Agenda. We do have several members of the public who have indicated their interest in speaking with you on matters not on todays agenda starting with eileen boaken. Good afternoon. Okay. [inaudible] okay. I will explain to you. I am a terraval neighbor. The California Traffic Control Devices Committee will be meeting in several weeks. Mike sal bury of mta is a Voting Member on the committee. At its march 3, 2016 meeting the committee was presented with a request for experimentation which involved cross hatchings on the pavement to mark certain transit stops taraval. The committee was unwilling to approve this because other municipalities use cross hatchings to mark no traffic area. Instead they endorsed the wording on the pavement. Although this would increase visibility on the stops, the hilly train frequently dense fog and large number of people that speak english as a second language make this less than ideal. I recommended a speed hump and images and historic images of the streetcar. On the overhead which you cant see are images of the streetcar on the inbound side of the boarding platform at the station so youre already working on this concept so our proposal is along these same lines. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please, will be all right. Jonathan deerenberg. Followed by mark gruberg. Hello. I want to say thank you for vision zero and transit first policy so i think its really important in my comments coming because i recognize youre a leader. The second point i have is with valencia street and the problem with the bike lanes and double parked there so my question there is a center lane in the middle illegally used for parking and why cant it be absorbed on the edges for a bike lane. The second is in regards to enforcement so youre away of sfmta focus on five and makes a lot of sense. I have your enforcement data and you guys i think need the same thing. I am looking at the highest percentage of citations and 32 for street cleaning [inaudible] and parking meter violations eight and dog [inaudible] none of seem like major safety issues. I agree theyre important. Double parking 2 . Parking bike lanes negligible and why cant we have similar and blorking and fire hydrants and i dont know and do a study and have them the priorities for the parking control officers. I know revenue is a big deal even if you dont admit it and you can go down the street and to the mission and give tickets and [inaudible] revert to other things but i would like a focus on that or something equivalent. Thank you. Next speaker please. [calling speaker names] good afternoon. Good afternoon directors, mark gruberg and i am here speaking for myself. I wanted to follow up on several remarks i made at your last meeting about the proposal to begin selling taxi medallions to wln that would be willing to purchase one. I made the point it wasnt realistic and it was too high for people to buy so i wanted to address the question if this isnt going to work what is the harm in trying . And i believe there is harm because the San Francisco taxi industry has always been a local industry. If you look at San FranciscoCab Companies most are owned and run by people who were former or are present taxi drivers, and were now looking at a prospect of possibly if this program were to be successful handing this over to we dont know. We dont know what their plans or ideas are, and i think this needs to be kept local, and the other thing is that the drivers requirement that medallion holders now have to comply with would also be dropped in this new plan and i think thats a bad idea because if this plan does not work youre going to need to go on to plan b, and the driving requirement could be a really important component of any future plan that you might adopt, and if you drop that now and if you start selling medallions to outsiders now those are two ideas, two things that are going to be very hard to recoup in any future plan. Once you drop them theyre gone so again i urge you not to do it. Thank you. Next speaker please. [calling speaker names] good afternoon directors. I am a taxi driver. Last night when i was driving for 12 hours i am giving this receipt coming out of the meter that tell you in 12 hours and after expense i made 25 only as a taxi. Thats one thing to start. [inaudible] taxi meter and imposed us had a serious problem times when i am driving around and the price for the cab and disappeared from the screen. 20 times the meter went into a blank position when there was no customer. Two times the meter got frozen. Several times the price changed from 350 start to 250 and 55cent increment to 25 cents. Why do i have to come talk to you . I sent you emails. I beg you request you and there are many drivers but the companies are telling us shut your mouth. Get out of us. We dont want you because i am complaining on these issues. Coming to the taxi task force in last two year i mention to you three times. Taxy task force was designed to have six driveros it. Instead of six drivers [inaudible] acted as a bully and gave all seats to the medallion holders. What kind of ethics is this . And the employees and do this. We need six drivers on the board, not the six medallion drivers and the task force has them please and the cabs its already an issue in front of them for one year and now she postponed for and the top light can be and shes not doing it and favoring a particular taxicab company and can you look at it and get her out of the job before thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. [calling speaker names] those are the last people that have turned in a speaker card on matters of the jurisdiction and not on todays agenda. I am wondering does the board get irritated about bikers riding on the sidewalk . Its illegal and against the law and its a real irritation, and i would like to make a request especially to the supervisors that serve on the board and the whole board for that matter. When you see someone riding on the street will you please tell them its illegal to do it. I have been doing it now. I have been yelling at people that go through the red light. I requested people on the board do it because its a real Public Service. Its annoying that the people are breaking the law. They run over people on the sidewalk and its only going to be a matter of time before people on bikes that do will get beaten to a pulp so to prevent bloodshed and do a Public Service will you please take this into consideration. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. [calling speaker names] good afternoon. Chairman nolan good afternoon. Directors good afternoon. Im marcela. I have been a member of the taxi industry for 28 years almost. Even though Assembly Bill 2763 passed Assembly Bill ab828 did not. As you know Assembly Bill 2763 defines personal vehicle, leased vehicles as personal vehicles. However, ab828 failed to exempt tmcs from registering with the dmv and that law every vehicle engaged in commercial activity part time or full time that law remains. The San Francisco examiner has reported 45,000 tmcs operating in the city and county of San Francisco. With the passage of 2763 its safe to assume that they will allow open entry of more vehicles to flood our streets so i am here today to urge you to play more of a role with the puc. We in the taxi industry feel that you have failed us over and over again to play more of a role with the puc. No one will be able to make a living if we reach that number of 100,000 vehicles for hire in the city of San Francisco and also with the law that every vehicle engaged in commercial activities should register commercially who is going to enforce that . So i would like you to address that as well. Thank you sir. Thank you. Next speaker please. Pat followed by peter and tom. Hi. Sorry to have to be here i guess to complain. Bicycles on the sidewalks. I have been hit twice. It hurts. It causes disability and the riders ride off. You go down in certain neighborhoods it is a nightmare. I am afraid to walk in the city and i have lived here for 42 years. I am getting older and injured. I took a bus yesterday and got injured because the bus driver wouldnt do her job. This is ridiculous. There are people that live in the city who arent young and dont ride bicycles and dont have a lot of money to take ubers and things. I have asked repeatedly that the mta or db tor whoever takes responsibility and monitors the chair on the and on Market Street they stage and parked for 15 minutes, 20 minutes at a time. They turn the corner in front of ada Howard Street and paused i have timed them and they are blocking the bicycle lane there and theyre blocking access to the bus stop thats right adjacent to ada howard. Doesnt seem to be a priority with muni. Additional ubers. I take paratransit and my costs have gone up because ubers are constantly blocking the street. They do illegal uturns. Somebodies that to decide in the city there is something called enforcement and its not a bad thing always. It can help other people and people are you know i think thats part of the reason people dont vote for certain things with the city. We got tired. Its too dangerous. Thank you. Next speaker please. [calling speaker names] those are the last two speaker cards on this section. [inaudible] [off mic] mr. Warfield. Peter warfield executive director of Library Users association. I hope you would use the three minutes that sunshine requires for Public Comment and not two. Basically two things. I would like to agree with the previous speaker of the dangers of bicycles which i dont think are sufficiently noted in any sense including in statistics with regard to bicycle injuries. We know even the pedestrian bicycle contention can cause pedestrian can result in pedestrian death. To back up a little bit on october 14 i went to a meeting sponsored by this body i believe on intended to collect information from the public, and i asked three different sets of people on that day for three separate and distinctly different pretty basic stuff like the person giving the presentation. I would like a copy of the presentation. Two weeks went by and i heard nothing from anybody. I dont think thats the kind of responsiveness especially from the people that are supposed to be responsive to the public i dont think thats appropriate, and i am sadly finding in other respects the agency is not responsive as it should be and even as its legally required to be in some cases. I wish that would improve and i am sure you can hear other stories from others about it. With respect to the statistics i dug out from the agency i am very dur prized there are no is surprise thrd are no demographic details and what constitutes a collision and especially when you have high injury corridors what is causing the problem . How you can effectively make safer streets if you dont know whether it was a pedestrian and a bus or a pedestrian and a bike and so on . And i think that thats a serious problem with your statistics collecting and other gaing and keeping. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. [calling speaker names] is mr. Dufty here for general Public Comment on a matter not on the agenda . [inaudible] [off mic] okay. Thank you. Tom [inaudible] [off mic] on the embarcadero right [inaudible] [off mic] right next to thank you. Deantsy street and a bicycle on the sidewalk and its scary when they come up behind and dont hear and especially with a wheelchair and natural with the gutter and takes a brake and slides into and commissioner reiskin. Might as well call john ram. They did a presentation on pier 70 and theyre thinking of 3foot to maybe 6foot water rise in the bay. I told them in a presentation here they expect you guys were told a 9foot surge so you may want to call john on that. Excuse me. I dont have an online presence. I heard that uber may the online sharing may have a wheelchair. I dont know about that. Im waiting to hear that. Otherwise i mean its a disaster. Were losing our taxis and getting nothing. Again on van ness as on taraval why not do a and b . We have a 49, a 47. They can stop at all of the stops. Each line does half of the stops. We get our speed up and all of the stops covered. Taxis commissioner ubers and we need insurance and theyre covered only if you have people in the car. Its ridiculous especially when theyre on the phone all the time. The passes and the fast pass for everyone that gets on and off the bus. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker card. Last speaker to turn in a card within the matter of the mta but not on the agenda. Good afternoon. I live nearby. I want to agree with the speakers. I think theres a lot of things that are lost underneath the cracks right now that the mta is not being responsive for. In particular my list would include the red zones, parking removal, the taxi cab system, the problems with uber and lyft and the google buses, and in particular the taxicab system. We had a world class system. It was different than every other system. You got your seniority. You eventually get a medallion. What it is now when you buy a medallion theyre financed by banks so that means about half of the cost of the medallion goes to a bank and winds up in a mcmansion in north colorado somewhere and its just disappears, so i am particularly disturbed how our taxi system has just collapsed. Its just been deteriorated. Anyone else to address the board under Public Comment . Seeing none i would like to speak a little bit somebody else . I would like to speak about bicycles on the sidewalks too. [inaudible] [off mic] im sorry. About bicycles on the sidewalks. I am increasingly concerned about that myself. I think its a big problem and we had a report on that at any point they can recall and ask for the Board Members consent to have the director come back and especially if there are best practices established around the country and instructive to us around the country or elsewhere how to deal with this. Some jurisdictions it appears to me it doesnt matter, the russian river, guerneville and doesnt matter and rides on sidewalks and other places but its a concern for me personally. I have been close to be hit on two different occasions in the last months and something needs to be done. Director ramos. Thank you mr. Chairman and thank you for all of the comments. I think theyre very poignant and something were taking note of. With respect to especially the comments around focus on the five and rp co enforcing things that really do contribute to a safer city i would love to be able to hear or to get a better understanding of what how theyre instructed to go about their enforcement efforts, and i am speaking from a place of experience in seeing how disruptive especially the tmcs have been on our streets with their double parking, with their slow cruising looking for the passages to pick up and not only does it well, it especially makes things terrible for the transit system. It makes things terrible for the people just trying to get around in the car, just the flow of the Transportation Networks, and then of course it makes things especially dangerous for bicyclists which then makes them feel less safe than they already feel just without having to negotiate around a potentially moving car that might stop anytime and what have you and pushes them on to the sidewalk and a lot of the reason speaking from experience, and seeing this happen all the time a lot of the reason people ride on the sidewalks we dont have the infrastructure to make them feel safe on the street so the best strategy to getting people off the sidewalks is getting them infrastructure that would provide them with a safe passage so they can feel safe on the street. This is especially pertains to people of color. Its really challenging to ride a bicycle and feel safe coming from a perspective where youre already feeling oppressed frankly just because of ones color in a system where we seen so much racism and especially coming out of this Current Administration already unfortunately, so i would really love to see us at this point have a deeper longer broader discussion about this issue, both with respect how do we get bicyclists off the sidewalk and of course how were policing our the double parking and the training those folks get because its my assumption a lot are driving from out of town and coming from out of town as uber and lyft drivers what you have and in oakland i saw so many of these cars parked to indicate theres not a lot of cars in oakland driving around and picking up fares what have you so its my assumption a lot are coming from out of town. They dont know the extent of the issue and the implications of them doing this and whatever the taxi industry has done to help their drivers understand how this impacts the rest of the city is something they think the mtmc should take note of. Director. Yes, you might want to enforce what can be done as pd deals with moving violations and they cant. We would include a broader discussion of enforcement for this issue because it just isnt the p cos are limited in what they can do. I think one of the drivers said this and light issue with fly wheel and the light doesnt go off apparently on the taxis. Yeah, we based on some of the comments received have a lot of discussions with fly wheel including the people commenting have been invited to so we will continue to work on the issues but by and large its working best in the taxi industry right now. Thank you. Anyone else . Okay. Thank you ms. Boomer. Moving on to the consent calendar. All items are considered routine nltion a member of the public or board wishes to have it severd and considered separately. Mr. Chairman i received no indication that the public wants an item to be separate. Do we have a motion . Thank you very much. [inaudible] moving on the category calendar of the commuter shuttle medyear status report and commuter shuttle hub study. [inaudible] low audio . Good afternoon. Good afternoon chair nolan and directors. I am sara jones, planning director at sfmta. Were here today to talk about two items which are particularly timely given all of the discussion today about handling some is of the changing modes and systems of transportation in our city. Were talking about the Commuter Shuttle Program. Today were presenting the medyear status report and a study jointly by the sf cta and sfmta on a program that would concentrate commuter shuttle stops at a small number of locations termed hubs in the city instead of providing a network of stops in the city. Both yps were requested by this board last winter a