. >> chairman, members of the sfmta. i'm sky pile. we live in upper haight and i compute to king street for work. my wife's job is in foster city and she commutes using her bicycle and caltrain. i've seen a variety of improvements that have made my commute let terrifying. the conditions on townsend remain horrifying, particularly around the train station where you have taxis and delivery vehicles competing for access to the curb. i'm here to tell you firsthand that these conditions, a paint-on-the-ground bike lane is not effective. the inevitable result is injury to people on bikes. each time i ride through, i wonder, is this the day i get hit by an inattentive driver and fail it pick up our daughter from school or get a phone call telling me that my wife is in the hospital or worse because she was hit by a driver. or learn that a co-worker, who also commutes from the haight, was injured here and will require rehab before he can return to work. i was pleased to learn that the sfmta had been looking at this subject. i'm pleased to lear

but i am here because sfmta -- sorry. today is my day off, and i'm here because of the safety of my fellow biking and walking citizens it is important to me. and i'm glad to hear tom mcgwire's report that townsend safety improvements are back on the table. you have backtracked from your shameful decision to do nothing because of the actions of the s.f. bike activists and grassroots efforts of people protecting the bike lane activists. and i will speak up and show up for the protected bike lanes that our citizens must have. >> chairman brinkman: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> elizabeth kreely, doug betton, skip high. >> i'm elizabeth kreely. i live in the mission district. i've been cycling in san francisco for about 26 years in the san francisco bicycle coalition member and contributing writer to mission local, where i write about transportation issues. i will limit my comments to say that i'm happy to hear that the improvements on townsend are become on track. i hope they remain there. i had an experience

i was pleased to learn that the sfmta had been looking at this subject. i'm pleased to learn today that the temporary measures are in place and i look forward to seeing them implemented as soon as possible. countless fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, will make it home safely and will not have to worry that tonight is the night that their loved ones will not be coming home. >> lori juicy, miles cooper, cathy deluca. >> hi. i'm lori. i just wanted to support the townsend bike lanes. i'm happy to hear that we need bike lanes in there as soon as possible. it's obviously, as supervisor kim said, an untenable mess. the bike lane, i don't use it there, because it's easier and safer to ride in traffic, because people are pulling in and out of the bike lanes all the time. on my way home from the mission, i go mission to embarcadero every day, coming back, it's just people are pulled over on the side of the road across from caltrain. and i really encourage everyone to support it and not back-pedal again. thank you for your support. >> thank you. next speaker, plea

people cannot wait 5 to 10 years for the sfmta to prioritize their safety. it's a crucial connector for the thousands of people that ride it daily. people on townsend contend with the worst we see on our city streets, it's abysmal pavement conditions, unprotected bike lanes, ubers and lyfts. as these people brave the mess on townsend every single day, your staff is backing away for improvements on this corridor. we had a dis line. stake holders, and users had galvanized, there had been public input surveys, as well as full boarding between 5th and 4th, which will provide robust protection. a month ago, with little to no idea, sfmta scrapped the project that was due to be in the ground in six months. because of the voices of the people behind me, it's back on the line. we need to see these things and need assurances that it's moving forward and with the original design. our city leadership cannot continue to stall, cancel, delay protected bike lane projects or back-pedal on their decisions on townsend or any other streets. you have a responsibility to keep pe

website and that is at sfmta/garyrapid. the last update i will make is we are in the process of giving a much-needed long overview oversauoverhaul of our website. there is a survey at tiny url.com. indiscernible. our fiscal audit is underway and it's a little bit early and under the guidance of deputy director, we will have a clean audit. happy to answer any questions. >> supervisor peskin: any questions? seeing one is there any public comment. seeing none public comment is close. mr. clerk please read the next item. >> clerk: items 4-10 are consent agent. the remaining items are considered routine. staff is not planning to present on these items. [reading] >> supervisor peskin: is there any public comment on item 4, the minutes from the june 12 meeting? seen none public comment is closed. is there a motion to approve the consent agenda made by vice chair tang and spended by commissioner fewer. rule call please. [roll call] >> >> supervisor breed: [roll call] >> clerk: we have final approv approval. >> supervisor peskin: so

gary chang, senior program manager with sfmta. supporting sustainable zero emission revenue fleet. indeed, we are the largesti operation of the trolley fleet. thank you to the board support, sfmta has replaced over 90% of our older diesel fleet with cleaner and more efficient electric hybrid vehicles. for the last production of this hybrid order, sfmta incorporates the electric vehicle, the hybrid vehicles with a higher battery capacity that allows for the vehicle to travel significant distance on battery power alone. what that means is, that distance will be traveled strictly on battery and with the engines shut off. with the increased battery capacity that allows stm to run a test program. it will turn off and turn on the engines automatically. the item in front of you seeking for your approval is to hybrid contract number 4, that includes all the necessary equipment to be added onto the vehicle to enable this green zone program. there are also other changes we have incorporated during the production of the vehicles. let me list

nevermind, go ahead. >> tom mcgwire, sfmta. i will speak to the details that i'm certain of and then maybe ask to come back to the board with areas i'm not entirely confident of. the contract between motivate and the mtc is in the aquisition of motivate, the company that runs go bike by lyft, current thinking is that lyft will take on that contract. so they will have the same relationship with mtc that motivate has had. we're writing to mtc and asking them to confirm that at mtc's understanding, that's what lyft's understanding is. in regards to low income, many of you will remember that when we finalize that contract, one of the provisions is that 20% of the bikes were required to be in communities of concern and also that the -- that motivate was required to offer what they called bike share for all, the $5, first-year membership for any applicant that qualified for the transit pass program. as one of the previous speakers said, it's probably the most comprehensive income-based equity program of any of the bike share systems

i'm with the transit planning group at sfmta. i would like to share an updated proposal on 17th at taraval, near the safeway on that street. i think most of you are familiar with the project at this point. to refresh everyone's memory, it's a broader state of repair that will replace all the track and utility on taraval street and improve safety and reliability for the 33,000 daily riders. as you will recall, taraval is a high-injury street for pedestrians. part of the 12% of streets in san francisco, where over 70% of all collisions occur. half the people injured were stepping off a muni train in traffic when a vehicle failed to yield. it was a unique condition, where people were stepping off into traffic. we've worked extensively with the community to develop a proposal to meet the transit and reliability goals. after a year of extensive outreach, the m.t.a. board approved the project in september, 2016. the key developments were improving safety for people on trains, transit stop changes to improve transit-only lanes that allo

record for sfmta in general.hey have to ask. the impact on mission street, we lost 25% of small businesses and that was part of the report and part of what they expected to lose and that has a bad taste in the neighborhood. that's in general, nothing to do with this project in particular. they should ask first before they even have a project in mind. >> president adams: any other commissioner questions? this is discussion item only. we thank you for coming. this has been very well, very helpful. we'll be watching this throughout the process, because if there's issues, we'll be the first to know. >> no problem. >> president adams: thank you very much. okay. next item, please. >> clerk: presentation and possible action to support san francisco's local business enterprise, l.b.e., small businesses regarding their efforts to maintain their businesses as it pertains to bos file 170205. ordinance amending administrative code to require a citywide project labor agreement applicable to certain public work or improvement

but thank you for being -- working with the city and sfmta and so forth to install these things. i know that it was a reaction at the time and we celebrated the process and we want to be thankful for that. okay? any questions? i'm sorry. i am pretty passionate. thank you very much. >> (indiscernible) public affairs as well. jeff and i work together and one of the things that we're working on in the ongoing education is that we're getting some flyers and having them sent out to the neighborhoods. what we want to do, which we have done in other locations where we have these fliers is to send these out to all of the neighbors in the radius and you'll have instructions on how the system works and where they're located. and we also will have a link to our new website which is also updated the information on them as well. and i did want to thank the supervisors for having the opportunity to speak this morning. this is an issue that affects everyone in the community and all of our families so i'm glad that it's something that we're focusing on and on a personal note my mother-in-law liv

and in a rejection the sfmta says, well, there's been no history of accidents there and that's like me saying that i won't get auto insurance because i haven't had any accidents. it doesn't make any sense. so i think that needs to change. and also at this intersection there's a children's playground just a block away. it's a blind intersection. so i don't see what the problem is and maybe if somebody at sfmta is here we could talk after and i can provide more information. i'd be glad to meet with people or whatever it would take. thank you, and thank you, supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: what intersection are we talking about so we have it on record? >> excuse me? >> supervisor yee: what is the intersection? >> oh, 10th avenue and pachecko street. >> supervisor yee: thank you. >> thank you for giving me the opportunity to come up today and to talk about this. and in addition i'd like to thank the department of public health for giving us the funding for -- to educate seniors on how to cross safely and to talk about pedestrian safety. i would like to introduce myself, i'm danny and bo

the sfmta board will consider banning tour buses today in a vote at 1:00.say it's not the tour buses that's the problem, but the amount of foot traffic this area gets. >>> scary moments after a lava bomb in hawaii hits a tour boat, injuring more than a dozen people. >> and gender discrimination claims uber is facing this morning. >> and the stock market just opened up. the dow is down about 60 points. coming up, an update from our financial reporter jason brooks. we'll be right back. what about him? let's do it. ♪ come on. this summer, add a new member to the family. at the mercedes-benz summer event. lease the glc300 for $429 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. >>> good morning. heads up for drivers heading through san mateo. the connector ramp from northbound 101 to eastbound 92 is shut down after a big rig crash overnight. we are starting to see delays building on northbound and southbound 101 approaching 92. kenny? >>> thank you. uber is under investigation for gender discrimination. the investigation into the

i can tell you not to shift the conversation away from the sfmta. i know the planning department has had some issues in the past where there's been some noticing that were missed based on deadlines, if it was internal or if it had to do with missing the deadlines, the publication based on the examiner. i think that we need to approach this conversation based on how we can expand noticing. i understand the arguments that supervisor peskin made about including this as a city that's a paper as a half. i think that's an important thing as well. i certainly want to see us have more options but i think what we are trying to do and i think supervisor ronen put this forward, we are trying to have more flexibility for the departments that are there. i don't think necessarily that expanding notification into more than one publication is going to limit people's ability to have access to that notification. so i would be for the original proposal amendment. i wouldn't necessarily want to constrict this so much. i like -- excuse me, deputy attorney gibner said in

i'm an engineer with the sfmta. currently in the state of california, we're required to follow the provisions in the california netcd for setting speed limits based on the 85th percentile of flee flree flow traffic, so our hands are kind of kind of tide when it comes to reducing speed limits. we typically do a speed survey, we sample 100 vehicles in free flow conditions, we take 85th percentile of that speed, we then round up our down to the nearest five miles an hour increment, and we can typically reduce that on things such as land use, population density -- we typically take that reduction in all studies that we do given the land use and density in all areas of the city. >> supervisor yee: so i think i heard that same explanation for monterey boulevard in which they originally said they couldn't slow down because they tested it, and it -- are there waivers to that or is it just just you have to follow that particular requirement area? and then, the question i have, i don't know if you mentioned this, but london,

we also talked about sfmta's recent policy change to increase senior pedestrian crossing time citywide and this was in response to a lot of the safe streets for seniors advocates who really helped elevate this issue to the city to helped proactively address signals city -- crossing at signals citywide moving forward. we will be evolving the traffic calming program to address some other locations, including a lot more community engagement. and finally, really, the seniors are the most disproportionately impacted population for vision zero, particularly pedestrians, so through our education and communication campaigns, how can we raise senior visibility and we're really excited about our senior safety campaign. at the hearing, we also heard a lot from our community stakeholders, including the youth commission, walk san francisco, our senior c.b.o.s that are working in soma, and chinatown, and we look forward to continuing to advance that work in the coming years. >> supervisor yee: so in the other presentation by the commander, she mentioned that there's the issue of the left-hand turns.

homeowners in the alamo square neighborhood home to the painted ladies won the same fight with sfmta a few years ago. tourists say they understand. >> i think that's a good thing because the buses can kind of be loud and stuff but i think people should still be able to come and congregate and look ac it. >> reporter: andria borba, kpix 5. >>> 4:57. mgm is suing the survivors of the las vegas massacre. >> reporter: we're on the campus of uc-berkeley this morning after 6 police officers are fired. we'll tell you why. what about him? let's do it. ♪ come on. this summer, add a new member to the family. at the mercedes-benz summer event. lease the glc300 for $429 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. and i'm kenny choi. let's begin... with a look outside.... xx ather and >>> good morning. it's wednesday, july 18th. i'm michelle griego. >> i'm kenny choi. let's begin with a live look outside. see what it looks like out there. got some traffic, 880 in oakland on the left, cool shot here. look at all the fog in this shot. it's definitely foggy but it

i want to take some time to honor and thank him for his service on the sfmta board of directors. . all while working at transform full time to help maximize community engagement especially among under represented stakeholders and build awareness and support throughout the region. as you can tell from listening to that, sfmta is one link in the chain of dedication that he has given to public transportation. he helped our board feel w elcoming to all. his ability to connect to the public in spanish made many feel comfortable and welcome here and heard. he was the first chamber to champion buses. helping us become the first big transit agency across the entire bus system. i have chosen saying this. i would be in tears if i didn't know where he was. he will continue to build on that career dedication to public transportation. we appreciate your service. [applause] i'm going to come down to give you a plaque and have our former chair to say a few words. i know you'll have wonderful things to say. >> normally we wear a tie for these meetings. >> madam president and members of the board.

sfmta does. i don't have that with me, though. >> do you know what -- i know this is the yellow, and i think there's white on the side. >> yeah. >> what about the rest of the block. >> i don't know that there's any regular street parking. i think the union square might know better than me. but i believe it's mostly a white loading zone or a yellow loading zone. >> there's white, and then there's commercial vehicles of six wheels. so there's two yellow, two white, and then, receipt surround -- red surrounding each one, and then a portion where you're not supposed to park. >> you're surviving. >> okay. thank you. is there any public comment on that item? if you could lineup against the wall. it looks like we have a number of speakers. each speaker will have two minutes. if you could just -- go ahead sir, you can start. >> my name is bill rutland, and i represent macy's, and we care about diversity, too. >> you're a big guy. can you move that microphone up a little bit. >> can you start again? >> so

back in november 2012, the sfmta board of directors unanimously passed a resolution supporting this salethe yard and the director of transportation to work with moe and other agencies, including real estate, to advance such sale. the property is currently used as a parking lot for employees. and shortly after that resolution an appraisal was completed and valued the property at $6.15 million. and that was conducted in november 2012 when the departments got together to try to negotiate an m.o.u. the m.o.u. was finalized back in 2014 after several due diligence and whether moe could actually build and who would be funding it and how it would be funded and who would be the contractor. the parties came to the m.o.u. and the terms and the final price of $6.15 million. and although an appraisal wasn't done by code it was done by agreement of the parties. after the negotiations were completing, a new m.o.u. was made in 2016, i believe, -- or 2014, just to continue the due diligence by moe. and including coming to terms with bart which is right next door on a 30-foot no fill easement that moe ne

my colleagues from sfmta who are doing work specifically to address reducing speeds around areas where seniors are most likely to be and our broad communications efforts that you have seen everywhere i hope and additionally we have been joined by the district attorney office and i noted on my commute in their banner is everywhere so i'excited to hear about their programs. so i am going to introduce commander yuin and talk about our enforcement program. so, thank you. >> hello, supervisors, how are you. so i'm going to talk about really this year's fatalities. i understand that 2014 to 2018 is what you're looking for. we will work with vision zero to have that for next week for the t.a. hearing. so the overall -- i have been here for about a year, 2017, i looked at and 2018, and, you know, a lot of the causes of the collisions are turning and speed. i understand that you want information in regards to where people are heading to and coming from. that is definitely something that we will look into. because i know that senior centers are definitely one of the subjects that we want to look