2013 if you add those up their approaching the prop a bond of $500 million in 2011 when prop a gave sfmta revenue bond authority it was a trust an assurance we hoped that muni would improve now with continuing the decline of muni in neighborhoods thought the city and looking at prop as language of what it implements is more the transmitted effect you've seen the fights over every bus line and route and shortening of routes and the continuing loss of people for the buses if and when prop a passes like the 3 jake we find the revenue bonds are more specific then the prop a language and most of the revenue bonds money goes to muni which is interesting but prop a so much of the money it does not go to muni and prop a it is not destined and we don't know where the money is going the central subways legal definition now the pmc reports shows a higher liefkd of cost overruns we need to see mta get it's houses in order we need to see you manage the money. >> thank you, mr. wong anything else wish to address the board commissioners questions or comments a motion to >> we have a motion and a second.

one program for one reason there's not one taxi driver on this commission not one working within the sfmta to promote taxi benefits for drivers your crushing us there our management right now how would you like our income to drop 50 or 60 percent when the commissions looking at you like you're on drugs only to find out we've pumped $267 million a year into our pocket and get exactly nothing in return we'll have no pensions no retirement system zero and then there's uber and lift only to find out you sit onion the side rails looking at like it's not happening they're showing up everyone you've got teenager that are driving for lift thursday and friday and saturday nights saturating the city while you sit back as to we're sick or crazy because we're exclaiming yes complaining while you stare at us that's what you've done for the past 4 years particularly the placing last 2 and a half years they've disguised themselves as limousines i have 7 or 8 copies of the lastly efforts of uber at the airport (clapping) and. >> good afternoon. i'm doreen maxwell since 1999 has been a terrorist organizati

act to make the streets safe and her to ask our drivers to slow down i appreciate the work of the sfmta the police department and the department of public health and other agencies supporting the city's vision zero team, around town reminding everyone that every intersection is a potential pedestrian crossing route, and enforcement is set up for the drivers, be aware of this. >> we have seen the rise in capitol projects but it is clear that we need a increase in our pedestrian crossing facilities. and dedicated by the infrastructure and the traffic, signal equipment and other basic investments. with the support of our (inaudible) i hope to see acceleration of the project and pledge this body's support in making that happen and i also want to thank, members of this body for their work in their district and helping them move the deal forward. and on the lighter note and related note, i have the pleasure this weekend of joining with many community members and organizations on the great bike ride to the streets of the seasons with the former mayor of colombia and (inaudible) a passionate ad

a in san francisco the firm has worked with the sfmta also the on board demographics the neflg survey they've conducted research for bart and sfo and other regional agencies they're very versed in the area i'm going to ask john to come up and present the survey and take you through the presentation we'll take questions afterward thank you. >> thank you candice. >> thank you members of the board i'm going to present key finding is from study as candice mentioned before we do that i want to can i talk to this one. >> can he switch mike's or need to use this one. >> okay are you able to view the slides? their coming up >> oh, there you go. >> give us a little bit of background this study was a telephone interview conducted in february of 2014 we conducted 6 hundred and 20 telephone interviews among current adult residents in san francisco that used muni in the last 6 months okay. so this is the way the study is done it's a trend that's been done conducted among the riders the study used cell phone numbers as well as listed numbers to make our calls margin of error on the study plus or mi

have two meetings one with the department of justice to investigate the business practices of the sfmta second, i have another appointment at one be federal transit commission in washington, d.c. to talk about the working conditions that the transit has another thing in 2007 there was a initiative passed prop a that gave him the city this board power to float bonds revenue bonds now there is another initiative on the ballot prop a that was supposed to be approved in november that will end up costa mesa the homeowners and taxpayers of the city and county of san francisco a billion dollars now we need to get wise about pitting those bond measures on the ballot until there is a criminal investigation on how the mta g does business practices it shouldn't approve nothing until that time comes third let's talk about the workplace bullying at the divisions you've got those superintendents playing super man trumpeting up charges and trumpeting up things at will and the last speaker card. >> howard with save muni the official no on prop a opponent and the pamphlet handbook we oppose it because w

capital projects that either had or will have cost overruns as revealed in the sfmta cpa program and the 2012 audit so the bottom line is the loosely written 5 hundred prop measure will further cost overruns not related to the mayors transit p t f plan with the prop a fund only a portion for streets and the rest for cost overruns if you want to look at this report user this address i'd like to submit a copy of the report to the directors packet. >> thank you. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> hello how are you i just want to tell you i'm driving 22 years as the cab driver i never see this situation in those 22 years can be driver is logging everything nor me it's a disaster a big mistake to come to this job and i'm asking you guys remember you bring this situation to us with the guys that destroyed the people's lives right now i can't i'm 62 years old i can't be retired are keep going i put my life to this situation and this work right now you guys have to focus with the cab driver not the company the company from the beginning until right now they're most beneficiaries comin

you for the transportation staff and our consultants and others for your work and assistance to the sfmta for this achievement with that, i'm conclude my remarks colleagues questions or comments seeing none, public comment on the chairs remarks. >> october october 5th center this is a special sunday with the sue most wrestles from 11:00 o'clock october 5th sunday at the center. >> okay. very good with that, seeing no other public comment next item and item 4 executive directors report an informational item. >> good morning, chair tilly chang welcome back from recess i hope you had an enjoyable recess we hit the nail on the head the ground running the first a seven hundred thousand grant from the regional couldn't to prove our transit reliability and crowding so those restraining order important if i understand that will rep help to boost the state of the art in the transportation modeling we're proud and congratulate our deputy director for the services and the transit study received good news that the mp c that is art and sfmta skews bart transit we received one million dollars federal g

best have our streets safer and requires reports it will guide all the future street projects the sfmta drshgz has adapted this and our capitalization here about extend those guidelines to each and every city department because we know that the various student vice presidents are involved in the street design edward reiskin hoped to be here he's out of town but we have a representative from the sfmta division that is here to talk about this legislation sir. >> thank you chair wiener i'm darby watson it's in my job to make san francisco streets and sidewalks safer i'm a section leader and here today to share our experience my staff and i have been lucky enough to participate on the steering committee and working groups for those guidelines those guidelines file a uniform traffic control devise and transportation engineering standards gufks the tactics to make the streets more liveable vested there a peer john updyke to share the guidelines specific to urban places thank you for bringing forward this legislation and sfmta supports this legislation. >> thank you very much colleagues confes

funding plan for that base contract here, and it is $934 million and it is from the combination of sfmta revenue bonds, that is issues on the prop k sales tax and matched with the bridge tolls and you can see the transportation mission, and some set aside for the expansion vehicles as part of the budget, and prop k, except for this small amount of money, $4.6 million, and they had funds primarily for the replacement vehicles and that is just because the replacement needs are so enormous that has to be our top priority. >> and you may also ask why this item was not included in part of the approval that came before you last month and mta was reviewing the bids while we are putting this together and mta working on the other aspects of this and were not ready to share the details of the funding and financing strategy for this and as it is not uncommon and we have a large contract, and we approach to the contract, once it has been awarded which it has, is to issue a series of notice, to proceed, and basically allow the contractor to incur the expenses up to that amount of money, and with the

will be dbi and hello chair weiner i'm bryan with the sfmta the streets division today, i'm going to talk about the blue blocking and our role with respect to issuing permits so my agency works with dpw and muni and other agencies when permitting the streets and walkways one of the tools we provide is called the blue book regulations for working in san francisco streets excuse me. this document covers a wide range of giles and rules and regulations to allow the contractors to work as well as the city crews and the utilities it identifies the permits required to work on city streets and provides the guidance for restrictions and provides lane and combleer requirements and the destruction i construction for traffic control and provides guidance for bicycle routes and schools if contractors are not able to follow the restrictions rules and regulations in placing in document or building the construction is site it needs additional escape above and beyond they'll ask for a traffic permit we'll look at the site and get the conditions of the site and the hours they're requesting and see if

. >> (clapping) >> thank you for your leadership at sfmta it's teacher that we are having to face an unprecedented number of accidents fatality and serious injures about one hundred a year has been the average we want to curtail that and seriously do something about that we've joined together the supervisors along with our office and the sfmta police department and others to suggest that we can end it we have to that r that goal of vision zero in 200240 to make sure we're serious today is another effort here anothers e.r. by a street has been a tragic we hoped not to have happened but also in you ride along the sunset boulevard you can feel that some individuals that are not going to pay attention will view and use this as a freeway it's not a freeway a major pedestrian and traffic thoroughfare that must be right handed for all the modes of transportation and consider people kwhor walking and riding as well as the speedometer so today, we're here on the establishment of a traffic signal but we know that no traffic signal in and of itself nor stop sign will ever create the level of sa

of all, i'm very excited and want to introduce our new director of the sustainable streets of the sfmta tom ma i didn't really that joined us a week this is thomas taking the position that of held previously by a person that retired earlier this year and jerry robin's who was filling in and tom was before coming here on assistant commissioner for the new york city director of transportation and during the mind he oversaw bus rapid transit and parking and alternative fuels program and has been working on road and street pricing since a number of years ago to look at the pricing in manhattan in 2007 he led the agencies program for a technology program to approve traffic safety and the strategy plan i know from talking to the former commissioner of transportation she really credits a lot of the great things that happened in new york and in transportation with the planning process and started with mayor bloomberg's program for the double plan to excellent background and he developed a resiliency strategy a plan to rebuild after hurricane sandy exactly two years ago and also found ways to us

the sfmta.s is a criminal organization that was approved in 1999 by the voters and it's criminal. they extort money from the public, the riders, park -- people who use the parking spaces, and they need to go to jail. and it's time that this board stand up and take a stance on the corruption that goes on in the planning department as well as the sfmta. it will be imperative that many of you are up for reelection this term, the even number district supervisors are up for reelection. give us a christmas gift. send the people that run the planning commission to jail as well as the people that run muni. send them to jail. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is trisha foe l man. i'm a s.f. resident, giants fan and voter in district 5. i moved here 16 years ago. 16 years ago i behave a victim of domestic violence. under armour. ~. at that timist the city had my back. the s.f.p.d. who arrested my spouse, the ada who worked with me for appropriate justice, law makers made

november 4th before the voters prop b is a charter amendment a requires the city to provide to the sfmta by a percentage to the portion increase take into account daylight and dynamic population as determined by controller's office in 2015 the city increases the base amount over the previous 10 years in future years the city about increase the base amount based on the population over the previous year it requires the sfmta to use 75 percent of any population based increases in the basis amount to achieve the service repairs the other 25 percent to improve street safety and authorizes the mayor to discontinue the base amazes required in the voter is impact a vehicle free if you rotate yes increase the amount the city provides to the sfmta based on the population those funds must be used to improve muffin. >> the street safety if i vote no, you don't want to make 24 change i'm here with peter straus from the board of the san francisco transit riders and proponent of measure b we're joined that i marty the chair of the librarian and a proponent thank you start with opening comments mr. stra

requested the feasibility of relocating from la did care street based on the discussions with the sfmta and the planning department and the environmental planning staff no observation, however, as the proposed project what needs to be provided different daily to insure no conflicts with the adjacent intersections and in addition the project has to reunder go additional reviews for sequa that's been provided for the project further change in the project vehicular we've requested an additional analysis since the planning commission didn't review that type of alternative there are calm measures including the speed bump and don't result in the impacts to the surrounding area given the assessable levels of service and the relating low number of peek hours for the proposed project finally 9 comments from the commissioners regarding projects in the immediate vicinity there is a map within a half-mile area that were subject to a larger project authorizations or an assessment so on that map has been in the projects after analyzing that the staff re78dz specifically the project complies that the