Was there and many people were in support and critical of the project opposed as to what of the implemented on Mission Street and. To know of feedback a small portion of what we heard the rest is summarized on the website we wanted to make sure that there are others opportunities for people to give input we did a round of merchant walks and engage how people were preserving the project for the Merchants Walk in april immediately after the implementation down the road to many merchants as we could over 4 hundred and 50 in the corridor we heard florida from a vast majority 22 percent their businesses are down and sales were dropping you know the project was not intend to harm merchants or decrease sales but very important to hear that feedback and also to get from merchants ideas that will help improve their conditions at the bottom of the page specific feedback in terms of what people thought will improve the drop in sales the most pronounced was adding nor parking to the corridor that will help to reduce the drop in sales the second survey reached on 14 hundred people in over 3 days in early june and july along the project corridor the democrat graphs were identical to the survey prior to legislation most notably the majority were hispanics and protecting and as you can see on the right of screen the travel mode distribution is identical so reinforcing what we heard the number of drivers to Mission Street increased by one percent but roughly around the same so the vast majority of the residents are visiting Mission Street by walking or muni and we also asked about how people are changing their patterns to Mission Street and about 78 percent were visiting Mission Street the same or more before the project and 12 were coming less frequently. Additional results from this survey from those that indicated they primarily walked to Mission Street 81 percent were there thought it was safer and roughly 2 3rds of muni riders felt the bus was quicker and more reliable and received the traffic time 20 minutes this is a a specific we didnt expect this number to be high but highlights the factors and the peoples perception not just the travel time but the new buses their ears to get on and off and the actual travel time understandable from the motors weve spoken to they felt it was difficult to assess the Mission Street and much more difficult to find parking than the beginning of the project. So with that, all that information we learned over the past few months not easy to strike a balance from what we can change to address negative feedback but maintain the goals of the project i want to see thank some of the Community Leaders in the room today worship patient to work with us and coming up with some ideas that could address what were hearing oufshl not from some of the people in the communities that not in such but this is as much as we feel can be chained wows with or without impacting the removing two of the 6 right turns as i mentioned will provide a easier way to find parking and creates 4 blocks stretches versus the two blocks to find parking and convenient for customers to the corridor and not the analysis onehalf done and modeled their inadvertently impact the service weve seen this will obviously dramatically make the experience for drivers easier but based on feedback from drivers we dont think that you know the cesar chavez intersection is one of the intersection theyll like move forward it makes it easier do get into the corridor before you the lynch pin that requires the adverse impacts if we approach we heard feedback if the muni operators and moving the bus stop from the position back to near side this will feel like creating a safe environment and based on a request from you in december 21st street be a location that taxis are allowed to take left turns. So we recognize that the legislation before you is not all that we could do to address the comments weve heard we are working on a number of things listed with various partners in the community and other agencies in the city so to speak of specifically adding more signages to direct people to the parking garages of 4 hundred and 50 pays share vastly underutilized and 40 percent of spaces are open so we want to make sure that people are aware of the garages by adding signage that will be at next week we also did a campaign to advertise those by signage to the merchant and want early results one week significant increases during the days of week a pro tem result and continue to monitor that and working with oewd and the ata to promote the businesses in the corridors hispanic run businesses and promoting those to the regional and local communities and working with sf public works for the near term and Long Term Solutions to a feeling of being in the sidewalks on cesar chavez and have designs were working with the communities on now and able to implement something near term and longerterm more permanent. With that, thank you for your time and ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you, thank you i think well hear from the members of the public a number of folks. The first person was jim calling names . I dont see jim. He left calling names . Good afternoon good afternoon again im kathy the program and policy you said wiener okay inaudible . Can i start over with my time. Hi, im kathy the policy and Program Manager with walk sf weve been talking with lots groups about the concerns and a lot of them are talk circle about their concerns ill let the groups take care of that i want to focus on Pedestrian Safety that is my exercise and want to see share two of mire concerns with the project the first is if any of the right turns that are removed we really hope and want to see that transit efficiency is prioritized that might mean getting into the weeds of some of the parking with the right turns with removed to the bus didnt get belonged behind cars we know that when transit is efficient fewer people drive and that means that percent are safer we want this change remained and make sure the safety at the location is prioritized we moping we can work with city staff to make that happen this will not surprise you were extremely opposed to any communications to left turn restrictions 28 percent of pedestrians collisions is caused by left turn vehicles 28 percent of pedestrian collisions thats why that staff recommended reich the left turns along this corridor and other corridors we know that exemption are confusing we know a follow the leaders thing tends to happen when some cars turn left for example, we saw the dangers consequence someone was killed as market had left turn restrictions but a car hit two families and killed her we dont want to see this on mission he know those are dangerous behaviors and stop them from happening we encourage you not to allow comments to the left turn restrictions thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Fran taylor calling names . Gooimz a fran taylor i think the last times, i. E. , was staring i was fighting to keep the castro and the chief executive officer that works for 10 years to make cesar chavez safer and talk about a bare it used to be 6 lanes of speeding traffic a lot safer now i dont on the imposed right turn brings that near to where that was was in 2006 it was named one of the top 10 months dangerous intersections in the city commissioner kwon of the things it got its start and i want to speak in favor of the bus service as a person that used muni and seize the riders are overwhelmingly low income people and people of color and in terms of better Reliable Service the other benefit less overcrowding as who suffers when the busses are over crowded people with children holdings on the poles with one hand and other kid you have to a be an octopus ive rind the busses it is no fun people cant see a senior to give a seat to 80 a disability there and people dmoout besides the people that are shopping not wealthy people and Security Guard and secretaries and retails clerks working people from the excelsior not rich neighborhoods i just have one suggestion about the tweaks 21st street i support a turn for carvings but 21st is blocked at guerrero and well be going past culprit and sgranls maybe if street will be a better street. Next speaker, please. calling names hi commissioners im on the Pedestrian SafetyAdvisory Commission and represent the kids of sfusd john winston. Seat on the pasting Advisory Commission. There are many schools and students Walking Around my children go to Mission High School and wonder up and down Mission Street it is the data has said and the data is data and the facts say it is satisfactory on Mission Street i want to be one of the people that speak in favor of the changes and speak up for transit first in the city what i hear even in the last item i heard someone say i have children and not drive or ride in a bus with can i see thats impossible it is possible and more possible when we have better busy raised 3 kids in the city and never had a car and be able to do it is possible to again even though to the church and synagogue and the store this goes for anyone ive been handicapped i have a bad back it happens it can be done as the city get more crowded and the number of people come to our city we have a choice of allocating limited real estate to the cars or to buses and the choice it clear i came here to speak farther of transit first thank you. Next speaker, please calling names . I want to speak in support of work ive bend from the traffic calming and little bus theres faster buses down mission it is great and i think those changes proposed strike a good balance between retaining the district of the project i think is essential and meeting the communities needs the major point as a lesson from the whole experience how important up Front Community engagement is i believe that much of the up front engagement was done sincerely and executed efficiently the problem is i dont know those methods are sufficient to comfortable snuff people in the planning process before you start and help people envision the changes it is hard to go probation officer meetings and listen to a power point and know what that means to you and in terms of it is on a wednesday night we urge you to focus on the new techniques to engage nor people in the conversation earlier in the planning process we were excited to learn weve received a grants from the Transit Center for innovation in transmit to work with the sfmta to develop the new technology for early gave me and were looking forward to doing that. Thank thank you very much. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon again a list here im congratulations on the good work on Mission Street. Thank you matt for putting up with us im sure not easy one thing he forgot to mention a suggestion i made if you want to bring businesses back to Mission Street youll advertise free parking and the other thing in terms of the thing i cant get and get into the weeds we want to slow down lombard and speed up up buses not the traffic this is absolutely no reason to force cars to turn ever if you think that cars dont know how to get around a traffic jam you dont know anything about cars think that if youre walking or biking or whatever and something in your way youll take a turn and go somewhere else you dont need to be forced to turn that does that make sense so basically the other thing give us the 60,000 for instead of spending pr people hand it to us to pay for the saturdays parking and well have people there in no times and the businesses will be tyler. Next speaker, please. calling names gamechanger im bryan with the San Francisco transit riders and a block away from Mission Street i drive i walk, and i take the bus i dont use my bike and i support the design changes here he also support the tweaks with the project i think the 26 streets right turn forced right was very unnecessary i think also that the fact that it will be every 405 plain clothes a forced turn will allow people to navigate the situation much better whether their local or far away i would like to super support the no left turn i have a 4yearold duty ii holds her hand when i cross the street but always, always looking to the left turn people i have almost been hit myself where people have a phone in their hand we pedestrians are at risk whole thing we cross the street for left turn people thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon director housing again, i want to support 24 project it shows when you make steps to make muni better everything works better the changes i like except for a left turn we use no left turns as a way to move traffic in any streets in this city a very good way to move transit and not restrict ourselves ourselves this left turn will make problems with one is worse than having nun and the nun is the best you can do this overall project shows a narrow street you cant say do everything in a narrow street you cant have people parking cars so what is happens here because it is narrow the throw traffic has left this is why the streets works and you have to support that i live near west portal with no traffic castro and my street has through and terryville and the terryville didnt have thorough traffic everything cant work in the city in the same bag you have to realize that so getting back to no left turns is better and not worry about the throw traffic they move on their own but sometimes direct them and it works much better thank you for your work. Next speaker, please. calling names. good afternoon. Sir. Good afternoon. My name is gabriel with meta this project was ill minded and con seeptd on Mission Street that weve seen weve meta serve 7 thousand locking latino families that disproportionately use mini and see the 50 percent of stop consolidates and report a reduction of traffic for the merchants it is 50 percent of their businesses business we started thirty new enterprises a year that starting storefront and they recorded a half reduction in their revenue there are businesses not going to renew their leases because of traffic and this puts gentrification on stories 3 Community Meetings the community said dont do this were going massive evictions go we have mass fires and massive displacement a third of population and for some reason this show us no capacity i dont think anyone at the muni said they understood this is Latino Center of the city and didnt understood this is a low riders culture no more in the plan ware asked to remove cesar chavez instead of having a corridor you have a law we are talking about increasing and Glen Eagle Golf Course back. Transit stops it patdz if you look at the data the data shows preservation data not at the poll and nonbias were talking about the bus stops and keeping the mission whole and turning our every four blocks is not keeping the communities whole thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon eric with quatro i want to say i and go with everything is eric said once the changes were made i talked to folks on 24th street and early on the changes every business is logging business and waited a couple of weeks and did another run the other way from 20th to 17th street talking to the asian and latino stores and again 99. 9 percent are losing business didnt change and some talked about not be able to a to pay their rents i do not know what the data they get their data from working with the merchants foreign over 20 years and living in the mission for over 50 years talking with the merchants and things have not changed we need to do better those changes la not make that better for the businesses i ride a bike adrive a car we need to recruit the businesses lets include the latino riders on the bus they said it is difficult to get them and shop easier Mission District and but get a real analysis what is happening on Mission District. Next speaker, please. calling names . I can put it on the overhead for people to see. Good afternoon. My name is roberto and born and raised in the Mission District and here representing the Merchants Association we had absolutely little involvement in the development of this project and in fact, we got 13 people to help us do our own survey which i hoped i would have been able to give you. Does this thing work. Yes. It is on. You cant say read this. So let me go through it really quick we surveyed three hundred plus business between cesar chavez and 14th street and three hundred and one recorded a loss sing this program and 33 people have been laid off by various businesses they can due to the losses they cant employ people 14 businesses have closed since this program was insulate and 3 businesses are currently going to be closing in addition to the 14 and currently 23 vacate storefront and lost 29 businesses to the fires in on Mission Street we basically did a survey of the businesses and said would you support going back to the 4 lanes with a red lane dedicated south bay and one north bay for muni and out of the three hundred and 87, three hundred and 17 are in support and also ask do about the removal of right turns three hundred and one are in favor of the removal of all the right turns and asked would you be in support of no northbound from 6 00 a. M. Three hundred and 3 were in support that have. Wow. Next speaker, please. calling names. good afternoon. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, im john with the 24 ive been with 24 for 20 years fighting for merchants and neighbors and in the process with the mta i mean, if you ride the bus i encourage anyone to rid from excelsior to de bois the rierpdz rooichdz is not here chinese and others to reach out has not been interest it is ridiculous what youre doing you need to take away the right turns and you need to give us our neighborhood back until you come up with a plan that works for everybody the ridership youre saying is getting 10 minutes faster thats the one percent not us thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Hi there thank you my name is aden owner the aortas and design and president of the intruts organization and lived on and off Mission DistrictMission Street for 20 years and owned any business for 20 years thank you for the left turns signals on 29 and valencia this solves our Pedestrian Safety along the southern stretch of bernal what didnt feel safe is the bus stop if youre going to change a bus stop make sure that lighting and seating are included in the plan and the bus stop is in front of a preschooler causing noise for the children and teachers and encourage you to spent a lot of time with the Business Owners before implementing those chances the right turn on cesar chavez impacts the businesses it makes our neighborhood less assessable if a customer drives it bundles them away from the neighborhood if they cant find parking on mission they dont shop or support our local businesses the right turns divide Mission Street we ask you to remove all of the forced right turns on mission instead of 26 and 22 we were told at a recent meeting there is 60 thousand available for marketing in the mission and bernal corridors who is telling our stories we dont have to wait mile more businesses close the money in the way of communities gransz will help our shared neighbors spread the words fast our businesses need support thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Good afternoon peter Cultural Action Network i want to follow up on the comments. Start by tring director reiskin for really deeper dive into the problems we think theyre significant and not what were seeing today addresses them fundamental core problems the tweak doesnt address i think youve heard from residents a moment ago we want our neighborhood back the things like a perception it is safer we see no data that says the small side streets for children are less safe those are the kind of studies weve asked for for 6 months we are frustrated in fact, it is a safety issue and so the perception is numbers or is perception this neighborhoods has been given away something not a perception some of the data; right . So neighborhoods groups collecting data how devastating those impacts im alarmed and hope our alarmed to see businesses closing 33 employee laid off and theyre saying their sales are down an incredible number next the fear of the globalization of Mission Street were seeing nothing in this proposal that will reverse that opportunity as businesses are pushed out theyll not be removed replaced by upscale bars and restaurants we dont get a lot of cars on Mission Street and business has collapsed and we need a mechanism to reverse the change were tweaking around the edges so, please take seriously that kind of fundamental change as needed thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Herbert wiener. One thing ive noticed in the San Francisco examiner they had an article on Mission Street and one person presents in the audience stated that a heck of a lot of people use muni and thats certainly true but a heck of a lot of people that drive cars, too, and the evidence that businesses are smash on Mission Street is in the declining revenue and possibly empty cash registers because people dont shop there anymore why are you wrecking the economy of Mission Street which is a vital area in the city i was in the richmond what is happening to the Mission District could happen to my district this is a warning and dont like the way youve removed bus stops long block on Mission Street i have to see myopia technologist i have to walk i am 70 years of age are you going to dimple people on paratransit theyve over loaded and a reasonable way of access to businesses and services and your impairing them your wrecking Mission Street in worse shape than ever before and i think that what is happening this is a things were much better before businesses were put in place im not recommending anything about turns or anything im recommending you turn under our policy theyre very bad and ill thoughtout and evidenced at the Mission Cultural center we had a severe polarization your friends on the boards in the faces of other people seriously effects and very ugly to see next speaker calling names . Good afternoon. Williams here again im actually, this is actually an interesting issue i think that neither see wants bodies wants the is a thing no one wanted to be adapted and pedestrians to get hurts we want a faster muni we can agree to that i think there is an opportunity for the sfmta to engineer a solution but instead of a black and white lens ill give you awning example is 23 and mission the produce center they lost their bus stop when i was a little kids one block was a weeks worth of groceries i couldnt only imagine a person suffers through the cheese cakes the ripening component people sometimes in the east bay dont have the cultures rich . When i want fresh vengeance my colleagues say weve been adapt there is hard data i think and building in eastern it matt did a great job who have present a better solution before rolling out the county project we have come up with compromises we want to be constituent yes, were the minority that reflects that but we still matter as well thank you. Thank you next speaker. calling names . Good afternoon. Peter on behalf of the San Francisco transit riders as you may know our transit Action Committee were supportive of this action since the beginning and painful to see the division of the communities that has resulted but strongly support the project aims and basically continuance i also want to commend the staff for their recent force to develop the data particularly in terms of the survey the surveys that have been constricted that is almost unprecedented for projects like this and wonderful to shine the light of data you know on some of the things weve been sharing our opinions we support the commitment of staff and hopefully, your. writing on board. to maintain the essentials of project i have to tell you it was surprising to me ive heard from a lot of the members through emails theyre very concerned about making any changes to the project and from that you know id like studio ask you to be very judicious and the changes i do recommended with respect to chavez one of the key elements of project and we understand and you work you not to waiver from maintaining the terminations of this location, however, i think that some additional work will be warranted to doing everything we can to facilitate those moechltsz from chavez from mission to chavez and on to south van ness they could use some additional efforts and appreciate the fire youve come under on this project and hope you dont maintain your commitment to it i appreciate your patience and appreciate our commitment to vision zero and to the data approach thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Hi good afternoon. So i want to speak a little bit about the sfmta red tape ive been running the meeting for seven years as well as working in the mission as well as organizing there i im not sure why you guys didnt pick the 49 is it is a heir pant reds would video been better i came from la we have rapid bus along wilshire i wilshire insure cause huge, huge traffic jams and makes that is force right is extremely dangerous at the 20th and mission that forces you right and causes a huge traffic between 20th and 21st as far as the outreach im not sure if it was culturally expensive or what not as far as i know the pr fund is 40 or 50 thousand; right . Id rather p do that i need to be outreaching in the communities to be able to speak spanish and multi languages as far as i mean im not quite sure when i did outreach for the bryant i went down technologists merchants and almost every single merchant mind it is how often across where vanessa meets mission or the plants a st. Luke its been moves half a block into u hsa and the stop at the twit and Mission Behind the stable is not assessable as far as the telephone and the 27 which are the further it stops their horrible a maybe because from across town maybe the 49 verse the 14 was a turn at the cesar chavez thank you. calling names thats the last person that turned in a card. Good afternoon. Good afternoon i appreciate all the work that you put in but id like to see more competent input im a bus rider and ive been riding the muni since november of 2011 and like the way things were before i know that there are people that have to get to work on time thats why the red lines lanes were put in to increase the efficiency the taxi driver im an environmentalist i care about the impact we live here thats where the periods of geologic period the human being impact is effecting the environment we live in im definitely a proponent of mass transit but i dont want it to be at the expense of the businesses because i frequent the businesses in the mission because i live in the mission and i want people there to be able to maintain their businesses and employ people would you tell us jobs or source of income people will not be able to pay their rents and next thing theyll be on the street and a bigger homeless problem i want you to make carve decision it impacts the communities in terms of jobs, environment and homelessness please before you make changes to a study take surveys of people that be directly impacted by it the residents. Thank you under the circumstances please. calling names . Sir. Hi barry with the San FranciscoTaxi Alliance before you made those changes we were told that the taxis would still be able to make at least some left turns not a left turn no left turns. We would be able to make left turns off of mission that effects our passengers we have to go around the block several times through traffic and i think youll be helping you know passengers and the flow of traffic as well as advertising if you would it cuts off at guerrero a logical street 18 but 18 mailers and 26 street because it is right before cesar chavez so i recommend you do more studying on that i dont have a problem with forcing cars to turn right im not sure what that does im sure get rid of of that and parking is a big problem for businesses ive seen businesses go out of businesses and a Sandwich Shop on divisadero is not there if you want to getting into the weeds of traffic scars into all over the state and 37 thousands of them now and their double parking anticipate and nobody is enforcing in and no Mission Controls and articulating people out of buses and adding cars to the streets instead of the opposite. Thank you. Next speaker. laughter. clark. Hi laura grow sf and i appreciate how difficult this is for you were undergo a process of retrofitting our city first getting into the weeds of the trolley cars and embraced a infrastructure for decades and were now going through a difficult process of realizing that all of the poverty delineation and proviolation of law and anti sproul we have a retrofit our city and embrace Public Transportation in a way frankly that is painful to those that are invested in the Current System i think so that is very difficult to balance the needs of various communities but we need to go forward we cant go back but embrace a Public Transportation and thats Public Transportation over parking and we need to release that the vast majorities of people that want to live and work in the city want to use Public Transportation to get around i dont own a car i shop in the mission all the time and want to extend my money but frankly hard to get to the mission by Public Transportation from my neighborhoods im a thirty minute walk from the missions and a 25 minute Public Transportation trip in the mix thats ridiculous we need to get people in and out of the area and we need them to not use cars as much in the decades previous i understand you guys have a lot of difficult choices to make but hope you realize the future of our city is Public Transportation thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names. good afternoon. Hi, im Marie Sorenson i filled out a speaker card i it out ill come up and talk if youre goal to sclos the intermission businesses and further gentrify the Mission Union donna done a great job those are disasters two minutes faster to destroy the businesses thats ridiculous they come to the existence of destroying every other bus stop im disability and to walk two blocks is a hardship sometimes last thursday i waited 25 minutes i had to come to a hearing here i went down to Mission Street and thought ill take the bus the 49 and zip me up the street 25 minutes to the next bus and up Mission Street a lot of people at the bus stop clearly buses are not running that much faster the 14 r was even slower and the 49 was even slower oh, and just by happenstance i was on the bus today and riding the 49 up and heard i mentioned something about the bus stop the bus e ruptsd people were complaining left and right of chances are not changes beneficiary to people that ride the bus their policy walks and once again the mission is the testing ground for all those crazy bus plans that mta comes up with with no real benefit thank you. Thank you next speaker. calling names . Good afternoon. Good afternoon. First of all, i want to say welcome to your last Commission Director hsu that joined you and happy to have you on the boards im the chair of the San Francisco riders and also the founders of the low hate merchants an organization much will i arrest guerillas that has merchants and neighbors in mind when we make decisions again the neighborhoods i am snerm very satisfied as a bus rider the ride i get on missiis much, much faster i go to the mission as a result how fast and unweave and any best if my work to the polk and market to the excelsior in 14 minutes on the r that would have been unhalfhearted if the past times for transit riertsdz that helps putting on any Small Business hats im a Small Business owner myself and concerned at the desperateness and the evidence of both data not one is data theyre both data but a difference between the data presents by the sfmta and the data presents by the gentleman right there who you know seemed compelling to me, im urge you sfmta to see if you can workout how to be such data is absolutely critical we take care of our Small Businesses very little in the city for Small Businesses were in deep trouble and do need for the city to look after us because no one else is so thank you. Thank you. Anyone else care to address the board. Two speakers calling names . Good afternoon. Hello, im paula i was here in august for the carville stops. I know. It needs to be about the mission. I understand bus all over the city sfmta is removing bus stops and you talk about how removed a lot of bus stops on Mission Street to save two minutes and theres a lot of talk about how great saving two minutes is but for a lot of people that have to washer foster to the bus stop it take much longer than two minutes for many seniors and people with disabilities and families with children and people with grocery bags it takes even longer than and a great difficulty so i urge you to balance the concept of safety two minutes with the hardships your imposing on people when those two minutes are savings on the bus it takes a lot longer and eliminating every other stops your exterminating residents to walk longer and when theyre walking to the further bus on mission the buses will go by and run to catch it and youll waits locker for the next bus i attended the meeting on june 20th and want to represent some of what the people said he cant come to a meeting at the 1 oclock but people that strongly oppose the reason vibrations and how difficult to do to turn right and get back on Mission Street it caused problems and a lot of talk about opposition to the forced right turn on cesar chavez and how that impacts the community and woke up the community and opposition to the restrictions of left turns because you use nor gas and difficult to turn right and left and left. Anyone else care to address the board. calling names good afternoon. Good afternoon yeah. What she said make sense to me in that i guess i feel like you know ive got a partial recommendations of visibility senior, you know, lover of the mission ive testified at the Small Business commission that i dont go to any spaghetti shack anymore what you did to that end of the mission has deficit it and no parking down there i am not ive gone and circled and circled and got frustrated and called the people i am in no mood to go to dinner the division of mission it is real and stopping people like me that want to meet someone for dinner at the spaghetti shack is real as a customer ive testified that mission businesses have lost so there are real impacts and i heard testified earlier that while not enough space you know and got to alleviate ever damn inch in the city ill say every damn inch in the city until it is totally unliveable no reason that every damn inch of the Cultural Corridor that shopping corridor needs to be turned into a transrich highway there is van ness on one side and setting in at you dont need all 3 buses on this street this isnt your trait heir this is a Cultural Corridor that needs balance and even a mix between the drivers that come here to go to the businesses and the transit riders that are within the mission and you know lets those that are trying to get to one side of town bypass it dont go down Mission Street lets have balance and lastly is i keep on hearing people talk about safety and safety is like on skews yes, a left turn is far more dangerous than a round i have to turn right 3 times across 12 crosswalks and two bike lanes you tell me this is a safer. Anyone else care to address calling names . My name is jamie ross and a lot of things i agree with and disagree we have been said my pet peeve i dont understand how an mta can not understand that forcing people to make a round on Mission Street to make a left turn obtain south vanessa they didnt consider the fact that there are back up of all these on that street i cant believe that im saying is it seems to me the mta maids decisions strike for themselves and not for anywhere else or anyone. Anyone. How about. You come forward if you want to address the board. Okay. Tom gil gil yi maybe parts one up to implementation and part two the act by the public in the performance with the intelligent conversation and stlints thoughts and intelligent reactions and again, you have to continue to show up not a onetime show is it faster on the bus lines because there is less businesses and less people he is everything maybe buses move faster in two minutes pursue right turns with pedestrians is slow left turns are dangerous so have we explored all the ways to commute or turns dedicated times for right turns theyre saying theres a way dedicated times for left turns and those are simple simple have we tried all of them at that moment in time i if we havent we should thank you. Next speaker hello, im mary im speaking as a person that lived in the Mission District and educator 80 that taught commissioner moran in the Mission District going to outside schools and as an artist that performs with a group with the Mission Cultural center we won the grand prices for the carnival and the majority of the dancers dont live in San Francisco ive been a member of the hope over 15 years and the majorities are busing in the east bay in terms of what is happening in the artists communities and the in terms of the reds lanes to the neighborhoods when you talk about the respiratory systems you have to call a spade a spade who are you represented by the status in terms of what is happening in the Mission District it is clear at this time what is happening with housing and the resolution links an ethnic cleansing of the mission a large large hispanics population hats drivers side and this happens without the consent of the community and long term residence elderly and people with handicaps and hats off to the with back problems they have hard work and going two blocks is it so painful to watch people that doesnt know where the busses are and the elderly blown away by the buses and trying to figure out whos going on in terms of the safeties the other day i was walking down the street and a bicyclist was hit by a car that was not an uber or you know there are no bulk and mass quite frankly on the red lane in terms of bike safety not true. Anyone else members of the board. I have a lot of objections ill start off i live at mission and richmond and dont own a car i run the Restaurants Association and many restaurants along Mission Street i have the interesting conflicted feeling i have all those things to take into consideration and first, the issue around intent i feel so often we talk about those things people think there mta has malicious intents we engage in the muni quality strategy report in april a lot of communities groups involved in the Strategy Group and one of the corridors identified for support was the Mission Corridor in the quantity report talking about that issue the reason it is a big issue something call the times penalties and commute and it shows that black communities 3 housing unit 6 times it takes them longer and asianamerican 34 and latinamericans based on nationals states and studies and all the work is targeting pop people that live in the excelsior district being able to get to the Mission Corridor faster not the businesses a huge were trying to destroy the communities thats not at all point the point people of color is disproportionately impacted how long it takes from where they live farther from the core of activity to the areas of activities thats the point and what we were trying to do and were really working on doing throughout the city the reason with the mode shift has not happened in San Francisco in thirty years with the transit first muni is not faster and when everybody talks about muni how long is takes you across town or a ride share youll choose all those things i take that bus everyday it is fascinating i take it everyday every day several times and many times on the wellness, etc. I tell you my experience i take the 14 r to the bart not the 14 r it makes me i cant stand the amount of time on the first year r it is packed when it gets to richmond weve not gotten to the mission im in bernal that bus is packed and it is full of seniors and all people of color. Matt and i want to i want to put that out there i think this as previous acceptance i take video all seniors and asian elderly and latino families with their children thats why their children to school and a lot of people going to school and commuters and the commuters all day long the 14 r is at r as packed like quote quotes regular Business Hours as during the displacement i take the bus around 10 00 a. M. And it is packed its interesting not talking about people going downtown and the other thing most of bus is cleared before you, you get to downtowns most people are taking trips later than Mission Street i know i take trips along the Mission Street it is true simply 80 percent of riser radio low income and people of color like myself that is true that many of the beneficiaries of the faster trait are those people im not i dont want to dismiss that that is really important everyday the 14 r picks up people in wheelchairs and people with disabilities and seniors that push themselves on the 14 r versus the regular 14 bus for them they want to get somewhere faster to their doctors appointment or stores or home we have to remember at the end of the process whatever the answers have to get to a place where people that are dependent Public Transit are able to get places more quickly their time is just as variability like me that can afford to pay for a taxi thats what were really trying to solve i dont know that that to get lost in the discussion when mta is doing this and trying to ruin everyones lives ill start with that, i think that in terms of looking at the actually corridor we have some challenges we know the businesses are struggling i do want to point out i surveyed a restaurant members and people are seeing lower scales it is hard to contribute how much for the bus lanes quite frankly if you are in town square and look at the courts revenue it is down it is true that the revenues that the ports Rainyday Fund from the businesses along the ports on town square people are talking about business is down a slow down im not saying this is the total reasons for things happening on Mission Street but two forces that could be causing and perfect storm i want to acknowledge that a larger issue the city needs to understand why businesses are slowing down im a big proponent of pulling commissioner karshmers to see what is happening on the corridors and other things from feedback from businesses businesses no Parking Zones to deal with that i think we have to figure that out out during the time an is survey with businesses are open until 10 00 a. M. And maybe around the rush hour i dont have the answer i think that within of the unfortunate things when we put down the reds paint didnt repave the streets that is ugly in that some of the cords it is not as pollutant and something that in the fire chief as we a look at up the street part of 24 sales tax goes through and the bond money to resurface the street ultimately we on the intent requests right. I think what we need to do it right and speed up up transit on that corridor i dont have the perfect answer for the right outcome some the suggestions eastern moving that from 23 21 and fought for the people that have the pickup and delivery issues to better work with them and figured out you know do those traffic counts in those areas the right turns to see if people where theyre going im happy to hear we have the parking garages and that has a consequence we were able to get people to use those umph and this is a partnership not about pushing people out but bring them in and having people to get to where they need to be quickly and figure out how to work on this together that means some restrictions that people dont like today and in addition there might be restrictions to right turns but i dont think that the solution is ripping out the red lanes and the prioritization as a daily rider i see the difference that the people are prioritizing taking the 14 right direction over and over the 14 more Ferry Building tells me people want to get places quickly ive not rinds the 49 but it is painful that Everybody Knows the 49 it takes forever to get anywhere the challenges we will have in the city trying to speed up up muni and remove bus stops if we wanted to make it more enjoyable well have to getting into the weeds of the bus stops no, if and and buttons sometimes your favorite bus stop ill lucky my bus stop is on the corner but not ink wanted that i want to say were here to partner with you this whole process with the endeavor with the meeting with the change were caring is continuing to engage with the businesses in the Large Community to make sure were not were actually helping with the movement of the people and good ideas with that, i want to say im supportive of what some of the changes suggested im going to talk about with the commissioners about some of the other items inch brought up and thank you for your time. Thank you i have no questions i think that director borden said that im willing to support this and Going Forward that staff will continue to work with the communities and make sure but a good compromise keeping the benefits and remove some of the burden from the car drivers and work with the communities to see how we can make this the best project move to approve. Second. Director ramos. Thank you thank you all for your time and coming out, i know that is gentlemen this is the way we pronounce it in spanish not arguello it kills me we have a conversation about that we need to fixed that valencia my wife said if you do anything gets those names changed on the announcements. I said thats a different announcement laughter i really appreciate Defenders Office remarks there are 67 thousand riders. Thank you those folks ask any of them that wants the bus to go slower and yet if we dont do anything that will gets slower at the service gets slower and more comprehensive to operate and the more expensive to operate the more expensive the fairs and the cuts to endure so if we get people and especially people of low income and people of color with disabilities of age to make improvements to make our Transit Service more efficient is this the actual perfect solution i dont know we really dont we know we can monitor the data and make adjustments. Things go along larceny a number of folks calling for data i agree we should be getting that data and use it for future decisions in the future i hope and trust that staff was the president on getting data as we go along and revenue this i know that monthly we look at data at the policy and Governance Committee and we look at ridership and how imaginations or things are bunching and how expensive i hope well fought i fill out what is working and not working for the longest time i didnt understand why we were forcing cars to turn right off of Mission Street and it become clear staff explained i wish we could make this for public we have transit down dedicated lanes moving quickly in one direction traffic slowing down going the other direction we lost all the benefits from the out bounds direction we have to get that traffic out of the way to avoid the bench bunching i understand we but doing everything we can question make sure we minimize the impact on businesses and merchants they matter as i said with respect to the institutions we care about maintaining oversee institutions and these cultural hubs they represent a value that i think a lot of us are sentimental and have to find a balance but as one person said i believe fran taylor said if you cant come at the expense of the riders the riders themselves have hustling he understand the problems of gentrification and displacement but the transit only lanes were not the cause of fires on the mission in the mission theyre not the cause of the prices of real estate jacking up the rents for the Small Businesses having to close have they helping people to get competitive in an extensive committee ive riddens the 14 but not on the 49 i heard people saying im late because the traffic on the bus is really slow when you happens over and over you get in trouble as an hourly worker and janitors and folks that are riding this line and need to be able to get to work on time and quickly now if this numbers goes from 67 thousand riders everyday and that starts to decrease were now moving in the wrong direction i doubt that will happen the relationships will increase as it becomes more frequent and reliable and i think well see a need to expand the benefits additionally where respect to getting impact to the businesses and supporting them this is discouraging to hear the parking garage is not full we need to certainly need to make parking nor available we need to reduce the cost of parking i know that is really expensive to park and thats a huge did he terminal lower the costs on the parking garage is more turnover instead of people sitting around and get people that want to stay all day to work in the garages where it is more affordable it is less convenient to park in a garage it is an education that it is too expensive he overly utilizations with the streets parking it means its too cheap it is i dont know how it is not totally like obvious so ill hope if we are trying to make the support the businesses with parking well make sure that the parking available by pressing parking the way it needs to be be that in response to the demand it has and if the parking garage is not filling up that is good expense we need to reduce the costs i will certainly support this but make a note that staff needs to monitor the data on collisions youve done a great job on collisions and travel times for everyone including cars, including transit riders and bicyclists, pedestrians everyone should be monitoring them that and getting the counts how many cars on mission and pedestrians are traveling on mission and how many riser i think it is satisfactory to ride a bike on Mission Street it is slower and safer to rides as someone that rides a bike it certainly needs to be it is slower and feels safer to ride a bike and, of course, also get counts on the muni collisions that was an important reason why were in so doing this this reduces the collisions were having so frequently when those that is were with the buses so i this is so close we see the mission changing it is heartbreaking the intent of the mta to make people get along and more quickly and competitive to maintain the communities we love so much. Director hsu. Yeah. Thank you all for the excellence comments and feedback it is a tough i know that the parking is a factor and im it is useful to know what the number is whatever you have a big change a transition period we want to make sure the businesses that are struggling dont go out of business and cant benefit and things start to improve one thought that was suggested to me to look at ways to expands the parking by looking cap street maybe staff can look at replacing the angleed parking and it is compelling that parking is available in garages this investment period everybody from riders is trying to take advantage of the way to do things and so some of the Customer Base is taken away and not replaced if youre losing on this you know whether the number is 10 percent or 50 perris 10 percent can be a big factor so id like to see about that possibility and seeing what we can do with cap street and other areas and in general, i think that is really good to push the notion to make folks aware of the garages the annual celebration of hardly strictly bluegrass is always a hit now completing itself 12 year of music in the incredible golden gate park. 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