i seen you frequently ask mta questions. and i was requesting that you would ask the mta the legal authority is for saying a temporary bus line does not change in a temporary bus line does not have to being approved bite board when there is no inspection for that in the city charter. may be they have a legal opinion or something. i would hope up want to know why they are taking away your responsibility and authority exterior what their legal authority is. that's what i asked you. sorry fiwas talking so fast and putting so much in 2 minutes this did not come across i hope you will consider asking sfhta i believe does not violate your procedures or anything. thank you. >> thank you. i said that in this forum we don't respond to comment it has to be agendaized in the this we can't ask staff that question we will ask that question and they will have an answer unless a formal hearing we can't engage in the back and forth. members of the public might be interested and look for the upon agenda and nothing referencing it so therefor

this is not a measure for the mta or any particular leadership or set of decision makers at the mta. this is for any transit that comes through san francisco, including caltrain, bart, the ferry system, and including many things within the mta even our friends on the west side would agree are very necessary. roads, bridges, buses, trains. now, there may be -- again, i'm happy to have the conversation about the areas where san fransiscans disagree. i hope we get to the point san fransiscans can rally behind this. the reason i think we should do it this year is we don't know how much biden runway we have. i hope we have six years of biden runway. or ten years or 14 years of democratic leadership. i think democracy depends on it. but as the chair, i'm less concerned about democracy and more concerned drawing down billions of dollars of money when other jurisdictions around the country are doing that. i know of particular projects we cannot do that. downtown extension is one. there are others where if we're going to get our applications in and be sure to get the decision made while biden

all of them were not denied by mta traffic engineers. so tragically there was a fatal collision in january of this year. and a neighborhood leader was the victim of this fatality. that was very traumatic of this fatality. i do respond and they committed to actually to moving ahead as moving ahead with all-way stop sign. i think this highlights better engage with the community to prevent these types of tragedies in the first place. there is a need for public process around the investigation and the response and so. again thank you for working with us on this. >> thank you, chair and supervisor preston. i really appreciate you all. for those who don't know, i'm joel ramos i'm the manager for the sfmta. i'm joined by my colleagues on the vision zero coalition. we've got commander sfpd, we got ricardo alea who is our engineer and our colleague and validsik is dialing in remotely from department of public health. and we extend our all of our gratitude to you all for calling this hearing. we certainly appreciate the urgency which with you're b

i'm happy to answer questions and i believe remote i'm joined by diana hammond at mta. with that, just i conclude my remarks >> thank you, mrs. crab. commissioner melgar. >> thank you, chair mandelman, thank you for that thorough analysis. i had a question. besides the funding to the individual agencies, is there any incentive for -- collaboration. you know even though we say it is funding sometimes or often time its is in the just is an issue of like mission vision values. is there anything that would you know, incentivize on an approach to that? collaboration? >> thank you for the question. and i think the key to a lot of this is the establishment of the regional transportation coordinating council. will sit transit operators from the region and mtc t. is where they will get in the nuts and bolts of how the any additional funds are distributed. and then i think, you know the funding this hen identified already, is an incentive. in that, it is covering costs. i think everyone is working toward the same goal. we want to see a more connected transit system. i think it is

i'm happy to answer questions and i believe remote i'm joined by diana hammond at mta.ude my remarks >> thank you, mrs. crab. commissioner melgar. >> thank you, chair mandelman, thank you for that thorough analysis. i had a question. besides the funding to the individual agencies, is there any incentive for -- collaboration. you know even though we say it is funding sometimes or often time its is in the just is an issue of like mission vision values. is there anything that would you know, incentivize on an approach to that? collaboration? >> thank you for the question. and i think the key to a lot of this is the establishment of the regional transportation coordinating council. will sit transit operators from the region and mtc t. is where they will get in the nuts and bolts of how the any additional funds are distributed. and then i think, you know the funding this hen identified already, is an incentive. in that, it is covering costs. i think everyone is working toward the same goal. we want to see a more connected transit system. i think it is great that there is fun

we all understand mta has their own rules and not part of the building approval process. so, thus far appellate rejected this proposal and seeking readdress from the board of appeals. summary of my understanding of his claims and owner rebuttal are shown on pages 2, 3, 4, 5. i will leave these pages for reading pleasure. will you do a quick scroll through pages 2, 3, 4 and 5? this is where i lay out the appellate basic claim. next page. next page. last page. thank you. the essence of the appeal is 3 fold. he claims the owner does not center have the right to build 3adu because the (inaudible) performed by the prior owner and it fsh performed. it is in there you can see it. my understandic ing of san francisco adu ordinance it isn't restricted in a manner. once the buildsing has a seismic ret row fit any owner may construct as many adu as the ordinance allows. i (inaudible) one owner design a seismic ret row fit after the permit received and prior to the start of construction the owner sold the building. the subsequent owner constructed the seismic ret row fit and designed

they missed a spot. >> i spoke with a rest present -- with a representative from the sf mta who said it's not for the newly red painted stripe. instead, it's for an old faded one. very faded. sf mta provided the service request to paint the stripe and an image showing how warned the red paint was. google images we pulled from the 16 and make me went showing the same curb from afar which appears nearly painless. hence why they parked in that space were so many years. >> it seems unfair. >> because they contested the ticket, they say it's up to the citation clerk to determine if it will be dismissed. a process that could take up to 60 days. >> i'm going through chemotherapy, so i'm worried about other things and now i have to worry about this. >> after all the challenges of living in the city lately, including another nickel related trauma, this is there final straw. >> we want to leave because of all of the stuff that goes on in the city. >> to say hello to a new home in france. dan: is that wild? u iantosh why s w chargerirs the island.very time ty si karina mega millions fever can's

this is not a measure for the mta or any particular leadership or set of decision makers at the mta.transit that comes through san francisco, including caltrain, bart, the ferry system, and including many things within the mta even our friends on the west side would agree are very necessary. roads, bridges, buses, trains. now, there may be -- again, i'm happy to have the conversation about the areas where san fransiscans disagree. i hope we get to the point san fransiscans can rally behind this. the reason i think we should do it this year is we don't know how much biden runway we have. i hope we have six years of biden runway. or ten years or 14 years of democratic leadership. i think democracy depends on it. but as the chair, i'm less concerned about democracy and more concerned drawing down billions of dollars of money when other jurisdictions around the country are doing that. i know of particular projects we cannot do that. downtown extension is one. there are others where if we're going to get our applications in and be sure to get the decision made while biden is the president

i think what you're saying is the mta was not paying enough attention. i look forward to the report in august and i will hold you to that. prioritizing safety and service should not be either/or. should be both and one other thing i want to ask about and that iss a investment and electrification. a big part of the answer when it comes to making the mta safer and more moderate electrification would improve service and reduce long-term maintenance costs and would help us meet our climate goals and would solve the issues of housing affordability traffic congestion efficiency and at the same time help. new jobs and create economic prosperity and environmental justice. under the baker s mr. should be mtas not privatizing electrification.ri administrator electrification would cost more and upfront capitol costs. would this be a way to make it safer and more reliable, greener, create jobs and reduce costs in the long run? >> senator would achieve all of the above and we did issue a grant for the replacement of the facility. i believe there is a loan involved to

i'm happy to answer questions and i believe remote i'm joined by diana hammond at mta. with that, just i conclude my remarks >> thank you, mrs. crab. commissioner melgar. >> thank you, chair mandelman, thank you for that thorough analysis. i had a question. besides the funding to the individual agencies, is there any incentive for -- collaboration. you know even though we say it is funding sometimes or often time its is in the just is an issue of like mission vision values. is there anything that would you know, incentivize on an approach to that? collaboration? >> thank you for the question. and i think the key to a lot of this is the establishment of the regional transportation coordinating council. will sit transit operators from the region and mtc t. is where they will get in the nuts and bolts of how the any additional funds are distributed. and then i think, you know the funding this hen identified already, is an incentive. in that, it is covering costs. i think everyone is working toward the same goal. we want to see a more connected transit system. i think it is

this is an inner departmental transfer from public works to mta for michigan street part of the muni metro east improve ams we have public works and mta here to answer questions that the committee may have. >> do we have someone here from public works? >> mr. kwon. >> i see john thomas. >> oh. >> wow. who is presenting? actually this was not my item i can speak of it. from my understanding this is annad stritive transfer of public right of way to convert to a private parsally merged by use as part of the [inaudible] we have submitted -- obviously as part of this mapping action we checked with the agency and third party utility and they determined that in this case they have mow needs or uses for it and cleared it. for this action. [inaudible] and that's the extent i know at this point of the legislation. >> okay. thank you. do we have any questions? okay. seeing none. go to public comment on this item, madam clerk? >> thank you, are there members who will like to speak on this item. we will move to the public call in line. it looks like we have 5 listeners with one in the queue. if y

what about the police or you know the sf mta or the people who are supposed to enforce parking and traffic in san francisco. i assume you talk to them about this. what do they say? yeah, well sfmda has has a little bit of an automated system, but it's very limited. they do have red light cameras at a few select major intersections in the city, but those really just issue tickets after the fact, you know, they can't really stop accidents from happening, you know, the police have said well police chief bill scott brought this up at a police commission hearing a few months ago and he basically blamed it on a lack of staff and he said that the pandemic was a factor, you know for a time a lot fewer people. driving on the streets and that you know naturally led to a decrease in violations, but he's kind of blaming it on a lack of staff. it just seems that you know, the department has long maintained that they're that they're understaffed and i think last i you know heard they say they're 500 officers down. so that's seems to be what they say is the main factor. well, that doesn't seem good enoug

and they will continue to support this and they were in favor of this issue and hope to meet the mta's representatives and disability advocates, they will be getting together. moving on, item number 5. an information item that is a report from the mayor's office on disability m.o. d, and regards to this report please refer to item number 7. and you can see listening session for the report. it's council disability access for 2022-2023 year. so please notice that the director's report to the ndc can be found on the mod website and this is a new area that you need to know. and then once you go there, you can find it, it's new information. now item number 6, it's a discussion item. and this is a market street access improvement update. and the presenter for this is going to be christina olea. department of public works. sorry, dpw, that's the acronym for that. and we want to ask if there are any public comments at this time? and if you do, please raise your hand and we will recognize you. but it has to be specific to this topic. >> excuse me, orchid, the public comments will come after the

but the mta has worked directly with both uber and lyft to provide that information to drivers. and have gotten feedback that it is beginning to to be implemented and working. >> yes. >> and cameron if you have more on that. >> so not just within the garage the music concourse as well? are you working on that? >> yes, yes. my apologies. so they have been made aware that they can enter the if they're coming from the north side of the park, enter through the garage and do the drop off in the music concourse or at the base of the elevators for folks to access the institutions. from the southside of the park, obviously you can just come in and do the music concourse drop off. so they have the directions and they have been programmed into the apps that the drivers use for those destinations. >> okay. and i'm wondering how are we measuring and reporting on access improvement for the disability community? >> well, we are the way we have been looking at the program so far and we can refine this as we go forward. there were over 30 interventions that we have presented. we're tracking imp

destroyed 27 russian military personnel, an anti-aircraft missile system, a self-propelled howitzer, mtasvehicles, the spokesman of the operational command said in the south, the day before, the russian occupation forces once again shelled the city of bakhmut in donetsk region, five civilians were injured among an 11-year-old child among them. this was reported by the head of the donetsk regional military administration, pavlo kyrylenko. the russians shelled the city with artillery in the morning and in the afternoon carried out an airstrike. the footage taken to dry the press shows the destroyed houses and residents who were left to sort out the debris of the roof . the ceiling was completely broken. the window fell from all sides. it's full of garbage for me in the 82nd hour, no one can rake out anything from uh, dirt and rubble, that's all, and the whole roof is lying there. they climbed out of bed. oh my god , this is all happening here. they went outside. when they looked, the roof was already talking about it. there is no need to do anything because we don’t know where to leave this

we all understand mta has their own rules and not part of the building approval process. so, thus far appellate rejected this proposal and seeking readdress from the board of appeals. summary of my understanding of his claims and owner rebuttal are shown on

remains ongoing, all indications suggest that several of twitter's public disclosures regarding its mta use are either false or materially misleading. twitter has said less than 5% of its users are spam accounts actually wasn't surprised. i can't give a reason why, but from day one this always seemed like a publicity stunt to me, nolan hugged in a professor at cal state east bay said it's important to remember the economic context of when musk first agreed to buy the company three months ago when you made this bid, you know his stocks, particularly the tesla, right, like an all time high, and they've only been declining not not necessarily because of his doing. but because the market since then, and so one has to wonder if ellen realized that the price he was paying was way higher than the market value, and he tried to find any excuse to get out of the deal. mask had said he wanted to buy twitter because the company was failing to live up to its potential as a platform for free speech. seen it. editor at large. ian share said it appeared must regretted that decision. it started to feel

so, that's it and here with colleagues from mta if there are any questions. >> alright. any questions for mta staff as it relates to item number 7? seeing none, that was pretty easy. any comments-i guess to you supervisor mandelman on item number 8? you kind of made them and i summarized that in so far as a initiative ordinance that gathered signatures has qualified for the ballot. there are two competing measures that revisit the decision of the bord of supervisors and is now going directly to the voters. that was a as you said 12 hour hearing with a 7 to 4 vote, and the voters can have their crack at it as they whether they want to join the 4 or the 7 members of the board is what is before the electorate come november, unless you or any cosponsors mel guard, darcie or ronen choose to withdraw from the ballot which seems unlikely. let's open item 7 and 8 to public comment. >> yes, members who wish to speak joining in person line up to speak at this time. for those remote calling please call 415-655-0001 and meeting id is 2483, 4359050 press pound and pound again. once c

provide funds for bike improvement mta. landscaping and green product and transit pszs for residents the 11 penalty 7 million is for the projects infrastructure and the reason for the accept and extend resolution for that funding source. potrero block b the third of 4 san francisco projects awarded with california new housing accelerator funds the program replace tax exempt bonds. potrero block b is top priority development urn the program since the project awarded iig and asic fukdzs but untable to get tax bonds and credit the. with the state's award secure happened private construction and lone from chase the funding will be used to pay the private construction loanch thanks to the board avenue approval the infrastructure loan of 2020 work proceedd and vertical of affordable housing will begin in early august. construction will last 24 mons and be complete in the fall of 24. i'm joined here by marow and april from bridge housing and happy to answer question this is members may have. thank you for your consideration. >> th

we coordinate with partners at mtc, mta on way finding here. on july first a request for 600 thousand dollars in additional funds for our digital way finding efforts to the county transportation agent from their perhaps aa funding it is plug in the regional process. last week the mtc approved a 6 million dollars project for mapping and way finding system for all transit agencies and plan to plug into that process. we are making progress in the recruitment of 3 open positions. our facility's director and the board secretary and we look forward to introducing them at the next board meeting. we advance the downtown rail extension project and the integrated program management teammates meeting technical tasks for the next big mile stone for the fta in february of next year of 23. our product draeshth rodriguez will provide a look ahead of the components that will come to the board after our chair update. and in anticipation of that february 23 mile stone. later 11-14 will consider a project delivery method and letter of agreement with cal train to

i feel mta is still collecting data around curb usage. >> yes. >> i think that is of interest in thersation too just because we track supply chain stuff and deliveries and supply chain have slowed down a lot for businesses and i'm just curious if there is data that might help us in that process that shared spaces and mta might be collecting too. >> sure. yes, we have-(inaudible) i'm glad you further clarified. we did collect general loading zone data collection and are continuing more this summer as part of the transition into-to understand the usage and use needs so we have not every pickup zone, but we have data and happy to share on general loading zones and curb management, yes my agency has gone out and walked every commercial corridor to collect information where the parklets are and intersection and are color cub zones when they are in bus zones, the various condition for every block of san francisco and commercial district, so different type of data collection, but we have a lot of data and if you have a specific question i would be happy to share off-line. >> thank you so mu

sf mta is bringing back major routes that were suspended at the start of the pandemic. two sutter line, six hate and 21 hayes. people's feedback have a lot to do with this and help to them prioritize connections that many communities rely on. trip patterns have changed over the last two years. people are traveling more neighborhood to neighborhood instead of a peak time downtown centric pattern. aisha curry is bringing her suite july brand to san francisco, launching a pop-up shot at the palace hotel, including her suite july tea experience. if you haven't been yet, suite july is a one-stop shop of sorts, a lifestyle and home goods store. her pop up in san francisco will be similar. it will open for the rest of the month at the palace hotel. should be fun. next, people forced to evacuate as flames bear down on the neighborhood. how a small south bay community prepared to elon musk tries to terminate his deal to buy twitter. the social media giant is not having it though. we'll have all of that coming up next on abc 7 mornings next. it's time for our lowest prices of the

there are issues we have gotten with police and sf mta and take that into consideration. lastly, i wanted to take this opportunity also to convey our condolences to commissioner for the passing of your mom. we are sorry about that. and we wish your family well. thank you. >> all right. then, >> i appreciate that. >> we extend our condolences and it's difficult especially when relatives -- thank you for being here today. >> okay, then we will take the next item which i think is adjournment. thank you all for being here today, and keep safe always. >> thank you. have a good day. >> thank you all. take care. >> >> >> >> >> good afternoon everyone and thank you so much for the warm welcome for the next district attorney for san francisco brooke jenkins. [applause] you know, going through this process really reminded me of just how resilient we are as a city. when i think about what we've been through over the years, whether it's earthquakes, a global pandemic, i put the challenges of what we experienced during those times as we went through changes and challenges to what was

parking is free at all bart station today except the ones operated by mta.or writers attending the a's game and fireworks show. we have information on all your bay area fourth of july fireworks shows, just had to abc7news.com. larry: and the one question ever but he wants to know, is it going to be cloudy or clear? will you be able to see the fireworks? mike nicco is here. mike: i think it depends on where you are. you knew the answer to that. let me explain that stop we have a warm front that mixed up the marine later. if you look outside right now, it's going to be great, but let me show you a different vantage point. you can see looking down on the marine later at about 750 feet -- most firework six load anywhere from 500-2000 feet. so you will be able to see the bottoms of them in oakland and places like san francisco but elsewhere, we've got a mid-level cloud deck and those fireworks should explode underneath those. here's a look as they moved toward the east in the evening hours. you can see how those are taking over. when that front came through, in -

there is a mask requirement on mta. let me tell you something, nobody is wearing a mask on the train and none of the conductors are enforcing the mandate. democrats are very in horrible spot because, again, i live in connecticut. not necessarily a bad state. it's a very blue state, by and large, can't imagine every single person on the train for a republican, so what does this mean for the midterms? people are not going to be happy with all these new mandates, the folks explain it to you. >> if you want to see a red tidal wave, bring back the massive mandate because there's been so much confusion about the masks and do they were, do they not, but also, you wanted to prevent people from getting sick before we had the vaccine. try doing this to children again and you want a parent is absolutely revolved. >> todd: people in power and joy it. they enjoy making you do stuff, i think it's up to us, the american public. >> who are you kidding? i'm not putting a mask on in my house or anywhere else. you know what, if you want t

they are waiting for sf mta tofe dismissed. brittney griner was back in a russian courtroom. been held for five months since being arrested on drug charges. she admitted she had a vague canisters with cannabis. attorneys argued she uses that to treat chronic pain. cannabis is illegal in russia. brittney griner faces up to 10 years in prison. former president trump returns to washington, d.c. for the first time since he left office. he will be delivering a speech for america first --'s agenda summit. the think tank has been crafting an agenda for trump's possible return to office. the group is one of several pro-trump organizations that has continued to endorse and promote trump since his departure. fallout from the shooting in uvalde, texas. the school's principal has been suspended with pay. it comes after a for staycation found mandy gutierrez was aware of problems at the school but did not take action to fix them. he joins pete arredondo, police chief, who is on administrative leave. the time is 6:37. the city of oakland will pay former police chief $1.5 million for being

also working for the mta. very very proud of the work we did supervisor ronen and others in terms of free muni for youth seniors and persons with disabilities. (inaudible) also i want to acknowledge my partner of 45 years larry. totally supportive through all the years. very grateful to him. also my fan club extends up state new york and north carolina. my sister is watching with her partner joe. and exwife martha south eastern (inaudible) fan club from north carolina so thank you all for being there. on a personal note, larry and arrived here in san francisco the spring of 1979. we came from virginia. (inaudible) very scary time for gay people such as larry and myself. when we came here our first gay pride parade and we knew we were home. that feeling never left us. as i end my working career i want to thank you for the great honor for my beloved home town. thank you very much. [applause] [laughter] >> i'll keep that in mind. >> congratulations again. [applause] madam clerk this concludes the 2:30 p.m. specia

but according to the chronicle, the sf mta now expects that opening day to be delayed another 6 to 8at the new subway station at the mosconi center last month, is holding back the remaining construction. the agency says it's still expects an opening this fall. once it is open. the t third line will serve south of market union square and chinatown. time is 4 38 will plan to underway now to revitalize san francisco's financial district, a nonprofit business group is teaming up with the city to change the landscape of under used areas, including closing streets to car traffic, creating more brain space and also starting more outdoor events. we're looking to do really is create more choice and more opportunity, more energy in the streets and open spaces and actually do it where there's already some amount of traction, so taking places where they're already investment and businesses and restaurants on the ground and starting to bring more arts more opportunity to sit and dine. organizers say the next step is to meet with business owners and stakeholders to work together for murals and sea

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