mr. hailey. >> thank you mr. chairman i will -- i appreciate your incites and the opportunity to speak to the board. i will say regarding the report card and how it looks after the first year i think you did an excellent job of summarizing it, but there is clearly good news. number one maintenance is improving. the reliability of the fleet is up, and all across the board i should say fleets, and number two the number of delays and the duration of the delays is down. i think that's a very important point that speaks to both improvements in the operations and maintenance side. secondly, as we hope to show with some of the information today your help, your support particularly in investing in the system. today we will talk more perhaps about vehicles, but also targeted and focused efforts to deal with systemic problems on the vehicles are paying dividends. across the board the fleet is up. the number -- i guess the third thing i would say we're sitting on a five year high with ridership growth. we don't expect that

mr. hailey and mr. wong at the back, my whole family is here, they are excited. my kids are out of school and i was trying to get dressed and what are those clothes for, to get an award. yeah, it's fun and for more years to come to help out the system any way i can. >> thank you, sir. [applause] force for >> the regular calendar. >> for the record, item 8, citizen advisory report, i don't see mr. weaver here. and move on to public comment, this is an opportunity for members of the public to address matters within the jurisdiction of the sfmta and hand those up. we will start with (inaudible). >> good afternoon. board members and fellow folks, i have been a parking control officer for the city of san francisco for over 22 years. when i started with the city, the metered ticket was $12, today the metered ticket is 64. that's about a 500 percent increase, my salary didn't go up by 500 percent. and basic items we use every day go up 600%. sfta took us over in 2006, but increases have not materialized. we did get an increase in pay but due to health care and retiremen

mr. hailey one of the challenges that they have and you spoke about and how long it can take to get from the subway all the way down, and i know you're working to improve that, and sometimes there can be -- there's not enough service on the line which is partly because of the shortage of lrvs but particularly with the warriors new proposed site and rely on the t since it's not walkable on bart lik piers 30 and 32 but this is a t station there so theoretically it will do the trick so assuming that the central subway is up and running by the time the warriors open up, 2018 or thereabouts. what do you think that we can -- what is your level of optimism that muni will have enough frequency and capacity on the t line, on the central be subway so we can efficiently get people in and out of the arena whether it's for concerts or basketball games? >> it's eight on a scale of 10. here's why. >> [inaudible] >> i think not only you mentioned the central subway. i think the central subway will make a big difference but the other things we can do is we're looking right now i think the key is to locat