good public comments from richard rothman. i did not hear if there was any comment made about the 19th avenue project and impact on transit and driving on 19th and likelihood of traffic diversion on 19th to alternate routes including 7th avenue, sunset boulevard and in particular sunset boulevard and what impact that has on the great highway closing or reopening discussion. and then just wanted to say outside of the budget discussion that's coming up later, i think there's a real question now about the purpose of the mta going forward as an organization, if you shrink the transit system and rest of the organization which now seems increasingly likely, i think raising new revenue becomes harder and i guess we'll get into that on item 11. and i would wonder what about prior commitments to transit that have been made based on approved development projects -- >> clerk: 30 seconds. >> caller: whether it is hunter's point shipyard or other things. perhaps one of the directors could ask for a list and some understanding of how those

good public comments from richard rothman. i did not hear if there was any comment made about the 19th avenue project and impact on transit and driving on 19th and likelihood of traffic diversion on 19th to alternate routes including 7th avenue, sunset boulevard and in particular sunset boulevard and what impact that has on the great highway closing or reopening discussion. and then just wanted to say outside of the budget discussion that's coming up later, i think there's a real question now about the purpose of the mta going forward as an organization, if you shrink the transit system and rest of the organization which now seems increasingly likely, i think raising new revenue becomes harder and i guess we'll get into that on item 11. and i would wonder what about prior commitments to transit that have been made based on approved development projects -- >> clerk: 30 seconds. >> caller: whether it is hunter's point shipyard or other things. perhaps one of the directors could ask for a list and some understanding of how those

my name is richard rothman, and i'm calling about fulton street again. on october 20, a 75-year-old lady crossing fulton street in the crosswalk was hit by a car, and i don't know why the director didn't report that. she had to go to the hospital. i don't think it was too serious, but still, why is -- is m.t.a. going to do anything about it? and a couple of years ago, another 75-year-old lady was hit near the senior center and, as such, sfmta did nothing about it, and cars just speed along fulton street, and that idea of slowing down on geary, where the seniors live to -- from 30 to 25 miles per hour, well, i live right near the senior center on fulton street where they put that lower speed limit, and i can tell you that cars do not speed down. you need to set a speed limit of 25 miles an hour or 20 miles an hour. just do it, and let the state sue the city or let the city sue the state. and also, i want to talk about stop signs. i live near 38 and balboa, which is a dangerous intersection in a commercial district, and i don't know why staff won't put a s

. >> caller: hello, my name is richard rothman and i want to follow up my comments that i made at theations committee meeting in reference to the -- i didn't want to imply that it's always a traffic jam there. it's probably just the commute hours. and on the weekends. and if the v.a. starts having their people come back to work there, the staff, they use that roadway quite a bit. so i look forward to working on that. and the other thing they wanted to talk about is the concourse authority. i don't know if the commissioners know but supervisor fewer sponsored legislation or sponsored a working group to come up with a plan of how everybody could use the golden gate park if we closed the park. and we had a first meeting last monday and i must say that i found it very, very encouraging. and i think that we all want to work together. one of the main concerns is the concourse authority, and i found out this week that rec and park can set the rates in the garage. so i hope that after we come up with -- we'll probably be finished in march of actually meeting -- that we could come back to the

. >> caller: hi, my name is richard rothman and i think that the board of directors are answerinasking the right questis finally. but they need help. either, you know, listening to these why they don't have outside eyes like having ben rosenfield look over the budget in the operation, and the other thing is maybe the board should have one staff member who reports to the board president and can do some of the work. you know, the board members, you know, this is just like a second job. so maybe they need somebody there full-time they could ask to do the research and who reports to them directly and not through the executive director. i think that would help you to ask more important questions. and somebody who has worked in on retirement issues. early retirement is off the table because you have to put it on the charter and when we did it last time, the retirement board didn't want to keep it on an ongoing basis. so early retirety buy offs are off the table unless we have to do another charter amendment. but keep up the good work and asking the right questions. thank you. >> chair borden

. >> caller: hi, my name is richard rothman and i think that the board of directors are answerinasking the right questis finally. but they need help. either, you know, listening to these why they don't have outside eyes like having ben rosenfield look over the budget in the operation, and the other thing is maybe the board should have one staff member who reports to the board president and can do some of the work. you know, the board members, you know, this is just like a second job. so maybe they need somebody there full-time they could ask to do the research and who reports to them directly and not through the executive director. i think that would help you to ask more important questions. and somebody who has worked in on retirement issues. early retirement is off the table because you have to put it on the charter and when we did it last time, the retirement board didn't want to keep it on an ongoing basis. so early retirety buy offs are off the table unless we have to do another charter amendment. but keep up the good work and asking the right questions. thank you. >> chair borden

. >> caller: hello, my name is richard rothman and i want to follow up my comments that i made at theations committee meeting in reference to the -- i didn't want to imply that it's always a traffic jam there. it's probably just the commute hours. and on the weekends. and if the v.a. starts having their people come back to work there, the staff, they use that roadway quite a bit. so i look forward to working on that. and the other thing they wanted to talk about is the concourse authority. i don't know if the commissioners know but supervisor fewer sponsored legislation or sponsored a working group to come up with a plan of how everybody could use the golden gate park if we closed the park. and we had a first meeting last monday and i must say that i found it very, very encouraging. and i think that we all want to work together. one of the main concerns is the concourse authority, and i found out this week that rec and park can set the rates in the garage. so i hope that after we come up with -- we'll probably be finished in march of actually meeting -- that we could come back to the