They can pay more. Thank you very much. applause [speaker not understood]. Jane martin. Beatrice herrera. Cynthia cruz. Good afternoon. Hi, thank you for the opportunity. Im a member of walk s. F. , [speaker not understood] car share and bay area bike share program. And this is my 10 Year Anniversary of riedl a bike to work, Company Shuttle and bike to work. They helped solve answers to commuters like me who doesnt want to drive down to the south bay. It is a similar responsive solution to residents currently being faced in San Francisco. It is proposed by city staff and thank you for your continuing [speaker not understood] to residents of San Francisco and the larger bay area. Thank you. Thanks much. Next speaker, please. Howard strassner followed by [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon, [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon, im Howard Strassner and im privileged to ride muni over 50 years to get to work and around. So, thank you very much for that. But this program and pilot
Well to bond yee who i met with many staff at sfmta over the years. He remains the one who stayed that gave me a hat. [laughter] and because hes a graduate of my alma mater, we wish him well. I have three recommendations for you today. One pertains to the muni plus presentation, that we get a presentation about this. And our recommendation to you is the agency stop putting any resources into the development of the muni plus app. ~ this is an app that exists in an environment of many other apps that provide real time muni information because of the open api that the agency provides. This is an app that doesnt add value. If you look at it on the apple store, youll find it has not a single positive feedback, not one. I mean for the current version of the software. Somebody at our meeting who uses android the situation is pretty grim on that side as well. This is just something that is a need thats already being met by a lot of different apps that are out there. We sort of went around the
My apologies for that. So, today the board is being asked to take action on two things. One is amending the transportation code to create the shuttle permit program. And then the second is to adopt the detailed outline of what it would take to implement this pilot thats in the attachment that you have as part of your agenda item. The next steps, if you choose to move forward, would be to request proposals for stops from the operators and to ask for residents input and muni operators input on specific street conditions, specific stop information. We would then be spending a few months evaluating all of these stops and all of this information and our goal is to approve a network and that would be done by an sfmta hearing officer, and do the processing by june and launch the program in july. Within 18 months the pilot would be complete by december 2015. And that is my overview. Thank you very much. Very comprehensive. Excellent presentation, ms. Payne. Appreciate that. We have been joined
People going short distance, not wanting to rub elbows with the rest of us. [speaker not understood]. I think its very essential they pay every penny [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood] the buses are assigned particular hours a da. Are ~ away [speaker not understood]. Youre going to have to accept that. Let me see. So, we will have to deal with some of the peak hours to deal with some of them. Thank you. Thanks. Next speaker. [speaker not understood]. And Maureen Roland. Good afternoon, ms. Martin. Good afternoon, im jane from people organized employment ride. As you know, we organize lowincome people of transit dependent bus riders. And i appreciate what ed said, this policy debate about the google shuttle really puts the mta in the middle of conversation about bus he. Its about the impact of the Tech Industry, displacement, tenants rights, Affordable Housing, all the issues our members struggle with every day. This city has a very Important Role to make sure that lower
And while the stations are closed at night, the portals to the track way are open and easily accessible to people who want to trespass there. And we should do something about this before, before more people are hurt and also to prevent messes being made in the stations. We also recommend that a recommendation about the fourth and king situation. We recommend the agency place a supervisor at fourth and king at the platform to announce when the next t or n will arrive based on the actual train Departure Time and not the next bus estimate. When you get at the very beginning of the line, of course youre at the end of m judah at fourth and king, next bus directions get very poor. Theyre good and middle, they can see there is a bus approximately is minutes. At the end point at the beginning point, its just guessing about when the vehicle will depart. And we think its better, particularly for the people who are getting off caltrain and transferring to muni to have more reliable information ab