our guest is jeff tumlin and he's with us to talk about our transportation recovery plan and some exciting projects across the city. mr. tumlin welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> i know the pandemic was particularly challenging for the m.t.a. having to balance between keeping central transportation routes open, but things have improved. how are we doing with our transportation recovery plan? >> so we just got good news this week. we're getting an extra $115 million from the american rescue plan and this is basically the exact amount of money we finally needed in order to close the gap between now and november of 2024 when we'll have to find some additional revenue sources in order to sustain the agency. in the meantime, i finally have the confidence to be able to rapidly hire, to restore services and to make sure muni is there for san francisco's larger economic recovery because downtown san francisco doesn't work without muni. >> quite right. i guess the other impact of the pandemic was that some projects like the valencia bike improvements had to be put on hold. are we s

and just as jeff tumlin has shown mow a true welcome as the person that i am, i help this jeff will have men yers of running muni. i ask that you embrills the idea this aural people are essential. in funding the systems so they will be arnold for the future. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> good morning. [inaudible] thank you for the opportunity. i would like to touch on the company of issues condition train [inaudible] fiscal cliff. firstical trin med a decision to spent 100 [inaudible]. [no audio]. >> we lost our caller. >> okay. caller, are you there? can you hear mow now. why yes. >> yes. why thank you. soical train made i decision to spundz within00 million dollars aier in covid relief to operate more trains. the end result was a drop in ridership one train carrying 3 passengers at the time of indent last year. and there is a massive evidence this caltrain operator is not enforce being fare collections from passengers who don't have a credit card. the end result is that caltrain is reporting ridership much lower than actual. because the use clipper and ticket sales to report ride

i see we have director chang and i believe jeff tumlin >> thank you, chair. quick before we hand it off to speakers we appreciate their joining us. i wanted to rescue noise this is a big topic of very significant upon cant importance to san francisco. the work began on transit sort of policy and funding and sustain believability sponsored by nonprofit groups as well as our state assembly members chu and others since. leading the mtc take thanksgiving up in collaboration with operators throughout the region to the action plan. and again san francisco cares about this. we account for 2 thirds of transit transcripts mouveny alone carries over half the low income riders. this work does lift up the policy at the regional level at a critical time of many operators facing the fiscal cliff. we will hear today and the need to rethink the structure of transit funding, way from disappears other source. keep want to echo the chair approximate thank staff. mtc, sfmta and muni and i will hand it over to liz from sfmta and at the next item i believe director tumlin will giv

what an honor to be here with our speaker, madam speaker pelosi with our mayor, london breed with jeff tumlin and his team and senator wiener. we're delighted to be a federal partner this this transit. you and your team at sf mta did work to complete this work during a pandemic and with supply chain issues, not an easy task. certainly, i would like to recognize our ta staff. this project, these sorts of openings takes years and years ever dedicated energy. our staff at region nine based in san francisco, amy and -- they are deputy admin industry tors supported with technical assistance, guidance and energy, effort and encouragement, so i want to shout them out. for some, these events are about cutting a ribbon. for many more, these events equate to lives that are transformed. with the completion of the second phase of the t-3 light rail line, we're connecting people to jobs and housing and each other and opportunities like the -- you'll get a pin if you haven't gotten one, connecting communities. that's what we're here to celebrate. the extension measuring not just quite some miles maybe a sm

. >> i now want to address the remarks of jeff row tumlin. instability of cyclists.ant and horrible people had 4500 injuries of people on bikes in the last decade by cars. at least a dozen cyclists killed. [reading of names] these people are dead and gone. now, here are the list of people that bicyclists have -- we need to be equal with time that is your time. thank you. >> no drivers [inaudible]. next speaker, please. hello i'm adrian i live in engle side and i don't have a car i rely on the side street car to go to work, doctor, shop, visit friends and transfer to other bus that alume to do those things. that's going to change in 2024 because a planned the lining of the line is planned. starting in 2024 after the l track work is complete, anyone travelling from engle side on k heading east have to climb off the streetcar at westportal. walk in the tunnel and wait for another streetcar. not a minor inconvenience. it would add at least 10 to 15 minutes to my ride that's a good day. it is not minor for anybody with mobility, seniorsing people with disability or travel