the buses here from input, from our operators, transit workers union local 258. the san francisco transit riders union. the mta advisory committee. a lot of folks working together, our fleet engineers, mechanics, supervisors, operators, most of whom are under the leadership of john who has been the driving force of getting these here. the one person who was so excited about this is our mayor. he kept saying when are we going to get to ride those buses? i'm happy to say this day is here. i would like to introduce you're san francisco mayor,ed lee. [ applause ] >> thank you. some of them have arrived and all of them will arrive by july. i want to thank the commission and ed riis skin and the staff for investing properly. this is what we talked about for a number of years. when you realize that many of the buses that we have are over 13 years old in the city and you realize on how not only how run down they are but we keep replacing the parts over again. we have learned the lessons of fuel economy, of ergonomics and designs and free coating on there and material that won't absorb the moisture that

. >>> my name is jim frank and i'm here representing the transit riders union of san francisco. of course, as well for transit, we want to make sure transit gets better under this plan. it has to get better. it can't get worse and it can't stay the same. that's kind of what we've been hearing. we're worried there is not enough emphasis on transit. it's got to get better. we're going to spend all this money, it has to get better. let's make sure it's happening at the mta. also, we would like to know more details about the proposal. will consolidation actually work? let's find that information out before we go into the e-i-r. we want details about those sort of things. before you go to the e-i-r, let's not wait until that time. kind of the short term proposal. let's move on those. let's do more forced right turns. i know we've been talking about the cost of those sorts of things. let's figure outweighs of doing it so we can actually see will those speed up muni so we can find out that information. fifth to third, let's do? car-free zones there because it's a ton of people. will tha

i'm a member of san francisco transit riders union and also a small business person who happens to be at polk and market. and prior to that i was at mason and market. so, i've had a long time on market street as both a pedestrian and mostly pedestrian and a transit user. and i wanted to point out, i depth hear this when i was listening to comments from my work ~ didn't that the buses go 5 to 6 miles an hour on this corridor. that is even fuller than our average and we are the slowest transit system in the united states of america, if not the world. so, i think we do really do need to think about the transit and how we can make these trips go a little bit faster in an easy, easy way to do that is to continue what's been a successful pilot is to make more cars off of market and those cars have not caused congestion in places where those cars have actually, to some extent, as jane jacobs talked about in her last book, disappeared, which is very interesting. i also want to point out we call holiday plaza the pit when i was there when i worked at mason and market. it was the pit, it was a