chair nolan: think you, as always, mr. murphy. we appreciate your thoughtful work -- thank you. secretary boomer: this is no the opportunity for public to make comment on items that are not on today's calendar. we have john and dave. chair nolan: this is how you spend your retirement days? >> we are citizens now. great to see everyone on on mta board. it is good to be able to visit with you. i want to thank you for your diligence service. i certainly came to welcome director leona bridges. i think she will bring another set of skills to the work before us. i do want to take a moment and say that i would welcome, if the directors could do this, to bring forward before the mta board, the issue of citizens' safety. we have a new safety director, who has been with this agency, i believe, six or seven months. to my knowledge, there has not been a safety presentation, and i do want to underscore that in 2009, there were a number of issues that came before the board where we had hearings around safety, and jim doherty, who was the safety director at the time, responded ably about the ac

chairperson nolan: for the remainder of the consent calendar, is there a consultant? -- is there a second? ok. let us go back to 10.2i/ . >> mr. toronto, are you going to speak on an separately, or are they a single issue for you? chairperson nolan: 3 minutes for both of them seems like a good bargain to me. >> i will do three minutes for both of them. the first one, 10.2i, the toll way. i represent a friend who owns a nightclub dance venue over near the bottom of the hill. this is toward the top of the hill. there is a limited amount of parking available, street parking, due to the issues at the top of the hill. we do not have to go into details. to eliminate perking along their i think is absurd, and i think there should be a good explanation. you are eliminating three cars. i do not know why you were doing that. there is no reason for it. unfortunately, it is hard to get notices about these meetings, where you have the hearings. how many hours to we need to spend on the website? i go through the taxi agendas. i go through the taxi town hall meeting. it is really difficult to keep track unless you want to send out the mails

chair nolan: good afternoon, mr. kaufman. >> i am going to throw out a few numbers at you. these are all from the mta records. we did not dream them up. i want to talk about just two of the many reasons that many oppose the central project. in fact, what is opposed is gross, quite significant, day- by-day. ridership. back three years ago, when this product was being sold to some rather gullible elected officials, figures were being tilted of 90,000 people per day. as you know, that is nowhere close to being correct. i might say just in passing, that puts it up in a legitimate field with, let's say, some of the new york subways, which may be 800 riders per day, 900,000 riders per day. someday, maybe this will carry that many. those are two car trains. by the time the final eir k9 and address 76,000 riders per day, -- by the time the final eir came out and addressed the 76,000 riders per day, that was at the time of the eir. however, that turned out to be wrong, too. now, it is shown as 65,000 riders per day, including

secretary boomer: [reading names] chair nolan: mr. schneider. good afternoon. >> good afternoon, members of the board. a good afternoon to the new member of the board, leona bridges, and good luck with your tenure here in relation to the public interest. the ramifications. about one year has passed since there was an attack on state street, and recently, on january 7 at 3:00 in the morning, there was an incident, where the driver was punched out. i did not get the full results of this from talking to the officer at the police department, but the purpose of the petition that i will present to you today, although i did not get quite as many signatures as i wanted, i am a little lazy, will serve as a comprehensive omnibus scheme for the protection of the safety and well-being of cabdrivers and so forth. why today? it has been about a year, and there is some movement, as the deputy director indicated, that some of this might be done technology wise, but what i am asking is that the sfmta and the deputy director schedule a meeting for all drivers. we

chair nolan: think you, as always, mr. murphy. we appreciate your thoughtful work -- thank you. secretary boomer: this is no the opportunity for public to make comment on items that are not on today's calendar. we have john and dave. chair nolan: this is how you spend your retirement days? >> we are citizens now. great to see everyone on on mta board. it is good to be able to visit with you. i want to thank you for your diligence service. i

nolan: for both members of the board and a couple of members of public as well. [inaudible] [laughter] we just want everyone to be open-minded to the new information. >> mr. chairman, i think at this point, you to take a break and go into closed session. director nolan: ok, so we need 10 minutes. we will be back at quarter till. >> actually, it would be a corporate to invoke the -- vote to invoke the attorney-client privilege. director nolan: ok, we will reconvene at quarter till. >> discussed labor negotiations -- the board took no action. there was discussion of a corporate action. do we motion to disclose or not disclose suspects -- to and not disclose? chairperson nolan: into for waiting. we had some significant conversations. >> item 13, authorizing it executive director to execute the contract with the construction company, not to exceed [unintelligible] there is no member of the public who has indicated an interest. >> i will move the item. chairperson nolan: is there a second -- is there any further discussion? all done. good job. >> item 14, a warning a contract at union square market street relocation and authorizing the exhibit director to execu

director nolan: mr. ford is already making some notes on that, and we will see that in the coming weeks and months. >> this does seem to be a burning issue in the industry. >> thank you. >> moving on to the consent calendar, these items are continued -- considered to be routine and will be acted upon by a single vote unless a member of the public or board request to have an item severed and considered separately. i received no indication that a member of the public wishes to sever an item, and pending a request by the board of supervisors, your consent calendar stance. director heinicke: i have a question about item 10.1. director nolan: hang on to that one. i guess we should do the rest of the consent calendar fixed -- first. >> this is on the lawsuits, and i will fight staff for the discipline follow-up that has happened with regard to some of these incidents. i will note that i personally appreciate the more detailed reports we are getting out and certainly have seen more attention to follow-up on dis

[applause] chairperson nolan: mr. howard, congratulations and thanks on behalf of the agency and people of san francisco. >> as a san francisco native who has been writing muni -- riding muni since i was knee high to a grasshopper, it is a privilege to be able to give my services over the last 19 years to muni, to be part of it. i also need to think my wife, clare, who is born with me and i have been at innumerable community meetings like it at night. maybe daddy will come to dinner tonight. it has been a privilege. thank you very much. [applause] executive director ford: the final item i need to brief you on is the california cable car project. we have been doing a lot of discussion around cable cars in the last few minutes. that will be continuing for the next few months. on december 17 -- on september 17, which began a project to renovate the cable car system as well as make street improvements between van ness and drum street. we did mass mailings to all of the residents and merchants along the route, along with t

director nolan: mr. ford is already making some notes on that, and we will see that in the coming weeks and months. >> this does seem to be a burning issue in the industry. >> thank you. >> moving on to the consent calendar, these items are continued -- considered to be routine and will be acted upon by a single vote unless a member of the public or board request to have an item severed and considered separately. i received no indication that a member of the public wishes to sever an item, and pending a request by the board of supervisors, your consent calendar stance. director heinicke: i have a question about item 10.1.

chair nolan: good afternoon, mr. wong. >> the central subway's state and local funding would go along way in saving and fixing the muni system which is crumbling before our very eyes. the rail, the train derailments that the balboa maintenance facility in station, the central computer system breakdowns, trains that have gone off track, it breaks have failed. we know that from your own reports that the $2 billion of deferred infrastructure over many years are catching up. infrastructure problems are happening now come in the years in between this and the projected opening of the central subatomic if it is built. when it is built, what do we have? we have a system that does not solve the transit problems of that 1.7-mile stretch. we have in the eir projections about a decrease in service availability, something in the range of 76,000 miles per year carry it -- per year. there has been no consistency in projections of what the central subway will offer, but looking at the tracks themselves, looking at the physical layou

chair nolan: thank you, mr. rohan. director ford:

mr. speaker, he is the last person to turn in a speaker card on this item. chair nolan: sir? >> i have a couple of comments to make. on the legal residency requirement, i am wondering if there will be an investigation in questioning into people's residency. there is tremendous concern of their among the drivers about the electronic waybill. believe me, it is out there. i would really like to see some very, very stringent policies in place about access to the information. otherwise, it may well be up for grabs, and i am not confident from what we have here that there is going to be limited access. vehicles, easing the vehicle age requirements, it is really something that is going to benefit the low and companies and hurt the companies that try to provide better quality vehicles -- it is going to benefit the low-end companies. the two items that need to be manually entered on the electronic waybills are things that are equipment and to electronically in automatically, so i am wondering what it says that you have to enter it manually, when it is not necessary, and i do not even

mr. ford to lift the temporary ban as soon as the new intersection improvements are in place. director nolan: to members of the board have questions? if not, let's hear from the public. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. thank you for having this hearing. i'm here to support the proposed changes to the intersections, allowing for rough crossing both richardson and marina. these changes support direct access to the bus parking to be provided on the presidio to support the occupancy at the palace of fine arts exploratory and palace of fine arts theater. we think these changes reduced impact on san francisco neighbors nearby, reduce vehicle miles traveled. it supports the city's transit first policy by bringing visitors by bus. without these changes, the buses are still going to come. they are still going to bring the groups. in order to get to the parking, it becomes a circuitous route through san francisco neighbors all the way up to the bridge plaza through congested areas of the plaza and the lombard rate. i urge you to approve these changes today so the city can get on with actually making