Way to go. Its not designed to handle all of the traffic. On weekends and commute hours theres a large backup there. Plus chain of lake intersects with mlk and jfk and i hate to say this, but not all people who use the roadway obey those stop signs. I had a scary incident, i was on jfk and chain of lake and i had the right of way according to the rule book and this lady on a bicycle just whizzed by, didnt look or stop. Scared the heck out of me. Lucky i stopped. You need to look at the big picture. Also, you need to look at 19th avenue. 19th avenue cannot handle any increase in traffic. Clerk 30 seconds. Caller you need to look at the big picture when you make the decision. Maybe there was an alternative that sounded good, maybe dividing the road into half. Thank you. Bye. Clerk next speaker please. You have five questions remaining. Caller this is barry toronto. I first wanted to say that roberta boomer did this more than christina, announce you have to hit 10 to participate in Public Comment on any item because a number of my colleagues did not have a chance to make Public Comment last week because of the confusion about the instructions. So it would be great if several times during the meeting you repeat the issue of when youre on the phone line. Regarding the directors report, you talk about the sanitizing of the vehicles at least once per shift. I have to say that it was very thankful that the mta provided some ppe and cleaning supplies earlier in the pandemic. It is months and months later and we could use some more. Im having to shell out my own money for it and working the city, theres not enough business for me to go home with money after paying for cleaning supplies when theyre available at stores. It would be great to provide some more especially to the ram drivers. They could use more, they put themselves most at risk because they have to deal directly with the customers but we also have to deal with the issue of passengers not always Wearing Masks or keeping them on while riding in the vehicle. The other part is do we know how many cab drivers have gotten been infected with the virus. It would be great if there was a study done to determine that and whether to try to help limit exposure to it. And to maybe help remind passengers to keep the mask on or put it on when in the vehicle. I myself have had to reject rides due to people not Wearing Masks properly or not Wearing Masks in the vehicle. Thank you. Clerk next caller, please. You have four questions remaining. Caller hello director tumlin. Im a transit officer and local 258 union representative. I would like to support director tumlin on the fare collection. As far as operators, theyre exposed to a virus all day long and theres an opening by the fare box, if someone sneezes, you know, cough, theyre exposed. Not collecting fares on how to get a better idea how to handle it is a good idea. And i would like to mention that other men and women operating, they are exposed every day. They come to work and do their job and i missed the first part of the meeting about the budget i would like to say that these men and women, none of them should be laid off thats going to come up later. Caller thank you very much. Ill get back to you later then. Chair borden yes, item 13. Thank you very much. You have three questions remaining. Clerk next speaker. Caller can you hear me now . Hello. I think you meant item 11 and not 13 for the prior speaker. On item 7, first to caroline, please send me the director talking points for today. I heard a reference to the great highway. Good Public Comments from Richard Rothman. I did not hear if there was any comment made about the 19th avenue project and impact on transit and driving on 19th and likelihood of traffic diversion on 19th to alternate routes including 7th avenue, sunset boulevard and in particular sunset boulevard and what impact that has on the great highway closing or reopening discussion. And then just wanted to say outside of the Budget Discussion thats coming up later, i think theres a real question now about the purpose of the mta Going Forward as an organization, if you shrink the Transit System and rest of the organization which now seems increasingly likely, i think raising new revenue becomes harder and i guess well get into that on item 11. And i would wonder what about prior commitments to transit that have been made based on approved Development Projects clerk 30 seconds. Caller whether it is Hunters Point shipyard or other things. Perhaps one of the directors could ask for a list and some understanding of how those prior commitments and triggers are affected if that service is not provided now and may not come back. Just a thought. Ill have more on item 11. Thanks. Clerk next speaker please. You have two questions remaining. Caller yes, with regards to the state your name. Caller im concerned about the need for physical distancing and so i just dont know i understand that theres a need for revenue but i dont know how much sense it makes to be putting fare inspectors on buses when were trying to make sure that buses dont have too many riders it seems there have to be better ways of generating revenue than having fare inspectors go on and theyre going bus to bus. Thats a way for them to become disease factors doesnt seem like it makes a lot of sense. I forgot the other thing i was going to talk about. Thank you. Clerk did you want to state your name . Caller no thank you. Clerk next speaker please. You have one question remaining. Caller hello. Hayden miller. Just wanted to say a few things on the directors report. Great highway, hopefully you can implement traffic calming around there and keep the great walkway open. Also on safety on the buses, over 100 cases throughout the agency, 100 families that are now having to suffer because they went to work to serve the city. The capacity limits are too high and theres no mask enforcement and thats where a lot of this starts. If the capacity limits were lower like every other agency in the country, this wouldnt be so much of an issue. They didnt pull these numbers out of the air, the other agencies, unlike muni, they actually measured. How are you going to fit even the capacity right now 20 people at a four foot distance on a bus, it doesnt fit. The buses are so full, people are not Wearing Masks, i was with a guy on the nine, the nine is always packed by the way, it needs to go back to the 60 foot buses and this guy is spitting all over the place, no mask on. Everybodys scared to do anything and no enforcement and rides riders are suffering. And people are getting sick. And its really terrible. Over 100 workers, over 100 families are suffering. And then lastly on Fare Enforcement. I think part of the issue stems from the fact that during the period where they were supposed to handout the warning cards, i have one here, need help paying your fare. They were on their phones a lot of the time instead of handing these out on the buses. They were just standing at the bus stops so not a lot of people got the warning cards and information. It is hard for anyone to be informed they were resuming. Clerk thank you for the comments. Your time is up. Well have our staff look into that distribution process. Next caller please. You have one question remaining. Caller what happened for transit, they all installed barriers for the operators and once that was done about september, they changed the head sign that said board front, pay fare and wear a mask. It took eight months to put a mask required on our head signs. I think you need to consider implementing the head sign to change what the destination that says fares are required because people are still boarding in the rear and thinking that they dont have to pay. I have seen that occur several times and with Fare Enforcement there and people were surprised that they were quote unquote supposed to pay the fare. I think there needs to be advertising on the head signs. Thank you. Chair borden thank you. Any additional callers on the line, moderator . You have zero questions remaining. Chair borden with that, well close Public Comment and move on to the next item. Clerk item 8 is the Citizens Advisory Council report. But the director is not present so there will be no report. Item 9 is Public Comment and this is for members of the public to address the board on matters within the boards jurisdiction but not on todays calendar. Chair borden moderator do we have people on the line for items not on the calendar today. Later well be talking about parking modifications and contract on item 11 and talk about our budget, item 12, talking about the rail and bus terminal projects improvements and item 13 rounding out the transit update no, thats the let me make sure. Thats the rail stuff as well and item 14 is were going to go into closed section. So thats just the highlight. If you have a comment on general Public Comment, please speak now. Moderator . You have four questions remaining. Chair borden first caller, please. Caller hi, Hayden Miller again. I want to talk about Parking Enforcement. The m. P. A theres so much revenue lost but most parking violations are not being enforced. I walk down the street and the meters are unpaid and no one is enforcing it. The buses dont use the transit lane on Mission Street because its filled with double parking and nobody enforces it. Most people have given up reporting because they know the mca doesnt do anything about it. The safety hazards need to be enforced and it will help fill the budget gaps. Calls to 311 right now get ignored. Even when you talk to pcos in person, im using my discretion and its not enough of an inconvenience to you. What if there was somebody in the wheelchair or has to swerve out in traffic because someone cuts them off. Meanwhile, theres three to four pcos every day supposedly helping to direct traffic at the hospital. Theres no need for three or four of them and same thing on street cleaning. Theres seven driving down the block but some of them could be enforcing red zones, transit lanes, double parking, sidewalk parking. The Parking Enforcement assignments need to be looked at to look at high violation areas that are causing safety hazards instead of just street cleaning. Street cleaning is all that is enforced right now, meanwhile people are suffering on our streets. Our transit slowed down by illegally parked cars. We need to look at the Parking Enforcement and the way it is assigned. Thank you. Chair borden thank you for the comment. Next speaker please. You have six questions remaining. Caller i will repeat comments i made yesterday at the Committee Meeting and will make tomorrow on the oversight committee. At the march 2nd 2020 Capital Planning committee in person meeting, agenda items 4, 5 and 6 were presentations on the mta two year Capital Improvement plan, current budget and 2014 transportation bond. During Public Comment for the items, i stated my belief the fundamental problem is the culture. The mta executive director seemed less than interested and yet, when they call the board of supervisors at its november 17th meeting, agenda item 9, question on issues with the twins peak tunnel. The executive director pointed to a culture of fear at the agency as a significant reason why Capital Projects have constantly not gone according to plan. Later that same day, at the november 17th meeting of the board, agenda items 11 and 12. Affinity groups testified about how the mtas legacy of racism, sexism and even though muni operators were considered front line worker, the agency has penalized them rather than rewarding them. It has done this by getting rid of the Drivers Program that has made a contribution for 19 years. I would urge the agency to reinstate that immediately. Thank you. Chair borden thank you. Next speaker please. You have five questions remaining. Caller hello, Richard Rothman again and this time im calling about fulton street. I know the money was sent to mta but nothing has happened. The worse part, nobody will talk to me. I email people, phone people, even send tweets and nothing happens. Why cant i find out when the project is going to happen and theres more accidents, at least one or two accidents on fulton, cars just speed along there and tom mcguire says the way to reduce traffic is through engineering and you need to do something to reduce the traffic speed on fulton street by reengineering the street. I dont know why fulton street is left out and why this work hasnt started and maybe you can tell me who i need to talk to to get a decent answer of when the work is going to start. Its just i dont know, when i put in requests for information, i dont get the right information anymore. I dont know what is happening to the department there. Its just getting very hard to deal with. And you know, they work for the citizens of San Francisco and they should be responsible at least to answer emails or telephone calls. Can the board please make sure staff answers emails and telephone calls, even if they say i dont want to talk to you anymore. At least they have the common courtesy to talk to the public, after all we pay their salaries. Thank you. Chair borden thank you. Next speaker please. You have five questions remaining. Caller myself and my neighbors were informed that the topic of the muni 30 extension would be on the agenda today. You would have received an email regarding our dpragrave concerns about the extension. Our strong recommendation is that you move the 30 to Marina Middle School at chestnut and fillmore that has significant ability to accommodate multi 60 foot buses, in front of Public Restrooms and green space. We are suggesting that you keep the route existing as it is just as you need it to park the buses there and eliminate the extension. In the documents we sent to you today, we note our frustrations and that the sfmta has misled the public about it. You have posted Public Notices but you refer to it as permanent and signed a five year contract. That is absolutely lying to the public. You are misusing Public Resources at a time that the sfmta is in a transit death spiral. Theres clear lapse of appropriate process. You pay no attention to the grave danger of the sea wall and sewer lines here. Those need to be addressed to ensure it is actually safe for 60 foot buses to be running on them 150 times a day. The latest reports we have from 1991 suggest theyre not safe. We have reviewed those. There is no demand. The average rider for safety is zero. Zero. Theres no one supporting this. You are spending 4,500 a month just to pay for restrooms there in a time theres no way chair borden thank you so much caller and you lied about removing a parking space. We demand that you respond. Chair borden thank you. Next speaker please. You have five questions remaining. Caller hi, i want to discuss the ban on certain taxis at the airport. The transportation code section 1109e2 is explicit, restrictions on the types of taxi cab trip coming from the San FranciscoInternational Airport to alleviate congestion. Has anybody been out there lately . Its a ghost town like the rest of San Francisco, a ghost town. However, the director of taxis in her notice to the board, to you guys, that was dated october 23rd, 2020, she states the reason is in order to provide Additional Support to purchase madallian holders. Only purchase and ram taxis pick up passengers. So is this this seems to me to be illegal. We have just been through four years of a president ignoring laws to further objectives. Do we want to do that again . Do we want to do that here . Im asking that you all schedule a hearing regarding the taxi directors new policy. Thank you. Chair borden next speaker please. You have six questions remaining. Chair borden yes, hi, this is barry toronto, ill following my colleague here and want to say that today is giving tuesday. Well, the mta and their staff are taking away, theyre not giving anybody any money. And i cant afford to even participate in giving tuesday because im not making any money. So i want to say that you are practicing the opposite by barring a certain class from the airport. I asked some of them at the airport on sunday what they were going to do and they said they were going to just switch to a p cab if they were available and join in line with the others working the airport. So you would think youre going to reduce the amount of time working the airport, no. Its still going to be increased. Sunday was the busiest sunday of the year at the airport normally, still busier sunday but still a way at the airport because at times there were over 30 in line at the airport and it doesnt seem like a lot but during this time it is a lot. I want to say that this idea you think this is going to help by barring the k, theres only about up to maximum of about 10 that regularly work the airport. Then what youre doing is just making the line longer and keeping the wait time long. Its not going to help. If youre in a giving mood, i ask you to actually help provide loan and debt relief, theres been at least minimum of six foreclosures since the 49 were previously announced. I want to let you know, this is not going to help the situation and in fact, its going to possibly create a shortage at the airport during those peak times when the demand is high. Its only during the evening hours between like 8 30 to 10 30. Chair borden thank you. Caller thank you. Chair borden next speaker please. You have five questions remain