. >> bob boden. mr. chair, good morning, board, director riskin. my name is body boden, the san francisco riders union and i'm here to overwhelmingly support the transit improvement. having recently come from new york city, i feel like i now know what a transit city feels like. if anything i think all of these proposals need to go much further. if this is what we have at this point, i want you to fully approve them. i also want to commend the mta for the overwhelming amount of public outreach they have done. as an advocacy we couldn't go to all of them. there were so many of them. there has been an overwhelming amount of community input and they must have a lot of attention to sort through all of those comments and i appreciate them. i know there is a temptation to meddle through these proposals and maybe wind them down to particular concerns. the tep as a whole helps 99 percent of transit riders. there are 700,000 transit riders not in this room today. people at these meetings do have valid concerns. but your role is to work out not the hundred in

boden and we have to look that the as a package. this is a whole package and if we pick and peck at it and we try to solve every little problem we lose the large scale benefit of this. large scale efficiency require small scale tradeoffs. that's the simple reality of this. i'm very impressed to all that's been done to address the small scale tradeoffs, but i think the overall point is the one that director riskin made at the beginning. this is a monumental change. this is a real significant increase in efficiency, in all of those 5 seconds, 2 minutes and add up and it's not just director ramos 30 minutes, it's everyone's 30 minutes in what it increases, happiness, productivity. i second it with no changes. i think we should approve this with no changes. i do want to address one issue from the community and that is our fellow citizens from the inner sunset. i hope you stay around for a long time. i heard that comment. i don't think the speaker meant what he said, whether he meant it or not, i appreciate all the input you put in to a

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