once is good transportation -- with the transit first city wants -- what the transit first city wants. if you look at every element of our transportation, we cannot give the city high marks. on the project like the transbay, the doyle drive. when we had certain representatives regard the money, and in the future, whether it is from the state or federal, we will not get as much as we thought we would get, and you all know that. but what i am noticing now is having gone to the mtc meetings and other meetings is that san francisco -- this is the city and county of san francisco -- is not going to get due representation. where once we had three, we are going to get two. i want to leave you with this thought -- do not have yourselves to much on the back -- back --pat -- do not pat yourselves to much on the back. we want results. thank you very much. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is closed. very good. next item. >> item 5, adopted a position on state legislation. this is an action item. supervisor mirkarimi: very good. any comm

. >> even though we are a transit first city our roads are not safe for bicyclives or pedestrians.need to work on the potholes. continue to build bike lanes. we are doing better at building bike lanes, certainly, i think where we fall short in part is we don't educate the drivers within the city. i continualy hear from people who don't understand how bike lanes work. bicyclists are always on the defensive. i wish i could say i felt like it was a safe city for bicyclists. which could say go to work on your bicycle and you will be fine. i don't think i know one bicyclist who has not been hit by a car door. >> a large number of san francisco homes don't own vehicles. i think that's a good thing. people don't need cars in the city. a lot of people don't need cars in the city. >> i think to a certain extent the saying is true, if you build it they will come. the more parking spaces you build the more cars you attract. i would like to see district 8 particularly along the transit corridors and on market and where muni is effective i would like to see less parking. >> i felt like mun muni

we are a transit first city. let's act like we are. i am very much in support. director nolan: let's have a roll call. i think we have a divided house. [roll call vote] we will take about a 10-minute break? thank you very much. >> the mta has developed a draft 2011 climate action strategy for the transportation system and a fiscal year 20092010 departmental action plan. the deputy director of long- range planning will make the presentation on this major undertaking that requires your feedback before being submitted to the board of supervisors for adoption. i want to thank all of the staff that has worked on this. and our partners with the transportation authority and the city planning department has worked with us on this project. >> the actual court later of the climate action plan and the community climate action plan. >> that afternoon, commissioners. i am the climate action corridor with the department of the environment. i'm here on behalf of the department of the environment and the director of climate protection services that could not be here today. i am

a city, we need to do much better at creating an environment where we have more jobs and economic development. we are also extremely challenge in our public transit. we talk about being a transit firstity, but everyone has had the experience of sitting in gridlock, waiting for the bus, trying to hail that tab, walking on pedestrian sidewalks that are not particularly safe. as a city, we need to do more to invest in the first-class transportation system. >> what are some of the biggest issues facing your district? >> in addition to the local economy that impacts the merchant corridors, to many vacant storefronts, transit issues, in every neighborhood we're having a real conversation about how we change, whether we should preserve aspects of the important characters of our neighborhood or think about building new things. there is also a real discussion we're having in many neighborhoods about affordability. i hear from too many tenants in the process of being evicted, homeowners being foreclosed on. we need to think about how all of us can continue to live in a city where the whole world wants to be. >> it is a great place to be. >> it is a great place to be. how do you balance the ne

i have been trying to hammer home that we expect to be a transit first city, and often, we have fewer options for transit in district 11, four, and 10. to have that understood and it titillated by other members of this body is, to me, really gratifying. supervisor mirkarimi: consider this the new mantra. ok, executive director, please. >> mr. chairman, commissioners, good morning. before i get into the meat of my report, let me take a second to add to the discussion for a second. first of all, to thank the chair and commissioners campos and cohen for making the time to do this kind of a trip to d.c., which was essentially 48 hours and a lot of time spent on airplanes. hardly a tourist trip. a lot of action in a couple of days. to reinforce also the impression that i got in feedback from members of the administration and others that i work with on an essentially regular basis about how involved and how aware of details and of projects, expectations, and so on the members of my board are, and that is a very nice impression to convey to federal organizations that are responsible for fund

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san francisco, we talk about it being a transit first city, but it does not mean a lot of options for transit are not well thought out in places further from downtown. my district is one place where we need to create better options. >> you mentioned muni and the changes that are happening. what about parking, traffic, is the area safer for pedestrians? >> there is always a lot of work to do with pedestrians. making sure the department of parking and traffic is painting along alemany. along balboa park station, geneva, san jose, pushing hard to get a ramp for pedestrians. right now, it is dangerous to cross the street, especially if you are pushing a stroller or are in a wheelchair. you have to go further than you but typically have to. there is so much more to do. we have to figure out how to calm the traffic. a lot of cars, speeding through and make it unsafe for pedestrians. sidewalks are not very convenient for people. it takes a lot of money to do that, but it is really about being vigilant and looking at the fund the come through the transportation authority. we have been extendi

we talk about san francisco being a transit first city, and when you live in a part of san francisco were the options are few, you are going to get in your car more often, and we're not serving any one by having fewer options before you are from the downtown core work, so this 348, is this something that the mta wants to continue with, or is this something you're trying to desperately lower to a more acceptable rate of switching back? >> well, i would like to switch back number to be zero, but given the practical matter that we operate on, on the surface, and conditions under which we operate, that is not going to happen. in terms of what the right number should be, again, the more reliable service, and that is what i wanted to highlight the delays. the let's pause for a switch back. i do not have a number in mind to say you know, i would like to never have to switch back, because it is not a goal or objective. it is a tactic we can use to adjust service. as far as the number at 30th and church, in switchbacks is try to make the switchback so that it has the least impact on the numbe

looks like a good list, a few less stops and signals and one has to comment, first, on changing signal lights. this city is a transit-first city but when we have to move cars, we find a need for transit light. when we have to move muni, who needs a transit light, we put stop signs in and that's not good and it has to change and one way to change it is to make the four-ways two-ways and that might help a little bit. what i forgot to say before and it applies to mission and the j, there are streets in san francisco that have double signs for double parking and i don't know if that applies to these two but it should if it's screwing up the muni and that would make it -- give the p.c.o.'s another hammer, a chance to get this thing done. the other ones that are not on the list, prepurchase of fares. that's very good. that's one no one's mentioned yet but coming from outbound, starting in bark darrow, the m and the j take about the same time to get to balboa station. if j's all screwed up and delayed, maybe the m's should work as a j and the same way the j could work as an m. that would take flexibility in m.o.u.'s and di