Responsible for one going off may be asked to leave and the board respectfully requests they be turned off and approval of the minutes. Do you have Public Comments in no, chair. Do i have a motion. All in favor say aye. Approved. Item six, introduction of new or unfinished business. Do i have new or unfinished business. Well move on. On the directors report. Mr. Mcguire. Directors, staff and im pinch hitting today. I want to start on our efforts we created a Rapid Response team that can go after the sites of traffic fatalities and identify immediate improvements. When a fatality occurs the public can expect a rapid review and response on site. It will include an analysis of what we already know about the circumstances surrounding the crash, the crash history of the location and existing conditions and recommendations for any immediate engineering changes that can be made quickly sim to the changes and were the topic of a discussion a few Board Meetings ago. A key element in improving t
Matter except one. Mr. Mahmoud. Thank you, directors. Your talking about vision zero and ive been listening to the issue a long time. Driving on the city streets i mentioned its nearly impossible to see at nighttime where the pedestrian ends up coming in at the cross intersection. Because your lighting is so poor, so poor, so poor. I mean, how can we control that situation . Why dont gou to led lights. We heard you intend to but why not buy a couple thousand bulbs and start changing them immediately. Vision zero is not complete without that kind of thing. Thank you. Thank you. Do i have any more Public Commenters on the directors report . Yes, sir, please stand up and approach the podium. Okay. No . Okay. Thank you. Seeing none. Public comment is closed. The clerk item eight the Council Report i do not see a chair here so well move to item nine general Public Comment. Its time for members of the public to address the board under jurisdiction of the mta board of directors but not on the
Employed in professional roles at bart and other transportation employers. Finally, the Fourth Annual winter walk on stockton street begins this saturday november 25 and will continue through monday january 1. This year to activate the plaza well be working in partnership with off the grid and will have two openaired beer and wine gardens and holidaythemed photo opportunities. Last year 750,000 people attended the winter walk. For more information about it visit the union square website visitunionsquaresf. Com and if youre interested in extending it it will be open to 11 30 every night through new years eve. That concludes my report. Thank you for the updates, much appreciated. The winter walk i know how popular that is every year. I go down a lot and its fun to see everybody enjoying the space. I know its been discussion what the street will look like once the construction is done on the subway. I wonder if we can get an update on how to use that space. There was talk of having a bus
Right now at 10 the worlds reaction are action to thehe stunning news the great brit 101 is leaving the european union. U we are already feeling the impact. Virginia toddler isdle recovering after a terrifyingeri encounter with a copper head snake. Hes putting on a brave face this childs medical treatment is far from over. Affair fax county Police Officers sentenced to prison for killing an unarmed man. Ma one year in jail . It was not Involuntary Manslaughter. The victims mother is outraged with the judges decision. Fox 5 local news at 10 starts right now. Thanks for joining us tonights im shawn yancy. Im sarah simmons. Mo see eu lar. That was the headlines following the news that Great Britain is leaving the european union. Stocking markets plunged by hundreds of. Brit tan is the first countrt to back out of the eu followingl the use Prime Minister daviDavid Cameron announced his resignation president obama said americas loyalty is un waiver. The uks relationship with the u will chan
Fox 5 Tom Fitzgerald you saw y joining holly morris in thehe questioning then he hits theit streets to talk to metro riders. He joins us live from northeasto at them scene of this mornings track fire. Get us up to speed on that fire. What happened today . Reporter and i know how much of a broken record this soundshs like but we are going to ky it t up for you once again. Onc take a look. L were on benningoo road in betwn minnesota avenue and stadium s arbor restages this all started this morning when we were told a fire occurred with a train involving a track, now the train was doing some test work on a portion of the track herere weekend repairs that fire was quickly extinguished fortunately nobody was injured we are still waiting for official cause ofaue all this. While all that was going on here, theres a switch problem outside of the heights station. That caused delays. That caused more problems this morning. There was also single tracking on large segments of the blue line and ser