they did some really marvelous things, mostly by building tunnels in places like stockton street, 26, and the cut through to allow street cars to move quickly to various neighborhoods. an interesting statistic is that the daily volume of muni is > bart, golden gate transit, but if they said it, it's probably a fact. the number of people to take muni per day is astonishing. we're moving a lot of people on a given day. one interesting statistic is we have a portion of muni, the metro system. it has six different lines, and two of those lines, i'm not sure which ones, each carry more volume individually than the entire santa clara valley transit authority like whale system in the south bay. how there is one down there, but nobody rides it. ballpoint of this exercise is to make the public aware and talk to your representatives at the state and federal level and let's get funding where people use transit, and that is in san francisco. let's try to, and a spirit of was done many years ago, explore the idea of more transit in its own right of way. the ability to move people quickly other tha

what i was able to come up with is two spaces on post street, post at stockton just in front of the levi'slding. i have a map that may work. right above there would be union square. there is currently permitted hot dog vendor on the corner. those two spaces, i was asking for four, but i dealt with the management of levi's and the hot dog vendor. we settled on two. i think the artists would be glad to have them. they would be good spaces. i am asking that they not be permanent. these would be temporary for the designation of only six months. if we still cannot get back the seven spaces in six months, i will come back and ask for a continuation of a number -- another temporary designation. it is not a plan to try to make these permanent basis. i want to assure you of that. these two spaces meet all of your public safety regulations. a street artist space cannot be within 10 feet of the outer edge of a doorway or entranceway. a street artist must maintain at least 8 feet of pedestrian passageways between the street artist and the opposite building. this actually allows for a 11 feet. both of

members of the unite here union walked picket lines outside stockton street. the room cleaners and clerks have worked without a contract since 2009. and they say it's about getting hyatt to allow nonunion employees to organize. >> we just want the right to get workers organized to get contracts and report abuses. >> they have put on the table issues of growth for union that's have no affects on the folks here except to call them out and take way from these employees seven days range autos the strike is taking place at hyatt hotels in chicago, and honolulu and los angeles. this sunday marks the tenth anniversary of the september 11th attacks. and on this anniversary, the count very focusing on the victims and heroes but what is forgoten is that live for the average muslim american changed forever. abc 7 reports. >> three three are all muslim americans living in the bay area and in the aftermath of september 11th. >> it's like immediately instead of allowing ourselves to go through grief of what happened to our count skpri fellow citizens immediately, we're put

about 700 members walked off jobs on stockton street and hyatt regency. and they have worked without a contract two years, and they say their strike is also about getting hyatt to allow nonunion employees to organize. >> we just want the right to help other workers get organized and get contracts and to report abuses. >> they put on the table issues of growth for unions that have no affect on folks here except to call them out for seven days and take away from these hard working employees seven days range autos strikes are taking place at hyatt hotels in chicago, honolulu and los angeles. >> san francisco city attorney is uping ante in the race for mayor. dennis herera trying to draw attention to central subway plans and saying he supported the chinatown route when budgeted for $647 million, but now the call to ballooned to more than twice that. so he changed his mind and now opposes it. >> questions about ridership and about igs aits ability to connect communities. the original reason for the project. there are question was respect to its impact on long-

. >> it's a neighborhood where our buses crawl along stockton street at 3 miles an hour. is that right. >> i have heard people who all of a sudden are against this project call it quota subway to no where. yovrj china town is nowhere. i don't think south of market is nowhere. >> but mayor ed lee found over the past week that some opponent in the race for reelection disagree ivt historically i was supporter of the central subway project when it was 650 million dollars. now it is ballooned to 1.6 billion dollars. >>reporter: city attorney put rae mark subway supporters on the defensive even as they held a press conference to announce they have the money to start digging. >> time to stop making this a political whipping boy. >>reporter: tunnel won't begin for a few months. already lots of digging happening in union square just to move the utility lines out of the way. but critic sayal they this puts lots of people to work they would rather see the money spent to im paragraph bus service instead. >> financing of the project makes if they build it it makes muni worse off it is

street is tremendous. there is the construction over on stockton. this is a fair amount of pedestrian traffic. this would be the second kind of get we have made to the city. the earlier one was through the recreation and parks department, and it was for furniture that the public can enjoy out on the square, so we are committed to maintaining the project through its life, and we hope you will be our partner. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. is there anyone else from the public who would like to speak? seeing none -- please come forward. is there anyone else from the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we move this forward without objection? thank you. mr. young, is there any other business before us? clerk young: that concludes the agenda. supervisor mar: thank you. meeting adjourned. [gavel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of

stockton. they wanted to come to the mission district and go to 24th street. i was a little hesitant. i thought, maybe we should be of to showcase our communities and our culture. so we took them down. spent about an hour and a half. they had dinner here. did not see any police presence. but let me tell you what i did see. i do not see any crime, and we felt safe. i think that is the result of the fact that we have got a chief who has done some amazing work. he did it when he was here as the captain. we watched him carefully. when he was in the bay view, he did the same thing. chief suhr does not just spell community policing, he lives it every day. under his command and under captain corrales' command, we have the type of community policing that gives people that have worked in the mission district entire life the confidence and trust in the officers. because when you saw these guys, it is because folks in the committee stepped forward and said i know what happened, i saw what happened, and i know you need to speak to. you cannot do without the involvement of the community. i want to

stockton running on time. big convention at moscone. dream force 11, however today howard street will be closed most of the morning between third and fourth. you can expect delays and a lot of traffic and congestion around there this morning. live shot of walnut creek is looking pretty good, heading toward the 24 junction moving out of our screen. very light traffic. go to abc7news.com, one-stop shop for everything. latest drive times and scroll down the left-hand side of the computer screen. >>> thanks a lot. >> it's 5:20. >> a woman from a channel marker the question is how did she get there. >> and don't mess with mom. cher jumped in the fray after "dancing with the stars" generates a strong backlash. >> and latest attraction has people holding their noses. it's all when we come back. switching to progressive could mean hundreds more in your wallet year after year. feed me! saving you money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> good thursday morning, 5:23 on the morning news. live look at the golden gate bridge and there appears to be fog, low clouds. mike will

the have a street-long distance to walk in order to get to the building. they are carrying fans. they are going to wait at stockton. it will take 15 or 20 minutes to wait for the bus. when the catch the bus, they do not want to pay another $2. but they are carrying things. i like what is happening to the city. there is a good aspect to that. but there is also an economic impact on a certain segment of society. i know the gentleman said they see everybody riding a bike. i do not see everybody riding a bike. i see young people, the vast majority from 20 to 35 years old that are riding bikes. i do see people starting to buy small bikes to ride to their parking lot. a fella came in a wheelchair and missed his stop. he was talking to the driver and said i had to get off. this does not go all the way back fourth anymore. this guy who had a 20-minute medical appointment, he let everyone know, went down the rest of fourth street and turn down harrison and went another two blocks and went another block and a half before he could get off. there was no way he would make his appointment. harrison is a huge street. it takes fo

problems in the area and traffic delays howard street between 3rd and 4th will be closed all of next week. ace train 110 minutes behind number 3 out of stocktonn time no other mass transit problems. >>> 6:09. >> looming supreme court battle that could be a major presidential election issue. >>> big bucks from a small gathering. the most buzzed about republican in america makes a ñ$ñ$ñ$ñ$ñ$ñ$ñ$ñ$ñ$ñ$ñ$ñ$ñ$ñ$ñ$ñi >>> :13. strong magnitude 5.6 quake has rattled north eastern japan the quake centered off fukushima hit by the quake in march that left more than 21,000 dead or missing. no immediate reports of damage and no me warning issued after the quake. >> the -- president -- the obama administration filed an emergency appeal last night asking justice tossup whole the constitutionality of the new health care law and throw out an appeals court ruling that requires every american to have insurance within the next few years. the word is the administration wants an up or down ruling before the 2012 presidential election. the law extends health insurance coverage to more than 30 million americans. ez new jersey was guest of honor at a pricey fundrais