. >> anyone else if not members of the public howard wong. >> he's the only person that turned in a speaker card. >> howard i think you missed the comments of the lower bus low floor buses are also a very important part of the transit preferential streets program adapt by the citizens in 2003 prop k portland, oregon had a change to ride their system check it out i was impress with their he long term planning low floor buses were an integral part avoiding the platforms that we and seen in san francisco when i see as a more disruptive and creating an obstacle in our streets moving forward with the lower floor vehicles of all types of vehicles and rail systems maybe we should look at the low floors although it creates a dual system in regards to the reports people have told me that can 0 donor is an important part of reporting it would be level to have a simple because of things that have been criticized let's look at r look at switch backs and people are been critical and rather than gloegz over them let's start having measurements over time to see how we've progressed even though we didn't p

. >> howard wong s with safe mini transportation is our focus extra san francisco as 20 percent of ridership when they decided to eliminate their subway program and went to a transit preferential street program they created a world-class transit ridership integrated system the report you saw that's been heavily lobbied for for several years by the development interests and business interests that have the political connections and consultants the average citizen and transit rider didn't we don't think you and others to look at the boarder interests the citizenry how do we achieve higher transit for everyone in every neighborhood currently if you look at world transit and national trends they're a nexus but which transit is being improved in other city like the free chivalry system in baltimore and denver and aspen and long beach interesting funding models huge ridership gains when we proposed that this study take a look at some of the interesting concepts the staff of the sfmta immediately changed the study and said oh it's not a permeate but a concept there ever they didn't have to look at