we have addressed west portal very well. from my reading of the data and my own anecdotal experience every morning, the embarcadero turnaround remains a choke point. i've given you my ideas how to address it. i know you're addressing those. in the next report or the one after, i would like to hear a more robust presentation about how we're going to solve that choke point, please. directors anything else? is there any public comment on item 14? >> mr. chair, yes. herbert reiner, bob finebom and dave fill dow. >> herbert weiner, it's the composition of this board that bothers me. there should be critics as well as supporters of m.t.a. on this board. you're going to have a biased report. secondly, at the meetings there are obviously going to be working groups, critics should be included in those working groups, and not lined up against the wall like the peanut gallery that i experienced previously. you really have to have a critical report. and also the bottom line is we need more buses. we need more drivers. we need less take-

which is a fairly new nutrition site in the west portal area. and then, we had a guest presentation by building together on their build the block program. and then, our meeting this month will be a presentation on the area plan for 2021 to 2025. six members of the council attended the workforce job fair on monday. it was excellent. the energy and the -- it was nice to see the public sector and the community-based organization and collaborative effort, and then, two supervisors were there, supervisor brown and supervisor fewer, as well as the mayor, and i think that gave it a lot of extra energy. >> okay. thank you, diane. diane, just a question on the pedestrian safety issue. i understand the logical focus on automobile accidents and streets and with the bike lanes, but the city keeps approving additional motorized vehicles. often, they are on you can sidewalks, and often, there seems to be very poor enforcement of bicycles on sidewalks. the sidewalks as you pointed out are treacherous enough without these motor vised vehicles, and when you add

impact on your morning commute because it's impacting muni metro rail service, no rail service and west portal our downtown so we have thousands of commuters pouring out to city streets waiting for a bus bridge. and they are working on setting up that bus bridge and settles for you also it's impacting a drive on city streets because we've been dealing with several dark intersections where the traffic lights are just not working. if you encounter that make sure you treated as a four-way stop once again, a major power outage in san francisco impacting mission bay dogpatch twin peaks and especially your commute on so we'll keep you updad. the other big problem is a motorcycle accident in the maze still working 5 of the east before you hit broadway 2 left lanes shut down so 5.80 is jammed in both directions between broadway and 80 so keep that in mind i have a new one this is a t-cell so before mission boulevard this is in fremont. >>new injury crash just coming in 3 lanes shut down so you're ck up through fremont union city hayward it's going to be at least 75 minutes outs that's not good 75 minu

we force a surface lane to west portal and then they transfer to a bus. when we interviewed the early morning customers, many whom are going to jobs and making connections that without reliable transit they wouldn't be able to get where they needed to go, about a quarter said they were transferring two times just to access our early-morning service. additionally, we're putting extra rail miles on the system when we don't need it. the bus loads -- the customer loads are more appropriate for a bus at that hour. so what we'll be doing, we'll be pulling out the trains a little bit later to match when the subway open and deriving direct connections on our bus system. this is something we will do extensive customer information campaigns so those early morning customers know what to expect. they'll be told, you don't have to get off this and this will take you down to make your destination. this reduces the number of vehiclevehicles on tonsend. we've been hearing feedback, the 9r, which is something that has had positive feedback, for example, in visitation vall

and west portal playground is one of the 13. saturday's event will include food, games, brief remarks, and an opportunity to spend time with our neighbors, which we should all be doing more of. as a special side note, kaiser permanente -- it was announced that he has made a $1.6 million contribution to the let's play s.f. campaign. so thank you for the bottom of our hearts, kaiser, and we join you in your mission to let people live long and thrive. next we are the u.s. national lawn bowling championships which we are hosting right here in golden gate park. the top men and women lawn bowlers will compete in the 2019 championships, hosted by our very own san francisco lawn bowling club. competitions will take place from september 24 to 27 and are free and open to the public for viewing at the club located just west of robin williams meadow. you can visit sfrecpark.org. we are also having a community celebration at christopher playground on saturday, as that playground gets ready to receive a much-needed facelift with new playgroun

above ground muni was not impacted but the subway between west portal was shut down because the computers lost power. those trains are now back up and running. here is a live look at the pg&e outage map. 330 customers still without power. it is in the small sliver in the mission bay neighborhood north of where i'm at. it is not estimated when they expect to get the lights back on and given the fact this is going on for three hours and getting -- rapidly getting customers restored. but out here pg&e is still here trying to fix the problem. the utility tells us that annville builders did call 811 to locate underground power lines but it is not clear why the line was still hit. i did leave a message at the builder's office here in san francisco and asked them to please give us a call and get response. reporting live here in san francisco, bob redell, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. >>> also breaking news right now, the state of california justawsuitn federal court challenging president trump's power to end california's ability to set its own regulation when it come to car pail pipe emission

. >> my name is neil the general manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if san franciscoeighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both national chains and neighborhoods by the neighborhood stores where coming you don't want to - one of the great things of san francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their own- that's >> my s.f. dove -- government t.v. moment was when i received a commendation award from supervisor chris daly. then we sang a duet in the board chamber. [singing] >> happy anniversary san francisco government t.v. happy anniversary to you. happy anniversary san fra

you will see concerts in west portal, the bayview. every district, if you will, will have a concert taking place. if i could give you a couple of my favorites relative to the community and troops at-large, we have an honor our fallen concert at the sf jazz center on wednesday evening of fleet week. that is october 9th. it is a free concert. we invite the community to come out. every year the united states mari--marine corps band comes o. we would like to show support for that tribute concert. we are going to bring a 40 piece marine corps band to city hall on thursday, the 11th, for a half hour lunch concert. when you feel the walls shaking here, you know what is happening. it is not the airshow, just the band. we are doing things like that. also this year on pier 30-32 where the flagship is tied up, on friday, october 11th, we are going to do a welcome hero's concert at the pier. i can't tell you elaine your staff is fabulous to get this organized. there will be a food truck jamboree, a lot of interactive displays and concerts. the fr

the glare is most acute at west portal, which is why 15 years ago, we actually put up a convex mirror to provide additional availability -- visibility for our operators, which is part of how they are currently trained. [please stand by] >> we have, as part of the costing package that we originally brought to you, we have some place holder costs for what we anticipate things to be, so something like the flat wheels, which is an issue that both operators and mechanics have been raising for a long time are already built into that overall package that we brought, and at this time, we do not anticipate that package changing significantly, but there's still a lot of work to do as we get to those final estimates. so that's essentially where we are today. i know you had a long meeting, so i won't -- i won't go into too much more detail. i am committed to continuing these conversations. i know there's not an august meeting, but we will be back in september and i'm very hopeful that we'll start to see some strong traction on those 90-day goals and really start to seeing these vehicles get to wh

a proposal calls for connecting the k and m lines into a tunnel beneath west portal avenue. that tunnel would run about two miles. you can see it here on the map towards san francisco state university and park merced. backers say it would allow for a redesign of 17th avenue. >>> all right, mike, let's get a check of the weather. how are you doing? >> it's nice to be in air conditioning this morning. let's look at what's going on temperature wise. we have temperatures from 58 and castro valley, 56 to 63 in alameda right now. go across the bay and low to upper 60s from mountain view at 61 to san carlos, 67. right now 60 in napa and santa rosa. we have micro climates already this morning. there's no fog at the golden gate bridge. out and about, we have two hot temperatures for walking the dog at times and we're going to have some poor air quality on this spare the air day. mid-80s by 11:00. touching 100, many neighborhoods around 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 and 5:00. not bad at 9:00. we're near 90 and mid-90s at 3:00, 4:00 and 5:00. down in the south bay almost the same thing but our mid-

right now three metro lines exit the twin peaks tunnel at west portal. it calls for connecting the k&m lines. that tunnel, which we're going to show you on the map here, would run about two miles to san francisco state university and park merced. backers say it would reduce commute times and allow for a redesign of 19th avenue. >>> new this morning, apparently hangovers are an illness. this is according to a german ruling in a case of making illegal health claims of hangover cures. food products cannot be marketed as being able to treat or prevent illnesses. earlier this year a survey found american workers take an average of two sicke hangovers. >> some people do the ivs now, they bring them into the office. there's all sorts of things out there. >> could be symptoms of an illness. >> i suppose. >> sure feels like it. especially on the monday after the super bowl. >> right? >> just stay home. >> so we can call in sick now and not have to worry about getting in trouble? >> no, you can't. >> go to germany. >> never will. thankfully i don't drink to that p

we love pilot projects like west portal and think they should become outreach. so we would love to see as soon as the curbs are done, put some transit only lanes in as a six-month pilot and evaluate in realtime. riders are not waiting for years for the bus to improve and the streets to be safer. an >> good afternoon, jodie madiras, walk san francisco. we have seen two fatalities and 48 severe pedestrian injuries the last five years since vision 0 started. in 2018, asked you to start it again after years of stalling. we are asking to approve the desperately needed changes along the corridor and pleased an see the changes. in favor of the muni improvements and the pedestrian bulbouts, standard along the project, and the intersection of mission and geneva, where we have seen the greatest number of crashes happen and at least dedicated left turn signal. since the spring, outreach and gotten six new signal light crossings, three new crosswalks and thank the m.t.a. staff for getting there. however, advocating for better treatments near locations where children and sen

construction of these projects will last up to three years and extend from the great highway to west portal, that we do everything we can to mitigate the impacts of the construction phase particularly on our neighborhood businesses and in our residents. that is why this presentation, and the business impact fund that we had created is critically important. thank you to the m.t.a. and oewd staff for your work on this. >> thank you, commissioner mar. >> thank you. chair peskin, commissioners, i am with m.t.a. i would like to echo all of these things. we did a lot of work with you and your staff in developing this proposal today, and i appreciate the time that you all put into this. just quickly, in november 2017, with a significant amount of public construction and private construction going on here in san francisco, the city and the construction departments created a construction mitigation program, essentially outreach and work with local businesses as construction as it is occurring on the streets of san francisco. in this program, we recognize that construction does have impact on busines

similarly here back out at safari west, they brought in a portal generator so they can stay in businessexpected wind event to end at noon and what they'd do is have the crews go out to inspect all the equipment. right now the air is calm in this area where we're at right now, there is no wind but that doesn't mean it might not pick up later this morning. reporting live here in sonoma, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> bob, thank you. >>> amid the high fire danger, a massive fire broke out yesterday in fresno county. the so-called hay fire burned near the city of kerman yesterday afternoon, it destroyed 1100 tonds of high and farm equipment. the cse sunday investigation. >>> people in the south bay this morning will have one less fire concern because firefighters have now fully contained a brush fire that started over the weekend in the hills above milpit milpitas. it started saturday near calaveras road and burned about 130 acres. all streets including calaveras road are open again. first step towards opening an >>> democrats are now taking the first step towards opening an impeachment

two accidents one reported el portal and one just west of there. so slow ride as you head through.luggish getting on the richmond san rafael bridge. making the trek to the bay bridge, expect delays there also. i will show you that in a second. right now, south of there to the nimitz freeway, still pretty busy southbound 808 at hayward. brakes light south thereof. a little slow pockets through union city and fremont as well. also busy ride getting on the san mateo bridge. north of there, the niments freeway 808 looking better. moving in okay speeds past thecoliseum that. early morning roadwork is clear. to the bridges this mor easy ride here just as you get onto 101 but slow coming away from 808. >>> here's a live look with the ocean beach cliff house camera with clear skies. when you have clear skies, along the coast in the morning you know we will warm up. we have a spare the air alert in effect. michelle was talking about. this the air quality unhealthy for sen sensitive groups for the east bay and with high pressure in control, and that minimum ocean influence. temps climbing to

portal. it's a motorcycle down. second lane from the left. you're backed up to highway 4. the commute from highway 4 westoll plaza, 40 minutes. southbound 101 overturned big rig with a detour in place. >>> police need your help finding these two people. they're accused of targeting an elderly woman and snatching her wallet. >> it happened at a safeway on tice valley boulevard. that's where amy hollyfield is live this morning. >> good morning. walnut creek police hope when you see this video you can help find who did this. you can see in this safeway, a woman, a suspect trying to get close to an elderly woman, she's wearing the pink sweater. she's interrupted by other shoppers, then she makes her move, grabbing the woman's wallet. seconds later both suspects are seen leaving the store. police say the victim didn't realize her wallet was gone until she tried to pay for her groceries. shoppers were shocked to see someone would do this. they were especially upset to see who they targeted. >> i don't know the kind of person who would do that. who would steal from an old lady? i hope we can catch them. >> it's