And we wanted to come here in support of fair mitigation of the issues brought about by the taraval muni. Changes that take into account the residents, the muni riders and the merchants. We are just one of Many Community businesses that are affected by the changes happening as a result of the muni island implementation project. There are many variables to consider. One of them is there are parking needs in the lower taraval zone that have not been completely seen at this point. There are four new businesses that have not opened yet. And many that are just recently opened. All of these will require parking and will benefit from the many muni riders that come to the area. One of the businesses is also quite large who spoke earlier, the northeast medical services. Also, the entire block of parking along taraval between 45th and 46th will soon be removed. Thats in addition to whats already been removed. Any parking studies at this point are not a true representation of what is to come. The parking will be much more congested in the future. And although its seemingly in the best interest of our physical therapy clinic to keep the muni stop in front of 44th avenue, however, many of our patients need to be dropped off and many are taken with someone who has driven them who comes to the appointment with them. We agree muni riders shouldnt exit the muni [bell] thank you very much. Lance harriman, paula katz, followed by peggy deets. Hi, im lance harriman, i will just continue with what mary was saying. Where were we . So if muni stands by its statement that all the options have been looked at and islands are not negotiable, seems a compromise would be to remove the stops to restore some of the parking. My question, is it possible to continue with the research for other options. Think about maybe a block sign that comes down off the back of a muni or Something Like that. If thats not the case, the most logical option would be, if you remove a stop would be to remove the one in the middle. The limited parking that will be left, that is left at this point and will be left after the changes need to be protected in some way from the commuters that drive from the other parts of the city out of the city and use these spots to park and ride downtown. We support the idea to allow parking for residents in the time restricted zones advised to put in. We strongly support revisiting the angled parking idea, once the full impact of all these changes is complete and the need for parking changes. The opening of ocean beach p. T. In its Current Location was based on the amount of parking available in the area. And this was never disclosed to us before acquiring the space, all the changes that were going to come about as a result of the muni changes. All we can hope for is the m. T. A. Board take into account all involved and open to the ideas while taking into account the merchants, residents and the muni riders. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Harriman, next speaker, please. Paula katz, followed by peggy deets and lynn miller. Hello. Im paula katz with safe our l taraval stops. I hope you have taken the time to read the many emails you have received because many l riders who cant make it here today have poured their hearts out explaining losing their stops will hurt them. I hope you have also read the emails i have sent you. I urge you to keep all of our stops at 34th, 45th and 17th. I understand there are riders who want to raise their hands to show you they support keeping the stops especially at 44th. But many of the other stops. But there are some who are too shy to come up and speak. Orange untilly the staff originally staff wanted to remove the stop at 44th but they let us keep our stops only because there was so much support to keep those stops and now suddenly 18 months later, they say they want to remove the stops because of some complaints from our three merchants at the intersection and a few residents. The Community Still supports keeping the stops. Over 75 of the riders who took m. T. A. s own survey in a scientifically random sampling and 108 riders of whom more than 90 of those that we surveyed, they did their survey 75 wanted to keep it the stop. We at 44th. We did the survey and 95 , i gave you those surveys in november. But the staff didnt even mention our surveys. We were told they would in stakeholder feedback, they didnt mention our surveys or the emails and phone calls they received. Its clear staff wants to remove the stop to restore those ten Parking Spaces because of complaints from our three merchants and some residents. Someone is going to finish what we wanted to say. Thank you very much, ms. Katz. Next speaker, please. Peggy deets. Lynn miller, jimmie lu. Okay, following on, its clear that the staff wants to remove the stops to restore 12 Parking Spaces because of the complaints from three merchants and some residents. Many l. Riders are concerned about the difficulties the merchants and residents face but balance the hardships on both sides and overwhelmingly concluded they want to keep the stops to avoid hurting hundreds of l riders who use them. This is consistent with transit first policy number 7 to encourage travel by public transit. Removing stops doesnt encourage the use of public transit. Sfmta should stop piting riders against merchants and residents and find other ways to restore parking. We urge you to reject the staffs reliance on the stop spacing guidelines. Ridership levels and claims removing the stops would improve reliability and transit times. The staff considered all of these factors in 2016 and still recommended that these stops be kept because the removal of other stops achieved the average minimum stop spacing under the guidelines and the sought after improved reliability and transit times. Nothing has changed in the past year that justifies removing our stops for these reasons. If our 44th avenue stops could be kept in 2016 under all these criteria they dont lend support for removing the stops a year later. The same goes for inbound 35th avenue stop. Finally, i urge the board to reject staffs opinion it would offset some of the additional 36 Parking Spaces soon lost at 40th, 32nd, 30th and 36th. The removal of the 44th avenue stop wont offset any of that lost parking. The closest of which is four blocks away at [inaudible] thank you very much, ms. Deets. Next speaker, please. Lynn miller, jimmie lu. Laura tam. Hello, happy holidays and thank you for listening. Although the small stores and restaurants across the street dont make it realistic to expect shoppers on diners would shop at 34th and walk up hill to shop or eat, they will just drive somewhere else if they cant find parking on 44th. The solution for the sfmta to figure out a way to create additional parking on 40th, not to remove our stops at 44th, which wont help the merchants. It is foreseeable that removing the inbound 17th and 35th avenue stops will result in hundreds more riders crossing 19th avenue and sunset and be an invitation for accidents. Human nature being what it is, many riders try to dash across 19th or sunset as the l. Approaches. It seems counter intuitive, in light of the mayors Vision Zero Program to reduce the number of accidents to create a system that risks putting more riders in a situation where they may get hit by a car as they cross 19th through sunset. S. F. M. T. A. Should be anticipating these possible ridership patterns and avoid contributing to any of the possible increase in accidents. Zero vision and s. F. M. T. A. Have recognized that seniors are approximately five times more likely to be fatally injured as pedestrians. In 2016, 63 of pedestrian fatalities were seniors, 65 and older, 88 were age 60 and older. Many were injured. Thank you very much, ms. Miller. Next speaker,. Jimmie lu, lara tam, barry hermanson. And ms. Chair, theres no one left wishing to speak. Thank you. Hi, im here because ive witnessed people literally get hit by cars while they get off the l. Taraval, that happened twice and ive almost been hit several times. Im a big advocate of these boarding islands because i believe they will save lives. Im excited about these projects and ive been going to these Community Meetings since the very beginning. Its been kind of contentious and crazy and quite scary, actually. Theres a lot of competing interests with everyones different opinion, and honestly i dont think everybody will be completely happy with everything muni is recommending but having sat through everything, i feel muni has done the best job they can to accommodate everybodys opinions and needs and i believe in their recommendations and i hope you follow that. If you do decide to keep these stops, i do request that you do have boarding islands for these stops. And these islands should go the entire length of the muni trains. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Lu, next speaker, please . Laura tam, barry hermanson, albert chao. Thank you. My name is laura tam, a 9year resident. I drive in the taraval neighborhood and take the l. Taraval everyday, i also bike and walk in the neighborhood and so do my kids and classmates and many families, they take trips with their classes exclusively using the l. Taraval so im here to strongly support the staff recommendation to build concrete boarding islands at all stops, this is the only way to ensure safety and commitment to vision zero. Im literally grateful every time i step on the painted boarding islands. But also in the last few months at the five stops where the pilot approach has been tested i have seen cars blazing by when the train doors open and its terrifying. The dark hours of the evening and morning have made the need of safe infrastructure more apparent, hoping people will know and follow the law is not good enough. I would like to thank the m. T. A. Staff for listening to feedback. Ive been participating for two years myself and working so hard to make the pilot work, along with trying to please the merchants of taraval. The level of work has been tremendous. The train stickers, l. E. D. Lights and paint have been noticeable and i thought they would make a big difference but as pilot results have clearly shown it hasnt resulted in 90 of drivers complying the standard you adopted for keeping the pilot boarding zones. I hope we get to keep the l. E. D. Lights and stickers but support staffs recommendation. Thank you, next speaker . Barry hermanson. Good afternoon, my name is barry hermanson. I own a home on 28th avenue, you have already taken away my stop. Back in the 1990s, i came here today to give this back to you. Back in the 1990s i was president of the merchant upper market in castro. When the f line was installed muni worked with us at that time. We had a fabulous working relationship in order to limit the damage to the merchant community. I strongly believe muni is not working with the community. And options have been taken off the table right at the beginning of this process. Staff came to the community with a fully developed project and was met with overwhelming opposition. There was no Community Process of reaching out to us in advance and saying how can we design this. Im appalled that we are investing huge amounts of money in this project and we are still left with l taraval line that doesnt have full a. D. A. Compliance at every single stop. Yes, the boarding islands and Pilot Project has made it safer. But one thing i would like you to consider two things actually, people who have lost jobs, its taking longer time. Its 40 hours a year extra. When the construction happens, lets evaluate how people enjoy busses every single stop is accessible. The stops that have been lost can be restored. Please take time to look at that during the construction. Thank you. Thank you very much, mr. Hermanson. Next speaker, please. Albert chao, grace garza, daniel coupler. Hi, im albert chao, speaking on behalf of the merchants on taraval street. We had a Pilot Program and i thank Michael Rhodes and his crew, we didnt meet the 90 requirement. However, i do have to say that there was a lack of education, a lack of enforcement and also a very minimal design put down on the ride way. I thought they would have had a fairer chance if it was fully implemented in the way it was really designed to be put out. And in that light, i would ask the board that if we could still consider saving 26th avenue, 32nd and 40th avenue pilots because those are the three critical spots on taraval where i think they would receive the most benefits for the businesses. Secondly, i think, i worry about the losing all the parking you are proposing to do is really going to make taraval businesses harder to prosper on the street, as well as people will start driving on santiago, which they already do and the consequences of that have yet to be seen. Its important you consider side consequences. And observe this closely as we continue this conversation, as the construction process moves out. So thank you very much. And oh, so the three things we would really consider is to give us back the left lane, no more traffic lights, no more additional traffic lights because we think that stacks up all the traffic on taraval and if we could preserve those three critical Pilot Programs. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chao. Next speaker, please. Grace garza. Hello, my name is grace. I was never against keeping a stop, definitely against losing parking. We also have elderly and disabled clients that patronize our business. During tt the day the commuters take up all the parking which takes up parking for the patrons. And some of the residential units on taraval do have parking in their buildings and its typical some residents have more than one vehicle, thats just the way it is. But our client business dropped almost half, 50 . 90 drive to our salon from out of the area. Its especially tough with complicated street cleaning days and opposition to diagonal parking. I hope you revisit it. You guys also monitor the clear zones like you did the boarding areas . And if you keep the stops and keep the clear zones, you need to implement stop signs. Cars are zipping through. There are no parked cars to protect the pedestrians and they go faster now through the clear zones. Its not safe. Also we need help from s. F. M. T. A. To direct flow to merchant businesses amidst changes. Im not against change but it needs to be fair for the merchants. I just think environmentally it will be more of an impact if people have to go out to patronize other businesses and to commute even further, thats more environmental impacts. So thanks for listening. Inch thats thanks very much, ms. Garza. [calling names] is mr. Kapler here . No. Elizabeth murphy . Followed by david [inaudible] and vivian sackovic. My name is elizabeth murphy, i live on 35th avenue and we specifically bought our home where we bought our home with proximity to the taraval. 15 months ago or longer, m. T. A. Promised to keep our stop. The m. T. A. Rep talked about 450 here and 450 feet there, those are measured blocks. I know it sounds like feet, its close. Shorter than a football field but its blocks. The sunset stop which would be our new stop is a six lane road, you have the figures how many have been hit or killed by cars in the last 18 months . Whereas the taraval traffic incidents are numbers from years ago and we havent seen current numbers but im not aware of any accidents on taraval. One of the safety features you added is a noleft turn sunset and taraval. Everyday i go through that intersection and everyday i see people turn left against the noleft turn sign, i havent seen one bit of enforcement. Thats something to think about. But equally, the Pilot Program of watching people, do they stop behind the trains, i have never seen any enforcement on taraval either, so of course cars are still whizzing by because none have seen anybody get a ticket and its a selffulfilling prophecy, putting up signs saying watch for the cars but thats months after it started and the education wasnt there. The bottom line, we would like to keep our stop. And as we have seen on the k line and m line, boarding islands are not a full solution, people still get hit. You need to enforce the drivers and not punish the transit riders. Thank you very much, ms. Murphy. David [inaudible], vivian sackovic, moany david pillpill, here are my comments on this item. The process staff referred to in the report on the Small Group Meetings was an entirely secretive process and contrasts starkly with the recent 66 quinterra study. This process has resulted in whatever the staff wanted from the beginning. The education and enforcement as others have commented, was rather lacking. And one could easily conclude that the pilot efforts were designed to fail. The stop spacing proposed with these removals would not result in better spacing but would actually result in worse spacing. Some stops would continue to be as close as two blocks, which i favor, and others as far away as four and a half blocks, which i dont favor. So this doesnt result in more balanced stop spacing on the l. What continues to be lacking here as well, is any effort to unclog the intersection at westportal. West portal is a key bottleneck on the l but also the k and m and castro shuttle. If efforts were made to unclog west portal that would have great benefit for all of the lines in the area and theres been no effort there. The agenda today does not indicate under ceqa that the parking removals are an approval action under chapter 31 in violation of that chapter, the admin code. In summary, i oppose the changes that are proposed here. I urge this board to show some independence, to leave things alone, to listen to the passengers, majority of whom have said leave the stops. I urge you to keep all the transit stops and not go through this process like this again. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Vivian sackovic. Monice chauncey, elizabeth chu. Thank you, as you can see theres so many people here in support of keeping the stops that we currently have. There are elderly individuals who need to be able to go to safeway, get their groceries and not have to walk the length of a football field to the next stop. Carrying one bag of groceries may not seem like a lot to you, but for a person in their 70s or 80s thats a lot to be carrying and go a block or two, crossing potentially six lanes of traffic is not okay. Im a daily l taraval rider, i live on 34th and taraval, i ride on 35th and i see people there everyday. I see elderly people, i see young people. And to take that stop away from our elderly people who need it to get to where they are going and asking them to walk an extra few blocks is not all right. I urge you guys to take a step back and look at all the feedback you have received from the community. You know, dont just try to bulldoze your agenda through. Education is key, but educating people on what they need to do when they