director eaken? >> vice chair eaken: thank you. two questions on the director's report. the first thing, do we show any data any indication whether we are seeing improved safety outcomes from the 20 miles an hour tenderloin? even the change we made earlier this year? is it too early to say anything? >> director tumlin: tom mcguire, can you speak to our -- evaluation process >> i think it's too early to say. it is too soon to say. once we hit the one-year anniversary, i would love to bring that information back. >> vice chair eaken: that would be great. the next question on vision zero, as you head to the end of the year, 2021, i'm curious have we gotten the regular update from you director tumlin on where we are landing? >> director tumlin: we're at 25 fatalities now. we've been running about 30 over the last couple of years. this is the time of year when -- i'm got doing make any predictions. i think what's really to think about, the pattern have changed consistent throughout covid. we and other cit

director eaken? >> vice chair eaken: i have one question. thank you for the update. i wonder if you can help us and the public to understand what goes into all of this planning. how once you set a plan in motion, how fixed are we to that plan? how much lead time to being able to deploy next phase of service in february or march? if circumstances change dramatically as director yekutiel getting at. there's constant tension and balance between setting out a plan, preparing for that plan, wanting to adhere to that plan and dealing what the world sends you. does that make sense? >> i think i understand what you're asking. most agencies that are not in a period of dynamic change like we are, would decide six months out what they are going to do with their schedule. that's what bart did. we've known for months that their sunday schedule was going to expand in february. that gives time to build the schedules vet the schedules. we have really pushed our scheduling team and also our more digital technology to

. >> chair borden: director eaken? >> vice chair eaken: i agree with director heminger about the options. i was delighted and surprised to see that even though we're not selecting frequent alternative, we're able to make some frequency improvements including the 38r which was something like amazing, 33% capacity increase based only the frequency increase. i was happy to see those. be happy to get into where those other trade-offs came so we can understand those tradeoffs. because we heard so much already from the public about the j, earlier in the meeting, i want to get into couple of question about that. just at a basic level, could you just clearly as possible, i feel the public deserves to have this very clear explanation, could you just once again explain why we believe there are too many trains in the system and why the need is to eliminate some of the trains in the system for overall system efficiency so that understand the problem we're trying to solve here? >> what we were seeing in the subway is similar to wha

you took my question vice chair eaken. as more action items come up and more thing us need from us as a board, obviously we're here to serve this agency and that includes every single employee and customer in our work. i'm really glad that we got an update from you and keep us in mind as you might need anything moving forward. i only have one area of conversation which is shared spaces. as you might imagine, i have heard from fellow small business owners, yes in the press and from individual business owners wondering what to do. i think there's conversation about dates and amounts and exactly what changes might need to be made. i guess i wanted to drill down a bit director tumlin and ask are we the ones leading the effort to make it so that small business owners who want to keep shared spaces know what they need to do in order to make sure they are in compliance or is another agency doing that and what does the timeline look like to make sure any small business owner who wants the keep the shared spaces understands what ne

uncharacteristically, i know that we're -- director eaken? >> vice chair eaken: i have one question. thank you for the update. i wonder if you can help us and the public to understand what goes into all of this planning. how once you set a plan in motion, how fixed are we to that plan? how much lead time to being able to deploy next phase of service in february or march? if circumstances change dramatically as director yekutiel getting at. there's constant tension and balance between setting out a plan, preparing for that plan, wanting to adhere to that plan and dealing what the world sends you. does that make sense? >> i think i understand what you're asking. most agencies that are not in a period of dynamic change like we are, would decide six months out what they are going to do with their schedule. that's what bart did. we've known for months that their sunday schedule was going to expand in february. that gives time to build the schedules vet the schedules. we have really pushed our scheduling team and also our more digital technology to

director eaken? >> vice chair eaken: i'll be brief as well. i wanted to thank staff and the board of supervisors for raising the flag stops. this is one of them that felt a real gap for a long time between practice on the ground and m.t.a. values and having to navigate your way to parked cars to get on a bus or off. it's not a high quality transit experience. thank you for focusing the attention here. i wanted to raise an initial suggestion as you think about that. the universe of the challenges one thousand stops. how we ice data to sort through and prioritize. i understand there may be challenges around fixing it all at once. thinking about some of the transit effectiveness, prong recommendations around stop removal with a new stop. may be there's plans down the road to eliminate that spot for speed. there's a lot of data that can go into that. really glad we're focusing on this. we've gotten lot of public comment over the years this is just not who we are to have flag stops. the other issue is circling back to the autonomous vehicle questio