public transit is plentiful. we have conquered the steps, we have watched the dogs, and we have enjoyed a beautiful view. this is a place to take someone special on a romantic stroll and enjoyed a beautiful look out. welcome to corona heights located in the heart of this district. it offers a view of the downtown skyline, the bay bridge, and the east bay. it is one of the best kept secrets in the city. it is hardly ever crowded. on any given day, you will run into a few locals. , bought a 37 bus to get there without any parking worries. for legged friends can run freely. there is also a patch of grass for the small box. >> it is a great place. it is a wonderful place to have these kinds of parks. that dog owners appreciate it. >> take time to notice of the wildfires that are on the grassland and keep your head out on the lookout for hawks and other bird life. be sure to take your camera and be prepared to take a view of the city will not forget. it has a beautiful red rock formations. you could watch the sunrise

a public comment to talk about free muni for youth, free muni for seniors with disabilities, and to continue with sunday meters here in san francisco. san francisco, we talk about it being a transit first city. and we know that we often don't live up to it, whether it's public infrastructure or whether it's how we build in affordability for our riders of muni. we don't always live up to that experience. we don't have a transit first budget. i do hear that there has been an amendment to the budget that would include increase of muni, free muni for youth up to age of 18. so, i want to appreciate commissioner brinkman had made that amendment. i want to thank you for that. i would like to say we could move forward with senior with disabilities as well as supervisor campos talked about. san francisco is a city that has the greatest disparities in wealth. we're seeing the greater and greater sigh of our working class and people who don't have a lot of income, and that's making it very difficult for people seniors and disability living in the city. [speaker not understood] really help with that process. i've been engaged with mta at my office and advocates for many months now to look at

i appreciate the fact that there likely will be some people who will been taking public transit but let's say there is chance that 49 of them will be driving in their private vehicles and wonder what kind of effect that is going to have on our streets when it comes to pollution and traffic. also if you can respond to the san francisco bicycle coalition sent us a letter and what they laid out also echoed in the article that said that shared grave concerns about this appeal because if we were to uphold this appeal that would jeopardize this program to advance bicycling and pedestrian safety and transit improvement. we know we are in a time where we need do everything we can to move forward with pedestrian improvements and cycling improvements. can you respond to this issue? >> frankly i don't understand the comment. we are not saying those are improper. we are saying this one is in large part because buses are interfering with bicycle lanes and those are precisely the impacts that ought to mitigate on the eir. these are those who raised these concerned. i would find the best locations for s

for many low-income seniors, public transit is the only dependable means of transportation. whether it is going to doctor's appointment, buying groceries or going to community events, public transit affectses these important parts of our lives and with the increasing high cost of living in san francisco, it is pushing seniors who are already living in poverty to make extremely hard choitions. should i buy food for my family or spend money on bus fare? these are the types of decisions we are forced to make every single day because we cannot afford. we are in an affordability crisis right now. we're asking you today to make a decision that would greatly alleviate the financial struggles many of us are facing. we have been actively organizing our community to fight for this program and we cannot wait for the decision to be made next january. we need the board of mta to prioritize their needs [speaker not understood] for seniors and people with disabilities. please do not let us go home disappointed again. thank you. >> thank you. (applause) >> next speaker, please. >> liz keega

system, is it only going to make the public transit system work? again, do we care? do we care about a good transit system? >> is there a question in there? >> yes, do you care about, do you have an opinion on using city resources? do you agree with a philosophical point that, for example, public transit, public infrastructure is a good thing? >> of course, of course it is. it's available for everybody. google is paying a fee for using the bus stops. >> belatedly. >> well, but they're paying it. now, is google responsible for the rising rents in san francisco? indirectly, yes. what can they do about it? nothing. >> now, we started down the path of what can be done about income inequality. >> i'd like to get on to that point, actually. i think that income inequality has been with us for a while and it's caused by policy failures. i think there's been a huge failure of social policy, fiscal policy, and monetary policy. i hope i don't put you all asleep as i touch on those points. let's start with social policy. fifty years ago, lyndon johnson did two

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system, is it only going to make the public transit system work? and again, do we care? do you care about a good public transit question. >> is there a question in there? >> yes. an opinion on the use of city resources and do you agree with the philosophical that, for example, public transit, public infrastructure is a good thing? course. of course it is. and it's available for everybody. fee forle is paying a using the bus stops. >> belatedly. >> but they're paying. now, is google responsible for the rising rents in san francisco? in indirectly, yes. what can they do about it? nothing. >> now, we started down the path income can be done about inequality. i think -- >> yes. that point get onto actually. that income inequality is, has been with us for a while it's caused by policy failure. a hugehink there's been failure of social policy, fiscal policy.and monetary so i hope i don't put you all those as i touch on points. but let's start with social policy. ago lyndon johnson did two major things. civil rights act, which is marvelous, magnificent cr

.) >> public transit is a net when it comes to increasing the moebltd of seniors resident most that dent and for miss many of us the cost of transportation is important we rely on ssi income it runs 23 there's this year it may not sound like much but some seminars couples can only afford to buy one muni pass. if we can help to awe at least this by providing free transit to seniors and disabled folks it will hope folks who struggle to pay their rent in this city >> (speaking foreign language.) >> the city is getting increasingly high and if we want san francisco to help our needs in the community mta fairs need to have free transit for those who need it the most of the and affordability needs to grow across the board thank you very much. >> thank you (clapping) (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir. >> i'm a special education student. and a proud member of the muni access or macro u mac so many of you may not know this but disabled folks under 3 get free education and we often are over looked and sometimes students can get the services up to 8 years and in transition we learned to be mo

san francisco has worked hard to create public transit corridors. this allows public private corporation is infrastructure that created years with no study of the impacts for the public system itself. we demand that any study look at the impacts of the public transportation system as well as propose an an alternative for increasing the public transportation structure. lastly i think it's unbelievable that there has been a muni give away at the same time that muni is coming after our workers asking four # -- for our workers to pay into their health care to take wage freezes. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i'm with the harvey milk lgbt union, the city tells us this takes time. we neat to -- need to complete an eir. when we are working for working class, the city tells us this takes time. we need complete an eir. when it takes time to build bike lanes. the city tells us this takes time an we need an eir. now we are told that this would employee 200 muni stops and a vehicle that weighs over 31 tons. those of us in the community have come to expect

public would like to comment? seeing none, we will close comments and roll call vote [roll call vote]. >> item passes. >> okay. item 12, please. >> bus rapid transit, citizens advisory committee. this is a national item. >> colleagues, comments or questions? okay. seeing none, we will go on to public comments. any member of the public would like to comment? seeing none, we will close and have a roll call vote. [roll call vote]. >> item passes. >> okay. let's go on to item number 13. >> item 13, adopt the 19th avenue transit study final report. this is a national item. >> colleagues, any comments on questions? we will go on to public comments. any member of the public would like to comment? seeing none, we will close public comments and another have roll call vote. [roll call vote]. >> that item passes. >> great. we will now go on to items for direct board consideration. item 14. >> item 14, the construction of the 0-vision committee. this is a national item. >> i ask for this to come forward and it's really in the spirit of collaboration. i want to make sure we can maximize the commissioners in vision zero. i want to expand so we can have commissi

proposal that is currently before the mta which over sees the muni, and it is to provide free public transit, and free muni for low income and little income seniors and to the extent that is going to help many members of the lgbt senior community and i would encourage you to contact the mta and advocate for that program. and so with that, if we can have this item filed, so we have a motion to file and again, i want to thank all of the members of the task force for your tremendous work and we look forward to making sure that we deliver on the recommendations that have been provided. >> thank you and without objection, item is filed. >> mr. clerk, if you could take a quick two minute break? yeah, and we will proceed to the next item shortly. >> we are back. >> item two. >>hearing to consider that the issuance of a type 21 off-sale general license to mouhannad mannaa and jim saxton for financial district fine wine, inc., located at 300 kearny street (district 3), >> in i may ask the applicant for this request to come up and make a brief presentation. >> hi everybody. and so, i have a type 20 li

the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people. eople and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later. on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given them the ability to conquer san francisco's hills. after the wa

people take it public transit to the city's public hospital have much more difficulties like the previous speaker than people losing a parking space in front of their house. the only way you can have a parking space in front of your house is if you have a driveway. if you have a driveway you have a garage. this is very important. >> hi. i'm scott wicky. since we last spoke in december, my neighbors and i worked really hard to develop an alternative to the plan to the originally proposed to the s 35 eureka. it's been a great experience. we've learned a lot and we also generated 165 letters of support from my neighbors and all over the surrounding community for the alternative plan. i want to speak on bafr -- behalf of that plan and being a strong appropriate -- proponent of it. they have done a great job but not finished. what i want to tell you is there is a very important part of our plan which is the decision no the to use wilder to uruq a that is very important to our community. i want to work in the next couple of months to finish that plan that our community helped generate and make

the shuttle buses to pick up them at home and obviously finally the lack of investment in our public transit infrastructure primarily the city of san francisco and the employment centers has facilitate some private involvement in moving people noun the pears this is an anecdoteal story this pilot study is designed to mitigate those and will regulate the operators and give the public the signages when they're they can when the rourlz are breaking the law they can the as i understand or sanctioned >> hello. thank you for your time andrew i live in district 2. i've been a retained of the city for about 10 years and riding the shuttles for the last 2 1/2. they've definitely allowed me to not drive everyday. 90 millions there and back to my job

the shuttle buses to pick up them at home and obviously finally the lack of investment in our public transit infrastructure primarily the city of san francisco and the employment centers has facilitate some private involvement in moving people noun the pears this is an anecdoteal story this pilot study is designed to mitigate those and will regulate the operators and give the public the signages when they're they can when the rourlz are breaking the law they can the as i understand or sanctioned >> hello. thank you for your time andrew i live in district 2. i've been a retained of the city for about 10 years and riding the shuttles for the last 2 1/2. they've definitely allowed me to not drive everyday. 90 millions there and back to my job so, please as a resident let this program go forward all the parties want to work with the city and will allow people to live together. i'm not a new arriveal i'm not not a techie i still live in san francisco accident city prides itself on doing things for the assignment and taking cars off the rod i can only speak about my own experience. i came down her

system, is it only going to make the public transit system work? again, do we care? do we care about a good transit system? >> is there a question in there? >> yes, do you care about, do you have an opinion on using city resources? do you agree with a philosophical point that, for example, public transit, public infrastructure is a good thing? >> of course, of course it is. it's available for everybody. google is paying a fee for using the bus stops. >> belatedly. >> well, but they're paying it. now, is google responsible for the rising rents in san francisco? indirectly, yes. what can they do about it? nothing. >> now, we started down the path of what can be done about income inequality. >> i'd like to get on to that point, actually. i think that income inequality has been with us for a while and it's caused by policy failures. i think there's been a huge failure of social policy, fiscal policy, and monetary policy. i hope i don't put you all asleep as i touch on those points. let's start with social policy. fifty years ago, lyndon johnson did two

pulls the city together and once again you come down from twin peaks i - the effective and 1u6 public transit is important for the economic growth and the commit of this city and the county of san francisco we're needing the labor agreements that provide high quality efficient services to citizens. i want to thank everyone that rides muni they trust us to get them to the hospital and to school and the la we ride the 8 x and people get on the bus and

pulls the city together and once again you come down from twin peaks i - the effective and 1u6 public transit is important for the economic growth and the commit of this city and the county of san francisco we're needing the labor agreements that provide high quality efficient services to citizens. i want to thank everyone that rides muni they trust us to get them to the hospital and to school and the la we ride the 8 x and people get on the bus and talk like there are at home, i trust it and want to ride muni >> (clapping) (calling names). >> good afternoon we're the youth leaders from the chinatown. i want to see how important the program has become for over thirty thousand youth and their famed. and now we hope to see mta perpetrate a program that serves for protecting seniors and people with district attorney's r sdakt. without transportation they can't go anywhere they can't afford

if we had angle app that said i want to go from here to there and call the public transit for cabs and others it will give information at different times of the day and night but also provide a much needed service for people out there. if you're a doormat at the night club and someone says what's the easiest way to get to sunset dollars no way to get that to them they are a drunk patron and can't get to the sunset. so through an mta grant this and that grant we can develop a app that will give you the information you need for the next meetings and provide a service in the meantime getting people on a scaleable fashion on their ride home. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello good afternoon to everyone in the tenderloin. i'm keeping you informed shall i'm here as a working person and resident and also one that utilizes transmission. i have a comment i want to know what percentage which crimes is captured on video recorders signatures taxi and bart and muni and is there any relationship between robberies and assaults and others things that would justify an emergency division opt

transit to connect others. i call this a crisis of public goods and public infrastructure. we have to build more housing and built more infrastructure and transit so everyone can be connected. in a study this past week, here's what they found, yes, two-thirds of people in san francisco are pissed as hell that techies are driving up prices. they should be. but three-quarters of people in san francisco from smart. they want more tech companies because it provides better jobs. and pin so much jobs. six in ten people in san francisco thought the buses and the tech workers were being blamed for problems they didn't create. tech companies are good for cities, but we need more affordable housing, and we need more transit and better jobs for regular working class folks. that's what we need in social contact for the american dream, more housing, creating jobs and transit not just for the elite but for everyone. >> always great to talk with you. thank you for this. you can catch richard's latest article in the atlanta. that is our show for today. i'm ali velshi. i'll be in washington

space you could but we don't expect the residents to do that there's on site car sharing and public transit and bike parking >> yeah. the reason i asked the question that area is particularly tiding with other options and i was trying to gets a feeling i understand the financial part the mandated developer islogically the cost-share for the developer and taking the parking spaces i'm trying to gets to the options what people have. to me it's not out of the ream go to go down to 8 spots but people will want to own a car and drive 2 times a month and b will have to put their car somewhere >> they will have options to represent a space in a private parking lot but the car sharing options are really good in addition to the car sharing in the building there's car sharing it's pretty easy to get, you know, a city car share car or others services, you know, within a block of the project. in addition to the one site conditions there are be on site >> i'm not the parking person i normally ride my bike. thank you, thank you mike. okay i didn't have any other particular questions i'll have more about

it one is of the largest public transit systems in california. ktvu's david stevenson looks at what is going right and what is going wrong. david? >> reporter: this report that we obtained outlines successes with some of its problems. >> reporter: muni's performance report card with good and bad news for the people who ride each day. >> we are at a 5 year high for ridership. people continue to want more muni and to use it. >> reporter: they make it clear the are several ongoing challenges. sixty% on -- 60% on time performance. >> my son received 22 tourancies because of muni -- truancies because of muni being late. >> reporter: trolley cars and light rail vehicles appear to fail more often than last year but investment in the system is paying off with new buses and repairs made on doors. critics say they must do more to advise riders about equipment failures and delays. like the four hour service description. >> for the most part, you know, i think they do a decent job. >> reporter: hy has been a cust -- he has been a customer for 30 years. >> i

in the region right now currently public transit organizations led burnley does not last for 24 hoursolution set can lead to policy-i s to coming into the services go this morning if there opinion, and expanding late- night transit services. on the disabled for everyone and cheaper. loois they love it is as newton cutbacks are all water usage by 10 percent this are windsor is the reason is reduce the resident the board has also approved a purchase of the hudson plant purchased from the sacramento river. the best ones these is courts can't care more about it until walgreen store her wall and went to, above all those or other cigarette serious $6,000 worth of cigarettes were stolen. offer it for a morning to all intents other treasurers with of trash space and fleeing and professional networks were leaked it to us a presence and services bought by anchoring a high- rise office building that was under construction. that's good to be completed by this city's art market by 2016. the plan to occupy another 87,000 square feet near downtown in this building. the more on the << zell be open to