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Director of transportation and i am happy to be here and i do have a brief presentation. But i can walk through and i do want to be mindful, and not being too repetitive of what i covered last time and the general theme and framework is really the same, what is before you with these two items are really just the two pieces of legislation that are introduced by all eleven members of the board of supervisors with support of the mayor that would allow the board to consider putting a 500 million gen...

Ive evolved in my understanding about transit work, i also started to figure out this is one of the most expensive systems to run and the way to move our transit, to move folks around the city. When i learned about this particular project, i couldnt be more excited. The member that stood out for me more than anything else was the 30 percent reduction of operations cost and the way that we would run service along this line. As you all know very well, this particular project has tremendous potenti...

We want in project to adhere to the goals standard brt as someone mentioned. We want this to be excellent, we want it to happen. Thank you. Im done before the dong. Do i get [inaudible]. Thank you very much. Just want to note that you did go with us on a trip to mexico city to see the bus Rapid Transit system there and it was great to have you with us. Thank you, next speaker please. My names eric from rescue muni and we strongly support this brt, which we and all the people have been pushing fo...

Document also includes a mitigation monitoring program. Finally, in the document are staff initiated changes. So just a little bit about notification for the final environmental document. We did mail cds to all commenters on the document who provided physical addresses. Public agencies received responses and cd and hard copies. The document is available on the website on july 5 and we have multiple [inaudible] and a mailing to 17,000 plus addresses so everyone who lives on van ness avenue over t...

Supervisor chiu for his concerns on this issue regarding the elimination of the bus stops closest to the building. wo ut the south and northbound stops at northbound and vallejo, seniors will be able to walk a 10 percent grade hill or walk three blocks downhill to the nearest stop on union. This is a large burden thank you. hr rb and the disabled who live in the community. Thank you. Next speaker please. Few more cards, robert vincent, jamal, alex. Jeff my name is barbara vin srepbts. Vincent. I...

Situation where everybodys trying to get off at one time and theres not enough room for people to stand and wait for the signal to change. Okay, great. I know that commissioner mar had [inaudible] so commissioner mar. Thank you chair avalos. I wanted to thank Michael Schwartz and the mta staff. Im very anxious to make sure our Rapid Network and the brt systems are moving forward as quickly as possible. Chair avalos mentioned our visit to mexico city brts and they were surprised how long our appr...

That is directly at the tracks in order to do the berm but that additional piece up on the northeast portion was added. The reason that was added is actually twofold, one, to facilitate potential staging of both projects concurrently. The berm or bridge replacement project and the connector road project. Vacation of that area allows potentially more staging for both of those projects to happen together and minimize that gap in construction time closure. It also does facilitate the pocs master pl...

With making muni work for San Francisco and right now in many ways, muni is not working for San Francisco and its not reliable enough, it is not fast enough, it is not predictable enough in terms of when its going to arrive and how quickly and officially its going to travel. One of the reasons on why it is not predictable and reliable is because of the intense mixture of buses and traffic. It is almost impossible to predict with any significant degree of accuracy whether a bus will stick to its ...