Transcripts For SFGTV TA Vision Zero Committee 121015 20151221

Parks and places of communicated and thanks to the mayor and the department of technology and supervisor farrell and google. We had a very very unique partnership that was able to bring wifi to our most heavily used parks and squares. Parks in particular are really important way of life and quality of life and so is connectivity. Bringing those two things together in a project like this is right on target with what San Francisco is and wants to be. Its all about breaking apart the divide. The people with expensive data plan can have access to information and economy. This is really breaking down the Digital Divide and giving people across the spectrum the opportunity to information and giving them mobility and freedom. Particularly by investing in connectivity in park spaces we are also ensuring the connection to Digital Inclusion opportunities and parks are designed for all neighborhoods. People are on the move. They are no longer chained to their desk tops at home. People can accomplish a lot and we prefer them being here an enjoying the outdoors and nature. Given all the mobile community and mobile information thats available. We thought it was important to make it for our parks acceptable for everyone and give everyone the opportunity to live and to work and be at the parks at the same time. Our full mission in life is to give them access to the internet, give them access to information. In San Francisco you dont have to be bottled up in an office. You can be around and enjoy your work anywhere. Its great for the local community here and it means a lot to me. In the park, you are people that can teach you about the trees in the park and you can go to parks and recreation. Org and having wifi in our parks makes it more accessible. If you want more information about how to enjoy wifi in San Francisco parks, go to. It seems like everyone in San Francisco is talking about housing San Francisco housing prizes are among the highest it tops anyone Million Dollars and rent rise unfortunately, this is not the first time housing has been in the news thought california the cost of a home has made headline the medium prices for a house in the the 207,000 in california it is more than twice that amount and the laura u bay area is higher its more than doubled the states so while more than half of the americans can afford the medium fewer in california and quarter in the bayer and now fewer than a 6th of san franciscans can afford it so why it housing in San Francisco so go cheven condition tharz the obviously a high demand to live here the city is known for cultural diversities that attacks new residents and the credible opportunity our city diverse and will daytime committee grows jobs as a result we estimate the number of jobs is at ann an alltime 0 hive of 6 hundred thousand in the 80 the population was 6 hundred and 75 thousand now, its grown steadily and quickly the recent estimate is 8 hundred and 40 thousand the highest in the citys history and its not only San Francisco it is greek the bay area has 2 million for residents and jobs then in the 80 and the growth is expected to continue by the year 20403. 9 Million People unfortunately, our housing supply does not keep up with the demand i might not realize the majority of construction is housing thats been suspended for years due to the 2008 recession while population is increasing the housing is only increasing that i 9 percent if we dont pursues housing the cost of housing about only increase how do we plan the regional allocation identifies the total number of housing unit by affordable level to support the new residents San Francisco incorporates it into the housing elements that guides the housing policies the arena data places it in the investment plans for the growth throughout San Francisco those plans developed by years of Community Planning laid the ground work for the construction so the city he e sets the goals in broad terms the private sectors builds market rate housing and nonbuilt Affordability Housing that majority of housing in San Francisco as well as throughout the Country Market rate houses built by private developers within guidelines of the city some below market rate you howls paid pie public and private dollars and prized to be variable to certain population housing is considered affordable if it costs less than 1 3rd the medium income for a 2 percent householder is 70,000 this householder will have to pay no more than 7,150 to be affordable San Francisco has see long applied federal, state and local money often built and nonprofit tint for individual families the news cities in california what the Inclusive Program requires that 10 or ottawa more units to certain blow income levels or contribute to the fund that supports the blow market rate unit almost 25 thousand have been supported by city funds and more than 6 nous thousand of the unit were built between 2000 and 2012 what you cant afford a million will home youre not alone in response San Francisco mayor ed lee has set a goal of creating thirty thousand now emails homes by the year 2020 most will be in outreach of the san franciscan with federal and state funds drying up the San Francisco Ethics Commission is, taking an iv i of actually roll is providing housing across all levels were working diligently for everyone to live here and mr. Chair protect the housing semiand strengthen goals against evictions were commented for Housing Needs for all san franciscans to learn more visit highway good morningo the of the San Francisco Transportation Authority im scott wiener the chair of the authority and we want to thank sfgovtv leo and phil for broadcasting todays hearing i want to also welcome our newest and returning Member Commission peskin so Welcome Commission and calling supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos absent supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim absence commission peskin and commissioner mondejar absent supervisor wiener present supervisor yee present we have quorum i thank you very much well now go to item 2 chairs report this is an informational item. Colleagues im pleased to report a 5 year federal transportation bill that was passed and as i understand by the president on december 4th it is called the fyi americans surface transportation or fast act since 2005 we have a multiple spending bill to improve the transportation infrastructure xhourd our roads and bridges and bic and pedestrian pathway and Transportation Network we owe Barbara Boxer in the 3 billion bill although the Telegraph Hill bill lacks the dedicated Funding Source we have slightly higher levels of money for the 56 year period very, of course, have theres more work to do to have the longterm funning for the country weve heard the act will include 30 million for the Moyer U Bower that was expected in the transportation bill some other changes the return of a competitive bus and bus pallets program two new freight and transit signal starts program that benefits the brt we must not repeat uncertainty over the past decade but as we advocate for a dedicated trust fund well have stated and local resources for transportation with connects with bart and local measures including the local vehicle license fee to deliver more projects from the streetscape projects which we celebrated earlier this month and i was pleased to join supervisor avalos and supervisor cowen at that 23e7b9 that included the Mcallister Park and staff from the rec and Park Department public works and mta and our Transportation Authority the groundbreaking kickoff destruction of this safety project that converts 4 lanes into a pedestrian walkway for Mcallister Park the 7 million project has collaboration and Funding Resources including the transportation authorities one Bay Area Grant Program the vehicle registration and the prop k savings thank you to the ta staff fro organizing the event and all who worked on the project and the bureau ton band that entertained us and feinstein several individuals at the Transportation Authority for their service thank you to our cca sequence Advisory Committee my prediction to supervisor tang for the chairing of the plans committee and supervisor avalos for the finance committee and thank you to supervisor kim for our vision zero and leading the work on the transit 2rr8d Mobility Plan and also see acknowledge former supervisor christensen for her services on the Transportation Authority and welcome again to commission peskin as we prepare for the holiday recess ill thank our hard working legislative Transportation Authority for your work for 9 past year that was a very busy and productive year our twooiblth year open doyle drive and constructed the full name foong and established ourselves those the transcript Mobility Agency and with the brt environmental documents and variance improvement projects and pretty much every part of city i looked to a terrific 2016 and see if we can move forward with the transportation public speakers 19 or that concludes my remarks any any Public Comment on item 2 seeing none, Public Comment is closed this is an informational item item 3. Item 3 executive director report that is an informational item. Thank you chair wiener and good morning tilly the directors im pleased to echo the appreciation to congresswoman the president for signing 9 fast track that is welcome news and as the chair mentions not serving the transportation feeds weve got a lot more work to do and working with the partners on Revenue Opportunities at the regional and local goals for next year one piece of good news one potential impact to our sales tax from the Aviation Administration were not subject to a rex regulation that is approved at the federal level that allows for sales tax and local takes to come back to the airport so we the some raven with our colleagues with the City Attorneys Office and other jurisdictions have determined for the prop k sales tax we dont collect sales tax revenues for prop k from san mateo from the airport itself were not subject to that regulation and it is being workout on the local and state level frankly in the department of finance is effects jurisdictions across the United States but determined were not impacted from the sales tax for from prop k more through the 1971 legislation sales tax for transportation uses at the state level ill be happy to answer any questions and in addition here locally weve been able to take off the transportation survey with the leadership and the leptin help of the Unified School District and geographically with private school to better understand the schools age children with paernls needs how to make School Transportation easier for folks thank you supervisor tang for leading that in district 2 weve also planned for the crooked street for lombard street under supervisor farrells tips and planning how we can better manage the traffic and the pedestrian and other visitors use to smooth out traffic weve determined that there are about 2 million verifies to lombard street to the crooked street and trying many management views were deeper dive to explore out the traffic and keep the area liveable and promoting the tourist activities and promoting travel and visitor we are planning a meeting for january and interested folks please contact andrew our Planning Department staff in district 9 chances Improvement Study with supervisor avalos Office Working with the sfmta and caltrans to better sort out the conflicts the basic pedestrian conflicts particularly with the alameda change near main in the coming months an analysis to get the improvement of the safety and improve the bible and pedestrian crossings at the sgraj and Interested Community Members conduct the planner in the division and in addition weve work on confirming the transportation concepts for district 11 with supervisor avalos as well as the supervisor kim we hope to report on those two districts as well as commission 8 with supervisor wiener next year our geary bus Rapid Transit has exceeded the period related to the environmental document on november 30th we Welcome Community input think brt and collect three hundred comments that we are current working on responses to and navigate met with the Community Members that expressed concerns about the removal of overpass bridge had a good meeting and will meet with the community in january to replace their concerns with those opportunities in addition 6 thousand people using the new decision alter view finding on 15 avenue two locations where people go and take a look at the street what it looks like for the visualization after the project for the brt and the safety we appreciate the cooperation of the outline network and folks that provided that technical and will be sharing the fgsdz bicycles on Market Street are growing the bikes weve xrementd complemented with mta counted a million trips in 2015 great milestone it is nearly 20 percent over this time last year and since the installation of those counters in may of 2013 we have counted over 2. 3 million trips and see a growing and sales tax were adrc more locations Market Street between hayes valley e hayes valley and a third location with sfmta these in conjunction with the pedestrian encounters will round out the measurement of vehicles and transit use and transit trips to it mix of pedestrian and bike trips are growing quickly and i want to congratulate sfmta for unsaturating the shared lanes that indicate where motorists and bicyclists share the lane more legible and safer and has been able to increase help to increase our bicycle ridership in 0 these locations as well Market Street howard and fulsome and townsend along 5 street are part the vision zero projects that were delivered early by the sfmta and partners this year on sutro boulevard Municipal Transportation Agency as used satisfying from signals update that were loot for the sunset boulevard with the projects as part of a sales tax mta used some and replaced the smaller heads on sunset boulevard along many boulevards thank you sfmta for expending the sales tax dollars and finally want to recognize our deputy for finance and administration for receiving a credits update from stitch we are that rated last year and this year we reaffirmed aa plus the highest rating that a sales tax can revenue it any agency and reflect our are debt coverage as well as a Strong Economy in San Francisco and thank you all does i want to echo the characterize or chair to work with us with the Transportation Authority and the Community Members that has been a fabulous year with a based on event to celebrate our 25th anniversary and closed out the year with at event with the providers in attention to provide attention with the Great Britain was a rewarding and productive year and we very much pretty sure you and your staff and looking forward to more accomplishments in the coming year happy holidays. Thank you supervisor president breed a comment. Thank you for working with the residents at Rosa Parks Elementary School and others that live in the area where the bridge is located with webb take care and geary boulevard that bridge is heavily uses by younger and old people when i was growing up in the neighborhood we heard used the bridge we would run out inthot middle of the street we were kids doing dangerous thing and great to see people using that bridge on a regular basis i want to make sure that we are responsible to the community that lives there and also when were talking about vision zero talking about keeping pedestrian autsz of in our mind ouchlz we can make situations save adding latinamerican but that bridge if any person uses that bridge the likelihood of getting hit by a vehicle is pretty much zero keep in mind as we move forward and in trying to prose changes not bull do so over some, some go that is important in serving that community very well. Thank you supervisor breed. Supervisor campos. Thank you and know it is we do what we can to keep folks safe on our streets yet when i do everything your supposed to houfbl things happen a traffic death in the mrurl a cyclist who was doing everything right wearing a helmet and reflective gear around 10 oclock was hit head on by a very long that was traveling the wrong way so it is one of those things you know but i think that we have to continue to be vigilant because the reality is it happens. Indeed. Thank you, commissioner. Colleagues any additional comments seeing none, open up for Public Comment any Public Comment on item 3 please step forward. Hi my name is david lee ive been here before im sure most of supervisors know me first of all, like to welcome our new member to the boards youre my new supervisor about congestion youll be dealing with both probable the only commission you have to deal with boats you rule the piers i live there so the bicyclists it is dangerous looflt tourists coming all over the place it is bicycle congested from the stadium all the piers yet their landmarking good have you taken a tour of the piers theyre beautiful and people coming from all over the world people dont realize but i do i live there youll be seeing me on the piers i used to be in mr. Campos district i took a bike tougher and recently referred a different world the dangers are mountain lions but that was just a nice trip welcome to the aboard you know mr. Campos knows we the safety concerns are those like you said do the best you can and good luck because it is going to be does the with the boats they know me down there welcome to the board. Any is there any additional Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed this is an informational item well move to item 4. Item 4 approval of the draft minutes of the december 7th. Commission paskin thank you. I was not at the november 17th meekly out of because i wasnt their ill abstain on the other hand, and you can abstain from the mta. Thank you, commissioner colleagues, any additional questions or comments or changes regarding the minutes ongoing seeing none, is there any Public Comment on item 4 seeing none, Public Comment is closed mr. Clerk, call the roll on item four. Supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos. Supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor jane kim commissioner peskin abstained commissioner mondejar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee. The pins are approved. Well move to item number 5. Appoint one member to the Advisory Committee this is an action item. Okay. I understand oh, supervisor kim. Thank you. I just want to make the motion to appoint reserving e rebecca to the district 6 for the sfmta cca many of you know that becky has been a long term San Francisco residents and has made Public Transit a Priority Issues amongst the many issues shes worked on lives on Treasure Island and well see an important member at the sfmta worked on initiative and neat program around congestion and programming providing a feedback and active in the district 6 Pedestrian Safety workshop and advising our office how to prioritize vision zero improvement to focus on the highest injury corridor and, yes the eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024 or eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024 and a vvptd of the Democratic Club that advocates for seniors are disability and Public Transportation is assessable to everyone and you know on the plus side lived in many neighborhoods over the course the richard i ask for your support in appointing becky to the cca. Thank you, supervisor kim. Commissioner mondejar. Yeah. I wanted to add that shes been a tremendous leaders as the Democratic Club leader and rely on her for advice on Treasure Island to the disadvantage right issues and ill say shes an amazing addition to the cca thank you. And supervisor tang as chair of the committee no recommendation ii dont know if you want to provide a brief report back . I through the chair it was we didnt have any particular applicant there and we were kind of dir to the District Supervisor we didnt take up the item in committee and i thought that but good to have confirmation seeing no additional comments well need a acceptance and move to Public Comment is there a sec by supervisor yee any Public Comment on item 5 so oh, my apologies mrs. Hogan to address the Public Comment. Good morning, supervisors im sorry, i couldnt be there last week he had island stuff after the fundraiser i do live on Treasure Island and important to me to make sure that Treasure Island is important to everyone that its been interesting and involved in that since it started before anyone else Pay Attention to it im on the staff so i look forward to being involved in the skraik thank you. Thank you very much. Well open up for Public Comment any Public Comment . Come forward you can come forward. Well, today, has to do the islands and boats im living at achiever that is did most important proposal with one the islands at alcatraz named after a prison im tired of prisons you can have it they dont call it a prison it is a Beautiful Island i would like you to come up with a got to be federal a federal land thing to guess to congress we should rename that island like red hawk giving it more of a zinc and get rid of alcatraz we dont want people to think that is a Prison Island red hawk a bird anal name used to be called the wounded knee 19 it looks like a wound knee to americans we should change that name would do you think it is a prison name we dont want to be known as a prison i came up with a 45 Story Building as a bacteria for the west it will solve the smug problems everyone going to work in boats i see something we had it where everyone went to work on boats you wouldnt have to drive only take a boat there thank you what do you think. Is there any Public Comment on item 5 seeing none, Public Comment is closed and there is a motion and second and can we take that no please call roll. Item 56 supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor malia cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim commissioner peskin commissioner mondejar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee. That item passes. Well now move on to item 6. Item 6 reprogram 67 to tell us in a grant cycle for San Francisco public works elementary save School Project to the chinatown Street Project that is an action item. Colleagues comments or questions on item number 6 seeing none, well move to Public Comment any Public Comment on item 6 seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And colleagues, can we take that same house, same call . Well take that without objection. That will be the order and item 7 allocate 6 hundred plus many prop k fund with conditions subject to be the fiscally year this is an action item. Colleagues any questions or comments on item 7 seeing none, any Public Comment on item seeing none, Public Comment is closed and colleagues, can we take that same house, same call . Well take that without objection. That will be the order item 8. Item 8 approve the Congestion Management Program an action item. Colleagues questions or comments on item 8 seeing none, any Public Comment on item 8 seeing none, Public Comment is closed and colleagues, can we take that same house, same call . Well take that without objection. That will be the order and item 8 screened the Interest Rate for an additional two years and colleagues comments or questions on this item seeing none, any Public Comment on item 9 seeing none, Public Comment is closed and can call . Well take that without objection. That will be the order. Item 10. Support the state legislation authorizing the use of annex Speed Enforcement on action item. Colleagues comments or questions on this item seeing none, move to Public Comment any Public Comment on item 10 none, Public Comment is closed. And same house, same call . Well take that without objection. That will be the order okay. Lets go next to item 13 item 13 introduction of new items informational. Colleagues, any introductions today seeing none, open up for Public Comment any Public Comment on item 13 seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And this is an information item item 14 Public Comment. In general Public Comment please step forward. A holy petitioners having completed the work of emotion of divided of nonholy mercy with the success and making success of holy people with wellness and kingdom so originally one sees holiness for the colortion of a firmerness for the nourishment of juva way of comfortable reform full of work one seize of levels and one needs to know of chances for relationships and tommy for unity and obstacles and tommy for dangers and tommy for petition one must reason why tommy for nonstop pathways are mercy for holy calculation for performances. Okay is there any additional Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk, please call items 11 and telephone together item 11 possible closed session for the employees performance and adopt the performances for 2016 and item 17 for the directors for 2016. Colleagues south as the Personnel Committee i was joined by supervisor avalos and supervisor tang in professionalism an satisfaction alleviation of our executive director for salary jurists we do have the under recommendation before you today, we have the option for item 11 or going into closed session only in the authority worries about to go into closed session any feedback colleagues whether you want to go into closed session arrest remain in closed session. Supervisor tang. Id like to remain in open session. Seen theyre not being a motion well remain in open session for items 11 and 12 colleagu colleagues as you can see we performed an evaluation for ms. Chang was positive at the highend of the evaluation and we want to pub thank ms. Chang and looking forward to continue to Work Together the Committee Also recommended a 3 about the 5 percent Salary Increase ms. Chang is on top for 3 years that is an appropriated adjustment and that will increase ms. Changs salary from 200 and 16 thousand plus to a new salary of 200 and 24 thousand plus and so that is the recommendation of the committee so supervisor avalos or supervisor tang i dont know if you want to add anything as members of the Personnel Committee you dont have to supervisor tang. Thank you very much i think that you know our Personnel Committee weve spent time looking at the goals for 2015 and 2016 we the feel this increase was justified the requested at the beginning the new executive director term we felt like after this year that was justified i will say in general, i feel that our director chang has listens to a lot of the questions and it was not easy for her and everyone was frank and honest what theyre expecting i feel at this point she is listening to us and above and beyond and thats our feedback if the Personnel Committee. Thank you supervisor avalos. Thank you chair wiener ill add that last year when we had ore Salary Increase it was not to act action so we wanted to add a couple of years and seeing her performance and what was great that all of the goals she sat as supervisor tang talked about were actually achieved i felt shes been very acholic beverage not just with the Transportation Authority board but with all the city departments if that was one of the things that come out u came out were doing a Selection Process for the directors the Transportation Authority we wanted to make sure that someone would work with alleyway with the entire city and tilly did a good job and proud to over her the Salary Increased another thing i want to add so want to say thank you for your Great Services and im urging colleagues to support a recommendation from the finance committee. Thank you supervisor cowen. Thank you. I wanted to thank and give some prospective i was open is finance last year and also on the interviewing team the year before so its been really ive been intimately involved i wanted to not only acknowledge what supervisor avalos said she works well to the city departments but done a phenomenal job with other registering transportation bodies we have that in the past difficult relationship thats a testament to oher relationship. Sxhaefrlz. I want to echo i think youve done an amendment job on lombard and many areas of lombard and 2 has been a great working relationship. Supervisor mar you i want to add many changing gets around to the Community State and National Events been amazed how much she can do for would be person and built an incredible staff as well as act as a team im prevalent of all her work. Thank you, supervisor kim. Supervisor campos. Thank you, mr. Chair i want to thank the executive director for the professional growth weve seen since she came on board and you know, i was chair alcohol, tobacco Firearms Authority before that intuition its been great to see since the evolution nevertheless of the alleged not only knowledge but the way she interacts with the community congratulations and the raise is well deferred. Supervisor breed. Thank you. I wanted to add my 0. 02 i was concerned in the beginning as you may know and youve definitely approached of proved me wrong i appreciate the work with my constituents and district 5 to address challenging issues we have weve got a lot more work to do and you provided the right leadership to do that work and youre team and the folks at the ta have done a tremendous job so i definitely support in raise it is well deserved. Thank you, supervisor kim. Thank you. I also wanted to add my words i have really been supportive of director chang on this position given her years of dedicated service to the Transportation System her knowledge of San Francisco and her knowledge of the agency you shined and gone above and beyond i thought you would be able to do i think that is great to see you out and about at the events of the many hours directing the agency that is incredible important for the citys and to see who the transportation director and build a trust that is the way to build a better system for all by having Community Relationship but also want to appreciate youre leadership at San Francisco Transportation Authority and thank you for being a San Francisco resident and youre family attended the public schools. Thank you supervisor yee. Not much to add yes not only San Francisco residents but other residents going to the Elementary Schools for kids but i guess im not surprised i anticipated you would do a good job when we offered you the position and youve proved me right. Thank you for embracing like the other city families embracing vision zero. Thank you, colleagues any additional comments ongoing so. Actually, one more comment. And ill make it, it is really clear from just the staff in the Transportation Authority that the staff has a great everyone is working really arrested e hard to support our decisions i want to make sure that is pointed out that tilly with the leadership within the organization has been phenomenal as well thanks. Great, thank you okay yes. Ms. Chang. Thank you so much to each of you for those kind words im humbled and appreciative of our support with the recognition with the Transportation Authority to all the your staff and sales for giving us time and guidance and support mentoring letting us grow and make some mistakes along the way but the guidance when that happens to be improving our work there is room for feedback were grateful for the leadership you provide on things like the Vision Zero Initiative creating a Treasure Island Mobility Agency a computing u brand new role of 25 years were striving to meet the Community Expectation as those policies get formulated make sure the impacts and investments are benefiting the whole community and understanding the weirder impact whether the blood splatters or planned b area to get smart of areas like 9 affordability and displacement and really rely on iuoe you and your staff thank you for spending youre time were grateful and continue to do a better job as we move forward. Thank you, ms. Changing. Okay any Public Comment . On item 11 or item 12 seeing none, Public Comment is closed and items 11 and 12 are action can we do this with one vote. Please call roll. Items 11 and 12 supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor malia cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor peskin supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee. That item passes. Item 15 and item 15 adjournment. Were adjourned good afternoon. Welcome to the Vision Zero Committee of the Transportation Authority board to our special meeting for thursday, december 10th. In the afternoon, my name is supervisor jane kim and im the chair of the committee. And may we take roll call, please. Item 1, roll call. Commissioner farrell. Present. Farrell present, commissioner kim . Here. Kim you present. Commissioner mar. Mar present. Commissioner yee, yee absent we have a quorum. Thank you, i know supervisor yee is on his way to committee meeting. Can we please call the calendar . Calendar, items 24 comprise the consent calendar. These items are considered routine and staff is not planning to rent or prepared to present if desired and if a member objects any item can be removed and considered separately. Thank you. Is there any discussion on the consent calendar . Seeing none, call Public Comment on this item . Any members of the public who would like to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed on the consent calendar. Mr. Clerk, please take roll call. On the consent calendar, commissioner farrell . Aye. Farrell aye. Commissioner kim . Kim aye. Commissioner mar . Aye. Mar a, commissioner yee, yee absent, the consent calendar passes. Thank you. Can we please call item 5. Update on use of parking control officers to support vision zero. This is an information item. Thank you. And i do see sfmta here to present on this item. Good afternoon, sfmta enforcement manager. Today i would like to give youn update on our progress towards enhanced enforcement in support of vision zero id like to cover items such as citation trends, which respect to three key citation types. Ill talk about the top locations were focusing on or have been focusing on and speak at some length about our deployment decisions, strategies, tradeoffs and challenges. This reflects the citations for the period of 2010 to november of 2015. And as you can see, 2015 compared to 2014 if you look at the intersection gridlock citations, we increased our issuance of citations of about 200 over last year. Blocking the bike lane, 97 and double parking about 34 increase. The next slide represents the topten locations which we are focusing on intersections gridlock or blocking the box. Do you have a copy of this, because i cant read this on the screen . Yes. I have maybe two. Great. In the future, it would be great to always have hard copies for Committee Members. I apologize. Because sometimes our screens are not very clear. Let me get you that. Thank you,. I apologize for that. As you can see we starts supervisor kim as you recall back in July September of 2014, we initiated a pilot to focus on south of market and bay bridge approaches. And since well, as early back as january 2014, you can see almost 19,000 citations have been issued at approximately 114 different locations which represents about 2 of the total citywide intersections. We have moved we continue you to look at different intersections and move as necessary. We have actually moved some of our enforcement efforts downtown, Market Street corridor and also north of market this slide and the next couple of slides i would kind of like to talk a little bit about our assignment strategies decisions on how we deploy our officers . This slide represents our core enforcement assigns we also call them details. The core details such as general enforcement, meters, disabled placard enforcement, rpp, residential parking permit, boots, law, yellow zone, street cleaning and toll, transitonly line with frontfacing forward cameras. Abandoned autos, over 72 hours and tow and dispatch. As you can see, the core assignments tend to fall into the center or between the peak a. M. And p. M. Commute times. 710 a. M. And 37 p. M. The second chart reflects what we call special assignments. These are assignments that are not they usually start out as pilots and they become either permanent or the duration is much longer. One specifically to focus on would be the shuttles, tech shuttle programs. You can see that is the blue line there. That is on the managed on the a. M. Peak and p. M. Peak times. And there is not much enforcement in the middle or the core times. Other programs that we have put into the special assignments include things such as muni forward, safer Market Street, powell street for the cable car, and central subway, and many more. It takes quite a few pcos for these different unique assignments and resource needs fall into the nontraditional out of the core times. What this chart indicates is the total after nonproductive time pcos assignment. So on the horizontal, the times, vertical are the number of pcos and reflects mondayfriday, week days. Typical week day we would have a maximum of 200, but on average after vacations, we end up with 150 pcos working beats monday through friday. This final slide is Global Positioning satellite with our handheld devices the devices we issue citations. The orange [tkots ]s being double parking citations for just one month. Month of october of this year. And the blue dots are bike lane violations that weve issued citations for, again during the month of october. Ultimately what we would like to do is monthly and even longer periods of time is use this chart in conjunction with incidents of accidents and look at where we can assist in redeploying our staff to address those areas which are of largest concern or have had numerous accidents. Filling those gaps, in other words. Additionally with gsp, well employee what we call a geosensing tool. And actually be able to reportout better information by district. And that wraps up any questions . Thank you, cameron. We do have questions from supervisor commissioner mar. Before that just really quickly back to the last slide and im sorry you missed when you said this, what are the orange dots and blue dots . Orange dots are double parking city citations and blue dots are bike lane citations im glad were citing cars for blocking the bike lanes of i its really important and i get a lot of feedback on had a and im curious how many blocking bike lane citations were given in october . Almost 300. 300 . Yes. Is that like roughly the average . That is about the average, yes. Great. Thank you, commissioner mar. Thank you. I know we have had the Police Departments data district by district, but is there a way to use the gsp gps data to look at districtbydistrict enforcement . I could answer part of that question and let command maddox answer. To the degree that they have a hand held device with gps capabilitieses they could do that . If you have the gps data here, it could easily be separated into each district; right . Yes. With numbers, like the police have provided, oh, absolutely, i see what you are saying. Yes, sure. And i know that Police Officers can issue similar citations. Is there a way to get the data that combines the parking control officers with the Police Officers, and the total citations . Yes. In the key enforcement areas like the intersections you mentioned, but also on a districtbydistrict level too . If they cite using similar traffic violations such as double parking, they could be included as part of our data. I think what we found when looking at the police data is that some districts like the Richmond District station was doing a really good job on fulton and key places where were trying to slow speeds down you and make it safer, but im just curious if there is a districtbydistrict approach that involve the police and mta and others that is very wellcoordinated is my suggestion. Good suggestion and were working towards at least getting the mta data, which is the majority of it is has gps coordinates as we cite as part of the handheld device. So we are working towards developing that ability to geosense it, basically put the boundaries by any way we want, whether its district, zip code, however we like. So that is underway. I know that you are focused on the key dangerous areas by the data that you have. So i know its not necessarily looking at areas that isnt as dangerous. But it still would be good to look at districtbydistrict data, i think. Data i have shown is citywide and not focused on those current areas of dangerous incidents that occur, but what we want to achieve by using gps and that data on top of the incident data. And if with can get pd data theirs is gpscapable, we could do all three. Am i right that police have the same authority with the parking citations as pcos or is there any difference with what police can cite versus what pcos do . They have more authority than we do for these violations. Ours is strickly strictly to parking ordinances. Okay, commissioner wiener. Thank you, madame chair. My apologies, im going back and forth between the rules committee today. So i apologize i missed your presentation, but i just wanted to come in and just ask a couple of specific things. Thank you for continuing to work on Traffic Management including double parking and blocking the box. And again, if you mentioned any of these specific areas in your presentation, i apologize. So first i noticed for quite some time now that along Market Street at 3rd, 4th and 5th, the box blocking is terrible and sometimes it takes muni buses multiple cycles to get through, even though its only a few cars ahead of them, because the box blocking is so bad. Or even for the 30 or 45 to make a right turn from market at the end of as its going to southbound. And i have never seen a pco or any mta personnel or any Police Officer managing those intersections, not once. Im not there 24 hours a day, but im there as a pedestrian and muni rider on a fairly regular basis and just repeatedly seen this happen and never seen an mta personnel there. Can you comment on those specific intersections . Certainly with respect to Market Street, we are we djia a deploy a lot of pcos. Part of is for blocking the box enforcement and primely focus on that on Market Street. Well have pcos there at a. M. Peaks to do other things such as Pedestrian Safety, assisting muni through the intersections or across. But yes, we are not there all the time. I think with safer Market Street we have added more pcos to do that. Withrispect y respect to the other line issues would have to look into that. Its my experience 3rd, 4th and 5th street along market and i understand there are times when you do something at certain times of day and you cant be there 24 7. But this is just an ongoing issue, i think with boxblocking and also double parking there is not enough and you have to do it more, or the behavior is never going to change. And a few hours for a couple days a week doesnt cut it and these intersections are just examples and other ones south of market that also through the volume equally significant. But because Market Street is such an important transit spine, perhaps more so than any other street in the city. When you have ramped up boxblocking at major intersections along Market Street without any Traffic Management, it causes major problems, so i really encourage the agency, i dont think you have enough pcos doing this work. I think you need more and i would encourage you to do that. The other specific example is upper market delivery trucks. And i have seen it with my own eyes, but also regularly get photos that constituents send me with very large delivery trucks that are completely blocking the bike lane and half of the traffic lane. And if you have ever been, which im sure you have been on upper Market Street, in the castro, especially during rush hour, going like morning rush hour eastbound, its a sight to behold in terms of the sheer volume of traffic. And you have only two lanes of traffic and then the bike lane. So when you have delivery truck that is blocking the entire bike lane and half of one of the traffic lanes, it causes a big problem. So im just wondering what activity has been along upper Market Street in terms of doubleparking enforcement . Upper market, we have also focused not as consistent as we would like or as frequent as we would like. With respect to some of the larger trucks, as we have talked about in past, with respect to doubleparking, or, well in a bike lane to the degree that the large vehicle is a commercial vehicle, that doesnt have anywhere else to park, we allow some discretion and lets the driver know that they have to finish up quickly and move on. Whereas others, if there is a place they could have pulled into, an available yellow zone and choose not to, then we cite it. So as far as frequency, its true, we havent done, as much as we could upper market. Weve spent a lot of time on intersection gridlock, free entrances and south of market and more recently shifted some of our resources to support market. Could you send the data to my office for doubleparking citation over the last six months and along castro street, now that we have widened the sidewalk, there has always two lanes, one northbound and one southbound, but weirdly wide and encouraged rampant double parking and we have seen a double hall parking problem continue and i would also like the data on castro street. Thank you. R thank you, commissioner wiener, any other questions or comments . I had a question on the graphics that you showed on 5, 6, and 7. I was wondering why the peak of your staff deployment is actually in the middle of the day, between it looks like 10 30 and 3 00 versus rushhour traffic. Depending on the assignment such as meters. Okay meters is obviously the big ones meter time, yes. We build up the staff primarily for the meter times and locations, as well as rpp is the same. Okay. So when were looking at kind of dont block the box, and those types of enforcement, that is actually occurring during rush hour . That is correct. Okay. Great. Its really great to see the data in terms of what sfmta has been doing and i do appreciate it, because its something had a we have asked sfmta is to dedicate resources to Traffic Management, which has certainly become a bigger and bigger concern for our residents as streets become more congested and i certainly want to concur with supervisor wiener our residents want to see this and we want to change behaviors so people are changing the are rules. So even if they are moving slowly, moving through the intersections. We certainly hear a lot about cars block the bike lane, and i experienced it myself on the bike. Forcing us out of a bike lane, which safer to be in and putting us into vehicular traffic. I think that its really important that we create a culture where cars respect really the minimal space that we give to bikers, who are doing a lot for our city by being on think bikes and not in their cars. Thank you for being here. You are welcome. I want to recognize commander maddox is here to answer questions if you have any on enforcement and i also wanted to open up Public Comment for this item. Is there any Public Comment for item no. 5 . See nothing Public Comment, Public Comment is closed [ gavel ] this is an informational item. Thank you so much sfmta for being here today, and for your work on this. We look forward to continuing to work with you on continuing this work in our district and throughout the city. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, can you please call item no. 6 . Item 6, framework for identifying next generation of vision zero priority projects. This is an information item. The mayor and i announced the completion of 13 miles of improvement along the network with public works and sfmta, as well as the completion of the 24 vision zero projects three months ahead of schedule. And an additional six projects that will be completed by february 2016. Tom maguire is here, manager of sustainable streets to identify priority projects moving fore, initiatives to advance the goal of vision zero and [kph ] Committee Members and mr. Maguire has a series that sfmta is looking at for feedback on. Thank you, and thanks for acknowledging that great day we got to announce we both reached the 13mile milestone and delivered on 24 and 24 ahead of schedule. So im going to give a quick overview of a couple of things we accomplished in in 2015 and informs the work that we do in 2016 and what we think the work program for 2016 looks like and how we want to frame that and how we want to talk to the public about the work were doing and how we want to talk to you as our city leaders and policimakers for the reasons were making the choices that were making. To start with as supervisor kim said, were really happy with my we reached that goal at the end of november goal. We also of course finished the 13miles of improvements along the highinjury corridors and its important to take a moment to remember that the 24 and 24s with was a really important challenge we set for ourselves. But that was just a fraction of the overall vision zero work were doing and just a fraction of what were doing on highinjury network. The 13 miles of improvements which span ran the gamete from complicated concrete like the oakland bikeway to simple painted safety zones and signal changes. 13 miles and we know well reach that goal again next year. We also have a were also doing safety work off the highinjury corridor with the safe routes to school and Community Members who are concerned about speeding in the neighborhoods and were working in the city on projects like that and not missing opportunities to coordinate with agencies like public works to do things like paving program. When public works repaves streets with we look for opportunitiesment likewise 2015 we launched our large vehicle training video and the were the only city in the country that has specific training materials aimed the drivers who drive our most dangerous vehicles, trucks and large vehicles and telling them specifically how to operate in a complicated multimodal city like San Francisco. We have gotten great feedback [ inaudible ] on the enforcement side, from this months quarterly update, sfpd is focused on the five goal and seeing really steady improvement in the percentage of citations for those five violations that cause the most collisions, most injuries, and fatalities. So what have we learned from accomplishments and successes and inform what we do in 2016 . We have learn a lot about the challenges of accelerating project delivery and coordinating across departments in a way that i dont think has been true before, mta, police department, Transportation Authority were all rolling together in the same direction and were really were more and more aware if were going to reach vision zero, if were going to have not just the output of all of our projects, education projects look good and out comes, with zero fatalities by 2024 and by attacking no. 1 cause is excessive speed. When we talk about our work program for 2016, the key framework to share and leave with you is we want make sure all of our actions are chipping away at excessive speeding on streets because of so many of these crashes and fatalities. I dont think anybody here will be unfamiliar with this. We all know that the likelihood of fatality from a Motor Vehicle collision increases dramatically when speeds increase. A person hit by a car at 20 Miles Per Hour is 10 chance of dying, a person hit by a car at 40 Miles Per Hour has an 80 chance of dying and that difference between 2040 and between obeying the laws that is how we want to move from that culture of speeding that we have, to the culture of safety. So starting with Engineering Projects that well be looking at in 2016. Again commitment we have made through the mayor and to this board is to deliver at least 13 miles of Safety Improvements on highinjury Network Every year and we know this year we want to focus again on speed reduction and excessive speed control. There is some general areas in which these programs fall and well give examples of each of them. The most complex are the transformative projects around safety and multimodal goals and collaboration with other projects that were doing in the city to transform streets. I want to specifically note traffic signal timing this year and not forget the majority of streets that we touch, the way we incremental progress on the streets fastest is continuing go large with the walk First Initiative and well be continuing in 2016. Here is some examples transforming corridors these are not projects that were going begin or end this year. All of these projects are multiyear efforts and i think everyone on this committee is has at least one of these projects in their district and has been help using helping us get the word out about the importance of safety on the streets. Building van ness brt, and transforming streetscape at polk street were trying to seize the once in a Generation Opportunity in the highcrash corridors when we spend money to reconstruct the streets we want to make sure were building streets to address crash factors and that meets the communitys expectations for highqual ility streetscape. Polk, masonic avenue and van ness and others in the planning stage, but all reach significant milestones during 2016. Mr. Maguire, can you go over each ones expected milestones for 2016 . Okay, i will tell you everything that i have on that. Working from the bottom van ness avenue. This is for the brt project . Yes, the brt, we call it van ness brt, but its 14 extra large bulbs and turn restrictions so that will be a much safer street. Polk street, substantially completing a number of blocks of fullon streetscape reconstruction. Raised bikeway, ped concrete bulbouts and major reconstruction projects there. Masonic avenue will also be in construction. For Market Street, the milestone in 2016 is to reach a locally preferred alternative for the environmental process. What does that mean . That is basically that is a planning goal. Were not going to achieve ceqa plan or let a construction contract, but going to in 2016 have an actual plan for what better Market Street will look like . Okay. So youll have selected a locally preferred option alternative for Market Street . That is the goal for 2016. Okay. Lombard street is completion of design to meet the caltrans paving schedule. Caltrans will be repaving the street between 20172018 and the goal is it complete the design process. So were ready for that. Golden gate avenue is to launch the Planning Design process. Columbus avenue is to implement a number of shortterm measures that will improve the muni flow, the bike lanes on columbus, as well as painted safety zones and some early construction opportunities to improve some of the tricky intersections of that street. And for 6th street . For 6th street, for 6th street, im actually going to ask one of my colleagues to step up and give a bit more detail because its such an important project. Would you . Good afternoon, luis montoya, livable streets. 6th street has been the Environmental Review process and supervisor kim, we worked with the community to come up with Concept Design to go through a likely lengthly multiyear Environmental Review process. Is also concept and design . Its actually just Environmental Review in 2016. We have a concept. Well be doing the Environmental Review, including traffic analysiss and working with the Planning Department and consultants. Design wont be able to start until after that. Okay. Commissioner yee. These traffic corridor transformation projects for this year, were these similar in nature . I thought it seems like the way you are describing these projects, they are at the design stage, or they are in the vision stage, or they could be in the Community Input stage. And next year you are go coming back with the same ones that is a were moving to the next stage . Is that sort of what we have thought of these projects would be described as . Im a little confused with this . Its a good question and as i talk about some of the 13mile commitments i can make that clearer, but to be sure that im clear about the fact these are the most ambitious Street Project were doing in San Francisco. These are not projects like i said that will begin or end in 2016. Were going to deliver 13 miles of improvements on highinjury network, a combination of concrete, signal timing, paint, road diet and all the tools that we have. These road corridors are highestprofile corridors and they will make up a subset of those projects. But i dont mean the biggest thing that were bog going to look at this year, but maybe got a little lost in the 24 and 24 discussion. We want to make sure as advocates and policymakers have been reminding us, we just dont want to count 13 miles of incremental improvement, but aiming a high bar and not taking our eye off the ball. So maybe within a couple of slides i could maybe answer your question a little bit better . So next set of opportunities are opportunities to coordinate with the Muni Forward Program and again, there is just a few highlights on this map we expect as i said to do some early implementation action on columbus avenue, as well as break ground on van ness brt. So streets with high priority for transit can be high priority for pedestrian vehicular safety. We know Traffic Signals are a great tool for controlling vehicle speeds and managing the flow of vehicles along signalized corridors and lower speed limits and separate pedestrians and vehicles from places where chronic turning collisions are taking place. Well be installing 40 pedestrian countdown signals in 2016 and im really excited to say that we just found out we got a grant from caltranss from their highways Safety Improvement program you that is going to allow us to do a signal retiming of the entire grid both in soma and the tend erloin. This is an opportunity to look at Traffic Signals. What does it mean to adjust signal timing . That means we can look at entire streets and look at the progression of signals and looking at opportunities to slow the speed at which the signals allow traffic to pass through and allows us to look at pedestrian intervals at intersections where we havent been able to because of congestion. But taking a networkwide approach to bring those into the signals. So allowing us to put more lead pedestrian intervals throughout these neighborhoods. I just have to say they make a huge difference on folsom and 7th, allowing pedestrians to cross before allowing cars to move in both direction and i notice that as both a driver and pedestrian. For an intersection like that, what is the process to get a lead pedestrian interval at the intersection . There is a few different ways that we implement them, but it comes down to intersections where we can use the existing we can work within the existing timing and carve extra time for pedestrians by holding the traffic for a few seconds. There is intersections and im using golden gate as an example, where the intersections are closely spaced, the Traffic Volume is fairly high and there are things, like muni, that we would want to maintain a flow of traffic through the corridor. Where we have to look at the entire corridor for van ness to market. So that we slow the traffic down in a corridorwide way. We immediate to do we need to do that before we carve out the time for itas. Not to be simplistic, but what is stopping us from putting ipl everywhere on every intersection and giving pedestrians opportunity to walk before cars in either direction . Good question. Many of our intersections have 60second cycles. Total amount of time allotted across the entire timing pattern, its very hard to slice up. Even those 36 seconds that we give to the pedestrian without shortchanging another crosswalk or intersection. We dont want the situation that we create it on one or more legs on crosswalk, but dont have enough time for pedestrians, especially pedestrians who need a little extra time to cross to get from one curb to the other. Doesnt lpi give pedestrians more time to cross . It does, but when you start taking away time from one approach to give it to another, you could run into the problem where you need to extend the entire cycle and maybe even by a few seconds and that is something that has to be done on a networkwide basis because if you dont you would be encouraging dangerous driver behavior. To use folsom and 7th because we were just talking about and putting lead pedestrian interval into place, what happened to put that in the ground and changes in the neighborhood to make that a reality . I dont have the exact timing. I only ask because i dont understand at all what you said prior. Im sorry. I was hoping an example would be helpful and i didnt understand your answer at all. So there are intersections where the signal timing pattern is such that we can do things like we did at 7th and folsom without making a difference to the way vehicles flow along a sequence of intersections, say from folsom, the length of folsom street and simply carve the time out of one intersection. There are other streets where the signal timing pattern is such that to change the timing at one intersection requires us to really change the timing at every intersection along the corridor. That is really the difference. That is why the networkwide signal timing will be so great for Pedestrian Safety features. Mr. Maguire, can i say you only on slide 13 out of 23, but let me say that highinjury corridors like geary dont appear on the 2016 list, but i understand there is a couple of projects that have been funded to focus on corridors like geary as well. Is that right . Sure. Yes. I can if you dont mind, i could go to my next slide. I would love to hear that in a moment, but i know it didnt appear earlier as you were talking about all districts being represented. I didnt see that. I also just wanted to say from the beginning, when we kicked off vision zero, it was really a Grassroots Community effort and i think any time we do presentations, i think you have wonderful staff, but i think its really important to acknowledge the vision zero coalition, walk sf and all the Coalition Members who have pushed for slowing speeds and changing the culture of death to a culture of safety and its really important to acknowledge that. I wanted to say that even the slides you took from slide 11, i think walk sf at least for my office to bring the data from the uk and other places that we know if you slow it down, it saves lives and decreases the level of the injuries sometimes when people get hit as well. And lastly, i just wanted to say i think geary is critical because of the first death this year with alfred yee in 2015 and Aurora Benita and safe routes to school and looking at lights for selfhelp for elderly or 26th and geary in front of the Richmond Center that we at least let them know its going to be delayed. I guess tremendous frustration after the death of mr. Yee and we have been told by the mta it will be in august, but now were hearing its going to be many months later. Even the basic decency of contacting our office and Senior Centers around them that have been waiting is really important on the human side. I used the names of people who have been killed, so we dont can be so we have good data, but dont lose sense of the Human Element and grass roots and Community Efforts pushing us for vision zero in our city as well. I appreciate you sharing that and he can come we can come back with an answer. Mr. Maguire, i dont want to dwell on this lpis have been very effective and while it makes intuitive sense to have a study to see how we can put them out to south of market and tenderloin and the fact that we put them in place at all, begs the question, why cant we just do it without a study; right . So im trying to understand ive seen it go into the ground and i want to see more of it and why do we need a study to do it if we have done it without a study . Im trying to