chairman nolan: thank you. mr. cabrera? >> when i saw this piece of paper, the review, i stopped and think prior to today, last time, there was an firman to review, what -- the mta called for a fiscal emergency. i am afraid of doing that again. some communities lost some service. because the fiscal emergency grants to that. to pass the ceqa. please do not let that happen again. you are the keepers of transportation for all citizens. i'm not against approving this consultant for $2 million. i want to make sure our communities are aware of what is going on. not to find out after the fact like we did before. thank you. >> herbert weiner. the last to turn in a speaker card. >> the transit effectiveness project should be called a transit elimination project. what has happened is the [unintelligible] has been truncated. i believe it has been proposed to reroute the six masonic. the haight-ashbury line. what is going to happen is, if you reroute that line and it was proposed it goes straight through haight street, and not go up ma

chairman nolan: thank you. mr. cabrera? >> when i saw this piece of paper, the review, i stopped and think prior to today, last time, there was an firman to review, what -- the mta called for a fiscal emergency. i am afraid of doing that again. some communities lost some service. because the fiscal emergency grants to that. to pass the ceqa. please do not let that happen again. you are the keepers of transportation for all citizens. i'm not against approving this consultant for $2 million. i want to make sure our communities are aware of what is going on. not to find out after the fact like we did before. thank you. >> herbert weiner. the last to turn in a speaker card. >>

but if we keep shifting from one policy from one time to another time and you have been here, mr. nolan longer than some other directors and we have that issue a lot. i do not want to see that issue again. on the other hand, what other policy you guys agree, please let us know in advance. not to find out that i have got it here. this issue was brought up. the other issue i have and this has to be worked out. there are logistics' that have to be worked out. those buses we have, they cannot take the punishment you are willing to give them. we need to reinforce them. we need to look at everything. not on safety. -- not just performance. >> i am also a member of the san

nolan: we look forward to seeing you on the eighteenth. >> and thank you for providing the translation. >> i don't see mr. murphy. chairman nolan: i would like to announce at this point, will group items 11, 12, 13 on the same subject and will call them all that once -- all at once after public comment. >> [reading names] >> good afternoon, directors. i want to extend to each of you an invitation to come by and visit luxor cab at your convenience. [applause] chairman nolan: they like what you say. >> seriously, we live like you to drop been. we don't need announcements, to a free to come by. today, i want to talk about an unwelcome taxi app. taxi mojo is currently being promoted among san francisco taxi drivers. one of its questionable features is that it allows drivers to indicate which parts of town and they wish to accept service requests from. that translates into redlining of neighborhoods. a think that is not what we want at all. the other licensed dispatch services in perfectly, admittedly, we try to provide service to the whole city. if we were to offer a redlining feature to the dispatch service, i think

goschairman nolan: mr. yee, didu want to speak to this one? >> good afternoon. this proposal actually is being recommended as a package. both items together should be considered together. what we have found was in the last five or six years from our files, we have five separate requests for additional stock science at this location. that is a really strong indication that there is a strong community concern about safety in the area. there were four reported accidents in the last five years at this location. three of them involving pedestrians. it is exacerbated by the fact that there are two schools nearby. and what we found, working with our colleagues, when you have a bus stop on the far side, it is not an issue. having the stock on the far side requires the bus to stop twice. the first time unnecessarily. it is justified because of the documented safety concerns. we work very closely with the safety department as well as transit service planning. to move from the far side of to the nearest side. that will eliminate one of the stocks that is unnecessary. that

chairman nolan: i am hoping mr. murphy is here today. >> he is not, there will be no report. chairman nolan: perhaps we can move items 11 and 12 and then move to public comment. >> mr. chairman, if i may call the items together, they are on -- on the regular calendar, the chairman has asked 11 and 12 be called together. amending the section to increase the taximeter five broad rate of $3.50. item 12 authorizes the ceo to issue taxi medallion permits. and full-time temporary vehicles. and amending the transportation code to reflect those permits. >> do want to go right to the public? 2 minutes on these. >> i will read the first three. [reading names] >> in the afternoon, i represent medallion holders. we welcome that you have the last recognized that we need to raise the amount on the meter. however, it is great and yes we will take it, but we read it since 2003. this is the tactical mistake on your part. if you do not review these fees in a timely manner, then everybody goes into shock and passenger traffic will drop as a direct result. the mta was actually being taken over fo

director nolan: good afternoon, mr. murphy. >> good afternoon. i am the chair of the mta citizens advisory council. before i get started, i always enjoy seeing the employee recognition awards. i was particularly happy to see the award given to mr. alvarez. since i was just recently a victim of a copper fell -- copper theft at my home. i want to extend a welcome on behalf of the cac to our new executive director. the vice chairman and i had a chance to meet with mr. reiskin and welcome him personally, but i want to extend it public welcome, and we look forward to working with you over the coming years to make transportation in san francisco better. i will also note that mr. reiskin is a muni writer -- muni rider. i can attest that he is not just a member but a client, or whatever the phrase is. [laughter] on a much sadder note, i want to note the passing of one of our colleagues on the cac, griffith humphrey, who passed away since we last met. griffith was appointed to the cac initially by supervisor alioto-pier and continue to serve under supervi

director nolan: thank you very much. >> my apologies, mr. chairman. we are having technical difficulties. thank you. good afternoon. over the next several months, we will be providing you with a number of projects on an ongoing basis to talk about a state of good repair in the system. this is perhaps one of our key projects. because it is not an exaggeration to say that the signal cable or the local cable we will be talking about in a minute is the very heart of the system. it is in fact the means to carry all the key data through the system. it facilitates the transmission of information between our trains, the waste site equipment, and the back up computer. it is both state of good repair and continued functioning at a high level of reliability is the way that will allow us to continue to provide good, reliable, safe service. this is a critical project to us. ok. thank you for the talented i.t. team. first of all, in terms of the cable itself, this is in fact the cable that we are talking about. if you are on the platform in the subway, this is abou

mr. toronto. >> good afternoon. i am here on these items because -- chairman nolan: you wish to address these together?i can do both. i am here to address both items if i could. they have to do with the same thing. one has to do with the south of market speed limit. you have been lowering those 25. they are wide streets, wide lanes. if -- i do not know if the speed limits have been based on traffic studies. they have done traffic studies every five years. traffic studies have shown that some of them have had increases in speed limits. you are lowering speed limits from 30 to 25. around schools, it has been a problem. you have to lower the speed limits. to lower something you are not enforcing, that is ridiculous. 0 miles per hour, i have never seen anyone get a ticket. ever. you need to look at the issue of enforcement before you look at the issue of putting in something that is not enforceable. if someone can get a ticket and take it to court, you have a problem. i would like to find out what the study shows. what they do not in force -- you are wasting your time and staff time. thank you. >> anything

mr. obama took office, his approval rating is less than 50%. conan nolan from our nbc station in los angeles has more. >> reporter: the respected poll indicating that president obama, who won california in a landslide in 2008, now has fallen below 50% in his job performance rating. just 46% approve with 44% disapproving. a dramatic shift from just three months ago when well over half those questioned were satisfied with the president's job performance. the state's leading democrat, governor jerry brown, said the numbers should not be a surprise. >> it's tough out there. and one thing you know as a politician, when people feel bad about the country, they're going to feel bad about you. that's the nature of the business we're in. >> reporter: brown's opponent in the race for governor last year agrees. former ebay ceo meg whitman was in watts today with l.a. mayor antonio villaraigosa promoting a $500,000 sector grant to benefit non-english speaking students. whitman serves as an adviser to republican presidential candidate mitt romney. >> we've had very high