the provisions of the proposed ordinance would not apply to the puc, airports, port, or mta, were application would conflict with law or in -- otherwise interfere with the direct jurisdiction of these departments. additionally, proposed amendments require a city administrator and individual department heads to remove some service without placement at least 5% of the motor vehicles under the department's jurisdiction each year through fiscal 23rd team -- 2013, beginning in 2014 and 2015, individual department heads would be required annually to remove from service all passenger vehicles and light duty trucks 12 years and older. finally, the amended ordinance will require each department to adopt a transit first policy that maximizes the use of public transit and minimizes the use of single occupancy motor vehicles. in summary, the department of the environment would support that this be forwarded to the full board of supervisors for consideration. thank you for your considered -- continued support to reduce our cities carbon emissions. supervisor chu: thank you. i know you spoke earlier to add

to the supervisor's office so that -- you can help because there may be things we can talk to dpt or mta and say, can we move this up? can we get this expedited and assist in that way. you can have a traffic calming analysis done. >> question back here? >> the question is when are

to the supervisor's office so that -- you can help because there may be things we can talk to dpt or mta and

to the supervisor's office so that -- you can help because there may be things we can talk to dpt or mta and say, can we move this up? can we get this expedited and assist in that way. you can have a traffic calming analysis done. >> question back here? >> the question is when are the bathrooms at northern station going to be repaired. i put in work orders and quite frankly i'm completing my first mother-in-law there. the fir month involved an audit of the station. it -- the station i last worked at the station in 90-91. the station is in quite a bit of disrepair. i'm not happy with the facility at all. i'm disappointed with the facili facility. and i'm not pleased. that's all i can say about that. >> aye been using the bathroom in the back. [laughter] okay. bathroom humor now. we are getting low. any other questions? >> well thank you for all coming on your saturday. appreciate it. and remember your evaluations. we have a volunteer that will collect your evaluations. and thank you. we will see you soon. i have a card if anybody wants more information about the stuff we are doing. the mo

how is your organization or the mta providing that information, letting people know about these resource centers? i think that is a good opportunity to broaden the availability of resources and access to this information. >> there are a number of centers accepting that. there are a number of locations listed on the clipper and mta .com website. >> and people can call 311. supervisor chu: are we proactively getting out and letting people know where people can work with these community members? >> yes, we are, and we are also investing more senior community members. lastly, the rtc card. the discount is similar on the clipper card. the card distribution is the same. the rtc, a few years ago, we started issuing translink cards to rtc customers. as each agency came on line, each company could activate it as a transit payment vehicle. what we have heard has happened, people with the old card, they did not treat them like a credit card, which is what they are sort of, so we are working with various agencies here to identify that there are some defective cards due to general wear and tear. as i

the drill participants were all mta employees or law enforcement. eaker's easy enough to get your hands on. so it looks like the guy dumped this out here in the confusion, and then walked away a new man. colby: gas mask... megan: is that a cafe latte to go? i love these things. looks like someone drilled a hole in it and then resealed it. well, now what? now, we buy charlie a coffee. these coffee drinks... i've seen 'em. half my students suck down one per lecture. don: let me see it. how does it work? the can has an internal heating system. there's a button on the bottom... you press it... and water mixes with quicklime. it's highly exothermic, and it can produce heat as high as 140 degrees fahrenheit. and it makes a really nice latte. and quite an efficient delivery system. here you go. kept at 48 degrees, phosgene's a stable liquid. above that, it turns into a potentially deadly gas. this diagram illustrates gas intensity levels throughout the subway car, as measured by first-responders. now, using that data, i was able to run a gaussian plume disp

none of the data is stored on the meter or by the mta. it is handled by the meter company and processed as quickly as possible. there's very little risk of using credit cards at the meters. >> [unintelligible] concerned about the possibility of [inaudible] [traffic] >> one of the great things about the meters is that it makes it so easy to pay. people should get a lot fewer parking tickets and area. that can leave people with a bitter taste in your mouth. that is one part. the demand response of pricing , the mta is legally obligated to charge lowest pricing available to create a target. it will be easy for customers to come and find a space quickly. my name is jay primus. i am the program manager for sf park. thank y>> thank you very much. why don't you do a demonstration for them? >> meter has some time on it. you concede the flashing -- you can see the flashing led. now it is cancelled. it is going through the verification process. it starts with a minimum of 30 minutes. you can add or subtract time. [traffic] when you are ready, you c

if you carpool van pool take transit bike or walk to work twice a week, mta guaranteed ride home will arrange for free ride hope for unexpected personal illness family emergencies or unscheduled overtime. sign up at commuter connections.org. i am mark jones for the mta transit team. >>> a day of cleanup in arizona. four tornadoes hit the state. four, including two that were near flagstaff. more than 100 homes were damaged and debris was scattered for miles and the sheriff says one twister caused about a mile of destruction. the storm tore off rooftops and smashed windows and knocked down street signs and shoved trucks off the highway. official there say at least seven people suffered injuries but they are expected to be okay. >>> now mayland's most powerful doppler radar and forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >>> tornadoes in arizona, snow in west virginia. and the high sierra nevada. and we are trying to get the sun back out here. and it's going to happen. now the active weather is shifting to another part of the country, we have an improvement and yesterday, we starte

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i would be happy to ask any questions or we can transition over to the mta staff presentation. >> i did not expect there to be two presentations today. i am just wondering what your responsibilities are to each other for managing this, who is ultimately in charge of making sure that klipper is going to work in san francisco. >> mt si's job is -- job is to support mta in their transition. they are the lead. what i would say is we have been operating in the smart card with ac transit, golden gate, so we have experience under our belts. we are not going to allow a gap to happen. for example, talking about the devices. ac transit was at about the same level for their buses. the institute -- they instituted some changes and now they are up near the 99% range. we have used the experience of what we did with ac and applied it here. we did not wait for need to figure it out. we have contractors that are assisting us. we have put quite a bit of effort into this. in our eyes, it has been a success. >> but at the end of the day, the policy stops with the mta. i appreciate you. thank you so much fo

. >>> if you are taking a train or bus let's go over to the mta marc jones. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. out there you will find wet roadways throwing things up a bit. traveling by bus, allow a little extra time for getting there. on the bus system numbers 10 and 30 continue to be diverted and number 35 bus diversion at wilkins and brunswick due to a water main break repair and number 5 about 20 minutes late. light rail metro subway and marc are all operating on time. i am mark jones for the mta transit team. os ] ♪ kids came out. they said, "johan, can i see the dairy? can i see how the cow get milked?" [ children shouting ] you should see the eyes of the kids in the barn. when the cows give their milk. or even i squirt milk to the kids. they actually love it. you know where the milk come from! all right, whoa! smokin'! [ children shriek ] uh-oh. okay, all right. four years ago, bob ehrlich got fired as governor of maryland. all right, whoa! smokin'! [ children shriek ] for good reason. first, he protected tax loopholes for giant cable cable comp

. >>> if you are taking a training train or bus, here a mark jones from the mta. hi, mark. >> reporter: good morning. we have wet roadways slowing things up a bit. allow extra time for getting there by bus. the number 7 with the diversion at lucerne and that's due to construction. 35 with a diversion at wilkins and brunswick and 10 and 30 buses diverted downtown at prat and light. light rail and metro subway and marg marc operating on time. for the mta transit team, i am mark jones. is. buried in his website - a promise to replace the tax code with a 23% sales tax and eliminate the mortgage interest deduction. a bush tax panel said families would pay $6,000 more a year. a reagan tax advisor calls it a very dumb idea. but that's not his only bad idea. harris was the only senator to vote against expanding the child care tax credit and against the state's cancer treatment program. andy harris' extreme ideas will cost us. ♪ ♪ one, two, three, four ♪ want you and everything that you do...do ♪ ♪ it's obvious that i like you ♪ i'd go anywhere to be near you ♪ ♪ you say ♪

that they tend to be either fiscal audits, which just look at the numbers, or those are an annual occurrence. in the case of the mta, those have been through the city system, but then, there is a tendency to confuse compliance audits with management performance audits. compliance audits, which you typically see a round here, are those reviews for the agency's following the federal rules for state rules for procurement. as you can imagine, in this very complex day and age, it would be quasi-suicidal if the agency did not follow federal or state rules because you do not get reimbursed. typically, those audits do not generate terribly useful information. either the agency is complying, or it is not. those are not always addressing the issue of effectiveness, which is really the order of the day in government today because of the issue of budget cuts, and we need to do more with what we have or more with less, so the bottom line is that in order to find the areas of real promise, where you can do improvement and processes or do things as simple as connecting the dots between the investment and improvement services -- w

. >> and before you head anywhere if you taking a train or bus you want to know how it is moving. hoare it's mta'sjones. >> reporter: good morning out there right now for your commute start. 10 bus with diversion at green and baltimore. but the number 7 bus diverted at lucerne for construction and 15 will see diversion apartment wilkins and brunswick. 10, 40 bus about 15 to 20 minutes late. light rail and metro subway and marc are on time. for the mta transit team, i am mark jones. >>> it's ten minutes after five right now. a sure sign winter is right around the corner. the first noticeable flakes of the season have arrived covering california's sierra mountain top with a few inches of snow and some say they feel cheated out of summer. >> winter again. and it seems like we just took out our swim suits. >> yeah. replacing swim suits with snow gloves. some stores are bringing out the winter items. >> now, maryland's most powerful dop rare radar and the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate. >> knock it off. >> you know. >> only you would clap. >> i am going dig those out i have pictures f

other alternates include the mta bus route to shady grove or the montgomery county ride on with serviceckville and silver spring. what caused all of the cancellations? that's something a lot of people have been wondering. it is a very sad story. police say it was an apparent suicide. a man was just standing on the tracks south new wave oven this rockville station yesterday afternoon when a freight train came by and struck and killed him. that's why we are dealing with this. it has been a ripple affect. the crews that worked the incident were delayed getting home. they are required to have eight hours of breaks in between shifts and we are feeling the affects heading back to the commute. hopefully it will be up and running in time for the evening rush. >> thank you. >>> tonight people across northern virginia are welcome to a meeting to talk about the serial burglar. some one or some group has hit 100 homes in the past few months. the latest target vienna. the thieves stole money. the particulars are targeted neighborhoods in loudoun and fairfax county. police have schism advice for resi

or our website, wbaltv.com. >> 9:30, standing by we have the mta to answer some questions. >> have you pick out your halloweentume? >> i will be me. >> she does not need any help, but with halloween around the corner we have great costume ideas coming up. >> i will let that pass by without a joke, because i like you. coming up, a chance for rain fall earlier next week. more on the forecast in a few minutes. minutes. bob ehrlich is desperate, and he'll say anything to get elected. negative attacks the media have repeatedly called "dishonest" and "total malarkey." and why can't we trust bob ehrlich? because he raised taxes and fees by $3 billion then denied it... because he says he's for us, but made $2.5 million at a special interest lobbying firm. and ehrlich says he'll cut education again if elected governor. bob ehrlich-- a career politician we really can't trust. . >> welcome back to 11 news, sunday morning. >> we have a look at the top stories in just a moment. first, we are going outside with tony. >> with lots of sunshine it is 53 degrees at the airport. mostly sunny is the forecast, we are shooting for

. >>> good morning from the mta, yes, the commute is coming along pretty well if your ride is on light rail or metro subway. on time. on the buses, the 10 and 30 taking a diversion at crab and light and look for the number 35 bus to be diverted at wilkins and brunswick for water main break repair. 1, 8, 15, 64 and 7 # 7 are 15 to 20 minutes late. marc train on time. for the mta transit team, i am mark jones. two governors, two different approaches. even in good times bob ehrlich didn't make education a priority. he increased college tuition by 40%, cut school construction by $200 million, and ehrlich voted to eliminate the department of education while serving in congress. but in the toughest of times, martin o'malley has made record investments in public schools, new school construction, and o'malley froze college tuition four years in a row. with martin o'malley, our children always come first. i'm frank kratovil and i approve this message. the real andy harris. buried in his website - a promise to replace the tax code with a 23% sales tax and eliminate the mortgage interest deduction. a bus

mta have short term the rails. we have consistently heard from individuals and residents about the practice of short turning or turning those buses around before they reach the end of their stuff, so we are interested in understanding the frequency of which these events have occurred, the number of times they have occurred, and the reasons why. we have seen many residents who have been dropped off at sunset boulevard in the middle of the night without going all the way to with the bus is committed to go, so we simply want to understand the nature of this. also, we want to understand the call of the policy of notification about when this would occur because as you can understand, stopping and waiting at west portal is probably better than waiting outside in the elements on sunset boulevard or 19th ave. >> thank you. supervisor daly. supervisor daly: thank you, madam clerk, mr. president, and colleagues. i know that' an item to name october restaurant appreciation month cleared, and it is great, and i look forward to seeing that here, but i also wanted to talk about this report out by the chinese progress of association

or against it. in my answering your question? -- m by answering your question? -- am i answering your question? they are also listed, i believe, attached to the resolution. those are enterprise departments. mta, puc, war memorial board. supervisor avalos: asian art has already signed don? >> they have signed the petition. supervisor avalos: what remains in terms of a larger property owner signing the petition? >> who has not signed? supervisor avalos: in terms of a major property owner. >> that is not sitting down, correct? supervisor avalos: that is not city alone. >> the bank of america owns a building on market street between 11th and 10th. that is a property owner with a complex structure for decision making. they are in north carolina. we have kind of gone through the local management company for responding, but they have to send it to north carolina for the final approval. supervisor avalos: i would imagine that with other community benefits district growing, what has been the history of their participation in san francisco? >> a good question. i would have to verify this, but the smaller branches did vote in favor of participating in that particular c b v. supervisor avalos: running u

within that peace, mta will decide on a list of eligible intersections which ones they will move forward with for the planning of the countdown signals. we will know by the end ormiddle of next summer which items are moving into design phase. at that point we will release the remainder of the funds associated with the project. very quickly, the traffic calming peace requires an amendment because of minor cost increases in the plan. basically taking money that would have funded future of arterial traffic projects, adding it to the pot for these projects. we have staff here to answer any questions. supervisor campos: colleagues, any questions? no questions. thank you very much. thank you for your presentation. is there any member of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing no one, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we have a motion? the motion is by dufty, without objection. next item? >> internet -- item number six, introduction of new items. supervisor campos: are there any new items? members of the public that would like to speak on this? seeing no one, public comment is closed. next item. >> item #7, public comment. ." supervisor campos

or against it. in my answering your question? -- m by answering your question? -- am i answering your question? they are also listed, i believe, attached to the resolution. those are enterprise departments. mta, puc, war memorial board. supervisor avalos: asian art has already signed don? >> they have signed the petition. supervisor avalos: whatem

mta's manual bicycle count shows a 56% increase in the number of cyclists. we expect demand to grow in bicycling. this means we have to keep routes clear. there are 25 or so miles remaining in the card was a " plan, bringing the total mileage to 79 in san francisco. the total billed out of the network, the board approved the five ypp for bicycling, which includes a five-year prioritization program. it includes $5.4 million in prop k funding for bicycle network development, and identifies a further $19 million in leveraged funds. these include funds for bicycle to work day promotion, education, safety classes, and importantly, $3.1 million for the actual network development for bicycle lanes and paths, facilities, installations, and innovative treatments. funding for bicycle projects is not a major challenge. the greater constraints is achieving consensus among agencies that and the public on where to put facilities and what type of treatment we should use. treatments could be different depending on the project in vision. however, we are aware of the benefit of taking up a multi modal approach, rather than focusing on a single street. this is the approa

or hide anything. >> reporter: at the time city police were dealing with a traffic fatality of one of their own, officers james fowler. and asked mta police to handle mccoy's accident. the investigation has since been turned back over to city police. a transfer authorities say caused a delay in even some of the most basic facts surrounding mccoy's death. the only thing we have seen in the news was he was an unidentified passenger. we didn't want his memory to be as an unidentified passenger. we wanted people to know there was a human being behind that handle. >> reporter: with a family waiting to see how their son died and who, if anyone, is at fault. in glen burnie, brian kuebler, abc 2 news. >>> police say it will take a few weeks to complete their investigation into exactly what happened that night. the annapolis police officer has been placed on desk duty until ha report is written. >>> well crimes against university of maryland students in recent months have been in the form of armed robberies off campus but a pair of sexual assaults within the last week came in one of the busiest places on the campus, the stamp student union,