director brinkman: i went to the pedestrian safety task force meeting last week that was great. and people doing a lot of interesting work, delving into pedestrian safety. i get the sense that in order to help them with this work and increase safety, reduce costs for the mta and other city agencies, we need automated speed enforcement. either california is of legislatively silent or we have no direction. it is such an important issue. until we can get reckless speeding and driving under control, we will not be able to meet the pedestrian safety goal. we have such a great example of that. the gentleman at a four-way stop, a car can come to an incomplete stock and get going fast enough to kill an individual. we have come a long ways, so we need to look into that. >> we will ask them to come back at some point soon. director ramos: i was going to say something about the free pass for muni. but we can talk about it during the executive director's report. >> item 7, director's report. chairman nolan: good afternoon, director. >> good afternoon, members of the board. the last meeting,

director brinkman: i will go ahead and start of and make a motion to pass. >> i will second. >> i would just state that i also ride the fulton, and i was writing that before two-way mcalester went in and was writing it after. i approved of the project, but i'm skeptical there would be that much timesaving, but it really did make a difference to have it go all the way down straight instead of having to do -- it is a little curvy. i think this will be an overall improvement. i do agree that it would be nice if going forward with it take another look at the parking lane removal. i do understand the neighbors wanting to have -- if we can continue to have the bus moves through smoothly and we are not getting the overflow traffic using it as a cloverleaf to but that parking lane backed so pedestrians do have the buffer of the parked cars and people have the ability, although how often did any of us ever get to park in front of our house in the city? not very often, but at least there you have the possibility that it could happen. >> i also would like to echo the directors concern about the pa

behalf of the sfmta board, i am happy to welcome up to the microphone, one of my bosses, director brinkman. [applause] >> thank you. i am so glad to be here. there is a growing body of research that shows we can make the schools -- the streets safer, and one of the ways we can do that is reduced speeds. if all else fails and a collision results, this speed limit saves lives. i am pleased to be here and to continue to work with the rest of the city, the rest of the organizations, and to know that they have the support of the mta board in these very important initiatives. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, director. the mayor and supervisor mar mentioned that there's different city agencies working together to make this happen. i think they both mentioned the health department has been a very strong partner, and i want to work knowledge there great work. it is their research that i want to reiterate the exponential decline in the likelihood of serious injury or fatality for every 5 miles that you lower the speed limit. it is a powerful tool to ensure safety in the streets if in the unfortun

for annoyance, is that they could seem to get past the partisan brinkman ship here and also that people >> middle class families shouldn't pay more -- warren buffett's secretary shouldn't pay a higher tax rate than warren buffett. >> i think it's a clear case. >> and he's someone, which is dramatically lower than the tax rate of the people he's got landscaping hi mig ondollar mansion. it's just not fair. the president has a different vision for how this country ought to go. if republicans were willing to take the common sense steps that were necessary in order to get taxes in a place where we could get the deficit under control, we could really make the investments we had need to make and grow the economy and create the jobs we need. >> bill burton, thanks so much for your time. >> thanks, american. >>> voting outrage, a 96-year-old woman, denied the right to vote. it's disturbing, and we need to fix it. stay with us. at adt, we get financing from ge capital. but they also go beyond banking. we installed a ge fleet monitoring system. it tracks every vehicle in their fleet. it cuts fuel