mr. weiner just predicted his art here. if you got to the west side you will have to look very far to find cars on the sidewalk. people park on the sidewalk all the time in the sunset. the city does nothing about it. if that is a concern, let's start there with people illegally parking cars on the sidewalk and blocking any access on the sidewalks on a day-to-day basis. i'm actually here to speak in support of these changes to the scooter program. i normally come to you to speak in support of bike and transit. anything that gets people out of cars and gets cars off the road that gets people to support themselves in mutual ways. you ought to adopt them. i would like to think in particular, director brinkman asking about expanding the service areas to the entire city. i think that is necessary. what we see now with the conflicts of limiting a number of devices that operators are allowed and the requirements of certain neighborhoods we are seeing very contorted and twisted service areas. i don't think anyone can fit in their br

mr. weiner, please. >> i would like to make a suggestion for two potential investments. one is in space technology, which is going to take -- i think it will be a real growth industry. the second is in automobiles because i think electric cars are going to be a thing of the future. those automobile stocks will go through the roof. i know there are more tesla cars on the road and these are two possible investments i would like to see. thank you. >> thank you. that takes us to item five. approval of the minutes of the july 10th meeting. are there any additions, corrections, or deletions? a motion to adopt is an order. >> move to approve. >> second. >> motioned and seconded. public comment? all those in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? >> that takes this item seven, investment calendar. one item. mr. coker, you have the floor. >> he missed the consent calendar. >> excuse me i skipped the minutes to the consent calendar. number 6. does anybody wish that any item be set aside for separate consideration. >> i will make the motion to adopt the consent calendar as submitted. >

mr. chair, yes. herbert reiner, bob finebom and dave fill dow. >> herbert weiner, it's the composition of this board that bothers me. there should be critics as well as supporters of m.t.a. on this board. you're going to have a biased report. secondly, at the meetings there are obviously going to be working groups, critics should be included in those working groups, and not lined up against the wall like the peanut gallery that i experienced previously. you really have to have a critical report. and also the bottom line is we need more buses. we need more drivers. we need less take-aways at the bus stops. we need to have a better transportation system that really serves everybody. right now you have the elterva line which is a disaster. you have the vanes project which is a disaster and the brt will be a disaster too. so that's the bottom line. thank you. >> chair heinicke: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> thank you. on behalf of the same community, we submitted a two-page letter to every member of this board as well as to the working group. this, i hope, has been put in your packets so