you think it's important for pedestrian safety in crossing the street so the bus can stop for two minutes at a stopsign. the other is 34th and fulton. there's a serious accident, five, six years ago and why has it taken mta so long to upgrade the signals there. every time i talk to the engineer, he gives me a different story. i could write a book with all of the different stories they tells me and they're still not going to fix the problem. you should read this book here by john massingale. he has radical ideas saying the people should run the streets. seattle did away with their red book, their engineering book. also, mta, the same old streets need to be reorganized like the planning department, where you have teams in each section of the city. i realize downtown, the eastern

need more engineer and planners, but still, each area should have their own planner and engineer, so we know who to talk to and be responsible for doing things in our neighborhood. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is jodie maderas. i'm here with a message from our members and some of them you'll hear today. the message is thank you, thank you for pushing the sfmta staff to do more, faster, quicker, else on our most dangerous streets in asking the right questions. don't stop pushing. we are counting on all of you. time and time again, we're hearing the devastating, angry messages about the precious lives we're losing and it's feeling disheartening that we're

getting further and further away from our zero vision goal and fatal crashes by 2024. that's because we're in a state of emergency. we've lost as many pedestrians this year as we have in all of 201. 2018. we believe that vision zero is achievable. it's all of us, the board, staff, mayor, our board of supervisors, public health, police departments, we have to double down on what's necessary now. we're grateful for this team and board for pushing for a new policy on no-rout no-right on rd we're thrilled to try a left-turn campaign at eight locations soon. thank you. these are the solutions we need to put in place to prevent the possibility of crashes, especially in the most dangerous places, our intersection. we're grateful to mayor reed for

boosting traffic enforcement on the most dangerous driving behaviours. but as we've heard today, it's not enough. we want to see tools like red-light cameras, especially if we don't have the people to tackle. it will take every engineering tool and enforcement solution possible to meet the challenge of our streets, as well as all of the transformative policy. >> thank you, jodie. >> next speak, please. >> harold findly followed by jennifer walsh and missas miss arbuckle. >> i'm harold findly and you all know how to stop the killing. you know it. you know the route cause. you know how to eradicate it. you have some the best professionals in the world that know how to solve it.

you don't need me to tell you the specifics about how do it. i could tell you, but you've read the same books and all of that. but what i can tell you is that there's a growing tide of public support for you to do the right thing, for you to create safe, vibrant cities. you don't have to put the perceived need of somebody to have an s.u.v. parking in front of his house and drive around the city on his daily errands and drive to tahoe on the weekend, put that perceived need over the real need of a child to walk or ride a bike to school without violently slaughtered. i mean those are two completely different things. you can change your focus coming down from the board to the leadership of the sfmta, to the pd to have things like you pointed out, that should just

flow naturally from the top. it shouldn't be a question of no right turn on red. if you have vehicles at all, they don't get to drive in front of people in cross-washes. cros. every officer shoulder citing every single sidewalk or bike lane violation. that's not up for contention. if it's a violation, cite it. if you're thinking from the right perspective, you're doing it that way. and you've got -- you need to know you have the public support growing to do the route things. right things. >> thank you, sir. >> jennifer walsh, nancy arbuckle and sandy wiseburg.

>> my name is jennifer walsh and i work with the ability's integrator. i wanted to advise you of the sidewalk search party. we believe everyone can give back to the community. but the community must be accessible physically and psych psychlogically. this is all about making simple issues fixable by shining light on them so other people can have the power to fix them. the ff sidewalk search party has been meeting since may to strategize how to implement city

departments on making sure temporary pathways around construction areas are accessible for all types of accessibility. over the months, we have had enlightening conversations with mta, 311 w street inspectors about their responsibility for issuing permits, enforcing codes regarding issues, such as path of travel, right-of-way, smooth surfaces, contract compliance, a accessibility guideline. in an ideal world, alastor all y departments will take ownership for all than rather than relying on the mayor's office for construction sites temporary pathway. perhaps mt can be the leader in changing this philosophy of

accessible for all. everybody is welcomed to the next sf sidewalk search party meeting at 166 1663 mission str. fifth floor on september 9t september 9th from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. >> thank you very much. and since we rode over on the train together, i will say thank you for riding muni. thank you. ok, wonderful. next speaker, please. >> nancy arbuckle, susan wiseburg and nancy harrison. >> i want to thank the board for this opportunity to speak. i'm nancy arbuckle from hyde street. i'm a member of walk san francisco. i'm a committed pedestrian and a public transit rider. everyone in my family is. we sole botwe sold both of our x years ago and will never own a car again. we're concerned about injuries and fatalities on san

francisco's streets and not just on the high-injury network, but on a lot of streets. we don't want to die out there but we've come too close too many times. right turners look left for other vehicles and turned right and turned right into us. left turners look at oncoming traffic and speed right into us. i often cross the street with my arm outstretch acting like my on traffic cop. so i'm glad that mayor breed is asking for a no-turn policy and support a policy that recognises safety, safety, as the highest priority. i'm also glad that the mayor recognises that citations and enforcement are critical to getting division zero. i want to thank this board for quickly implementing the solutions that we know will slow speeding traffic and protect us

all in intersections. thank you. >> thank you very much, next speaker, please. >> susan wiseburg, nancy harrison, brian weadonmeyer. >> welcome. >> good afternoon, my name is susan wiseburg and i'm a pedestrian. in june, i spoke before this board urging you to pass the quick-build proposals to reduce pedestrian deaths and you approved those. and i thank you for that. but since then, in just three months, there have been three more deaths and countless more injuries. this is outrageous and i know that you all agree. miss crumbburg said earlier that we're doing everything we can with all of the tools that we have. so clearly we need different tools and do different things with them. now as director henninger said,

the danger of pedestrians on san francisco streets is an emergency now. the city must forthrightly work to implement all proposals, specifically those in the transformative policy agenda. even though, they may need state approval. vision zero needs to stop being a vision and become an actuality. >> next people, please. >> nancy harrison followed by brian weadonmeyer. >> i'm nancy harrison. thank you. i moved to san francisco from madison, wisconsin about a year ago. one of the reasons i moved here was because of muni and bart and

your public transportation system. the senior fairs, the apps that you have have all made it easier for me to make this transition. i'm committed to walking daily around the city, gave up my car, left it in the midwest. but i am the dem graphigraphic m so glad my name wasn't in that list. in february, i was hit by a left-turrinleft-turning car at e intersection of 18th street and gadado. i was in the cross-walk, it was dayloot. daylight. you've heard this story 100 times, so the oncoming car stopped. the guy just turned right into me in the cross-walk. so fortunately, i was unconscious and rushed to the hospital. i am a survivor.

it makes me hesitant to go in the trees. i walk everyday and there it is, this intersection where i live, it's dangerous. in looking every way, the right turners, left turners, trying to make contact through the shaded windows, i do this. it feels ridiculous in that i don't think the left-hand turner would have seen this either, because there i was. but i guess what i want to say is that i'm glad that i hadn't heard of vision zero and through walk san francisco, i did. i'm pleased to hear all of your commitment and some passion around this. i hope to live here for many years and not find my name on the list and i'm greatfu gratefr what you're doing. >> thank you for sharing your story. it does me does help for you to. the more personal accounts,

there's a face to this epidemic and thank you for sharing what, i'm sure, was a traumatic event. >> brian weadonmeyer and herbert weiner. >> i'm the executive director of the san francisco bicycle coalition. on behalf of our 10,000 members, i want to join my colleague and friend, jodie maderos from walk san francisco, thanking you and the agency and the progress we have made in things lake our quick-build policy, pushing for state enforcement. however, i would not be doing my job as an advocate, if i didn't come here and tell you we are not doing enough and director, since you asked for specific examples, i would like to suggest a few. the first is that during the presentation on the vision action strategy, when you list one of your strategy goals as eight miles of improved

sustainable transportation lane per year and the mayor has challenged this agency to build 20 miles of protected bike lanes in two years, so you've got this mismatch of it looks like you're working back from the mayor's challenge on 20 miles. that does not include brt lanes or pedestrian safety. that is 20 miles of projected bike lanes alone and we're saying 16 miles by 2021. on market, street, we will have an opportunity to improve turn restrictions. it suggested 10th street to main would be a significant one. that's one of our most dangerous. let's extend that to goth and franklin. we have policies that we can use and deploy red light cameras right now. why have the number of red light

cameras reduced to over half since the old models are removed? why are we not installing cameras that we've seen listed on fatal collisions? >> thank you very much. >> herbert winer? >> mr. winer, two minutes. >> herbert winer. i appreciate the thoroughness and systematic rigger before the board. there's a safety on the sidewalk. constantly, there's endangerment of pedestrians on the sidewalk. and an argument has been stated that if he build more bike lanes, there will be less violations. it's clearly illegal to ride on

the sidewalk and people need to be protected, especially senior and disabled. and it's pointed out that a vehicle that travels at any speed a threatening to a pedestrian. that certainly applies to bicycles on the sidewalk. you have to stop this. so hopefully the laws should be enforced equally. so hopefully, when vision zero surveys people, they survey the pedestrians and not groups. what would happen if a member of the board were struck by someone on the sidewalk or a law enforcement officer? it's up to you to draw the conclusion. thank you. >> thank you, mr. winier. any further public comment?

if you want to speak. so you'll be the final public speaker. tom, the floor is yours. >> thank you. before i mention signals, the red, yellow and green, we need, i say, dedicated signals to hold back pedestrianed t pedestrianse turns turn. you have to make the decision in the beginning of a light change when it turns to green to let cars turn right or turn left while the pedestrians are still holding up. if you ban left-hand turns, that's ok and if you dedicate left-hand turns, they need to be dedicated in the beginning of a signal change. what about magic eye signals that say there are people on a corner waiting or there's no traffic in the oncoming lanes or sides? i don't know how that can work but we have magic eyes everywhere and maybe they can control the signal.

old folks crossing, that seems to be a major problem. is there a button that we can hit at the corner that old people can say gets ten more seconds to get across the street, that holds the lights up? and vanesse again, the buses that we'll wind up putting on vanesse, if they stop at every other stop, we can do all of the stops that we had once on vanesse. the old folks on vanesse could use it. there are people that are going to get old on vanesse. and we can still put the stops in half and every time a bus stops behind the bus that's at a stop, that bus is going to move and jump the next stop. if you can follow me on that, i think it's doable.

i think it's better for the folks that live in the city on vannesse, thank you. >> thank you. final speaker. >> good afternoon, board of directors. could i have the overhead, please? i don't think you see people holding laptops. i wanted to first quickly say the vision zero sf twitter account came out with a video recently asking cyclists to stop at red lights. please know they speak with the city's voice and especially the opposite is true. charles vincent died in 2015 because a car ran a red light through him. i would appreciate it if the city was not saying bike bicycls

are responsible for their own death by running red lights. we had a discussion about what hor can be done. this isn't stockholm and everything you see here is temporary. those signs, lines, trees, it's temporary. this is a quick build. this is in vancouver, british columbia. there's now a curb separating the bike lane but it wasn't always there and you can see the planters. that was a quick build. this is my hometown in the the netherlands and you can see two things on opposite sides of the street that force cars to make a lig zig-zag and only one car can pass in each direction and i think this is permanent infrastructure and a quick buildable. this is in denmark, where cars want only pass no one direction through this bus stop here. this is not a quick build but quick buildable. this is speed table.

once again, i'm not sure this is quick buildable but resident's intersections should all look like this. so fa food for thought there. >> that concludes public comment on this item and we had a robust discussion before. is there anyone --v -- i have comments myself but are there any with comments. >> thank you so much. you did such a great job. it's been so gratifying in the years i've been on this board to see this discussion and to see this work evolve. i'm so proud of this board as i am proud of you and i'm proud of the public that came here. remember what you heard up here, not just the work you're doing but all of the work that staff is doing. remember how supportive this board is. and when you're out proposing projects in the neighborhood, remember that we will support whatever moves the safety needle forward.

so when you get pushback from new brunswicknewneighbours on p, on daylighting, changing anything in the neighborhood, remember how engaged and emphatic this board was on reaching these vision zero goals. that list and that moment of silence in the beginning was chilling and that could be any one of us and any one of our loved ones and so we have to remember that and any time staff comes to us, we have to ask, yes, and, what else could you do? was there something that didn't get included. as one of the speakers noted, we have seen public opinion shift. to your point, director, dayloot of intersections, went that parking removal is on the consent calendar, we have had people complain but i haven't seen that happen. so we're letting the public know this is important work and in order to reduce deaths on our

streets, we need to do that. thank you so much, captain, the work with enforcement is fantastic. i would love a police officer on the corner of vidadero and hazes to stop blocking the sidewalk. not all of my neighbors would want that, so i try and remind myself. so for me, more officers enforcing is fantastic, but not all of my neighbors will feel the same way. certain communities don't want as many police officers out there. so we need to balance that and i have every faith in the world in sfpg that they'll approach that sensitively. i want to thank everybody. i am not surprised neighbors would choose to lose a traffic lane rather than parking spaces, but it's a good message to us,

because traffic lane removable is palatable. let's remember that as we go forward. i can think of a few streets to lose traffic lanes. thank you for the work, the public who showed up, thank you and hava and megan, i wanted to stand un-anup and applaud. we've come a long way and we're on the right track. thank you. >> any a directors? director torez? >> i want to echo our past director's comments because think they're on target. i do walk the streets of san francisco more than i ride a bike or do other things and believe me, mr. winer, i've been almost hit from bicyclists, scooters on the sidewalk and it's unbelievable what occurs in there, especially for senior citizens and i'm one of those now, too, that are impacted but these activities and by the lack of ken fo concern for safety of. it's true for drivers.

it happens all of the time where i'm trying to cross the street and they don't care who is in the cross-walk. they don't care what's going on with the tree around them and not looking. but number one, they're on their phones. they're texting or they're a vehicle that utilizes our streets for pay and they're not taxis. they usually don't live in san francisco but come from all over the state to harass and to, basically, congest our very streets here. so we have a long way to go, but i believe that efforts of many of the mea people who spoke shod be applauded and we need to do that to our staff and i will thank you for the incredible report which i thought was pervasive in so many areas but my fellow director has good recommendations, as well. so we need to continue to work together, because this won't be solved overnight. thank you. >> dr. borden. >> i wanted to say i agree with all of my colleagues up here and

i want to thank the police department for being here. you're a critical part of the solution on our streets. i often wonder if we can build the railroads, cross-walks. i feel like you need to put those gates down because i see such bad behaviour on streets and we have to let people know they can't get away with driving too fast. people are walking on street. there's people in neighborhoods, a restaurant owner/chef got hit at division on his motorcycle. the point is that it shouldn't be that way. people shouldn't live in fat fef walking across the street. it's a message to remind ourselves to slow down. there was a great article a couple of weeks ago in the chronicle, that it's not a problem just here but everywhere that people are in a hurry to get place. so we have to work against the national trend to be distracted and not slow down and pay attention and really do our part, whether we're acting as pedestrian, a driver, a cyclist,

a motorcycle rider. we have to remember when those positions -- how to be safe and look aut out for others. but on our end, you have our commitment to work on these quick-build initiatives that we know we can do in our wheelhouse. obviously working on the state level enforcement, i think police officer's union is supportive of the legislation to whicwhich is a great steph stepd but we need to utilize all tools in our toolbox and stay on it. we need to look at data and it's great to have people remind us and it's ashame to have people remind us, but this is a city and the reason we live here is because it's walkable and it's notliable if you can't walk across street. so i want to thank you all for your work on this. i know we have a ways to go. there are many things we'll be doing in the coming months and anything to do to expedite

getting things done, i think you have full support in making things happen. >> i just wanted to also say thank you. i wanted to ask -- you're willing to report back as often as we want, oh, excellent! i do think -- this is so important to articles and everything and i'm wondering if -- i'm interested in what others think, but maybe a quarterly report is where we can see metrics and things like that. i think that would be helpful for me but i don't know how manageable that is. >> you don't think there's an objection. i think we'll act we'll ask or o work that out. i think that's a good idea. you've gotten feedback on pretty specific ideas. for example, director hemminger that shows a high injury network, where we have daylighted and where we haven't

and an indicater of the year where we will be doing it. that is the sort of document that can be updated as we go and show progress to the director, at least this director on something he's interested in. i'm not here to draw your diagrams today but i think you have some feedback and if we have that repeat update as we should, you can take a little lesson from julie and this sort of ongoing, living organic documents that show us how we're growing are helpful and something the public will appreciate. let me say one thing -- one thing is a loose thing. you asked and important question, director, and we've talked about small items,

right-turn restrictions. i appreciate the sobriety of your comment. maybe they won't work and now we've put a pedestrian in a worse situation where they're not anticipating a right turn and it happens. you can see similar issues with left-turn restrictions and how that will send cars to different places and create patterns. those small fixes, we have to look to see whether it works. but interestingly, on the eve of our adopting the market street plan, and the eve of our adopting making a major thorou thoroughfair of san francisco a free zone, we're not talking about that tool. you've been advocate for a car-free market street for years. i've been toll to be patient because of eir restrictions and this, that and the other thing and now we're there. one of the reasons i've stayed on this board and fought this day is to see this to completion. director, that's a big tool that we have and there's no rule that says that's limited to market

street. and i think we need to think bigger about this. there are places all through this state where cars can go and pedestrians can't. they're called highways and freeways. they exist because they're efficient for the cars and because they're so efficient for cars, you don't want people there. you need to think the other way around. and i think we need to think not just about places where you can only walk, because then we're only looking at the vision zero goal as we're doing it. director brinkman is right, there's a change in public perception and a desire to address this issue through public policy. there's also a changed and increased desire for muni to be more efficient in this city. i will say to you planners again, i think you can marry the two. i have on numerous occasions talked about red carpeting entire streets, making them transit only. that will serve what i think is the most important safety goal for pedestrians, which is to get

people out of their private cars, get their commuting by public transit, have them behind the wheel of a professional, trained driver much less likely to have an accident. in addition, that will lead to streets where there aren't private cars. people choose where to walk by where it's safer. i am very confident to a moral certainty that once we have finally completed the market street project, you will see people leaving mission street or howard street or north of market to make east-west commutes to come to market street because it will be safer for them to walk there. we can do the same thing elsewhere. idi don't know what the street . you've seen a few that i'm thinking should be the next one. but you asked a provocative question and what's the next big tool we've got i? to that to me is it. i would challenge this by our next boar retreat, which is january or february, to say what

is the leading contender for a major red carpet thoroughfare to facilitate transit and safety and serve both interests at once? as you're evaluating that, and i expect this will be a fun project for a lot of you and this is why you went to fancy grad schools to do this, think about both goals. how are we going to serve and area where we need better transit, safer pedestrians and merge them together and create the political will of two forces behind doing this and, you know, obviously that can include bike lane and taxis, as well. let start thinking about the next market street, because director, that's a blunt tool and i think blunt in the positive sense that we have in our toolbox. ok. anything else? i saved my speech to the end. >> if i could save, mr. chairman, you're my kind okindof chairman.

>> made it all worthwhile. that was emotional air conditioning right there. [ laughter ] >> thank you very much. we will move on to the next item, please. >> item 12, discussion and vote as to whether to invoke the attorney-client privilege and conduct a closed session. >> move for a closed session. >> all those in favour say aye. guests, we have to throw you out. oh, i forgot to say, captain martin, thank you so much for being here today and for all that you're doing to keep us safe. we appreciate it. >> yes. >> so my book that i chose and it sums up my feelings as an activist and woman and legislator. it is girls can. i want to thank everyone for coming. this means a lot. this is a first step.

we will see you at the next one. thank

>> good morning, everyone. i'm tom mcguire and i have the privilege of acting as the san francisco m.c.a. we're here to celebrate the opening of this beautiful train platform. this is going to be the best way to get to the chase center arena. we're exciting to be cutting the ribbon on that platform today. this arena will be the most sustainable, transit-friendly and most successful arena in the nba. to celebrate this opening, i would like to welcome mayor

london breed. >> mayor breed: thank you, tom. there are a lot of folks here today to celebrate this platform, and i just want to start by thanking each and every one of you for being here and helping us to get the word out, but i especially want to thank the warriors. not only have they committed to making sure that this is the most transit friendly chase center anywhere, but they can put their money where their mouth is by making investments in our transportation system here in san francisco. this platform is just one of their many commitments to supporting transportation to chase arena for the over 220 events that they plan to host every single year. we announced a few weeks ago that any event that you attend at chase center, you can basically show your ticket as proof of payment to get on muni and pull up right to the almost

front door and walk over and enjoy a good time. and then when you're ready to go, you can hop right back on muni to get back home or wherever you're trying to get to. a year ago we formed a committee to talk about how we were going to be the most transit friendly location when chase center opened, and the warriors have been at the table, ucff has been at the table. the legislators have been at the table. i really want to thank ucsf for being here today and an incredible partner to make sure that people are able to get in and out this community, whether they're going to the hospital at ucsf or going to class or coming back from mission bay or going to chase center, this neighborhood which basically used to be a railway and empty

space has now become a real part of san francisco as an incredible, thriving community, with people, restaurants, places to go and things to do. i've got to tell you, chase center is like the icing on the cake because this is where entertainment is going to happen, this is where the championship warriors nba champions will play right here in san francisco starting this fall for the -- well, actually coming home for the second time in our great city. i'm so excited about what's to come when we open this new center. but today is about really promoting our transportation plans and how we need to get people around this area safely, securely, efficiently. the thing that people ask about the most, first of all, san francisco has a lot of congestion, but now that we're

adding another 18,000 people who are going to visit this area over the course of 220 events, what are we doing? well, we got bike share, we got plans with muni, we have so many incredible opportunities for people to choose the ferry service and transit options first. our goal is to get the word out and to hopefully when we open this amazing place we'll see tons of people getting right off at this platform to attend the first concert here and attend one of the first games happening here for the golden state warriors. i'm excited about this. thank you to the neighborhood for your patience and all the people that have had a tremendous role. i'd also like to add my real appreciation for the warriors and the four additional trains that we're going to be getting in addition to the platform and some of the other infrastructure

improvements as their commitment to doing all they can to provide transit options for the visitors to chase arena. they've been an incredible partner in this city. at this time, i'd like to introduce another incredible partner, someone who's helped on the legislative side and continues to advocate for not only resources for san francisco, but continues to push the envelope around the kinds of transit options that we need to make san francisco and the bay area a more transit friendly, a more efficient place to move people around, that's assembly member david chu. >> thank you, madam mayor. san francisco, are we ready for basketball? are we ready for the warriors? so i was trying to think of something pithy to say that would be appropriate for this day. this is what i'll say in four words: this is the station for dub nation. all right. this is ride, this journey, has

been long in coming. i was just talking to rick wells about how it was eight years ago when i was serving as president of the san francisco board of supervisors, i got a call about the possibility that the warriors might move to our great city. a lot as happened over that time. i remember asking him the question: how are we going to move 18,000 people in and out games this many times a year? today we announced we unveiled part of the solution to that blue-and-gold question. i want to also along with the mayor thank so many folks that were responsible for the day, starting with the mayor and her team at muni, along with our contractors and our engineers, our builders. of course to the warriors for your vision of what an amazing venue could be about. ucsf, thank you for not only your science but also partnership. i want to thank a moment to thank the neighborhoods, the

neighbors, our transit advocates for bringing us to where we are today. i want to take a moment to thank the legislature and the bay area voters who last year passed regional measure 3, which is over $4 billion of transit and congestion funding to help ensure that we are building the best transit system in the world here in san francisco. let me also mention today is a ribbon cutting, but this is not going to be the last transit stop ribbon cutting. as i mentioned when we were moving forward with regional measure 3 it was suggested to me and my colleagues that we also invest in a ferry system that includes a future mission bay ferry stop. if all goes well, in 2021, we will hopefully do a ribbon cutting there as well with the temporary option, as mayor breed just reminded me. let me just close by saying that we all know that the greatest

21st century cities have great transit. we know we have more work to do in san francisco, but this is one of the major stops to ensuring that we have great transit here in san francisco and here in the bay. go dubes. with that, it's my honor to introduce someone who needs no introduction. someone who has overseen three championships over the last five years, the the of the golden state warriors. >> thank you. another great day. we have been on this journey for about seven years now. i know it's a distant memory, but we had some press conference on pier 3032 about seven years ago accepting the mayor's invitation to bring the warriors back to san francisco. obviously a lot has happened since then. two people up here -- actually, all of them, but two in particular at that point in time were critical to this project david chu in his former role at

the board of supervisors was one of the first advocates for this project. it seems really easy now that it's all done. at the time he took some arrows for us and there were some times when it wasn't the easiest position to be taking. david, we owe you a great debt of gratitude and the support you gave us then in guiding us to our new home at mission bay. i'm going to introduce this guy in a moment, but i want to say something about him before i do. chancellor hagad has been an amazing partner in getting this project done. through the time that i have known him, which initiated with this project, i've come to respect what an incredible steward you are for this amazing institution. he's a really good negotiator too. i will tell you that. he was -- you know, we had a common vision, but we had to figure out how to get there. the getting there was the part

that chancellor hagood was so instrumental in making happen. mayor breed before she was mayor was a supporter. she even came with us to china a few years ago to see the warriors play there. she has -- since the time she has been in office has been an inbelievable advocate in focusing in on what it's going to take to make this project successful for the city. i think her encouragement is what resulted in our muni program. remember that, your ticket to any event at j center is our ticket on muni. free transportation on muni the day of the event. that's an incredible opportunity. i think it's not only going to be great for getting people familiar with muni on muni. i think it's going to bring a lot of people to muni that have never tried it before because of the guests from outside the bay

area and outside of san francisco who now will have an experience with muni that hopefully they'll repeat over and over again. i think, mayor, you've assured us that tom has made sure with all this demand that we're creating, that the service is going to match that demand, right? isn't that what you told me? thanks to each and every one of you. you deserve to be up here. we're less than a month away from cutting a ribbon and welcoming our first event, metallica and the san francisco symphony. what else would you do in san francisco on september 6. thanks to all of you. i'm going to turn this over to chancellor sam hagood. >> thank you, rick. let me welcome you all here the medical center and university here. we're delighted to be welcoming

the equally world class warriors to be our partners. it has been a journey as rick mentioned, but i am confident that everything is in place to make this a spectacular success not just for mission bay, but san francisco. at ucsf we strongly believe in the mayor's transit policies. we run our electric shuttle services to keep our patients, staff, students out of cars. we promote the use of transit whenever we can. that includes allowing city employees to access our transit to zuckerberg san francisco general hospital. i would like to especially thank the mayor, who from day one has made a commitment to the opening of the chase center and the operations of the chase center the great success that i know it will be. with the cooperation of the m.t.a. for their terrific work

on this new pavilion. my office is just here. i can actually see this transit center and see the chase center from my office. i believe i'll be looking directly into rick's office. we'll be able to monitor very carefully how this all works, but we're very excited about welcoming the warriors to our neighborhood. i thank the members of the ucsf community, but the broader community who have tolerated a lot of construction including our own construction and the warriors and the transit. it will all be over soon and we'll be able to enjoy the fruits of everyone's labor. thank you for being here. it's a very, very exciting day. tom. >> thank you, chancellor. thank you again for your patience and for all the neighbors here in mission bay and all the neighborhoods who have been so patient with the amount of construction that has taken place and that has been required for a great station and

a great arena to take shape here in mission bay. thank you also to our elected officials for their leadership encouraging us to put transit first. of course to the warriors for funding infrastructure investments. making your warriors ticket count for your muni ticket. i'm looking forward to seeing what our peer cities and other teams in san francisco, thank you, madam mayor. also joined by our board member who has been terrific. thank you to all the m.t.a. members who have been working so hard for the last few months to make sure that this station opened before the arena so we've got a great facility for all the fans who are going to show up in one month. with that, let's go across the street and cut a ribbon. >> ready? five, four, three, two, one. yay. we're open.

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