mr. riskin, could we have a member of staff reach out to mr. patrick and start the process of discussing this? >> mr. patrick raised it at a meeting recently and asked staff to explore and follow up on it. >> alita dupre, followed by tom gilberte and herbert wiener. >> thank you again. thank you for continuing in the position of chair, along with director heincke as vice chair. it's good to be back. i did ride muni today in the new rail cars, enjoy them very much, i like the sidewalk seat configuration, helpful to me in being able to get up and down in the cars. so, sideways seeds are a good thing, i hope that stays. embarcadero, i noticed a table where, with a money box, where old style transfers were being sold, and it boggled my mind with the clipper office across the way and a law enforcement person there, and wondering if we are better served having a law enforcement person watching out for passengers rather than guarding a box full of money not weighed down with anything, when we have the clipper office there. i'm glad that we got the new

mr. riskin. >> my name is donna parker. i have a question that i am hoping someone can answer. with this new center lane on b bayonette where do the golden gate trans buses go and where to the express buses go? they can't go around each other. in thinking about this for the gerry bus line the same thing will happen. we get a lot of golden gate transit buses that turn at gerry and parkcideo and they ex down the street. i'm just wondering are those buses going to be in the bus-only lane and then how is that going to speed up their trip downtown and if that's been considered in everything? do you know the answer? >> is that the end of your question. i want to make sure. >> that's the end of my question. >> normally we don't like to have a back and fourth. >> there's someone here that can talk to you. the short answer is the golden gate transit buses will be able toous our bus lanes and are eager. >> so they're going to be stuck behind the buses. >> you are done with your question. that was my question will they be stuck behind the buses and he answered yes. >> we want to get the i

mr. riskin, could we have staff follow up on that? >> herbert wiener, and tarek mamood. >> herbert wiener, i take the one california bus, one of the show piece lines of m.t.a. now, the service has been so irregular. i say a bunching of five coaches at 10:00 in the morning, at night, when i take the bus at the embarcadero spot, sometimes the bus is missing. sometimes i have -- and not only that, california and van ness avenue i had to wait a half hour for the bus because there was a missing bus. now, something is going wrong with the internal operations. the basic problem of muni and what spark the the transit effective project now known as muni forward, late, missing, broken down busses, and never really been addressed. the elephant in the room, instead, there had been removal of bus stops, cutting back on service lines, removal of busses to the billions of dollars and overshadows the basic question, and even though this project may be completed, the basic question will remain. so, something has to be done about the internal operation

mr. riskin says in august when the other buses start using the terminal, the traffic in the east market area should ease up because we won't have fleet of buses going around the block to get into that temporary location as they have been for several years. live in san francisco, melissa caen, kpix5. >>> b.a.r.t. is slowing down its plan to catch fare cheats. the agency postponed hiring additional officers to catch the people who ride without paying. the zig comes amid questions about the effectiveness -- the decision comes amid questions about the effectiveness and fairness since the program started in march. since then about 1,300 nonpaying riders have been cited $75 per violation, but only about 10% of those people have paid their fines. >>> one of the east bay's most popular independent stores is in a showdown with small businesses. kpix5's da lin on the eviction battle involving berkeley bowl. >> reporter: the darling in the foodie scene. >> i really like berkeley bowl a lot. they have a lot of organics. >> reporter: held in high regard by shoppers, it's earned a family friendly reputati

mr. ed riskin, head of mta, but today's approach, we know is the way to go. we have to be a more resilient city. we talk a lot about prevention, don't make yourself an easy target, but there are other things we can do to be more resilient and prevent the crimes from happening in the first place. the things that have been implemented here, the fencing installed, to stop unauthorized entry, the lighting and the surveillance cameras to discourage would-be thieves, this is a team effort. and this is what collaboration brings to the table. again, go back to mayor farrell and his leadership and before him, mayor lee in order to force this issue, force a collaborative partnership that has led us to some success this year. we are working hard to ctinue the effort as the mayor said. this is going to be spread to all the city parking garages. although the deployment is part of that factor, we'll do what is necessary inms of havin the visibity and the presence to make sure that people know we're out here. that was part of our doubling of the foot the people that are apt