yekutiel. i will echo that as having been in attendance on sunday and there were operators diverted to help ensure that the crowds and masses were able to get back to transit points around the city. directors, any other questions or comments to offer at this time? director eakin? >> directors, colleagues, i just wanted to let you all know since our last meeting, i believe, director heminger attended the rapid cutting for the geary rapid promise, which is a wonderful celebration held in japan town peace plaza and a strong turnout from the community. just to say a few words about that. the staff highlighted that there's been a 20% time savings on the 38-r with just a quick [inaudible] aspect to the project alone. with the full evaluation coming, we could see even more impressive numbers from that. we also celebrated the pedestrian safety act of the project. and in particular highlighted a blind resident who is now, for the first time, since he moved to the area, able to cross geary street safely

director yekutiel. >> director yekutiel: thank you very much for the presentation. lots of note taking on my end how we can be do better job to follow your lead and example. i thought one of the slides mentions the issue with students forgetting their student i.d.s and not being able to qualify for free muni for students. i wonder what our internal procedure is for that particular case? do we give people a pass? can they only get free muni when they show their i.d.s? >> i'm hoping that transit director is here. i was wanting to ask more detailed questions about that. my understanding that is not our procedure. >> director yekutiel: i thought we just let people in? >> director tumlin: i think julie may have had to step away. >> i'm on. i want to echo the thanks for this feedback. it resonated with me. since i have an opportunity to interview everybody for the youth board. i've been excited to see what you guys are going to do. it's been incredible. we do as director yekutiel indicate, we do instruct operators not to get in conflict over fares. they are there to colle