With questions and i appreciate your continued advice, and friendship, thank you. Thank you, mr. Vice chair, commissioner avalos . I would like to thank the director for your service. I had the opportunity to meet your parents and was able to meet him while doing the remocking in the district and giving you a great perspective on how much your family means to you and it is great to hear that you have some time to spend with them. I want to thank you for your Great Service here to the city we have the challenges around the transit and it is important that we have the Transportation Authority and that is really brings the independent thinking to how we make decisions around the transit that can actually hold the city to the higher level in terms of how we plan and how we direct our resources. And i think that you have to provide that and you have been able to assemble a staff around you that bring excellence as well to that vision that you bring. And we are going to miss your work. We ha
Item. 9, update on pedestrian signals. Information item. Chief deputy. Melita. Im here to give a brief presentation you should have. At the july meeting, which was very timely, we funded a lot of pedestrian signals from prop k and proposed from prop aa. The commissioner asked to speak to. The goal to speak to the city and how they are prioritized. [ indiscernible ] thank you for coming in and responding to that request in the last transit and programs meeting. It is important to get in terms of our showing equitable distribution of the count down signals. Appreciate your time. Melita velasco. Im here to provide an over view with the count down signal projects within the city to. Briefly touch upon the status of the signal installation, the city is a pioneer in terms of the count down signals. We started in 2000. I understand new york started in 2011, just last year that. Is something we are very proud of and continue to do this rewarding and safetyrelated work. Our goal is to add these
Professionalism and plain old blood sweat and tears. He has steadfastly helped to grow this organization and create and implement a vision for San Francisco. Which we are realizing today. And as of one of you just said, it is truly a testament that he has such an Amazing Group of people that are so talented and dedicated to a t to the authoritys mission and trying to do the right thing in the city and we truly appreciate e support of this board and prior boards of making this happen. This is really like a celebration of the authority and i would like to take one quick minute to highlights the things that have happened in the past 12 months and completely amazing. When weiss came back to the organization as executive director in 2001, within two weeks he had inserted himself into the 2001 Regional Transportation Plan process which as commissioners weiner and campos knows is at the critical moment that you know which projects will get funded and which wont. And due to his expertise and t
With these are people fleeing from southeastern ukraine. Some have been bomb shelters for nearly 3 weeks. There was no phone reception, so many had no idea how to get out of town with my dollar with us before enough. So some walked 4 hours to a humanitarian corridor that heard about others decide to risk and just drove out, hoping not to get caught in the crossfire. Some were wandering around looking for a way out when they were picked up by russian soldiers the city. Mm hm. With affordable even afford it, but up with should have you been up there with them once they registered the border, theyre taken to a nearby shelter where they can rest, eats and try to regain their strength. Some of these children dont know what a Peaceful World looks like, and some are seeking refuge in russia for the 2nd time. This time people began to arrive after the 18th of february, when they done that scholar gods republics order, the mass speculation of women, children and the elderly men, aged 1855, had
It is truly a testament that he has such an Amazing Group of people that are so talented and dedicated to a t to the authoritys mission and trying to do the right thing in the city and we truly appreciate the support of this board and prior boards of making this happen. This is really like a celebration of the authority and i would like to take one quick minute to highlights the things that have happened in the past 12 months and completely amazing. When weiss came back to the organization as executive director in 2001, within two weeks he had inserted himself into the 2001 Regional Transportation Plan process which as commissioners weiner and campos knows is at the critical moment that you know which projects will get funded and which wont. And due to his expertise and the arena not settling for less for San Francisco which really should have more. We ended up with not just two projects that the city family was going to settle for, but we got the central subway and the terminal and th