when the m.t.a. was working to design the new lrvs they both have the opportunity to fix these equity issues. both of them failed to do so. had most respects the cars are the same. by using the same basic design the m.t.a. will be locks us into another 20 years of the same equity issues. more than two years ago the community urged the m.t.a. to move forward with low floor lrvs. they are easier for seniors to board and some manufacturers have on board wheelchair ramps to create wheelchair access system ride. the m.t.a. is in phase two of procurement. i urge you to insist they use this opportunity to address exissues for seniors and disaged by purchasing low floor lrvs. another equity issue is elimination of lrv stop in the neighborhood. on tara vim, they have eliminated a significant number of stops to create equity issues for seniors. they need to walk additional blocks to catch the lrv. in district four they have the entire city. when the m.t.a. eliminates stops, it impacts certain communities dispro

but the second work, m.t.a. promised along with san francisco credit union, we're going to help you make money when many of us are taxi drivers supposed to have our free medallion. i found the pilot program. mr. lee, mr. -- all the member of this staff, sfmta, go into any company, brother, you're going to make money. you're going to be rich guy. you're going to make the kind of money you needed. well, what happened when the pilot program fail? they return the money. why are we waiting? please do something for return our money. thank you and good night. >> president yee: seeing no other speaker or -- public comment is now closed. madam clerk, i think we have one more item. can you call the adoption without committee reference calendar. >> clerk: yes. item 25 was adopted without reference to committee. a unanimous resolution is required for passage today. >> clerk: i guess, why don't we just take roll. roll, please. >> clerk: on item 25 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are eight ayes. >> president yee: the resolution

it's a moving violation enforced by the police department and not by the m.t.a. i'm wondering how sfpd wants to enforce these moving violations and whether or not you need more resources. i'm concerned that you have all these scooters coming on. and if the police are tasked with yet another thing to do in this city like enforcing these scooters, people riding on the sidewalk even get injured. do you have the resources to do that and is that being factored in and did the m.t.a. consult with you? >> yes. one thing i can say about my approach, what do i bring to this position is the idea of collaboration. i learned that working with police officers as a lieutenant and working with the community in the mission which i love very dearly, and i learned a lot of messages from those folks and also working with other members from the city family. everyone from sfpd have been nice bringing me up to the current level of information they all have. so we have -- those are discussions that we are having. i can tell you that the police department is concerned about everyone's saf

so there's no financial incentive for the m.t.a. this should be from the get-go zero tolerance. you want -- as i love to say, micromobility technology in many instances may be a good first mile/last mile solution to reduce congestion and g.m.t.s and vehicle miles traveled. i don't think that's a policy issue and me and my colleagues are having. the issue is about pedestrian safety and the issue is about rider safety. so i don't want them at san francisco general with traumatic brain injuries, and i don't want my disabled folks and my elderly folks and kids dodging them on the sidewalks or getting hurt. so it's just that simple. but this whole scheme does not seem to be front-end loaded with that concern expressed seriously. it should be -- if everybody knew that the first time you get popped for riding one of those things on the sidewalk, you're done, done. and all four platforms have to communicate with each other. so if one person, boom, all four of them, they're suspended now and for ever. then we won't have to play cat and mouse they move from one platform to another. it's h

do you have the resources to do that and is that being factored in and did the m.t.a. consult with you? >> yes. one thing i can say about my approach, what do i bring to this position is the idea of collaboration. i learned that working with police officers as a lieutenant and working with the community in the mission which i love very dearly, and i learned a lot of messages from those folks and also working with other members from the city family. everyone from sfpd have been nice bringing me up to the current level of information they all have. so we have -- those are discussions that we are having. i can tell you that the police department is concerned about everyone's safety, regardless of the mode in which they move about the city. certainly on the sidewalk people -- i can imagine i wouldn't expect that and i know a lot of people are surprised by that. what we have in that regard is a lot of foot beat officers deployed throughout all of the stations. so that's something that i can imagine or remind or discuss with the captains, who i'm sure are aware of that as wel

the fact is, you know, it had to do with so many amazing folks from the m.t.a. the port to the warriors, to so many folks getting the word out to coordinate these efforts in a way that would help make getting here easier on public transit, whether it is by ferry, muni or what have you, and just the ability to use your ticket as fare for the muni buses is outstanding. i am looking at jack over there. it is wonderful there. great thing to consider for the giants. it worked so much more efficiently. we are blessed to have two amazing teams that draw people from all over the bay area, the san francisco giants and golden state warriors. using water as a mode of transportation is not only amazing but a great ride. it is so relaxing. i want to thank my family in the golden gate bridge board. they have really been great partners with san francisco and with water transit. we are happy to have you all here today to join us. bay area council. thank you, jim wonder man, the port and warriors and really doing this kind of thing takes a lot of people to make it happen. this i

on the enforcement side, we have required a detailed complaint database to be submitted to m.t.a. by the operators, not only the complaints but how they've resolved through them and checked them. each scooter has a unique identification number that needs to be of a certain size. also the operators can identify a particular user based on the time and location they get a complaint. they've all agreed to a three-tier system for user accountability. the first violation for sidewalk riding is a warning. the second violation is a $25 fine. and the third violation is account suspension. so we will be monitoring the complaint database to ensure they're doing that as well. finally on sidewalk blocking, we do require that all scooters lock to a bike rack. that has helped quite a bit to the roll out of blocking the sidewalks. so i'll -- that's a quick summary. i'm happy to give more details. >> i don't understand a lot of technology, but it seems that it's a possibility that the companies have a g.p.s. on their scooters or bikes. they could figure out whether somebody is actually riding on a

i want to briefly mention some of the other tools we use at the m.t.a. to address red light running. one is signal timing, which involves pauses in the lights which are called clearance phases. we coordinate the signals and we have longer yellow lights. we want to make sure that we're exceeding standards, particularly in terms of red light running. for camera the yellow is very sensitive because a lot of the red light running caught by cameras is fractional, it's what's happening after the light turns red. we want to make sure we don't have any issues with the setting of our red lights. like i mentioned, we used some transportation sales tax primarily to upgrade our traffic signals and make them more visible. some people are just not paying attention. we want to make sure those type of crashes are addressed. we have upgraded most of the city. what remains to be done is very corridors that we will continue to work to improve. this involves removing poles, installing signal heads. here is an example, you can see a hill with trees. if the lights are not prop

one question we brought up and i want to thank the m.t.a. for working with us on this is one of the changes is changing on ellis street from stockton to and converting that back to a one-way that would go westbound and we have a couple hotels that it's going to cause pretty good inconvenience so the mta has agreed to take that first year to look at that and make sure it's going to be something that can workout but thank you very much. >> thank you, very much. >> great. >> that's it for speaker cards. >> we have read through a lot of speaker cards and some people did not respond. either they left or they did not have a chance to attend. if it's the first that's fine. but if it's the second, i want to make sure if your name was called, or you turned in a speaker card and you have not had a chance to speak yet, please come forward. deputy, thank you for all your help today. as always, it's appreciated. with that, we will close public comment and move on to directour discussion. i do want to clarify, i mean, we're having fun because it's a nice d

are the other m.t.a. commissioners? okay. i will recognize the first speaker. why don't you stay up there, because i thank you may get some questions. >> thank you for your presentation. the articles in the paper about what happened at the chase center were deeply concerning, and i understand your comment that you misspoke, but i'm not sure understand, from m.t.a.'s perspective, what did happen, if the article is incorrect. >> yes. we had a day on the eight bayshore where we were balancing a loss of last-minute sick calls and other issues on the route, and supervisor walton reached out to,, which i appreciate, and in my e-mail response to him, i said that we diverted service, which we did not to do. it was just a poorly worded e-mail. we have a pool of operators every day that are not assigned to any routes, and we use them to fill gaps and vacancies, and we prioritize them based on things like making sure we deliver the first and the last trip every day. we focus on our equity routes, we focus on filling the rapid routes which go through many of our neighborho

we did a similar hearing at the m.t.a. board, where folks had an opportunity to give input. but the -- the muni system is incredible. and it's important. it's what drives our economy and it's what kicks communities. but it doesn't happen by accident, it happens through thoughtful investments and thoughtful guidance. so i appreciate the sponsors taking the time at this moment to really reflect on what's working well and what we ought to do differently. and i plan to take that feedback very seriously, as we kind of lay out what our three- to five-year agenda is for the system. >> chair: thank you, ms. occasion kishbalm. are there members of the public who would like to testify on this information item? miscellaneous crop, please come forward. mr. finebalm, please come forward. if there are other individuals, you'll follow these two. >> hi, robbin crop again. i'm actually not sure if my question is pertinent to the item. but i'll ask it anyway. it's regarding the muni buses. i can't access the buses. they don't have any transfer seats in the boarding area. i can't stand, no acce

warned of potential violent confrontations between the police and protesters but the police and the m.t.a. and the government have already forced the m.t.r. stations to be close all stations of the railway system in hong kong will be shot at 6 pm before the protests starts. an important step in sri lanka's upcoming presidential election has begun the candidates are finding minima nations at the electoral commission in colombo but one who won't be on the list is incumbent on a serious center who's decided not to run after 4 years in office he spoke to constitutional crisis last year when he sacked and replaced the prime minister that decision was overturned by the supreme court correspondent alpha and as reports from colombo. a record number of candidates their nominations being accepted 35 of them here at the election commission the office building you see behind me now all eyes on the former defense secretary go to auburn rajapaksa when he was handing in his dominations to election officials these papers were accepted the problem being that to go to harvard rajapakse his eligibility has

this is probably one of the most unique features. >> during the planning phase, the m.t.a. out with three alternatives for the long term project. one is parking protected, which we see with the pilot, they also imagined a valencia street where we have two bike lanes next to one another against one side of the street. a two-way bikeway. the third option is a center running two-way bikeway, c. would have the two bike lanes running down the center with protection on either side. >> earlier, there weren't any enter lane designs in san francisco, but i think it will be a great opportunity for san francisco to take the lead on that do so the innovative and different, something that doesn't exist already. >> with all three concepts for valencia's long-term improvement , there's a number of trade-offs ranging from parking, or what needs to be done at the intersection for signal infrastructure. when he think about extending this pilot or this still -- this design, there's a lot of different design challenges, as well as challenges when it comes to doing outreach and making sure that

told people not to go out there warda potential ballance throughout this 3 day long weekend and the m.t.a. more than 50 empty remain closed and all empty gas stations which is the rail system in hong kong which mobilizes the population be shut at 6 pm in an attempt to stop people from getting to that protest like haitian to see sarah connor will be staying across all of those surveillance for us thank you sara and hong kong. he is conservative and not a party has won sunday's fractured election but with only 17 percent of the voters and by a narrow margin as hashim are barren ports the results may need to tension. a moment of celebration for another supporters the conservative party has secured 46 seats in preliminary results but it's a bitter victory for a party that won 69 seats 5 years ago. then i remember what you did we are at the beginning of a new period that people have given us their trust and we will live up to it. we will use all of tunisia's political capital in order to achieve their main objectives of the revolution such as the protection of personal and public freedom . the

and i am the commander of the m.t.a. my presentation is about our efforts for the second quarter of 2019 in regards to traffic safety. so i wanted to talk a little bit first about our efforts and our enforcement. our strategy is to prioritize deployment in the high-injury network corridors that have been identified by data from traffic collisions throughout the city to increase enforcement and to educate members of the public, especially the driving public, about our strategies. part of our enforcement include s lidar, radar operations where we're looking for people who are violating the basic speed limit law, also distracted driving operations, pedestrian and bicycle, safety enforcement, and those are things like a couple of weeks ago we had our traffic company motorcycle officers who were out working with officers from tenderloin station at turk and levenworth. we were having an undercover officer when the light was green enter into the crosswalk. we had motorcycle officers standing by. when an individual failed to yiel