Deserve a a a commend ation ation for that. We received an email and i want to read this into the record so your commission can bear in mind the service bus stations in the future. My name is raj and its come to my attention that the board is considering installing the upper haight Retail District has ongoing challenging with quality of life and drug dealing and blight. I would like to give you some perspective of issues we continue to have with the existing bus shelters on masonic and haight street we have individuals on masonic who drink at the shelters and my officers have to focus on because the shelter becomes un useable for riders. Deal ers stand at the shelter. This is a 2minute limit here. What is supervisor breeds advice to us this afternoon. I think you have a difficult decision in front of you based on all of the feedback today i wish i could be more helpful on that weve been involved in a lot of the outreach process and heard from people on both sides of the issue and Publi
You approved under the transit project both environmental and project approvals and like the the last two items these are the actual parking and traffic changes. John kennedy. Thank you good afternoon directors Shaun Kennedy with the Transit Division im here today to talk about pedestrian improvements and transit reliability on on the haight street corridor so as director reiskin mentioned this project is coming out of the tep planning process and it is now under the muni forward umbrella the implementation phase. It basically serves as a communications umbrella to talk about all the Great Projects going on on at the mta throughout the city family and to improve reliability and on time performance of our muni system so theres four major kind of categories within muni and the major point its going to be implementing a lot of vision zero projects and some really unique and exciting additional projects such as transit signal priority and lrvs that are coming to the system as well so you k
Moreno. Good afternoon im here on behalf of folks for polk were really excited and applaud the measures of the of the brt its important to support transportation so were excited that it includes pedestrians and vehicles and also like the cyclists that take their bikes on board i take mine on board at times so i hope thats also included so thank you. Okay next speaker. Mark moreno. Good afternoon. Good afternoon i represent the Market Street van ness Neighborhood Association and i want to say were very much in favor and support of what the representative said from the symphony grove street gets a lot of traffic and the southbound bus stop which is currently right now in front of 25 Market Street has been moved to between hickory and fell street the gentleman thats from the Homeowners Association referenced and we believe it should be closer to market and its been moved back a half a a block and not easy for pedestrians to access it it should be closer to market. Ive used that exit mysel
Person and i think you know we fit right into that category and we should have that same privilege as muni and the other thing ill say looking at the map it seems like its an awfully Long Distance between the Mission Street stop and maccal cal ister and theres no stop on Market Street and i think there certainly should be one close to that and i also im hearing what the people from the symphony are saying thats a very busy corner and seems to be an appropriate place as well so thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. I remember some some of the initial meetings and i know its going to happen but there are some concerns that that ought to be dealt with and looked at just in case these issues come up. A lot of the cars are going to end up switching to the other northsouth streets in order to be able to make those left and right hand turns and could create problems on those streets and create messes as well especially when theres double parking on those streets that are not enforced very well
And camp out and nothing is being done about it and all of a sudden you are taking bus stops away we dont have enough parking so people have to rely on bus on bus to patron ize our businesses so taking those bus stops away and putting them every 4 blocks it will make it harder for people to shop with us they will go go to the malls or something so consider on behalf of the merchants who actually pay taxes and they have already a hard enough time with the internet and Everything Else you know we need to bring the public to have access for them to come to to our stores. Thank you. Next speaker please. Yes, sir . Good afternoon i own a property and also two businesses for almost 30 years we need a practical solution to haight street im not sure if statistical for example anywhere else in San Francisco would apply to us. Board member lee you had a practical idea the minute you saw this slide you saw theres a way to approach this we we need to get together with the communities listen to wha