You have five questions remains. This is for topics discussed by director tumlin. Next speaker, please. Give us your name and well start your two minutes. Question im cliff barger and thank you for giving us the opportunity to call and give comments. This is the first time ive been able to give comments because of the time and place of the meetings. I want to thank director tumlin for his great presentation and thank you, chair, for your long service to the board and thank you, also, members. I want to applaud mta for approaching this slowstreets initiative. It was exciting to see our friends across the bay do this and im glad were learning from their experiencing. As a resident, im glad to hear director tumlin mention the third street bridge and the possibility of extending closed streets to terry francois. Opening up the waterfront is more important and one of the most crowded places ive seen since the lockdown has gone in place. And so thank you very pitch. Much. I echo the previous caller to implement this as fast as possible. Thank you very much. Miss boomer, the next speaker, please. Operator you have five questions remaining. Question im paul barrara. That was a mistake and i died the numbers by mistake, so excuse me for that. Im still adjusting to this. Operator next speaker, please. You have four questions remaining. Question this is Hayden Miller. Im just calling to say that i urge you guys at muni to look at reducing the capacity limits on your buses. Right now, for a 40foot bus, youre allowing 20 people on it, which doesnt allow for sixfeet instancing. Other transit agencies, ac transit has limited it to ten people and golden gate transit has limited it to eight people, which i think will allow for better social distancing. So i encourage you to look into that and thank you for your service, mr. Heineke. Thank you, mr. Miller, thank you for saying that. Next speaker please. Operator you have three questions remaining. Next speaker, please. Question good afternoon. Im here for the record again. Let the record reflect my pronounces are she and her and concerning the directors report, im appreciative of you bringing back the 28 line, which will help to close a big gap in the outer sunset section of San Francisco, this is an area that i spent many, many nights in and probably my favourite area of San Francisco. So this will help a lot of people to be able to get around in that very hilly area with long distances. Concerning covid19, obviously its a matter i take very seriously. We can have limits. We can have mass requirements. Its important to ensure that they can be easily complied with. What we dont want is to have people who are left on the side of the road. There was an innocent in philadelphia in which a passenger didnt have a mask and it turned into a very ugly incident. We dont want to have a situation where bus drivers are trying to play Good Cop Bad Cop and having things escalate and worse yet, having people get hurt. So it wont be easy if masks were easily had but theyre not. I think it important for muni to be involved in the process of helping to get these protective face coverings so people can comply and not be left out in the cold. So i appreciate the work you do and to the chair, im going to miss you. You have been an inspiration to me to come and speak at these meetings to get involved. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Operator you have two questions remaining. Next speaker, please, give us your name and we will start your time when you start speaking. Question yes, my name is john mccore mechanic an mccormig in regards to the safer Streets Program that was just established. The tenderloin only has one block that has been blocked off. In terms of equity and common sense, i dont at all think that makes sense. Tenderloin has seniors, children and people with the disabilities, the highest, and yet one block has been reserved for slower streets . If were trying to be equitable about this situation, we need a whole route through the tenderloin. The sunset district has miles of blocks and blocks and blocks of the streets to these lower street expose werstreets and ig about the most vulnerable populations and helping them, we need to be putting more attention on the tenderloin and looking at the tenderloin to see where we can block off more streets so that the people that live there are treated fairly and equi thattablabley and i doe that reflected in any initiatives and directives. It just not fair and thank you. Thank you for the helpful comments. Miss boomer, anyone left in the speaking cue . You have one question remaining. Question im a Community Organizer and cochair of the intender loin Peoples Congress and thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak. Im concerned, also, the last speaker spoke about the slow streets in the tern loin. Tende. We have a crisis here and if youre not down here, youre probably unaware of this. I live here and im not able to access my corner store. I can do without my prescription from the pharmacy, because its just not safe for me to travel outside. Im an atrisk person exi haveae to be careful. Streets are overcrowded. Theres no safe passage and so, we really need some blockedoff lanes. We need some lanes reduced. We need parking lanes taken away, so folks can travel and Access Services in a safe waist. Therway. Perhaps you could do len other neighborhoods, because the need, the need is greater in the tenderloin than in any other neighborhood in the city. We have a crisis happening here and theres a medical i mean, there is a real, real problem thats getting ready to happen because folks who ar arent ablo practise social distancing. Youll end up with a disaster coming out of the tenderloin and that puts the whole city at risk, not just our neighborhood. So please, please, we need help here. We need help now. Thank you. Thank you for your comments, sir. Operator you have zero questions remaining. So anyone else who wishes to address the board and who is currently on the line, please dial 10. This is on the directors report only. Moderator, please let us know if anyone else joins. This is the moderator and there are no current participants wishing to make comments. Well close Public Comment on item 7 and as soon as the tech takes care of that. Director rubki, youll be up. Moderator confirms that Public Comment is disabled. Director rubki, please. Thank you. I appreciate director tumlins comments in the way its meant to supplement muni service that was taken away but comments from the tenderloin and knowing we need more space in the tenderloin, in general, i would love to see the staff come back with some ideas how to make that Space Available in the tenderloin, in particular. And i know that staff is working so hard and i really appreciate it, but that is my one request on that. And on the essential trip tripr program for facilities and seniors, i think a traffic way to help out our taxi industry and i think it would be really helpful to get feedback from the taxi drivers about their experience on this and see if theres a way to use this model in other ways, post covid and those are my comments, so thank you. Chairman, if i may, i want to point out that the tenderloin is high on our priority list, as well. We are wanting to partner with communitybased organizations within the tenderloin and weve got a strong relationship with them, particularly in the work that weve done on the 300 block of ellis and were working with them on the 100 block of cheryl. We recognise in the tenderloin, we want to make sure theres a Management Plan for insuring the success of slow streets. Not only is this the integrate concentratiogreatestconcentratin the city but theres incidents and fatalities as a result of traffic violence. So we want to use this as an opportunity to address that both in the short and long run, but do it in a way that involves more Community Involvement than we had time to do in a week and so well look forward to coming back to you with a more sophisticated approach from the tenderloin. And i would also note that its also one of the greatest concentrations of children in the city, too, which is why ive personally asked that you all look at levinworth or some other streets as the next carfree streets and director tumlin understands that and i appreciate it. Director eakin, please. Thank you, chair. First of all, director tumlin, thank you for your heroic commitment to Public Service during this time. I know its more than you bargained for to navigate your way through this challenge to work your way through the position. So please let us know how we as a board can support you and the staff during these difficult times. As to your update, it was, of course, exciting to see the mayors announcement this morning, taking important steps to make more safe space for walking and biking. And the city has offered to do so in a way thats low cost. Im glad well be monitoring and learning as we go and we can address some of the comments were hearing today. I wanted to share a few comments as i look at the map. It seems there are definitely some parts of the city that have a great deal of pedestrian traffic and narrow streets that screen out more pedestrian streets and chinatown comes to mind clearly without any slow streets proposed on this map. And i also heard your explains very clearly about the nexus to transit. I think that makes a lot of sense. Ill note it seems there are parts of the city that have relatively less parks access than some of the parts receiving the slowstreet treatment and i see some of the eastern neighborhoods and southeastern neighborhoods standing out with relatively less treatment and need for safe space for for rec creating, as well. Listening to you talk about the success of transit and treating people as equals as opposed to agents of enforcement has been so effective and im wondering if we can take a page out of that playbook and think about the Ambassador Program and that style of enforcement could be a successful model as we think about the slowstreets network and how we encourage people to adhere to social distancing guidelines. Thats what weve been doing, so our parking control officers have been partnering with sfpd and Recreation Parks Department to help them with social distancing support in ocean beach and the arena. So well want to learn from that success. Supporting compliance rather than toppedout enforcement kind of way. Wonderful, director hemminger, you had one more comment. Yes, i did and thanks tor for allowing me to doubledip, mr. Chairman. This is the last time ill allow it. That joke will gel ol get ole end of this meeting. [ laughter ] the only place i have myself experienced excessive crowding is in Golden Gate Park, on the sidewalks there. I know there was discussion awhile back whether or not we could close some of those roads like we do on the weekends. And the concern i heard respected from the department of Public Health, they were worried it would draw too many additional crowds and i guess the response i would make to that is i think the crowds are there. I wonder whether thats worth another discussion with the department of Public Health so that we could avoid the crowding there. Its an obviously magnet for people. Thats what they want to do with their dogs and kids and everything else. But right now, its a bit of a madhouse on the panels. Paths. I just wonder waed what your thoughts might be. Were engaged with the department of Public Health and Recs Department. As most of you know, the streets in Golden Gate Park are uniquely not controlled by sfmta but managed by the Recs Department and during the covid crisis, w l city departmented are respecting the center. And so throughout this crisis, all of the work that were doing has been coordinated through the citys eoc and we are so grateful for the very strong and direct leadership from the department of Public Health here in San Francisco. You know, having learned from their experience from the last pandemic in sanfrancisco and gotten ahead of the curve here for the bay area, we respect their conclusions on Golden Gate Park. However, we know that were starting to have the conversation about how shelter in place starts getting rachetted down. At a certain point, we should be able to demonstrate and experiment on noninstagrammable street like kirkham. So well get experience with management techniques that work. In addition, at a certain point, the utility of a safe bike, commuter, corridor exercise place will be a risk for a regional attracter and those lines will cross as people in San Francisco get used to wearing personal protective equipment everyday, get used to having socialized, social distance and having it be selfenforcing, unlike the situation we had last weekend where sfpd had to do some hardcore enforcement in deloris park and Golden Gate Park. We believe at a point, people in San Francisco will get used to this and that we will be able to take a second look in collaboration with rec park and the department of Public Health about what should we do with Golden Gate Park and jfk drive, in particular. But in the meantime, i 100 support the conclusion of the department of Public Health and i stand behind them. Wonderful. I dont see any other virtual mics up from the directors. So if none, i will say a few things. Jeff, first of all, the taxi program sounds fantastic and thank you for your attention to the safety of our taxi drivers, as well as giving them an economic boost when they need it. Im thrilled with the slow Streets Program. Its not lost. Its my last day and i do think that may be a little bit of coincidence but it makes me happy and i hope it gives us more information in that i know my remaining Board Members will be pushing for us to look at other carfree streets and similar benefits that we can provide to people in San Francisco didnt im pleased about that. One thing that i would ask, jeff, and i dont think its appropriate for today and i know you guys are thinking about this. But i think its appropriate for a board member briefing or the next meeting would be starting to lay out your plans for how well dial service back up, how well come back online, how well turn the dimmer switch in the other direction to use the analogy everybody is using, and bring muni back because i think our customers and our employees need to start thinking about how that will play out so they can visualize it, so they can follow your directives and so they can feel the optimism that is going to come back. This agency is going to respond. The city is going to respond and well be ok. And i think starting to plan for that, which i know youre doing, and communicating those plans will help people understand what the situation will be like and i think it will make folks really optimistic. I suspect im not the only one who misses dearly riding on the subway. And then a question that i had for you, that ive asked you, but i wanted to share, i very much support the idea of getting the work on the 101 now when we were presented what it would be in july, it was there would be the least traffic and now we have the time where its the least traffic and im glad theyre proceeding that way. I asked you and i thought the Board Members might like to hear the answer to this, can we utilize our time when the subway is out of auto allegation t uti. So these are all questions that we are spending a lot of time thinking about. Theres this unique period of time as shelterinplace starts getting ratched down but before the economy and congestion come riproaring back. Its an opportunity to get a lot of work done and deal with the residual fear that many people will have about getting on to a crowded train or walking on a busy sidewalk. These are fears that transit shares with the restaurant industry. In order for San Francisco to come back and to be San Francisco again, we need to be able to celebrate the closeness. So in terms of how the system comes back, were also working with the department of Public Health about exactly what happens as it gets rachetted down. Rachetted down. Weve been hoping to get some major maintenance projects underway, but we realize the nature of that work made it almost impossible to keep people six feet apart. We need to have groups of people repairing the subway. What is the amount of personal equipment that is necessary at what point in time to allow this work to get started . These are questions that were asking the department of Public Health and were getting ready to get started on. I think this is a onceina lifetime opportunity to keep the subway closedded a bit longer than necessary to address decades of deferred maintenance and get it right. Moreover, its an opportunity o rethink our service. Much of the muni map remains fairly unchanged since 1912 when streetcar operators were competing for franchise. Do we want to bring back that same exact map . How can we best make tradeoffs between much better frequency on a fewer number of routes versus Core Frequency on many routes . Should we even bring back schedules . So we have switched in a moment of crisis from having everything operate on a schedule to having most lines operate according to headway management. Were getting much more Reliable Service as a result despite the erraticness of operator availability. Should we ever bring schedules back . We changed this week to predict the first few stops on every run and to eliminate ghost buses. Should we c