simple ways of telling people this is a way you can get a taxi. we are lost. it's like the credit cards where you put the credit cards on the drivers backs and we told you it would be a disaster and it was. >> you did have a few seconds left. did you want to add anything. >> that's okay. >> it's hard to follow that cartoon. it's pretty good. i did want to speak on the polk thing but i came on a more pressing issue. on van ness avenue and union they just painted a white zone a week ago. i read in the paper a month ago that they proposed they were going to do something from 6-9:00. they painted this white zone and they painted tow away. it's going unparked in 24/7. there is supposed to be a notice given 10 days before a public hearing and at that point they are deciding if they are going to do that it was never on your agenda. so you are not following your own rules which is quite a bit disturbing and also disturbing is the prop b thing. you didn't state when you were asking for public funds. you said you were going to fill the pot holes but you didn't say anything about removing parking. i ride a bike more than anything. i have a lot of dogs in this fight. i appreciate you all trying to keep a balance, but you do have to keep a balance. my constructive thing is you have these 6 proposals, if you make polk street more of a runway for a longer period, you can keep your bike lanes and keep your parking. it's already one way down this lane. there is no good way. it's a compromise, i understand, but it's something you may want to consider. the garage, it was just torn away. it used to fit 40-50 cars. california and polk there is a good area where you can replicate like the one on bush and polk perhaps where the shop is. you can still keep downstairs businesses and if they would look good, but that would take a lot of the heat off. i do appreciate what you are doing but you have to kind of follow your own rules. >> thank you. anyone else care for public comment. seeing none. >> directors moving on. these items are considered to be routine unless a member of the board would like to be considered separately. no. 4 has been considered separately. could we have a brief staff comment on o and p which is revoke right turn only broader street bound and broader stop sign. to highlight that why we are doing this in light of the fact that it's going to affect the 71 and the 6. >> mr. ruskin? >> yes. i have the same question when i saw this come through because it is adding a stop sign which is in the opposite direction we are generally going. but, i think you will hear from mr. yee, there is some specific safety issues with this intersection and after discussions with the munis folks we felt that these changes were the right approach. >> good afternoon, members of the board. if i can have the overhead projector. this is the intersection of hate and broderick. hate street is a the way stop now. north and southbound broderick. hate is coming over 12 percent and after the intersection it goes up another 7 percent. on broderick. goes up 4 percent and goes a little bit over 14 percent. the only flat area in the area is within the intersection. we've had pretty serious documented safety issues up until now. this in the last 5 years it's been 9 reported collisions at the intersection. 8 of them involve, 7 of them involve injuries and 8 of them are the type that would normally be minimized with the insulation of all these stops. 2 involve pedestrians and 2 involve bicycles. over the course of 7 years we have put in measures to obviate the need for stops because we understand the impact it will have in the 71 lines and these including right turn over and broderick. we installed traffic mirror so you can see as we approach and we have stons -- stop signs that say traffic will not stop and we added pedestrian crossing warning signs as well as clearance of red zones in both corners to improve visibility. here is coming up the hill. you can see that you do not see the area within the intersection. here is a picture, if you are standing as a pedestrian on the west side of the crosswalk, you cannot see traffic coming up the hill approaching. after all of these measures, we don't feel the safety issue has been completely addressed. and working very closely with the transit division, at the agency, we as a staff came to the conclusion and always stop, although not the desirable treatment is the way to go at this particular location. the good news that head street is a good opportunity at that time where this location maybe a location with a transit priority feature built in. so i would consider the always stop an is the interim treatment until further improvements are contemplated. >> thank you very much. i think it's important to call this out because the transit riders are going to notice an additional stop and it just highlights the challenges we face with keeping pedestrians safe and sometimes we have to sacrifice a little bit more transit efficiency. thank you. that's my only question other than that, i will move the calendar. is there a second? >> all in favor, say aye. >> aye. >> directors, at this point it would be moving on to item 11 discuss and to discussion a closed section. >> item 11, vote to invoke the attorney-client privilege. >> is there a second? >> all in favor, say >> item 12, announcement of closed session. the board voted unanimously to settle the matter and took no actions. directors would you have a motion to discuss or not discuss? >> all in favor, say aye.o directors moving to to item 10, pending the abandoning vehicle abatement to 23, contingent upon the board of supervisors? >> motion to approve all in favor say aye. >> that concludes the business discussion for today. >> all right.