down when they put the bar down. i would just want to emphasize how significant i think that point is. i did like the simon boulevard statue and a love that you are putting it right on top of the entrance to the civic centre bart by the burger king. i thought that was a fun little thing so that it becomes market street as part -- as opposed to part of civic centre. i don't know if that makes any sense, but it is certainly an appropriate little plaza there. overall, i'm very excited. i wish this could move at a pace that is significantly faster because we all have to wait decades to see these kinds of changes happen, but really, congratulations on really incredible progress so far. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner black? >> we are so lucky to have this unbelievable extent of civic

centre, the size of it, it has been maintained and kept. they're very few cities that have this incredible opportunity , so i'm really, really pleased to see that formality, that respect for what is there now being maintained, but at the same time, all sorts of new, interactive characteristics that are really important to draw people to serve the neighborhood, the residential neighborhood, but also to draw people from further out into this really special space. i appreciate from when we looked at the alternatives, i can't remember all their names, i really appreciate how you took a little from here and a little from there and made the best use of public comment and other

comments to make what i think is a plan that is really developing nicely. for example, i'm glad to see the angled element of the corner of grove and martins. it would have looked great from inside, but i think would have been deadly to that corner. i'm so happy to see the playground in whatever format is maintained. that playground is full of kids all the time. it is really used. it is a delight to walk by, which i do frequently. it is -- it just has a million kids in there and they are having a blast. it is obviously a really important feature so i am glad you are expanding that.

i love the public space for those of us who have ever protested or celebrated. that's a sense of -- that is a san francisco thing that is fabulous and i'm so glad that is being addressed. i hope to enjoy more giants celebrations there in the future , again, hats off to a really complicated effort of working with a lot of stakeholders and a lot of different groups and pulling something together. i found your comments about the gateway to be very interesting, and i agree, that is an important element that should be done really well. since i don't know enough about what is happening with the fountain other than the diagrams that we saw, i will be interested to see how that progresses. >> thank you.

>> thank you. i think that this effort really accommodated most of the concerns that i had when we first saw this. i agree with everything that commissioner black and chrome and have said. i don't want to repeat a lot of things, i think commissioner pearlman pretty much nailed everything that i had to say. i was concerned about the pavilion because, for me, the gateway to that is market street , and that's what you see, and you see what san francisco tried to do at the turn-of-the-century, and it does need something, i don't want to say french, but it does need something that is vaguely reminiscent of the power of the entrance to versailles, because

he need something that says you have arrived, not, i forgot how you described it, but i like your description of what needs to go there. those are my comments. i thank you guys did a great job if we could accommodate your concerns about tidying up the factual record, i think that we really should do it because if this is done now, it won't -- >> i would assume would have to be done during the e.i.r. process, right? that is the time -- now is the time. here's the opportunity to use the e.i.r. process to make sure all the documents that you are relying on for a new design to be accurate. >> yep. >> i have a couple comments. i think it is great. i think all three zones are going to be really successful.

i think the civic centre plaza is really nicely done. my favorite part of the project is the fulton mall. i think that will be the most dramatic transformation of civic centre. i think it's completely appropriate to have this is a multiuse, flexible loan between these two beautiful buildings. i can't wait to see this happen because that space there is going to be so different than what it is now. i do have two comments. one is, and i couldn't tell by the presentation and whether or not we want to get into this kind of detail anyway, but the paving at the end of the plaza as it comes into market street. is that the original paving or is that a representation of something new that reflected that? where i'm going with this is as we now have a pretty good direction of the better market street plan that has what our

commission found as acceptable paving, which is completely replacing the herringbone terra-cotta bricks, but if you could enlighten us, that would be great. >> i can speak to that quickly or at length. i think in the image that is on the screen, i don't think i put that up. who's to say with finishing color this has, but just as you say, the project has picked a paver unit, and the proposal here is that you and plaza -- u.n. plaza gets one kind of paving in the promenade from the steps of city hall to an existing granite band between the flags, that is another paving, and the idea is -- and the third paving is within the

11 worth area to characterize that community park. so what you would perceive when you arrive, and i agree with everything you have said about gateway, we have to get it right , but you feel the continuity of the market street paving throughout u.n., wrapping around the fountain. and then the ambition for the great walk to city hall is that it would be a timeline of history, and activism in san francisco. a lot of richness and visual texture and an interpretive element that would take you up to city hall. >> okay. >> can i ask a quick question about that? so in this process, i hope that we have an opportunity to comment on the actual final solution of the paving at that intersection. >> yeah,. this is a vision plan. >> exactly. >> we will see you in five years [laughter]. >> and then the last thing i had was -- and i don't see any staff

here accept nick, when the alterations to the fountain are explored in more detail, will that come before us? >> yes, everything will come back before you for approval once we have the environmental review document and we start to move forward with adopting the plan. we will probably adopted as an amendment to the general plan and the civic centre area plan, but also when we have actual capital projects that come out of this. >> great. >> i just had a quick question, and they understand this is just a vision thing, but i was wondering why the angle on that u.n. plaza is off to every single angle that is there. it may be a graphic thing, but it is not in line with the other areas, it is not parallel to market street, it is not

parallel to the fountain, and again -- i get that this is just very early, put something on paper -- >> that is existing from the design and it is true north south. it is like a compass. [simultaneous talking] >> that is fine, it is just that you should define that because just graphically, it looks like, oh, my god, everything works, but what is that thing. that is great. that is true north south and that has meaning. >> thank you. any other comments? right work. we look forward to seeing this move forward. i think we're done. >> thank you. >> we are. -- we are adjourned.

>> the annual celebration of hardly strictly bluegrass is always a hit now completing itself 12 year of music in the incredible golden gate park. >> this is just the best park to come to. it's safe. it's wonderful and such a fun time of the year. there is every kind of music you can imagine and can wander around and go from one

stage to another and just have fun. >> 81 bands and six stages and no admission. this is hardly strictly bluegrass. >> i love music and peace. >> i think it represents what is great about the bay area. >> everyone is here for the music and the experience. this is why i live here. >> the culture out here is amazing. it's san francisco. >> this is a legacy of the old warren hel ment and receive necessary funding for ten years after his death. >> there is a legacy that started and it's cool and he's done something wonderful for the city and we're all grateful. hopefully we will keep this thing going on for years and years to come.

(roll call). >> please be advised directors emergencheinke and torr sessiont be present. any person responsible for an electronic device going off may be asked to leave the room. item 4. >> i have a motion. >> madam chair, no one has indicated they wish to address. >> motion to approve.

>> all in favour? >> aye. >> item 5, communication's madam chair, none. item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> i just wanted to tell chair heinke, he's getting props to move more strategies in san francisco to a bike-pedestrian transit lane situation only. i wanted to mention that and tell him that he's really getting just so much excitement and support and after the unfortunate incident in the tenderloin where a young boy was hit, there's so much interest in that neighborhood, so many families with young children, overly affected and they're talking into looking into car-free seats. it puts a lot on staff, but it's gotten a lot of people excited

and happy to hear it's moving forward. >> thank you. any other directors have any new unfinished business? seeing none, we will move on to the director of transportation report. >> as you know, we have been conducting staff and stakeholder outreach most of the summer and we're community to receive subject input through a survey we post ed this summer and received 344 employee responses and 29 295 stakeholder responses and we wanted to summarize some of what we learned through the surveys. the top areas of focus where the employees want the new director to focus are on long-term visual ship, setting clear priorities, ensuring safety operations of the transit system and standing up to political pressure,

providing strong, responsible and fair leadership and ensuring customer service to the paying public, inspiring and empowering staff and ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion and service to customers. in terms of the stakeholder input for the next director, where safety for pedestrians and cyclists, safety for transit riders and a vision for environmental and financial sustainability. the interview questions that we are asking the candidates came from the input we received this summer from staff and stakeholder outreach. we are actively seeking out individuals that must closely fit the ideal profile, and that profile was itself generated from a lot of that staff and stakeholder input we received. as we consider candidates, we are strin striving to find the s from employees and stakeholders. so that is my report and any

question, i's, i'm happy to fied them. any director who's were on the search committee, want to contribute highlight level comments? i want to thank director eakin for directing that cause. we'll move on to the director's report. >> madam chair, it would be report -- >> for public comment. >> it doesn't look like anyone submisubmitted a speaker card. >> any comment on the overview of the search process? seeing none, we'll move to the director's report. >> item 7, director's report. >> good afternoon, i'm going to start with a review of recent activities and when i'm done i'll ask julie kirshbaum. it's on the opening of the center and i want to recognise

thousands of mta staff, every division of the agency who made the launch of transit service in the opening of the chase center and overwhelming success for opportunities of thousands of fans, workers and just regular san francisco people who wanted to get around. on friday, the metallica concert, there were 500 passengers on the bus service and 3,000 to 3600 on the t-line and the tn-shuttle line. according to the giants who operate the large parking lot at lot a, very few cars in parking lot a and so, we did not see the feared karmagheddin that many of us were prepared for they parked

or traveled on foot from somewhere else. as many as 1500 using tnss. the 78x, the nonstop to the bart station was crush loads and 79 loads was half full. over the course of a few events, we did see muni ridership going up but did not see the traffic crush materializing. we had additional tests last week. the first time that we had a dual event, meaning a giant's game at the ballpark and again, got the same -- observed the same smooth conditions on the streets and didn't get a lot of negative and only positive feedback from the public. bike use was light, only 30 bikes at the first event and one of the works in progress we have is cleaning up the operation of the smooth operation of bicycles

on 6th street between third and the bay and then, bees, the completion of the fully bike path. we have construction all over mission bay and the dog path and as streets open, we'll be tweakintweaking signage, with sy post and the convenience of everyone trying to travel is prioritized. i want to acknowledge we heard criticism last week of the impacts of the chase center on riders on the number 8 bus. specifically, we missed about three runs on tuesday on that bus and we immediately got into dialogue with supervisor walton representing the constituents and we offered free service on the 8th, 19th on thursday and friday, but more

importantly, it was a wake-up call to us to make sure the message -- the promises we may the public, we would not let the chase center events disturb access to the eastern part of the city, making sure that message is communicated to the details of where we send a spare bus where we're short a vehicle or two. the other things will be works in progress and we were, on the hole, the way we worked. next up, i would like to invite our new resource directors, and i would like to introduce you to her, as well. as you've told us consistently, getting our human resource's operations is a top priority for mta, as well, and kimberly

joined us as a new director of human resource. she has 25 years working in state and regional transit agencies and came to us from ham hampton road's transit and oversaw the entire operation of the resource's department from talent, acquisition and retention, benefits, compensation, ceo, compliance, performance management and policy development and an divert in human resources. before hr, she was an urban planner and passionate about developing efficient public transportation systems and creating the dynamic workforces fostering the charging ratio coo get there. maybe kimberly will say a few words. >> thank you, thank you so much. everyone has been so supportive and welcoming.

not only the employees but san francisco as a whole. i'm skated to be her scooted exe sure we're working together to be inclusive and have a diverse work environment. so i really am excited and thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> thank you very much. thank you. >> welcome to the agency and happy to see you on board. i just do want to flag that in the course of the search process, one of the things we've heard a lot about is that we are ensuring mta is an environment free of harassments and free of discrimination issue. the board received a letter that i'm sure you received a copy of from change mta, concerned about the issues and they're persistents at the agency.

i see no reason for a new director to come on and i'm happy to meet with you any time. i feel these are foundational and urgently address these issues and wipe them out. thank you so much. >> thank you. looking forward to working with you. >> welcomanother scooting excito announce, last week, september 10th, the county admitted 17 million to the overall flier fleet and doing a properly funded overhaul is the way to make sure the investment pays dividends over the use of the buses. so we don't have to retire them early or deal with maintenance issues down the road. this is a good example of funding and planning for keeping our flu down the road.

a couple of street improvements, over the last three months, we've rolled out traffic signals to keep traffic flowing on some of busiest streets in sanfrancisco. we installed new timing patterns at 50 intersections in eastern soma, east of fourth street and another 50 intersections on california pine and bush in lower pacific heights. the improvements that we put in place include making the signals for visible, higher visibility to pedestrians, separation between pedestrians and traffic and we've installed -- activated two more red-light cameras, two more red-light cameras are active and two are turned on and issuing warnings and another eight installed by the end of the year. so we're ramping up quickly in that programme. some morning, i will join the director of public works and some other city officials at

eighth and judith to ribbon cut the straight scape improvement. it's a multiagency project and we're reorganizing the end judith stops and also doing some needed sewer work from public works and puc. customers and pedestrians along juda will see new cross-walk ramps, newly striped cross-walk and improved traffic signals to go along with the sidewalks at t the transit stops. i know outreach is on the board. i'm proud our team has won awards for public outreach and planning. the 2017 bryant project was awarded -- was given an award by

association for public participation, better known as iap2 and specifically gave an award for diversity, inclusion and culture category and for improving one of the slowest routes and able to reach populations in soma and tenderloin. that was recognised by the transit riders who gave out a rider first award and at those awards, they recognise the planning team that quickly put in place the resign, the common sense pilot at the west portal this year to improve and make the lightrail service smoother. we're giving free muni tickets and for the t-third for providinproviding readable signd to 250a for successfully pass ag contract to improve conditions for operators and kept riders moving.

that concludes my report. i will turn it over to director borden, to julie. >> dr. kirshbaum. >> good afternoon. i'm the transit director and thank you for talking about the upcoming schedule changes. these are a part of our ongoing approach to make incremental improvements to improve or

reliability. we're in a resource constrained environment right now as a result of the operator shortage, so we're not doing big ads to the system, but we are constantly making shifts and refinements to make service better. the changes go into effect early 2020. we're targeting january. although it may be early february. and some of the things that we're doing is enhancing reliability, making new or improved customer connections and also we believe will help with less misservice. on the reliability side, the first thing we're doing is we'll pilot in the morning a change to the rail system where we're going to turn the j-line along

ebarcadaro rather than turning it at ebarcadaro station. it's an experiment but we believe it will decrease congestion and really reduce the amount of delay that customers are spending stuck between stations particular lookly between montgomery and ebarcadaro but we'll seeing it between powell and montgomery. the cross-over move, because we don't have a dedicated pocket along the ebarcadaro, the cross-over move, we've tested and it takes about 90 seconds. so there will be some delays if there's an end train or a t-train coming in either direction, but we believe that delay is better than the big delay that we're seeing in the tunnel itself. if it doesn't work, you know, we have the ability to quickly revert back to the current system, but we think that it

will make an incremental improvement. then as we discussed, we are looking as we develop our capital programme at an additional pocket track along the ebarcadaro which would really, i believe, help with the terminal. the second thing i'm excited about and we've waited a long time, is that we're upgrading the buses on the weekday. it currently has longer buses on the weekends. we've been holding off on doing that because we've needed coaches, the bigger trains for some of the rail construction that's been happening, including the warrior's platform that was you have completed. but we're excited to be rolling that out and getting a lot of positive feedback from folks that are experiencing crowding on that service. this will also allow us to retire some of our very oldest 40-foot buss that we've been holding onto. there's small incremental

changes. unfortunately the city continues to slow down and so, we have to make adjustments in the schedules to keep up with that negative trend. the second category of changes is looking at ways to have better connections and one of the things i am most excited about is that we are going to be restructuring the early morning service for our rail customers. on some of our routes like the t-line and m-line, we provide a route downtown but on others we wdon't. we force a surface lane to west portal and then they transfer to a bus. when we interviewed the early

morning customers, many whom are going to jobs and making connections that without reliable transit they wouldn't be able to get where they needed to go, about a quarter said they were transferring two times just to access our early-morning service. additionally, we're putting extra rail miles on the system when we don't need it. the bus loads -- the customer loads are more appropriate for a bus at that hour. so what we'll be doing, we'll be pulling out the trains a little bit later to match when the subway open and deriving direct connections on our bus system. this is something we will do extensive customer information campaigns so those early morning customers know what to expect.

they'll be told, you don't have to get off this and this will take you down to make your destination. this reduces the number of vehiclevehicles on tonsend. we've been hearing feedback, the 9r, which is something that has had positive feedback, for example, in visitation valley isn't starting early enough. we will be implementing service to rinkon hill which is

something we've been work o worn for a long time and something this board off proved. another change is an equity change, currently the 29 sunset is not very customer-friendly. we don't have a very good lay-over at the end of the line. so what we do -- and we've done it for many, many years -- when the bus gets to third street, customers have to wait through the entire operator lay-over before heading to the end of the line. so what we're working on is to try to work to get a terminal and a location but if we're not able to, we'll do the terminal loop twice. so we will take customers directly to the end of the line. well go back and do the lay-over and start the line again and pick them up. i also want to flag on the 29, we continue to get a lot of

feedback about all of the schools and all of the activity. i know we had an interesting presentation from students last summer. our transit planners are doing a year-long process with that class to look at the needs of students along that route and looking at how we can get potentially some skip-stop service or express service focused around the school time. we don't have the resources do that now, but i'm optimistic as we continue with our operator hiring that we may be able to consider ha in the future. so i wanted you to know the planning work is going on, even tothough we're not able to add f extra service. the last areas we're looking at is to sea what we ca see what wn

minimize misservice. we're changing the schedule. we have the number of part-time operators. even with all of our recruiting efforts, we only have about 35 part-type operatorpart-time open the system. so we'll be adjusting the schedule to reflect that. we'll be as a paper exercise, we're going be reducing the amount of service on the f line. it will not be different than what we're delivering today because, unfortunately, we just don't have enough operators trained on the historic fleet, but as our training improves, we'll be able to rachet that back up and it will be more stable because instead of having big gaps in service, everything will be more smoothed out to match our actual resource levels.

we will also be making some judgmentadjustments to the lrv e to reflect the number of vehicles we have. the end result will be fewer car trains in the system. the last thing, we've taken a hard look at all of our routes to shift resources and one place we're pursuing this is on the richmond expresses. we currently provide one trip after 7:00 p.m. on all of the rich monday routes. it's a very expensive trip because it forces or schedule to go from 12 hours to 13 hours, which doubles the number of operators that we need. and they're not very well utilized. so we are going to ask customers on the richmond express to use the 38 rapid and one california

after 7:00 p.m. so these changes right now, i know january or february seems far off, but in scheduling world, we're actually kind of in the heat of developing those changes. this will also be a general sign-up for our operators, so they will have the opportunity to change modes. this will be our last traditional general soon-up, where people can go from bus to rail. one of the things we changed in the contract negotiations was how we do rail training, by the commitment that we would be doing one more traditional sign-up. i do believe that the rail service will be more stable than it was the last time we did a general sign-up. the last time we did a general sign-up, we had about a six-month slow down in training because of the blue light phone replacement in the subway and

we've had an extended period of shut-downs in the subway impacting our hiring. our hiring levels continue to be good on the lrv side. but this will have some impacts. it also means that instead of our october class being 60 students, we do have to rachet it back to 30 students because we need trainer capacity to train existing operators on their new modes so people will go from a 40-foot bus to a 60-foot bus or a motor coach to a federall trolley and we need t those contract obligations. i think that's the end of my presentation and i'm available to answer any questions have. >> directors? director eakin. thank you for the update and i know it's making tough

decisions, making a decision you don't want to make, but we've been so heartened to hear of the strong sizes at the operator classes and i did note a decision to temporarily reduce the size of the october class and i wanted to hear you speak about what's the constraint there and any way to trouble-shoot that. can we ever bring in contract part-time trainers or temporarily supplement or training force to allow us to keep the momentum with the recruitment? >> thank you for that question. we -- the constraint currently right now is the number of trainers. although, we have worked very hard in a multi--yea multiyear o develop a trainer

classification. that eligibility list we expect to be done december-january timeframe which allows us to increase our training staff for the first time in many years. so i think that we'll have to, as those new trainers become qualified to lead classes of their own, i do think we'll need to rachet up even further the class sizes that we have and i'm going spend quite a bit of time in my october presentation to you sharing where i think we're at with the training when i think we sort of stabilize but what i think we do to ultimately put this shortage behind us. and not have to be making these tough trade-offs that you're talking about. >> directors? director hemminger. >> thank you, clear.

the 31x used to be my bus. and i through it over for the 5r because it's a lot better. [ laughter ] >> so good for you on that. i recall that the last bus on all those richmond expresses was 6:00, not 7:00. so you must have expanded it or lengthened it when i wasn't looking. so if the last bus is not going to be 7:00, when will it be? >> so about a year and a half ago, maybe two years ago, we increased the service span from 6:00 to about 7:15, 7:00, 75:00 and this will move it back to about 6:50. it recognises there is a market

from 6:00 to 7:00. >> so you're reacting to the ridership trend you're seeing out there? >> yes. >> that's fine. the borde broader question, thee a whole mess of people outside of the city hall front doors a few days ago, talking about a dramatic expansion of rapid bus service city-wood an city--wide. i would appreciate what those folks are talking about and what your views of it are. i know the rapid service was launched in sort of a methodical way so you went for the routes you thought you would get the biggest bang for the buck. so we're farther up the tree now in terms of low-hangin' fruit. but it does seem to me that with the success you've had in the te richmond district, we should build on that success and maybe reach farther up in the tree and

we may need to make tougher decisions to reach the fruit but i'm game for that. so i was hoping we could get that when it's convenient for you over the next few months or so. >> director rinkman. >> no specific questions but i just wanted to congratulate you on some of the change and thank you from the rider point of view. some of the early morning changes, the seven buses, all of these will help just address the problems that our riders are having out there, so thank you for that. on the operator sued, you came back from rail's resolution and at one of the sessions, one effort panelists asked all of the represented cities in the room who was having problems with operator shortages and every city raised their hand. so we're not alone in this and thank you for not losing focus and continuing to push on it. and hopefully well at least, if not solve it, we will keep up

and we'll get much closer in the long range. they use an outreach bus and they kidded up and drive it out to the neighborhood and park it and people walk through and look at all of the information about the project in hand. so i thought that was an interesting idea since we're retiring buses. but thank you so much. these are the kind of innovative changes that people are really excited to see and addressing the little things you can do and try them out with the turn-back on the ebarcadaro and see if they work and if they do, fabulous and if they don't, we'll go back to the way it was. thank you for all of your work. >> on the richmond bus, i wanted to make sure when we change the time, do we make sure we don't miss any buses before that? because i used to lo live out tt

way and i remember if one of the buses got missed along the way, the next bus was packed. i don't know if we look at that and trouble-shoot that better than back then. maybe you can talk about that. the ric richmond expresses comet of the 10, 12 and 19. we're constantly in this kind of tough set of choices, but we do make sure that we fill the last trip on every route because we think it's important to set people's expectations, but in some cases, the expresses are taking more of a service hit so that we don't have double gaps on routes like the 12 or the 19. >> so to that point, are we doing better information to the customer to let them know the

last bus will be -- will be mixinmissing a route. people can take the 5r, depending on where they're going, there's more than one option. if we can communicate to people because they're standing on the bus stop and don't know why the bus hasn't come and it comes and it's backed. they don't have any communication. i think if we can do a better job because we know the entire run will be missed, letting people know sooner, then we can let them make a different choice to take a different mode. >> i think that's a great suggestion. we are doing it, but i think doing it more would be helpful and particularly acknowledging the fact that that's a very digital client base and making more information available in real-time, because in the morning, somebody doesn't have to choose, you know. luke i.if the express bus comes,

they can take that but in the evening, the express has their own terminal and would be helpful to give customers information in advance. >> about the early weekend transit, making sure you reach out to the hospitality groups because a lot of riders are going to hospitality service, hotel, restaurant jobs, making sure we reach out to those, and i know that was effective in bart when they were opening later and focusing on that demographic. if there's anything to increase the 30 to a higher number, that would be great. i was lucky to be at the graduation last friday and it was inspiring to see the new class members about joining the mta family and having the mayor show up, which was an extra icing on the cherry for everyone in that class and it made a big

difference. one of the stories that ge i dit mention earlier, there was a woman going through chemotherapy and she was never late and never missed a class. i felt inspired by how dedicated people are to choose to do this work. so just wanted to recognise that we are looking for drivers and whatever we can do to make sure we can meet that demand to miss left rounds would be great. you can speak to this. >> christopher peterson and then lastly kat carter, h who have turned in a speaker's card. >> herbert winer, i think the elephant in the room is the addition of more buses to the fleet. now you can say, ok, we've added some more buses, but you've

retired more buses, which means the addition is much lower, if there's any addition at all. right now what you're doing is reallocating the existing resources to different runs, dust routes, different time schedules than the reft of it, but the population of this city is growing. the fleet is growing and it should be increased to meet the factors. basically, progress has been very gracial in this agency, if any at all. i would like to see a report on the task force because i don't

know, frankly, you know, what the schedule is, when they're going to meet, public participation or anything. so these are my comments. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> christopher peterson followed by kat carter. >> i'm christopher peterson and my comment relates to the impacts of chase centre on transit service. i think it's very important that mta be evaluating the ripple effects of that. i suspect there are dust caned t kinds of ripple effects. the friday night opening of chase center, i trade to catch an outbound k at vanesse at 11:30 at night and there was an hour wait and the water for the el was 40 minutes. i looked at the system map in

the station and not a single train was running in the direction of balboa park from sunnydale to balboa park. so was that kind of extreme clustering an extreme gap in service because of the chase center or just another incident unfortunately too frequent of there being large gaps in late-night service on muni metro, thank you. >> kat carter and that's the last person who has turned in a speaker card on this topic. >> good afternoon. i'm the acting executive director of san francisco transit riders. i just wanted to say briefly that i support everything that director of transit is doing and i'm looking forward to the changes in january. i particularly ride the 12 and

the expanded capacity on the 7 is certainly welcome. i really appreciate her honesty and transparency about all of this stuff. i appreciate that it is shifting agency-wide. we've been hearing more about what's happening and i just want to say i support it and thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> sorry, i put 9 instead of 7 on my speaker cards. sorry about that. i wanted to speak to director mcguire opening the chase center and in that discussion, the topic of signage came up twice. there's a lot of soonage that wasignage for thenew express bu. i happened to be traveling there while there was a concert going on and there was really good signage directing people to the bart station as well as, like,

the signage this agency got an award for last week about the t third that was happening. i think it's great that the temporary signage is really good and the temporary signage is terrible. so i would urge you to bring the resources that you clearly possess to bear on that problem. secondly, the bike lane, i think it's awesome that was implemented as part of the chase center project. it's great and i like the huge bike share station at the stadium. but the separation is not good right now and it's not clear to drivers. i was biking by the stadium when there was one of the metallica concerts going on and a guy in an s.u.v. cut me off trying to drop off people because he went over to the curb. thankfulfully, therthankfully tr

cycle cop on top of it, but for out-of-town drivers, it's not clear and to separation at all, apart from painted parking spaces. so it could use improvement. >> general comment to address the board and not on today's calendar. we'll start with frank reeg followed by john par. >> can i have the projector, please. >> just start talking. >> good afternoon.

i'm the ceo and cofounder of rebel. for background, re york e yorkve largest moped operator in the united states and i'm speaking in front of you because we would love to bring this electric mow memoped programme to the city of san francisco. i think the biggest thing here is that our electric moped is a motored vehicle. so each of the vehicles has a license plate. in order to acquire that, you need third-party liability. everyone of our m mopeds has two

doc certificates. the reason it fill into both new york city and d.c. and why scoot has been operating here for many years safely and effectively is because there's to regulatory grey area with our vehicle, right? it rides in the street, parks in the street, has a license plate and it provides enforceability for bad behaviour. just to close here, just two last points. it's important to mention, revel does not use a gig economy in any way. so with the fleet operating in new york city, we have 50 operations staffed and all employees. there's hea fleet managers, cusr support and the same health insurance i have at ceo and all paid a living wage.