vice chair tang and members of the transportation authority. will be presenting the cac report today. beginning with item eight, the cac recommends approval for the allocation of prop k fundses as presented. there was particular support expressed for the valencia street bikeway impolicemen taths plan request -- implementation plan. the bike lanes were last striped in 1999 and valencia street has become a major bike commuter route in the city. at the same time, development along this corridor has resulted in many more conflicts and hazards with transportation network company or tnc and food delivery drivers making quick stops and double parking in the bike lanes. the item did pass. turning to item ten, the presentation on the 2017 facility's framework. a question was raised if any of the older facilities to be altered or replaced had any historic cig any chance. they don't -- significance. it was also noted the facilities owned by the city and county seemed to kon trait on the eastern side of the city -- concentrate on the eastern side of the ci

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neighborhood deserves and millions of dollars have gone to this both from the san francisco county transportation authority as well as other granting authorities so i want to thank them for working to make sure that we were able to make this again this promise a reality for our neighborhoods so congratulations and i look forward to working with everyone during the construction process and i know the construction process is often the toughest part so we want to make sure we support our small business owners during this time but it's going to be a fabulous corridor and i have to recognize of course the san francisco bike coalition brian we'dmire is here and also to leah sheaham who is here during the time we were advocating for this. thank you for sticking with us and being strong making sure we got the core dough we wanted, thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. next we have the sfmta who is a key partner in the remaking the second street this project is part of the city's san francisco bicycle plan and the vision zero initiative to make the streets safer for all of us. let's welcome district or race

the city's transportation authority has been reviewing a study on car pool lanes. but not everyone loves the idea of charging drivers to skip traffic. the board of supervisors voted against the extension earlier this month. the transportation authority can seek funding again in february. >> lights out at disneyland. a power outage paralyzed parts of the park today and left some visitors stranded on rides. reporter dave lopez is in anaheim. >> reporter: on a day that disneyland sold out and there were signs all around the park telling people there was no room to get in inside the park the power went out. >> there were a lot of crying children and unhappy guests. >> toon town and fantasy land had no power. a blown transformer caused it. >> they did tell us to go to city hall to ask for a refund or something but the line for city hall is like 4 or 5 hours long. >> some people were stranded on some of the rides although disney put it this way, none of our guests had to be rescued. they were escorted after the rides. no one was hurt. and disney sent out this tweet this

our county transportation authority under the leadership of executive director tilly chang, its chairaron peskin and vice chair tang have been critical to putting together the planning and funding so we can do things like get the central subway done, get this largest ever light rail procurement done so we're very pleased to be joined by our great partner, deputy director of the county transportation authority, maria lombardo. [applause] >> hello. i'm very pleased to be here. on behalf of our chair aaron peskin i want to issue a congratulations on the entire mmta for reaching another milestone ahead of schedule. let's keep that up. as has been said before, i really have to recognize that making an investment of this significance is a team effort and we are so fortunate to have a wonderful set of team players from the federal level, the state level, mary lee, the board of supervisors, the m.t.a. and so on. i want to add to that team, though, a very important group. which is san francisco residents and voters. [applause] yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, rights? thanks to their foresight back in 1

a second bill would be to authorize tolling on the crooked part of lombard building on a study from earlier this year. with the transportation management on treasure island to pursue a pilot project for automated vehicles. and the task force is developing recommendations soon to be released and we anticipate there may be necessarity of going forward and getting authorization for more revenue measures next year. i am happy to answer questions. >> any questions from commissioners? any members of the public to testify on this item? seeing none public comments is closed. is there a motion to approve the 2018 state and federal legislative program? seconded by commissioner sheehy and we have the same house, same call. the item is approved. next item please. >> clerk: item 12. accept the audit record for the fiscal year ended june 30, 2017 this. is an action item. >> good afternoon. it is still morning. i am proud to present this. i am the deputy director for finance and ministration. i would like to thank or finance staff. this is the first year we produced a comprehensive annual financial report versus the basic financial stateme

officials with the south jersey transportation authority say they've been watching the storm since wednesday and have spent today brining the atlantic city expressway before the snow is expected to hit. >> our trucks will be out there salting and plowing for the duration of the storm and we're going to keep the express ways as clean as possible. >> reporter: workers with the atlantic county department of public works have about 450 miles of roads to cover according to the supervising engineer of highways and bridges. they're performing final checks on vehicles and loading them with salt but they're not brining for a reason. >> if it does rain we lose that -- that -- it dilutes the brine so that we won't be able to treat it down to a lower temperature and actual -- it could actually start to refreeze. >> reporter: but they have a message for drivers. >> we'll ask them if we see people out we'll ask the public to stay 75 feet behind our equipment, if -- if we have an all call that everyone will be here. >> reporter: in cape may county, ocean city and officials say extra crews are on standby an

the "san francisco examiner" reports the transportation authority is reviewing a study on carpool laneso considering some of these paid express lanes. not everybody loves the area of paying to skip traffic. the board of supervisors voted against extending the sudden to pave lanesser earlier this month. the transportation authority can seek funding again in february. >>> it was an unexpected adventure for visitors at disneyland in anaheim. as danielle nottingham reports, a power outage temporarily shut down parts of the theme park leaving some folks stranded on rides yesterday. >>> reporter: a power outage at disneyland as they hit capacity for the day. >> there were unhappy guests and crying children. >> no rides, couldn't buy anything. it was all bad. >> reporter: this video shows massive crowds forming single file lines after being escorted off rides. other visitors posted images to social media showing the chaos as families struggled to reach the exits. >> the magic of disney fades when the power is out in half the park. >> reporter: officials confirmed the outage occurred near micke

the cac approved the item with the statement urging the transportation authority to accelerate planning for rights-of-way investment such as subways and bus rapid transit with special consideration for the west side of the city. that concludes my report. thank you. >> chair peskin: any questions for the cac? is there any public comment on item number two? seeing none public comment is closed. thank you for your work and your report, mr. clerk, please read the consent agenda. >> clerk: four and five were approved at the november 14th board meeting are considered for final approval. remaining are routine. staff will present if desired. if a member objects they will be removed and considered separately. >> chair peskin: any public comments on the minutes for november 14th? seeing none it is closed. movement to move the consent agenda? roll call please. (roll call) >> chair peskin: those items are finally approved. colleagues if there is no objection as i previously mentioned, i would like to call item 13 out of order. seeing no objection, mr. clerk could you please call item 13. >> clerk:

albeit, earlier today at the transportation authority our executive director, ms.hang, was talking about how they're trying to get their hand around a comprehensive, how we deal with emerging technologies set of policies. and up until now as supervisor yee said, we have tried to regulate too little too late. that's the case with the so-called google busses and with what we now call transportation network companies. so let us not have the perfect be the enemy of the good. this can be modified over time but it's better to have some amount of resolution so we're not chasing this thing later when it's out of control but -- and i don't think the parties are very far part but i urge you colleagues to vote for this. i think it is a good common sense and compromise legislation the result of compromise. >> supervisor breed: thank you, supervisor peskin. supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: i have a couple questions for sponsor, through the chair, supervisor yee, what is the thinking behind keeping the tested limit to pdr space in the sense that this is something that even

the voice and concerns are heard as well as foster engagement and understanding art the transportation authority mission and programs. thank you for your consideration and time. >> chair peskin: any other perspective applicants? please come forward, sir. if there are any additional applicants you can line up to my left, your right. go ahead. >> i am bradley tans man. i am here for the citizens advisory committee. i moved to san francisco in 2007. before that i was in and mateo. i was vice president of the neighborhood watch program for seven years. i ran around san francisco to make sure the election polling places were ada compliant during the bush-gore elections. during san francisco where my transportation qualifications. in 2012 and 2013 i was one of 700 test drivers for the bmw electric cars now on the market. i also have worked with uber, on both sides of the house. first a driver then employed by uber through sfmta working on solutions for drivers. i worked with uber to help the technology platform accommodate drivers, picking up passengers, not getting in the way. that is a big issue in

the city's transportation authority has been reviewing a study on carpool lanes, but it is also considered paid high occupancy express lanes. that idea has gotten heat from the board of supervisors. it voted against extending the study to paid lanes earlier this month. the transportation authority can seek funding again in february. >>> what started with former 49er football player colin kaepernick has spread. one councilman has been inspired now to take a knee. >> please join me in standing for the pledge of allegiance. >> reporter: councilman green takes a knee at this october 10th meeting turning heads and produces a chuckle. eliminating net neutra fice of the >> oh, my god. >> reporter: then on to san anselmo town business. >> they just blythely went on, but they're kind of like that. >> reporter: green has knelt at every council meeting since then. some council members assumed he was backing colin kaepernick's black lives matter protest, although supporters of the former 40 -- although supportive of the former 49er, green says it's because of something else. >> i can't stand the destr

the "san francisco examiner" reports that the city's transportation authority has been reviewing a study on carpool lanes. it's also considering high occupancy express lanes. but not everyone loves the idea of charging drivers to skip traffic. the board of supervisors voted against extending the study to paid lanes this month. >>> police have arrested three women for stealing hundreds of dollars of products from a pharmacy in benicia. a rite aid employee says that she saw the trio leave the store without paying for $600 worth of sinus medication and baby formula. police say that they then headed to cvs. that's where officers caught the women trying to shoplift from the store. all three were arrested and booked into jail. >>> taking a look at how wall street is doing this afternoon, the dow right now is up about 38 points. >>> can ice cream ever be healthy? one brand attracting more lovers with the promise of low calories and less guilt, reporter jamie yuccas gives us a taste. >> let's try this. >> oh!! whoa! >> a little fast. >> reporter: for justin wolverton, this was even better than b

the "san francisco examiner" reports that the city's transportation authority is reviewing a study on car pal lanes and also considering paid high occupancy fee express lanes. but not everyone lovers the idea of charging drivers to skip traffic. the board of supervisors voted against extending the study to paid lanes this month of the transportation can seek funding again in february. >>> time now 6:34. let take a live look outside at the nimitz on the right, 880 traffic looking good at this hour. on the left the start of the sunrise courtesy of our vaca cam looking very nice. >> but chilly! really chilly. >> it is. well, it's cool but not quite as cool as it was yesterday so at least we have that. you can see in that live camera, those clouds right there around the horizon just over the horizon that's what's keeping things warmer than yesterday. san francisco right now 48 degrees. you're taking a live look at the san francisco skyline you can see the clouds in the background again san jose 41. santa rosa 34 degrees. a logical cooler in concord at 39 degrees. cool and foggy visibility

we saw the numbers presented to us earlier today at the transportation authority commission meeting. as i said, it's dismal numbers. as your chair of that body, i've been tasked with steering this towards some solution and i've heard loud and clear, i think we all have from the voters, they want to see equitable way to fund the growing transportation needs in the city. think this is -- i think this is the right tax at the right time for the right purpose, the right sector. it's clearly the growth in office space. we're seeing about a million square feet a year that thankfully is driving our low unemployment rate. we've been adding about 26,000 jobs per year since the dawn of the new century. and i also note that we helped stimulate -- i was not on the board at the time, but we helped stimulate some of the job growth and unemployment rate decline by offering significant tax breaks to certain parts of the corporate sector. the city population is booming. and just to give you a sense of comparison, the commercial rent tax in manhattan is 4% after exemptions and carve-outs. at a time whe

employees at the south jersey transportation authority are preparing the atlantic city expressway for the season's first snowstorms and they've been getting ready for days. >> we've been look the at the forecast since wednesday. we are brining the expressway and 42 today. we have crews coming in for salt standby crews tonight. >> reporter: the scene was similar in northfield, new jersey. atlantic county supervising engineer of highways and bridges says they have about 450 miles of roads to cover. 70 employees including drivers and mechanics will be on duty. >> we're going through our final check down of our trucks so as you can see in the back we're also preparing them to lug, we'll store them in warmer temperatures through the night so it's ready to go. >> reporter: downtown ocean city is looking festive and will probably look even more so with a coating of snow. city officials say public works crews are ready for it. >> they'll be starting in the wee hours this morning and continue through saturday. we have extra crews coming in so, you know, hopefully we'll be able to clear the str

is that one of the -- >> i am warren logan from the transportation authority. just like john said, we have a coordinated series of studies to address a lot of the issues that you are bringing up. some of them are literally being scoped right now, so we are welcoming the feedback in that arena. i will take a note of that. >> i would like to when that data is available, it would be great if you could come visit us again. >> we'll make sure we pass that back to the team that is working on that. >> thank you. >> commissioner stephenson. >> thank you for the report and bravo -- am i not on? hello. better? all right. bravo on the interdepartmental nature of this. i think especially in the department of the environment a lot of times our best work comes out of the collaborative efforts that are across departments. and i think that is really fantastic that this started in that way. often with the teeth of it and that you mention that parts of this are unfunded. is this a hopeful document that this is what we want to be able to do and that we hope we can go out and secu

. >> reporter: i just talked with a spokesperson for the transportation authority, he tells me they're still studying this. they're in the early phases. they don't even know yet what they would charge you to drive in that lane. the next step is to get funding from the board of supervisors to city this even further. they're going to seek that in january or february. so something to watch in the new year. reporting live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> absolutely, we appreciate the head start, thanks, amy. >>> right now it is illegal in california for an alcohol company to provide you a free ride home when you've been drinking at an event, that will change come january 1st. under the new law, alcohol manufacturers can partner with a ride share or cab company to make arrangements for your transportation. some groups are opposing the change, they say the bill allows for manufacturers to promote the overconsumption of alcohol. people who spoke with abc 7 news disagree. >> i think it's freedom of choice ultimately, i don't think it's going to cause necessarily people to drink

tomorrow the metro board is expected to back an application to the northern virginia transportation authorityo start looking at capacity issues in that area. now to an update on the new tolls along 66. vdot says they're working. they say commutes w n faster but more reliable. tolls began on the eliminated from the competition. >> could hey could he h chloe kohanski, you are in. fleming tackled john mayer's "gravity" during monday's performance fleming said he has known that he wanted to sing since the age of 3. you can tune in next week right here on nbc 4 for more of "the voice." such an incredible singer. such a unique voice. i can't imagine he's going to have a whole lot of trouble getting picked up and noticed. >> i hope so. competition is just tough. >> it's fierce. >> yes. >> once you get to the last five or ten people, everybody can sing. >> exactly. exactly. >>> all right, mr. weather man, you have a lot to tell us about today. >> sing a warmer song today. >> i was going to say, man. ♪ we're having a heat wave ♪ >> whew! >> i don't know what happened there. >> you don't know that song

the valley transportation authority is running normally but express light rail service is out all week because of the holiday. as for the golden gate transit, local routes on a regular, week to schedule while the golden gate areas are operating on a reduced service coming in to san francisco. >>> the weather has been the song remains the same if you like it chilly in the morning and a mild afternoon. >>> only subtle changes today as we get into tuesday. this morning we are picking up on some fog and moisture entering the bay area. we do have clouds against the coastline in many spots. we also have another spare the air day. this afternoon what you can expect moderate to slightly unhealthy air. if you suffer from respiratory ashes, respiratory issues you may notice this. that means it's not a good idea to burn what in the fireplace unless you are exempt. here is a look at the futurecast model where you can seacoast against the coastline. partly cloudy skies on the coast. temperature-wise, very similar to wear we have been. outside your door, the inner east bay, 38 in livermore. freezing

this poll was paid for by san francisco's municipal transportation authority. >>> facebook unveiled - new facial recognition mission program that allows you to control any photos of yourself posted on the website. you will get a notification if a photo is posted of you even if you have not been tagged. you can asked the poster to take it down or leave yourself untagged. facebook is also adding a service that lets blind people here who is in photos. >>> you now have less than a week to finish all your christmas shopping. store employees and shoppers we talked to last night in walnut creek say it is not as busy as they expected. employees at one big retailer says it has been fairly slow during the week. they are expecting this is to pick up this last weekend before christmas . the workers and shoppers say e-commerce has definitely cut into foot traffic at brick-and-mortar stores. a recent survey by mastercard says online sales are up more than 16 percent since november. >> i think we do half and half. honestly, online is convenient, definitely. i like to support local so we try to come

south jersey transportation authority crew where is busy spraying thousands of gallons of brine to prepare the atlantic city expressway foresees opposite first snow storm. preparations here of been going on for last 72 hours. >> once we start looking at staffing levels, material levels, talking about salt, br ine or gasoline for the truck. >> reporter: 8 tons of salt mixed with calcium should more than cover this snowstorm which won't put a freeze on christmastime events. >> well, we have holiday stroll. >> reporter: the sea isle mayor says his business and many others in town aren't too war i had that snow will impact. chamber holiday stroll event on saturday. angel hopes snow only add to the christmas atmosphere at her store. >> it is exciting. i know it doesn't make as many people go out as would but first off, it will be exciting for everybody to have our first snow. >> reporter: mayor says street , sidewalk clearing plans are in place so people can enjoy a winter wonder land at the shore. >> now that we are here maybe some snow, what better place to be then in sea isle city. >> report

welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority for today. it seems like it's been a long day already, tuesday december the 12th. i just want to start the meeting by offering our condolences to the family of edwin lee, the 43rd mayor of the city and county of san francisco and share all of our condolences with people of the city and county of san francisco. i want to thank all of my colleagues on the board, many of whom gathered in the wee hours of this morning at zuckerberg general hospital. with that, our clerk is alberto quintanilla and mr. clerk, if you could please call the roll, we're going to have a very brief meeting and then we are going to adjourn to go have a press conference with our acting mayor london breed on the mayor's balcony. >> clerk: item one, commissioner breed, breed absent. commissioner cohen, present. commissioner farrell, present. commissioner fewer, fewer absent. commissioner kim, kim present. commissioner peskin. present. commissioner ronen, present. commissioner safai present, commissioner sheehy, absent. commissi

employees in several new jersey counties inspected vehicles and loading up salt truck and the transportation authoritypressway of anticipation of several inches of wet snow. >> they will be salting and plowing for the duration of the storm and keep the expressways as clean as possible. >> reporter: now officials say if you are going to be out on the roads tomorrow they ask that you give workers plenty of room if you see a plow or a salt truck make sure and keep your distance reporting live in wild wood new jersey trish hartman channing six action news jim. >> let's switch live to action news reporter dann cuellar who is at the penn dot yard in norristown and can you believe we are starting another season of winter weather reporting what are penn dot's plans overnight? >>. >> reporter: well jim like a team getting ready for the first game of the season penn dot crues are locked and loaded and the trucks have salt and lined up and ready to go so crews can hit the ground running when they come in at 2:00 a.m. throughout the day penn dot crews were loading truck after truck after truck with salt, salt and

european court of justice's is the first definitive finding that the company must be regulated by transport authoritiesa challengeeen as to other gig economy companies, such as airbnb. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 counties. this is bloomberg. courtney, thank you. republicans have passed the biggest overhaul of the u.s.. tax code since reagan was in the white house. gop celebrated the bill with the speech at the white house. trump: we are going to bring at least $4 trillion back into this country. money that was frozen all over the world, and some of them do not even like us. they will have the money long. all that is left now is the president's signature. joining us is laura davidson. she's joining us from d.c.. laura, what are we expecting to be signed by the president? laura: the president says he wants it signed, but they are working out something. lawmakers are concerned about whether or not needs to be pushed into 2018. they are dealing with technical budget issues. there could be a bit of a delay, but it would not delay the bill or

agency, mta and we have partnership with our police department and the public works and the transportation authority and a number of other city agencies as well as rock san francisco and the bicycle coalition and senior and disability action, bob planholt is a frequent participant and many people in the room are there on a regular basis and i invite you all to attend if you're ever interested and we also have a mailing list that i'd be happy to add people to if interested. and the mayor's opposite of disability is an active member of the task force and their work on this, of course, even pre-dates the adoption of vision zero and prior we had a pedestrian safety task force which the mayor's office on disability was a key member. and san francisco department of public health, sorry, i'm just want -- my brain is not thinking -- apologies. and the san francisco department of public health launched last year this safe streets for seniors initiative and i wanted to share that today because we know that a number of seniors also have disabilities and the focus is on educating seniors and service providers a

. >> item 19, authorized general matter to execution with the municipal transportation agency to set forth the responsibility as part of the improvement project. >> good afternoon, commissioners. dan wade. this item establishing a memoranda of understanding with mta for execution. we have the power and sewer to replace water mains and sewer mains and establish a dual sewer main system on either side of the transit improvements that will happen and this is to avoid the situation where we would have to dig up the improvements in the future to do critical utility improvements. >> the other thing i want to quickly point out is that at the request of mta, normally we have a main going along the street. given that there is track work on top of the main, so we're bifurcating the sewer, so the track won't be on top of it. so this is something that we're starting to do because if we have a problem, we have to dig up the track and the whole thing. so we're trying to coordinate and try to adopt to new ways so we can minimize impact to the projects. >> specific live it includes streetlight, gree

to know the fast act was the largest transportation authorization in the decade, we have more work to be done before we close the gap between us. we look forward to hearing from our witnesses today and enjoy meeting them individually and reminding mr. parker that we and the state of oklahoma, our best-kept secret is that we. [inaudible] senator cardin. >> senator inhofe, thank you for reminding me how long we've been here. i appreciate that very much. but, we've been friends since we both came to the united states congress in 1987 and i do thank him for his dedication, his willingness to try to find ways to move things forward, particularly with infrastructur infrastructure, he has been one of our great leaders. it is a pleasure to work with you on this subcommittee that deals with infrastructure with members of this committee. to date, the topic is critically important. freight movement, assessing where we are now and where we need to go. this nation was built by the fact that we were able to build up an economy and our infrastructure was critically important for us being able to dev

the transportation authority is looking for $4 million to fund a study of the idea. the managed lanes project failed to get six votes from supervisors at a meeting in december but will likely be pitched again since the whole board was not present for the vote. one driver said as congested as the stretches of road get, he thinks the idea would be great. >> i would pay for it. especially working down here. a lot of the construction workers and they already commute in and out of the city a couple of hours, and sometimes it's an hour getting onto the freeway. >> reporter: funding is expected to come up in early 2018. no word on when the plan would be implemented if the supervisors did approve it. christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. >> two juveniles were arrested, accused of stealing vehicles from a limousine business. the business owner called police after noticing the vehicles stolen on christmas eve. police spotted one of the suvs and began a pursuit. the driver was cited and released to his parents. yesterday one of the stolen limousines was spotted and once the driver

that was the largest transportation authorization in a decade, we have more work to be done.i look forward to hearing from witnesses today and i enjoyed meeting them and reminding them that are best kept secret -- >> thank you for reminding me how long we've been here. we have been friends since we both came to the united states congress and 87. i do think of for his dedication. his willingness to find ways to move things forward. his been one of our great leaders. it's been a pleasure to work with you on the subcommittee that deals with infrastructure. today's topic is important, freight movement, assessing where we are now and where we need to go, this nation was built by the fact that we are able to build up an economy and the infrastructure was critically important to us being able to develop that economic strength we're so proud and gives opportunities to so many people. the u.s. freight system depends on the system of infrastructure. roads are critically important for the trucks. real is important for freight. yesterday i had a meeting with the new acting ceo as we talk