. >> chairman, members of the sfmta. i'm sky pile. we live in upper haight and i compute to king street for work. my wife's job is in foster city and she commutes using her bicycle and caltrain. i've seen a variety of improvements that have made my commute let terrifying. the conditions on townsend remain horrifying, particularly around the train station where you have taxis and delivery vehicles competing for access to the curb. i'm here to tell you firsthand that these conditions, a paint-on-the-ground bike lane is not effective. the inevitable result is injury to people on bikes. each time i ride through, i wonder, is this the day i get hit by an inattentive driver and fail it pick up our daughter from school or get a phone call telling me that my wife is in the hospital or worse because she was hit by a driver. or learn that a co-worker, who also commutes from the haight, was injured here and will require rehab before he can return to work. i was pleased to learn that the sfmta had been looking at this subject. i'm pleased to lear

but i am here because sfmta -- sorry. today is my day off, and i'm here because of the safety of my fellow biking and walking citizens it is important to me. 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

the sfmta proposed hot spot improvements in several zones. while that's a good start, we need to do more. the embarcadero stretches up to 20 feet in plagss, which is plenty of -- places, which is plenty of room to accommodate pedestrians and pedi cabs. if you feel that creates an unsafe environment for f pedestrians, and it may, let's paint a two way cycle track on the promenade. all it takes is some green paint. whatever the solution is, protecting the people who ride on the embarcadero should be your number one priority. these are people's lives. what is more important? 2022 and beyond is not an acceptable timeline to prevent death, so please figure out how to protect bikers now. and i made -- i took a few photos

the sfmta proposed hot spot improvements in several zones. while that's a good start, we need to do more. the embarcadero stretches up to 20 feet in plagss, which is plenty of -- places, which is plenty of room to accommodate pedestrians and pedi cabs. if you feel that creates an unsafe environment for f pedestrians, and it may, let's paint a two way cycle track on the promenade. all it takes is some green paint. what t

gary chang, senior program manager with sfmta. supporting sustainable zero emission revenue fleet. indeed, we are the largesti operation of the trolley fleet. thank you to the board support, sfmta has replaced over 90% of our older diesel fleet with cleaner and more efficient electric hybrid vehicles. for the last production of this hybrid order, sfmta incorporates the electric vehicle, the hybrid vehicles with a higher battery capacity that allows for the vehicle to travel significant distance on battery power alone. what that means is, that distance will be traveled strictly on battery and with the engines shut off. with the increased battery capacity that allows stm to run a test program. it will turn off and turn on the engines automatically. the item in front of you seeking for your approval is to hybrid contract number 4, that includes all the necessary equipment to be added onto the vehicle to enable this green zone program. there are also other changes we have incorporated during the production of the vehicles. let me list

the sfmta proposed hot spot improvements in several zones. while that's a good start, we need to do more. the embarcadero stretches up to 20 feet in plagss, which is plenty of -- places, which is plenty of room to accommodate pedestrians and pedi cabs. if you feel that creates an unsafe environment for f pedestrians, and it may, let's paint a two way cycle track on the promenade. all it takes is some green paint. whatever the solution is, protecting the people who ride on the embarcadero should be your number one priority. these are people's lives. what is more important? 2022 and beyond is not an acceptable timeline to prevent death, so please figure out how to protect bikers now. and i made -- i took a few photos from berlin and taiwan and make a little mock up on what this protected libike lan could look like on the promenade. >> thank you. henry. >> good evening, everyone. my name is hank coates. i live in the marina district, and for the last 15 years, i've been biking to my job. i ride along unprotected bike lanes the whole way and that

again the sfmta said the red paint doesn't speed up the busses. the federal government required reports twice a year on the status of the red lane experiment. they never sent a report to them either. this red coloring is an experiment still. the federal government has given the green light for the sfmta to expand or the city, the state has not. so that remains to be seen. if they stop it, you will have to clean it up. the cost of the run from gough to stanyan is over $2 million to paint the lanes red. that would buy at least four more busses, i think maybe only two if they are a hybrid or electric bus. these comments, even from an sf mta employee said this is a fabrication, you can look it up, it's a fact. i would recommend waiting to vote because there are going to be lawsuits filed from all the misinformation. if the sfmta really wanted those red lanes they would have conducted the studies like they were supposed to. they didn't even do a double parking study. they never did it yet they told the state they would. thanks. >> chair c. brinkman: th

i'm with the transit planning group at sfmta. i would like to share an updated proposal on 17th at taraval, near the safeway on that street. i think most of you are familiar with the project at this point. to refresh everyone's memory, it's a broader state of repair that will replace all the track and utility on taraval street and improve safety and reliability for the 33,000 daily riders. as you will recall, taraval is a high-injury street for pedestrians. part of the 12% of streets in san francisco, where over 70% of all collisions occur. half the people injured were stepping off a muni train in traffic when a vehicle failed to yield. it was a unique condition, where people were stepping off into traffic. we've worked extensively with the community to develop a proposal to meet the transit and reliability goals. after a year of extensive outreach, the m.t.a. board approved the project in september, 2016. the key developments were improving safety for people on trains, transit stop changes to improve transit-only lanes that allo

and our collective work here at the sfmta. i would like to thank the board and sonali for this award. thank you for the best part of this job, which is my team. and lastly i would like to accept this recognition on behalf of the beautiful diverse city of san francisco that empowers my journey and stand here today and on behalf of my department, operations. thank you. >> chair c. brinkman: thank you, ms. marquez. that's a wonderful reminder who works at our city. mr. shouten, thank you for being such a great mentor to your employees x thank you. >> madam chair, continuing on. a number of not very good things to report to you, but important to raise these to you and the public. with regard to vision zero, i wanted to call your attention to two hit and run fatalities we saw this month. one at geary boulevard and 2nd avenue and the second was at turk and taylor in the tenderloin. as we know from our commitment to vision zero, these fatalities were not only tragic but they were preventable, as are all traffic collisions. while the

if the sfmta's plan was implemented, kevin would still be with us. i urge you to begin construction with no further delays. perhaps one of the lives saved will be mine. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> chris and then maureen sitko. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is chris longnecker. don't feel bad. my community college students mispronounce is all the time, too. pedi cab put me through graduate school. it allows me to afford to live in the bay area while working with often under privileged students at community colleges and has introduced me to some of the most creative, unique and loving people i've ever known. on july 27, one of those people was stolen from us. kevin manning was murdered in a cowardly hit and run in an intersection along the embarcadero long known by cyclists to be hazardous due to the lack of a safety bike structure and a demarkated bike lane. while this accident's had a profound effect on his immediate network, it goes farther deeper. this is one of the heaviest cycling routes populated by tourists. they ride down

record for sfmta in general. they have to ask. the impact on mission street, we lost 25% of small businesses and that was part of the report and part of what they expected to lose and that has a bad taste in the neighborhood. that's in general, nothing to do with this project in particular. they should ask first before they even have a project in mind. >> president adams: any other commissioner questions? this is discussion item only. we thank you for coming. this has been very well, very helpful. we'll be watching this throughout the process, because if there's issues, we'll be the first to know. >> no problem. >> president adams: thank you very much. okay. next item, please. >> clerk: presentation and possible action to support san francisco's local business enterprise, l.b.e., small businesses regarding their efforts to maintain their businesses as it pertains to bos file 170205. ordinance amending administrative code to require a citywide project labor agreement applicable to certain public work or improvemen

so there are near term improvements that the sfmta has made. i was also somewhat surprised by the injury number. i actually asked my staff, isn't this a citywide figure, or please check, is this really the embarcadero? that was a very alarming figure. i think we should be tracking how we're doing with that data and what the near term improvements are buying us and how to advance those. i also think the board might be a resource in funding, maybe in terms of bridge funding and other sources that we might be able to bring to the table to help things along, and we can discuss that. so i think there is more we can do. i am very pleased that the commission's provided the forum to hear from the community. it's clearly a very, very, very deeply important issue, so i think we have a call to action to continue what we're doing and really, i would suggest focus on the short-term safety improvements. >> so when do you think that someone can come back to us with a plan of action? >> i think we can come back with a plan of action in a month or two? what do

it calls for specific goals to be met to make sfmta efficient. we wanted to clarify what steps sfmta took to raise concerns in october, 2017, as well as steps under way. in light of the above, i request a hearing to be held to request officials from the mta and training division to look into these matters and discover what has concerned and what can be done help the agent become more efficient. my second is, collegues, i would like to adjourn our meeting in honor of mr. phillip scott ryan, district 5 resident, who left us on july 20, at the age of 78. he was a husband, father, grandfather, mentor, advocate for justice and friend to many members of the city family. he was a san francisco native who attended s.i. high school and santa clara university. he served in the army. in 1962 at the age of 23, became the youngest legislative aide in the california legislature. his entry to public service, was the beginning of lifetime career. in 1964, phil went to the south to be an organizer during the mississippi freedom summer, battling politics that summ

i'm an engineer with the sfmta. currently in the state of california, we're required to follow the provisions in the california netcd for setting speed limits based on the 85th percentile of flee flree flow traffic, so our hands are kind of kind of tide when it comes to reducing speed limits. we typically do a speed survey, we sample 100 vehicles in free flow conditions, we take 85th percentile of that speed, we then round up our down to the nearest five miles an hour increment, and we can typically reduce that on things such as land use, population density -- we typically take that reduction in all studies that we do given the land use and density in all areas of the city. >> supervisor yee: so i think i heard that same explanation for monterey boulevard in which they originally said they couldn't slow down because they tested it, and it -- are there waivers to that or is it just just you have to follow that particular requirement area? and then, the question i have, i don't know if you mentioned this, but london,

>> reporter: we're here at city hall where today mayor london breed sent a letter to the sfmta executiveesults or else. it has not been a good summer for the san francisco mta. construction on the twin peaks tunnel included a subcontractor with a shoddy safety record and one worker died, also a driver shortage causing service reductions and today mayor london breed sent a letter to ed reesekin, executive director of the mta. "i am seriously concerned about the lack of background checks performed on major construction contractors and opaque process to select scooter pilot permit recipients," and wrote, "muni must be more dependable. the budget grew by $60 million last year. so i expect that conditions will improve in the very near term future." >> we appreciate the focus on the sfmta and we're going to redouble our efforts to insure we're improving service for thousands of riders every single day on muni. >> reporter: paul rose is the spokesman for the sfmta. >> we look forward to continuing to work with the mayor's office. she has been a great champion as a supervisor for transportation

but thank you for being -- working with the city and sfmta and so forth to install these things. i know that it was a reaction at the time and we celebrated the process and we want to be thankful for that. okay? any questions? i'm sorry. i am pretty passionate. thank you very much. >> (indiscernible) public affairs as well. jeff and i work together and one of the things that we're working on in the ongoing education is that we're getting some flyers and having them sent out to the neighborhoods. what we want to do, which we have done in other locations where we have these fliers is to send these out to all of the neighbors in the radius and you'll have instructions on how the system works and where they're located. and we also will have a link to our new website which is also updated the information on them as well. and i did want to thank the supervisors for having the opportunity to speak this morning. this is an issue that affects everyone in the community and all of our families so i'm glad that it's something that we're focusing on and on a personal note my mother-in-law liv

and in a rejection the sfmta says, well, there's been no history of accidents there and that's like me saying that i won't get auto insurance because i haven't had any accidents. it doesn't make any sense. so i think that needs to change. and also at this intersection there's a children's playground just a block away. it's a blind intersection. so i don't see what the problem is and maybe if somebody at sfmta is here we could talk after and i can provide more information. i'd be glad to meet with people or whatever it would take. thank you, and thank you, supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: what intersection are we talking about so we have it on record? >> excuse me? >> supervisor yee: what is the intersection? >> oh, 10th avenue and pachecko street. >> supervisor yee: thank you. >> thank you for giving me the opportunity to come up today and to talk about this. and in addition i'd like to thank the department of public health for giving us the funding for -- to educate seniors on how to cross safely and to talk about pedestrian safety. i would like to introduce myself, i'm danny and bo