herbert wiener followed by richard hibals and then mark gruber. >> good afternoon. >>> herbert wiener, passenger at risk. what is the difference between the giants and muni management? muni management always strikes out. now, i can applaud the apprehension of the vandal who is genuinely ashamed of being caught. i applaud the gentleman who defended the vehicle and its passengers. but in order to improve your batting average, you have to do something with the money that's available to you. now, you have come into funds recently. i think what you have to do is you have to start improving transportation. and one thing would be to restore the buses -- bus runs that were cut and start putting some of the bus stops back. it is now expected that passengers will walk up to a quarter of a mile to get a bus. this is extremely cruel to senior citizens. it is extremely cruel to those who are critically ill. and so far mta has not batted an eyelash about this. they are extremely insensitive to the endangerment of people who have to endure this. now, the only thing probably that will wake up this bo

. >> herbert wiener. as i prestled stated this month the difference be and the fran giants is that muni management always strikes out. presently muni is a train wreck that happened with less service and -- in addition bus stops have been deleted and bus routes altered or discontinued on grounds of making the service run faster. the transit effectiveness project attempts to speed up service which hat not done to today. the additional funds should be use to do restore, alter or discontinue funds and if possible deleted bus stops. this project on the elderly, handicapped and seriously ill,= with the alteration and deletion of bus runs and bus stops physically impaired people are expected to walk a quarter of a mile to a bus stop which is unfair and cruel. in addition there is potential of fatal -- resulting in lawsuits that were -- cost the city. managers who have formulated this inequity have not batted an eyelash or eshtively responded to this cnch concern. the new bus stops-kja% that ree the old ones sh