i would like tom mcgwire to give you an update. >> good afternoon, directors. i want to give you an update on the embarcadero and townsend street. i know you've received a lot of correspondence and there's been press coverage of the potential improvements on townsend street, especially installing a parking protecting bikeway on townsend street. a message that m.t.a. has given that the project would have to wait until after d.t.x. construction was out there. and i want to make it clear today that we're mindful of the fact that we'll have to reconstruct townsend, i don't think we have to wait until it takes place with a parking-protected bike lane. there's been some changes with muni overhead wires. i think we found some ways around it. and i think we can move forward quickly with the public process to talk to the businesses, as you always challenge us to do, make sure that the users of the street have a chance to weigh in and be consulted and move in with a solution of protection between 4th and 7th on townsend street. that's the update there. on embarcadero, as

. >> tom mcgwire, sfmta. i will speak to the details that i'm certain of and then maybe ask to come back to the board with areas i'm not entirely confident of. the contract between motivate and the mtc is in the aquisition of motivate, the company that runs go bike by lyft, current thinking is that lyft will take on that contract. so they will have the same relationship with mtc that motivate has had. we're writing to mtc and asking them to confirm that at mtc's understanding, that's what lyft's understanding is. in regards to low income, many of you will remember that when we finalize that contract, one of the provisions is that 20% of the bikes were required to be in communities of concern and also that the -- that motivate was required to offer what they called bike share for all, the $5, first-year membership for any applicant that qualified for the transit pass program. as one of the previous speakers said, it's probably the most comprehensive income-based equity program of any of the bike share systems

tom mcgwire, sustainable streets at the mta. i will go quickly and give an overview of what we're doing and why we're doing it from the viewpoint of traffic management around the city. i want to observe something, as you all know, all the projects on the slide shown are about delivering on high policy priorities that you and the voters have put before us. we have an obligation to the voters dating back to the general obligation bond to get these projects done as quickly as possible. a delay to any project, even a result to try to optimize construction, can affect our projects, as contractor availability is scarce and project costs continue to escalate. we look at a lot of factors when we issue construction permits and schedule end-stage construction. it starts with a planning effort. contractors and agencies that want to close lanes of traffic, come to us for a permit. there's a lot of variables that we look at -- number of lanes they want to close, hours they want to work. we're prioritizing congestion relief and especially tra

and i'm glad to hear tom mcgwire's report that townsend safety improvements are back on the table. you have backtracked from your shameful decision to do nothing because of the actions of the s.f. bike activists and grassroots efforts of people protecting the bike lane activists. and i will speak up and show up for the protected bike lanes that our citizens must have. >> chairman brinkman: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> elizabeth kreely, doug betton, skip high. >> i'm elizabeth kreely. i live in the mission district. i've been cycling in san francisco for about 26 years in the san francisco bicycle coalition member and contributing writer to mission local, where i write about transportation issues. i will limit my comments to say that i'm happy to hear that the improvements on townsend are become on track. i hope they remain there. i had an experience on townsend three weeks ago where an uber driver left the eastbound lane, crossed the double yellow line, into the bike line to execute a clumsy three-point turn to get back into the westbound lane. it's not the first t