mr. strauss, you are up. >> thank you, good afternoon commissioners. peter strauss, director on the board of san francisco transit riders. i've been before you many times talking about the need for the agency to move into a mode of expanding money' service so clearly the types of measures that are embodied in these two items are things we approve. i want to commend the staff as bob allen did for all the excellent work that's been done in support of the equity strategy and the agency as well as the staff for embracing this concept as you have. as bob said i'm concerned about the description of this is being revenue neutral. i'm a little doubtful whether it can be done on a relevant neutral basis. i see ed shaking his hands. it should not be done on a revenue neutral basis. you need to do the right thing in terms of the equity strategy. a few other things, the t third. i want to urge you to move to two-car trains on the two third and advance of opening this central subway by decoupling the t from the k. i see some of you nodding your heads by linking it

mr. gruber. next speaker, please. >> peter strauss. >> thank you. good afternoon. peter straw peter strauss. i'm very concerned with the struggles of the taxi industry, but there are a lot of things that we like in this budget from a tran ssit perspective. we really like doing a day pass, we like the reduction in the a-pass price. we'd like to see that go to zero differential. we like that there's some recognition of the need for -- to better address the budgetary concerns of families, you know, that's reflected in some of the visitor past proposals, and we'd like to see that recognition of family needs addressed in other parts of the budget. but the main thing that i want to address today is the prop b fund. and we very strongly urge you to take a portion of the operating funds and use it for the operating budget. we feel it's very essential that the mta move into a mode of budgeting for expansion of transit service, not just maintenance. it's very troubling to see -- well, you didn't hear about it today, but the only proposals the staff suggested to us is there are efficiencies that would