thank you very much madam chair item one an ordinance recommending to the regulation of the taxi by the mta they recommended this legislation to us and we're hearing it today, the legislation will do several things first 2 repels the out police code in the regulatory oversight of the taxi through the transportation i'm sure you're aware of the taxi city also governed under the police code and transferred to the mta's jurisdiction the legislation will also make the mta investigative process around taxi more efficient and expeditious and improve the mta's ability to enforce the various rules related to the taxi industry so the legislation is straightforward that is really more of a clean and reorganization then anything else i ask for your support we have kate if the mta and the deputy director and assessable services who is here to make a brief presentation. >> hi good afternoon, supervisors kate sfmta taxis and essential services and this legislation has been a long time coming we're thankful it is here and thankful to supervisor wiener so for carrying it forward this is a clear up piece of

to go to the board of permit for the permit cases and if the mta does decide it wants to shift away from going to the board of permit of appeals we're going to have a public process that's my report i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> supervisor kim has a question. >> thank you. >> this is largely straightforward i have a couple of questions about some of the articles i've read i only ask this i know that motor vehicles is in terms of other entities called ridership as well as - two questions you said if a limb zone couldn't provide a bill their though the regulate by mta. >> we have the authority and that's all right. existing to request that we - this 0 authority will not be new. >> what's a waybill. >> it could be a piece of paper or trip information and sits in requesting the waiver bill the trip would have been prealigned the distinction between a taxi and temp is the arrangement by requesting the waiver bill the piece of paper shows this trip was preranged and in an allowable type trip. >> yeah. facilitates it rerg9d but not to do street haldz. >> right. >> i understand t

>> i would defer to the mta on that. obviously they involved in negotiating and addressing the terms of the agreement. >> yes. we can look at that. we can communicate back with cypress and see how that would work out. we would have to draft a new contract and bring it back to this board. >> and drafting a new contract does that leave us with any kind of liability? are we exposed to any kind of uncertainty? >> that would be a consideration we would need to look at because there would be no armed guards at that time. >> what? >> there would be no armed guards under the new contract. >> correct me if i am wrong the armed guards -- where exactly do they patrol? >> they patrol the cash handling fmentds and the ub -- facilities and the subways and the ballparks and the customer centers. >> okay. i am prepared to vote against the contract to get a better understanding of the armed versus unarmed services and the resources are allocated and the time and training and commitment behind them. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor kim.

some of the recommendations coming out of the mta rail capacity study are going to be scooped up into the regional core capacity study as well as the county wide transportation plan and we have to have gram and company back here father down the road when we have more information and but this gives you on the current thinking. >> thank you. for that. intro. >> i will hit on some of those. >> i am with the strategic planning and policy, and the project manager here today, presenting the rail capacity strategy and we are going to hit on the purpose and need and what the rail capacity strategy will deliver and it will set the context for how that fits into the other regional and county wide planning efforts and talk to our progress to date. and kind of our next steps. >> so we have all experienced the rail system today for the subway and at the surface and it is crowded and reliable and it is unreliable and there are pass ups and it falls short both on the passenger rider experience as well as the ma tricks that the mta measures ourselves by and we know that there is opportunity for the i

the mta staff -- who is speaking on behalf of mta ? thank you. if you could just kind of walk us through what the process was for this contract and why wasn't this employee who had worked with cypress in the past actually not -- wasn't assigned to some other place that wouldn't have any decision making power over this contract? this contract has one that has multiple disputes over the years and i think would make sense to put up a fire wall at some point so there isn't added controversy to the approval of the contract. it doesn't seem it was considered by mta and the contract was controversial before and why how you would explain that wasn't done? >> the contract managed by this individual when he came over by cypress he was managing the contract. the contract has been awarded already and the pricing was set, the hourly wages and different hours for service were set so he was managing that contract. once the contract was approaching the expieration time my office took the effort to solicit a new contract. the first time around when we did the low

and the other agencies so mta we're trying to manage a number of high priority programs vision zero with the high coordinator map and the build out of the bicycle plans all the programs in fact, the same streets it is important that when we touch a street we making all the improvements that we have programmed to meet all our priorities for that street before we go down the path to engineering and design we're requesting all the project managers communicate with one another he'd the scope of their projects not just the specific priorities they're there to implement liquor the bicycle planners are not just checking their project but all the transportation priorities are reflected in their scope in the project is on the high network matt haney if it's a project targeted for action by vision zero regardless of whether the project is initially funded through our vision zero funding resources we have a required coordination process to make sure when that projecting progress all the pedestrian and traffic safety scope has a safety into the pro

the opportunities for the cycling and the stockton and the broad way tunnels and i am working with the mta to coordinate some of these project and cycling comes up as we consider all of these and we are discussing the lack of continuity across these many different platforms and so the opportunity incorporate the cycling into the potential side walk widening and the commercial corridor studies and would i like to invite more attention to that coordination, and the other thing that i hope that we keep working on, is the more effect integration of the cycling into the commercial core doors and the polk street project has been an interesting opportunity to look at that a little more closely, but you know, i know that stockton street, and from china town to north beach ask we are trying to look at columus avenue and hopefully, and i am sure that the need exists all over the city but in our condensed district it is acute and i hope that we can look at this with a collective eye. and figure it out. >> any other comments or questions from the committee members? >> seeing none. >> maybe to the next

to really transform the finance and administration, section of the mta and we welcome, raphael and the rest of the colleagues who will be stepping in, please. >> thank you, very much. >> thank you, to the outgoing and incoming person for all of your work that you are going to be providing to us through this capacity. >> and any other members of the public now, for general public comment? >> seeing none, public xhept is now closed. >> and now, mr. clerk, item 9. >> item 9 adjournment. >> thank you, our meeting is adjourned. (clapping.) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i think we have more companies anywhere in the united states it's at the amazing statement we're not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were >> one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. the most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think he's a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think we're not acceptable at this point for sure it ha

makes the decisions around the deployment and the infrastructure and it was a process that the mta actually did a lot of work at the table with us and including, you know, the general manager or the director ed and elicia, and john was part of that as well and other staff members and so i would like to see that work continue and i think that it addresses the issues, the social justice issues that supervisor cohen has brought up and especially when we look at the more out lying neighborhoods of san francisco and often, the transit and the density of the options are not quite the same as other places and effects our ability to access, and we would make sure that we continue that partnership with you to work on those issues and i know that is your bread and butter as to what you care about as the director. >> yes,vy been working with the staff and sharing the lessons that i have been able to learn with partnering with organizations that are trusted and have deep roots and are connected to the dmaunts we are trying to serve and make sure that there is better representation and every de

first, i want to thank the mta also for answering the questions from last week. and i'm glad to hear that -- from what i've heard that some of my colleagues are, have come around to understanding that it doesn't make sense to turn our bear collectors into sitting ducks* who are often waiting around at night collecting large amounts of money with basically no security other than someone to chaperone them around. as much as we would like to see guns disappear from as much of our planet as possible, that unfortunately victimization does happen, and people who are -- whose job it is to collect and carry around large sums of money need to be protected. it is a public safety issue. it is a worker safety issue. i think the various arguments -- and we've heard against this, against this contract -- have all been in my view addressed. we -- the mta is not some sort of aberration in using armed guards to protect employees who are collecting some of the cash. we see that all these other major transit agencies are doing exactly the same thing. mta is simply doing what appear

you still expect senior citizen seniors to walk a quarter of a mile to a bus stop i've heard from the mta management and people from the board what is walk is good for you or take par trait or 3 public transportation is not for everyone now if this continues public transportation won't be for everyone and public transportation should be for everyone not for certain routes but the whole of the city this is not happening within the plan so those are my concerns and by the way, ed please answer my e-mail >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> he's the last person to address this by director reiskin or mr. haley. >> good afternoon directors. >> one of the items that was better transit recognition we used to have one hundred taxis for the area where are the ramps i don't see more than 10 really moving in the city the numbers maybe there and the thought but the books maybe there but really not there would you, please get all the data in front of the the public there is 90 rams almost missing and some on regular taxis and the second item highway some mr. director mentioned but your city streets

. >> i've seen examples the mta has done a good job of delivering some of the projects not exactly vision zero but pedestrian projects in a more efficient manner so there are more positive examples you, you see in terms of internally with mta for those projects are mta they'll deliver them do you see improvements happening in terms of how the agency goes about doing that. >> maybe this is a good time to talk about how we're investing in the people there is a culture change and raises expectation we do that better and faster to reach the vision zero goal so over the loose 6 week we've trained 60 mta staff or project managers in a immense two day management courses alongside the colleagues of sfmta to bring everyone's management skills up and prepare for the roll apples to apples and call c pa the capital project control systems it is great it the san francisco municipal transportation agency and mta is trained together so the agencies are speaking the same languages and many the miss steps might potentially occur in the programming phase are 13450g9d out by that common understanding of wha

and it is in the past way and the past week, how, the mta has been taking some strange hits because of the new i would say, premium private system that is in place, and there is all of this discussion, like why would you want to be on muni and like it is incredible, and because hundreds of thousands of people ride muni every day and some of us ride it in businesses, and we don't mind you know, it is not a system that needs another level of elite, care, and it is something that we need to on tend to and i appreciate your voice in that effort, and i for one will be supporting you, of course and much of the colleagues have much to add. >> thank you very much and i think that director ramos, you hit upon a lot of issues that are really, really that i was going to ask you about any way and i think that based on your past experience already, you have dealt with many of those issues and i think that these will always address the issue with some of the outside, non-mta type of outfits that have been coming up in san francisco and i think that on the one hand we can learn from them that if t

louis montoya and i am joined by timothy, and the director of the strategic planning and policy at the mta and we are here to talk to you this morning about the bicycle strategy which is an investment strategy for how we make the capitol investments to improve the network in san francisco and the bike strategy is more than that and we want to focus on the capitol investment piece this morning and so tim is going to talk about that and how we develop the strategy. and then i am going to talk about what we are doing, in the future, how do we take that strategy and actually i am implement it and what are we already doing on the ground right now. >> good morning, and the director of the city planning for mta and as he said we have had the bicycle plan for a while, and as we are going to the next phase, we decided that we need to look at a more strategic perspective on how to implement the bicycle structure and as we develop the strategic plan for the mta and set up the goals for the next five years, one subset of that is the bicycle strategy and each mode has its own strategic document that is

disability community a fantastic member of the taxis and assessable services team and part of why the mtas getting recognized for our cal program i want to invite jonathan up and hand him his award thank you (clapping) >> okay >> on behalf of the board mr. chang thank you for your outstanding work we reality appreciate it. >> thank you. >> shall we skip forward. >> let me know she is running late. >> let me ask cammy our enforcement director. >> good afternoon. >> good morning no good afternoon. >> on behalf of the enforcement team i'd like to express may thanks and present a special recognition to senior parking control officer larry lewis he's missing pious e his favorite tv program just matthew's but will be here are you sure it's not watching the mta board hearing it's on at the same time. >> (laughter). >> larry enhance his career as a pocono august 1st of 1983 and promoted to the senior pco in january of 1990 and retired there will after many years of axiliary service he managed a program since 1990 and played a large roll in the success of that program larry's inspirey style has mo

i'm rick arena i'm here to try to figure out with the mta is going with last august i put my medallion up for transfer and i was told at the time i was if i was to pass away from the transfer the monies will go to my wife and child recently, i respect to the mta and talked with the staff she said that's no longer the case now in i pass away the medallion the fees go back to the city i don't understand that is what they mean to do hurt the families that are in this room there's a lot of old-timers here it didn't make sense i thought you gave us an out i don't see it thank you. >> please. >> (calling names.) (clapping.) >> good afternoon, everyone. >> good afternoon, everyone. i drive for a yellow cab i want to speak about this i want to talk about the fee for the medallion fee every year our income dropped over 50 percent you have 20 thousand tmc running all over the city with no regulations at all there's no regulations at all for them to do business no way you can rent a regulate bus and an unregulate business seattle has limited to 6 hundred and other cities take action i don't know

two softwares system and our debit card central system after the software products our vendor or the mta and sfmta we don't control the password standards we've requested we've asked the par transit broker to request in writing the password standards for complexity as recommended be implemented and trap he's will be implementing the new standards in their upgrades in versus 14 that will be completed by a preponderance of this fiscal year and for can be connect they don't have the ability to make the change but as the paratransit engages in the new transit practice those process they'll make that a requirement in terms of our open taxi go items two role to driver the medical condition of the driver and we've had xhulthd with the city attorney and done research and there are no prevailing state requirement on this matter so what we're going to do is add on the technique application form box for drivers to attest to their health condition and their ability to drive so we'll close two other items related to that issue and we'll close that soon and an item related to drug and alcohol testing

so if he can get the slides back up i think he did a great job of explaining what the mta was to take the vision as articulated by ben and walk it through a planning process to see what transportation exist and how to move forward the report itself includes those main sections i encourage you to take a read as you're able to you can't cover it all 15 recommendations and 5 proposed next steps we want to continue collaborating on we're in a scoping period to define the budget for the next steps we expect them to happen so i thought i'd start with the interesting finding with the late night travel we were able to learn through some analysis of do not the first slide is our attempt at quantifying how many people are traveling duran during the late night hours 2 hundred and 50 people on a late night less than on a weekend bus that's a lot of trips 7 percent of total daily trips equivalent to trips by the giants games of the trips more happen during the 9 to midnight than the midnight to a.m. hours it is interesting with the midnight to 5:00 a.m. prominently regional about 2/3rd's of them w