didn't you guys, i am sure to receive the mta report for the first fly quarters. you am telling you again, mta put you guys in the darkness, behind the wall didn't he is hiding from you. they are wrong. you know what, they are wrong? they are lying about 7%. i tell you, they are increased the business, 37%. but for who? not for me, not the people working to purchase the medallion but for the company. i am very upset! they're not working for us, believe me! they're working for company. i tell you last time. your guys should kind a record. because they keep everything as they look and i ask why you lining down 17 cabs? you know what they say to me? it would be good because the people are not coming out, they are coming out the cab laying down front in the sidewalk. this isn't my job to make it look good. please, we have all in here for one reason, even this business tomorrow gets multimillion dollar medallion. we don't want to. we want to get out. these people, we want to get out. we want our money back. the mtas are happy and increasing the business and leave them

say that this micro mobility technology might be a good first-mile, last-mile solution, but i think mta and these companies still have a little ways to go. and relative to the item that president yee introduced, item 47, on today's agenda, which is cosponsored by every single member of this board urging the mta to issue permits that are compliant with ab5 and respect workers' rights, let's be clear that some of these companies continue to exploit loopholes in state and local employment law. and i was actually informed by a representative of the teamster's joint council 7 this morning, that at least two of the scooter companies that are anticipating permits in two weeks are using third-party basically temp agencies, like silicon valley startup blue crew to get around the obligation to hire employees with adequate compensation packages and benefits, even though these employees are technically w-2 classified employees. this labor model has been a problem for decades in the agricultural industry and in the food processing industry. and my belief is that by enabling this type of employment m

in my office's discussion with the mta the past few days, they have been thankfully receptive to the concerns. and so to that end, i am introducing a resolution today to urge the mta to respect workers' rights as well as to address some of the other issues that i have raised and i will distribute copies of that resolution to all of you colleagues and look forward to your support. the rest i submit. >> supervisor ronen? okay. president, that concludes the introduction of new business. >> president yee: okay. why don't we go to the 2:30 recognition of commendations. >> it's now time to recognize various valuable members of the community who have stepped up to the plate. to assist our residents and families. >> president yee: so supervisor brown? >> we have brown, mandelingman, ronen and fewer. >> supervisor brown: thank you. there you are, rica. today i am commending ms. rica chambers. an incredible community leader and executive director at collective impact. collective impact is a community focused youth development nonprofit based out of the fillmore western addition that is dedicat

works for public works who is our partner in our project and she will tag team this presentation with mta senior engineer, brit tanner. >> good afternoon chair board members. i'm the project manager for better market street and i am joined today by brit tanner from the sfmta. as you know, market street is a city's busiest pedestrian bicycle and transit corridor. it's the pro mere cultural civic and commercial boulevard. it is also the backbone to our muni system. and yet we have safety challenges for all modes. there's no dedicated bicycle facility east of eighth street. our infrastructure is aging and reaching the end of its useful life. our transit stops, curb ramps and sidewalks do not meet current ada standards and we need to improve transit reliability and travel times. market street is on the city's high injury network. each year there are an average 100 injury collisions that happened between stewart and octavia and the top five highest injury intersections in the city are on market street. we know that 75% of injury collisions involve people walking or biking. on the state of our

madrid: san francisco mta? >> no, we do not approve or deny curb cuts.that goes through the planning department when they're doing project level approvals. >> mr. madrid: okay. so when do you go through the flag bus stops, and there is no curb cuts, do you guys notify the curb cut department? or how does that work? >> with the flag stops, we would have to work with the residents or businesses that are fronting where the flag stop is, because we would have to remove the parking or whatever is currently occupying the curb space. and they would have an opportunity to weigh in on if they wanted that parking or whatever happened to be there removed. >> mr. madrid: and then, if someone -- if the place has no curb cuts, do you guys notify the department? >> yes. so we would have to work with public works, because they're the ones that physically construct any changes to the sidewalk, including curb cuts. >> mr. madrid: thank you. >> ms. sassouni: yes. i am a bicyclist and i see a whole lot of problems with the curbs, especially with the bike lanes with double p

. >> good afternoon mta board. i wrote myself a lengthy message before this. in support the better market street project. i'm happy to hear i won't need to read that today. so i will keep it brief. i want to applaud the board for their incredible work on the better market street project and everyone at the mta, i sincerely hope this is the beginning of something new for the city for substantially improving bike infrastructure in the city and as someone who just started biking down market street a month ago, i did it for three weeks and got tired of fears their my life every morning and evening. i hope this happens as soon as possible. i'd lick to encourage to you do this as quickly as you can. and follow-up with as much better pedestrian and bike infrastructure as you can. thank you again. and i hope this project passes today. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> dianne chang, jill holebrow, ed, greg rose marin, charles debarge. >> good afternoon, my name is dianne and i'm a regular bike riders in san francisco and i've had so many close calls tha

you're given an mta, a notice to appear at a court date on it, that's usually several months away and your exported to the bridge and then mexican migration takes over, take you back, dropped it on the street a sickly. and on the new mexico side andyou are there and have to wait until your court hearing or whatever's on your mta . they're supposed to be exceptions to that in terms of vulnerable populations thatare not supposed to be put in mpp, unaccompanied children and people with health risks . in reality, people are put into mvp that fall into those exceptions every day. there's also an option to ask for a non- refolding interview and that means you are afraid to return to mexico to wait until your court hearing. but you have to ask for it, you're never asked affirmatively are you afraid to go back to mexico so either you have to wait until your hearing which again is three or four months out affirmatively say to the judge at a point when the judge says you have any questions because they don't ever asked affirmatively or you have to bring an attorney touches our border fellows he

on the mtas, the notice to appear, the addresses for the migrants are fake addresses. usually it's for a shelter that they never even been to and some mtas are listing facebook as the address for the migrants. there are no longer going to the interpreters provided, they're going to be shown a video explaining their rights but no actual interpreters do it during the hearing. and then there's the tennis courts that are happening in brownsville and the judges that are only appearing by a tv screen and so they don't have the opportunity to judge the body language of the migrants and really be able to assess their credibility. so the order of the day is chaos and confusion and it's designed to be that way. it's designed to be cruel. and there's no normal area sometimes people ask only a normal day. there is no normal and again, it's designed to be that way because everything unpredictable i'm going to do my best to walk you through the process. this may be elementary but i figure there's a lot of people here who don't know the nuts and bolts of how things work. but starting

. >> this item is to basically work out the agreement with mta, howard fong talked earlier about these joint projects we have with 15 or public works. in this case sfmta is replacing tracks. this first segment that we worked out to replace water mains and sewer, we are basically taking the sewer from under the tracks, and putting two sewer pipes outside of the track area. this just works out, how we are going to work together with mta taking the lead on construction. >> we have talked about the difficulty on some of these large multi agency projects and how to keep them on schedule. has not taught us anything as we put together this m.o.u.? >> it has. we actually went ahead of m.t.a. and we advertised our own construction project to replace sewer and water ahead of m.t.a. in this case, because they are taking out the tracks, we could not go of them. what we have learned is that we really need to do partnering, even within our internal city family. normally we have partnering with the contractor. we have instituted partnering within the city departments to work out and iron out details

mta, i comes to the believe it is being treated as though it is already a lost cause. i don't believe in that. i don't believe anything is ever to broken to fix. [applause] someone would look at this and say, you are crazy. but you're not crazy. you're not crazy for thinking that we can be better. for so long, we have talked about this notion of american exceptionalism. this caused us to make investments in many places and areas that made us the best. in technology and infrastructure, we were the best. but we cannot rest on our laurels. point, when you compare us to japan, the transportation system there, the health care and netherlands and canada, we are increasingly saying, we were once the best. i don't want to be that country. [applause] when it comes to the green new deal, people come from this zero-sum mentality. we will take away your hamburgers and airplanes. what this is asking us is, what are we going to make? not what are we going to take away. what will we establish? who says it will ground planes, i guarantee you, climate change, which threatens storms and

we have a lot of trouble with the mta and our trains. climate change will affect that. it will flood the tunnels eventually. like it did with hurricane sandy. we have a lot of debris falling from the mta stations. i did a sketch of the circle line in japan. applying it to queens. i'm involved with trying to stop sunnyside yards. i think we could apply that to transportation. use the idea of the green new deal. use monorails. it is much cheaper. thank you i wanted to propose it and see what you think. rep. ocasio-cortez: i find this very inspiring. this was the whole point of us creating the green new deal resolution. it was to elicit and challenge us and think about what we can do with public funds and public infrastructure. we don't even realize how much money we're spending. it is all going to corporations, the military, and the very rich. the idea of tuition free college feels impossible because we're not used to government working for us in these ways. if the government worked for us half as much as it works for billionaires and corporations, our lives would be tran

mta is an example. they may need to inspect their systems so all of the infrastructure functions correctly. one of the things we also recognized, determining the perceived diminished quality of life in san francisco. san francisco is a wonderful place that people love to come to because of its reputation worldwide. we don't want to people to think, i don't want to go to san francisco because this is an issue. we want them to know this is temporary and we're taking steps to mitigate the impact. what we found out is that few agencies -- and this is throughout the region -- they also don't have continuity of operations plans. you can see one key thing is how important it is. fuel will also be a critical issue. if san francisco is without power, because we're getting our power from somewhere else, they're also likely affected with some type of power shut jouf. so it's not just -- shutoff. it not just san francisco impacted, it's likely a larger area, so how will we work with the state to get the different r

we have a lot of debris fallingn from mta station and it will cost 350 million to replace. what i'm asking -- i did a sketch of the circle line in japan applying it to queens and i'm involved, i quickly can apply that to transportation and use the idea of degree new deal and have lines around queens even monorails and is much cheaper than the fda,. [cheering] >> i want to oppose it and see what do you think. >> thank you, thank you so much. i find this very aspiring plate this is the whole point of us creating a new deal to elicit and challenge us to think about what we n can do as a society wh public funds and public infrastructure. one of the biggest problems that we have, we don't even realize how much money we're spending because it is ongoing to corporations, military and the very rich. the idea of us having tuition free public college feels c impossible because we are not used to government working for us in these ways. the government can worko for us -- if it were expressed half as much as it does for billionaires and corporations, our lives will be transformed. [app

houston rockets nike productsy o were pulled from store shelves bedave ailhe srfxpo mta ion game betweeners and nets in shanai but that brechas cancelled. the chinese critics of the nba claimhat 1.4 billion chinese were hurt by the pro hong kong protester tweet of houston rockets general manager. but the stand at the game with packed. showing the nba is keeping part of tse chi fan, eunice yuan in beijing. >>> finally the ride hailing industry provides some 50 million trips every day. and most of those h riderse some time on their hands while they're riding in the back seat. well now a start-up software company is launching a product to keep the riders engaged and d.thf coback sea >> let's put on the headset.e >> it's l a theme park in the back seat. >> is there any danger of the >> an immersive virtual reality experience realtime data from the cars computer on braking and speed and turning. >> the car ss ppopin. g stngpi too. so it's synchronized in realtime. when the c accelerates your virtual experience accelerates. it reduces motion sickness as well. >> kneels vonny in af proof concep

also sf mta staff will be on site to assist concertgoers to work their way around the area. if you plan on heading to chase center saturday to see the warriors preseason game the interim theory is officially open at pier 48. it is available to and from oakland alameda and larkspur. tickets available on a reservation basis. plan ahead. on sunday the castro street fair is happening from 11 until seven. there are closures in and around the area. affecting market and castro. plan for that as well closures begin at 4 am sunday. u.s. navy fleet week underway on sunday, october 6. it extends until the 14th. busy conditions along fisherman's wharf and the marina. >>> list talk about what it will be like. >>> weather is going to be pretty perfect. it will be nice to get outside this weekend. warm but not hot. the nights will be chilly. no cloud cover. until sunday afternoon. current temperatures it is 70 a concorde. 74 santa rosa. 76 livermore. 66 san francisco. we are exiting fall the season. temperature inversion the air is warmer above the marine layer. when the atmosphere cools o

sf mta ordered four new scooter companies permits to the scooters. the number could expand to 2500 if companies make sure riders are operating the scooters safely. our jackie ward will have a live report on the scooter comeback in the next half hour. >>> it was a day that many of us will never forget. >> 30 years ago this week the loma prieta earthquake rocked the bay area. all this week we are taking a most disturbing images was the collapse of the upper deck of the bay bridge where a woman was killed. but the biggest tragedy was at the old cypress street viaduct in oakland. 63 people died when the upper deck fell onto the lower level. the right-of-way separated by lawns and a walkway. >> and it's become a community area too. and it's beautiful. there's a wonderful breeze that comes off the bay. the sunlight. i mean, it's just like it's another world. >> and in the years after the quake a similar double-decker freeway was torn down along the embarcadero in san francisco. we have compiled more pictures and videos from loma prieta. head to our website

they had a program at mta to work in workforce development type project and i definitely jumped on thatdidn'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 t

behind the 4,000 require rigorous requirements to meet all of the terms and conditions and subject to mta discussions and so, finally, in conclusion, i would say that i think that the pilot program that we initiated over the course of last year has gone a long year showing scooters can be a safe, accountable transportation mode in sanfranciscsaninsanfrancisco and to expand the system and monitor and refine the program and report back for further guidance. >> is there any public comment on this item, miss boomer? >> yes. >> would you please call that? >> sam mulicah? >> how many cards? >> three, but i think there may be one or two others. >> who wants to speak? >> five people and two minutes pies. >> skip created a work environment where i, a transgender person, was able to thrive, provide a top-notch health insurance. you've been able to receive much-needed medical care that had been out of my reach in the past and i worked for employers who misclassified me as an independent contractor and so i'm deeply concerned about what i have seen any options with the other companies that have recei

thank you to the department of public works, to mta, all of the contractors, all of incredible workersho basically not only worked in this community but spent money at the restaurants and this was definitely a great effort and took time and here we are, a celebration of just really an amazing project that is going to change the quality of life for the residents who live here. so enjoy it and next up, i want to take the opportunity to introduce your supervisor, valley brown, who as you remember was out here on a regular basis working with you all to move this project forward. she drove me a little crazy because she was running out of patience with the city bureaucracy and trying to get it done. and now she gets to enjoy the fruits of her labor. ladies and gentlemen, your supervisor, valley brown! [cheers and applause] >> you know what they say what doesn't kill us makes us stronger and that's how i feel about this project. i want to say i'm sorry to everyone. it was her fault. she started it and then i had to come in and finish it, right? [ laughter ] >> yeah, i'm not going go over ever

we deal with mta and public works and depending how their schedule is, we have to coordinate because we only want to dig the roads once. we partner and caugh coordinatee projects with those agencies and it takes awhile and we get dragged along. some of the other projects, we're gettin getting higher bidd our prices rest that and some of the budget projects are higher. but overall, we're trying to look at that to recoupe savings as we can. >> that makes sense, thank you. put. >> i would just say that overall and this is -- we're actually getting some data, not only in the bay area but nation-wide, prices, construction prices are going through the roof with the tariffs and with the labor and we're reaching out to atlanta, chicago and other cities experiencing similar situations with the other costs to see what strategies to do as an industry. it's challenging because you have to do these projects. we were fortunate enough before the water system improvement program, before the olympics in china, where prices went through the roof. and our program was trending a couple billion dollars o