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Gentlemen, the board will come back to order now, please. Here we go. Okay. The next item, item 12 presentation and discussion regarding the work of the mayors 2030 Transportation Task force to develop a coordinated set of Transportation Priorities and identify new Revenue Sources. Thank you. Director. As ive been informed the board since the beginning of this calendar year, the mayor state of the speech identified transportation infrastructure and dealing with the funding needed to resource it ...

Infrastructure impact fee. So, hopefully we can work on those items going forward. Commissioner antonini. Just a couple other thoughts. I dont think Office Demand is a sum zero game. If this area is true it was commented on by one of the public speakers, using the figured and saying only a certain amount of demand is going to exist, this area might be more attractive. It isv true, but it is not only competing with uses like the Transit District or other districts that were contemplating. Its com...

Objection. Item 8. The Strategic Plan recommendation and an information item. Good morning, i will do a very brief introduction. In part i want to acknowledge the great staff work in this great effort and collaboration of great sponsors we have had. As you may recall this prop vehicle Registration Fee is probably the only new in a decade made possible by senate bill 83. In november 2010 San Francisco voters approved a 10 increase in the San Francisco vehicle Registration Fee and in expenditure p...

Here in part is to get the transportation, into that fold as well. So, specifically, what the task force is recommending is actually, three ballot measures, two funding sources, that would together generate 1. 5 billion dollars, over the next 15 years, for better roads and improved transit and safer streets and i will walk through, what some of those are and so the way that the state law that was approved, that authorizes the San Francisco board of supervisors, to bring to the voters considerati...

To have close to 10,000 Parking Spaces and so we are trying to move in that direction and so we are funding 5,000 proposed in in five year, cip and one point of feedback that we got from the Advisory Committee in many different advocacy groups is that we need to focus on the spot improvements and that was really brought up as something that we need to do where the network is there, and we have done a good job at implementing the 2009 bicycle plan and there are portions of that network that need ...

Congestion. The vehicle fleet rehabilitation, again, as im sure you know from personal experience the break downs that occur within the vehicle fleet because of the vehicles are not being overhauled and replaced in a timely way and then converting the bus to 60 passengers and improving the maintenance sufficienty my rebuilding our maintenance facilities. Rapid Network Enhancement includes better Market Street, the implementation of the transit effectiveness project and the gary Network Improveme...

Thats ready, okay. What brought me here today because of transportation issues and i joined the organization power because i was at the bus stop when i was frustrated and a lady came up to me and said are you interested in Community Concerns for transportation and thats how i ended up joining power. What im here today to say is that ive been riding Public Transportation for about 40 years and i rode bart and still ride bart and i can go all over the bay area to get to hunters bay point. I know t...

Body, on this committee, on the mayors Transportation Task force. Also i think we can do a better job of publicizing this. I can get my constituents and contribute in the discussion thats happening for these for these major projects. Love for you to bring back to your committee the tline as an additional a project added to the future funds. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner campos. Thank you mr. Chairman and ill be brief. Thank you for your work. The fact that we have a Transportation Task forc...

Move forward with the project and not have the dollars in place, it is a tool and so we do fund the projects by phase so that the people can get a sense of when the things will start and end and it is implements a lot of the plans that you hear us talk about and the pedestrian strategies and the bike strategy and the fleet plan and other plans and strategies that we have at the mta and we also do not want the funding and acceptability to be a barrier to the projects happening and reason that we ...

Scale and but we also have the shorter term that the mta is responsible for and something as small as a 15,000 bike rack project and so we have the extreme scales from the very small to the very large and the prior to 2012, we have done was a ten year Capitol Investment plan and that included everything that we planned on doing, meaning intentioned on doing and what the needs were and plus the funding that we thought would be available and what constantly showed people is that we had massive gap...