p.j. williams and i drive out of the green division.he average driver at muni spends $35 a day just to get to work. that translates over 52 weeks that translates to $9100 a year. now after five years' of no raise, and no cola, no cost of living adjustment, we were all very appalled by what we have seen in the papers and what the media reports about the "contract." we all know what a swap is and we all know what a trade-off is, but after five years of no raisess and they come after us and the deal includes money coming away from us, a takeaway, and you wonder why the drivers are so upset? all we want to be treated like is human beings. we're not asking to make the most money. we're just asking to be treated fair and have a competitive raise. not so much a compared raise because you can compare money either way you want to, any way you want to compare something you can, but most of us don't live here, can't afford to live here. i have been here all my life and i'm not leaving burk a lot of my co-workers can't afford to live in the city, t

p.j. williams again. i want to speak on the whole on-time performance thing. it appears to me that we are really getting ahead of ourselves from the basics of just getting on the bus and getting off the bus and having the bus be on-time. you want to start a new program. you have already started programs where people with godly huge strollers, we have to pull an lrv train up to the platform, lift the stairs, load the stroller, and there is no -- the core value behavior when it comes to how people behave on the bus, nobody wants to look at that whatsoever. now this driver has to worry about making sure those stairs go back down, so that you don't face a lawsuit. so if you are going talk about on-time behavior, look at how the system is operating. because there is a lot of things being said here that make absolutely no sense whatsoever. i mean, i am starting to wonder, do you ride the trains and the buss? have you ever riden the 54 or the 23? do you even know where those neighborhoods are behind bayview? because a lot of this is madness. it's silly. it's silly. i