound train leaving castro station. the good news right away is that there were no injuries. the train had serviced the station. and it immediately activated the emergency response unit of the individuals that you see standing -- i was going to say behind me, but our rehearsal was brief and unfocused, so they're standing to the side. what i would like to do is to describe for you, if i may, the fact that this is an

80,000-pound vehicle, which the center trucks -- there are three trucks on the car. the front and the back trucks carry the weight of the motors and the center trucks are supported by two airbags, which look like -- if i could describe it, two donuts on top of each other that are inflated and served to stabilize the suspension system. we know right away from looking when the first mechanic arrived on the scene, the cause of the derailment was determined to be the airbag, a valve on the airbag, which regulates the amount of air in and out of the bag, was left in the in-between position. so in a period of hours, the air gradually leaked out. the bag began to flatten. and when it got to -- when the train left the station at castro, where you begin in automatic and where you begin to

climb, the center trucks came off the rail. and so this crew, led by the gentleman on my left, randy katinak, the quarterback of the emergency response unit, and who over a period of time, devised a plan that would involve, first, assessing the damage. second, bringing in work equipment. and also once the damage was assessed, you have an unstable 80,000-pound piece of metal, which then has to be raised very carefully. it's unstable. it has to be cribbed. take in pieces of wood that support it. it has to be raised or jacked safely. and throughout that, you have to stop several times and make sure it's stable, because you have individuals on there trying to recover the train. so over a period of just roughly an hour once they got there,

conducted several job briefings. first, the rail mechanics. dennis callahan was randy's right-hand man in terms of teamwork, collaboration and coordination because of the track department both supported recovery effort to get the train back up on the rail and then quickly stepped in, inspected the rail to make sure there was no damage. did, in fact, replaced some clips on the rail and got us back in service. so i would just -- this -- my description probably does not do the work of the individuals justice. this is a herculean feat and remarkable effort of skill, ingenuity and planning with careful and continued focus and persistence on safety. not only their own safety but the safety of the riders to make

sure that once the train was up, we were able to move it out. we put tests in. it's truly an honor to introduce you to this group, both a combination of rail mechanics and folks in the track crew and, randy, do you want to add anything to this? >> could you speak in the microphone? thank you. >> it was really nice working with all these guys because, i mean, we were able to put this many guys in the same group and nobody got injured. we practiced the safety rules. we had safety briefings one after another, every time a person would be added to the group or one would leave and we made sure we had the head count and got the job safely completed. want to thank everybody here for that also and without the guidance of our

boss, john haley, i don't think we could have done it either, because he really presses us to do job briefings and safety briefings, so we just took his leadership on that. so thank you. >> i love a guy that stays on script. [laughter] dennis, anything to add? >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> what randy was saying is true. we take pride in safety. we work together a lot in other aspects, not just derailments. these are professional people behind me. and i'm proud to be a supervisor for the track department. i'm proud to work with these guys every day. we don't look for accolades. we love what we do. so for us to get this is an honor. that's it. >> good. >> thank you.

>> thank you. mr. haley, do you want to have anyone else come forward or do you want to -- >> actually, make one final comment on dennis. dennis actually walks the walk, just as he said, because i lost a gentleman's waiver to dennis on the over-under of how long it would take them to rerail the train. [laughter] he made me look bad, but, again, he backed it up. and, finally, i would say, this played out. there were some challenges. a work train broke down. they had to unload equipment on to another train. it was quite an arduous task, but after -- some time around 12:15, we were able to get everything cleared and inspected and lineer? [inaudible] [laughter] >> thank you, all, so much,

gentlemen and lady. we're not all just gentlemen here. what an amazing team. you seem to work together well and practice for a drill, unfortunate you have to do it, but you practiced for it and it sounds like you worked so well to keep the system and recover the system and keep things moving. on behalf of the board and the entire city and riders, thank you for the work you do. thank you for doing it safely. thank you for winning the bet with john haley on how quickly you could do it. and thank you so much for coming in today. [applause] >> as they're making their way out, i will note that this was not only a tremendous physical feat to move this 80,000-pound vehicle, but it was in very tight quarters and with immense pressure of the service that was

being significantly disrupted in the process. i do want to credit our communications folks and a lot of other folks that jumped into action to help folks get around the situation for those -- for that friday morning, but it was under immense pressure and difficult circumstances that they did this and the fact that they did it so well and did it safely is just a testament to their skill and professionalism. so we're lucky to have so many workers like that. next i want to invite up another familiar face. as you know, the future of our city are our children and the future of muni ridership are our children. and we're very fortunate to have sfmta alumni whose passion has continued since he has retired from sfmta service and we, i think, this is chair brinkman's

suggestion to invite him here to share what he's been doing with all of you and the public. so peter albert. >> mr. albert, welcome back. >> good afternoon, chairman brinkman and members of the board. i would like to invite up three people that will co-present with me. lydia and denise, fredo, if you could come up. thank you for inviting us to come down and talk about this transit course idea that's been a lot of fun. i would like to explain why we are talking about this. we live in a city. it can be tough on families or it can be fantastic for families. and we see muni and the walkable sidewalks as critical infrastructure to help children learn how to get independent, learn how to have healthy growth and enjoy and embrace the city for all it can offer you when you are a city resident. we know that kids need to be safe and feel safe. it's excellent that we're coming

on the heels of that presentation about safety. but also, not every parent can take the time to orient their children as they're going from, let's say, elementary school and middle school and learning to ride muni by themselves. too often, the parents have difficult choices. they either chauffeur their kids everywhere or turn their kids loose on muni and hope for the best. none of those options are optimal and both are stressful. this is to empower and entrust kids with responsibility and we believe if we guide kids and give them a chance, that they will more than measure up to our expectations. the course had four, basic parts. we'll go through and then hear from speakers. it began with a mapping exercise. each kid was given a blank sheet of paper and pencil and we asked the kid, draw where you are in the city. draw your closest transit station. draw your walk from where you are to the transit station. of course, it was difficult for

people to do from memory. we said, don't sweat it. pay attention to what you didn't get as you try this exercise. over the span of a week, go in and fill in the gaps. be aware of your environment. be clear about what it is to walk through the city, crosswalks, stop signs, all that. the next thing we did, we put together a list of good and bad. and by good and bad, we need good behavior, good conditions, bad behavior, bad conditions. good was drivers welcoming people on the bus. polite riders. people being considerate to people with disabilities, pregnant women. was the train overcrowded? did we wait a long time? what were the sidewalk conditions like? and for listing the bad, we're trying to help children feel more in touch with their intuition. to be safe on a train is to know that you are comfortable and nope that the driver is there and the station agent. and to know what can happen if you are not very attentive and

they can contribute by being more self-aware to a better, safer muni ride. and then we did the ride. we had after school enrichment program. and 826 program. and we have a student that will talk about her experience. we rode muni to forest station. what we saw was observing kids that knew how to behave and that watch for behavior, understanding what it can moon and what muni can mean for them. we wrapped it up with a debrief. we talked about the fun we had and how these students are the ambassador for a better city tomorrow. i'm going to stop now and i will invite lydia to talk about her experience as a member of the after-school aenrichment progra at mckinley school.

>> i would like to share my positive experience in the after-school course. it was taught by peter albert, who used to work as a planner for sfmta. he had a lot of great information to share with us. i think a lot of students could learn very important skills in this course, such as to ride muni to and from school, how to be careful and courteous on muni and how to enjoy public transportation and maybe not need a driver's license later on. next year, i will be starting 6th grade at hoover middle school and taking muni home some days. the muni course taught me about planning my route and making transfers. when i travel home from school next year, i will have to transfer from the l at the castro to the 24 bus. the tips that were shared with us will be helpful. i also hopefully will have a phone by that so i can put the

muni app on there, so i can see when the bus or train arrives i'm feeling more confident taking muni by myself next year. another important skill that peter taught us during the muni course was how to be safe and polite riding the bus or train. he gave us tips for looking for available seats and being aware of who we are sitting next to. if something starts to feel or seem strange, it's okay to get up and more closer to the driver or to a different part of the bus or train car. also he told us to be aware of people who may need our seat such as someone elderly, disabled or pregnant. and to offer our seat to them when they get on. i think these examples of how to be safe and responsible on muni were some of the most valuable parts of the muni course. a part of the course that i really enjoyed was looking for the go station. i tried to show it to my mom while we were riding the l, but she couldn't seem to see it. i also appreciate the idea that if more people in the city use public transportation, it will

eventually be less cars on the road and less pollution. for me, being more comfortable riding muni helps me to enjoy the experience looking out the window and seeing the surroundings it will be a long time before i can get a driver's license and this knowledge will help me be an independent traveler. in closing, i think the muni course taught by peter albert was a very valuable experience that all students can benefit from. thank you. >> thank you, olivia. [cheers and applause] >> hello. one of the experiences that i learned on the muni trip is that people with disabilities and pregnant and elderly people need it have a seat. now that i know that, i will give a seat to them. the first trip i took, i understood the muni map. another thing i learned is that now i know the streets. we took the j.

i thought the driver was kind, because when we got off the muni, he waved goodbye and showed his teeth with, a big smile. thank you for giving us this fun trip and for the muni for letting us get on the train and teaching us something new. lastly, thank you, all, for coming on this very special day. [applause] >> thank you so much. >> hi. i'm denise donaldson. i'm a parent -- i'm not checking my email. i'm checking my notes on my phone. i'm a parent of two children at saint brendan's school. my oldest is a rising 5th grader and my husband and i use public transportation all the time and we want our children to use it and feel safe and comfortable using it. when i heard that mr. albert had given a muni tour to rising middle schoolers, i had asked a friend of mine to put me in touch with him, a friend that knew him. and asked him if he would be so kind to give my daughter's girlscout class a tour and he

said he would. most of the girls in the school are familiar with muni, but they probably don't use muni very frequently. everyone had used it,ut not frequently. it was great to see them have a mature conversation about the good and the bad parts of muni and to identify an amazing amount of good aspects of muni. and just to have the awareness of various concerns that they should keep in their mind. it made me very comfortable as a parent to see this sense of empowerment in the children. and probably two of the biggest takeaways that i saw all the girls have was that if they're using muni alone they should sit near the driver. [please stand by]

-- got this really cool muni bag, so that every time you are shopping or whatever, you want to know how to get home, you have the map. so, i think every one of the students got that. bart also gave away some pins, so bart was a partner in this as well. and we look forward to it being not just a one-off but for everybody who wants to learn how to use muni but is not comfortable with it without some guidance. >> thank you so much, mr.

albert, and for all of you for sharing your experiences with us. we work hard to make sure you feel comfortable riding the system and that muni goes where you need to go, i'm pleased you'll be able to take advantage of it, and peter, thank you so much, and thank you for coming down and continuing to support our public transit system in your retirement. [applause] >> ok, thank you. madam chair and thanks again, peter for coming and for that work. definitely want to figure out how to school and sustain and grow that. so, a number of other things i want to touch on, some relating to past things that you have either acted on or asked about. so, first with regard to vision 0, we hear often and i'm sure by at least one member of the public about educating people about riding bikes on the sidewalk. i think it was vice chair

heincke asked us to come back and talk about the issue, when the scooters hit the street. in short, we manage bicycle education classes and sidewalk rules, meaning they cannot ride on sidewalks, part of the curriculum of every class. we fund bicycle outreach activities, that include sidewalk riding, postcards handed owl as well as on a spinning prize wheel. we are going to use the social media outlets communicating over the summer and the fall, and vision 0 education strategy includes a program to educate bicycle riders on how to ride safely and we will ensure that sidewalk riding is prominently included in the campaign, so, we agree with the concern that it's

not safe and puts pedestrians, particularly more vulnerable pedestrians at risk, and we will do everything we can to continue to encourage responsible behavior of people on bicycles as we expect of all other road users. and speaking of scooters, last week, maybe the week before, may 24 i joined city attorney dennis herra and the director of public works to announce the shared power scootered in san francisco, what we are calling them. as you know, the city law was unanimously passed by the board of supervisors and signed into law by the mayor that says any company operating the shared powered scooters must use, must have a permit from the city in

order to access the public right-of-way. in compliance with the new law, which took effect yesterday, any scooter company that was operating in the city needed to have a permit to operate and since none of them have permits, up to this point, the three that had been operating have removed their scooters from the city sidewalks. we did at the, when we had our announcement on may 24, made available an application for a new permit that we developed and that you authorized at i guess it was our may 1st sfmta board meeting. the applications for this first pilot, you'll recall restricted the number of scooters and companies, due date for that for those applications is 5:00 p.m. on thursday, june 7th. and we'll review those as expeditiously as we can, and with the hope of being able to

qualify companies for permits by the end of the month. i will just to manage expectations from our experience with previous similar permit problems, it took a lot of back and for the between our staff and the permit applicants to get the applications in a state of completeness such that we could consider them for a permit. so the end of june is a target, but an optimistic one in my mind. so in tandem with the new system, established a 12-month program, basically what to do going forward relative to the public interest in terms of continuing as is, expanding, terminating, we hope to learn a lot during the 12 months. successful applicants and issue permits so we can bring, allow that service to come back but in a safe and responsible way and

give us an opportunity to evaluate it. so, that's the latest with scooters. it's been a very lively public topic. there are a couple of things, today is election day, i hope everybody voted. there are a couple of measures on the ballot, both state and regional, that are of relevance to transportation in the city and california. i'm not going to go over them, i would encourage everyone to vote today. i did want to know, this was a request to another inquiry, i think also from our vice chair with regarding next bus performance, and generally given the age of the system that it is performing as it should. we did have some issues at the beginning of may that may have been what you and other riders noticed and basically what happened was that we had a problem within our overall

information network that was caused by a software loop that brought portions of the network down. and that, things that ride on that network include the nex bus system, some of the traffic signals connected via the city fiber, includes some communications systems, and camera systems. so it had pretty widespread impact. did not immediately identify the root cause but recognizing since we did not identify it it could happen again, we took some steps to essentially mitigate that, or minimize any damage and in fact, the next day we had another, another incident, but much, much smaller in scale because of the steps we took. so we are bringing in somebody from the outside to do a full evaluation of our network. there are some aspects of our network architecture we were in the process of addressing, and

we think some of those ep use might not having been addressed yet may have been relevant in this outage but i do want to assure that even with the inconvenience it caused and the problems it caused, there was no time where there were any safety issues in the subway or elsewhere, almost every system we have either has a back-up or fails in the safe mode. so, it was mostly an inconvenience issue and we'll continue to work to make any changes we need to make to our i.t. infrastructure to make it more resilient and resistance to any such outages. moving forward, june 16th is a big day for muni. it is in part because it's when the general sign-up goes into effect, an opportunity for all the transit operators, every couple of years, to choose to work in a different part of

muni, and often we align changes that we are making to that sign-up period. so, a few significant things are happening as a result. one is that we'll be putting our new creek motor coach facility, bus operations and maintenance yard into service. we will -- the first new bus facility for this agency in more than three decades, and it's one that if you are riding cal train you can see as you pass over the creek. it's state of the art facility, 8.4 acre yard, solar panels on the roof, it will house 120 busses, and most importantly, it will be a much better work space for our operations and maintenance staff, and a facility that will allow for more efficient maintenance of the busses.

there also is a community room there that will be open to the public. and so we are just excited to have this new facility. the reason why it was needed, by the end of next year, we will have expanded the fleet by more than 80 busses, including some 40-foot busses replaced by 60-foot busses, so we had been outgrowing our existing spaces so this, getting this new facility into service will be welcome. part of that, what that will support are service increases that will be going into effect as authorized by this board and approved in the budget. and formed by the muni equity service strategy, a number of muni lines getting service upgrades on june 16th. also be adding service to muni metro rail during peak hours, with really across the board

there will be more frequent service, longer trains in some cases. some of our express lines such as the one ax and bx, will have increased frequency, the 9rs, 9 rapid to 60-foot busses, and again, a number of different muni lines that serve our equity strategy neighborhoods will see increased service. many of these service increases will go into effect this june, some will go into effect later in the summer, and as part of this work, the historic street cars which were moved out of the cameron beach yard when we did the rerailing of the green yard, the facility down at balboa park, will be now moving back to that cameron beach yard, back to their home. and then finally, also on june 16th, we will fully, more fully start at the transit

center. we have been piloting the five local service there on weekday 7 to 7, but starting on june 16th, the bus, the muni bus plaza, on the ground floor between beale and freemont will be brought up to full operation, which means it will have in addition to the five, it will have the 5r, the 7, the 38, and the 38r, so those changes, those busses which are all currently terminating at the temporary terminal, outside, about a block away, will now be coming into the bus plaza. this is being done in advance, the bus deck, the 25 treasure island bus, as well as a few other more regional lines will be fully operational, and that's when the center willful i open. but since our plaza was ready so

and so were we, we did not want to wait so we are taking the opportunity to start service there on june 16th. and last note on muni service, back late last year we were authorized by the california public utilities commission to put our, the first of our new light rail vehicles in service. we, the first car we now have more than 20 cars that are here and authorized for service. many of them are being used for training and maintenance and burned in, but you'll be seeing more and more of those out on the lines, particularly after june 16th and just a few weeks ago we got authorization from the cpuc to run two-car trains, additional certification needed for that, but we have received that and tomorrow the first two-car train will be entering into service. so, another big milestone for

the new train procurement, and you'll be seeing a lot more bus and train service starting on june 16th. that concludes my report. >> thank you very much. director. directors, questions or comments? vice chair? >> i have a few, but happy to wait for public comment. >> no, go first. i'll move to public comment next. >> thank you for looking into the nex bus thing, and appreciate the response and the litany of many things we covered. on the derailment, kudos to the team and the safe response, and i was on the system and it could have been worse as far as system impact. understanding the derailment was caused because of a pump on the air bladder was left in the enter mediate position? >> yes, it was not apparent because it allowed for a slow leak. >> ok. and can you tell us what steps

we have taken to make sure that doesn't happen again? >> yes. so, additional checks into the maintenance routine, to make sure the valve among other things is checked. good news is on the new cars, they don't have these air bags, so this whole kind of configuration will not be an issue on the new trains. but it's just, it's additional steps in the maintenance process that we are taking to make sure to reduce the likelihood something like this recurs. >> the training course for the children is an amazing idea, good for you and for peter for doing that. and you know, sort of reminds me of conversations i've had with my own children and prompted the question i have which is what do we tell our drivers about, you know, how, are they, do they have any special responsibility to look out for children on the bus? i assume the answer is no, but if we are teaching the children

to sit near the driver or make some sort of contact with the driver, i don't know, but it would seem to me we should involve the drivers in that conversation, the operators. so that they know what we are telling the children so that they can react to it. i think beforehand and give us input and maybe say that's not something i can take on or may interfere with my safe operation of the vehicle, but more importantly, just so they are aware. because i think it is absolutely critical and i certainly have told my children this, that you know, any instance you can sit near the operator, and if there's a real problem, ask the operator. but i think what peter is doing is wonderful. i would encourage us to use our outreach team to go to schools, particularly middle schools, you know, where we are really educating people for the first time, and i would -- i would encourage you with peter to involve the union and the operators together to get their

input so they know what we are saying, input on what we are saying and understand the responsibility that we are teaching to our children that they have. >> yeah, absolutely. and i think engaging the operators in this process is a great idea. if you like our marketing and communications director could give you a little bit of what we are doing currently in our schools beyond that, so it should be helpful. >> sure. she and i have ridden the bus many times, haven't we. >> very true. good afternoon, directors. candies su. each year for the last two years we have put on program rising middle schools with sfusd, called middle school step-up, and that program, happens in the spring, or around this time in the end of school and then the fall, we help teach children who

are going to be going into middle school or at middle school about how to walk on the street safely, follow the traffic signs and ride muni. and that program has had a good response, gives us a chance to share safety tips with the children and the teachers and also tell them about free muni for use as well. one of our messages is not necessarily to sit next to the driver, so i think if we were to incorporate that more formally, we would absolutely take your advance to ensure that our operators are aware of that messaging. i think in this particular case this was an individual response made to kids who were talking about feeling uncomfortable. >> ok. and so well, that all sounds wonderful. there are a lot of other schools outside the unified school district you could reach out, and from my own personal

experience, liberating effect for middle schoolers and high schoolers, i grew up in l.a., and you had to wait for your driver's license, but wonderful to see what the drivers say and commit to and thanks very much for that. sidewalk bicycle riding. thank you for addressing it and putting it into the social media and training and all that. i suppose one of the responses to that is going to be that's all fine and good for the responsible people who pay attention to social media and go to the training. and i would encourage one, i think it's a small further step which is simply signage. i suspect our planners know, i certainly know where i see people ride bicycles on the sidewalk more than other places. it tends to be on one-way streets where they can't ride

with traffic so they ride up the sidewalk. i see that on post street all the time, pick an example. i don't think it should be based on my personal anecdotes, but to the extent our planners know where we are getting citizen feedback on where there are particularly hot spots of sidewalk bicycle riding, that might be a very good place for a sign that says you can't ride the bicycle on the sidewalk and cites the code section so folks know and not just the bicycle riders but the pedestrians know that sidewalk is theirs and it's ok for them to tell someone riding a bike, hey, that's against the law. appreciate everything you said you would do and encourage that as one additional step and then finally on scooter regulation, good for you for moving forward so quickly. i think when that program left this board, we left an awful lot to both the companies and to

staff, and here is the general idea of what we want out of the program. so i would appreciate a report back as to how that's going and it can be through the director's report or however. but i think we'll want to know how the companies are sort of responding to some of these, how they are meeting them and how you are prioritizing the permit. and i don't mean to air it out in front of the board, but an important safety issue and something we are doing quickly. so asking for a report how the companies are meeting the challenges, i would appreciate that. >> happy to. by the time we next meet, we will have the deadline to receive the applications have passed and we will know who submitted them and how many we have and what the kault -- quality of the applications are, and i the time we next meet may be in position to issue permits.

>> criteria have not been set forth, one of the things i'd be most interested to see is how we are faring on that. >> and i'm sure other cities will be watching the electric permitting process. director hsu, comments or questions? thank you so much for the report. fascinating to hear about the increases in service, the new rail cars, i know these are things really making the system overall much easier for everyone to use. the children on muni presentation was fantastic and i really look forward to continuing to work on how we are going to flush that out. great thing to teach the kids how to behave civilly and safely on the system, a lesson a lot of the adults could use as well. so, having said that, we will move on to public comment. >> we do have several speakers,

an opportunity for members of the public to address the board on matters addressed by mr. riskin only, not on matters of the jurisdiction of the m.t.a., that would be item nine. so alita would start, and herbert and then terry. >> alita dupre for the record. good report, a lot mentioned. i'll weigh in on scooters, i just got back in. and i hope that we can get this program on the road. i've been watching these meetings. scooters of which i don't really have much experience with i believe can help me as a person with disabilities needing that last several blocks or quarter mile. i hope that we don't make

assumptions about scooter riders, but i can say myself that when i ride scooters, bikes, etc., i wear a helmet. i perform pretrip inspections. i ride in the street, in the direction of traffic and i obey all traffic controls. such as required by vehicle and traffic law. i've been doing that for 45 years. i don't remember the last time i rode a bicycle or a scooter on a sidewalk. certainly not going to start because it's unsafe and i'm not going to hurt my reputation in that. i would hope in the permitting process that we can be objective and not have personal feelings and acrimony. if they comply with the laws it should be issued. we are not going to ban rental

car companies if people speed and do things they shouldn't in rental cars. i have a driver's license and i am a responsible driver. my driver's license is from nevada. last time i checked, it's valid in this state as in all 50 states. thank you, good report. >> thank you, next speaker, please. hebert, and terry, the last two speakers to address you on topics raised by mr. riskin. >> i would like to comment peter albert on a splendid effort with kids that they utilize public transportation safely. but there's one question that's very important. who is going to protect the kids from rogue bicyclists on the sidewalk? that is very significant. and i think steps have to be taken for that. i have this a situation where i did, i told a cyclist he was riding on the sidewalk, he wheeled back and told me if

there were more bike lanes, there would be, he would be using them and not riding on the sidewalk. i responded if there were more houses there would be less burglaries. the same twisted logic. the point is, he was disobeying the law he should have been cited and there should be citations for people who ride the bikes on the sidewalk. there are responsible cyclists who do obey the law, but people who disobey should be cited and should have a citation. furthermore, for more responsibility for cycling, they should pay for a license. motorists pay for a license, cyclists should pay for a license, too. the payment for the license should go to m.t.a. so, this is simply a form of regulating public transportation

and i compliment the board on cracking down on the scooters. the same is applied to the bicyclists. thank you. >> thank you, mr. wiener. next terrific. tarek mamood, the last person. fill out a card, please. >> taxi driver. talking about the motorized scooters, the pass through on the road in front of the cars, zig zagging, any direction, comes in front of the cars in such a way that looks like we are one tenth of a second to get into accident. the bikes are already causing us more than enough trouble. one-third of the city streets are taken away by your bike system. we are dealing with that traffic jams and these scooters, the approval in the past have to scoot. i have called two times, when the scooter went through the red

lights and they came in front of the taxi and we say you are blocking the way and they show you the fingers. so, with that scoot, going through the trouble already and you are adding motorized scooters, which are all over on every road, where do you want the cars to go? throw them in the pacific ocean? try to find a solution, these scooters should not be allowed, but ok, you are going to get a few dollar for the tax revenue and you will approve them. but that approval is going to hurt all the public who is in the cars, on the road and accident will keep happening. you are not looking that way. these roads are not designed for the next 100 years. we are all right at the extreme of the situation and please find a way not to allow the motorized scooters. thank you. >> next speaker, please.

david hooper, followed by tom. >> good afternoon, commissioners. and director riskin. david hooper, serve as the president of the new mission terrace improvement association, a neighborhood on the j line south of 280, alongside balboa park. i could spend five minutes talking about how much i appreciate the effort at muni, but what i would really like to draw to your attention, something that director riskin mentioned about the historic cars going back to cameron beach yard. prior to their removal, they had been like all rail or trolly service lines, on church street and san jose avenue, between there and cameron beach yard. the j line occasionally has challenges regarding service.

switch backs at 30th street or glen park leave people stranded. even with the best of efforts to try to get them close with the follower picking up the folks. i would like to know whether the historic cars on pull in and pull out trips from cameron beach yard and to it will be in service when they are on the j line. i say this in part because i was also an operator at muni in my career there, and it's dear to my heart. i would also like to say thank you to peter, robert and his crew. >> that's a good question. if we could have a staff member get back to him on the question, that would be fabulous. >> tom gilberte. etiquette seems to be the big word here. or lack of it, or we have to design a new etiquette, whether it's following the permit plans

to get your scooters on the street and then where to park them. there was one in the elevator at van ness, inside the elevator on the street. it's -- it's a lack of etiquette. and we have to, you are going to have to design the etiquette. it's more efficient, drops not in a bus zone, nothing near a corner makes sense right off the bat. we have uber and lyft etiquette that needs to be developed. bike etiquette needs to be developed. scooters etiquette needs to be developed and all moving vehicles and all squeezing the streets and the sidewalk. i think the key word here is etiquette. with, and you guys are going to have to establish it, thank you. >> thank you, mr. gilberte.

>> madam chair. the last one for topics discussed by mr. riskin. public comment is closed, we will move on. >> moving on to item 8, advisory counsel report. i did not see a member of the c.a.c. present to address you to, so move on to item 9, general public comment. this is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board on matters in the jurisdiction of the sfmta but not on today's agenda. james patrick, followed by alita dupre. >> hi, jim patrick, patrick and company, san francisco, the office supplies business here. pass these out to the board if i could, please. >> please put them down. she will share them with the board after the meeting is over. she will share them with the board after the meeting is over. so they are available to the

public as well. >> all right. owner of 90 tacoma street, and call your attention, which i have passed out, a resolution which you people passed in march 17, 2016. it says, and i quote, paragraph x, i copy to you, establish street closure except for emergency vehicles and bicycles at all times. natoma street from second street and 100 feet. that includes my property. that means, let's see, o emergency vehicles and only bicycles. what about customers? what about cars? what about garbage pick-up? you are essentially taking my property, called in verse condemnation. i just found out about this recently.

i've included a map, which i sent -- which is included for you, which shows this. this also says that you are going to only go in 100 feet. 100 feet on this particula proposal, which you pass in 2016, is not sufficient. it goes 125 feet for a new designed road. i'm sorry you don't have this map to look at, i think it's reprehensible. what are you going to do with the 25 feet? it seems to me there's no money to build it. i don't know what you are going to do with it. you need to explain to me. i believe this is a process of inverse condemnation. the constitution calls for remuneration if it happens. i'm happy to work with the staff to come up with a plan about this. i would like the issue to be brought back at the next board meeting so we can try to deal with this. as a property owner, not a big

guy, a small guy, trying to do business in san francisco and access to the property, i don't think it's right. thank you. >> thank you, mr. patrick. mr. riskin, could we have a member of staff reach out to mr. patrick and start the process of discussing this? >> mr. patrick raised it at a meeting recently and asked staff to explore and follow up on it. >> alita dupre, followed by tom gilberte and herbert wiener. >> thank you again. thank you for continuing in the position of chair, along with director heincke as vice chair. it's good to be back. i did ride muni today in the new rail cars, enjoy them very much, i like the sidewalk seat configuration, helpful to me in being able to get up and down in the cars. so, sideways seeds are a good

thing, i hope that stays. embarcadero, i noticed a table where, with a money box, where old style transfers were being sold, and it boggled my mind with the clipper office across the way and a law enforcement person there, and wondering if we are better served having a law enforcement person watching out for passengers rather than guarding a box full of money not weighed down with anything, when we have the clipper office there. i'm glad that we got the new fare boxes in, because i am playing the 90-minute rule on clipper when i buy a single ride ticket and now on the same sheet of music with the transfers. so, to sell tickets in the station unguarded is a very expensive and unsafe way to do business and i don't see a historical preservation or business standpoint in doing

that, especially with all the conversation about building clipper and i went to the clipper meeting yesterday, it was very enjoyable. it's important we keep up with the times. looking forward to the new fare structure, we will get with the price differential on the passports and we can get that on to the clipper card and the muni app. thank you. >> thank you, mr. dupre. next speaker. >> tom, herbert wiener, and the last terry. >> is the overhead working? there it goes, yes. ok. this is a pretty, a