melgar, supervisor melgar is pursuing this in tandem with her district seven participatory budgeting grant and we've also been partnering with the department of public works and the planning department. we're starting to develop some, conceptual ideas in collaboration with the neighborhood and with west portal merchant stakeholders and will be hopefully getting back to you very soon with some conceptual designs, update on our taraval project. we're really proud that the rail work is now at 100% completion. all of the water lines are fully complete, the sewer replacement, along with all the sewer connections, are fully complete, and we're now moving on to the final surface work. and that includes we've completed about 70% of replacing all of the overhead lines, about 90% of the new curb ramps, about 70% of the final work on the boarding islands. and now we're at about 60% for redoing the rest of the roadways. so this project does remain on time and on budget, one of the remaining risk factors is the shallow gas lines that are owned by pg and e. as you know, pg and e has been a big challenge to do schedule coordination with. but thanks to direction from the mayor's office and the mayor's chief of staff directly, we are finding that we're getting much better collaboration with pg and e, so we're hoping to eliminate that final remaining risk factor. we also, as a reminder, will be doing the special track work out at 46th avenue, but we're still on schedule for resuming el terrible service in the fall. i do this normally. i wouldn't bring this up in a director's report, but we had a kind of adorable little, ribbon cutting on april 4th with supervisor mandelman, this was for a flashing pedestrian crossing sign at douglas and diamond heights, douglas and clipper, not diamond heights boulevard, i think. douglas and clipper. yes and the what makes this newsworthy is typically when we're installing any kind of signal infrastructure like this, the work takes an extraordinary long time, given the constraints that we have on our contracting mechanisms. so for this project, we worked directly with the department of public works, allowing us to actually install the work in house, which enabled us to get it installed in record time. still not the sort of timeline that i would like to see, but we're getting better and it's demonstrating what once again, what our crews are capable of are really absolutely extraordinary and efficient crews, next, i want to just update you on a couple of additional things. and we're also proud, as you know, as you've seen from the work that jessica garcia and sean kennedy are doing around equity analytics for muni, we're finding that people are increasingly taking our data and taking it further. and recently, ucla grad student ryan caro did a report on using data science for equity at sfmta, and ryan's work just won a 2024 american planning association association northern california section award for the equity analytics. and we're expecting to actually see some more of that, particularly as we are able to share more and more of the data that is coming out of our muni planning team. i do want to thank director henderson, along with board president aaron peskin, for joining us at the safe driver awards and would love to invite any of you and all of you to come both to our upcoming bus rodeo, as well as our rail rodeo and a special invitation, a special invitation to do some operations training in advance so that you can compete in the bus rodeo. and there's potential maybe even for doing so at the rail rodeo, one of the most extraordinary things that i have ever done at this agency is compete in the bus rodeo, which was utterly terrifying and gave me a lot more understand ing of what our operators deal with on the streets every day. and, you know , we will later have a moment of silence for the orange cones who sacrificed themselves and i will continue to confirm, despite those in the audience who would contest this, that my second place prize was totally legitimate. i did not get any any extra points from, from the judges, and then finally, i do want to, cue up a video that our team has produced on the history of the central subway project, focusing really on the community engagement work that we've done that not only influenced, but led much of the design, including not only the public art and the station design, but even more so now. how for example, the public spaces at chinatown rose park station are being used with community actually leading in the programing of the space. so with that, if you can bring up the video. it's a strong coalition that would bring a new subway system downtown. this new system later would be known as the central subway. a project of this magnitude required a strong partnership between city leaders and agencies, community groups and construction firms, community groups and leaders formed a strong coalition that advocated for a new transit system that would connect the southern and northern parts of san francisco. to celebrate the partnership with communities in chinatown, union square, and yerba buena, the sfmta held a series of community appreciation events at the new stations. successful project completion would not have been possible without the patience and understanding of communities that endured years of disruption and construction work on their streets, the opening ceremony took place on the first day of revenue service, and the guest list included state and local city leaders speaker emerita nancy pelosi and mayor london breed cut the ribbon in a symbolic gesture to signal the opening of the long awaited central subway. muni customers now have more options to commute between the northern and southern end of the city. the covid 19 pandemic brought some challenging years, but san francisco is resilient and together will rebuild and make our communities thrive. and that is the end of my report. thank you. colleagues, are there questions on the director's report? director heminger. thank you, madam chair. jeff, to the two questions, the first on the rose park station and the leaks. can you just give us the top line assessment of where we are? yes. so, as you know, all of our tunnels leak. we pump a whole creek's worth of water out of castro station every day. the work that's happening right now in rose park station is grouting of micro-cracks, and what we're needing to do is wait for the water table to rise. so the central subway acts as a dam across an underground river. and so the water is building up behind the central subway. and so the leaks are steadily going up the wall, up to the top. and so in order to identify where all of the micro leaks are, we're, we're letting the water rise and then we're filling those, those up. so that work should be done soon. the work is successful. there's absolutely no safety concern. again, all of our tunnels leak. what we're concerned about is the esthetics of mineral rich water dripping down the sides. and we're particularly concerned about getting any water on the platform so that work should be complete soon. and so you're describing what should be a one off. that's right. break in maneuver. yeah. that's what we're expecting, and you know, and again the technique, we fixed all the problems low on the wall. and as the water rises , we're not getting any leaks down here, but the leaks are moving up the wall and towards the center. as the water table rises up and over the dam. and then once the water gets to the top, then it will simply flow over the other side. and is this just us? this isn't bart right? i mean, bart's got tunnel issues on market, and they own some of our stations. don't they, they do. so they own our market street stations. bart pumps an entire stream out of powell station every day, there's. i mean, you can see the water running in the runnels in the bart tracks, particularly at powell. okay yeah. the this issue is, it's an esthetic concern. we want to make sure that the drips don't discolor any of the wall treatments and particularly don't drip onto any passenger areas. yeah. the last thing is a safety problem. correct. right. okay, the other question i wanted to ask about is, i think you characterized it as your, your adorable intersection, project, and my question is why we don't do more of those, as you know, it's dark half the day, and i think the data bears out that a lot of our crashes happen at night or at dusk, and i remember asking tom mcguire about this. a couple of different times, and i never liked his answer, so i thought i'd try again, and see whether or not we could expand the use of that tool. so it's a tool that we like, rapid flashing rectangular beacons there. it's a tool that is also very, very expensive. so they're not much cheaper than a standard traffic signal, the starting price of which is about $1 million. as you know, we had most of our capital money stripped away in 2022, and the last of our bond money that we've been using for these street safety projects is, is running out. so our challenge with vision zero has always been, how do we take our limited resources and maximize its utility? well do we have any that are like on the books ready to proceed or we're just at zero on this? well, so we have a long list of signal projects that we want to do for, for safety purposes. you know, full on traffic signals at the in the case of clipper and douglas, that intersection didn't warrant a full traffic signal. it's a, you know, relatively minor intersection. and so the appropriate design solution was the pedestrian beacon. well, look, i'll just leave it that i. i hope it's something that we could turn our attention to when time and resources permit, and again, i, i think we're to the stage with vision zero that we've, we've got to try some new things, and if they cost us some money that's going to be the price maybe of success. thank you. madam chair. thank you. director heminger. are there any other, colleagues wishing to speak on the director's report? okay. seeing none. i will just, reinforce this related to the enforcement update that you provided. director tomlin, the. thanks for your ample communication so people are not caught off guard. i don't think any of us want people to be caught off guard. we want people to know the rules so that they have ample time to comply with the rules. and this was just to remind everyone this was one of the board's six priorities laid out, in our january 30th workshop that director keenan and i summarized in our blog, it was also a very important theme in the mayor's transportation vision that we share information transparently. no one is caught off guard. so thank you for your commitment to that. just underscoring that. and then can you just remind us the date of the bus rodeo, please? julie, do you remember the date of the bus rodeo that's coming up? you can come and get your training down at the cow palace, though, whenever you like. okay we are we are not allowed to participate in the rail rodeo, but that is happening the first weekend of may. may third, and then the bus rodeo will happen in october, give you lots of time to practice. okay? okay. thank you very much. okay, director. so, please. well, to that point, i would love to echo the director tomlin and also julie mentioned about please try the rodeo. it's really fun. the lesson was really fast and quick. and after the entire experience, i have so much admiration and deep understanding of the challenges our operators face. so it's fun. do it. please okay. thank you. that we can open up public comment on the director's report. chair egan, we did receive a request for translation services for this item. should i take that first? yes. okay, so we received, language service translation request for both spanish and brazilian portuguese. i have our two translators here available, and i think let's start with spanish. can i have. yes. very good. any members of the public wishing to provide comment in spanish? you can make your way to the podium. and if we could perhaps do that in language. okay. could we have the translator just could we have the translator make the announcement about anyone wishing to speak in spanish? persona necesita interpretacion en espanol. aqui estamos no mas facil. estamos aqui para servir les. okay. thank you. buenos tardes. good afternoon, senor president, mr. president, directors and directors. my name is walter mejia. my name is walter mejia. you veo una rv una moto. i live in a rv motorhome in la a wilson, righ on winston drive. e tengo anos de estar viviendo ahi. and i've been living there three years. campo uno de cuatro horas. and i've seen that for our signs, for our limited signs have been put up in dos por medio de ustedes. and we need from you. un espacio seguro para poder modelos. we need a safe place where we can move. not otro estamos con toda la voluntad el dia. ustedes lo nos tienen el espacio seguro. ahorita no tenemos right now we have all the will. when you tell us to please move to a safe place. but right now we can't, el motivo. yo vivo con me, hijo. mijo. trabajar yo tambiÉn trabajo. and the reason is i live with my son, and i work, and he also works for suficiente para pagar un apartamento. we don't have the funds to pay for an apartment. he esos son los me palabras ustedes y si i algun espacio vuelvo a repetir para con gusto lo podemos mover ahorita. and so right now, i ask you, and these are my words. and we would with all will, if you can give us a safe place e ahorita estamos aqui por eso venido aqui a ustedes. and that's why we're here in front of you. yes. some unica palabras. and those are my only words. thank you, thank you. okay, we're gonna have the next speaker. when i start, senores. good afternoon. my name is marlo arostegui. my name is marlon aristegui. a yo sano viviendo in winston drive. i've been living at winston drive in. in las. in la. rodante on the around the curve. okay. a as an informal. okay. a poner restrictions de parco. and we've been informed that we're going to get parking restrictions and tones and aqui en calidad de apoyo de las personas. and i'm here to support all the people that are coming here. and also for myself , correcto. para apoyo a de casey no pueden ayudar para conseguir un poco seguro. and so we're asking for your support in finding a secure place to park, he a mosquito principalmente es mas siempre nosotros como como ahi. and so that's mainly what i'm asking otherwise we do our best to solve our our solve our problems. solamente muchas gracias. just that. thank you. alcs. okay. she needs portuguese. otra persona. necesita en espanol. okay. thank you. thank you. we'll move on to any members of the public requesting portuguese translation came precisa de publico traducao do portuguese forgive para fazer seus comentarios. you can go ahead and make your way to the podium. any members of the public to area para falar de vida. umbertide. good afternoon, madam alicia. my name is leticia aristo moreno. nuovi com as as duas filas. i'm living in an rv with my two daughters. yeah, no tenemos, concerns. we don't have the conditions to pay for rent. is getting urgency. mover porque caso cuatro cuatro horas estaciones. and we're being asked to move because we can only be parked for four hours at a time in un lugar seguro. and we need a safe place. no, we don't have anywhere else to go. i'm tudo eu preciso ter un lugar para ellos. my two daughters are in school, and i need a safe place for both of them. un lugar de seguranca a agua tena escoto e fique seguro. we need a place that is safe, that has water, sewage where we can be safe. yeah. thank you, thank you. okay. miss kefala, portuguese kevlaar sabi. okay. seeing none, we'll keep our translators here for the duration of this item in case you're needed, but i'll go ahead and read off some speaker cards for, for public for comment. that's good. thank you, i have a comment. cards for marcello fonseca, leandro lowry, ma7, de oliveira, leticia diaz, shiba bandeira. okay, just making sure these are comments on the director's report. yes, yes. correct. great. yeah. my name is marcello fonseca. i've been a member of the tax industry for 35 years. a lot of you are fairly new to this board. i'd like to give you a little bit of history. in 2018, the san francisco federal credit union filed a lawsuit against the mta regarding their actions related to the now failed medallion sales program. in 2021, they lost their trial and almost two months ago, they lost their appeal, i know this is a legal matter, and you cannot talk about it here, but i was expecting, director tomlin to give us a little bit of a report. i don't think we should, spend money on a pacer account to find out everything that's going on in court, we have been following this case with great interest, to be honest, we are the real victims in this case, even though we are not plaintiffs. so, if possible. well, a week ago, the credit union filed an appeal with the california supreme court. so we'd like to know what's going on, the outcome of this case will have a major impact on our industry. so we really like to have that included in the director's report. thank you. okay. thank you for your comment . i will double check with the city attorney, but i believe we are looking for comments that are on items that were addressed in the director's report. is that correct? these types of comments should come under general public comment. that's correct. thank you. okay. thank you. so that would be under item nine in the future. thank you so much, next speaker, please. hello, directors. my name is sheba ben diba. i'm a policy associate at glide and a member of the end poverty toes coalition. i'm here in solidarity with the monolingual spanish and portuguese families living in rvs on winston drive and buckingham way. it's truly so disappointing that after so many conversations with city leaders and h'sh and you all, to delay the enforcement of the four hour parking restrictions, you have all decided to move forward with this initiative. without a safe parking site available in less than two months, these families with children will scatter in the hopes of finding new areas around the city to live. this will disrupt their daily routines that they've established for work and their school age children. for the past three years, as many of you know, at least some of you have joined our coalition outreach. you have learned that this community is an integral part of our city. they're working residents trying to make ends meet and to support their families this untimely displacement shows a lack of coordinated efforts of collaboration between city agencies and community members. i urge you all to please prioritize these already vulnerable families to stop their displacement, to delay their enforcement, and to work collectively, collectively, to find a safe parking sites that will actually meet their needs. we often hear about the amazing investments the city leaders have put forward to elevate racial and economic justice for historically marginalized communities, and we hope that advocacy fauci and that grace really still apply to this particular community. thank you. thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. hi. board members. luke bornheimer, thank you, director tomlin, for your update and report, i wanted to touch on two different things west portal and parking enforcement, thank you to you, your team. the mayor and supervisor melgar for prioritizing improvements to the area around west portal station. i look forward to the conceptual designs and, more importantly, the implementation of improvements to make this area safe, equitable, and sustainable, especially for children, families, seniors, and people with disabilities who walk, bike and take public transportation, including the roughly 80,000 muni riders who take muni through the area on a daily basis, but also drivers and people in cars, regarding parking enforcement, thanks to you and the team, for increasing park enforcement, which increases safety for all people, especially children, families, seniors, and people with disabilities who walk, bike or use mobility devices. i encourage you to continue to prioritize parking enforcement, especially in neighborhoods, wealthier neighborhoods with more single family homes where parking on the sidewalk is common and decreases accessibility and safety due to people who can afford to own cars storing their private pro
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