. >> director heminger. >> i was not going to say anything, but this conversation sort of taken a turn. i do not want to contest what director brinkman said about the bad old days and how far we have come. reading this conversation together with the one we had at the last meeting with vision 0, and about how poorly we are doing, i wonder whether we out to have more people in the room mad at us than we do now, and it's a crazy thing to say in a way, but this is not a popularity contest, number one. number two, and look, this is trouble i've encountered in my career. just because the road goes by your house does not mean you own the road. and the people who use that road, or bike lane, or railroad, whatever it is, the people would us an it live all over the city because transportation is a network. and you shouldn't let somebody who resides at part of the network to tell you how the whole network works, just because they accidentally live near it. and people move all the time, too, and their attitudes move with them, and we are seeing a demographic change in the city, younger folks, and

director heminger. >> thank you. so, i had two subjects i wanted to raise. the first one i don't think will be a surprise to nick, and that's housing. and since you are an m.t.c. commissioner i think you are certainly aware that the legislature, the governor signs the bill, just gave m.t.c. an authority to put housing measures on a regional ballot at some point in the future and i do wonder how that initiative and this initiative will play off each other and whether or not they could possibly come together. i think as subject matter, they belong together. as a political matter, that may be somewhat of a challenge because we are asking people to bite off two big subjects at once instead of one. but whatever goes first puts the oat in a secondary position if they don't go together, and i worry about that. housing seems to be left at the altar every time. that's one subject. the second one like peter, i wanted to talk about transformation. and the project i've heard most associated is the initiative of the transbay 2, between the west and the east bay, and that

heminger and not be -- i will do something i don't do very often, which is disavow something the transit riders said. i'm a member of their organization, i support them but mixing bikes and busses is very, very bad idea, and we should not ever do it. there's not enough space on the street for a bus, take it from the cars. don't take it from the bikes. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. any more speakers on the topic? seeing non, public comment is closed. colleagues. >> ms. lange, a few questions. a couple of the speakers brought up what my -- first of all, great work on the project and good presentation. obviously there's a lot of support for this one. can we talk about the mixing zones? i see the project will be upgraded in 2021, which will include signal lights upgrades sounds like. until then, mixing zones at the enter essentials? >> at some intersections we will. at some we will have four out of eight intersections we'll have either protected turns through sort of temporary portions of your protected intersection, or separated bike signals at folsom and bryant. >> we'll have four

policy, a process ongoing, and at m.t.c., and appreciate your engagement in, especially director heminger. but yeah, i think it's absolutely spot on. >> final comments? >> i wanted to sort of thank m.t.a. staff for their engagement in the coalition, as broed a coalition as possible, enormous amount as a transformational potential for lots of different agencies. so, thank you very much for your deepen gaugement, directors. >> thank you. with that, the next item. >> 15, approving various parking and traffic modifications from mission street, trum bull to geneva, and geneva avenue to mission street and mission street excelsior safety project. >> victoria weiss, i am very excited, actually to bring you two projects today, today's hearing on our high injury network. the first one, mission street excelsior safety project, going to deliver some critical safety improvements, not just on mission street but geneva avenue as well. talking about new traffic signals, targeted bus relocation and comprehensive merchant approach to curb management. some of the key aspects of the project but spend a coupl

board i said a prayer that i hope director heminger treats me better than i treated him. [laughter] when he was in this position, and i was in that one. anyway, maybe my prayers are not going to be answered. so, i wanted to come talk to you about something which i think is really exciting. like many of the other agenda items you have heard today. and it's faster bay area, and faster bay area is, i would say, both kind of a concept that we need to transform our regional transit systems if we are going to be able to deliver the mobility and the equity and the affordability and sustainability across the region and the way we are operationalizing it in terms of a broad coalition that has come together to try and make that happen. the coalition is a coalition of business groups like bay area council, silicon valley leadership group, labor, environmental community and other stakeholder groups, which is continually growing. and i'll tell you a bit today about where we are and would really appreciate the kind of input that you are going to give us because this is really about doi

. >> director heminger. >> this got to the board before i did. today is my first impression even though i did watch the tape of the whole meeting last time. i have heard from a lot of people on this subject. people whom i respect and admire on both sides of this question. i do appreciate the opportunity to explain my vote because i think whichever way it went, it was going to make somebody angry. i come down to 3- three basic points. tivfirst istiveviciveness. in her day she was divisive. she remains so today after her death. i don't think that is disqualifying from civic recognition. if that were the standard we would have to stare down half the street signs in san francisco, probably some numbered ones. the second point emphasized by visits today from members of the board of supervisors past and present. this item is on the agenda at the request of all 11 elected members of that body. now, i am aware the charter gives this body certain independence from that body. i think in some instances it makes sense to exercise that independence. in other

. >> any way, i appreciate it, commissioner heminger's attempts to get some clarification. now, this whole business about accepting the lowest bid contractor, that is a trap because i believe there are all sorts of contingency with the lowest contractor. you know, there's going to be cost overruns, all sorts of expenses involved, and if i'm correct, 122 contract modifications, that's a lot. and the greatest peril is to the m.t.a. budget, because if you are going to have to pay extra amounts, are you -- is it going to detract from transportation? what is going to be the cost of thshgs you know, this is really disastrous, one boondoggle. now, people may state that you shouldn't name it after rose pack and the rest of it, i'm comfortable with it because it's the essence of rose pack, with contract overruns and shenanigans. so, i -- i really think that this has really been a real disaster and boondoggle and the best thing you can say about this project is it never should have happened. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> jason shomar, tony lao and chris mann. >> not sure if