brinkman: thank you, for your 28 years of service to the mta. >> clerk: gene barish, tony dilorio, andy thornely. >> good afternoon, my name is jean barish, i'm a long-time resident of the richmond district. i'm speaking on my own behalf but also a member of the planning association for richmond board of directors and other transit associations in the city. i'm not a car owner and i rely on muni to get all over town, so i'm in support but i have concerns about two issues. one has to do with the use of the red lanes which were designated as transit-only. suddenly we have learned they will be used by for profit vehicles, chariot shuttles and a lot of other vehicles. those of us involved with the b.r.t. for years had no idea it was happening. we are concerned this bait and switch approach is unacceptable. i'm here to ask you to please defer making this decision until you have had time to study the impact. the e.i.r., for example, barely mentioned if it did at all the impact of the transit vehicles. i would like to ask you to defer that decision. the other issue is removal of the spruce str

. >> clerk: mike chronback, gene barish, tony delorio. >> good evening. michael chronback. former muni employee for 28 years at the corner of geary and masonic, for what that is worth. when i first started one issue was, and i was pretty green, i didn't understand things very well. a project paid for by b.a.r.t. called the northwest extension analysis. or n.w.x. at that point the idea was to look at alternatives from extending b.a.r.t. out geary to light rail to transit preferential to nothing. and the active citizen involved was, i think someone