we have been working with mr. haley and his crew in particular around the clock with very minimal service disruptions since that night to make sure that the system is safe, and we have actually gotten some improvements in the conditions out there as a result of this, and we will continue to work in conjunction with the project to make sure that gets the attention that it needs, a very critical intersection in our system. the balboa park station, the pedestrian and bicycle and prevents is moving forward. that work should be done, as i reported to you, it should be done more or less this week. anyone who has been down there can see it was pretty significant work. we're putting in a crosswalk, but that work is generally progressing well. also, in terms of service enhancements, the transit folks have been focusing on one of our busiest lines this month, 14 and 14 l, so we are doing what was reported previously, at least in committee, talking to drivers, other stakeholders to identify possible improvements. one of the kind o

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mr. haley and his team have been working with the department of the environment to take the lessons learned here to make sure that everyone of our divisions and facilities is performing as well as presidio. modeling great behavior, falling good policy to save money in the process. [applause] so, we have one more recognition. this one is technically an mta employee. now the chief dudley has left the room, i can say that we consider to be an employee. when she returns, i will ask her to step up to the podium. this is not an employee award. we are acknowledging her, as we just heard yesterday, making the recipient the community service award winner.

improvements which in happen in the next month and is anticipated and has already been presented to us by mr. haley. then the speed would return to what it was before the issue -- the order was issued. if i have the status wrong, please let me know later, but i think that is where it is. i wanted to reiterate that. president nolan: thank you. mrs. stuart? >> they will return to the board with an update on that item with regard to the rieker curve. director -- with regard to the eureka curve. director nolan: next item. secretary boomer: the report. >> thank you to the agency for supporting that. we have just completed a big year a bicycle education. we have reached thousands of children's, tourists, everybody, with the message of safe bicycling. we will be going out to hand out minds. daylight savings time is about to change, and that is a very popular time to be caught, so we will be out getting lights on bikes. to ratchet this up to in the higher accountability, and i think we are all very much in agreement that there needs to be more accountability for everyone on the streets, and that does not i

frankly, from my personal experience, compliments to mr. haley, the issues that we have been experiencing and had experienced over the last few months are getting better. the one thing that we had talked about was some sort of reporting on when there are actually delays, so that the public can tune in and find out why they sat in a bus or train for a certain amount of time, getting some reports on what is being done about it. i think that that is still something that we should pursue. something that we should continue to pursue. the one issue that i heard a fair amount about, regarding service, and maybe this is something that you can report back on, it had to do with the recent confluence of events in the city. fleet week, the bluegrass festival, and so on. i had heard an enormous amount of concern that those events had not been properly planned for. that some of our lines were very crowded. i do not mean to suggest that there is an entirely new problem, but as we get ready for the america's cup, i wonder if we as a board could get a report back

mr. haley will be bringing a report to the policy and government committee. they wanted you to know after focusing on the 28 and 29, we are moving up to the 14, with one and exciting announcement, a connection to bart. the jfk by claims have gone through a lot of work between us, recreation and parks, dpw, and they have gone up through the recreation and parks commission. and the impact they might have on people in the disability community. we are working through those issues with those folks, with a large internal staff meeting this meeting. we will be meeting with some of the folks later this week. there has been a lot of email and traffic flying around. we what you want to know that we are working diligently to address and resolve any outstanding issues and concerns we have, just a point of information, when the voters passed proposition back in 2007, one of the requirements was that me -- we will meet regularly, and we had the first meeting, where we sat down with the union leadership to talk through some of the intent behind the proposition and where we

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