People were actually commuters, all we could find out was how many people got on in certain places but of course there is in a system now and probably should not be a system for they get off so we dont know how many people have the long run. Weve done our own surveys and were all writers of muni and we see no reason for the statement that says buses are slow and reliable. They are not on speaking. The gary geary 38 ought. The geary 38 bay x are very fast. People are very very pleased by what they see. Theres no reason for mta to be denigrating its own service. So, there are many many more things to talk about about that and what i want to propose was that we have a meeting at which we have an opportunity to set forth what we think is important before you are forced into position we have two approve this. I mean you dont have the time. You have the time to investigate even though youre the duty of care to worry about this you dont have the time. We put the time into and within seven opportunity to come up for you with that thank you. Suggestions the board will consider. So the meeting with the richmond association. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] i represent the holy virgin cathedral, which is on 26th ave. Between 76 and 27th ave. On geary. Our membership is about 1200 people. We have Senior Housing facilities at their. We have two schools there. We believe this disposal is very dangerous to the seniors and to the students, and we very much are opposed to the proposal. Its been said by the project manager that weve met and they heard our concerns and came back with incorporated our concerns into what the proposal is now. I can say that is not true. Nothing that we said, expressing our concerns, was incorporated into the proposal as it sits now. I think this is a dangerous costly unnecessary and i do believe that the board nor the staff realize the intensity of opposition to this project. On the merchants, from the residence, the mother people visiting the area to this plan. I sincerely hope that if you talk about 200 million i think is much better ways to use it them to create something that will be a real detriment to the Living Conditions out there. Thank you thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] good afternoon. Im a parishioner holywhich is located between 2627th ave. As previously mentioned we have a lot of concerns but this project Going Forward. The school of course as mentioned theres two schools operating out of that church and right now the parking they have no parking at the Carbon Services like a buffer to protect the kids in case they run out, if the bustling is put against the curb that buffer is gone. So that opens a lot of possible incidents with a kick and run out on the street and get hit by a bus. The second concern is loss of parking. That area, especially on weekends its almost as right difficult to find parking. One time i circled literally for 40 min. Before i found a parking spot was probably was about seven blocks away. With all this loss of parking stock to get better its going to get worse. We asked mta to look for options that the locate additional parking in a believe they look into that but at this point, we have no valid reasonable solution to provide additional parking thats needed. A lot of our parishioners come from other locations. East bay, south bay and so on. Taking Public Transportation in a lot of cases is not an option so theyre forced to drive. With this situation a parking were going to lose a lot of parishioners which we already have due to other reasons but with this implementation this project were going to lose a lot more. Thank you thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] eileenzero in solitaire with the geary residence and merchant. Public comment residents and merchants concerns were characterized as coldunquote complaints. We this characterization is condescending dismissive and patronizing. Im hoping the board does not share this perspective for the propose caravelle project mta has stated they did not do an Economic Impact study. The mta could also not do a costbenefit analysis. This is also true of the proposed geary prt price. The following is an exit from the gary residence and merchant statement and i will quote this prt project seems to just justification other than transit improvement. Indeed, the budget shows it would take pay for major Infrastructure Improvements. Its not clear how many of those investments will be of the tubes by the city where developers make use of them. It is obvious the developers will begetting a freebie here under the guise of Infrastructure Improvements are required when did you the street for the prt. What assures assurances do we have the cost incurred would be anything less than a subsidy for those who will come along and build more units along and near the corridor . Is this the hidden subsidies. They should be discussed openly but its not been raised by muni itself. Theres been a strong policy framework density in the richmond. People are suspicious given serving a little time for these small minority of writers will commute to downtown does not justify spending 300 million or more. Theyre curious about the fact that down to money seems to be behind this project. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] good afternoon commissioners. Mary eliza. This board has not been a very good job of listening to the public if we believe the were saying here today and heard otherwise. Youre not responding to the needs of the public. When not sure what youre responding to but its not the needs of the drivers, the riders, would the general public. Neighborhood groups and merchants are meeting tonight in two separate meetings to discuss alternative to this geary project. In case you did not know. Merchants from castro to polk street and mission are losing business many are closing due to bad traffic and parking problems and the caravelle and geary merchants do not want to become part of that group. Of lost business. The merchants will not support a sales tax increase that will further reduce their profits and im really not sure the citizens of the city are ready to support that either. We just kind of wondering which of your many projects youre willing to give up if you have to. You dont get that sales tax increase. Thank you thank you. And you must to address the board seeing none, at the pleasure of the board . There are people. You want to stand up and speak . Good afternoon jim and is david hurston, longtime richmond resident living in San Francisco since 1960. Controversy is no stranger to projects in San Francisco. But as a longterm residence am very alarmed that the amount of controversy, the mta projects are generating. When i get to a Public Meeting in people are screaming at each other and yelling at each other, beyond the scope of the project, this tells me that people are not being heard. If i had to characterize this project, it would be a steamroller thats copying her. Not being heard by the residence and they are really the feeling for my perception is, its all about the sales job. The Virtual Reality kiosk is a good example that. He was stated in their presentation that we have spent hours with them. Im part of the geary Merchants Group. Basically, in those hours they put their powerpoint presentation. We prepared our points and there was never any dialogue. I think thats whats missing on this project is a positive dialogue and scope of the project forward but not and in a lawsuit, not end up in a ballot initiative, not end up with people screaming kid i think its possible to move the city forward without hurting Small Businesses. Without hurting the 20 of the people in the Richmond District that are Senior Citizens and over 65. So you do the math over 70,000 people how many that is good i just think theres another way is not necessary to rush this project as an emergency. This guy is fun. I urge everyone to take a closer look, sit down, work honestly and hear what the people have to say in a honest fashion and also [inaudible] because other people of submitted points and its like talking to a black hole. So when somebody request something say yes or so note thank you. Next speaker, please. We been trying weve been asking the mta and cta for years and i have to certificate to prove it more than 10 years Economic Impact study it lets do a study. We been rebuffed by the mta and the cta. When i testified in front of them and i mentioned parking, i was given the answer of if im really so concerned about parking maybe i should consider moving to a Shopping Mall theres plenty of parking over there. I think that you really have to locate into this matter. We have light rail on geary boulevard from micah 3050 and by taking it down we have more certificates from every branch of government giving us the foresight to remove it and to create a boulevard, a commercial corridor, and now you want to take that away and kill it. Not telling you the truth. They cannot tell you with the prt there was a gas line over there. Thats not in the plan but there is a gas line there. If they say they dont want you to know it scored to take 56 months per block the construction of the prt. But where talking about the block is not just one block because you got that right block and a half and a block can have. How can we go to survive . People on a mission or going out of business. People on federal are trying to ongoing business. We cannot let you do that to us. And we ask you to be compassionate and be sensitive to it you can. We are not against improving transportation on geary boulevard but dont put us out of business. Thank you so much for your consideration thank you. Anyone else care to address the board . I have a lot of compassion for this argument because the special because of the money being spent for this project. On van ness i dont know how much i one is costing but that one could simply been solved by having a shuttle bus running between aquatic park and the mission and were frequently to take up the problem being that there was not enough frequency of buses. Without spending the millions of dollars that we spent in the disruption involved. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Sylvia johnson. I say i know that exactly the problem is is that [inaudible] needs to be on it is a kind of old way of doing work a lot better and the efficiency thats been going on i have [inaudible] causing the rails. Im telling you this is not [inaudible] putting people out of business and talking about other things that [inaudible]. I mean, its really [inaudible] thats not going to work [inaudible] we have problems in the [inaudible] and take care of [inaudible]. Our main problem [inaudible] i am tired of this, you know, [inaudible] because some politics is better [inaudible] and trying to run [inaudible] this is where the issue is in the police department. Im going to make sure housing and equipment [inaudible] because a lot of [inaudible] it will be [inaudible] thank you. Next speaker, please. Just, come on up. Hello. If i understood correctly, i was very heartened to hear you said you would meet were overhearing with the richmond people . Did i understand that correctly . Bestows what you want, the people are terrible the merchants and resident roots that similar problems with sfmta. That had meetings with us but it is not been well advertised in the community. When we finally managed the leaflet the community ourselves to tell them what actually was happened because as of the third and final meeting, where the staff was announcing what changes they have made based on Community Input there were hundreds of people who didnt have any idea the stops were being removed. According hours were being booked because the sunset when upset come to an open house on the old sourdough. The make the capital more efficient and safer this about geary prt we have something similar but i want to know the next time we come to officially be presenting their proposal to you for final approval. Or hopefully you would adopt a terrible plan that would just do it as a trial permitted i was wondering if youd also be willing to meet with the caravelle Merchants Group and residents groups before you get to that point so we can avoid the problem that happen elsewhere where its implemented in most people still dont know what about it because its such anger and dissension in the community. Thanks. Next speaker, please. Anyone else was to speak to the board . Seeing none, members of the board i know mr. Chairman from our agenda this is a presentation on. We have no action on this item. Ive no followup questions but i would think mr. For the presentation and for keeping this board up to date on the progress. Im gary prt anybody else on the board . Director ramos i just want to state up into a part of this process. Actually this is in my second term as a board member here the reason why i was actually appointed to the sports because i was serving on the Citizen Advisory Committee for thegeary prt and i was five years ago and we were hoping that would project wouldve vastly been implemented by now. So theres no rush here. This is long past due i think. There are 50,000 riders on that line every day that i feel, by not doing anything are ignoring the fact that that line were having a hard time getting anybody upon the line anymore. I mean those buses are so crowded now that if youre a person with the ability issues or have any kind of itif you can play twister, and having a hard time getting on a bus and i know because i ride it. I so know that is an auto oriented corridor. A lot of business were set up their to be auto oriented. As such, we should be as sensitive as possible to doing whatever we can to protect and preserve the Small Businesses that are doing business there and we cherish. So, im hoping that Going Forward that we are not necessarily we that we as a city, we as a part of the minutes of howdy are working with the Economic Development agency to make sure putting in place whatever measures we need to make sure the Small Businesses are taken care of in a way that would help transition to what really should be started off as, in transit corridor. I wont say more because is a long meeting but looking forward to having these conversations Going Forward but i certainly am very concerned about making sure the businesses stay afloat both in preparation for the construction during construction, and after construction. In the same way women able to do with essential subway i think weve done phenomenal job working with the businesses and making sure that they stay afloat in that capacity. So i look forward to the conversation. The whole goal is to make it easier for people to access your business, not to make it more difficult. So, i know this project has been under i was the vice chair of the bank may for prop k and 23 in geary prt was in that consideration back then. We been having this conversation for very long time. I think whats hard for us is that it doesnt seem like we have been able to come together the community and mta, to adequately feel comfortable with the project did i know that was a mention of 20 hours, 20 meetings were 20 hours of meetings that might be helpful if there were a list of the top five things were the 10 things that were the pain points of the community that we could address because i think its going to be the easiest way for us to tackle those things. We have a very clear list of suggestions that these of things would make it better. Ive always believe is important to be proactive and resolutions rather than point out the problems which we all can easily do on a number of things but i think we have a lot of great minds and Community Leaders in the Community Across from us as wells people at mta working hard on figuring out how do we also talked about earlier plan for our future. Our population is growing and even growing in the Richmond District as well. I think i saw housing prices are gone up in the Richmond District because of greater demand. No People Living out. We know the system is stressed and we do we cant transport many more people on that system today. So we have to come up with a solution. So, i look forward to working with all of you. I know weve been all been working together and ill begin figure out how we can better communicate with each other and hear each other so that everybody feels like we are doing whats in the best interest of the city and in the community overall. Director borden i think thats extremely well stated argument the positive positive suggestion the top 45 things that are problems as opposed to having 24 hours of meetings. Similar group c or c those before we put four. I definitely support that again this is not an action item. I want to thank our staff for the presentation all the public for being a. Lets move to the next item item 14 [reading code]. How many . Maybe we can ask the public to give recommendations. When we call on members of the public who want to speak on the shuttle bus issue and in the board will talk about it. [calling names] good afternoon mr. Thomason hi my name is david thomas. Almond with in building manager at 7001 bush st. Me on behalf of our tenants especially tenants who now have the doing windows that face the new shuttle stop those put in a couple of weeks ago. I missed into something of a pilot which is why we are here. I justi would like to point out that when these buses pull in as a Diesel Engine in the back of them. Those megadoesnt that Diesel Engine sits about 15 feet for the bedrooms of some of the tenants in our building and theyre being very negatively impacted could i like you all to consider what it would like to 150 people, 200 people directly outside your bedroom window and have idling Diesel Engines 15 feet from your bed. This is what our tenants are going to especially on the first and second floor where those