Speed is 8 and a half miles an hour. On average, and that is what the muni vehicle is helped fast or slow and they travel around the city that has dramatic consequences in terms of people being able to rely on muni to get where they are going, quickly as opposed to crawling at a snails pace. And it has dramatic implications in terms of the cost of operating the system, and if you have slower moving buses, you need to put more buses on to a line, and in order to keep service up and so you are spending more on vehicles, and you have to have more drivers, on the staff. And if you can speed up the system, even by just a few Miles Per Hour on average that will have dramatic impacts on reducing munis cost in addition to getting people to where they are going faster and so all of these choices, they are painful, whatever you are talking about changes in bus stops, and if you are talking about transit only lanes, and if you are talking about the red lanes like we have on Church Street now and
Better, for people who are vulnerable, whether it is a person with a baby in a stroller, and a toddler, and having to cross an extra couple of intersections whether it is a senior or a person with a disability. We are not hearing any answers, there is an avoidance. The fact that this is meant for engineering design, was used last week and saying that figuratively some of these concerns dont matter, but the packet that you have before you shows the specific stops being eliminated and so the money is going to go towards eliminating stops and that is something that nobody has adequately addressed. And you are going along, a path that may in the future be dangerous and i am going to say it again, it could open up the city, for liability, because you are just not addressing these safety questions. Thank you, for your comments, next speaker please . Yes, my name is jackie sacks and i want to echo what he just said about regarding eliminating the stops and everything, but one thing that you a
Please . It seems is there a reason why you have a subtotal for each category. For a, b, c and so forth. But you dont have like a total for all of the categories together . On the sum, and the grand total . I am sorry i dont have a copy with me. Maybe if cynthia or maria could answer that question on the grand total . Is that of the program . Page 46. Sorry. I believe that is the total is on page 47. Okay. Got it. Great. Any other questions, commissioner yee . No. Commissioner mar . Yes, i just wanted to thank miss cheng also for and the staff for following through with creating a much better relations with the mta and really much Better Communications and coordination, and i think that it shows, in a lot of the different projects that have been coming through the plans and programs and i also wantsed to say that as you mentioned the cac and the Community Based people that volunteer their time with many of the committees and the community meetings, and i wanted to say that cres ter fun
These safety questions. Thank you, for your comments, next speaker please . Yes, my name is jackie sacks and i want to echo what he just said about regarding eliminating the stops and everything, but one thing that you are not taking into consideration, you are not taking into consideration, the people that work. That when they did the tep, they decided that they should stop buses at midnight, and this sort of thing and they should eliminate, and they should, reroute the buses, and without taking into consideration, the senior and disabled community, the people that worked out, and the work in the hotel and restaurant for one or two a. M. , and before the tep, there were many, many workshops and that sort of thing, talking about this. And i spoke on it at every single one of them. We are not taking into consideration if it aint broke dont fix it. But they did not, they totally ignored that and they totally ignored the senior disabled community and the people that work swing and graveya
Our partners without their partnership and collaboration, we could not do as much as we do and we rely on that going forward. Okay. So with that, i am happy to answer any questions that you may have, i am sorry for taking so much time but it was a busy year. Thank you, for your presentation and i also really want to thank, you know, most of last year, the Transportation Authority staff were led by lumbardo in that transition period, and under clearly, from under her leadership and the transition to your slaoed leadership, the staff have accomplished a lot and i just want to congratulate the staff on your great work and look forward to what we can do together this year. As well. Colleagues, any comments or questions . Why dont we go on to e oh, commissioner yee . I just have a brief comment or suggestion, and it is, thank you for giving me this directors report as we can see, the ta did a lot of work in 2013, and the comments on the annual report was just glancing through it and i reali