by the public with this legislation comes back to you. there's a lot for people to do really expensive housing in the city. that's what we're getting. we need housing for the workforce and for low income residents and that's what supervisor peskin and supervisor preston are aiming for so give us enough time to git more input on it and have it before us in writing. thank you, very much. >> clerk: thank you, so much. and we have one last caller in the queue. if you would like to speak and have not done so already express star 3 unless we'll take this last caller.

>> caller: yes. i'm a long time citizen of san francisco you do not needs newer housing in the city. you cannot afford to house or educator transport and you cannot provide healthcare and you did not provide police services you idiots don't understand when you try to get real estate, provide affordable housing, you troy to violate the laws of supply and demand and raise the price so it will never be affordable for the average person. people that get in there are treated worse than people in prison. typical cracker box housing that you provide makes it not worth living in the city anymore and as soon as they can move out of the city. you should stop wasting the city, yes, transportation and should not be car centric but until you provide an alternative, which you will not do because you play politics with muni all the time, that's the reasonable choice so stop thinking cars should be outlawed for everybody and realize that 85% of the population of san

francisco uses cars because that is what makes sense to them. muni does not take them where they need to go or do it on a schedule that will allow them to work and survive in the overpriced town and it lowers the quality of life where you do nothing but pick on them. as far as housing goes, where are the jobs? you keep saying we need more housing and you say well, we're going to have to make sacrifices in terms of water, power and we will have to take up real estate too. you've already talked about converting from gas to electric which is going to quadruple the cost of election and san francisco is affordable housing due to your over legislation of the public. >> clerk: thank you so much. we have one last caller. let's take that last caller, please. >> caller: this is rick hall with cultural action network.

i ask to you lay this legislation to work with the race and equity coalition to improve it. what they have said and what eric has said, is key to improving this legislation i'm often advocating for pdr and car washes, auto repair, et cetera, are important to working class, having and keeping working class jobs in san francisco. and lower income people, with working class jobs, need their cars and trucks for their business and they need the businesses to support them. community needs a full range of services and including automotive uses and i grow withh the last caller, symptom dem stm

onizing the automobile. there are people like me and seniors and disabled that are car dependent. don't discount their needs. and i'm sure there are some parking lots that could be converted to housing and it should be affordable housing but let's stop demonizing automobile use because it isn't going to go away. you will make life harder for all of us who use autos. >> clerk: thank you so much. that concludes the speakers here. i believe maria is typing. no more callers in the queue, madam chair. >> thank you. madam clerk. with that public comment is now closed. colleagues, do we have a motion or further comments about this item? supervisor peskin. >> i will endeavor to work with

the mayor's office and get amendments from the city attorney office and make those public as soon as possible and given the schedule that you mentioned for next week's meeting i will continue and it will be scheduled at your first available opportunity. >> thank you. madam clerk, please take roll on this. >> clerk: on the motion to continue the item of the call to the chair -- [roll call vote] >> clerk: we have three ayes. >> that motion passes, thank you. since we took item 7, at the top of the agenda, and have continued that to the call of the chair, madam clerk, do we have anymore items for today? >> that concludes the business for today, madam chair.

>> we are adjourned. thank you. >> i am so happy. african-americans in the

military from the revolutionary war to the present, even though they have not had the basic civil rights in america. they don't know their history. in the military the most sacrifice as anyone in this country to be willing to lay down your blood and fight. i believe that all african-americans have served because they love this country and the hope that the citizens.

>> the city has undertaken a pilot program to hook up private privately -- owned hotels. >> the community members say this is helpful for them especially for the seniors and families with kids from seniors being able to connect with the family during the pandemic and too watch the news has been really helpful during this time where they are stuck inside and are not able to go outside. for families it is important to stay connected to go to school, to get connected so they can submit resumes to find jobs during the pandemic. [speaking foreign language]

>> challenges that might seem for the fiber in chinatown is pretty congested. the fiber team found ways around that. they would have to do things such as overnight work in the manholes to get across through busy intersections, and i think the last challenge is a lot of buildings we worked on were built in the early 1900s and they are not fitted with the typical infrastructure you would put in a new building. we overcame that with creative ideas, and we continue to connect more sites like this. >> high-speed internet has become a lifesaver in the modern era. i am delighted that we completed three buildings or in the

process of completing two more. i want to thank our department of technology that has done this by themselves. it is not contracted out. it is done by city employees. i am proud and i want to take a moment to celebrate what we are doing.

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♪♪ >> the san francisco playground's hitsvery dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the sen consider was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful,

brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong and arts can crafts. >> you can use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center, celebrating its renovation. it was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries, community members and children in attendance. [cheering and applauding] ♪♪ ♪♪

>> chair borden: regular meetings of the transportation municipal board of directors. please call the roll. >> clerk: on the roll. [ roll call ]

we have no announcements. we are in a virtual meeting. item number 4, approval of minutes for the february 15, 2022 regular meeting. directors in response to public comment, i have corrected the meeting minutes to indicate after february 15 meeting i reported that the board has not approved the settlement. thus took no action on item b. >> chair borden: is there a motion to make this -- >> director hinze: i'll move the amendment. >> chair borden: with that we will open for public comment. for those on the line who like to speak. give them a number. >> clerk: for members of the public who wish to make public

comment, phone number is -- >> chair borden: are there any callers in the queue to address approval of minutes from february 15th? >> caller: this is david pilpel. i had to jump from the ballot simplification meeting to come visit you on the minutes. i forget the page number but hold on a second, i will find it here one moment on the minutes. page 3, the director tumlin paragraph. i would spell out general obligation bond for g.o. bond.

i would say the van ness project ribbon project groundbreaking. i believe the closed session item b was incorrect. city attorney reported that she

had no reason to believe that it was incorrect. but it was incorrect. it will be useful for the city attorney to check that case numbers are correctly reported. that was the whole point of that disclosure requirement is so that members of the public can find reference to court cases there. if i see anything further, i will report it to board secretary christine fuller who did fantastic job with the minutes. >> chair borden: thank you. are there any additional callers on the line? with that we'll close public comment. directors are there additional amendments that we should accept in the record? some of the spelling out of things, we should put in parenthesis. they weren't actually said that way. i think for clarification -- may be city attorney you can opine on two things.

is it necessary in the minutes to spell out things that necessarily spelled out in the original. two in terms of that case number for the case, is that -- do we need to update it? >> i think you chair borden, you can certainly add to the minutes explanation of acronyms or other things for clarification for the public. i agree, ethey should go in parenthesis to indicate they were not actually said in that way. i will work with the board secretary to correct the case number that is incorrect and going forward, i will make sure that all of the case numbers on the agenda are accurate. i apologize if there's a mistake on that. >> chair borden: do you accept modifications based upon the city attorney's guidance?

>> yes. >> chair borden: great. secretary silva, please call the roll. >> clerk: on the motion to approve the minutes for the february 15th meeting with the modifications. [roll call vote] minutes are approved. >> chair borden: communications, next item. >> clerk: item 5 is communications. >> chair borden: we'll be journeying in honor of jeffrey diggs who recently passed away. he was a supply chain manager here at sfmta. his personality expertise was respected among staff.

he was known for not meeting a stranger and instead meeting people with a true interest in how he can support their role. mr. diggs carried expertise into the civilian world here at the agency. he was decorated u.s. veteran who served overseas in afghanistan and tours of duty. he was highly certified in federal regulatory matters which benefit sfmta and roles he served. he leaves behind not only higher family but sfmta family who will hold on to his memory dearly. we speak his name today to honor him and his contributions to sfmta. it's always such a sad day when we lose a member of our sfmta family. our hearts go out to his family members. secretary silva, please read the

rest of your communication. >> clerk: yes. due to covid-19 health emergency is meeting is held virtually with all members of the staff participating today via teleconference. we ask the public to participate remotely by writing to the board by leaving a voice mail message. we have received and appreciate these comments. they were sent to the board members. we continue to urge the public to write to the board at sfmta.com or call us in advance. if we lose phone connection during this meeting we will pause the meeting and recess until the connection has been reestablished. this meeting is being televised by sfgov tv. for those watching the live stream, there's a delay between the actual meeting, members of the public oare seeing on sfgov tv. if you're watching and wish to comment, please call the phone line when the item is called.

(888)808-6929. the-in closed session item 3 is continued and will not be heard today. item 6, introduction of new and unfinished business by board members. >> chair borden: i want welcoming our newest director, director cajina. i want to turn it over to you first to make your initial introductions or words that you like to say. >> director cajina: absolutely. thank you so much chair borden. i'm so excited to start today with my esteemed directors. i've been watching you guys for the past few months, trying to catch up with all the important

decisions. the work that the m.t.a. does, it touches so many san franciscans. as a native san franciscan, that comes from an immigrant family, that depends on transit to get by, it's an honor to be on this board on -- looking at all these different matters and see how to best serve our city. i want to thank you all for welcoming me. it's been an adventure to get here and catch up to and get up to speed. i want to extend gratitude to director tumlin and to all the different managers that have debriefed me on different issues. i'm just ready to get to work.

thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. directors are there any other items of newer or unfinished business by board members? seeing none, i will open up to public comment. this is a time when members of the public may comment on our new and unfinished business by board members. we will be welcoming our new director cajina. are there any questions on the line? first speaker please. >> caller: good afternoon directors and welcome director cajina. my name is kathy deluka, i currently work for community living campaign. i have had the great pleasure of working with director cajina on so much pedestrian safety work. i remember one of the first projects i went on was a walk audit.

the director cajina organized in the excelsior, getting the community out and trying to find a solution to all of the key intersections on mission street so that folks in her neighborhood could walk safely. getting to where they wanted to go. director cajina led an amazing vision zero project on mission street in the excelsior, painted the poles pink and they had amazing signs to say how many people were impacted by crashes at each intersection. she's super smart. welcome dreckman. director -- director

cajina. >> chair borden: are there any speakers? >> caller: i want to officially welcome stephanie cajina to the sfmta board of directors. she is an amazing person. see will be welcome addition to this governing body. considering that lot of taxi passengers are from the latino community. we couldn't really operate without these passengers considering they work as essential workers like we do. late at night and early morning hours. we look forward to picking them up especially on mission street and other parts of the city. i welcome stephanie cajina to the board. >> chair borden: are there additional callers on the line?

next speaker please. >> caller: my name is -- i'm from san francisco. i wanted to say congratulations also and looking forward to seeing good things you will do. also thank you for bringing back the 31 and the -- but the 5 was taken away. have a good day. >> chair borden: thank you. are there additional callers on the line related to new and unfinished business by board members the welcoming of our newest director? we will close public comment. secretary silva, next item. >> clerk: director's report. >> chair borden: director tumlin? >> director tumlin: we have a relatively short director's report today. i will cover bunch of vision

zero project updates to a brief transit update. talk to you about our parking meters and brief budget update. let's get started with vision zero. pleased to announce that our south van ness avenue quick build project was completed in january. including left turn pockets, new median fire way and signaled timing changes all aimed at making the entirety of south van ness safer for all road users. i'm also very happy to announce the new assembly bill 43. as all of you know, speed is the leading cause of severe and fatal traffic collisions. slowing speeds is the most effective thing we can do towards achieving vision zero.

we're very happy that assembly member laura friedman from glendale introduced 8043 and governor newsom signed it in law about reducing traffic speed limits to 20 miles an hour in narrowly defined corridors. we have completed the first four of seven approved corridors, polk street, haight street and 24th street.

i believe we're moving more quickly than any other place in the state of california using our new authorization under ab43. i also want to announce the introduction of a new speed safety camera enforcement bill. this is ab2336, also being carried by laura friedman and are own assembly member phil king. this will authorize six city speed safety camera pilot program. it builds upon efforts that we pursued last year that were led by former san francisco assembly

member, to allow san francisco to use this proven tool that save lives, can allow traffic safety enforcement to be more equitable and is consistent with our vision zero action strategy. finally, you want to talk about, we're happy to announce the substantial completion of a new two-way bike way along the embarcadero. stretching from the northern end of the existing bike way at mission street and continuing to broadway. staff are in the progress of developing a detailed evaluation plan that will be conducting this spring. then we will present at stakeholder advisory group in late march. we're very happy to have the support of the port of san

francisco as well as having secured funding for detailed design and more permanent measures including two bike extension of the bike way south of bryant street. i will likely be out there this weekend riding that and see how it's working. you are welcome to join me. next up is transit update. as you know, our transit service has been struggling with a very high rate of omicron contraction about our sfmta staff. i'm happily, all of our staff have done well, thanks to our 100% vaccination rate. they are steadily coming back back to service. we expecting the service to stabilize this week.

free muni program came together on thursday just before the saturday, free transit program. we worked very hard to get the word out using our own signs and earned media and all our social media accounts -- in order to let riders know that the free service existed. we would want to know much further in advance so we can do more effective job getting the word out as well as investing in things like covering up all of the clipper card readers which we did not have time to do.

we were able to open all the fare gates at our station. as our service has improved, operator availability has improved, our service also improved including our headway performance. as you know, two weeks ago we were missing between 20% and 25% of our operators, which was wreaking havoc not only on the amount of service but in the reliability of that service. staff, the dispatchers and schedulers trying to reallocate service every day in realtime in order to manage headways. we're not perfect. but the headway management have gotten a lot better and we're expecting it to continue to improve in the coming weeks. next topic is parking meter replacement. we just wanted to remind you that starting this week, we will begin replacing all of the parking meters in san francisco

starting with market and hayes valley area. current meters are at the end of their useful life. including many of which that rely on the 3g technology being phased out by at&t that is impacting our realtime signage for our muni service in our bus shelters. happily, you all and the board of supervisors approved our new meter procurement contract back in late 2021. we're going to receive those new meters. about half of them will be simple upgrades to the existing single space meters. another half will be multiple space pay stations that will have a new pay by license plate function. it allows you to pay at any parking meter any parking pay station in the vicinity. you can just enter your license plate rather than having to walk back to your car and put a

little piece of paper in your dashboard. just enter your license plate from my meter. that is automatically uploaded to the enforcement devices that are parking control officers carry. pay by license plate is also streamlining our enforcement ability giving parking patrol officers to focus on parking and neighborhood concerns like enforcement. finally, we are hoping that today the board of supervisors will approve at its second reading our $400 million general obligation bond to be placed on the june 2022 ballot. finally, a reminder to all of you and the public, there's one more public budget listening session scheduled for 5:00 p.m. on march 3rd. we are still looking for the public to complete a brief

survey about how best to use our limited budget capacity in order to make san francisco better. more details for all of that can be found online at sfmta.com. if you just google sfmta budget survey, it will come up. thank you very much. that's the end of my director's report. >> chair borden: great. thank you. i see director hinze has her hand unand so does eakin followed by director lai. >> director hinze: one quick question, the 343 implementation, obviously it's great that we're moving forward so aggressively. we should continue to maximize the authority that we have under ab43.

i'm curious if there's going to be any evaluation of performance and fee reduction. i know that the tenderloin report is 40 miles an hour is due out soon in the spring. i'm wondering there will be ab43 evaluation period. >> director tumlin: yes, evaluation is very much part of this pilot work. we will be collecting the information on a rolling basis and doing some summary reports part of our vision zero evaluation report. >> director hinze: thank you. that's it. >> vice chair eaken: related to director hinze's question. i have two questions, ab43, there's some transit. i know we didn't get everything

we wanted out of that bill. there was some negotiations and compromises to get that across the finish line. i'm curious as we dive into the details of implement takes, what are we learning about the limitations of that authorization? are those coming into crystal-clear focus in terms of if we had an ability this year to go back and revisit and improve that legislation and what might some of those recommendations be? >> director tumlin: that's an excellent question. it's part of the reason why the evaluation is so critically important. as most of you know, ab43 allows us to reduce speed limits predominantly in business activity districts where half of the frontage of the buildings is either dining or retail. it excludes -- it's basically san francisco neighborhood commercial districts. it excludes almost all of the rest of the city.

it's very narrowly focused. we're hoping to be able to show both some benefit as well as absence of harm. of course, we'll work with the california city's coalition to continue to seek additional authorization to prioritize safety and particularly safety of people outside vehicles as a criterion for posting speed limits. >> vice chair eaken: okay. great. just presuming there are sections that are covered by this authorization but there are large gaps and we're not able to address with this legislation right? >> director tumlin: that's right. baby steps. >> vice chair eaken: my second question was related to transit. i'm glad to hear it sounded like we may be hit the low point and

moving into a better situation in terms of operator availability. i wanted to understand may be it's -- operator availability being one challenge. it also feels like we're having challenges with the realtime arrival information and letting people know how long they will be waiting. for some reason, i ice a tran -- i use a transit app, you will see a darker color arrival. you'll see the bus, which is quite satisfying. in other cases you have great out numbers. i understand the schedule information. no actual bus that you can track along with any confidence that it's coming. with the knowledge of this significant lack of operator availability -- we talked about customer service, it feels an essentially important customer

service moment especially when we'll have service gaps when there's a real bus, as opposed to a scheduled bus, we help the public to understand that. really trying to understand what's the connection between a operator availability shortage and our availability on some lines to have real arrival info and other lines only to have scheduled arrival info. >> director tumlin: i want to say, we just spent big chunk of time today talking about this very issue. along with hiring our customer information are my two biggest issues at the agency right now. san franciscans are tolerant of our under invested infrastructure and the way that we have suffered during covid. only if they can get accurate information. getting accurate information to our customers is absolutely essential. like everything else we've had to contend with covid, we had

run into some perplexing supply chain issues and being able to upgrade our existing systems. >> only thing that i would add is that fortunately, when we need the customer information the most is when it is the least accurate because the system as it is currently designed, which is based on 15-year-old technology, really relies on the schedule. the schedule is the most useless to us when we're missing a lot of service. the next generation of customer information is very much designed to work in a non-schedule environment. if this were a year from now, i

would be able to say, with confidence, well, even if we can't run all the service that would like to be, at least we can get accurate information about what we are delivering. unfortunately, that is not where we're at right now. we're seeing some of the real stretching of the system because of how we had to operate during this period of uncertainty. only silver lining i would add, we have added a lot of additional functionality into the next generation of customer information because we're seeing the system. we really understand how we need the system to work in this very difficult environment. we are going to come out with a better system but we like it to

be here faster and don't have a lot of ability to influence the timeline at this point. >> vice chair eaken: like a year from now until we have a better system? >> director tumlin: we should start seeing some improvements this fall. we will not able to have implemented the full ambitious array of improvements that we had expected to be able to implement this year. we will not able to complete those until probably early 2023, unfortunately. we're also wanting to make sure that as we implement the new technology that the rollover from existing technology to new technology is seemless. we are taking a strong project management approach to this and taking fewer risks customer

information. then for example we have on service planning. just because of how critical that information is how fragile our existing system is. >> vice chair eaken: i want to make face for my colleagues. i like to understand more about this. we're all walking around with gps devices everywhere. >> director tumlin: that exist. what we don't have -- there's a very long complicated technical explanation about the hand off information from one system to another. it's because we're using -- we're operating all of this off a 2007 blackberry. >> vice chair eaken: okay. i'm convinced that you're both aware and doing everything you can on this issue. just to reiterate director tumlin, people can accept

service disruptions they can plan around it. they know and they feel treated with respect by us, when you left out in the cold looking at those grayed out numbers. what are you supposed to do? thank you for your attention to this. >> director tumlin: keep in mind, as a transit dependent person myself, i'm frequently confronted about this situation. julie tried to explain, i can make clearer, our system is designed for it to work well when the schedule is unchanging. we have made our realtime information system like struggle to catch up because we're constantly changing. we rebuilt the muni system nine times in the last two years. that's something you do once every 15 years. we've been trying for headway management to adjust the schedule in realtime on every

line all day long. that is the conflict. trying to deliver better service and to eek the best out of everything that's available service hours that we have, we pushed our realtime information system beyond its capacity. it is 15 years old. >> vice chair eaken: thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. have we thought about a hack a thon? seem to me we can do a hack athon promotion. i'm not saying that's the solution. i'm saying i feel like there has to be a hack, may be it's not using, may be for a year, we have another way to do this. i would seriously hope we would

consider doing hackathon that the public can bring us a solution. >> director tumlin: we have one of the best i.t. divisions in the country. this is not shortage of ideas or shortage of staff talent. what this is is ancient proprietary technology. the requirement of our technology is multiple handoffs. the technology is ancient and propry tri-- proprietary, simple hackathon will not solve the problem. the other issue is our antiquated train control system that the system has to interface with. this is why we are fixated on updated our core technology so

we can push out the information in all kinds of ways and anyone can play around with our realtime information. right now that's not possible. >> chair borden: i guess i was saying, something outside of that system. we do a gps-based system. i mean not using what we trying to use today. that's not going to give us an answer any time soon. aisle worried about service quality. i find myself texting julie being like the next bus is really coming 16 minutes? my point is, may be we get creative here. we look at short-term basis.

since we have gps and the buses and there's ways to create a system just working off gps, even it's google best way to find it. i don't know. this is a real customer service issue. extremely frustrating to see strange times for the next bus coming. you get on the bus, the one you wanted just showed up. that's just to say, let's get creative and not try to work within the system on this. so we can focus on the long-term issue. there's a lot of other directors. director lai? >> director lai: thank you. i will may be steer us in a different direction. back in the day before gps, we all relied on bus schedules.

if staff can make sure we're not missing runs and provide service as close to the scheduled time as possible. i think that's probably what we need try to improve on while we're tieing ourselves over until we get the new technology. just quick comment on the update around the board of supervisors funding the free muni weekend. i want to add my immense gratitude to the board of supervisors for doing that. in the last couple of minutes, mayor's office finding funding for supporting some community business community parking programs.

special discounts and what not. it is such a great complementary service to be able to essentially balance out the free parking with the free transportation. i know i made this comment in the past. i really want to underscore how thankful i am that we were able to -- as the city come together and find resource to elevate transportation and not leave that behind while we are making it easier for certain populations to travel by car. i want to thank everyone for that. my question relates to also service really around what director tumlin was providing an update on with missed runs and our current staffing levels. i want to get a rough

percentage, not an exact one, where are we at with our service percentage? how far are we from that? >> we need to do little bit of math. we're current scheduling about 75% but on the the weekend we missed about 10%. on the weekday we missed about 15% of our service. we're marching back to that 75% but are not there yet. >> director lai: how are we looking for our next restoration. we got little bit update, appreciating the fact that staffing scenario is evolving. just wondering where you're currently projecting in the current week for march or june

service? >> we're currently on track to implement a schedule april 16th that will add the 8, ax and bx. it will improve our service management on some of these corridors that we are making ad hoc cancellation. we're looking at the best way to handle the summer and we will come back to the board. one option is to wait a little longer to be able to implement more stuff. the other option to do sort of a next phase with the resources we're going to have in june. we're doing our best to determine that. we don't want to put our customers or our staff in a situation like they're in now, which is they are managing

canceled runs because all the other things that you guys are seeing. we're still seeing attendance improve but the impact that omicron has had on our training continues to linger. we're continuing to watch and monitor as best we can. >> director lai: am i hearing correctly then that we should probably not assume that we would be able to achieve the 85% service in june in the summer? it sound like you're saying we probably have to see how things go. >> i think that's a good working assumption. we'll come back. >> director lai: i think this is still related to your update director tumlin.

i wanted to ask about level of service and how prepared we are in kind of supporting supplementing the mayor's plan for like concerted effort to bring people back to downtown. are we able to support that at this point given our uncertainty with our staffing? >> director tumlin: we're staying well ahead of travel demand in terms of our capacity in almost all lines with some exceptions. usually related to the morning school commute. we're focused on making sure that we're providing adequate capacity for the schools. which we should take care of as soon as we get our staffing levels back up to where we expected. we have abundant capacity on all lines heading into the downtown.

>> director lai: thank you. >> chair borden: thank you director cajina? >> director cajina: i had a question about ab43. i'm quite excited about seeing that implemented in the city. i was wondering if you can speak little bit about how the corridors determine for the pilot project. what are some considerations for evaluation of future site. what should they do to have their corridor under consideration. if small business working group has any strong reaction about this or not. >> director tumlin: those are all good questions. i'm glad to see streets director

tom mcguire is here and he can provide details. >> welcome director cajina. we have identified all the streets in the city we think are eligible within the narrow parameters of ab43. it's going to be our goal to get all of those signed this year. the first seven locations we chose were places where we know we have both high injury network condition and also where just -- in our conversations with supervisors, emerging groups and community groups we know that 24th street, continues to come up people are urging us to make safer. mostly because there's pedestrians and vulnerable folks. that was -- we're committed to getting every eligible street in

san francisco built in the next 18 months. we have talked to a lot of business stakeholders. we're going to make a presentation to them at our next meeting to explain what's coming. we've also spoken to some stakeholders in some of the more industrial areas where unfortunately, this law does not apply. we wish we could produce speed limits on streets like jennings. we'll keep working on that. >> director cajina: thank you. i did have another question about the parking meters. glad to see that's getting updated. we heard stories about working families impressing --

expressing the burden they are experiencing. i'm wondering how this new iteration of the system is going to help solve for that? especially -- i wonder if there are folks that experience digital divide, is it thing gob more burdensome for them and how that is working in the calculus of whether or not this is a good resource or not. >> good question. on the digital divide question, all the meters will continue to take cash payments. there's no question. you don't need to have a smartphone or credit card or bank account to use the parking meter here. we don't want anyone to get a parking ticket. we don't want anyone to accumulate citations or fines.

we much rather have everyone paying price at a the curb than to collect citation. >> director tumlin: another thing that we have done for people who do have a cell phone and credit card. the pay by phone option allows users to buy extra time. we really want people to avoid getting a parking citation. unfortunately, at a parking meter, you got a guess how much time you will be there. if you guessed too low and i you're having a better time and

shopping more in commercial district, you're penalized about we don't want that to happen. with pay by phone, it's easy to add extra time on the meter without having to go back to the meter. if you're registered user, the meter can actually send you a text message to ask if you like your time extended. we're trying to do everything that we can to make all of our services easy to use within the constraints of technology and try to allow people to avoid ever being penalized, very important. >> director cajina: clarifying question, is the pay by phone, is that only in english or bilingual? >> director tumlin: it is multilingual app. >> director cajina: thank you. >> chair borden: director

yekutiel? >> director yekutiel: i have one question. that is about your sending out comments on the increase in ridership. hopefully it wasn't all due to the events over the last two weeks. my question where we seeing that increase in ridership? where are we seeing this growth? what kinds of trips? >> director tumlin: our travel map in san francisco changed dramatically. we're seeing very strong ridership patterns in our neighborhood commercial districts. essential institutions like hospitals. i think very good example is the 22 fillmore which run the length of fillmore street and length of 16th street. during covid we rerouted the 22 to serve the heart of mission bay and both of the large mission bay hospitals and upgraded transit only lanes on 16th veto. as a result, the 22 is just

before omicron was getting to higher than pre-covid levels of ridership. because it does not go downtown. for all of our lines where we're experiencing low ridership is anything that goes downtown as well as services that focus on the peak commute. our ridership is completely flat during the day. there is -- ridership at noon is the same as ridership at 9:00 a.m. the same as ridership at 5:00 p.m. >> director yekutiel: if you mind in the coming months, may be continuing to keep us abreast what you're seeing with the patterns? having all these conversations about predictions and recovery and all that, will be helpful to know what you're seeing is a longer term trend. >> director tumlin: what we're

expecting that downtown san francisco gets re-occupied kind of on the same cycle that our boom bust cycle happens on. we're starting to see employers bring people back to the office. at a lower rate than they had in past. the employers will shrink their footprints to only the spaces they need. downtown office space is very expensive. what will happen then is employers that will pushed out of downtown san francisco in the last economic upcycle can come back in and new businesses can form. the san francisco real estate cycle, usually takes five years or so as leases come up for renewal. that is what we're expecting. it's similar to patterns that we have seen elsewhere in the world. although, we expect san francisco to happen more slowly than other global cities. >> director yekutiel: with the

omicron surge, it's over now, it will be good to know how our ridership changes over the coming months. >> director tumlin: probably what we should do, if you're interested, a tag, a deep dive into our transit ridership data. we do have excellent data for all of our lines. it's something that i track every single week as i think about where the problems that we're experiencing but need an immediate solution. the morning school trippers stand out strongly in the data. we've been trying to direct resources there. it might be a good for you to see the data that we rely on. >> director yekutiel: thank you so much. >> chair borden: thank you. directors, i don't see any more hands. we'll move to public comment. this is opportunity for members of the public who like to comment on the director's report. any of the comments or questions addressed by directors.

this is item 7 on the agenda. if you're on the line, please press 1, 0. if you like to speak, there's a number posted on the website and agenda to call in. are there any callers on the line? first speaker please. >> caller: thank you. good report. thank you for the good update about the parking meters. if i decide to rent a car, i don't want have any problem with parking meters. thank you for doing some of these visa cards and smartphone apps, situations if i'm out there, i can add time so i don't have to go back to my car and feed the meter once again.

that's very good thing. i'm looking forward to this new bikeway. i like riding electric bikes and scooters. i plan to use it. like riding the embarcadero from the ferry building and fisherman's wharf. it's an option for me. it's crowded. i can get out there on the bike and scooter and be out there on my own. i'll be wearing a helmet. thank you for that. concerning these slower street, we have to have slower street. i speak simply as an ordinary of pedestrian and rider of two-wheel vehicles. thinking about this ab43, which is still way above my pay grade. i know what it's like to have close call being hit by a vehicle. it hasn't happened. i hope it never will.

it's important to moderate the speeds of larger vehicles for those of us on our feet and smaller vehicles will be less disadvantage and as far as the transit update goes, it's good we're stabilizing. we have to ask yourselves of the people who got covid, how many are vaccinated and how many are not. thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. next speaker please. >> caller: i've been listening to you very carefully mr. director. i would like you to call your i.t. people and give us a presentation. i see all over the place.

we can't be talking we have a old system that's 16 years old. we can't be talking in the year 2022 about that. i want to know what that type of platform they are using. if you can be divide our system in quadrants and we can take it from there. we don't want to hear this b.s. that the scheduling and 80% or 50% of everything has to be going smoothly in order to give us some service. again and again, that segment of the population that you don't address are the seniors. they are left there suffering while you're talking generalities. let us have a presentation with your i.t. i want to see what type of platform they are using and we

can take this matter before the department of transportation. whatever just speaking in generalities, because of you don't have the experience. the real experience. thank you very much. >> chair borden: are there any additional callers? >> caller: basically, this pandemic has been a test of the stability and reliability of muni. there was such a lack of service. you have to wait up to 30 minutes to get a bus. what you need to do is you need to add more vehicles to the

fleet. the fleet has to expand. you also have to provide more services to the neighborhood. what is happening is that services, the bus stops have been taken away, bus routes have been taken away and the services worse than ever. it gets progressively worse. you have to make transportation a priority in your budget. thank you. >> chair borden: thank you. are there any additional callers? >> caller: i'm with the tenderloin community benefit district. long-term resident of the tenderloin. first off, i wanted to thank the sfmta for