leona bridges, nomination to the mta. it was my intent to deliver these comments to you verbally, but another obligation prevented me from joining you on this date. i have been in the transit industry for 32 years. san. muni as the trading manager, ac transit as the assistant manager of administration, bart as the department manager of human- resources, and currently, as a member of the executive paratransit council. during these years, i worked with numerous elected and appointed policy makers. in addition to being a regular transit rider, i feel the phone skills are essential for any transit policy maker to possess. visionary, thoughtful and critical thinker, communication skills, management skills, independent thinker, ms. bridges has the expertise to serve with distinction with the mta. leona possesses all of the skills listed above. she is a quick study. she will learn the terms and transit concepts in short order. her background will serve her well as a policymaker prepared to address the issues facing the mta in the

as the mta commissioner, you would want to be burst on the bicycle plan." a few hours later, she would forward me the resolution passed unanimously at the board in october, saying 20% bicycle rider ships -- writer -- ridership by 2020. she learns like this. it is a testimony to her intelligence, her fiscal expertise. she is critical in dealing with the budget while having levels of service and like what went down on the 67. she learns quick. i think any issues can probably be resolved out in the hallway, to be honest with you. let us get her there. there is a lot of work to be done at mta. she gets so many aspects of this. she rides a 38 gear almost every day. mta is doing a lot of work. time is of the essence to get the local hiring language in all those contracts as well. supervisor campos: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> my name is gregory reed. i am the speaker with the randolph institute. the philip randolph institute is here to support the confirmation appointment of leona bridges. ms. bridges is a financial expert, as you already have h

bridges has the expertise to serve with distinction with the mta. leona possesses all of the skills listed above. she is a quick study. she will learn the terms and transit concepts in short order. her background will serve her well as a policymaker prepared to address the issues facing the mta in the years ahead. her life experiences will serve the city of sanford says go in setting policies that will enhance all transit-related issues. i live in san francisco for 29 years. i still own property in the city. i care about the city. we urge you to support -- to vote in support of her. you will not regretted." supervisor campos: thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is mike williams, and i am a former vice chairman of barclays global investors. bgi was headquartered in san francisco and at the time was the world's largest global investment business. we serve over $2 trillion in assets. i have known leona bridges in a professional capacity since 1993 and seen her in a wide variety of roles and functions at the firm. she man

i will bring financial expertise to the mta. bgi, now blackrock, is the largest asset manager in the world. my responsibility was over about $800 billion in assets. during my tenure, i was responsible for budgets, investment strategy, client reporting, audits, client service, and financial capabilities of the largest firms in the world with global fiduciary responsibilities for all of those funds. some might say, more importantly, i'm a lifelong muni rider, a lifelong user of public transportation in san francisco. growing up in san francisco, i walked to middle school, wrote three buses to abraham lincoln high school, and rode three buses to sanford stake -- san francisco state university. i have continued to be a lifelong user of muni transportation. additionally, i take taxis and what many places. i have a vested interest in this city. i have a vested interest in knowing that we have timely, accessible, reliable, affordable, and save modes of transportation and services in the city. i offer the rules committee six policy areas

i'm appreciative of the problems the mta has come a particular with money. it is no secret that the former governor and former mayor alluded the agency of hundreds of millions of dollars. let's try to fix the so we do not have the consuming problem of dwindling resources being poorly distributed around our city. we should not be punishing the west side, saying that it is just a small percentage. it is a big deal because if you expect us to use it, we will use it. if you do not provide the service, we cannot. thank you very much for your hard work. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker please. >> good morning. i live on 34th ave. i was just hearing the beginning of your meeting. to get a liquor license, you have to serve the convenience of the people of san francisco, and i would hope that same level of convenience is expected from muni. the last time i got shorts which was the train turned at church, so we all got off, like we were requested may be about five minutes before that, and we waited for the next train, and when it came, it was so packed that i ha

seen from many of the folks, it even if what the mta is verbally telling us that they will not make a switch back unless there is a serious delay, that there is also a train five minutes behind -- the experience of riders is the train is not five minutes behind. we had an incident in december were two trains were turned back. for that individual, they were certainly not winning just five minutes. the question that supervisor avalos asked is relevant. although the policy is five minutes, do you have a policy that no consecutive trains are turned, a measure that that is the policy being followed? that is the experience being seen by residents. supervisor avalos: she asked you a question that you should be responding to. supervisor chu: the question is , we have a problem with the mta putting out statements that we are turning around trains with significant delays and that there is one with five minutes behind. there is no way to know that is true. from everything we see, we see trains are being turned around consecutively. we hear they could be coming 20 minutes later or even later. wha

i'm appreciative of the problems the mta has come a particular with money. it is no secret that the former governor and former mayor alluded the agency of hundreds of millions of dollars. let's try to fix the so we do not have the

leona bridges, nomination to the mta. it was my intent to deliver these comments to you verbally, but another obligation prevented me from joining you on this date. i have been in the transit st

perhaps we can go to those and have more directed questions for the mta. would that be ok? ok. >> on page 11, those are the characteristics that you know of the lines. on page 12 is the n line. the point of this is to show, over the course of a year, the number of trips we run nurses the number of short term that we make. it is a small percentage of the total trips. the other point to make, when we talked about wanting to inconvenience the fewest number of people, switchbacks are in generally done at sunset. trains are turned to support, through the greater good of riders, and minimizing inconvenience to people. we recognize when someone is asked to get off, they are inconvenienced, even if there is one behind it. we do everything we can to minimize the impact on the least number of riders. similarly, on the l line, a small percentage of turns. the same principle near the end of the line. you inconvenience to the least number and your balance the line for the greater number of people. m line, same percentage. we recognize anyone that is asked to get off a train, there is an

what is the difference between mta and the 49ers? mta has a longer losing streak. two things i want to comment on. people should not buy their fast passes 1 south van ness ave. there is an administrative fee attached to the purchase. i found this out painfully. that area is worse than a crowded muni bus. it is really unbearable. it is a testimony as to how mta treats the public. it is really awful, and if you have handicap, it is very difficult, especially since there is low seeding there. also, i want to comment on bicycle lanes. the bike lanes are in a car lanes. it increases the risk to the bike riders because eventually, someone is going to be run over by a car. i know that with this new bike plan, there have been more accidents. that is all i have to say for today. i just want to describe how muni plays baseball. mta is the bat, and the public is the ball. thanks. >> the last person who has turned in speaker car for this session. >> good afternoon. i'm executive director of wright line defense projects working on policy strategies to help protect and empower vu

i want you to explain why the mta makes choices to switch back vehicles at particular locations. >> ok, let me first address the second part of your comment. this morning's service was unacceptably bad, cosaused by to things. there was an inadequate number of cars and then a derailment that affected putting the cars on the street. there were a lot of m trains, n trains, l trains that had should have had more cars. you had trains coming out late because of the derailment. this morning, i could do nothing other than to say service was unacceptable. we made a number of changes in the last few days to try to deal with that. in terms of the question of the chart here, the point we're trying to make -- switch back is a service management technique and that is available to us under well-defined conditions. it is an attempt to recover or even the space services as a result of a delay. whether the delay is caused by something that is in direct control of muni, in the subway, or to some degree, out of our control, on the surface. you asked about the trend, what this shows us. back in september,

our work with the mta facilitated activities. we spent considerable amounts of time considering an approving the latest update to the plan, providing clear ride visions for what can be accomplished in the next few decades. we also approved 22 prioritizations in sales of tax dollars for all districts of the city. those prior programs give us a very useful bird's-eye view of the sort of progress that we can expect in each area of the city in our fundamental position to compete successfully for regional, state, and federal funds at a time when competition is tougher than ever. at the end of 2010 we saw a culmination of a three year long mobility study funded by the federal government in an effort to generate an american vision that has been successful in other parts of the world. we succeeded in asking the right questions, even though some of the answer still await completion. making sure that we close of the $150 million debt on the central son -- central subway funding plan, securing full funding from congress to bring $1 billion t

the mta as an agency. it is nothing personal against the very dedicated people who work there and who on a daily basis try to serve the people of the city and county of san francisco. but i think that you can tell a lot about a city by how it's public transportation system works, or does not work for that matter. and i do think that if you look at the performance of the mta in terms of addressing the needs of all san franciscans, that even though there has been progress a lot is left to be desired. and because of that i think that having the right people on the body, on the governing board, is really crucial. i think the right thing to do with this appointment given interest from the members of the board coming in would be to continue this item, but i have to say that you learn something new when you go through this process. and i was really struck by what i heard from the community in terms of the need for that community -- for this community, the african-american community, but beyond that working people

the turnaround. we talked about muni mta's policy, but i have not seen what that policy looks like. we have heard that the policy is if there is a train that is five minutes behind -- are there other things that are part of that policy that we need to better understand? perhaps as some of the public comments have made, the needs to be better public policy so we might consider not having these occur in the nighttime. perhaps we might want to consider making sure there is not consecutive turnarounds that occur, and certainly, we want to make sure there is a way to say when we say five minutes behind, there really is a train that will be moving people long five minutes later. we often have a lot of hearings, and sometimes, they result in some kind of change, and sometimes, they do not necessarily result in anything you can measure. i would like to see something we can measure. i would like to see the mta work with us to figure out those metrics. do we want to see a certain number of turnarounds not really occur and that five or 10 months from now, we can see a different measurable numbe

discussion about pedestrian safety in terms of what is currently happening in the city, what are the mta's plans, and from the executive director, how we see moving forward, and we welcome your input in that process. chair nolan: bit -- secretary boomer: -- i think the memo that was put together was compelling about some of the problems around the non-profit -- the non-mta vehicles parking, so i guess we can go and talk about that. >> in the closed session, i think we beloved of the discussion on that. chair nolan: anything else? secretary boomer: moving on is the executive director support -- report. >> i believe there is a 6.1. secretary boomer: there is, the election of the sfmta board chairman. chair nolan: are there any nominations? >> it is my pleasure to nominate you again, despite the secretary's attempt to on nominate you. chair nolan: anyone else? any comment? ok, then in that case, we do have a nomination. all of those in favor, say aye. now, for vice chair, are there any nominations for vice chair? director heinicke? director heinicke: yes, i would recommend that director lee s

before i turn it over to the mta, let me touch on parking. n a nutshell, physically how the parking layout would be his underground. with the exception of a couple of blocks northeast in the neighborhood, a commercial area. -- neighborhood-commercial area. in terms of how the numbers layout, parking would be essentially concentrated in terms of how it relates to the ratio of the number of units to a number of parking spaces. there will be more parking on the west side vs. the east side. that is concentrating year transit so that there are more units to fit as much parking and rolling it out as it gets less dense. on the east side, the ratio is about half a space per unit. overall, the project is proposing one-one parking. some residents, if they choose, if they live on the east side, the parking will be market price. you could pay less and have the parking space closer towards the boulevard of that was your choice. as was required by the code, it works together to support of the household choice and the nature of the project. how the ratios co

the purpose of today's presentation is to hear from the mta about the causes of this issue. for many of our residences, it becomes a big problem, from a reliability point of view, is people do not know exactly where they will be able to get to, it is a problem. in addition to that, if you can imagine in the sunset, foggy, cold weather, it is a problem when you have people dropped off later in the evenings without a way to get to their home easily. as you know, the sunset boulevard area is a good 15 blocks or more to the ocean, which is where the final stops are often located. we have a number of people here to talk about the light rail vehicles which backs. i would like to invite the mta's john haley. >> [no audio] supervisor chu: before you begin, do you have a copy of your presentation to provide? supervisor avalos: i did not see it in my packaget. we were moving our offices as well. it was hard to keep track of documents coming in. >> not a problem. in the interest of time, supervisors, i will move quickly through this. feel free to stop and ask any questions. the first p