directing an agency like the sfmta is nothing short of absolutely demanding. i have seen director ed reiskin lead with kindness, a steady hand, with a combination of heart and determination, in delivering transportation improvements for the city, and especially our most transit dependent and low income communities in the city. i appreciate that ed has always been wanting to listen, not just to my opinion as a supervisor, but to the joint community programs and late-night evening meetings with neighbors to have real, robust conversations about transportation policy and how decisions around transportation policy impacted everyday experience of my residence. perhaps what i remember most about first meeting ed is that his suit was a little long for him. [laughter] and i looked at him from behind and i thought, this reminds me a little bit of mayor ed lee. i love the fact that you were so humble. i love the fact that you are so open and kind to people that you meet, even people who actually, in my district, gave you a very, very hard time, but always so gracious, a

i know sfmta and i have -- and they -- it is not a primary function of sfmta. it is just real frustrating -- and we're not talking about a whole lot of money today. of course, we will probably work on strategies to come up with more resources to mitigate impacts because we are putting people out of businesses a city. we have to care about that. that is very important that we change that. and so, i also know that we were not envisioning loans. how are we going to be responsible for putting somebody out of business and then asked them to pay back money loss of revenue that they did not cause? that is dysfunctional, is arbitrary to what we were talking about, and the whole purpose of putting these resources -- i don't know if people felt that we had this conversation in a chamber and we would just letting out hot air and letting out steam under going to come back with something that doesn't actually address what we want to do week later, how long are we going to play this back and forth? these are real businesses that are suffering at the hands of construction her

they will essentially echo everything that the sfmta director just said. before i go there, if you remember that slide that showed what happened in gilroy, it is very strange that having gone all the way down to gilroy, we saw someone make a u-turn heading north. and the fact is that it is the wrong alignment. it does not require any turning. is a tad bit shorter. and the reason they know that alignment -- you are not going to believe this, because they wanted to go from sacramento, to san francisco via merced and gilroy. obviously the southern alignment was 30 to 40 miles longer. now -- hang on a minute. this is really what i want to track your attention to. the alignment length, 42.9 miles , this alternative does not come. it actually terminates four and a half miles north. then the travel times, 47 minutes, it is a specific code. it says maximum 30 minutes. that pretty much -- let's see, yes, the grade separation. okay. the important thing is that the entire thing is 110 miles an hour. that means they do not have exclusive rights to the design and devel

i will give you the text of that the sfmta c.a.c. recommends that because cable car passengers experience long wait times at the powell and market to turn around, line be promoted as an alternative for those passengers who wish to ride cable cars without regard to destination. we also had an interesting discussion with a representative of the m.t.a. district supervisorial district liaisons, and what tasks they do and how they relate to projects of specific liaison people who come into work with neighbors on particular projects, and what a nice, big, mess that can be, and people don't know what is going on often because, i'm not sure, but for whatever reason, we thought maybe it could be smoother if the regular liaison for a particular district also talked to all the people in the district about what was going on then and what projects were coming up in the future. so that's the basic presentation of highlights of our meeting. thank you. >> wonderful. board members, any questions for c.a.c.? okay. thank you for the information. as alw

and while the sfmta says they have reduced accidents with muni buses some businesses in the richmond are concerned. they are worried once the lanes go in in their neighborhood their businesses will take a hit. in is what david heller doesn't want in front of the busy has owned in the richmond over 30 years. red lanes for buses and taxis only. >> it's a job killer. >> heller and other business owners worry they keep commerce away. >> it's a deterrent. >> the sfmta plans to add red lane between stand onand market streets. they're an experiment sponsored in part by the federal government aiming to reduce traffic and speed up bus rides. corey urban and his brother own a shell station on geiry boulevard they did digging into whether the city was following federal government rules. >> and the protocols are you have to take data and compare it under the exact same circumstances. >> they found the city wasn't following the federal protocols. >> the sfmta was trying to skirt the protocol. and my brother basically contacted the federal highway administration. >> the sfmta acknowledged a misund

even the sfmta saw a cost escalation of 40%. concludes my presentation, and i'm here to answer questions. >> commissioner fewer: thank you. so, mr. chan, i think what supervisor mandelman asked was sort of a cost analysis about the current situation of our escalators. so we spend money to repair them. do escalators need to be replaced because of weather or feces? how much do you think this will -- putting a canopy will offset the overall cost of the maintenance, also the inconvenience that happens when our escalators are not functioning? >> we were trying to get that cost from our maintenance and engineering group. i'm going to turn to carl and mark to see if they know. i had not heard back from me. >> so we don't have a cost yet. we got numbers from them, but we're trying to make sure that they're accurate. what we also were looking at were the number of maintenance calls and also the days out of service. i can say that looking at other escalators, for example, at 19th street station, there was a number of days out of service i

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years, this is the first time that we've actually had someone from organized labor come in to the sfmta. so i would say particularly when it comes to light rails or any other operation in terms of mechanics or decisions that are being made, i would encourage the transportation authority and the leadership of the sfmta to have that conversation up front. we want to invite you back on a more frequent basis so you can be part of these conversations up front so that you're not an afterthought and we're not spending millions of dollars to correct something that you and your operators could have anticipated very easily. so thank you for taking the time and sitting here with us. thank you, mr. chair, and thank you, miss kirschbaum. >> chair mandelman: we do have some public comment. >> hi, everyone. thank you for a very interesting meeting today. and i also want to thank julie for your report that changes are being made, so i appreciate that. i just want to say one little thing about the operator situation. he feels very concerned about being blinded by the cameras, and he would like the rearv

over the last four years sfmta has done a robust engagement process. super visor brown is 100% supportive. they commend m.t.a. on the outreach. these comments take advantage of the light traffic on octavia to produce more pedestrian safety to get to zero vision goals. during the years of temporary closures. m.t.a. worked in hayes valley neighborhood and with other business owners to work through the project. it was page fully slow. it is what it is. we have a good project before us today. it will improve live ability of the neighborhood, less honking, more bicycling. it is needed with the space east of take trisha's green. it is going to be developed soon. it is a high priority of supervisor brown. she would like to see this within the next one to two years. we will have the domlors in place. it will be a great opportunity to change this intersection to make it people oriented. they are low cost, flexible, easy. we think folks will be happy with this and wonderria it is different. people have lived there since it has been proxied. supervisor brown hope

and so the proposed transportation code amendments before you would allow the sfmta to establish the service area rather than the permittees as was the case in the pilot? and we hope that this will prevent a clustering of devices downtown and encourage them to be more available in parts of the city that have more availability options. we're we're -- less availability options. we'll also consider using what's called a dynamic cap which looks at the demand for scooters and the usage, so the trips per scooter per day, and we'll have a target for that. and if the permittees are meeting all the terms and conditions of the permit and also exhibiting demand for the scooters, we will consider a commensurate increase in their permitted fleet size. so equity was definitely -- was definitely identified as a key area for improvement in the midpilot evaluation, and especially when it came to outreaching key communities of concern as well as low-income planned participation, and so to address some of these concerns, we plan to ask permittees to release a cull right lanely sensitive outreach plan t