this is barry toronto. as a cab driver who works at night, i noticed that they stopped working all along van ness avenue and i thought maybe they'd be done by the end of november. based upon the fact that i don't see them hardly working at all at night that i'm wondering how much longer is this project gong to take. when they block streets off, the flaggers and the people directing traffic are making it confusing, it's still horribly managed. it's still terribly managed and i don't see any end in sight 0 the the completion of this project. just for an example of that, in district eight, look at castro street between 24th and 20th streets. it's a war zone. it's a complete war zone and i'm wondering why we have to destroy our tires and our suspensions over this. so it's similar with van ness avenue but it's taken months if not guilty years to deal with this. and i don't know, is the city saving money by not doing work at night. why don't they want to expedite the completion of this project which has probably

. >> this is barry toronto. i didn't want to look a gift horse in the mouth because it includes taxi use of the transit only lane. and thank you for the important questions about the projects. and i want to point out that they're not doing any work at night. i hope you're getting a savings of them not working at night on the project. what are doing to monitor the work of the contractor and make sure they're not sloughing off or extending beyond 930 days. that's a long time almost three years. i don't know if you need three years for a project like this. you need to ask important questions now rather than later when you become the subject of a grand jury report. thank you very much. >> great, next speaker, please. that concludes public comment and you can go ahead and call the roll. >> on the motion to approve item 10.5, vice chair eaken. >> aye. >> director hinze. >> clerk: aye. director lai. looks like you may have some technical difficulties. to dr. yekutiel. >> i'll wait until dr. lai votes, if that's okay. >

. >> this is barry toronto. i didn't want to look a gift horse in the mouth because it includes taxi use of the transit only lane. and thank you for the important questions about the projects. and i want to point out that they're not doing any work at night. i hope you're getting a savings of them not working at night on the project. what are doing to monitor the work of the contractor and make sure they're not sloughing off or extending beyond 930 days. that's a long time almost three years. i don't know if you need three years for a project like this. you need to ask important questions now rather than later when you become the subject of a grand jury report. thank you very much. >> great, next speaker, please. that concludes public comment and you can go ahead and call the roll. >> on the motion to approve item 10.5, vice chair eaken. >> aye. >> director hinze. >> clerk: aye. director lai. looks like you may have some technical difficulties. to dr. yekutiel. >> i'll wait until dr. lai votes, if that's okay. >

. >> caller: this is barry toronto. i noticed the way you said like taxi and other issues. so that segues to me. i first want to say i am very offended. i know you've apologized. offended by you holding the meeting on one of the second most religious jewish holidays of the year and i don't know why it wasn't caught and i don't know why one of the members attended the meeting who had to speak or not observant but observe the holiday. i don't know why the board of supervisors met that day considering a number of them actually attend the meeting are of, are jewish so it doesn't make sense to me at all. it doesn't but icouldn't participate because of the religious significance of rosh hashanah . so i don't know. but the thing is regarding your approval of all these transportation code changes we did not participate in public comment because public comment, what i hear from other people watching could not do public comment because it came up quickly and if you are watching online you have to be on the phone and you didn't have a chance to respondby hitting one, zero so you were

this is barry toronto. works at night, i noticed that they stopped working all along van ness avenue and i thought maybe they'd be done by the end of november. based upon the fact that i don't see them hardly working at all at night that i'm wondering how much longer is this project gong to take. when they block streets off, the flaggers and the people directing traffic are making it confusing, it's still horribly managed. it's still terribly managed and i don't see any end in sight 0 the the completion of this project. just for an example of that, in district eight, look at castro street between 24th and 20th streets. it's a war zone. it's a complete war zone and i'm wondering why we have to destroy our tires and our suspensions over this. so it's similar with van ness avenue but it's taken months if not guilty years to deal with this. and i don't know, is the city saving money by not doing work at night. why don't they want to expedite the completion of this project which has probably destroyed many busin

this is barry toronto. i'm calling for several reasons .ou might want to reconsider the public comment being so late because it does prevent people from participating in public comment. you might want to have a time certainfor a few public commenters. maybe a 510 10 at that time. the next topic is about bathrooms . now that you don't have bathrooms open until 7:00 , the outdoor ones available during the pandemic, it is very difficult. i have to drive all the way back to my taxi cab company to go to the bathroom and that isn't right. the guy at castro and market said that he has a shift at 7:00 pm and this topic is regarding the casecenter. you know how several supervisors have actually taken cabs from the chase center i've been told. however you won't find me serving the chase center because they don't want us there . they say they do but they don't keep that taxicab staging area clear on the west side of cherry next to the venue itself there occupied by pedicabs, by private vehicles, by town cars . it makes it very difficult and there bein

this is barry toronto. i'm calling for several reasons .ou might want to reconsider the public comment being so late because it does prevent people from participating in public comment. you might want to have a time certainfor a few public commenters. maybe a 510 10 at that time. the next topic is about bathrooms . now that you don't have bathrooms open until 7:00 , the outdoor ones available during the pandemic, it is very difficult. i have to drive all the way back to my taxi cab company to go to the bathroom and that isn't right. the guy at castro and market said that he has a shift at 7:00 pm and this topic is regarding the casecenter. you know how several supervisors have actually taken cabs from the chase center i've been told. however you won't find me serving the chase center because they don't want us there . they say they do but they don't keep that taxicab staging area clear on the west side of cherry next to the venue itself there occupied by pedicabs, by private vehicles, by town cars . it makes it very difficult and there bein

this is barry toronto. first, mazeltov to director yukitel on his niece. i want to get back to first mention a few things that tumlin discussed. first, as previous speaker said, we need to be able to be staged and seen at the amenities in the park in order for people to take us. because not everybody has access to an ap or phone number to it -- to a cab company. if they do, they need to see us there in front. plus also if it's a ramp, 15 minutes is not enough time to wait for the customer and load them into the wheelchair to get out of the garage. so that is and absurd, absurd suggestion for taxis. and i have not been into the park since before the pandemic because there is no easy access there. so there is a call for service, i'm not going because i'm not taking an hour to get there and find that the person has already taken off. and also there is a stop sign at 8th and j.f.k. i heard that nobody stops at that stop sign. no bicyclist stops at that stop sign. i want you to know what you are going to do to deal with that issue. >> 30 seconds. >> regarding t

this is barry toronto. i'm calling for several reasons .ou might want to reconsider the public comment being so late because it does prevent people from participating in public comment. you might want to have a time certainfor a few public commenters. maybe a 510 10 at that time. the next topic is about bathrooms . now that you don't have bathrooms open until 7:00 , the outdoor ones available during the pandemic, it is very difficult. i have to drive all the way back to my taxi cab company to go to the bathroom and that isn't right. the guy at castro and market said that he has a shift at 7:00 pm and this topic is regarding the casecenter. you know how several supervisors have actually taken cabs from the chase center i've been told. however you won't find me serving the chase center because they don't want us there . they say they do but they don't keep that taxicab staging area clear on the west side of cherry next to the venue itself there occupied by pedicabs, by private vehicles, by town cars . it makes it very difficult and there bein