Speed is 8 and a half miles an hour. On average, and that is what the muni vehicle is helped fast or slow and they travel around the city that has dramatic consequences in terms of people being able to rely on muni to get where they are going, quickly as opposed to crawling at a snails pace. And it has dramatic implications in terms of the cost of operating the system, and if you have slower moving buses, you need to put more buses on to a line, and in order to keep service up and so you are spending more on vehicles, and you have to have more drivers, on the staff. And if you can speed up the system, even by just a few Miles Per Hour on average that will have dramatic impacts on reducing munis cost in addition to getting people to where they are going faster and so all of these choices, they are painful, whatever you are talking about changes in bus stops, and if you are talking about transit only lanes, and if you are talking about the red lanes like we have on Church Street now and
Item 12. Allocate 13. 1 million in prop k funds, with conditions, to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency for preliminary engineering and Detailed Design for the transit effectiveness project, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule and amend the bus Rapid Transit muni Metro Network 5year prioritization progra. This is an action item. Commissioner breed . Thank you. I just wanted to make a few comments about the out reach, i know that we all received the draft, out reach plan which definitely is a great plan, and i am looking forward to the final plan for distribution. And for this particular, for the tep, in particular, we are spending a significant amount of money, on out reach. And i want to make sure that yes, we have our bases covered in the draft plan, but one of the challenges that we face, in terms of out reach, with the five fulton when we implemented the five l, was the sufficient out reach to the senior developments in the area within
Better, for people who are vulnerable, whether it is a person with a baby in a stroller, and a toddler, and having to cross an extra couple of intersections whether it is a senior or a person with a disability. We are not hearing any answers, there is an avoidance. The fact that this is meant for engineering design, was used last week and saying that figuratively some of these concerns dont matter, but the packet that you have before you shows the specific stops being eliminated and so the money is going to go towards eliminating stops and that is something that nobody has adequately addressed. And you are going along, a path that may in the future be dangerous and i am going to say it again, it could open up the city, for liability, because you are just not addressing these safety questions. Thank you, for your comments, next speaker please . Yes, my name is jackie sacks and i want to echo what he just said about regarding eliminating the stops and everything, but one thing that you a
These safety questions. Thank you, for your comments, next speaker please . Yes, my name is jackie sacks and i want to echo what he just said about regarding eliminating the stops and everything, but one thing that you are not taking into consideration, you are not taking into consideration, the people that work. That when they did the tep, they decided that they should stop buses at midnight, and this sort of thing and they should eliminate, and they should, reroute the buses, and without taking into consideration, the senior and disabled community, the people that worked out, and the work in the hotel and restaurant for one or two a. M. , and before the tep, there were many, many workshops and that sort of thing, talking about this. And i spoke on it at every single one of them. We are not taking into consideration if it aint broke dont fix it. But they did not, they totally ignored that and they totally ignored the senior disabled community and the people that work swing and graveya
Characterize it to yourselves. But in fact, you and the mta have not answered the questions asked for years, how is this better, for people who are vulnerable, whether it is a person with a baby in a stroller, and a toddler, and having to cross an extra couple of intersections whether it is a senior or a person with a disability. We are not hearing any answers, there is an avoidance. The fact that this is meant for engineering design, was used last week and saying that figuratively some of these concerns dont matter, but the packet that you have before you shows the specific stops being eliminated and so the money is going to go towards eliminating stops and that is something that nobody has adequately addressed. And you are going along, a path that may in the future be dangerous and i am going to say it again, it could open up the city, for liability, because you are just not addressing these safety questions. Thank you, for your comments, next speaker please . Yes, my name is jackie