good protective agenda thank you. >> thank you director nolan. >> i want to second all director brinkman points a couple of things in this report it looks like a business year for you and it's exciting thank you cheryl brinkman for all your tasks going forward looking at this the things in the report are the ever increasing gas prices and what this means for an opportunity to get a gas tax for the region or the state but somehow, i used to pay 4 bucks a gallon now 3 it seems like there's leave things that can happen i don't know if there's a strategize effort on the part of the agency but i'll courage us to think about that and take advantage of the void i also really want and i stressed this in the past there are actively cities that are strategy quizzing to jump on the cap & trade funding i trust you guys are getting he everything san francisco sets the bar for being a model of how to be sustainable and we should be rewarded for that and i hope we'll be viewed as more competitive in doing more and giving more i'm hoping we are well situated the one thing that is a little bit novel but

good protective agenda thank you. >> thank you director nolan. >> i want to second all director brinkman points a couple of things in this report it looks like a business year for you and it's exciting thank you cheryl brinkman for all your tasks going forward looking at this the things in the report are the ever increasing gas prices and what this means for an opportunity to get a gas tax for the region or the state but somehow, i used to pay 4 bucks a gallon now 3 it seems like there's leave things that can happen i don't know if there's a strategize effort on the part of the agency but i'll courage us to think about that and take advantage of the void i also really want and i stressed this in the past there are actively cities tha

. >> i'll nominate cheryl brinkman. >> okay in this case, the nominations are closed all in favor, say i. congratulations. >> thank you thank you for coming out for the election today (laughter) also a great deal of interests in the election board. >> okay. so director reiskin is over there good afternoon director reiskin. >> good afternoon mr. chair and the board. >> i don't think you're on. >> and the other one. >> it should be on. >> good afternoon. >> thank you that one should be on. >> hello good afternoon. >> oh, oh try another way. >> hi the microphones are not working can you turn the one on at the podium okay. but it says it's on but it's not on there's a problem can someone please come up? okay thanks >> you want to try the other one. >> yeah. >> is that working? arrest the rows on yeah. and this one is working. >> these are some reason that one is not working. >> it's going to be - . >> hello t is this one working. >> okay good afternoon. i was standing adopt there i wanted to personally perpetrate this special with regard i wanted to do so i will put off the rest of my repo

first step to getting us to the critical east and west from bart's to mission bay canoes as cheryl brinkman state you're going to hear a lot more about the tiger grant for the brt bus rapid transit project we're county of the breach project in two weeks on january 15th will 14 you'll hear more about it as kate finds the funding for a place the eastern part of that is paying more and more we're expanding the 0 although the a.m. and p.m. peak a lot of a traffic on we're going to increase the service on the 33 and other links or lines and approved paraded room access we appreciate the boards guidance on the 54 and other restroom access it's critical to the muni board and critical to riot reliability and one of the bedrock foundations of improving the service where does it 55 line from 16th street to admission bart down to third street and loops around into mission bay boulevard north and south the terminal is front of the of the carr desk center and the ucsf community is over enjoyed they are beyond the mode this service has been in the works for over 20 years and the final plan as kate allude

welcome to the december 2, 2014, meeting of the sfmta board of directors call the roll director brinkman director borden director heinecke director lee director nolan director ramos director rubke mr. chairman directors you have a quorum quorum please be advised the tinging of pagers and other devices are prohibited at the meeting any person probable for one going on the one hand off if the room the ringing of a cell phone maybe asked to leave the room so the board requests that all devicess be turned off. >> a position to approve all in favor, say i. >> item 5 communications. >> members of the board and ladies and gentlemen he need to rearrange e ranger the agenda we're going to lose a commissioner so after the item 11 then we'll come back we know a lot of people want to talk about the we'll go through those other things first. >> police vehicle mr. chairman one other item of business no closed session at our meeting that's been cancelled so moving on to item 11 as directed item 11 amends the transportation division to article 11 regarding the vehicle standards for the taxis changing th

were frustratingly looking at the platform we don't let them disembark and finally to the director brinkmans earlier request we'll be bringing a competitive report update open vision zero to the board in february but just to i guess wet our appetite a little bit there's been so much work by our staff and folks from across the city agencies just to a reminder that vision zero was a policy and goal to eliminate traffic deaths in san francisco by 2024 so adapting vision zero you were the first city body to do so and before the police commission and board of supervisors and environment commission you were i you were the first to adapt vision zero to have a better and satisfactory street to increase the enforcement of the laws and the elective initiatives to save lives to create a cultural in the city where workers and visitors and everyone pirate intents traffic safety and what their identity in but public right of ways and it dovetails nicely with our strategic plan with our top goal of making the streets safe and choices available to everybody in san francisco we've been working since you've a

that he wrought to everything he do i had the privilege of sitting next to him as you did director brinkman and he would also before the meeting would start bring in fine little videos he will be missed to i'm happy to say more at the event on sunday but thank you for bringing this up and giving us the opportunity to share. >> thank you, very much. >> director nolan if jerry were hereafter our kind remarks he would say thank you for the excellent report director nolan and over a few insight and offer wisdom he managed to communicate messages a lot to our words but jerry was a professional, pilot treated everyone with respect and in the end that taught us about process and how you get to the best result do exactly that many things this was the great lesson and i look forward to the service and many more memories of him and personally will take a special moment when central subway opens up in the central subway project in that part of the community i've talked i talked with director reiskin and we'll remembered when that occasion occurs i pass along any condolences to the family i know from t

proposals weighing we're developing and vance in the coming year the first and are timed full director brinkman attention other than the automatic safety enforcement we will be developing a proposal we'll be advancing for consideration in sacramento to authorize at least out of the gate to implement a automated enforcement program it is killer crafted and thoughts and questions to focus it on areas around schools and citizen centers looking at for the best practices across the country and the proposals we're starting with will try to you would call it come out of the gate low volume fashion it is decrim listed the surrounding areas of citizen centers and schools that builds a coalition that doesn't engender out of the state the governor's propensity to voteeto those things that the person is receiving one citation is unduly burdened we're looking at limitation to lower the speed the concept that 20 is plenty and socialized that concept and work with others who are interested in understanding how the enforcement is really the key along with engineering and education to achieving the goals of vis

police department special operations bureau meaning you handle transit-related issues, and sheryl brinkmanvice chairman of the board with san francisco municipal transportation agency. there's aampaign to create safer streets for traveling, and i know it's imptant as a driver and as a pedesian, but why is it so important the sfpd to do th? >> this is way we do. we're in the business of providingervice and protection to our communities, and we want to make certai that an issue that is obviously in front of us, that bei pedestrian and bicycling safety and roadway safety in general is something that we are focusing all of our resources on. > unfortunately, we heartoo many times when pedestrians are at the losing ends of accidents and bicyclists as well. >> it's a nature of the beast. pedestrians and bicyclists will always come short when it comes to any type of collision with a motor vehicle, and sos a result, our focus is on addressing the behaviors of the most problematic when it comes to vehicle collisions. >> all right. sheryl, you have a campaig called be nice, ok twice. love the name. i

welcome to the december 2, 2014, meeting of the sfmta board of directors call the roll director brinkman director borden director heinecke director lee director nolan director ramos director rubke mr. chairman directors you have a quorum quorum please