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June 20, 2024
Advantage of value, is and it is using that exit is most likely we can close off in time and exit for construction to speed up and the budget is typically we look at and caused various on the side of conditions, we look at it in the two Million Dollars per head of the house and so that is all of the other pilots, if you have any questions, and i am more than happy to answer. Thank you i just wanted to ask, earlier it was brought up that we locally have the main nens and the responsibility for se...
June 20, 2024
Them for the attention and the seriousness that they took towards this. Last may when the Bicycle Coalition and other advocates organized a bike to workday that i believe all the supervisors and the mayor participated in and i spent the night in intense frustration and there is the happy side and the side that San Francisco needs to be a bike friendly city but when you look at the funding its neglected and when you look at it its half of what is needed and after the deaths of emily and others i ...
June 20, 2024
We would like to expand the ready ref, we talked about to a Smart Phone App that would enhance the police because theyre moving to smart phones for their citations. Able to help them in defining the key the key sections of the code apply to bicycles and not get distracted as some Police Departments do. Bike codes were not intended for bicycles. So, we focus in those ways. Weve asked for them to provide information on fatalities. The state law prohibits information on fatalities in the sense that...
June 20, 2024
Made whole even though the car tax was cut. Okay. Thank you. Other members of the board. Councilmemeber ramos. I appreciate the update and i wish we could have had more of that and i wish i cad i wish i was apart of that task force. People are looking at this from an equity prospect and they want to know to get any kind of support that could demonstrate thats was an equity lens put over this so we can work toward like what you said earlier, restoring service or expanding service and what has bee...
June 20, 2024
So, of course, that comes at a pretty significant cost. Just the service increase would more than consume those buses i showed in the baseline budget. So, then quickly moving on to the Capital Budget, the Capital Budget as well were making kind of onetime invests in assets to bring them into a state of good repair. Thats the core priority of our budget, to make sure that our kind of Mission Critical assets, which are the bus he and the trains and the rails and the overhead wires and the signals ...
June 20, 2024
The mta not responsible for . Maybe we could just get that information at some other time. The mta is responsible for the exterior escalator and we are responsible for two at pallet street station and the one that goes to the plaza area and there are three stations that are not and, that is van ness and Church Street and castro street station which we maintain the exterior and the remainder of the stations joint or just bart stations in the south east are the responsibility of bater. Okay. So i ...
June 20, 2024
Yes. I just need some clarity as to with the replacements. Who is going to be taking on the responsibility of the canopies . And will those be done similar stain simultaneously . We have not with the downtown station and bart is responsible for maintain it and sfmta is responsible and contribute 50 percent of the cost of the maintenance could i hear from someone from the mta about this particular matter, please . So, the stations that the canopy that were shown to us today from bart, are the can...
June 20, 2024
Though there are eight physical bart stations there, there were other facilities that bart and the mta Work Together on so i pds. And the commissioner you had mentioned that when was the last time that bart he is ka layed in the program . And i think that it was a 15 years ago where we had a system wide and we are called the escalator overhaul. But it does not necessarily cover every single escalator, they were identified the group of the escalators yeah. Commissioner breed . Yes. I just need so...
June 20, 2024
10. 6 ats 505,000 of a budget of 9. 15 million, that goes up to 7. 5 million. You avoided this. We brought it up many times. The machines can be extracted in china town are buried underground like many projects around the world, saving anywhere from 21 to 79 million on that 10. 6. I dont know if item 12 is allowed to be mentioned. This is 10. 6. Thank you. Next speaker on 10. 6. Joe karlson. Mr. Chairman and members of the board. Im not necessarily against this increase youre being asked to supp...
June 20, 2024
And then continuing, one thing i didnt mention was moving to establish a Training Program in conjunction with the police that really work more on the world bicyclists ride in. And i will mention the california Highway Patrol recently adopted the same [speaker not understood] bicyclist Traffic School 101 course for their employees as did the the one we use in San Francisco which is really quite a thing when you find out the state is using the same program we use. I would encourage the police to t...