Chair and directors, yes, i do. So if youre ready, ill begin with this. Meeting of the citizens im sorry, i think there seems to be a lag here. Chair borden its not the same as what youre seeing on tv. Your audio is a little bit labored. I dont know if your internet quality is well. Okay. Okay. See if that helps. If it gets really bad, just let me know and i can just submit my report as a written report. No problem, go ahead. Great. So at the last meeting of the Citizens Advisory Council, we met director lai and welcomed her to the board. Thank you, again, for stopping by. We always appreciate welcoming Board Directors at our meetings. Also at our september meeting, i expressed disappointment and dissatisfaction with the rollout and subsequent rollback of rail service. And i hope that, if nothing else, the problems with rail revealed opportunities to fix and strengthen our system starting with more support at central on that. At our september meeting we heard from operators and members of t. W. U. 250a who brought a number of issues to our attention, including director tumlin, as you mentioned in your report, the critical issue of operator safety. So i appreciate your sentiment that you expressed during your report. And we will be following up on that and the other issues we heard about in the coming months. We heard the presentation on the geary bus Rapid Transit project and some members expressed regret that the project will not be railready, but we agreed the project will improve one of the most critical transit lines in the city. We passed that motion and that motion is in your agenda packet. That concludes my report. Directors, its always a pleasure to let you know what weve been discussing. Chair borden thank you so much for joining us. And with that, well open up to Public Comments for members of the public to comment. I dont know if any directors wanted to make any comments while the moderator opens the line. Seeing none, moderator, are there speakers on the line . Its an opportunity you have one question remaining. This will be on the Citizens Advisory Council report. Hello. My name is Herbert Winer and im wondering right now if they can play mta is not on an austerity program. It can have a nasty blowback because you can have an outraged public and it will impact adversely on m. T. A. If you have to make Public Transportation a priority and the other projects play second fiddle, because the main problem of sfmta is Public Transportation. If youre going to have all these other projects paid off and implemented, youre detracting from Public Transportation. And this is a bad thing. Worstcase scenario is that basically well be in so much of a hole financially, some outsider, some Hedge Fund Manager or someone very wealthy will bail sfmta out. You dont want this. Thank you. Chair borden thank you. Any additional speakers or commenters on the citizens advisory report . You have zero questions remaining. Chair borden thank you. So well close the Public Comment on the line. And move on to our next item. Thank you, madame chair. Item 9 is general Public Comment. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address the board on matters that are from its an opportunity to address the board on matters within the jurisdiction of the m. T. A. Board of directors, but not on todays agenda. As i said at the start of the meeting, if members of the public wish to make Public Comment on these matters, please call 18888086929, the access code is 9961164. Then dial 10. If the moderator could open the lines. Thank you. For the commenter who called about the 48 bus, this is the time to speak. You have two questions remaining. Caller . Hi, my name is pierre hutchinson on behalf of teamsters 665. Cut corners when it comes to the workforce. Lyme should not be handed permits without serious review of their compliance. In purchasing, theyre buying the additional permits rather than complying to the guidelines and earning them. Thank you. Chair borden thank you. Our next speaker, please. You have three questions remaining. Hi. I wanted to comment on the proposal on rhode island street. My immediate neighbors and i on the 600 block strongly oppose sir, this is an item on the consent calendar. So were not there yet. Okay. Apologies. No problem, thank you. Next speaker, please. You have two questions remaining. Hi. Yes, i wanted to call about the 48 bus on clifford. Could you give us your name . Yes, this is trisha. Thank you. And thank you and i think we definitely need your help. Clipper is a very noisy street and the Noise Pollution is very high. And during the block that im on, you basically have numerous cars speeding and its a very its not a very calm area. And we definitely oppose the 48 myself and my neighbors definitely oppose the 48 bus route on clipper. Adding to our normal traffic and its been very challenging for us to deal with every ten minutes a huge bus coming back and up down our street without any sort of approval of the so we definitely need your help in understanding on how we can deal with this. Our street is very small. And literally, you can hear the reverberations of the line in my bedroom. So im just hoping that you guys will address this. And provide some sort of answers for calming clipper street. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. And just wanted to let you know, this has become a public nuisance. And its been very challenging. Chair borden thank you very much for that. Next speaker, please. You have three questions remaining. Chair borden and members, thank you. My pronouns are she and her. Im going to talk about muni today. We talk a lot about equities, but we need to advertise it. So i think we need to advertise clipper star on the front page to help people most in need save money on their muni fares. Its very Important Program and very helpful. Besides we should in the business of selling scratchoff paper tickets. People lose them, theyre gone. You kept the money and someone walked. So we need to do better. We need to go all in clipper on the mobile app. I did attend the sfmta meeting with the presentation about the rail restart and im concerned about the rail. And it should not be all or nothing. We should be able to turn on rail. And we have lots of examples that we can follow in taking ourselves to the next level in being able to operate a great and legendary rail system. The channel tunnel linking england and france. The tran in france. And japan. Theyre examples of effective, safe railways that operate at high speeds, higher voltages, higher wear and tear. You dont hardly hear of them having problems, but we also have an example in new york. Which is one of the most demanding in the world. The park avenue main line which leads into Grand Central terminal, the Worlds Largest railroad station in new york city. Im sure youve all seen it. Its important to take muni to the next level and perform at our highest and best. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have three questions remaining. Again, for members of the public, this is for matters not on todays agenda. Circle back to me again. This is what i can comment on the r. P. P. Or no . Yes. R. P. P. For vermont and rhode island . No, thats on the consent calendar. Which is the next item. General Public Comment is an opportunity for members to address the board on matters that are within the jurisdiction of the board and not on todays agenda. Next speaker, please. You have three questions remaining. Yes, hi, good afternoon. There is barry toronto. Id like to address a few issues. There are a number of projects in the pipeline for years and all of a sudden during this pandemic period, theyre coming to fruition, which i think you need to reassess whether its appropriate. There is a project for the 7th rapid line and they moved our cap stand to ash bury and haight. Were willing to check it out, but no one notified even the mta Taxi Division they were doing this. So it was discovered by cab drivers. Theyre putting traffic lights along haight where there were stop signs in the past. We need to reassess whether the projects are necessary to spend money on when they may not be needed. I want to give a shoutout to phil for his effort on outreach to cab drivers and to put in the new temporary taxi stand next to walgreens. However, we need help with enforceme enforcement. It would be get to put p. C. O. S by there to check it out. Im going to repeat the same message every meeting. You need signs a block before closed streets to let people know they cant go through that street. By the time you show up and turn into the street, because its not properly closed, then you got a problem. And also be great if you provided a list to the Taxi Division of the closed streets so that so they can share the list with the drivers. A map isnt too complicated. And so it would be helpful for that. The last thing is about scooters. We see a lot of scooters on the streets that are not obeying the traffic laws and sometimes have two people on them. There are no licenses on these scooters, so how do you report them and what company theyre for . This is a problem and you need to address scooter safety and how to deal with people violating traffic laws and putting themselves in danger. Thank you, mr. Toronto. Next speaker, please. You have one question remaining. Can you hear me now . Yes, we can. Okay, this is on item 9. I have five comments on this. One, i had a good conversation with sarah jones, the mta sustainable streets planning director and i feel that she heard my concerns. Two, i want to be clear. I have two and only two ceqa appeals currently pending at the board of supervisors. I may file two more. Well get to that in a later calendar item today. Three, just because i or anyone else files a ceqa appeal should not result in making it harder for everyone, or anyone frankly, to do so. Four, as i said before, there is still enough transit operators and vehicles to provide previrus saturdaylevel Transit Service every day in the city. We should not have to choose between service on key corridors and service elsewhere in the city. It is still fundamentally inequitible to say were going to provide service on market and mission and geary, but not going to provide service on the 27, the 31, the 33, the 18, the 23. And all the other routes that are not getting service. Were paying people every day to either sit at home or come to work, there are operators, there are vehicles, there are resources to provide that service. And somebody made a choice not to provide that service. And that is what i oppose. Thank you. Are there any additional speakers on Public Comment which are items not on todays agenda . You have one question remaining. What is very upsetting to me, the bicycles riding on the sidewalk. Now, theyre clearly violating the law and nothing is being done about it. And i think its a responsibility of the board to take action. I realize the Bicycle Coalition has a lot of political power and they have significant influence, but that doesnt give them the liberty to break the law. And the problem is that, you know, pedestrians are not safe on the sidewalks. Why is no action being taken about this . This has been a longstanding problem. Also bicycles go through the red lights all the time. Ive seen it and nothing is being done about it. If i were driving an automobile through the red light, i would be subject to citation. Nothing is being done about the bicyclists and theyre violating the law in a carefree way which is actually a semicriminal act. So you have to do something about and stop winking at them and turning your heads the other way. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Winer. Next speaker, please. You have zero questions remaining. Thank you. With that, well close our Public Comment. Move on. We are at the consent calendar. These items are considered to be routine unless a member of the board, member of the public wishes to have a matter severed and considered separately. Given that we do not have speaker cards, i will read all consent calendar items and open Public Comment for all items at once. 10. 1, approve various traffic modifications on funston street, rhode island and vermont street. Item 10. 2 approves various permitted shuttle bus zone modifications to remain in effect for the duration of the commuter shuttle program. These are along 19th avenue. Item 10. 3, authorizes the director to accept and spend 608,000 in fiscal year 2021 Transportation Development act article 3 funds for vision zero bicycle and pedestrian improvements. 10. 4 supports the implementation of the riding together bay area healthy transit plan on the Transit System. Madame chair, directors, that is your consent calendar. If members of the public wish to address items just read, please dial 10 to be added to the queue. You have three questions remaining. Okay. First caller, please. Thank you, chair borden and members. For the record, she and her. Im just going to go on record about consent items here. Im not asking for severance. Commuter shuttles are important. There is a lot of people that dont like them, but they move people to and from jobs, so its very important to keep that program going. And id rather have people on buses than in cars. Too many cars on the road. 10. 3, definitely its important for us to continue to invest in bicycle and Pedestrian Safety improvements. I am a user of twowheeled vehicles, including those little scooters and also the electric bike. And so anything that is going to help make bicycles and pedestrians safer, helps me. We need to do that. And lastly, i have been to the various meetings concerning bay earth healthy transit. Its quite a comprehensive program. It is not perfect, but it is the beginning of helping us to build a safe and more reliable transit program. Its living document. So, i ask that you pass these items respectively. I look forward to your yes vote. Appreciate it. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have two questions remaining. Hi, this is about the r. P. P. On rhode island. No problem. My neighbors and i strongly oppose and i hope you received a opposition as well. This is a contentious proposal. I want to summarize that even even those who signed the petition a long time ago agree that now the current state, there is plenty of parking on our block with no one having problems with parking. And a site will show you that there is abundant parking. You all talked previously about how the post pandemic work has changed how we are how we need to manage change. And parking demand is going to change. So i hope that i implore you to not make policy made on outdated assumptions. I want to propose because there is so much opposition and contention around this proposal locally, that you compromise. That there is no current problems with parking and at the very least, suggest that you defer this decision for maybe six months to reassess post pandemic parking space. I think that is a sensible compromise for our local neighbors. And nothing will be lost. And our neighborhood will remain happy. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. You have one question remaining. Hello . Im also a resident on rhode island. And i strongly support this measure. Ive lived on the hill for over 25 years in this house, and parking, you know, is a nightmare during the week. You just share the streets with commuters that are looking for free parking. And now were surrounded from more and more permitted parking, its going to become an issue. While i agree its not currently an issue, a quick Google Search of our street during the midweek, youre going to see what its like to park on our block during normal times. Granted, we dont know when normal times are going to come, but weve been through the cycle before with the bus before. I would like to see it corrected once and for all. Its an issue actually of safety because when we end up having to double park, as we do during normal times, were also on a very busy street and its just become very dangerous to live on the block. Those are my comments. Im definitely in support of the permits. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Any additional callers . You have zero questions remaining. Chair borden great. With that, well close Public Comment. Directors . Are there any questions or comments, or do i hear a motion . Motion to approve. Chair borden a second . Second. Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Thank you. Madame chair, five votes to approve. The consent calendar is approved. Moving on to regular calendar, madame chair, just for members of the public, again, who may wish to make comment on either of the next two items who are listening by sfgovtv, please make sure you dial the phone number. 18888086929. The access code is 9961164. And then dial 10. Well ask you to do that when the item is being called. All right, and madame chair, as i announced at the start of the meeting with regard to item 11, which ill read into the record in a moment, staff has asked that this be an informational item only and the board not take action today so they are able to do further Stakeholder Engagement and outreach. Item 11 is finding that temporarily closing one block of Church Street for the safety and protection of transit riders due to the large amount of transit riders needed to cross to and from the center track lanes to the j. Church trains and the muni metro entrances on the west side of market and church intersection and further that the proposed temporary street closure will also substantially improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists and other people who will also use this portion of Church Street dhurg period as well and approving various temporary parking and traffic modifications as part of the rail transfer projects and bus terminal and route improvements. I will not read each of the traffic modifications. Madame cha