method that the m.t.a. uses to come up with what those costs would be doesn't disaggregate what the impact is of the increase in youth ridership from what is already the impact of bus lines or street cars running over capacity. so there is a number out there. they have an estimate of service hours. it's in our report. but we don't assume that that would be a cost that would be incorporated and that it's all' tributed to the increase in -- it's all attributed to the increase in youth ridership. in our process, we spoke with many stakeholders both at m.t.a. and other agencies. and just want to run some of thee things by you. these are the nonquantified side of the analysis but some of the benefits that were identified or potential benefits. we don't have numbers associated with these. a lot of them seemed like reasonable things to consider. improved access to schools and extra-curricular activities for students is of course the obvious and large ones. since the system is used for -- by youth getting to school

there is a home zone project for the region. m.t.a. as also recently i will plemented a 15-mile-per-hour school zone and they provide three crossing guards on dutey -- duty before and after school. therefore, the department is not recommending the change to the egress or ingress on south van ness because the general plan does not support curb cuts along major arterial streets, and south van ness is designated one. furthermore, the department recommends continuing commercial ground-floor uses along south van ness. therefore, the department recommends approval of the project, and the basis for this recommendation is that the project sponsor has amended the project to match the light well, to better relate the design to the adjacent property . traffic-calming measures are currently underway by m.t.a. the site is underutilized currently and it is also close to transit to downtown. it is an opportunity site which currently, as a vacant automobile service station, significantly degrades the existing environment. and this development would be

they also referred -- the m.t.a. refers to a chinatown area transportation study of 1996. once again, the mta completely ignores these reports. mta did not report the day the mti reported in 2002, which was brought up by many of their experts, the fact that they included stockton street traffic signals, transit stop for spacing and relocation be completed in three years. it would have cost $9.1 million. they ignored that. instead, we are looking at $1.62 billion expense. i think the mta has not played with a full deck all along. when it comes to the subway, the subway itself will take longer travel time than the surface by an average of seven minutes, no matter which plan you look at. given this controversy and contradiction, i ask the board of supervisors should apply its due diligence and apply for the independent audit. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. i am a south of market resident, and a long-time, over 12 years, member of the central subway community advisory group. i just want to say about the community advisory group in all the

our job at the m.t.a. since we're the transportation agency for the city and it's our job to make sure that everybody can get around san francisco and do so safely. whether you're riding muni, whether you're in a car, whether you're in a cab, whether you're on your bike or whether you're walking, we want you to be able to be safe. particularly we want you to be safe to get to school. the last thing we want parents and teachers having to worry about is getting you to school. we want you to be focused on learning and on developing your skills and on being safe and healthy. as mayor and supervisor kim mentioned, we're doing things such as lowering speed limit, calming the streets, doing everything we can do working with our partners and the police department, pauble health department, rec and park and school district to make it so you can all get to school safely. when i saw all of those hands still up, when you were asked how many of you walk to school, it warmed my heart. this is a model of a neighborhood s

we go to kurt kroncke of the m.t.a. good morning. >> good morning. ave a delay on the brunswick line. 780 running five-10 minutes late. light rail between mccormick and hunt valley stop is delayed. the 3 and 11 buses running southbound at cathedral and monument. the underarm or running event will cause delays and diversions affecting many trains. allow extra travel time during the race. visit www.mta.maryland.gov. for more information. tony? >> we have rain knocking on our doorstep. we'll check on that and the seven-day forecast coming up. ava marie is downtown at the finish line. what's going on? >> i'm standing at the finish line outside m & t bank stadium where we're going to see a lot of happy faces after they finish the marathon. you guys met through running and what brought you guys together? >> we were joining a team, a.s.a., and we met on the road and got up the road and did the race and we have been friends ever since. >> we have been inaccept areible ever since. we make it a girl's weekend and spend the night in a hotel and run and get ousts

excludes work that will be performed as an example, by the m.t.a. or transit which would involve ticketing or do improvements in the project because we can extend the pla to an outside governing board. and also, the specialty work related to the art program. we have specific rules for the artists to be able to select the craftspeople that will be working on the art program. some of the benefits that flow back to the beneficial terms of the agreement -- again, no strikes, lockouts. the pla does not limit participation but encourages participation from unions as well as small businesses. has special provisions for employees and contractors that come on site and participate including specific provisions applied to small and disadvantaged business to ensure that they have continuity by bringing their core employee of to the first seven on to the project. also, to the joint administrative committee, which i will touch on in a minute, it puts the union in supporting the tjpa in meeting our overall dbe and sbe goal. we describe our targets for the program i

what ultimately i would be comfortable in recommending to the m.t.a. board in terms of moving forward is the scenario that i think supervisor campos was -- worked very hard to get toward, which is one that is fiscally sustainable. such that it basically does no harm to our fragile circumstance. so if we can develop, we have good understanding of what the costs are and we have an ongoing source of revenues to support the costs of this initiative, that's something i would feel comfortable recommending to my board and they still have tradeoffs to a

. >> we concur with the m.t.a.'s objective in entering into these future termination agreements. as budget analyst, i would normally not recommend that to you because i would want the board to approve each agreement. we understand that interest rates fluctuate on a dime and i think this is in the best interests of the city. we do have a couple of recommendations on page 11 of the report, to recommend that you amend, and incidentally, the city attorneys advised me. we were looking at an earlier version of this legislation. our first recommendation, we recommend amending page one, line 7 instead of line 6 of the proposed resolution to specify that there is no financial liability to the city for the termination. the way it reads now is just for the sfmta. and page two, line four. requiring any early termination agreement requires rival approval -- prior approval, just a further safeguard. we recommend page two, line 7 an7, no later than 30 days after the mta enters into a termination agreement with an equity investor if they do enter into such an agreement. and overall, i consider it

what ultimately i would be comfortable in recommending to the m.t.a. board in terms of moving forward is the scenario that i think supervisor campos was -- worked very hard to get toward, which is one that is fiscally sustainable. such that it basically does no harm to our fragile circumstance. so if we can develop, we have good understanding of what the costs are and we have an ongoing source of revenues to support the costs of this initiative, that's something i would feel comfortable recommending to my board and they still have tradeoffs to make about that. but a do no harm philosophy i think would be a good starting point. and i think that's where supervisor campos has been working toward. so that's all i wanted to say. i think this time should really be for the public and i'm not going to be able to stay. i'll watch the tape of this later and very interested to hear what the public discussion and the committee's discussion is. but thank you for the tunalt. and if there's any questions, would be happy to try to answer them. >> thank you, general man

i truly believe that the m.t.a. board needs to be the voice of reason and vote no on this project. director nolan: thank you, sir. next speaker. >> good afternoon, members of the board and chairman. i am its business owner. -- i am a business owner. and you're sort a longtime resident of san francisco, going on 35 years. i do not have a car. i take my bike everywhere and i have a clipper card in my pocket. i am concerned about the project because i do think it draws an unfair burden of traffic on to haight street. the activity of --, with which i am very familiar, has created a lot of traffic -- the octavia project. i think adding additional bus traffic and an additional lane both west and east bound is going to be even more confusing for the amount of people that come into the city using that exit. it also takes away metered parking. i know that the plan has a net increase of two parking spaces. it could be three. but that is not on our street. that is somewhere else. right now, where do i stop to unload my groceries without being in an opposite direction of oncoming traffic for a

the department doesn't do. we constantly get items that are d.p.w. or d.p.i. that are m.t.a. and where we have no jurisdiction and the public is confused on the misconceptions. timelines are absolutely important and very few people really understand them including a lot of the people that are in front of the commission. the translation policy and the public meetings and the departments are all over the map on that. and you go to meetings put out by, again, m.t.a., and the translation policies are all over the map. i don't know if there is any standard in the city. and i have a feeling there should be. but whether you're out in the middle of the richmond with a large russian population or whether you have a large vietnamese population, wherever it is if you are in the public meetings, you do need hat type of translation policy. particularly also for written materials. and you are talking about two sides of outreach. you are talking about what i call a bit of scatter shot and which is you tube, facebook, twitter, and you don't direct that at any individuals and they pick it up b

i think this is a key feature that the m.t.a. board will be coming in front of you and asking you to create an oversight committee similar to other entities so they can follow how we're doing with bond proceeds. are the proceeds getting spent timely and with the intent we normally did? otherwise, we will not have to focus on the bond proceeds. unlike grants, there is a significant risk if you do not spend bond proceeds and have them spinning around, or used in them for purposes that you did not say you were going to. i think the bond oversight committee -- director reiskin and i have had good conversations about the bond oversight committee. then, the rating agency presentation. these will be huge. pretty much they do not know us. we are a new entity. a lot of time will be spent honing down on key script messages for the credit agencies so they understand who we are, what we do, what benefits we have, the strength of our entities, and that will lead to discussions on creating these presentations. we have to go aboard supervisors a

for the m.t.a. so if you jihad in afghanistan thirty years later the defense again is fighting with the consequences of that success right here. they will be doomed to run the vicious circle again and again until their white house real finally realize that to prevail they have to dismantle their own legacy in pakistan then they issue is whether islamabad is their friend or foe. actually it's neither that's why a new definition has been coined the frenemy it means that the countries policy has been torn apart in a contradiction between its past and current islam is ation and the new challenges for the whole region well as your sentiment is growing in britain which has the second largest number of troops in afghanistan in london's trafalgar square big crowds marked the decade of war with a defiant get out now message our correspondent was there you can watch his reports from the square and those protests at r.t. dot com. fierce fighting for his hometown of seared taters in libya where revolutionary for