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Absolutely improve bicycle spending and infrastructure in the city. Reaching the goal of 50 of the trips by transit biking and walking is an ambitious goal but i think we can achieve that by not looking at the muni system which is heavily burdend and how we get a good bang for the buck and increasing spending in the bicycle infrastructure as well and as i said muni cant do it alone and infrastructure is a key part of meeting the citys goals. Very low maintenance and operational cost of muni makes investing in bicycling really an incredibly Cost Effective way of improving our Climate Change goa...

Doing what we do. And just the bragging slide, a number of awards that either individuals or the agency has won. Ill highlight somebody mentioned it in Public Comment recently. Chris, our director of taxi and Accessible Service was named by the International Association of taxi regulators. The taxi regulator of the year, really a huge honor. You can see sfa park won a number of awards. Theres recognition from outside of the city of the good work that you are enabling. And i want to close this out by walking you through our the results from our employee survey. This is really what was used to s...

Very simple put there are elements of the transit effectiveness project that need to be reevaluated before implementation. There are two elements that many believe are flawed. Getting from point a to point b is the supposed time savings for the individual transit rider or for the muni vehicle . At appears that the proposal are for the vehicle to get to point a to point b at the sacrifice of the passenger to get from starting point a to their final destination point b. Elimination of stops. This means that the individual rider will have to walk a greater destination and the time it takes to wal...

Was hired we have a lot of work to do to hire positions. You authorized positions in the budget and its taking us to too long to get them in place. We have opportunities. Youll hear next about the task force. Were working, i think, better in work closely with our Sister Agency and with Community Groups and were getting much more sophisticated in our Capital Planning and budgeting. Last january we presented the bike strategy and ped strategies. Were updating the fleet plan and well see growth in transit vehicles in that plan. Weve updated our 20 year capital plan that you just improved. Were wo...

Maintain the exterior and the remainder of the stations joint or just bart stations in the south east are the responsibility of bater. Okay. So i am understanding even though there are eight physical bart stations there, there were other facilities that bart and the mta Work Together on so i pds. And the commissioner you had mentioned that when was the last time that bart he is ka layed in the program . And i think that it was a 15 years ago where we had a system wide and we are called the escalator overhaul. But it does not necessarily cover every single escalator, they were identified the gr...