occasions, and it just scares the daylights out of me. so you have a series of red i don t know what you call them barriers north of broadway that protect two lanes, and there are bicyclists who hug that thing. and i m just petrified that one of them is going to get wiped out. insofar as has concrete has been laid on the inside, i know it s still a terrible surface, if we could lay down a strip of asphalt that we could pull out later so the bicycles can ride on the inside. there s buses, there s trucks, and there s literally i mean, there s no space. so just food for thought. we had in commissioner brown s district, that masonic mess that went on forever and forever. we finally said to director nuru, you re going to have to lay down some asphalt and then rip it out. we can look into doing that. chair peskin: any comments or questions from commissioners? any public comment? i really appreciate you bringing this to the attention of the board. mr. pendergrass, and if
occasions, and it just scares the daylights out of me. so you have a series of red i don t know what you call them barriers north of broadway that protect two lanes, and there are bicyclists who hug that thing. and i m just petrified that one of them is going to get wiped out. insofar as has concrete has been laid on the inside, i know it s still a terrible surface, if we could lay down a strip of asphalt that we could pull out later so the bicycles can ride on the inside. there s buses, there s trucks, and there s literally i mean, there s no space. so just food for thought. we had in commissioner brown s district, that masonic mess that went on forever and forever. we finally said to director nuru, you re going to have to lay down some asphalt and then rip it out. we can look into doing that. chair peskin: any comments or questions from commissioners? any public comment? i really appreciate you bringing this to the attention of the board. mr. pendergrass, and if
unimpacted parking lane. chair peskin: so further, to commissioner mandelman s line of questioning and your response, i gueet that. what s frustrating is a notice to proceed is issued and peter, i know this is not your fault, and we ve already discuss this before, but i have to say it again, which is, we completely changed the traffic patterns, and then, for the better part of a half a year, not one shovel full of dirt gets turned. if you had done all of that on a monday, and everyone who was going up and down that corridor saw work on tuesday, we, i say that as the people of san francisco, would not be frustrated. maybe it s too much to ask, but i just got a tour of the new warriors arena, and there are 1400 construction workers doing every conceivable thing at the same time. so it s frustrating for me when i m on the 47 or the 49. you go past massive stretches where nothing is happening, and then, there s a concentrated area where something is happening. and you think t
chair peskin: so out of these businesses, it sounds like three of them arguably has closed because of construction impacts. is that a fair statement? the three where we cannot rule out the construction impacts as contributing to their closing. chair peskin: and then, would it be fair to say there are ten others that are extremely stressed? there are ten other businesses along the corridor that have come to us with concern that we have referred to the office of economic and workforce development to see what kind of support we can provide and what we can do to minimize any impacts on them. chair peskin: so i ll make sure that this is something that all of us on this commission and everyone is engaged in. we did appropriate $5 million of the m.t.a. s $38 million eraf shift for severely impacted businesses from city work of which holy moly, it would seem like these businesses qualify for. so let s not take too long in analyzing how we are going to get that money out the
everyone deserves a bank account. in san francisco, anyone can have a bank account, things to an innovative program, bank on s.f. everyone is welcome, even if you are not a citizen or have bad credit to qualify for a bank account is simple. just live or work in san francisco and have a form of id. we started bank on s.f. six years ago to reach out to folks in the city who do not have a bank account. we wanted to make sure they know they have options which should be more low-cost, more successful to them and using chat catchers. check cashing stores can be found all over the city, but they re convenient locations come with a hidden price. these are big. i remember coming in to collect charged a fee to collect a monogram. people who use check catchers, particularly those who use them to cash their paychecks all year long, they can pay hundreds, even a thousand dollars a year just in fees to get access to their pay. i do not have that kind of money. i would n