to be engaged on and that issue, because the board of supervisors, as you know, does not have direct a say on specific budget items within the sfmtaget. our vote is ultimately i yes or no vote on the entire budget. when it comes to reducing the work order amount, that would be within the purview of the board of directors. on the issue of accessibility, i am very happy to hear some of your thoughts on that. but accessibility goes beyond it sort up, you know, the ability to get on and off of boss. it is also the issue of whether or not transportation is a portable. a number of us have been working to make transit more affordable, especially to low-income families who have been struggling in san francisco. as you know, we are going through this discussion with the school district, cutting yellow school buses by half in the next couple of years, in the middle of an economic recession. i wonder if you could speak to that? >> in response to your question, i think the mta board's decision is generally to do a pilot program, first of all, and see how effective that is. and hopefully there may be a need to expand that to have an impact on

i do attend sfmta board meetings. the mayor's disability council meetings. i also joined the pedestrian safety joint task force, which i attended religious late. during this time -- religiously. i also served on the enforcement subcommittee meeting, and one of the things i have been advocating -- something called the bicycle ambassador program, which i actually found out about because of "the new york times." this is a project that was started through something called transportation alternatives in new york, where they combine public transportation, walking, and bicycling, and advocate for all these things. they noticed bicyclist were not doing the things they should be doing on the streets. of course, we never have that happen in san francisco. anyway, certain bicyclist could be out on the streets with rules of the road. when someone was not doing what they were supposed to be doing -- not stopping at stop signs, not yielding for pedestrians -- they would go over to them and say, you know, we would appreciate it if you would follow the rules. will you take

the future steps would need to be approved by the sfmta board of directors following public hearings and outreach with all interested parties. >> i have a feeling there are a lot of folks in this room that would love to give you feedback as well as see this policy become enacted as soon as possible. do you have copies of it that you can circulate to folks who are here? >> i don't have enough today, no, but i can email them to anybody who would like a copy or send copies. >> so one thing i might suggest, and i know supervisor olague is in touch with her constituents and we are in touch with ours in district three, as i'm heaping to circulate this to all the folks who are here that we have emails to, and hopefully get any feedback over the next couple of weeks to then move our legislation forward that would implement one piece of that, and then hopefully kick it back to the m.t.a. to finish up the rest. >> great. and i just wanted to mention that, i guess we have a list of presenters today. we may call you back, i'm quite sure. so thank you. >> i also know that there is someone here fr

and in june, alamo square board met with the sfmta, and in october the m.t.a. did collective data for their draft alamo square tour bus study, which was presented to us in december, 2011. so i'm just going to talk about the study here. 38 different tour bus companies were observed at alamo square. the findings were that alamo square received one tour bus every three minutes in october, which is not the height of the tourist season. m.t.a. observed 85 buses over 255 minutes. 40 were unenchoiced. 23 were fully enclosed. 20 were small enclosed buses and advance and two were employee shuttle buses. the primary impact of having so many tour buses in our neighborhood is that it congests our streets. there is no dedicated loading zone for tour buses at alamo square. so 22 of the 85 buses stopped in a muni bus zone. this prevents muni bus fress loading and unloading at the curb, which, in turn, causes traffic delays. the study offers several solutions, noting that the city and county of san francisco cannot regulate the number of tour buses, which is our primary concer

board and see that change, allowing mr. aryan to obtain a new permit. thank you. president garcia: why wouldn't sfmta just except applications and not decide on them until the policies? >> we already have a terrible history with wait lists. with our medallion list, there are 2800 people on it. that list is now 15 or 18 years long. part of the reason we have to change some much. if, for whatever reason, the m.t.a. decided to fillsale all medallions and someone said, i cannot afford one. this would not be the appropriate body because you have to change the policy regarding the selling of medallions. they would need to take it to a different body, likely the superior court. president garcia: it would seem reasonable that someone be allowed to be in a queue. >> well, we do think we have a rational basis for the decision we have made. to allow to be some -- it starts as creating waitlists again. we will start to have this issue of determining who gets to start their color scheme first. there will be competition. at that level, will start deciding, ok, do you have the funds to open a color scheme? to sign