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Mark gruberg followed by [speaker not understood] zamud. Mr. Gruberg. Again, to continue and conclude along the lines i was speaking of before, despite the fact that the cpuc has a rule making proceeding going on, you still have jurisdiction over people who are providing illegal services in San Francisco that are, you know, the equivalent of taxi services. If you didnt have that jurisdiction, you couldnt stop somebody in their private car who was picking up on the street either. So, all the drivers in these companies which are violating the law, the drivers themselves are also violating the la...

Staff, particularly on the bicycle strategy where on the last page we were asked if we wanted to ask staff to focus on hot spots or corridors. And we dont obviously cant stay with us. Discuss it today, but i wonder if we need to come back and retouch on that. It occurred to me on this weekend when i was riding that we have a bike strategy, we have a pedestrian strategy, but we dont really have a corridor strategy yet, which i know will evolve out of those two strategies. But, again, i worry that weve not given good direction about how, when it comes to transit, bikes and pedestrians and privat...

Happy to announce the fifth season of sunday streets which starts just a few weeks away. March 10th is the kickoff for our festive season. Sunday streets is presented by the sfmta and its nonprofit partner livable city with support from the Mayors Office and a lot of other city departments. A lot of people come together to make sunday streets happen every year. As you know, sunday streets promotes open car free space for Healthy Family oriented activities, and also a chance to explore San Franciscos diverse neighborhoods. It started out on the embarcadaro, the first pilot five years ago and ha...

Embarcadaro route which will be march 10th. The route through Mission Street or the more popular ones on april 14th. The bayview on june 9th and the great highway on july 7th. And as the rest of the calendar gets secured and approved, well bring it back. Well bring information back to the board. In addition to sunday streets is a new component thats going to be added into the mix this year called play streets. I mentioned this a while back that when the grant award for play streets came through, but its a Pilot Program of four smaller one to two block events, also featuring carfree streets. Pa...

News on benghazi because were awaiting comments from press secretary jay carney at the white house on the latest developments. There was also an emotional moment on capitol hill. A former top intel official telling lawmakers the military should have tried to protect the lives of americans and saying nobody ever thought a video had anything to do with the attack. All that leading to this tension exchange with congressman jason chaffetz. What was going on in the room, general . Our people are under attack. There are people dying. What is the military doing . Desperately trying to gain situationa...