The needs of the city and the development in the development and there is development and not nearly enough transit and other partses of the city as well if any other member of the public like to comment, go ahead. And i think that on the Public Transit there are people that can take their own car and drive their own car, just because there is no double parking and i have heard this item before, and i have heard this item before and was brought before us and one thing that i want you to remember, and number one, regarding the task, and what, the what the Mayors Task Force is recommending. And you have to remember, that when prop a was passed years ago, it will have to go before the voters again, for the authorization of the people, because the items that are in prop k, which was grandfathered and prop b which was base passed in 1989 will be able to go forward as planned, as regarding the check. And at the one of the meetings, and the president of the union spoke up and said that the ef
No double parking and i have heard this item before, and i have heard this item before and was brought before us and one thing that i want you to remember, and number one, regarding the task, and what, the what the Mayors Task Force is recommending. And you have to remember, that when prop a was passed years ago, it will have to go before the voters again, for the authorization of the people, because the items that are in prop k, which was grandfathered and prop b which was base passed in 1989 will be able to go forward as planned, as regarding the check. And at the one of the meetings, and the president of the union spoke up and said that the effective project is not really doing or not helping anything rkts it is hurting the people, you are Cutting Service and i echoed those, and i echoed those comments myself. When i spoke up, and it was not, and they are completely, they are completely forgetting about the people that work in hotels and restaurants. And until midnight and one a. M.
Coming in 35 minutes. And i think that we need to think about the fact that every weekend, and perhaps, several times, a week, there are fares and there are closed streets because of conventions. And these Effect People who can get around but the people that the lady mentioned who need to get to work and the doctor and dont have the choices that i do and i think that it is important to remember, that it is more than the infrastructure and the buses it is about thinking about the other choices which are not so obvious, i think that is really important. I live in the hill neighborhood of south of market and i just would like to say that i am disappointed that the congestion pricing did not gel to the top of group it will add, 60 to 80 million a year and, it will assess the people that are using the roads and con jesting the roads and so on on the weekday evening and it will help, make sure that they are contributing fair portion of the revenues. And this, with the bart strike that we lea
And perhaps call on some of you to go to washington and discuss the opportunities, and with the legislators next spring, and regionally, with the reissue of wean and her campos, and to the adoption last year as was mentioned by the chair and commissioner weiner there has been a strong proposal at the mtc to commit of a significant portion of cap and trade expected revenues to the large three largest transit operators and muni bart and transit and we are grateful for the leadership and for the, you know, the cooperation of the colleagues around the bay who do recognize that 80 percent of the rider ship are on the three systems and are responsible and they account for the 75 percent of the transit capitol shortfall in the region, to access these funds, there does need to be a local match and to come up with 30 percent of the funds for the capacity challenge. And we do want to commit ourselves to brief you and your staff as would be useful in addition to working cooperatively with the may
Transportation for a more or a safer reliable and more affordable system for all. My report is on your desk and it does highlight several exciting opportunities to discuss transportation revenue and investments and at the federal, state and local levels. I want to start with the federal conversation. It is coming due for reauthorization in october of next year, conversations are already happening there is one talking about the gas tax at the federal level and trying to address the revenue question and an emerging idea is to allow the local control of funds but the fund program and we will continue to track that and perhaps call on some of you to go to washington and discuss the opportunities, and with the legislators next spring, and regionally, with the reissue of wean and her campos, and to the adoption last year as was mentioned by the chair and commissioner weiner there has been a strong proposal at the mtc to commit of a significant portion of cap and trade expected revenues to th