Treasure island. A great milestone there. And then my last notes is, one of the things they talked about, the great executive team that we have, what we have had a couple of holes. And one of the things that i have been very focused on is filling those holes, but also making sure that the central subway stays on a continued strong path to get to the finish line, so i am pleased to announce the appointment of someone who started yesterday as the new Central Subway Program director. Nadeem, as i said, he started yesterday, and it is his job to get the project to the finish line. This is not his first rodeo, he has more than 35 years of experience planning, designing, managing, construction of large, highly complex, domestic and International Rail transit projects. He has managed projects in l. A. , d. C. , chicago, and i met him when he was director of Program Management for the f. D. A. Office here in region nine, overseeing projects in california, arizona, nevada, and hawaii. He will be on point working with the contractors, working with the central subway project staff , but more importantly, as we get close to the finish line with transit and communications and sustainable streets and in the other agency staff, it turns from a Capital Project into parts of the munimobile system. Nadeem started yesterday, and he relieved albert ho who graciously agreed to serve as interim central subway project director, somewhat against his will, and i assured him that it will be for a brief time, and that was 18 months ago. He stepped in when john moved on to go to caltrain, and i was talking to him earlier, albert really helped navigate this project. It was some of the most difficult periods in the last year and a half, and he has done so ably and professionally, probably spent too much time at the expense of his own family. I know they will be glad to be getting him back. You will, of course, stay with the project, and im hoping he will stay until the end of the project, but i really want to thank him. He has been on the central subway for 15 years, nearly half of his longtime it long tenure with the city, and really has been a steady force throughout all of this. First with john leaving, with my leaving, albert will be the steady guy to support nadeem and the rest of the agency in getting this done. I want to welcome nadeem and i want to than nadine and thank albert. That concludes my report. [applause. ] i think nadine is here somewhere. If you want to come up and say a few words or wave so people know what you look like. If you could come to the microphone, please. Thank you very much. I would like to thank ed for giving me this opportunity to serve the city. As he mentioned, transit is what i do. I took this on as a challenge, and i feel that i can help to bring this project to the finish line. Thank you very much. Thank you and welcome. With that we are now at Public Comment on items only on the directors report. If you have any comment you will have two minutes. He is the only speaker card on this topic. Good afternoon. I just want to first say i remember meeting ed his first month in office. I never forget that. His door was open. Once in a while i would send him emails and he addressed those. I only sent the emails on serious things. I did not try to bombard you. Lately i did because there were issues from preventing cabs from serving the city and you addressed those and i will miss you for that. Other cabdrivers may not because of what has happened with the cabin does industry. A lot of issues got addressed that someone else wouldnt address. Tom mcguire will keep that door open. The other issue you talked about, about the serious accidents where people got hurt. I want you to know. It is uncalled for to happen. I have seen on the streets lyft and uber drivers trying to chase the bonuses and boosts. While you did not be say the type of driver that caused this the third street and paul accident involved a lyft driver and his passenger. It didnt happen in the taxicab. I think it is important to realize that. We are more accountable to the city than they are. The companies do not really care about making the drivers more accountable to the city. I hope when you leave, you will leave a message that you have kept the cabdrivers accountable to the city and you can hope you tried to help boost the cabin does industry. I appreciate you mentioning taxis as part of your presentation. Thank you very much. Any Public Comment on the directors report . Thank you. I did turnin a card. Anyway, speaking specifically on this item, thank you for the deeper dive on vision zero, and it was well balanced. Vision zero is very important to me not just because i am walking the streets in San Francisco but now because i am riding little shared twowheeled vehicles, bikes and scooters. It isverelvant to me very relevant to me especially in the morning. Thank you for first and howard. I go through there a lot. Difficult area. I like the forward thinking idea that we can have four of the two car trainings that will be stopping at this platform at the chase center. I have been to a number of these, some of these big events around the country. I want us to be able to have more people riding muni instead of clotting up downtown with single rock you pied vehicles. I o occupied vehicles. I plan to ride into the neighborhood. That is what i have to say on the specific report but lets keep vision zero first. I will be out there riding my bikes with my helmet on. Thank you. Any specific Public Comment . Seeing that Public Comment is closed. Advisory committee report. No one is here from the cac to address you today. We move to general Public Comment. That is an opportunity to comment on stuff under the opportunity matter jurisdiction of the sfmta but not on todays calendar. Any other transportation related topic to address the board on you can come to the front. I think ms. Boomer has cards. Good afternoon, directors. I am howard, a member of your other advisory committee. Pedestrian safety advisory committee. I hope we are going to deal with a important educational issue. The thing is to provide muni signs pedestrians yield to transit. It came to my mind with the melbourne trams. It says give way to trams. Those go back when they were formed in 1883. They included a fine. If you obstruct the tram you might get fined. When you see the melbourne tram, if people are in front they scurry across. What happens we all know it. Pedestrians just saunter and stop a bus. I have seen the l wait for me. I get off in one direction and the other is coming down. He waits. Hopefully this sign will be there loan enough and the pair long enough and say we are going to wave muni on. When they learn how to drive it is transit first. Before that we have to program the taxis and we will say transit first. There is a few in view of the taxi and the taxi will wait. That will be part of that. I hope we can get there. We have one in memphis. There is a trolley. Pedestrians yield to trolleys. You can do signs like this. You cant tell cars. You can tell pedestrians and drivers will see the signs wherever they are driving around. They will say it is good if i wait and let transit go by. Thank you very much. Those standing next to the door, it is a fire hazard to block the door. Step away from the button there. If you can move. There are seats i in the front. Vice chair, thank you again. For the record as i speak on miscellaneous items. It has been awhile now since we have made some changes to fares. Thank you for keeping my fare the same. It costs me 1. 25 for my two hour clipper e ticket as well as on muni mobile. Really good change from 90 minutes. I am getting some more for my money. That is a very good thing, and i like having the smoothness on the buses where we dont have those tear off paper transfers. Everybody is on the same sheet of music and getting the two hours for the money. Continue the work with clipper and the app. We are doing well with that. I think it is time to move away from these paper scratchoff tickets. Those are good for lotteries. I think it is time to move beyond that. We dont need to have scratchoff lottery tickets in this modern day and age. That is good work. Continue our focus on the subway. As i said. I had a good ride on the subway last week where trains were going one after another very smoothly, we need that focus on our turnarounds. Precision and dedication to being able to turn the trains and the subway so i can experience that. I ride it often. Thank you. Good afternoon, directors. This board passed the ordinance about a month ago. Right after that there was coverage in the chronicle. They picked up on the list of corridors that was in that. The staff report didnt stay what they were going to do. They assumed these were all going to get protected bike lanes. They ran the article with different maps of the different quarters there. It included the quarter right in front of my house in the tenderloin. I would love to have a bike lane in front of my house. We have a big shortage of bike lanes in that part of town. Soon we will have a mile andahalf or so. This is great. Then the m. T. A. Reached to the chronicle to say, no, these are bike quarters except california and leaven worth. Those are pedestrian only. Item two in the consent calendar you are asking the state for money for the hide street project. There is something there in the stipulations and resolution about promoting bicycling. I would urge you with both of these projects dont make another Taylor Street or another sixth street. Build the bike lanes in the tenderloin where we need them, the most debs neighbor dense neighborhood in the state of california. People will say it is too hilly. There are hills. People live there. We need to get around on bikes. I urge you to consider that and bring bike lanes to the tenderloin please. That is that right is cool. Next speaker, please. Barry toronto. I will talk fast. I have a lot to cover. You dont neat for a month. I need to shout out to phil. There are bad things he has done. He put a cabstand on hyde below north of beach. It is new. It is working fantastic. We need nor like those. If you can give him permission tto expedites the tax lanes it will help. The credit union is not going to reknew the loans. They require balloon payment to the drives. The next point they have issued so many medallions through the credit union to yellow cab that it is useless to be a purchase cab as well as a push 78 cab because of the fact they are still waiting a long time because those with loans have to wait longer because of the cabs the credit union gets to include among the purchase cabs working the airport. There was a report you did not hold a hearing. Watch the hearing that took place at the land use committee. Watch that online. Supervisor fewer was fantastic. She made great comments and kay torn was pulled to the carpet based on her comments. Watch it or hold your own hearing about the report that came out a month and a half ago. Town send street is one lane. You need traffic control. It is gridlock everywhere on taylor and town send. The center. They took away our ability to cue up in front of the convention. I will call director. Thank you. Apologies to the speakers who are waiting in line. We wanted to come by. I am director of Workforce Development and the office of economic and work force development. We are on the way out the building and we heard there was a chance to say thank you for everything you have done for the community, for workers, work force development. Throughout your career, i remember meeting you 10 years ago you were the First Department head to give us the time of day looking for stronger local hiring. You had the road bond in 2009. You looked at the law and participated in every conversation that led to this landmark local hire ordinance in fall of 2010. You never looked down. You invested in city build. You consistently worked hard to deliver Economic Opportunity for workers and small business. Your legacy will out live you and all of us. We are i think beyond construction grateful for your versus and city drive. The directors should know his vision to partner up and commit your team and resources to work with us with the chariot workers laid out to recruit more drivers and get a Record Number of classes for drivers. Iit is a Permanent Program to gt free training. Thank you for your buy in for your support for that. Thank you and we are always going to be friends. We are available wherever you go. Thank you for everything you have done. On behalf of our Department Director who bears a resemblance to one of your directors who is a big fan as well. Thank you. With that director i somewhere to direct you to go down stairs. Good luck, ed. We will continue with tub puc Public Comment. Good afternoon. I would like to express my opposition to naming the china subway station after rose pack. It is the direct violation of m. T. A. Policy. As known her involvement with the station was substantial and it makes sense to dedicate it. One question is what sort of impact does that legacy have on the people . The Chinese Communist party was evidently which she criticized the 1989 massacre. The atrocities committed and her greatest agenda. This would remind the many people of chinatown who came here for better reassurance of rights. The pain and problems. It would be unpleasant. Please hold your ground and the purpose of the board is to serve the public, not political power. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon, board of directors. I am professional teacher. As you have notified very vocal against the naming of the subway station after rose back. Many of you do not know her that well. Last week they told us she was surprised to tell us it as well supported at the federal level. It surprised me, too. In 1999 after the Chinese Party the u. S. Congress condemned the persecution. In 20 2002 it was urging china o stop the persecution. In 2004 it was resolution 304 to condemn the extended persecution to the United States. In 2016, house again unanimously passed resolution 343 to express concern regarding the systematic state sanctioned Organ Harvesting in china. All congressional offices in bay area voted these. The Congress Women and the congressman were cosponsors. Congresswoman nancy pelosi attended to voice her support. In San Francisco city officers treat it as a group to be abated. Why . Because people like rose pack have been spreading misinformation about this practice. I urge you to have an open mind and meet yourself to find out the truth. Thank you. I want to remind the public this is about items of the m. T. A. It is nice to learn more about this, that is not our preview as a body. That is not our goal. Direct your comments specifically to the issue that would be great. Thank you. Good afternoon. I am marie. Please allow me to continue. I heard you. It is related to the subway station naming. Rose pack is the Chinese Chamber of commerce to defend. The Chinese New Year parade organized the chamber of commerce she blocked the group from marching on. Later she was out of the parade and they were never allowed back in. The persecution in china was so brutal, tens of thousands were thrown into labor camps and prisons and many died. This coming saturday is the 20th year anniversary. As of today 4300 practitioners are known to have died of torture. Those are the people with the name and address they may only be the tip of the iceberg. The investigators concluded as many as 62000 people died in china. Thank you. I will remind you. We are thes we have the Human Rights Commission to talk about these issues. Next speaker please. Good afternoon, directors. I am barbara ting. Last month an International Tribunal in london delivered final judgment in china. They ruled as much it has been committed for years in china and the major thought. The ruling also said the practice is often matched wickedness with the killings committed in the last century. Members include english bear barristers who let the esteemed professionals in medical, legal and human rights fields. None of these were practitioners. It took 20 years to be recognized. One reason they are people who work hard for Chinese Communist to cover things up and mute the voices so people wont know the truth. When history turns over the page and the details got exposed, people will find the part rose pack played in this brutal persecution. Now San Francisco is honoring the name. Please think hard about it before you make the decision. Thank you for listening. Again, if we can limit your comments to focusing specifically on the station naming without explaining the religion or Organ Harvesting. We dont have jurisdiction over those things. Really focus on the transportation aspects. Good afternoon. I am linda. All we know is that freedom is america first. It is bipartisan support. Every president stands behind it. You are condemning the persecution. They are trying to honor rose pack to carry out the persecution. Please think about that. I would like to share with you that. The annual report ever report rt time in 20 years the first victim group among medical persecuted by the Chinese Community party. After 20 years the u. S. Government recognized the severity and made it a priority of this issue. It also talks about the state operated crime of harvesting organs for profit. Thank you. Speaker about transportation topics. Good afternoon, directors. I am joyce. I am the person who is producing the summary of the petitions to name the subway station after rose peck. I went to the streets in San Francisco to ask people to sign petitions. We only approaches those in San Francisco. In two months we have collected 10,328 signatures. 25 persons from district three. District six and 11 has 1500 signatures. This is the petitions that we somewhere collected. We have more than