reiskin, who would be the appropriate person to take a look at this? thank you. >> i appreciate that. thank you for all of your time, and i am sure i will see you in the future. chairman nolan: we look forward to that. >> anonymous, [reading names] chairman nolan: this is under public comment. secretary boomer: public comment. >> first of all, i just want to express how sorry i am for what i just heard. i will probably add to that at the end of my presentation. i am here to request a meeting with director reiskin. i was not able to address you otherwise. it seems that the names -- the policies and procedures are designed with one thing in mind. the parking fees are the highest in the country. drivers are paying even for it unjustified tickets and brooding because the procedures are so burdensome and time-consuming. -- pain even for unjustified tickets and booting. to further reduce chances of protest, a transportation code contains only a fraction. producing more fees and the opportunities to protest expire. even if the waiver requests that must be inc

give us a hand and made -- make chris hayashi directly under director reiskin. chairman nolan: thank you. secretary boomer: [reading names] chairman nolan: good afternoon. >> hello, i am -- as you look at reforms coming up here shortly, there is no way you are going to be avoiding a lot of drivers and stakeholders here. i want to remind you folks about what the key for the industry has been. i purchased desoto cab company last year. i had a very i opening experience in san francisco, and i want to highlight some things that i think are seriously accepted as problems in the industry as you try to address them in the weeks and months. first, there is not enough taxis in san francisco, and the taxis that we are using, more than half of the 1500 plus taxicab's we have are not picking up any neighborhood calls, paratransit, disabled communities, some of those we currently have in service, less than half are actually serving the neighborhoods and the public. the rest are at the airport and taking -- that is one of the serious problems we have in terms of availability.

but will come and reiskin, director of the sfmta. -- let's welcome ed reiskin, director of the sfmta. >> we are charged with implementing the city's transit first policy. in order for transit first to work in san francisco, we need excellent taxi service. as much as we would like to see you hot on muni, your bike, or what we need to go, sometimes you need a car. from a transportation perspective, the most efficient way for us to meet that need, one of them is through taxicabs. i think presidents chiu's experience this morning manifest that. with better service, his girlfriend can get rid of her car. to the extent we can meet that need in san francisco with cleaner vehicles, then we are achieving environmental goals as well. paul's reminder to us, with those sobering statistics, it is really important. it is not just his use of oxidation reduction reaction, which is a phrase that you do not often hear in a press conference. those numbers are why a lot of us are doing the work we are doing. this is extremely important, not just to san francisco, but to our planet. i want to thank paul a

my name is ed reiskin.he transportation director here in san francisco and very pleased to welcome you all here this morning for what we expect will be a very lively and productive couple of days here in san francisco. the san francisco m.t.a. is the agency that's charged with implementing the city's transit first policy, which is about getting people out of their cars and into more sustainable modes of transportation, such as bikes, such as walking and transit in our great muni system. as someone who myself gets around the city often by bike, and i do that by choice, but more importantly, i'm given the charge of our agency to get folks out oaf their cars. i can't tell you how exciting it is for me to think all of the brain power and enthusiasm for cycling that's in this room are going to spend the next two days working with us to help us figure out how we can do every -- even better. although we've done a lot in terms of bicycling and increasing the mode of bicycling as a transportation of choice and we're

it appears that that is calculated in here, and i certainly see director reiskin's philosophy about breaking down crotchets explained very well here, so i look forward to more detail, and a look forward to the budget deliberations before this board. chairman nolan: thank you. secretary boomer: mark grueber. >> mark grueber. this was a date that we were told that we would have discussion of the tax proposals, which you may have an idea now that are very controversial, and i would really hate to see us stopped at the end of a long meeting, which will then be a very long meeting, and try to get your attention devoted to this other issue when you are probably at wit's end already. i would say to push this whole thing back to may. there is no need for you to be discussing these tax changes now. there is another round of the medallion sales that is just about to get underway, and that will be the thing that is going to provide your revenues going forward at this point, so give us the opportunity to have our issues discussed in an atmosphere where they may make a difference. secondly, and this is t

chairman nolan: thank you, director reiskin. members of the board? thank you. ms. boomer?retary boomer: you have one person who would like to address it. he has turned in a speaker card. you only have this one person. chairman nolan: congratulations for being appointed to the citizens' advisory committee. >> thank you. my name is roland long. i am a member of the citizens' advisory committee. the muni accessible services and also the mayor's this bill to counsel. i am here today to talk about the fair -- faregates. we have only one accessible fare gate in the system. nearest to the station agent boot. and oftentimes, people in wheel chairs, people with disabilities have to wait, especially when it is grounded, and we have to get out of the gate. i am in that dialogue with the council. we had a big discussion as far as trying to figure out how we can maybe add a sixth of all -- at accessible -- add accessible faregates. this may be for the project. maybe there will be a chance that we could maybe look into having two accessible faregates to allow people to go in and out, an

reiskin. my son was going on a field trip, and he was able to convince them that all they wanted to do was right around muni with me. -- ride around muni with me. there were several bus rides, an f train ride, including a stop at the f train museum. they went out of the way to make sure those children are comfortable and safe. we actually encountered several other field trips during the same thing, so i feel obliged to note that. this was the morning that knucklehead drove his car into the tunnel, and i could not believe it. of all of the dates for this to happen, this was my field trip day. he everything was running smoothly by the time i got to the school, and i just have to say to my friends, a huge thank you. it was one of those moments where i felt proud to be part of the agency, so thank you. vice chairman brinkman: thank you for your comments. anyone else? >> my wife abandon the 28 because of the lack of consistency before the improvements that mr. haley implemented, but she is back on

my name is ed reiskin. i'm the transportation director here in san francisco and very pleased to welcome you all here this morning for what we expect will be a very lively and productive couple of days here in san francisco. the san francisco m.t.a. is the agency that's charged with

rice kin also mentioned -- reiskin also mentioned psych sling joy. do we feel happy we arrived home in one piece or is it just fun and safe together? the figures show that the netherlands, cycling in the netherlands is the safest transport mode in europe. if you compare to it, for example, italy, which is very dangerous for cyclists. we do fairly well. the explanation is, to my opinion, in the fact that we call safety by numbers. the more you get, the safer it is. and i'll show you the next slide to prove that. this is the bike share in the u. where the netherlands is extreme left and the u.k. is extreme right. and third is italy, for example. denmark is second next to the netherlands. if you compare that with safety numbers, you see that in the netherlands, where we cycle a lot, not too many people on bikes got killed and it's just the other way around in it italy and the u.k. where people do not cycle but get killed if they cycle. and somebody can come up with the arguments that we have a lot of good bicycle infrastructure in the netherlands. that'

reiskin. "you are a piece of [beep]" we are ready to talk, but i do not have time here. five minutes. to solve that issue. they said, ok, let's do it online. the person, the medallion holder, and he is holding a card for 18 months, you do not get it for 18 months. before that, we used to come to city hall. there is a lot of trouble. i amthank you for having the meeting. >> anyone else? seeing no one. >> moving on to your consent calendar. >> the item was considered separately. we received the item in a request. items 10.4 and 10.5 are to be severed. >> the consent calendar, as it remains? 10.1 through 10.3, right? >> motion to approve. >> seconded. >> those in favor? >> aye. >> 10.4, the transportation code to increase the penalty of the amount of traffic for riding bicycles on sidewalks. -- 3 02 and 3 03, to increase the penalty amount for obstructing traffic, double parking, and riding bicycles on sidewalks. >> good afternoon. my name is barry toronto. i understand that you are raising their rates, the fines to be in line with other finds. and however, the question, as

mta -- because i know one thing that is good about the mta today is we have a good director in ed reiskin. i hope that he takes us to a better place with this $15 million. thank you very much. commissioner campos: is there any other member of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk. roll-call. >> [roll call] the item passes. commissioner campos: thank you. unless there is an objection, i would like to call item eight, out of order. >> item 8. reprogram $4.846 million in 2010 congestion management agency block grant funds from the department of public works' second street streetscape project to the cesar chavez streetscape project, the second street sfgo signal upgrades project and the market/haight street transit and pedestrian improvements project. this is an action item. commissioner campos: colleagues, this is an unusual item coming before the commission without having gone to committee. normally, i do not believe in making that practice, but as i understand it, we have a very short deadline that has to be taken into consider

first up, we have the mta director, ed reiskin. >> good morning. very happy to be here.ant to thank supervisors cohen -- supervisor cohen for her leadership and bringing forward an issue that is very important to us. since i am here, i want to reflect on and apologize for the rush hour this morning. we had a very unfortunate occurrence where we had a private vehicle drive down into the portal that disrupted all the subway activity for this morning. the police have arrested the individual who was driving the vehicle, and i say this not just because it is timely, but because i think it is indicative of the partnership we have between the police department and the mta. the police department folks work very expeditiously and quickly to book deal with the individual but also to assess the incident to perform their investigation and work with us to get service back for the hundreds of thousands of people that we served each day in the subway. that really is indicative of the partnership we have with the police department every day, that we are grateful for coming to the matter

the first question i had, and it may be from the timing that director reiskin just give us, but what implementation of the plan possibly affect the tep and expedite it? not the plan in our view, but maybe some of the revenue would be available? >> yes, the revenues were very much constrained in how we could use revenues to meet the mitigation fee at an environmental requirements. those constraints dovetail very well with the tep. it will let benefit in terms of its environmental review which is basically the whole environment system, as everything will be for another year so, but the revenues generated from this may well be able to implement tep projects. director heinicke: getting to a specific issue that is of interest to me, once this is all past and assuming it goes according to plan, the deal would be that transportation enhancements, things that would promote our transit first policy, which generally fall under the plan and would not require specified review and the associated delay. you said there might be a line which would crossover, and you gave the example of a bicycle lan