the mta removeed the left turn northbound from van ness onto hayes street this morning. that means van ness will only have two left turns. >> reporter: at 10:00 a.m. it officially happened. the left turn here at hayes street is no more. only two left turns remany as the sfmta spends hundreds of millions of dollars on this project. filled with pile ones and signs. this morning hayes street was the latest to make the big change. it maked it complicated? >> yeah, a little bit. >> reporter: take a look at this map. it shows the impacted area. the only left-hand turns remaining from van ness avenue are northbound at lombard avenue and southbound on broadway. they'll give it a week without the configuration without the left turn at hayes, but then van ness between mission and mccallister street will be shifted slightly to make room to extend the construction zone. mta officials say all of this is part of the $316 million van ness improvement project. >> by removing leftturn lanes we're making things safer for pedestrians crossing the street. it's also going to help us install

>> there's a lot of folks from mta. i saw mr. mcgwire. >> supervisor safai: i will not needle you about the fact that you are before this body and we told you that jump would be required by uber. nevermind, go ahead. >> tom mcgwire, sfmta. i will speak to the details that i'm certain of and then maybe ask to come back to the board with areas i'm not entirely confident of. the contract between motivate and the mtc is in the aquisition of motivate, the company that runs go bike by lyft, current thinking is that lyft will take on that contract. so they will have the same relationship with mtc that motivate has had. we're writing to mtc and asking them to confirm that at mtc's understanding, that's what lyft's understanding is. in regards to low income, many of you will remember that when we finalize that contract, one of the provisions is that 20% of the bikes were required to be in communities of concern and also that the -- that motivate was required to offer what they called bike share for all, the $5, first-year membership for a

under supervisor -- i think that could go in two different directions, the mta board -- what the mta would public on monday and tuesday in the chronicle, wednesday and thursday in the examiner, friday in the chronicle or the board could give discretion to the clerk and ota on how those type of situations would be handled in order to maximize notice. >> i think that the ability to, again, use the examiner as the primary paper and publish to the max the maximum amount of time that we are able to do it in advance in those particular days, why would that be any different i think than what we are doing right now? because i guess it happened -- like the examiner -- and i think the point was made that the change in the publication of the examiner happened midway through the contract and so maybe we could receive an explanation as to how we had handled it before this was brought to our attention today. >> madame president, angela clevio, clerk of the board. the good news is there has not been any 4 hour -- any 24 hour request for meetings so we haven't had to notice anything in the newspaper

we received a grant with mta to look at the 22nd street alignment. as was mentioned earlier, bart was looking at a cross bay analysis to look at connections to the east bay. all of these things are happening at the same time right now. we need to be coordinated. we are working on systems for coordinating our efforts and making sure that we are on the same page as we move forward. thank you for your time. thank you for your attention. i really appreciate it. i'd be happy to answer any questions. if i might, i'll offer the podium for a minute to ron who is the chair of the citizens working group who would like to make a few comments as well. thank you. >> thank you, john. >> thank you, john. director, good to sue you again. it's my pleasure and privilege to chair the citizens working group. particularly applieied because was around and active in the beginnings of bart. to be around and active in a new generation of transit that expands beyond san francisco and the bay area to the rest of the state is a true pleasure. the working group started in 2016.

i'm planner with available street division mta. i work on bicycle and pedestrian safety projects around the city. this project here is the neighborhood project which is effort to install measures to improve safety of bicyclist. this was public outreach which is conducted over the course of 18 months. held four public meetings including a townhall with supervisor fewer. several events at the local library. like i mentioned, several public events over the course of 18 months. this was a neighborway project. eighth avenue is high traffic street when compared to s urrounding streets. carries about two or three times the traffic volumes of six, eighth or ninth avenues. it does contain one of the dedicated at goldengate park. the effort of increasing safety and comfort for people biking and walking, we talking to residents and talking to f amilies who bike the park. traffic volume is really where the single biggest cause of the conflicts on the street. when you're biking on the s treet, residential street like eighth avenue, vehicles pas

the mta will give drivers a week to get comfortable with the new configuration.ffic lanes on van ness and south van ness avenues between mission and mccallster streets will be shifted slightly. mta officials say all of this is part of the $360 million van ness improvement project. >> by removing left turn lanes, we're making pedestrians trying the street. left turns are one of the leading causes for collisions for pedestrians. and als goingo help us install our new transit, vrt, and that will put buses in the stra lanes and boarding islands there. that will speed things up by 32%. >> mta officials say traffic signals will also be retimed with a goal of improving the flow of vehicles. that doesn't mean drivers are welcoming the change. >> i like to go around and come back. i'm just going to add maybe seven to ten minutes in rush hours with the traffic. >> get used to the construction. the project is expected to be completed by 2020. in san francisco, matt keller, abc 7 news. >>> the alameda county fire wrapping up this weekend in pleasanton. today there's a very s

the mta is removing the left turn northbound from vanness on to hayes street if. that means vanness has two remaining left turn northbound at lom boeder and southbound at broadway. the mta says it gives drivers about a week to get comfortable with the new configuration with the no left turn at hayes. but next thursday, july 12th traffic lanes on and other streets will be shifted to make room for the construction zone. parking will be limited and bus stops relocated during this time. if you wonder we all this construction will finally be over? the mta says crews hope to have it done by 2020. >>> reporting live in san francisco, matt keller abc 7 news. >>> thank you. >>> it's 5:04. presiden trump went on the offense nef montana with an unscripted speech that insulted a sitting as for. the anti-sexual assault movement and also a gop icon. news reporter janai norman has more from washington. >> a big night for president trump in montana. a a friendly red state he won big in 2016 and he came out punching again with an attack on a democratic senator and even an iconic m

the mta says crews will complete this project by 2020. reporting will i have in san francisco, matt keller. >> thank you. >>> president trump is spending the weekend in new jersey after some strong comments during a rally in montana. he went after former president george h.w. bush and the thousand points of lie he launched to support volunteerism. >> president trump says he doesn't understand it. he attked elizabeth warren over compensates about native american heritage. he targeted the me too movement. it kim hours after embamgtsed epa director scott pruitt resigned >> you know the kits they sell on television for $2. learn moreter hij tinge. we will take that little kit and say but we have to do it gently. because we're in the me too generation. we have to be very gentle. >> the president's job at the me too movement comes as he added fox news copresident bill shine. and shine was accused of covering up sexual misconduct claims. >> vrgs are trying to figure out why an 80-year-old man was on the tracks in the middle of rush hour. a train

mta helped develop this program out of political leadership. which is an institute at the university of pepperdine and what they saw early on in 2015 was the something really special what attracted me was not just the project itself but the team behind it. deon in, candice and madeleine and the leadership from ed reiskin was critical. i seen all kind of efforts that start in the middle level of an organization and not ultimately been successful because of lack of sustained leadership. i ask you to give your support and continue to watch the great work that this team is doing. because that leadership support is critical and i wanted to share with you really how much attention is being given to this work from an outside community of practitioners and public agencies. thank you. >> director brinkman: thank you for your work on the project. any more public comments. come forward. >> my name is frank. i have a background in community planning and public engagement. i want to echo. the report was actually well done. it was nice to read and c oncerned

you can't change what you don't measure and at least my program or the mtas are trying to report out on how things are happening. we will put out a report an -- indiscernible. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. thank you to vice chair tang and all the participating agencies. with that we will open to public comment is there any public comment on this item. if so please come forward. >> will lead to the goals that -- talked about at the top of presentation, a mode shift away from private auto trips and increased safety around our schools on what i have of not just the growing number of parents that bike with their children and parents that walk and transit with their kids this does so much for kids across our city and we are excited to be a part to cover our sfusd public schools. i want to thank the agencies and nonprofits at the table and i would invite the commissioners to come out and see the school sites and see the work that those outreach and engagement workers do in our walking school -- and meeting spot like the excelsior hub where parents can meet and bike or roll to school. i

everybody at mta and ac transit included are fully committed for full operations by august. everybody is doing everything they can, whether it be ac transit, mta, fire department, web core. we are all leaning into it. with that i would ask jeff to add anymore that he can do it. we are just about at the finish line here. >> thank you, ron. hopefully with all of the retirement of the planning slides gives you an indication that we are imminently close to being done. there's been a lot of tremendous effort, you know, in the last three months when you were looking for commitment and we told you we would be done tomorrow. we are 20 hours away from inspecting so we've got a new nights, the next few nights and saturday so we anticipate being done on saturday. so our apologies for being a day late. i think if we can wrap up the paperwork on monday you can have the facility and look to come back here the following month and turn over for substantial completion. >> thanks for all your support and help in navigating through these challenges. with that i can take any questions. >> your

almost run over again a couple of weeks ago and nothing that mta is interested in doing. the crosswalk is lit and the signs are not visible because they are blocked by trees, so you have the flashing rights but nobody can see them. you have the shuttle buses coming down the street and feels like if you don't include the private schools you are declaring open season on those kids, so it would be good to see. i also share my colleague's frustration with the crossing guard issue. i think we have a props but not sure if it's a props that will fly. that wil would do with the crosg guard there was watching the trc which was total chaos. my daughter goes to a school in my colleague's district and i can tell you the people who are not dropping off kids make that a dangerous situation get frustrated and weave their way in traffic and they are oblivious to children being let off at school. i would hope you if do enforcement there is a way to distinguish between parents developing off their kids and people trying to make it through those routes. a lot of times the tmcs who have no r

tom mcgwire, sustainable streets at the mta. i will go quickly and give an overview of what we're doing and why we're doing it from the viewpoint of traffic management around the city. i want to observe something, as you all know, all the projects on the slide shown are about delivering on high policy priorities that you and the voters have put before us. we have an obligation to the voters dating back to the general obligation bond to get these projects done as quickly as possible. a delay to any project, even a result to try to optimize construction, can affect our projects, as contractor availability is scarce and project costs continue to escalate. we look at a lot of factors when we issue construction permits and schedule end-stage construction. it starts with a planning effort. contractors and agencies that want to close lanes of traffic, come to us for a permit. there's a lot of variables that we look at -- number of lanes they want to close, hours they want to work. we're prioritizing congestion relief and especially tra

. >> for an mta employee toilet? >> yes. yeah. that was one of the more challenging project discussions we had. >> you mean egregious is the word you're looking for. >> so we have the project that serves as a comfort station to bus drivers, basically, right. pg&e indicated that there was no ability to -- no capacity nearby to connect the lode and the only way would be through a primary connection point. so, to give you some sense of what the lode is, the restroom had lighting and a hand blow dryer. so that was the load we were talking about. as i mentioned before, the primary switch gear would appropriately serve load like zuckerburg general hospital. >> so they were requiring the same amount of distribution infrastructure for general hospital that they are to provide energy to lights and a hand dryer in a single-stall bathro bathroom? wow. >> we found a workaround in the city facilities and didn't connect to pg&e's distribution grid for that to find a way forward. >> so there was infrastructure nearby that we could -- >> behind t

the mta is getting rid of the left turn on hayes street from van ness. with the latest update that will leave van ness with only two remaining left turns northbound on lombard and southbound on broadway. the change is part of the $316 million van ness improvement project. safro aspeed up ep ufitr along the embarcadero a week after a pedicab driver was hurt. police say the uptick in summer visitors in the city is the reason for the increased enforcement. they are looking for a honda civic that hit the driver. the victim kevin manning is still in the hospital with a serious head injury. >>> now that two men have pleaded no contest in the ghost ship warehouse trial, the attention turns to the civil lawsuits. the "chronicle" says the city of oakland has $25 million in insurance coverage for the case. a civil suit was filed by the families of the victims claiming that pg&e, the warehouse landlord, the city of oakland and others are responsible for the inferno that killed 36 people in december of 2016. families are seeking monetary damages which could lead to

she served various taxi industry and mta boards including paratransit. according council including the current taxi advisory council. she had a sense of humor. i can recall getting a phone call from her and saying, did you know that gavin newsom is on the radio talking about taxis? in case you want to call in. she did this several times. she was always alert to these issues and always -- she gave her heart and soul to the industry and to the drivers of the industry. to anybody who says different, i say it's a lie. >> thank you very much for the wise and kind words. >> i want to say thank you for explaining what had happened to director ramos. i couldn't quite figure out since his name disappeared from the list. thanks for explaining that. i could not disagree more with my friend tarik mahmoud and agree more with my friend mark. i will miss tara, she's a wonderful and warm person at these meetings and elsewhere. her passing is noted and i appreciate that. >> thank you very much. i'm doing this out of order. mr. ramos, i should have asked you to please com

hale presented where originally for the senior housing project, the museum, the mta toilet, balboa pool, before pg&e found out the city was the provider, you had indicated a secondary service was necessary. what caused the change in those projects when you realized that the city was the provider? >> i heard the comment by barbara that once we found out -- we normally know that we're serving a -- when puc applies for the service -- i don't want to debate barbara -- >> let's say you knew from the get-go. what caused the change from originally suggesting that secondary service was needed and later changing that requirement to primary service? >> i'm going to defer to john to answer specific questions about a project he may be aware of. you know, i will say generally speaking, we believe we're pretty up front, if it's the 75 kva or greater. if it's a bathroom or below, it's going to be secondary. i do want to say something about secondary and primary. there's a lot of discussion about that. barbara mentioned good faith practice. when we look at what we serve in california and outside of cal

although you issue the permits, and you're not sf mta, do you have an idea of enforcements of over time parking -- if it's a two hour meter, you're not allowed to plug the meter again, you're supposed to move your vehicle. >> i'm not familiar -- >> okay. is there any representative from sfmta here? >> i don't think so. >> okay. thank you. [inaudible] >> well, theirs doesn't apply because they're there after -- >> okay. >> are you done? >> i'm done. >> okay. you have a site plan of that entire block that shows the color of the curbs? >> i do not. sfmta does. i don't have that with me, though. >> do you know what -- i know this is the yellow, and i think there's white on the side. >> yeah. >> what about the rest of the block. >> i don't know that there's any regular street parking. i think the union square might know better than me. but i believe it's mostly a white loading zone or a yellow loading zone. >> there's white, and then there's commercial vehicles of six wheels. so there's two yellow, two white, and then, receipt surround -- red surrounding each one, and then a portion where yo

the mta plans to make a critical change to the van ness corridor. no more turns except for a couple spots. christie, this is going to be a big change for a lot of us. >> reporter: absolutely. it today we've been watching. as soon as this light turns green, drivers stack up in the intersection, trying to make that left turn, that ends tomorrow, leaves just two places where drivers can turn left. you can hear a steady stream of horns as drivers turn quickly from van ness to hays. she is weighing her options since starting tomorrow she can no longer make that turn. she's not looking forward to it as she's watched construction for the improvement project. >> it's clogged up. we're going to put a red lana the center. the 47 and the 49. we're apr we're anticipating savings up to 32%. >> reporter: they say left turns are where many pedestrian injuries occur, so this should make things safer. >> if allows us to retime the traffic signals. >> reporter: they are advising drivers of the changes, and more changes are on the way. >> we do warn people to allow th

. >>> starting tomorrow, the mta is getting lid of the left turn from hayes street onto vanness. that will leave vanness with only 2 left turns. the changes part of the $360 million improvement project. it is an effort to's beat up transit along the corridor. >>> michael pager, the san francisco architect has died. his -- painter wanted to create landscaped tunnels. painter presented his plan in 1992. 23 years later, the expressway open. painter died last week in cancer -- of cancer. he was 83. >>> a burned out on in san francisco that city leaders called a drug den sold for $2 million. the blue victorian on sanchez street caught fire in february. in 2015, san francisco sued the property owner, accusing him of renting the home to drug dealers. the owner denied those allegations but was ordered to pay $1.6 million to the city for code violations. he put the home on the market in may. it sold for nearly double the original asking price. the listing said it is being sold as is, bring your contractor and imagination. >>> a light show featuring hundreds of drones lit up the sky over t

first stops for tourists visiting san francisco, of course, a ride on the cable car, but according to mta on the california line that you see here, ridership just isn't that strong. the union is saying it looks like the bell ringing contest appears to be off. >>> the sound is purely san francisco as cable cars rolled by. deborah is from canada and waited to hop'v often seen the r and i was wondering why not take a ride finally? >> reporter: in late summer the bell ringing contest where operators show off their skill, but this year sounds like a different tune. >> we will not be hosting the bell ringing contest this year. we will try to incorporate it into our september mini heritage event. >> roger is president of the twu local 250a. >> the cable car operators decided not to participate to let the county know, cable car service is being reduced. >> since they did recently stop renting service on the california line from midnight to 1:30 a.m. because there weren't enough riders. >> there's less pay when there is a reduction in service, but our main goal and function and principle is provid

. >> reporter: this video was part of the reason the sf mta board voted to ban tour buses on this one block stretch bush. >> it's probably safer. we get a lot of traffic through here. >> reporter: this is the second full house locale to have tour buses vanished. the home to the painted ladies won the same fight a few years ago. tourists say they understand. >> i think that's a good thing because the buses can kind of be loud and stuff. i think people should be able to come and congregate and look at the place. i'm okay with it. >> now, neighbors say that video you saw is just the tip of the iceberg. they say the traffic is much worse here on the weekends as are the crowds. they say especially after hours when people have had a few too many drinks and at one point started singing the full house lyrics to the house. live in san francisco, andria borba, kpix 5. >>> a bay aa boaterle a sucked underwater. the hidden dang ner the delta. -- danger in the delta. >>> a dramatic high speedshooto. an officer sprays his windshield with bullets to stop a murder suspect. >>> and teenagers love thei

new york, new jersey, port authority, mta, new jersey transit? there are technology piece and jurisdictional and governance piece. to the extent they are pursuing technologies and can work together. drones for new york city, our airspace is pretty dense. i don't know if we're ready to go there. but we are doing connected vehicles, looking at things we could deploy regionally. we are one region. >> for the question and the record, where do the jets and giants play? >> in the region. [laughter]. >> case closed. senator markey. >> thank you, mr. chairman once again. once again, this is an area where senator booker and i compete. we compete and i just had him check it out, and new york has the second worst congestion and we're number 7 in congestion. one place we like to behind new york, one category. >> far behind. >> in washington, d.c., is number six. between new york, boston and washington, we're, we have a lot of reason to solve this problem. it is consuming a large percentage of the discretionary time that we have left on the planet, okay? just

the scope also includes funding for puc and mta for construction and support services. total authorization is phase 2c -- the mou amount to date then would be $19,709,347. this portion is being funded by ocii with existing bond proceeds. regarding the contracting per 2013mou we are relying on the city's contracting requirements, the city has 25% lbe goal. michell engineering chose to construct the project is city-certified -- 72% based on ocii's policy. the city has mandatory participation levels of 50%. the next step july and august dpw awards contract to general contractor and issue notice to proceed. will begin construction in september and project will excellent in mid 2020. here are the two actions. we have representatives of dpw, contracting folks, and also cmg to answer any questions. thank you. >> thank you. do we have any speaker cards? >> >>clerk: i did not receive any. >> chair mondejar: i will close the public comment and turn to fellow commissioners for any comments or questions. >> commissioner bustos: i have a question regarding the design. one of the thi

departments that such affordable housing and governed by the ad min code we left outperformed uc and mta. we are communicating with them to bring them in. >> what about pw? >> public works here, yes. >> there are amendments to be introduced and you have copies of that. >> go through it. >> sure. they are technical. globally. >> i think you have to talk about them goalie. >> we are de wheating department of before public works. -- deleting department of before the public works. >> that is in the charter. you keep doing that. it is in the charter. >> the city attorney is here. >> go ahead. >> on page three we are inserting the word of. on page 4 line 23 it says department of office it should be or office. page 5 line 19. we are changing initial date commencement date for reporting from july 15, which is past us which we have past to december 15th. one more. on page 6, line 8, the approval, permit. we replace that with any approval, permit. it explains what we are intending to do. >> you did it technically, not at the global level. >> the first is global that appears several places. >> any

. >>> the mta is taking away a left turn option on a busy san francisco street, the agency will be getting rid of the left turn onto hayes street. it is a move to speed up bus travel, the change is part of a $360 million improvement project. the latest move leaving the street with just two left turn lanes, northbound at lumbar and southbound at broadway. >>> police are increasing patrols in an area where a pedicab accident happened last week, last wednesday a car swerved into traffic and hit a pedicab traveling in the bike lane. a family was riding in the pedicab but have since been released from the hospital. the operator of the pedicab is suffering from critical injuries. san francisco police has announced they will be increasing patrols along the embarcadero for the summer, that is where christien kafton is this morning, we will bring him in for a live report later on. >>> more possible problems for tesla. reports of a third active investigation opened up. >>> a victory for the state of california for now. a federal judge made a decision when it comes to the safe sanctuary state law. >>

mta, the rec park department, and the school district. most importantly, i'd like to thank the thousands of community members, residents, advocates, developers, non-profits, business owners, all of who have shaped the plan for the better. here's some of the highlights and benefits of the plan. it would create a sustainable mixed use neighborhood. it would leverage the city's substantial investment in the subway while delivering 33% of all units as permanently affordable housing. it preserves and builds new industrial or pdr space, ensuring no net loss due to the plan. it adds 16 million square feet of development capacity, about 8 million each for both housing and commercial. the plan leverages this growth with a comprehensive $2.2 billion worth of public benefits. this will fund critical needs for transit, bicycle and pedestrian safe streets, parks and rec community facilities, non-profits and social services, and more to create a truly inclusive livable neighborhood. most importantly, most of these public benefits are dedicated to affor

they had a program at mta to work in workforce development type project and i definitely jumped on thati didn't know this was something that i wanted to do. all i knew is that i wanted to help people and i wanted to empower others. >> the environment that i grew up that a lot of women were just stay-at-home moms. it wasn't that they didn't have work, but it was cheaper to stay home and watch the kids instead of paying pricey day care centers. >> my mom came from el salvador during the civil war. she worked very hard. when she came here and limited in english, she had to do a service job. when i was born and she had other kids, it was difficult for her to work because it was more expensive for her to be able to continue to work in a job that didn't pay well instead of staying at home and being able to take care of us. >> there isn't much support or advocacy for black women to come in and help them do their jobs. there also aren't very many role models and it can be very intimidating and sometimes you feel uncomfortable and unsure of yourself and those are the reasons exactly why you need

opportunity for members of the public to address the board on matters within the jurisdiction of the mta but are not on today's agenda. i'm not sure that everybody who submitted a card is still here so we'll just have to mull through. >> let's read through names. alena, paul valde. >> why don't we, in the interest of time, anyone who is commenting under general public comment please lineup along the right hand side o-hand side of . >> i was riding on older subway and i noticed an old fare box, and old paper transfers. i'm not seeing a need or reason to keep this. there's no historical preservation or business standpoint to keep this. we lack the consistency on the rest of the system with the 90-minute program whether it' it's -- i hope we can overcome our trepidation and be able to put the old paper transfer stress so we will have consistency across the system. i'm enjoying the new light rail vehicles, though it looked like one that i road yesterday was having hiccups, the stations dwell times were long. i'm supporting -- continuing to support the new rail vehicles. the like the space in

the mta hasn't confirmed a reason, but many operators say they're boycotting the event because late night cable car service has been scaled back causing a dozen people to lose shifts. they hope the bring the contest back next year. >> that's too bad, a long tradition of that event. >>> you have a chance to win more than half a being dollars tonight, $522 million on the line in the megamillions drawing, the 11th largest drawing in the history, according to california lottery. your odds of winning are one in 258 million, so not great. >> i'm trying to break it down for you. the drawing is at 8:00 tonight if you want the winning numbers sent directly to your phone, download the abc 7 news app and enable the push alerts. ama and i already have thoughts about how we'd be money. >> odds be darned. >> they keep getting bigger and bigger, nice if you win it. >> 522 will be okay. >> you'll settle for that? >> you're a simple man. >> there you go. >> a lot of folks are happy that heat in socal is not here right now. the sea breeze is in effect. the marine layer along the coast will creep on back in