a question for all of us is, what is the mta and the cta -- sorry, repeating myself, does the mta integrate of the plants with each other? in my area, polk street, there is something called the vaeness plan (sounds like) they will take up parking, take out left turns, all kinds of things but that plan has nothing to do with the plant they are looking at on polk street, window is only one block away. the cta says what happens on polk street has nothing to do with the vaness plan. a spokesman for the mta says that what happens on polk street has nothing to do with vanesse. it is almost like saying, the city doesn't have anything to do with the golden gate bridge at cousins not our agency so we don't have to think about it on our streets. nobody would say that but that is what they are saying to us when it comes to vanesse and polk street, and what happens on vanesse affects mission street. what happens on polk street affects fillmore street, it is a much bigger thing than just looking at things narrowly. that is something i hope that can be brought out in hearing the maybe you can find out to

we all have the same issues with the mta. i want to thank you so much for , our hearing that is coming up and i think that we will have a lot of people here who are saying the very same thing and want our businesses to continue to survive and thrive. so thank you very much. >> chair adams: thank you gwen. >> so you heard from us in the retail corridor; you heard from the business in the pdr district; there's also the whole financial district and downtown district. we are all affected by that. i just walked here from my home to get here. i walked down market street. if you go on market, starting at octavia and market and go to the embarcadero, there are no parking spaces for a normal commercial vehicle. the only kind of vehicle did you can park there is a heavy-duty commercial vehicle defined as six wheels. anybody like a florist, the pizza company, a messenger service with the vehicle, water delivery, anything with 4 wheels, cannot park on that street and serve any businesses from octavia to embarcadero. there is something wro

agency the director of the mta, and the director of the mta board the proposed written recommendations. >> commissioner o'brien: the second question, i had the experience where somebody met me in my office; they were complaining about the notification process. you know, if you don't like something coming down the pike, what do you do sometimes is attack the process and say the process wasn't done right. i looked him right in the eye and i said , if i go back to the commission and i go to a lot of trouble to put this on the agenda, and do an investigation and raise the awareness of this issue, is somebody going to back to me from the agency in question and as a matter fact we did give him a notification. i looked him in the eye, it turns out that the did get notice and .they have the opportunity to weigh in having heard what i heard today it sounds like there really is a notification issue at stake here with how the mta operates, a gaping hole. it is an opportunity for a lot of improvement on how we notify; and we are a big family and san francisco. there is some sort of a gaping hole.

the current system at mta is 30 years old. i believe that they are expecting the new system to be completed by 2015. and i am told that it has zero general fund impact. the primary funding for this system has been federal state and prop k grants. and 10 million funded through the mta's operating funds and revenue bonds. the next system is -- >> excuse me. before we go off into that, if i could ask a couple questions, perhaps to joe henry from the mta. so, i understand four years ago there was a discussion between -- this is before your time. there was a discussion between dem and sfmta to consolidate at least two of these systems together. i know there was an mou that was signed between the mta and dem to build an integrated system at coit in 2010. we got a presentation on how you consolidate these three separate, at least three systems into two. could you give us a sense of what happened to that planning? >> i believe you're referring to interoperability agreement between sfmta, dem and dt? >> yes. >> i believe that agreement

i am deputy of planning for the sf mta also the transportation task force, co-chair with dhp. i'm going to give you a quick overview of the strategy and then what we're going to be talking about in the hearing so you can hear from the various departments on what they have have done since we have been developing this report. it's really important to note that we have been working over the last two years as a team and moving concert with the changes and the strategy is reflecting in real time what we're doing and moving forward and there is obviously a lot of challenges moving forward but i think together we will figure those out, so what you will hear today, the overview i will touch upon, and then the departmental efforts to support the goals and objectives and you will hear from public health, the police department, and mta and public works and we go into funding strategy. how are we going to fund this? we know there are certain gaps in certain areas. what is the plan of attack to get there? and both the mta and capital group are going to present that and key next steps and w

i will talk about the tool that the mta use for that. it's a new one, our five year capital improvement program and talk how they're irnlt greatd and we talk about integration between the departments and how does it work? how do all of the plans and how do they integrate actually getting these things built? and the last thing we do have a gap and there is cost identified in the strategy and how do we close that gap and what are strategies to consider in doing that? quickly the mta's capital improvement program five year plan is a new thing and we start in 2011 and provide a transparent view to the community and we have so many dollars of resources available and what with we do so people would understand that. it's made up 16 contained program and we have a certain revenue in a five year period, let's say $100 million and what can we deliver within the programs. for the purpose of the strategy that includes the pedestrian cip program and traffic calming program and traffic signal program and this is to provide transparent in what we can do

we met with people from the mayors office. with mta. we initiated the meetings and trying to be inclusive. >> thank you. >> and don't think everything is set in stone. >> i'm going to give the final count. you are all awesome for coming out and preaching to the choir on this one with me. william, i love what you said, parking being taken away. and steve, you're right. i had the same issues when i was working with mumsy (sounds like) and we did not have a choice or say, and when we did find out about the project , they had already started instead of taking away parking from market street, which is a problem today. this is one thing that i want to address, the city will tell you, we are not building any more parking. period. we have to change that attitude. san francisco not only is an international this mission, but a regional destination. in some neighborhoods there is no parking anymore i cannot tell you how many times i hear people say we are not coming to castro or potrero anymore, there is no parking. we are all losing business. in e

i think the mta, puc and dpw. i think staff might have the best recommendation for which ones to list as well. but definitely mta and puc and dpw. the effective communication especially with the mta is going to be a core competency that we need to highlight. commissioner wiener? >> thank you, mr. chairman. in terms of the timetable, i have a probably similar perspective to commissioner cohen. while we certainly want the fros move forwards expeditiously and efficiently and we don't want to have any unnecessary delays, the most important thing is to cast a wide net and bring any and all potentially interested qualified candidates forward and get it right. it is better to get it right than to get it done fast particularly on deadlines that are frankly not self-evidently better or worse than other deadlines and that are in some ways artificial. it would be great to have an executive director who starts on july 1st. that would be terrific. if it takes, if it means starting august 1st or september 1st in order to be able

and both the mta and capital group are going to present that and key next steps and we have to come back to you regularly to show the updates so just a quick record on the strategy itself. it was in response to the mayor's objective to reduce fatal injuries and increase walking trips as well. as a city we're growing. we will have more transit oriented development which means more pedestrian trips and look at making it safeer and workable and then we have to look at completing safety and action items for the rest of the strategy. this chart shows you the current trend over the last 10 years the severe in the light pink and the fatal in the dark pink and the trend it was on a precipitous decline but now holding steady and on the increase so a lot of concern there and we will talk about that in more detail what is mapping so the key challenges ahead of us we have a great city, very walkable. a lot of people walk and since the inception of the smartphone and walking and driving and taking transit and these issues we're working on, but the key issue that people driving are failing to yield fo

part of that happens through the enforcement with sfpd. next we have sf mta to talk about the intersections that we are prioritizing the timeline. how they have been working with the data in order to identify the streets and the intersections we are going to look at, and we also have department of public works here to talk about the intersection improvements and last we have staff from sfmta and capital planning how we fund the efforts that we have put together, so i know i said dph first but first we want an overview of the pedestrian strategies, so from the task force we have tim popdrio who you will present the overview. >> other opening comments from other supervisors. >> i'm sorry. >> supervisor kim anything else? >> no. >> president chiu. >>i would like to make a couple of comments and thank supervisor kim and our colleagues for the renewed attention to this very serious issue. in my first years before they were on the board i and others public officials tried to increase more public attention on this issue but today i really think that the current gene

so as we talk about the issue of enforcement and prioritizing in december of last year the mta issued an analysis of all traffic collisions over the last 10 years and i think that was referenced earlier. in identifying the top collision factors involved in our collisions speeding red light, failure to yield to pedestrians, stop signs and fail to yield when taking a u turn are part of the chief's directive to all personnel of the police department to focus on the five, so the five being speeding, the red light stop sign violations, fail to yield -- >> i think you need to have someone keep moving the slide. >> no, you got it there. we will advance one more. all right. this slide represents the increase that we saw -- we have seen in the use of red light cameras. they're fixed locations. there have been a few additional deployments in the number of years but you can see increase of violations from 2011 to 2012. that really speaks to the issue at hand and that is people operating their vehicles improperly, so these are deployed in areas that we historically have had problems. where you ha

they have non-standard equipment in the cars and this permit is currently under investigation with the mta. in short members of the board they have little experience in running cabs and let us do our jobs. if the lease companies should make sure all the drivers are provided with health care just like the muni companies are. we have formatted a proposal and if your willing to reduce the fees wire willing to make up the rest. our legal counselor is going to try to schedule an appointment with you to go over the details >> (calling names). >> coming here i was crossing the walkway to come up and a young kids were holding up the walls and this car with a mustache was waving at them he came close to hitting me i think this is an important subject. this leads me to the subject that i write an article from time to time in a small newspapers and i wrote about regulatory failure this year, the transportation industry is failing to regulate the taxi industry otherwise for san francisco the cabs will disappear. no, in this context mainly yellow i prepared this document i had a lot of help. we used a

some of those i don't understand why the mta can't move forward while they're waiting for the puc to come forward. i'm not a lawyer i probably don't understand something that seems observe. the other thing i want to mention there was a pastor at the last meeting there was this electronic assess there's several companies out there primarily two make any sense once taxi magic and a fly wheels and the two apps why the mta wants to spend money to improve the business i think the money should be spend back into the system to solve a problem that was created by the predecessors but we're responding to regulatory lag and i'm not happy with this new program. >> (calling names). >> i just wanted to throw in any $0.02. enforcement, enforcement, enforcement. it seems like the sidecar and the lift is going to come to be. i don't know if the taxi industry is going to tank. but their picking up people their flagging cabs. they're just pulling up, rolling down their window and they're getting in their cabs and their quoting them a price. they're taking fairs away from me. they'll speed away if i fl

mod ox from the mta. >> thank you supervisors. thank you for the opportunity to give a presentation on our efforts on bike sharing program so far. let's see if i can get this open . so again good afternoon. i am heath mat ox with the mta and i have been leading my agencies and the city's efforts to get a bike sharing program going in san francisco for the last several years and i have a short presentation, about 10 slides, which will tell you what we have been up to. first a very brief introduction as to what bicycle sharing is. i think one of the best analogies i use is like car sharing and membership base and affordable. it's convenient and available 24 hours a day and seven days a week and safe and perhaps counter intuitively and better than car sharing as a bicycle sharing professional it includes bike and healthy and clean and unlike most traditional car sharing it allows for one way trips. bikes can be checked out from one location and checked into another. when i say the location checked in we're talking about bike share sta

i'm a section leader at the sf mta. i'm going to talk through the on going work that has come out of the analysis that was first and the mayor's safety task force. i think we are grateful and excited by the information and sort of data driven analysis of pedestrian crosswalks and bring it into the work as fast as we can get it, and really looking forward to a real prioritize list of projects coming from the pedestrian safety strategy that will allow us to target that even further. this is a map that we have seen. this is the high injury or pedestrian safety corridors. i want to talk about how we use that data in talking -- sort of taking advantage of unique opportunity with the general obligations street bond passed by the voters in 2011. the majority was focused around removing streets but there was money set aside for improvement and important to have a funding stream and leave the streets better than the way we found it so this is in the streets bond that dpw is going to repave the streets on top of the safety network

i work with the department of public health and mr. mta and one of the things we have in contradictory to the city is we have a crisis of lack of follow through. we have great vision and great plans as you referred to earlier, but unfortunately unlike new york, it takes a lot of time to get this done. when we talked about the bike plan which was held up for years and we talk about the pedestrian safety strategy. for streets like polk street we know these safety improvements improve the economics. we know that on valencia street and most people that go to polk street are not driving there and people in rich communities theshgs -- they spend more than dollars. they are not able to go target. so there are many reasons to support this project and i would encourage to ask your staff to move forward with the utmost urgency and to fund the bicycle infrastructure as your staff has identified. >> winston parsons. >> good afternoon. my name is winston parsons. i'm a lifetime san francisco born here. i want to talk about polk. the infrastructure need

i have a work order question specifically about the mta. >> sure. >> work order for 14, almost $15 million. and just to be clear, that money is essential money for the police department and neither i nor anyone i know of think that that money should not go to the police department. we have to have a traffic company. these are all critical nonexpendable services. i think the big question is whether the mta should be paying for that entire amount or whether the general fund should be covering it. and understanding that it is a 0 sum game, the money has to come from somewhere to the police department. and i'm just curious if you could comment on -- and also i don't think anyone thinks that that number that the mta shouldn't pay any portion of that, but specifically as to the traffic company and some of the traffic enforcement, in terms of whether that should be coming from the mta given muni's funding challenges as opposed to the general fund. >> i think the decision was made several administrations ago that with the emphasis being on [speaker not understood] clearing to increase on-time sche