deserve a a a commend ation ation for that. we received an e-mail and i want to read this into the record so your commission can bear in mind the service bus stations in the future. my name is raj and it s come to my attention that the board is considering installing the upper haight retail district has ongoing challenging with quality of life and drug dealing and blight. i would like to give you some perspective of issues we continue to have with the existing bus shelters on masonic and haight street we have individuals on masonic who drink at the shelters and my officers have to focus on because the shelter becomes un useable for riders. deal ers stand at the shelter. this is a 2-minute limit here. what is supervisor breeds advice to us this afternoon. i think you have a difficult decision in front of you based on all of the feedback today i wish i could be more helpful on that we ve been involved in a lot of the outreach process and heard from people on both sides
of 25 miles 25 miles per hour the current speed limit and the roadway is designed to encourage drivers at 25 miles at 25 miles per hour which is not what the current conditions promote and thank you you have our support we want to see designs for build outs and we want to make sure that they are as large and safe as possible so thank you. thank you. next speaker please. howard stras inner ner. i m one that supported this project and it s finally coming about that s so great. you talk about all these improvements but the people in the the people in the city won t believe it until they see it happen. we got to get a project that really shows that happening and we find the statistics and also want to answer some of your questions and my friends at the opera and ballet some some of the senior citizens we walk from van ness. i hope it stops north of market that would be terrible to cross market in order to get to the opera house. so i don t think they have a real case. we wa
every 4 blocks it will make it harder for people to shop with us they will go go to the malls or something so consider on behalf of the merchants who actually pay taxes and they have already a hard enough time with the internet and everything else you know we need to bring the public to have access for them to come to to our stores. thank you. next speaker please. yes, sir? good afternoon i own a property and also two businesses for almost 30 years we need a practical solution to haight street i m not sure if statistical for example anywhere else in san francisco would apply to us. board member lee you had a practical idea the minute you saw this slide you saw there s a way to approach this we we need to get together with the communities listen to what works for us. i have stores on valencia and noe they are lt noe they are totally different than haight street haight street has homeless problems we re talking about cutting traffic we should put put this into test. jay
you approved under the transit project both environmental and project approvals and like the the last two items these are the actual parking and traffic changes. john kennedy. thank you good afternoon directors shaun kennedy with the transit division i m here today to talk about pedestrian improvements and transit reliability on on the haight street corridor so as director reiskin mentioned this project is coming out of the tep planning process and it is now under the muni forward umbrella the implementation phase. it basically serves as a communication s umbrella to talk about all the great projects going on on at the mta throughout the city family and to improve reliability and on time performance of our muni system so there s four major kind of categories within muni and the major point it s going to be implementing a lot of vision zero projects and some really unique and exciting additional projects such as transit signal priority and lrv s that are coming to the system
create congestion and creates a domino effect if cars have to drive around looking for spaces i d advocate against the bulbs they are not necessary. you say the buses need a bulb there s no traffic it s a dead end so no traffic coming. the bus stop there is perfectly adequate to serve the needs of what they are trying to do to increase our travel time that that shouldn t be an issue. you are taking away our loading zones and we need our loading zones we have about fifty deliveries a week and hundreds of customers bringing in products as well take away our loading zones and people will double park ups and fedex now how is the bus getting by? whoever has planned this hasn t informed us giving us a chance to respond and communicate with them in a in a way that we can do this together in a way that makes sense. so just to come here and tell us you are going to take away our loading zones and we ve been providing money and taxes for the city is not fair. thank you. good afte