Passenjures are on those systems for less time than cal trains. For ace it is a Commuter Rail system and it more so cal train is in the middle for what the riders experience and how long on the system, but when we look at the future for lect fiication we have to keep in mind will the system look more like bart and muni and [inaudible] or ace and capital cor dor. We have to balance that and understand the needs of the riders using our system. Our riders have told us a lot about their capacity, wants and desire jz cal train needs to expand to have them use the system. We also heard from businesses as well. The cor dor that cal train runs on between San Francisco and san jose has a incredible amount of economic support and vitility to the state. 14 percent of [inaudible] 52 percent of hat patens and 25 percent of the california state revenue come from this cor dor and because the cor dor is so important for so many businesses they created the cal train commuter system. The point nof syste
Item two, approval of the minutes of the september 23, 2014, action. Any comments . Any member of the public that would like to comment. Seeing none, we will close. Avalos . Aye. Breed. Aye. Campos. Aye. Chiu. Aye. Cohen . Absent. Ferrill. Aye. Kim. Aye. Mar. Aye. Tang. Aye. Weiner. Absent. Yee. Aye. Item passes. Okay. Lets go to the next item. Item three, three chairs report, this is an information item. Colleagues, in what has become a ritual i begin high report with the sad news that four pedestrians were hit by cars in the past couple of days, one of whom, 87yearold, mr. Louis van belson died of his injuries after being hit, and as he tried to catch a bus. And this is truly an acceptable and, we must act to make the streets safe and her to ask our drivers to slow down i appreciate the work of the sfmta the Police Department and the department of Public Health and other agencies supporting the citys vision zero team, around town reminding everyone that every intersection is a potent
That we must continue to invest in the infrastructure in earthquake preparedness and resilientcy planning and this will take levels of eninvestment and coordination and public involvement and i am pleased by several key initiatives that they are already under way, and including the transit core, capacity study, freeway, Core Management strategy and the neighborhood, transportation, Improvement Program and on the issue of capacity, i want to add my support to many other colleagues, and including commissioner kim, cohen and weiner, who are calling for cal train to purchase, compatible electric vehicles with future Blended Service with california high speed rail. This is a very important Investment Decision that will determine the capacity and Operational Flexibility of the system for years to come. With that, colleagues, icon include my remarks. Public comment is open if any member of the public, seeing none, we will close Public Comment and go on to the next item. Item four. Directors r
Is Supervisor Malia Cohen and committee vicechair jane kim will be joining us shortly. Our clerk is andrea ausberry and i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting todays meeting. Madame clerk, are there any announcements. Please silence all Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards and documents to be included in the file to be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the december 16, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Madame clerk, item no. 1. A resolution granting permission to occupy a portion of a public rightofway at 15724th avenue. The department of public works is here for item 1. Good afternoon chair wiener and supervisor cohen, nickelsen with the department of public works. This is a request to basically construct portion of a garage in the public rightofway. This is a very unusual portion of the public rightofway. Its on 24th avenue between lake and west clay streets. There are two other properties, which have a very similar si
Land 6 good afternoon and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors land use and Economic Development committee. Im scott wiener the chairman of the committee and to my left is Supervisor Malia Cohen and committee vicechair jane kim will be joining us shortly. Our clerk is andrea ausberry and i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting todays meeting. Madame clerk, are there any announcements. Please silence all Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards and documents to be included in the file to be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the december 16, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Madame clerk, item no. 1. A resolution granting permission to occupy a portion of a public rightofway at 15724th avenue. The department of public works is here for item 1. Good afternoon chair wiener and supervisor cohen, nickelsen with the department of public works. This is a request to basically construct portion of a garage in the public ri