why do we need the tep sf -- why do we need tep? >> the service is over crowded and stuck in traffic and the buses are not showing up on time which is what people expect with they ride our system. it's important because we're approaching a five year high and rider ship. our january number s the bus side showed for the first time we're out of the recession in terms of the impact on transit and the service is going to grow. investment likes the five limited where we increase service by 30 percent have been critical to eliminating pass ups and attracting customers out of their car. the tep has three key sections and the first is the policy framework and how they're structure and the second is the service increase itself and the third is the capital that i spoke about earlier. the service policy framework builds on our strengths today. they're residential areas within a quarter mile of service that maintain 18 hours of service across the city. and that we provide basic access so that even in our neighborhoods weeshgs providing -- even in

the tep will be able to become a delivery tool for our transition. as i discussed in the beginning, the tep is now about a 12 percent increase in service although not part of your base budget. you will be considering a 10 percent potential service increase at a cost about $35 million. the tep capital program, the entire program including the programmatic corridors is approximately $300,000. that first 40 miles is about, sorry, $300 million. the first 40 miles is about $200 million and about $150 million of that would be pending voter approval. but it is currently in our cip with the intent of delivering it over the next 5 years. we met a key milestone yesterday when the planning commission voted to certify the tep ir with a vote of 6-1. the e ir is a service improvement and capital improvement. we are returning to the zero missions corridor and building the wires so the local and limited can pass one another and the time reduction of the proposal are the tep transit priority projects. the project was approved at various levels. the documents were clea

why do we need the tep sf -- why do we need tep? >> the service is over crowded and stuck in traffic and the buses are not showing up on time which is what people expect with they

the tep has three key sections and the first is the policy framework and how they're structure and the second is the service increase itself and the third is the capital that i spoke about earlier. the service policy framework builds on our strengths today. they're residential areas within a quarter mile of service that maintain 18 hours of service across the city. and that we provide basic access so that even in our neighborhoods weeshgs providing -- even in our neighborhoods, we're providing 18 minutes of services. if we're making trade-offs for transit that we're doing it on the routes that has the heaviest ridership and when we're making decisions on how to make a community route, we're not comparing it to the 28 gary, but comparing how it's performing in terms of other routes and passenger effectiveness and cost effectiveness matrix. we also, in the transit effectiveness project are looking at stop consolidation. but it's important to highlight we're sticking with the key standard that most stops are within an 8th of a mile spacing and under the proposal, we're recommending mainta

into the tep capital program -- >> we've had hundreds of community meetings, we've talked to resident and visitors a like. most recently we conducted 14 workshops where we focused on the proposals that we received the most comments on in the environmental document. interestingly enough, we received i think almost 1,000 comments in the document but the majority weren't about the projects but it was the impact this would have on the customers, so what we produced was a community guide of tep which is available on our website that answers some of those community questions. that is what we focused on in this round of outreach. we did the city -- the neighborhood work stops first and ten we reconvened for an open house on the 6th and 8th where we showed people how be modified the proposal based on the feedback. these are the routes that received the most comments during the outreach process. i have each of these. i'm not going to go into them given our time, all they i'm happy to answer questions that you have afterwards that you have. i would like to flag a couple of examples where we wer

i was disturbed at the opening comments at the presentation of the tep report out that we were going to have public transportation access to the hilly areas in san francisco. if we eliminate the 36 loop that goes through forest noels neighborhood, we will not be providing public transportation to one of the hillest neighborhoods in san francisco. it's a single family home resident and we don't fit the areas on the board. we do have cars but if you get around in san francisco, you don't want to use them. that's the only lifeline not just for warren, but as it man before me pointed out, it's a steep neighborhood and before you consider eliminating it mile, i suggest you come down there. i wish bikes was an option. i lived in the neighborhood 19 years ago and when i was 20 pounds lighter, i couldn't make it up the i will on a bicycle and i'm not going to make it now. on 7th and lotton where i can catch the 43, it's a quart of a mile walk and i'm not nearly as old as those in the audience and it's hard on my knees. and i road down here. one of my neighbors wanted to me to say, she works i

so i'm here to talk about a couple of lines on the tep. to start with the three jackson. i live a couple of blocks away from it. after looking at the ridership data and who is using it and with a proposal to decrease service, it makes sense to me. i'm in favor for it. but i think we need to look at the overall success of our network as a whole and i hope we can have better service on our network as a whole and local lines but it doesn't look like we're going to get the funding from the government, so we need to be problematic. my question is while it's avoided doyle drive to have it stopped at california on its way over. the 1, 3, and 43 stop nearby there. if it doesn't make sense, that's fine, but consider it please. 43 and masonic makes sense to me. and i like to echo the gentlemen's comment, i think it would be a boom to everyone. 76 marine, i love it. it's a great service. thank you. >> thank you. >> members of the board, we need to offer some direction to the staff at this point. did you turn in a card? >> no. >> just go ahead and speak. >> my name is henry and i wan

and then the third -- and this relates back to the tep. there are changes that we can make in the public right-of-way to make muni work better through the streets, dedicated lanes to muni, building out sidewalks so that the buses don't have to pull over to pick up passengerseses and then fight their way into traffic. put intion signals in some places where muni vehicle have to stop and tying the muni vehicleses to those signals so they get a green light ~. that's another category of investment. state of good repair which is really investing in the system that we have today, safety, and then enhancements to the system that will help the system work better. so, this is what the revenues and expenditures look like in the capital budget. kind of a big picture, you can see we get a pretty good chunk of our revenues from the federal government when it comes to the capital side of our budget. on the local side, we do have the half cent sales tax dedicated for transportation here in san francisco. we at the mta are the largest recipient of those fu

we encourage you to support the tep forward. >> hi, my name is marie sorenson. i live on 24th and new hampshire. is this the street scape meeting also for 24th? okay. i went to the meetings and it appeared that the planners came in with their own agenda. and portrero avenue is a freeway onramp p and off ramp. people drive down it to get on the freeway to go home and when they come into town. so what you are doing is you are going to widen the sidewalks that nobody seems to walk down and you are going to add a bicycle lane that nobody seems to ride on. they claimed at one point 1.50-60 people a day when the reality a few people ride on it. it's a thoroughfare. cars to the freeway, that's what goes on that way. i'm a bicycle rider. i don't ride on potrero avenue because it's too dangerous. the other thing is 58 parking spots. first it was over 100 and then it was down and then at the last meeting we'll only take out 23 spaces. that was how we left the last meeting. now we are now up to 58. it's just not fair. they are not listening to the neighborhood. when they th

i have been to a lot of the tep meetings myself and i have heard a lot of the concerns. i agree tep over all is a good thing for a lot of people. there are some hick ups along the way. keep working on the platforms. the people with disabilities need them. thank you very much. >> good morning. how are you? just so you know my last name is pronounced ierg. i ride buses a lot and you know we are talking about speeding up service. the operators hit construction traffic and it takes time. a lot of people stand at the fare box looking for money or transfer, how with a you are proposing are going to eliminate those things or lessen them? have you thought about that at all? and then the other thing is i ride buses a lot. a lot of times i will take the 47 inbound at broadway and van ness and take it to north point and mason, but now i'm going to have to transfer and take two buses which is going to take me longer. i just wanted to mention that. how are you dealing with the timing problem? have you thought about that at all? >> this is your time to tell us what you would like to he

and separate from the tep perhaps we can make sure that we have staff following up with mac and that we have other transportation. >> director heinicke? >> my understanding is that you wanted us to propose the questions for staff and aif discussion and comment? the questions that i had have all been covered by you. my focus is the inner set sunset and wilder street. >> i'm going to agree with director heinicke on this and wait to hear back from staff with respect to some of the questions that have been posed. >> okay director riskin do you have anything? >> i think the issues of some of the concerns related to decrease frequency i think to some extent get addressed or offset by the genre liability improvement and with generally how we are managing the service and hopefully investing in this service. and i was going to ask her to speak to this as well as to director's rubke's comments about one of the slides that showed the feedback group that there is time to monitor and look at the frequency and to make sure the 9 service improvement are there to accommodate the fact that we would ab

i strongly encourage the board to reject tep. >> good morning, i'm barbara bocci and i live on jackson street and i want to thank you for saving the no. 3 jackson. i don't want to repeat what they have said. i agree with everything that they have said. i want to appeal to you to keep the schedule in a reliable fashion. keep it running as frequently as possible so not to strand the many elderly people riding the bus and students and workers that come in and out of the community. without the no. 3 jackson a lot of people will be stranded in that area and we'll not be able to have a nice transfer down to union street and the marina. thanks for saving the no. 3 jackson again and make it as efficient as possible. >> joe donahue? >> my name is rick. joe donahue is not here. >> rick lopez. good morning, i'm the president of the park association. i was not on the bus that tested the route. i echo the great community leader as well as i who handled the corridor in glen park. i'm happy that the rest of the route is approved but the 35 is not acceptable. it is one of the most busiest tiny streets

and half of the people opposed and it's wan innovative thing that tep did. at the had a new route proposed and that was on february 21st. muni invited the resident that live along the route to test the bus and that was great. they got feedback that way. this week our community presented 165 letters of support for the alternate route to sean kennedy, so we want to thank muni for listening and coming up with the alternate route. >> thank you. >> hello, good afternoon. my name is lilly king, i'm here to talk about the 36 terrace. it's to improve reliability and reduce travel time and improve customer service, deliver more efficient service, to realign to better serve customer. these objects do not apply to the forest knolls community neighborhood. and eliminating the 36 through knoll is denying the public for public transportation. the 43 does not really service the community, the neighborhood, if you look at the map in terms of the neighborhood cut, it looks clean, and the elevation is very steep, and i'm sorry. and there is a thousand foot elevation diff

people realize what transit can be in this city and realize that we can make those connections as the tep team points out. we can that have grid work of connections to help people get around the city. i have no more input other than that and i'm happy to move it. motion on item 6. >> i'm happy to second it without changes. >> okay. >> i have a few comments i will try to keep it brief because i know director ramos needs to get home to his wife. [ laughter ] from one husband to another. there were some questions asked by members of the public about efficiency, what are we doing to speed up boarding that sort of thing. those are great questions. the silence is not to ignore this. it's the procedural rules to address here. we are looking at procedures this board is looking at reducing cash payment and expanding fair media and of course we recognize the bulb outs are perhaps an opportunity for that. it's just not part of this proposal. before i thank the staff, i also want to thank the members of our pag committee. director lee is not here. the three of them; you all should know took on the re

actually all of the remaining items on the agenda are informational only for the tep item will be coming back to you on march 28th as an action item and for the budget as early as april 1st and possible april 15th. so these are informational only, really to gather your comments and the comments of the comments on these items. >> good morning, thank you director. i'm going to start on slide 7 which just repeats the baselines where we started several weeks ago just to remember that we had a little bit of a positive balance for the first time, and the positive balance however did not include several big line items. mostly the wage increases for labor contract and travel increases and the structural reface and the request from the department and that's listed in the bottom of slide eight. so at the last board members, several board members asked questions and the last slad answers your questions. and the first question was how -- this slide is hard to read but the answer based on the calendar of 2013, the citations on sunday is 39 percent of the meter revenue plus citation revenue combined.

coming around around the transit effectiveness project but within that and how your budget effects the tep, i think it's important for you all to consider particular notes that are of particular importance to low income communities, how do folks get to general hospitals, especially when you're going to talk about tpc and you see which lights are going to be cuts and how are folks going to access city college when the 26 is gone. et cetera. there's places, there are particular importance, there's particular communities that need to be prioritized as you think about your budget and how the license fee is going to roll out. and i'm going to step away to a discussion around the rail -- >> that's our conversation. we're not taking action but give direction to this staff. i like to say a couple of things first. i was in washington dc the last -- the grid lock could have major impacts on the highways, federal highways administration, the funding and the blueprint that expires this fall, and there is little action about it. so it's a sobering message from back there. and the second part of the mes

nearby colorado and iowa were also in the top tep. who feel they are stuck and they should look to south dakota and nebraska. both have improved after being in the 20s or 30s in the past five years. washington state also made a big leap. it was in the mid to low teens for four years before cracking the top 10 this year. some states seem to always be near the top, colorado among them. it placed 7th. one reason, low obesity rates. there doesn't seem to be much upward mobility at the bottom of the list. west virginia has placed dead last for the last four years and the year before that, it was 49th. the same goes for states ranked 46th through 49 this year. they have mostly lived at or just outside the bottom 6 for the past half decade. you have got to wonder if cold gateway cool. no state in the southeast made the top 25. the only warmer states to do well were hawaii and california. coming up, the u.s. delegation snubs the opening ceremonies of russia's para olympics. is it an empty gesture, or will it carry some weight? unregulated.. >

i want to commend the eu for taken the teps already making sure russia feels the cost by sanctions andng a number of engagements with russia and making it clear if russia stays on its current course, the consequences for the russian economy will continue to grow. this comes atop the sanction that the united states and others around the world are imposing and they are the most significant sanctions russia has faced since the end of the cold war. russia stands alone. they stood alone trying to defend their action at the security council. the 28 members of the european union and the nato are united and every member of the g7 has announced sanctions on russia and they will meet here in june in brussels without russia. so if anyone thought the world wouldn't care about their action or that they could drive a wedge between the united states and europe they miscalculated. as i said repeatedly and was mentioned by both presidents there is still a way for russia to work with ukraine and the international community to de-escalate the situation through diplomacy. that is the only way the issue wi

but i think of the 75 or so muni routes that tep proposes some increased frequency on about 60 of them. so, it's almost a system wide increase focused on the most heavily traveled routes. but pretty significant bump up in muni service proposed to reduce crowding to make it a faster and more efficient to move through the city, which also would make it a more attractive means to travel for more trips for more people. so, of course, that comes at a pretty significant cost. just the service increase would more than consume those buses i showed in the baseline budget. so, then quickly moving on to the capital budget, the capital budget as well we're making kind of one-time invests in assets to bring them into a state of good repair. that's the core priority of our budget,

but i think of the 75 or so muni routes that tep proposes some increased frequency on about 60 of them. so, it's almost a system wide increase focused on the most heavily traveled routes. but pretty significant bump up in muni service proposed to reduce crowding to make it a faster and more efficient to move through the city, which also would make it a more attractive means to travel for more trips for more people.

know, there was a report that came out in mamp that says that the united states has dropped out of the top tepr economic freedom, and so this is a great bill for economic freedom. it gives customers the ability to choose what cars they want to buy and furthermore it sends a welcome message in arizona that we welcome business, that we're open to business, we're not going to wrap people up in red tape and we're going to allow consumers to choose. >> and you're open to tesla's business specifically? the headline is arizona proposed lift on direct sales ban as tesla evaluates giga factory location. it would em loyploy a lot of pe in your state. >> that's a nice pin. but the reality is i'm happy to open it up for anybody. currently the law says all electric calls. i'm willing to open it up to all manufacturers but the reality is they don't want it. they want the protectionism -- the way it's structured right now, if you want to buy a car in arizona, you have to purchase through a dealer. tesla does not use a dealer model. they use a direct sales model, and so what we want to say is, yes, you can bu

military intelligence said in an interview with npr that the dia warned the administration seven to tepbefore russia invade ukraine of imminent russian military movements pushing back on the notion there was any sort of intelligence failure. meanwhile the navy destroyer, crossed the black sea on previously scheduled exercises with om anya and bulgaria. the navy says they expect it to be in the black sea. >> there's been criticism the u.s. military was late and happened been strong enough to deter putin. what's the response to that? >> the prison would push back on that saying they are calibrating response carefully. certainly the response from the pentagon has been extremely measured. six days after the invasion before you saw u.s. military hardware change positions. half dozen f-15 fighter jets are not state-of-the-art stealth f-22s or f-35s the pentagon spent so much money on. that would be viewed an escalation. symbolic military gesture at best the pentagon put forward designed not to give putin a pretext to invade elsewhere prof mr. chairman, the administration's efforts are focused

the party leaders won't say so out loud. republican party chief reince priebus is trying to capitalize on an tep think toward obamacare. >> you look at the san diego mayor's race and florida 13, you had the nationalization of barack obama and obamacare in both of those places. and as i said it is a poisonous issue for democrats. gwen: democratic chair debbie wasserman schultz says the g.o.p. is overreaching. >> really hope that my counterpart remains bullish and believes the democrats are in the dumps. they were predicting up to hours before the polls closed on election day in 2012 that we would all be inaugurating president mitt romney, too. gwen: neither one of them sounded very convincing to me. which party really has the most to worry about? >> well, i don't think it's close at this moment. i think it's clearly the democrats. this is a midterm election, the sixth year of a presidency. the party in power or that holds the white house almost always loses seats. so that's just for starters. the house is very difficult. after the government shutdown, there were some democrats, because the republicans took such a hit who were