we'll maintain the condition of our streets and we'll make municipal transportation systems in this city work the way they want to work. don't get close to our municipal syst system that some folks may say. we cannot let politics be our guide. paris london and england has great transportation systems but look at san francisco. achieving a world class transportation system is a journey forward not a december nation but let's approach our transportation challenges the san francisco way once again through consensus and common and let's us take up the hard work and take the first part of the journey now. an equal exchange is the availability of housing yes. in spite of all we're doing for every of every income especially low income families. i know smob about this topic i'll fought to get this under control from my long hair days. we cannot defy the cost of living in our town. we haven't built enough new housing. last year, we began to make some progress in november the 0 voters passed the housing trust fund for the next thirty years for affordable housing for first time home buyers and than

that folks were educated because of the great leadership at our mta, our county transportation, all of our transit systems and were at the highest level of educating the visitors and others to use public transportation. it will work for all of us and as we build the housing units we identified in hunter's point and treasure island and welcome more people to our great city and we are growing as a result. we are going to have the greatest subway system that can connect to our bart, to our caltrans, to up and down our muni lines. this central subway will be a great success. it will connect to some of the most densely populated and rapidly developing areas, and it will improve access to all of our vibrant communities, and really is investments like this that will foster loyalty among all of our public transit customers while we reduce carbon emissions, make our city cleaner and cleaner. i'm not the only one that thinks this way. you know i'm among many, many friends today in the audience, on stage and i would like to invite at this time someone who has made it a practice to visit our city regularly, to make s

in addition to investments in our transportation system, we need to ensure access to cost- effective and reliable sources of power, preserve our clean water advantage, improve availability of high-speed internet connections and support our quality health care in wisconsin. tonight, i invite all of you here, and all of you watching at home, to join us as we continue to move our great state forward. next month, i will lay out a clear plan for how to achieve these priorities when i present our biennial budget to the state legislature. unlike the deficit we faced two years ago, we start out in a much better position today because of the tough, but important, decisions we made over the past two years. dain many ways, our position in wisconsin is a stark contrast to the chaos in washington, dc. while many of our nation's leaders fail to make tough decisions, we decided to avoid failure by embracing true reform. still, there is much work to be done. as i travel the state, it is clear to me why our focus on helping create 250,000 jobs by 2015 is about much more than just fulfilling a campaig

what are we doing to make sure that our transportation system keeps pace? we're adding new housing, but our transportation system, public transit in san francisco is not -- does not have the capacity to deal with our current usage, let alone adding new housing. so it is so critical that as we add new population and grow, that our transportation system is keeping pace. and that means investing in the system that we have today, and expanding its capacity and all of that takes quite a bit of funding. now transit impact development fees, are a very important part of that equations, as we're adding housing and office space and development, we're generating funding to pay for those transportation improvements to keep pace. one of the provisions in the western soma plan, which actual will you i believe may not exactly, but tracks the similar provision in the eastern neighborhoods plan. actually proves that you pay a lower fee or a lower percentage for your transit impact fees if you build a larger housing complex. i don't understand any conceivable policy basis fo

starting to come online now, a lot of people are really nervous about what that means for the transportation system and the strain on muni. it's just a very nervous time for the future of transportation in the city. and so i am not suggesting that -- i am just suggesting that we go back to our baseline. it's actually above that baseline for affordable housing fees, because at it's tier a. at transit it should be at that baseline, which is still inadequate, but this would be as currently proposed. >> i am seeing these amendments for the first time now and i don't have time to talk to community folks, so i will not be supporting these amendments today. >> i am also seeing these amendments and hearing this discussion for the first time. first and foremost as we said before, i would absolutely want an analysis of what the current legislation has vis-a-vis what supervisor wiener is amending. at the moment of hearing the discussion, i am inclined to support this, but i would like to really understand the numbers. and if we could see potentially even a pro forma of what one of these projects would look li

this is san francisco, and we have values that we bring to our transportation system. we want people to get around in a way that steps lightly on the environment. we want people to get around in ways that are enjoyable. and that really contribute to what makes san francisco special, such as our wonderful cable cars. but above all, we want to make sure that people can get around the city safely. it's no good to have a great transportation system if people can't get around safely. people need to not only be able to be safe, but to be able to feel safe, and nowhere is that more important than when you're on foot because that is when you're arguably the most vulnerable. it's also how every trip starts and ends. and many trips in san francisco, and we want more of them in between, to be on foot as well because it's a nicer way to enjoy the city. but if we want people to be out and walking, we need them to be safe. we want them to feel safe, and that's what we're here to talk about today. and none of that will happen without great leadership. so, without further ado, happy t

the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change san francisco's transportation systemy city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later. on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finall

car sharing a critical part of the transportation system. there are a number of locations for car sharing in san francisco that are disappearing. as we develop service parking lots and gas stations which are some of the most frequent locations forsharing pods, those car sharing spots are gone.be trulyfirst city. we want to make it is easy as possible for people not to have an automobile that they choose not to have one those with private automobiles % biking, there are times that they will rely on cars and so we need car sharing.cars are removed from the road.always allow for this and can create obstacles to having car sharing spots in residential development. if the developer wants to include car sharing, publicly accessible spots in their projects,spots when counted towards the maximum number, not a good incentive for car sharing. as an example in my district, market, 24 units with 12 parking spots. include car sharing spots in the developer wanted to include car sharing spots, the developer was unable to do so because they could not affor

a world-class taxi system is a complement to any public transportation system. >> how do you think the police department is doing? do you have any thoughts on how the city is dealing with crime? >> i was a big supporter of chief gaston. i think he will do a great job in the district attorney's office. part of me was sad to see him go from the police department. he had come in and started modernizing the department. it's technology -- a lot of different changes that needed to happen but were not happening until he came in and start of the department on the right path. it is critical that whoever the next chief of police is continue that modernization of the department. it will have benefits citywide. in my district, we have public safety challenges. the district is often viewed as a "safe district." we do have violence. we had a bunch of violence around delores park last year. there have been robberies in glen park and parts of the valley. there have been shootings in diamond heights. one of the challenges is making sure that the police department understands that even though we may not

system. but when the talk about the bay area, including silicon valley, it is the same thing. transportation symptom -- systems, central subway, high- speed rail. clearly, bart to san jose has been incredibly important to everyone, so that people could travel. i think there is a lot more maturity. there are many successful company that have already turned a corner on making a profit. start-ups have long-term views. they are not looking for instant gratification, as i believe the attitude was in the late 1990's, 2000's. people are talking a lot about issues on stability and asking government, like ours, to be with them in the long term, and to create relationships. certainly, for capital investors, it really is that relationship building. they want that face-to-face time with investors around our city. so we are creating conditions for that to happen. they are not short-term leases, these are long-term leases. twitter signed in for a good 10 years. others have signed long-term leases as well. they are in it for the long haul. i think they are measuring their success, building it up on that. n

them and many visit me - we are lacking a strategy, short-term and long-term to improve our transportation system. we can pat ourselves and say we did this and that, when we experience gridlock, buses not on time, we have to work together to fix that. thank you very much. >> any member of the public would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. the one thing that i would add, something that i am proud of and i hope that we can continue to do as an agency, focus on how the projects that we are funding are impacting each individual district so we have a better understanding of what is happening on the ground. and that we ensure that the priorities that you as supervisors have and the communities that you represent, of those priorities are reflected in the positions made here. i want to thank staff are working closely to make sure that happens; the goal is to have an equitable distribution of resources in terms of the manage that we manage. we have tried to do that and i look forward to continuing in that effort. madam clerk, if you could please call item 4. >> executive directors repo

all of those who live and work here rely on our transportation system to get us to our job, to school to make sure we have access to all of the services that we need and this body is going to be critical to make that happen. i am excited about carrying out the tradition of outgoing chair campos about looking at the neighborhoods, to make sure we have a neighborhood focus, to our deliberations, and i want to make sure we continue with the presentations on the neighborhoods by district here in this committee but also working with each of you individually to hear your concerns and how we can make sure that this body can be responsible. i've spoken with commissioner chu a number of times about how the outer neighborhoods often don't get their fair share. these are issues that are examples of things happening in my district as well; district like district 10, parts of san francisco far from the downtown corridor. we are seeing a lot of development resources going to places where development is happening in greater numbers that we can actually use this body to fill in the blanks, neighborho

employees that is being sought for these companies is a good part of the answer and housing and transportation systems and infrastructures that support these systems we have to be business firsthandly and recognize that if they are here, we have to think through with them as we did with our change in our payroll tax eliminating that to a gross receipts tax but doing it in a way that every industry of our city, is entitiled diswietd to come in and tell us how do they make mundo they make sure in this transition we do it by not hurting any of the industries healthcare, commercial real estate and financial and we solve a lot of problems through that collaboration and so i think by having good pollcies and tight communications with our business community and supporting them when they do create jobs with good idea for them and exciting the employ jesus having reasons for wanting to be in the bay area and best foods and investment in the arts is really helpful because the creative mind want that support from the art commune and we are doing that literally on such a market to attract employees. >> oakland ha

other problem is the transportation system here in the city of boston is shut down for now. transportation workers would like to see that back up and running by monday. >> our goal, if we can, is to have some service tomorrow, but we're really focused on monday morning's rush hour. >> reporter: people want to get back to work. if you take a look at video from the south shore, that is where they are suffering coastal flooding. a whole set of problems, water coming over the seawall. if it stays and freezes that can create problems for the roadways and for the folks that live in the low lying coastal areas. a lot of trouble and that is whole other issue, an issue that needs to be solved so those folks can get back to their homes. there have been people pushed out of their homes, a little over 200 are in shelters around the state and that number should drop as power begins to come back on in the state of massachusetts. there is one storm related death in the city of boston, a young boy was out helping his father to shovel out family sedan and the exhaust pipe that was covering wi

boston says the public transportation system will be operational. >>> a severe weather outbreak in theister damaged hundreds of noems hattiesburg, mississippi. >>> looking to today's weather, thunderstorms from louisen to atlanta. >>> and finally from us this monday morning, for the 137th time, the westminster kennel club dog show starts today. it's the super bowl and oscars for the dog love everies. >> we'll learn who is best in show tomorrow night. before then, plenty of pampering going on. as tanya rivera reports. >> reporter: get ready, everyone. new york is about to go to the dogs. 2700 tail-waggers will begin competing for best in show. >> welcome to the westminster dog show. >> it's like the oscars of dog shows. it's an honor to be here, whe whether you win or lose. >> reporter: the prep and pampering would make any girl jealous. >> my job is to greet the two-legged and four-legged guests for the show. and deal with the paparazzi. >> reporter: first the dogs work out. doing pilates. then a bath. before the blowout. and manicure. >> i have to bathe out his long ferting and blow-d

an opportunity to test the facilities it also gives organizers a chance just to see how the transport system is working how the ticketing system is working and it also gives the army of olympic volunteers a chance to hone their skills and then in a couple of weeks time it will all start again again up in the mountains for a world cup stage at the sliding center in bob slayton scale is simple some of the athletes for that event have already started to turn up to train and the ones we spoke to say they've been pretty impressed with what they found. i like the ice is getting better by the day and it will get even faster i think the track was designed in exactly the right way. while on thursday all eyes will be back down here at the olympic park because the one year to go countdown will be gain and that will be marked with a spectacular skating show in the bolshoi i stand behind me around three hundred people will take part in that the i.o.c. president jacques rogge will be in attendance and it will all be capped off with a magnificent firework display to light up the saatchi sky exactly a year