mr. chair, good morning, board, director riskin. my name is body boden, the san francisco riders union and i'm here to overwhelmingly support the transit improvement. having recently come from new york city, i feel like i now know what a transit city feels like. if anything i think all of these proposals need to go much further. if this is what we have at this point, i want you to fully approve them. i also want to commend the mta for the overwhelming amount of public outreach they have done. as an advocacy we couldn't go to all of them. there were so many of them. there has been an overwhelming amount of community input and they must have a lot of attention to sort through all of those comments and i appreciate them. i know there is a temptation to meddle through these proposals and maybe wind them down to particular concerns. the tep as a whole helps 99 percent of transit riders. there are 700,000 transit riders not in this room today. people at these meetings do have valid concerns. but your role is to work out not the hundred in

mr. riskin and congratulations on mostly pronouncing my name correctly. that's rarely done. my name is am an jawa a conservation representative. i'm very excited for this proposal to move ahead and become part of the mta's actual plan as opposed to plan. this is a systemic change. when you make systemic changes it is risky for individuals, stakeholders and there are a lot of honest concerns in this room that we value and respect. that being said, this is a systematic change and this is the first time in memory that mta has a chance to redesign our muni from the ground up. when you have systematic changes picking it piece by piece is ineffective. we understand that there are real honest concerns, but i would ask that before we start knit picking apart this entire project, let's implement it and look very carefully at what doesn't work. because on balance it is our belief that these are really really good set of changes and the system of changes will affect 99 percent of muni riders and san franciscans for the better. thank you for your time and thank you for hearing our conce

mr. riskin for assuming the responsibility for trying to maintain and upgrade what is not a failed, but a breaking down system in san francisco and working to improvement for everybody here. i'm here really to thank you. your people at the staff level heard us at the district meeting on transit and our concern again 2 weeks ago we turned out at the hearing, you heard us and you understood our concerns that our bus and the 36th that while it's convoluted line is a result of the merging of the 34 and 36th but you have agreed that it's important to maintain service to our neighborhood, i'm here to thank you for hearing what i said and all the other people whose staff heard us and responded to us very thoroughly with phone calls and let us know what was happening through the whole process is going to always be bumps and grinds for every other means of transit. we thank you and want to you continue and keep sitting here and taking a beating. thank you. >> good morning. before you approve this plan. you are about to embark on and i support this. i also support the sidewalk for pedestrians. the

riskin? >> thank you mr. chair. good morning. mr. chair, members of the board, obviously this what we are contemplating today is the culmination of about 8 years worth of work, really tremendous work by mta staff by planning department staff, the city attorneys office and many others. it really is a once in a generation opportunity for us to look at and make improvements in muni service that so many people rely upon and that really is one of the english ines of the san francisco economy. i'm really happy to be at this point and i would like to thank the staff for the incredible work they have done and gotten us to this point. we have a presentation that we'll walk through focusing a little bit more on the capital changes that are recommended in item 8, since those have been a little bit less before the board and then we look forward to hearing from the public and from the board. >> thank you, dr. riskin. ms. chris baum? >> good morning, thank you for having us today in a time to a milestone in this project. today you have three calen