both the police department and mta. this consolidates a lot of functions from security to transit planning to all sorts of safety and operational needs, getting in and out of special events like the america's cup, like hardly strictly bluegrass and it's a new way of doing this. so i can share her cell phone number with your staff, so if you have problems or concerns as the events unfold, she can take care of them in realtime and that has been happening already on this event. it's a very helpful new addition. in 2013 we have a much longer period of racing. in 2012, if you recall, in october, a very super peak day with not only the america's cup, but we had fleet week and the italian heritage parade and the home giant's game and castro street fair all in the same weekend and we don't anticipate near those kind of crowds this time, but we have a sustained effort from july through middle of september. so fewer crowds, less of a logistical problem on one given weekend, but we need to be able to sustain that effort over time

the mta has both the power and the responsibility in regard to enforcement of this new ban. that means that mta is now responsible for the lives and safety of poverty stricken people living in their vehicles, we hope that you will own this responsibility and work with us to reduce the negative impacts that this legislation will have on the most vulnerable members of our community. thank you for your time. >> sally cutler and scott. hi, good afternoon, my name is cecilia and i am with the coalition on homelessness thousands of san franciscans have been misplaced as real estate speculators take advantage of tenants, there is one for every 5.2 homeless individuals, wait for family shelter in san francisco, exceeds 6 months. and people are living in the vehicles because there is no affordable housing. in san francisco, the wait list for section 8 was last opened for 1 month in 2001. the wait list for public housing closed february first, 2010. (inaudible) out reach to vehicle housed people and they have resulted in housing not one person was offered housing because no housing is

i want to talk about reforming the mta how the mta members are appointed by the mayor. we're in the process of gathering signatures to reform the mta. here's a question i have every year. we have a $70 million deficit. we have $70 million a year and eliminating lines and raising fairs. what was the going on here. why is no one stepping up to the plate and asking the mta why are you having a $70 million deficit every year and not repairing muni vehicles. i got fired because of the defect vehicle equipment. there are a number of articles in the paper. the sfmta is a priority saying the street central subways is not needed. and many of i on this board passed illegal election called proposition g that violated the workers rights. you know who you are and what i'm talking about. it's time for you to rectify and reform this prop. so we will be going to each and every one of your offices and submitting a copy of the ballot for initiatives >> thank you very much. >> next speaker . hello, i'm a co- writer for that ballot initiative. the mta in its present form has to be changed.

if it's transit-oriented, it would be the mta, who is coordinating not only mta service and working with our regional partners as well and i would probably send the contact to the director of special events, lee, who has her finger with all of the contacts within mta, whether it's light rail, paratransit, bus, cab, personal vehicle, pedestrian or it's parking control officer question within the site venue. so i will share her information with staff and make sure that all the council have that as well. >> thank you very much. as you can tell, as we can all tell, this is a very multi-agency, complicated, massive event, and you can of course understand the importance of having a single point of contact, who can then help direct the public to the appropriate agency. so thank you very much for that primarily point of contact will be very helpful. >> one good number. because when we get on the phone, we don't want to call five to six numbers and that event, there are a lot, a lot of people and getting in contact with one person would be awesome. please, one number. do you guys have a coordinat

program, and it is only in effect where it signs are posted in the areas that are approved by you the mta board. >> this legislation continues to allow oversized vehicles to park on some san francisco streets, but gives the mta an additional tool to address the issues related to the over night parking on the focus location specific basis, and will the oversized vehicles cause issues which is often in the near residential areas. and to refresh your memory you will know from the previous presentations but we did, a sampling of streets in san francisco, to look for these oversized vehicles, we should define as longer than 22 feet and taller than 7 feet and these have a location that we identified some of them where they are located and as you can see, they are concentrated along the east side, and as well as the west side and? along the golden gate park. and of those, there are over 450 of them that we surveyed and 51 percent of them consist of trucks, trailers, and these trucks, trailers and buses that are left on the street. but 40 percent of them were campers. and as percentage of them we

with respect to the outreach mta should not rely on paper notices. it should find other ways. one of the things that bothered me was one the speakers mentioned it they were aware because they received a notice on the car. one of the simplest ways to reach folks. when we're talking about a number of parking notices to put paper noticed on folks cars. mta basically from my prospective did a lot better outreach than i'm familiar with in the past. i've had my own personal challenges. but in this particular case it was a significant improvement in comparison to years past. the boulevard project itself i think we have to do something to address the parking situation. adding to the parking zones should help the neighbors with that. a neighborhood driven process around the neighborhood parking also working with the owners of the gary shopping area to set up overnight parking. and the college campus is directly in the compacted neighborhood. working with the u s f in developing programs that encourage students to not bring their cars. and changing the parking configuration. i know this

but i am coming here today to talk about the proposed mta's disability parking. i have been interested in this for a long time, and while there is a problem and i think mta needs to enforce the rules, you know? if people are getting disability placards illegally or using them illegally, i have no problem with cracking down on them and enforcing it fair. although i had a friend who has a disability placard and i didn't think mta traffic enforcement treated her fairly, but that is another issue. in studying this issue, i think in this report missed a couple of items. one is the issue starts with the doctor, because the doctor is the one who issues the certificates. and this report did not cover anything about working with the doctors, or maybe having the state have a peer review to review the applications. you know, i mean, that is where it starts and, in fact the last legislation made it easier and expanded who could give disability certificates out. and the second issue that i have with the report was if they want to change state law, i want to see what other cit

of course seeing the mta engineer and then to the mta full board. leading up to that, the sfmta had distributed 1400 postcards to everyone living on the street and one block on either side informing them of community meetings. fliers were distributed door to door. i can vouch for that, i did it. mta also surveyed people who lived one block away, and found overwhelming support. 86 percent said they support this particular proposal that's before you now. in addition to the north panhandle [inaudible] and they did their support to the mta last year. also, the pacific blood bank on-or the blood bank of the pacific on turk and [inaudible] so we do have the community support. there has been outreach conducting. there may be some people who did not receive those notices, but i think more than a goodwill effort was made to reach as many as possible. thank you. >> thank you very much. before the next speaker i'll name a few more cards. david, sandra, richard, howard,. >> i live -- my name is lawrence lee, i live in the thrower hey and i'm a board member of t

board and if the cost goes over that, the mta will need a new number there. >> thank you, mr. pine. >> michael barrette? george bloom and greg giber. good afternoon madam chairman and board. i am representing north beach and the city of san francisco, and suggesting that we do not do the pagota dig, originally this is not in the master plan. and they want to spend 80 million dollars to dig two parallel tunnels under stockton street. and it never were planned on and they also do not have plans to put a station there, this is just going to be the (inaudible) left there and in turn, the person that has the right to that property on that, we paid 3 million dollars, and of our tax payer's money, for nothing. and to... they originally planned to stop the boring in china town and it makes much more sense to keep it that way and none of the

howard is a 91/81 mta manage and her a licensed engineer in the great state of california and he heads our division's project manage and group and we have the several of the folks here to be withdrew and could you stand? >> okay, thank you. >> thank you. >> and his distinguished career, spans over 22 years, and he served as project engineer and overhead engineer unit and civil engineer and project manager for many successful projects for the agency and he is certainly a gifted engineer and really to us at cpand c he is much more than that he is a talented writer and articulate and focused on producing quality work on time and under budget. and drew is a leader in his field and in our division, and he is an example for all of us at sfmta to follow and mr. howard and a person who leads by actions and snot not just his word. he is knockal and he has shared his knowledge openly and without reservation and with all of us who needed help, me included. he is a native san franciscan and who is devoted his professional career to this great city and he has enjoyed the experience, i can't acknowl

haily if i am not mistaker, john haily from the mta >> thank you mr. chairman and supervisor, and john haily the director of transit for the mta and i want to thank you for the opportunity to talk about the system and the issues. as you said, supervisor, this is really an irreplaceable public asset. it goes to every corner of the city and simply the cost to recapolize a system like ours would not be possible in this day and age. >> at the same time we agree completely in your overview that this is a system that right now while being heavily utilized on a day-to-day basis continues to have growing pains from historic under investment, and in the system, and at the same time, we will walk you through a set of issues and programs, that we believe will help make a difference and improve the system, and put us in a possible to really begin the process to turn the corner. there are some of the things that with your help and support, and again, before we begin with this, i think that it is important to note that the leadership, your shining light on the situa

let's make sure it's happening at the mta. also, we would like to know more details about the proposal. will consolidation actually work? let's find that information out before we go into the e-i-r. we want details about those sort of things. before you go to the e-i-r, let's not wait until that time. kind of the short term proposal. let's move on those. let's do more forced right turns. i know we've been talking about the cost of those sorts of things. let's figure outweighs of doing it so we can actually see will those speed up muni so we can find out that information. fifth to third, let's do? car-free zones there because it's a ton of people. will that speed up transit? those are our main asks. thank you. ~ >> thank you very much. commissioner miguel. >>> supervisors, ron miguel. i sense some frustration in both of your opening remarks and i have some of that myself. supervisor chiu, at the time i in 2011 when you introduced legislation [speaker not understood] citizens design review group, which i'm still technically chai

there's a plan right now mta is working with us, we have tiger grant turn around to the south in the [speaker not understood] area that would help [speaker not understood], give a turn around to have a larger capacity of fixed rail coming up through the area. but also this is two bus lines in plan for mission bay, neither of them exist in mission bay right now. one is i believe currently planned for the 10. it would come down 4th street, come down long bridge and then cut out 5th street just being put in. that's one of the reasons why that bus line doesn't exist. they're putting the street systems in right now. and the 22 has always been envisioned to come up 16th street, come up north on 3rd street, and loop around the park. that line, one of the problems we're running into is with high-speed rail and electrification of caltrain, both of these lines we envisioned being trolley lines. how do you cross electrified train line with electrified trolley line? my understanding is the tenant will use the bus and we've gotten rid of that issue. the 16th is still the 22nd line is a trolley. s

for further negotiations between the mta and bart. let me say a couple of things. first, i think objectively -- well, i recognize that the mta feels that we as a city are getting a good deal relative to the two agreements. i'm not entirely convinced that we couldn't have done better. that said, i do think that it's important to think regionally here and that the two agreements that we're talking about here, the feeder agreement and the fast pass agreement are agreements that are good for the region. and i think it is in that spirit of making sure that we're working collaboratively with bart that i will be supporting these two items. it's important for the mta and bart to have a good working relationship because it makes the entire transportation system in the bay area work. that said, i also want to say, not that this is related to the actual vote here today, that at some point i would also like to see a resolution of something that we do see happening right now with bart. i'd like to get more information about the state of negotiatio

and that's sfpd and mta lack of enforcement. he you don't see enforcement even on major corridors where a delivery truck is double parked and stopping an entire muni line in its tracks. is there a sense that we're going to see those kind of improvements? because some of these short term trials and even the longer term are going to be very reliant on effective enforce many by mta and by sfpd. >> yeah, that's definitely something we're trying to account for for the design. we want to the greatest extent possible have self-enforcing designs like the one at 10th dr because it's a channelized turn and just a much higher compliance right there. but we also want to be sensitive with the automatic enforcing design that is sensitive to some of the land use access issues for accessible, for hotel access, for business deliveries. so, we don't want to be too heavy handed with that. that is something we're trying to follow-up on. >> just to reiterate, i think -- it's currently and will be, a critical missing element in a lot of our street re

i think we have a represent in the audience from mta. i hope you are taking back what you're hearing to mta and informing your commissioners. i know i will be in contact with the director, but also the commission needs to be made aware of this. i want to encourage the members of the public to spend some time making sure your voices are heard. i want to associate myself with the comments that commissioner fro was speaking about how oftentimes the middle class people in san francisco with which children are left without a vice. the bike coalition is very organization is left -- my number one concern is safety. i've seen a lot of accidents also down in the henry adams circle right on the northern part of my district where they joined each other and there are a lot of lessons that can be learned from this particular process that we can take all across the city. i am really concerned and glad to hear that commissioner breed is thinking about mitigating the loss of parking and i think that's critical on peoples' quality of life. we need to be

everything else that we do in terms of providing advice to the mta board is what we think we ought to do. and reviewing a budget is the one thing that we must do. and so to thaend, we always engage in a lot of strutny and it is a privilege of working with (inaudible) and who i, used to single out every year, at the end of the budget process, but now, every two years, because we have moved the two year budgets which was something that the cac advocated for, i believe as far as back as 2002. and i am appreciative of the three people who served long tenure as secretaries to the cac. and vincent done lap and deborah reid and tores and all who have done a lot to make me look more confident that i actually am. during my time on the cac, i made a... i decided when i took the job at the cac, there were a couple of things that i ought to do and one of those was when i i thought that i had to write every line of the system because i live where i live and it is easy for your vision of muni to be the 43 1k3 the 6 and the things that run through my neighborhood and so every year i have gone out an

the mta advisory committee. a lot of folks working together, our fleet engineers, mechanics, supervisors, operators, most of whom are under the leadership of john who has been the driving force of getting these here. the one person who was so excited about this is our mayor. he kept saying when are we going to get to ride those buses? i'm happy to say this day is here. i would like to introduce you're san francisco mayor,ed lee. [ applause ] >> thank you. some of them have arrived and all of them will arrive by july. i want to thank the commission and ed riis skin and the staff for investing properly. this is what we talked about for a number of years. when you realize that many of the buses that we have are over 13 years old in the city and you realize on how not only how run down they are but we keep replacing the parts over again. we have learned the lessons of fuel economy, of ergonomics and designs and free coating on there and material that won't absorb the moisture that sometimes is spilled on there. thes

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