Transcripts For SFGTV Transporation Authority Plans And Programs Committee 41916 20160424

All right. Good morning, Everyone Welcome to the to the Transportation Authority plans Programs Committee of thursday, march 17, 2016, im katie tang to my left is we have supervisor avalos and commissioner peskin clerk steve stamos and im sorry. Aaron peskin on the far left and from sfgovtv we have charles kremack and Nona Melkonian and with that if we can call item one. Item one roll call commissioner avalos commissioner london breed absent commissioner farrell absent as commissioner peskin commissioner tang we have quorum. Item 2 Advisory Committee report this is an informational item. Thank you. We have chris our cac chair. Good morning, commissioners two items to brought to your attention on todays agenda item 6 allocation of the property regarding this Treasure Island portions we have a short agenda and a lot of comments from people on all these things i ask asked about the feedback the cac received theyve done a 2356k job of doing outreach affordability and subsidies for protecting residents on the island were addressed quite well becky that represents Treasure Island said theyve been doing a great job in making sure the concerns are met and regarding the mba sell vice chair period of time asked about the lag the time between the meetings and the residence are made aware of the lack of funding i happened to be at the meetings in 2010 and rec and park indeed you know told us that there were going to be a lag time in funding were expecting to wait and were all glad to see that moving forward regarding item 7 on our agenda the bay area bike sharing peter saks brought this up concerning the expansion bike sharing was not adequately dispersed understanding that part of city are busier but many areas in the southeast, west of twin peaks and southwest Radio Station the questions between phase two through 4 theyll be expanding and address that today so thats all i have. Thank you very much i think that is commissioner avalos not commissioner farrell. Yes. Thank you for your presentation and thank you for your work on the mann sell corridor is great project the paving and it will have a dramatic improvement in that area bring a lot of Public Safety measures and calm traffic and just wonderful project so thank you. Thank you for that i saw the photos i think that is will be very novice all right. So seeing no other questions or comments item two to Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 3 and were joined with commissioner farrell item 3 approval of the minutes of the march 2016 meeting an action item poohpooh r thank you. Any Public Comment on item 3 seeing none, Public Comment is closed commissioners we have thank you moved by commissioner avalos and seconded by farrell well take that without objection. The minutes are adopted item 4. Roll call vote. Im sorry now we have roll call vote think outside the box minutes commissioner avalos commissioner london breed absent commissioner farrell commissioner peskin commissioner tang the minutes are approved. Thank you. Item 4 sorry item 4. Appointment of one member to the siding this is an action item. Our chief Deputy Director one opening on the Advisory Committee which is due to the resignation of whitney by practice representing the district 3 go note the common roster of the cac candidates on attachment 2, 27 applicants we accept applicants at www. Cac. Org appear once before this committee at least one cac member or candidate and thank you very much do we have any questions or comments before we precede to the applicants. Madam chair, i want to acknowledge whitney. Thank you him for his service well eastbound hearing from mr. Bradley as well as others and i look forward to making a recommendation after Public Comment. Thank you so tiements im going to ask if anyone is applying for this, please come up and make a presentation and state your name before you make the presentation. Good morning. My name is a bradley a 39 year resident ever San Francisco i live in district 6 on the line with district 3 i have lived in many neighborhoods and interested in advocating for transit systems and for our many communities i am a state of design urban design and architecture and i have worked for architectural historians and current a Home Health Care aid i got into that with research with elderly architectural historians they needed help as well as daily experience so i am doing that now and through that i deepened the commitment to labor in the city people with special needs, the attacked and seniors and im concerned about their assess to the city and the amount concerned about the complexities of the city we make sure were looking for all the communities and very glad that the city works to extend positions so that we can make sure were not overlooking any of our population groups and their transportations needs. Thank you very much do we have any questions or comments for this applicant seeing none, thank you for your presentation any other members that are here from the public politically for the seat seeing none, well go to Public Comment on item 4 anyone wish to comment on item on item 4 . Okay seeing none, Public Comment is closed commissioner peskin madam chair colleagues id like to nominate bradley weigh the mirror for the cac. Thank you sixth district by commissioner avalos and well take that without objection. All right. So approved congratulations item 5 now. Item 5 recommended appointment of two members to the bus rtc committee. Thank you, maria second we have established a speciality fee to advise us on the geary brt project in the discussions and the current structure includes thirteen or 13 feet a table on the memo that basking seats along the corridor and large seats 3 a responding seats one of the vacancies to the term of expiration of john not he seeking reappointment and 3 encourage filled in the chinatown and two in the tenderloin downtown area we have 5 at large the other is the expiration of one seat that is occupied by margie and seeking a reappointment she is in the responding and commissioner mar we have continuously accepted applications with an advertisement on the cac and attachment two in your packet you see the list of tentative that are available and the authority cac the candidates dont need to appear before this committee and i understand one candidate that is expected to attend to speak in the interests. Thank you very much at this time im going to ask if any of the applicants are here today please come on you will up and remember to staurment full name joined by commissioner london breed. Im honored to have the chance to serve on the cac committee ive been a resident of Richmond District so far over 40 years i dont drive muni is my transportation so i use the muni everyday and i can add a lot to what is happening on the muni i talked with a lot of operators and shared information that is promoted and many our mother aware of proposals knowing what the operators deal without proposed changes is important in any discussion we see all sides as a senior i have observed issues that effect the seniors insisted Richmond District where i live and like to see that any changes take into account many changes that will effect the seniors or disability people in the richmond ive also regularly attend the Committee Meetings ive kept abreast and involved in the Senior Center in the castro and gone to every session and given the reports that is what is proposed on geary i remember many years ago there were Community Meetings that talked about the possibility of having a light rail on geary Nothing Happened id like to be on that to be a member of the j pa c committee for the geary thank you for the opportunity to serve on the cac committee and represent the richmond thank you very much. Next applicant autopsy my name is stan ferreted i belong in San Francisco as a thirty plus residents of Richmond District im interested in serving i ride the bus everyday dont care took the bus here today with the brt in our neighborhood is a complicated deal involves in the Richmond District a couple of banks and a couple of walgreens but all p z businesses are mom and pop or locally owned businesses and we are discreet to get a better source of transit would think that is in the community that survives construction i as a neighborhood residents can walk down and walk down and take my laundry in and go to restaurant and such so it is complicated the issues of the under pass further Downtown East are complicated i understand those issues i feel like i can play a constructive roll in accounting im a lawyer by training but work as a mediator i make sure that all parties have their voices are heard and they participate meaningfully in the process and can be a constructive add to bring those so i urge you to consider in the meantime, me for the position. Thank you very much next applicant. Good morning. My name is a alexander post i live in laurel heats and moved to San Francisco 12 years ago to law school and ditched my car i rely on muni to get to and from work so transportation is an personal im a regular yours the 38 l not r and ill existed by the Regional Transit is really long Time Solutions to the problem of needing more mass transit in the area were a National Center funding is drying up so and tweaking that infrastructure rather than gambling a capital doesnt even project is smallest but ive been subject to the same sort of changes rapid changes happening so i understand that those sort of Large Infrastructure Projects are lightning rods for the rapid change i think going in with that knowledge will make me a good ambassador for changes that are impacted by the bus Regional Transit and be an effective communicator so i will urge you to vote for my candidacy thank you very much. Next applicant. My name is jay i live in the richmond i shop and commute, im here everyday and i will show up and participate at every meeting on the agenda thanks. Thank you any other members of the public that are politically to the seat geary cac seeing none, oh, now is that really farrell sorry issues with the screen commissioner avalos. I want to express one request from the district one supervisor mar is interested in supporting maggie for the at large seat and considering would to appoint for the richmond seat and there is consensus on the Committee Like to proposals that thank you commissioner farrell. Sure actually but ill comment that commissioner avalos has turned in happy to do that i think mr. Post and mr. Kingsley ill support them and happy to do so i support people that come to those hearings i understand people cant but for tenderloin for the District Supervisor with the at large seat ill support but understand a discussion and happy to support. Commissioner peskin. Sorry commissioner london breed. One of those days the back of my name mayor faulkner was was a restraining order disposals. I think that i would support commissioner farrells suggestion that we potentially put the recommendations of commissioner mar in the Richmond District seat and we appoint someone what has attended the meeting and commented that is here that will fit into the Richmond District seat in the at large seat that is my recommendation ill open to that. Thank you, colleagues if thats the case i would be supportive of 3 too is there a particular applicant you want to put into the at large seat i think the one applicant at large was mr. Post. Okay is there anyone else or seconded by commissioner breed so i think we would probably if it is amenable to the rest of the committee amend the motion for maggie in the district one appointee and then mr. Alexander post for the at large seat. Is that okay. I. I wanted to follow the wishes of the District Supervisor it was to keep the richmond seat open and appointing margie to the at large seat i realized she couldnt be here im not sure it is difficult to come here i dont know what theyre doing during the day it is not necessary to or makes sense to use that as a rule you come to the meeting and have a shot to be on the committee shes been on the committee a lot of important experience that will continue the continuity of the work on the g r it thats where im at and i believe if we can have a roll call vote. Im sorry double commissioner peskin so commissioner breed. I wanted to know i mean the at large seats and the district seats have equal say does that matter i want clarity on that. I see Maria Lombard coming up. One vote one seat. Thank you. Okay commissioner peskin thank you, madam chair colleagues ms. Brown has appeared before this body when she was originally appoint the fact shes not here and seeking reappointment is kind of business as normal if someone wants to continue that seat and have the experience why change that out i know that the way this commission and this body has conducted itself over many, many years to keep the desires of the District Supervisor with the brt with various district and appointees the pattern and practice of that committee as i said over a a long time to honor the wishes of the District Supervisor i will vote to keep that seat vacant actually commissioner mar has a say. Thank you commissioner farrell. Just to be clear i agree with that sentiment did richmond seat we should respect the wishes of commissioner mar and i got the comments of someone that showed up i will be willing to give people a chance to come back but support someone from today that rolls through district 5 and im sure district 3 thats my inclination but the other way i appreciate and respect my colleagues but be supportive mr. Kingsley if it came forward in terms of district one thats my opinion and want to make sure i was clear. Thank you commissioner breed. Thank you. I want to say im really very sensitive about people who show up to committee and also show up to meetings i do know weve had challenged in the past with many bodies we make decisions on in terms of people that serve on the bodies and had challenges with attendance im not saying ms. Brown has an attendance issue but as far as im concerned, it didnt matter which seat shows showing she holds but individuals that are qualified and capable and showing up and we should make a decision so we can continue with the business of body and so with that, i wanted to continue to support commissioner farrells suggestion and we can moving forward and make our decision and vote on that. Contemporarily. Off im sorry the irish one laughter relish nuns groping in school makes me feel irish. Ill give you that one. I laughter ms. Brown is actually been an actual member the cac not missed meeting a great contributor so it will be a loss well have a compromise and continue is one month and come back to it. Okay. Ill support that. I think weve come to an agreement. Both of the seats. If i may i want to thank all the folks who came out today and hang tight for a month. Thank you very much for your patience okay. So 80 a motion by commissioner avalos and seconded by commissioner farrell well take that without objection. To continue. The house has changed. Thats right ann did we take Public Comment. We didnt okay. So, now well actually take Public Comment on item 5 item 5 only are you here for item 5. I can stick now. Only about the geary bart cac. Okay. We have a general Public Comment later so well call you up then all right. Public comment is closed. And well do a roll call. On the motion to continue commissioner avalos commissioner breed commissioner farrell commissioner peskin commissioner tang okay. All right. To be continued item 6 please. Item 6 recommended allocation in prop k funds and one Million Dollars plus in prop a with conditions for requests and appropriation of 200 and 62 prop k fund subject to the cash flow distribution an action item thank you good morning, supervisors ann Deputy Director for policy and practice writing programming for the ta we have requests for 2 million were having some technical difficulties getting up the slides theyll be up in a moment the first request is on the to for 200 and 10,000 for the Treasure Island management and this is for fiscal year for 20152016 and related improvements the two phases would be done our ban planning to be done by june of 2017 and the work b will support the project being open for start of operation in 2019 and the Leverage Fund from the Treasure Island authority as well. Okay still working on the slides but to continue the next request is for the district 6 neighborhood improvement Planning Fund this is one thousand dollars request and also it is split between the sfmta and ill go into the both of those requests the first portion is from mta and it is for communitybased planning and fulsome and howard the vision zero are the busiest routes in San Francisco this portion of the request about allow mta to gadget with the leadership and representatives from the soma zone and both of those projects are focused on work in the zone and this is to address the Public Safety and says to community assess in particular such as Community Centers and recreation and school the planning work will be done by 2017 that addresses outreach to the work as part of those street designs. The second portion of the sf for district six the building zones for to the vision zero studies project and this is also from the Transportation Authority this will allow for us to be work with stakeholders and the District Supervisor to develop recommendations from improving safety of up to 5 offramps the locations are shown on the slide that is being loaded into the overhead projector those are amongst the top 20 intersections frankly the injuries sorry between 2005 and 2012 the approximately assess to the users in the zones schools, etc. And good candidates for additional recommendations theyre likely improvements that can be implemented in the next 3 years or so so the next 3 projects are projects that have come from the prop w a recommendations that were approved the terrace is the bulb outs at walk first, the process of a light rail registration free for under 5 hundred thousand that funds the base of the intersection that currently have painted safety zones and will have bulb outs those are locations on the pedestrian high injury corridors. Were in clubbing mode. Laura our all right. So the construction would begin in spring of 2018 and this fund the design work to prepare for that. The next is the corridor improvement and this project is under construction a prop w a for by the Transportation Authority and amongst other agencies to complete the improvements and funding will cover the higher than anticipated projects sxholz. Hi a question this is actually this was one hundred and 63 thousand dollars is closing the final gap. Thats correct. Great just a question the bike lane going east and west towards perishing and dublin what happens when we get close to the curve an accident last year someone was coming out of the hill and hit by a car is that intersection will be worked out to have a clearer signage for people to yield the bike lanes i see the sidewalk you have to cross over to the 09 side to assess the bike lanes. I dont know particularly about the intersection improvements i think there is a bike on the uphill between dublin and brazil but more specific location improvements maybe we can followup with our okay. Thank you okay. And the final request is from the lets see here is from the department of public works i see it on the top of the slide for the chinatown broadway this project is also a high priority for fined by the tenant landlord and it is a complete project from the columbus to the tunnel so at the march Transportation Authority Board Meeting at the request of commissioner peskin the board approved a condition that the department of public works work with his office and some Community Stakeholder who have questions about the design prior to awarding the contract to at our understanding is that those issues are being discussions and several meetings are taken care of theyll not been resolved as today, were forwarding this with a tentative recommendation pending the outcome of the discussions which we are looking to see if those resolutions can be reached by the board next week. Further to that and thank you and to ms. Chang for corresponding those between mta and the dwp and the committee one thing i will add for the record a notion it a start at the columbus side and move in a westerly direction to the intersection at powell and broadway with that tragedy pedestrian fatalities and the hit and run at a meeting one individuals from the project manages from dpw or mta said they couldnt tell the contractor to start at one end i substantially talked to detrimentally that said he if think that will be a problem to have them start at the eastern side and move in that direction any other comments or questions on this item okay. Ill i mean, well go to Public Comment first, id like to ask commissioner peskin i think there are several options so with that hed like to move the package of prop k to the full board. Yeah. To the full board. Full commission. Thank you any other questions or comments seeing none, okay openp for Public Comment okay anyone wish to comment on item no Public Comment is closed. And on item 6 and the house has changed a roll call. On item 6 commissioner avalos commissioner breed commissioner farrell absent commissioner peskin commissioner tang the item is approved all right. Item 7 please. Item 7 the bike sharing update on informational item. Thank you. We have emily staple ton. From mode. Good morning, supervisors thank you for inviting me to update the bargaining a short presentation to walk through and welcome our questions or comments. As an update on where we are in the big picture of implementing a extension of the bargaining from seven hundred to 7 thousand a bikes weve seeing none an agreement 2015 it will be motivate the provider of the bike sharing and the mtc and an agreement with mtc including San Francisco and santa fe and berkley and oakland to provide this expansion over over the course of the next couple of years again, the project programming will be provided at no cost to taxpayers and 20 percent of stations will be located in mtc communities briefly to get a sense the scale of the expansion today San Francisco has three hundred and 26 bikes in a program that covers the financial district and an expansion of 45 hundred bikes that covers the district and again 20 percent stations in communities of concern touching the communities of concern in San Francisco the scale of the program in san jose will have to date weve begun the process of soliciting public fooeb e feedback for San Franciscos expanded bike sharing system this is included a multi step process with a Data Analysis of locations that will be about that includes residential and commercial density and transportation infrastructure, typography and Public Feedback weve collected online when the agreement was annunciate last may from there once we determined the locates viable for bike sharing we identified over 200 locations that are technically viable for bike sharing and brought these after the elected officials for bay one to the public foyer review in those sessions neighbors were able to community with their fellow neighbors and figure out where the bike sharing will be and drafted the maps and feedback and the feasibility of those on review. In terms of status around the public it went live 3 thousand places that San Francisco Community Members would like to say bike sharing and incorporated into space one researched to 2, 3, 4 fattens three and four we had over 70 stakeholders meetings including outreach to each of the supervisors or their offices as well as Community Stakeholders neighborhood associations, merchant association, and, of course, other stakeholders like bart and rec and park that may have stations that are located near their property. When did they happen over the course 2015 and for the extension. I got here in january but we should visit. I believe we have should had an update to your office so in addition to those ones of outreach i mentioned 3 public workshops one in district 6 and 8 and 9 those are the district that will be receiving bikes in the phase one and this is a phase approach 25 percent of bikes will be kept to be permitted in the round of outreach and station placement to make sure the system is continuous it thrives on proximity so 9 in the first phase by the reach all the phases of the role outs as i mentioned the phase one some primary sites that have been select based on the Public Feedback and these maps have been posted online as of about a month ago and since then one hundred comments on the portal so that lifted those maps in Public Libraries and youll get Additional Information from people in the community and relative to sighted sighting can you put them anywhere is that a process how does that work. Thats a great question we working closely with mta from sighting this Service Areas to station locations bike sharing stations can be located on street and on streets and privately Held Properties and their sighting guidelines from the mta. The reason he asked is through the chair that ive been receiving a lot of complaints when one of them recently moved from grant avenue at columbus to grant avenue to the south in chinatown and everyone flipped out they didnt have any, no, sir, or merchant upset the communitybased organizations and i mean, i didnt know that was going to be yanked and police said there i was told no real process and theyre pretty upset. Understood that particular movement station on the ground was a temporary move that station is being relocated to a different location the point is welltaken that merchant in the surrounding areas and residents should be notified when a station is move forward the new stations are going through a thorough process right now of going to the awe budding locations are residents to notify them a station site has been identified in front of their property and to answer any questions about that so we definitely are available to answer any questions or concerns. Im asking is there a process for objecting of appealing can someone go to a Commission Meeting saying we have issues with alternative sites is there a process. Yes. Through the workshop process again through okay i may keith from the mta has additional perspectives but in terms of our highlevel process in the public workshops we council with a preliminary location bans convections a secondary locations if online and going the permitting process were hearing feedback this in the working in the community and an each time station we reach out to the Community Groups throughout the process. I know were on the dawn of 21st century but a lot of any constituents need this. All right. If we can have mta respond. Im keynote speaker maddox to respond to commissioner peskin questions about process we have a detailed guidelines for relocating stations and relocating them i want to be clear columbus was relocated on an emergency basis temporary moves we move them but if this is when in the location longer than 90 days we have to back up and go through the full legislation process that takes the community only will be there for under 90 days no process other than no specific legislative process other than Due Diligence talking to the neighborhood i understand they were consulted on that but perhaps didnt get full notification but there is a process. For many, many decades as chinatown has had organization that deadly with transportation chinatown trip i can give you their Contact Information they were definitely not consulted. Understood. Thanks. So ill pick up on outreach and draw the presentation to a conclusion with additional comments just really quickly on where we are assistance this is the phase one of 4 phases i detailed the stages listed on the lower part of slide 6 so weve identified locations for phase one and found the public workshops and have posted the proposed station online were accepting additional feedback from the public and in the process of delivering the station to sfmta for permitting we will replicate that through phase two and phase three and four by the time we have finished all the phases we will have stations in each of the lovingly districts of concern in San Francisco so i know there is a question about exactly where we are going next we expect the survey map will be in the next couple of months and certainly share that with the supervisors offices when we have that. The final yeah. How long is the time between the permits and the actual installations of the station. It depends on how long until the permits are approved a permit may take somewhere between 4 to 6 city approved and to order the stations it go takes approximately 5 months so somewhere is between 7 or 8 months Something Like that and then finally on the some of the objectives that bargaining is to achieve to a role out the membership assess option were changing the profile from the current profile to a single rate for a whole year monthly installments approximately 15 per month which may make membership more assessable for more people and make it easier for more peoples budget on a monthly basis and have a discount 5 per most forego a year and disability 40 o for care of care well roll out the extension. What guidelines for discounted participation is that federal guidelines or local. The california rate for energy so the utility lifeline program. Right. And i believe just generally bike sharing our goal with that expansion to encourage to move people from cars to hopefully, a combination of transit train and bicycles and i definitely think there is a huge opportunity to get people thinking about more active transportation and lincoln their trims across where theyre going rather than using a motorist vehicle this is the over arching goal and having this system that fosters active transportation is the health of the city we look forward to making it easier for people along with the bike sharing the vision zero they have been zero fatality to date in the United States with any bike sharing podium that is an expressive status i hope lasts forever and well continue to inform our members and our casual riders how to stay stave on the bicycle handlebars 5 safety guidelines in Yerba Buena Island to pedestrians and staying off sidewalks when riding a bike that something well continue to make as an important part of the program and finally our commitment to local hiring as we scale up more people that are rebalancing their bikes and working as bicycle mechanics and checkers and proving the hire channels like first jobs and source now and including fairs to goodwill and wherever we have a job liz were sending those to the stakeholders to get to the constituents we hope to have outreach with our hiring. Great, thank you i know youre not getting city funding for that in our local hiring legislation is triggered by city funding projects so not tax dollars necessarily but we have tried to expand to the private sector as well right now, were generally about 20 percent local hiring and i would like to make sure that we are able to hit that number when it comes to hiring local residents using the system that to me we have a lot of examples of the First Source Program not Yerba Buena Island that type of participation so i think that. Thank you in terms of timeline we spoke about it you know in private briefings but objective our cac chair representative from district 4 also is we would like to see this in other parts of city i understand why theyre clustered in certain segments of San Francisco but do you have a better timeline as when i know you will role this out to all 11 districts eventually but a better sense of wanting to the west side. The meeting is 25 percent of bikes in the phase one were seeing 15 percent in the next phase those permits this fall and thirty percent of bicycles will be permitted or delivered permits next spring and fall another 15 percent of bikes will be in our system but likely the stations that are further west will be permitted in the spring of next year and fall with the timelines for dloilt earlier the time to receive the equipment. Okay. Thank you. Commissioner avalos. Thank you so just interested in payment oppositions and what will be available supervisor peskin was talking about how folks dont have access so internet or but one of the things the cash Payment Options available for people. Do date not one plan but this is a Long Term Program were working with regional partners to bad actor e make that as assessable to people to have that xhfbz with the stakeholders the program right now the bicycles are expensive we need to link it to an account if a bicycle we have a way to follow up our bicycles dont leave the street that could involve something as a capital account that procures the cash payment Something Like that could be discussed in the first deployment we are making sure as many people as possible know about the options. Thats important for us to talk about i think the cash option is Super Critical for moving a barrier i understand that the bikes are expensive and that might not be enough cholesterol to back up a bike as cash the other issues are the clipper cards useful as payment. Thats something in the agreement to be rolled out i believe in 20 months after the deployment in the horizon but a requirement within this agreement were looking forward to integrating that. Thank you for your presentation any other questions or comments from colleagues commissioner breed. Thank you. I just wanted to know when the program is scheduled to roll out in hayes valley. Hayes valley is likely well move hayes valley for the next 15 of sighting that is taking place through the summer and look for the permitted through the fall and bikes will be expected to come finding in the fall or early spring of in charge. So a year from now. Approximately. Thank you for your work this is an exciting thing coming to San Francisco a lot of us wanted to be in the district right away 2 take a step back but what youre contributing is significant thank you. Commissioner peskin no. Commissioner breed. Okay. Thank you very much so at this time open on item 7 to Public Comment anyone wish to comment on item 7. The chinatown only a way to bike sharing on a grand avenue street amenable and the avenue to chinatown a good idea because grand avenue is a great link for the tourist area. Thank you. Next speaker, please okay. Are you coming up for this item. Yeah. Well, i wanted to put one thing on the board could you in fact right here oh, i got to turn it the other way my bad this is what does that say can you read that that is hard to understand sometimes some people dont know how who understand languages at all so thats enough of that if you can show me you cant understand what it says it doesnt make sense im here to speak about today is if you dont stop depending on oil to begin with youre going to have problems in china theyve never hardly ever seen a motorist vehicle now, when you tunnel a tunnel like muni you make this city weaker ive spoke about the weakness the structural stuff youve got to quit doing muni tunneling duo into San Francisco start taking for like maybe ancient china you have to think that way because if you keep doing all the modern modern buses ill collapse the city on top of itself you cant tunnel there is under toe by the way, id like to take the rest of my time from two tyrannies from vallejo. Sir this is about bike sharing this has a lot to do with that sharing things from around the city i met a person from West Virginia vallejo those kids came from vallejo to teenagers in the papers this brings out what aim talking about any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed that was an informational item now item 8. Item 8 on the district 3 Transportation Improvement Program an informational item. Thank you. We have greg from mta here . Morning commissioners greg with the mta and project manager the corridor multi level Improvement Project im the manager once that gets going and yeah to answer any questions to the sf funding and recently returned on a pedestrian scramble on kearney and craig with the interests in the community so, yeah im excited and saw it turned on the scramble and two other sgshgsz to the north with leading pedestrian integrals and pedestrian improvements i wanted to recognize my colleagues greg in the Municipal Transportation Agency and is important to give her and other communities members for pushing for the immediate pedestrian improvements a team member yeah here to answer questions were looking to kickoff the larger corridor project soon through the planning and Design Effort and the intent to do similar low cost quick implementation pedestrian improvements and other mode improvements and in the corridor on montgomery street and working to get a goes to assist us with outreach and once we have that wrapped up over the next few weeks well be scheduling our first public hearings open with a listening section about what the Community Wants this is a brief overview we dont have anything to share other than the scramble we enjoyed it any questions or comments commissioner peskin. If i may through the chair any update on the late early scramble. Thats a great question to keep it quick and simple without a conduit or trenching foundation chances we unfortunately were not able to install a traditional head not all scrambles in San Francisco skrnl more pedestrian ordinary by install those but unfortunately, the signal kearney is old and the conduits cant carry additional wires so the plan weve put it button Capital Improvement for the comet update of the signal at kearny street so i imagine in a year are two the full signal will be upgraded and more for everyone and curve ramps at the corners that lack the curve ramps im sure that people are familiar with the infrastructure it is challenging to do more curve ramps and installing one neutrality a Million Dollar to redo the whole thing thats why it cant be a quick fix and part of any corridor project do all these improvements like stripz and signage but the curve ramps as well their unfortunately challenging to do but thats my plan priority. Great we look forward to working with you with the outreach to the community. All right. Thank you seeing none, in the other questions or comments open up for Public Comment anyone wish to comment on item seeing none, Public Comment is closed. That was also an informational item well call item 9. Update on the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency muni quality strategy an informational im item. Julia from the mta here. Good morning. Im julie the proclamations scheduling manager anothers sfmta i had an opportunity to address you at the full board when we were vetting the quality strategy and since an approval by the mta board and hsa have had the proposals integrated into the operating and Capital Budget i was going to do focus my presentation today to some of the nuances of work and talk about the next steps and any questions you may have. The the reason im compassionate about this work i feel 3 the equity strategy is a tremendous foundation of affordability and assess within the system we have one of the densest systems in the country you can absolutely live in more neighborhood in San Francisco in a car within a quarter of a mile within a corridor stop and launching the final service increase on saturday as well as investing in new buses and priority streets the affordability programs are a model in terms of progressive funding policy around transportation we have almost one hundred thousand poem signed up for the free passes as well as another 80,000 that take advantage of the monthly pass so the equity strategy build on this what it didnt try to create transparency about the service transitioned one it is easy to we want to make sure it is performing to par because if youre going to for example, minimum wage job you dont have a lot of flexibility on when you get there and so oftentimes the liability problems is a travel time problem someone that a trip takes one trip of 20 minutes one day and 45 the next day their padding their trip everyday we are focused on all kinds of data it is just as likely that someone will be working on a swing or an oil shift as a 9 to 5 worker so in addition to transparent the service is doing we looked at the yaeflt data we still did an incredible amount of data for every route we are serving the community of low income and community of color we look at how the routed is performing in the neighborhood and citywide and look at how it was comparing to its peer outreach for example, we didnt compare the eight day shore liar eureka we be looked at other routes and the results varied for in some cases we found it was quicker or more reliable on route in these neighborhood and in other cases we found about on par by the way, par was not where we wanted to be as a city and in some cases real issues thats the strategy that is so powerful were identifying these issues where looking at capital and solutions those treatment got folded into the budget and will be implemented we also used this document as the first of what will be an annual assessment of conditions in the neighborhood this is really important to the task force that we were working with particularly chinatown, cd was helpful in shaping this not only a diagnostic but an accountability tool we saw first from 2014 to 2015 in almost every metric we saw improvements and im not surprised weve made a citywide investment in vehicles and hiring enough operators but not only like performance is up 7 percent and breaks down are down but in these neighborhood a significant reductions in crowding we saw reductions in gaps of service, we saw improvements and on time performance so in our cpi there is 3 billion of big stick out items that help muni consumers be a customers are disproefrment low income theyll help people about people with disabilities and households across the board those include the biggest ticket is the vehicles and projects like central subway that will have a inherit connection between Visitacion Valley and chinatown as well as moving forward with investment but more credential like the city priority that almost every neighborhood will benefit from spending less time stubborn stuck at red lights in buses we also identified 21 million investments including programming, a muni forward type of project on the route 27 bryant the 27 bryant comes every 15 minutes not initially met the highest peer priority for things like buses or other transit investments but when you look at the neighborhood is going through an incredible amount of congestion in tenderloin and congestion through soma it is still needs those types of treatment if we provide Reliable Services and then on the service side we also identified what is about 8 million in annual investments we firmly believe that over the next two years those services can be delivered through a combination of reinvesting travel time so as we speed up 2 allows us to free up the buses like crowding on the 29 line and the new connections between the bayview and missions as well as identified routes cigarette butt seethe not performing approving and redirecting those services in the neighborhood and thats essentially the list here in some cases the recommendations are cost neutrality and some cases they require Additional Resources so moving forward we really just at the beginning the outreach process of this our work to date is preliminary focused on Data Analysis, working with the task force to shape the process we have a transporting grant that will allow to go into the neighborhood hey, this is what we are seeing those are the recommends we have moving forward do those align with our experienced would the r what other issues because this is a living document well then refine and improve the strategies based on that feedback we also will do the 2015 to 2016 analysis of improvements and come back to the board on the ta as well as the 34569 board with the this is where we are at report in kind of january, february timeline of next year so the way this works is that on our we have a two year budget on the budget years ear focused on developing new recommends and evaluating the recommendations on the off years were focused on are we seeing those investment and the trends e trends do we need to make corrections so thats where we are at i appreciate particularly the support of the sxholz who really kind of up think kicked off and created it this process and allowed us to locate our service i think this is interesting and positive way and in general youve all been very supportive to you know make sure were talking with the right stakeholders and help us and continue to reach out to our office as we red e head into the outreach piece we have an opportunity to have interesting conversation because of the resources one of the things well actually have focus groups where some of the operators a number of operators either grew up or live in the neighborhood were focusing on at the sort of have a a dual prospective theyre driving the service and part of community we like to do focus groups with all outlining riders and get we have the lifeline transportation for that well be launching two new services on saturday but over the next year we plan to be making a continuous judgment and reliability improvements to make the connections for the Late Night Services thank you thank you for your presentation commissioner avalos. Thank you, ms. Kirsch bomb i appreciate your work on the will equity strategy we launched this through a cheater amendment proposed in my office i authored and i thought it was a possibly good way but it was two bureaucratic and create an oversight body and a handicap that makes it difficult to have flexibility and instead of creating the bureaucracy we used the staff to create this policy it was very well done yourself and many members of the mta have been great working with the stakeholders all over the city that are low income and that participation gave was very highly favored by the Community Groups thank you for that as were creating this dynamic approach we analyze the public input and utility 9 Public Resources not from advocates in creating the strategy but everyday muni riders will be essential to making sure were hitting our marks want to encourage that as we move forward. Thank you for your effort. Thank you before i get to the next speaker i want to acknowledge mtas work and schools leadership in strengthening this equity strategy report because muni travels through many district are; right . Oriented from a noncommunity concern and vice versa i want to better understand how i mean in terms of matrix ill give you an example is it im coming from district 10 and it takes met agree a long time to hop a bus or a connection to get to another part of city or from one part of city the western part takes time to get to a community of concern i guess i have trouble understanding how all of this is muttered because for any given line it could be again with going from a really strong neighborhood with a lot of strong connections how are you measuring where the maybe ink3wi7b89s e eligibility lie. Your hitting on two key things one is that those are one of the reasons we took this neighborhood approach some lines are critical to neighborhoods that are low income that dont necessarily show up in our stylist 6 analysis because their critical the majority of customers do not moot that profile so the 22 lombard is an excellent example and critical for the western edition and the mission but also incredibly well utilized in the eastern and the Pacific Heights so it is a mixed demographics the benefits by shoring up how the route is performing in the mission and the western edition it is actually going to help the improvements across the entire route the other thing and this is something that is really key from the leadership the task force the reason neighborhood by neighborhoods the issues differ in chinatown the Biggest Issue is crowding and reliability on some of the route like the a that is going on the freeway and absolute best day or worse day in the bayview is about travel time were able to tailor its approaches the way we looked at travel time not whats the speed but we picked agree kind of Central Location for the neighborhood in Visitacion Valley we took the library leeland and loveland and said you were going by car or if you were going by bus honk would it to you to get to city college or downtown or the San Francisco general or the Grocery Stores or the nearest big park you know basically focused on mclaren park or presidio we looked at how those travel times and looking at each neighborhood how much of the city can. Says by a transit in the reasonable amount of time and how did the transit versus driving compare. Are you looking at the number of transfers it might take two or three transfers at any time to get to the more well utilized designations. It is built both that analysis because the transfer certain time part of the overall time youre having to make. Scheenz or no sorry commissioner breed. Thank you so i wanted to thank you for the work thats been done to get us to this point or having a better understanding from members of the community about their challenges with muni i think id be able to not only attend the meetings in the community but get february from people who were not able to participate and i know the challenges of getting information from those individuals that unfortunately, because of their Work Schedules and family candidates and the challenges just surviving in San Francisco it is very difficult to participate in those meetings i know there was a small group but a very Effective Group at freedom west that talked about some of their issues and they were concerned that there were individuals that really needed to have a say in this process were not able to participate is there a better way besides a Community Meeting were there could be surveys or a way in which to reach out to individuals either at their jobs or schools or places we know families who definitely have limitations with their time would be able to talk about their challenges or even this might be a long shot even on the buses themselves hsa as commuters are commuting i want to insure were using a diverse system to develop an analysis so we are actually getting this information from the people who are having the challenges of getting to work and getting home and getting around the city and they pillow rely on Public Transportation without the ability to take a taxi or uber or use alternative modes other than walking or Public Transportation i want to make sure we reach overseeing individuals in a way that gives us really good data to make the right changes to our system. I think that thats really the key as we start the outreach we are going to look for ways to connect to our customers in a way that is convenient for them. Whether thats on the bus, or an survey or working there the communitybased provider sometimes that is an effective way to reach people so we do intend to use much anywhere out of the box especially this isnt a project per say as a Traditional Community workshop this is a much anymore wide topic well be more positive. Last but not least the high schools are great resource because you could also take a look at qualifys for a free or reduced lunch those kind of students and the neighborhood that the students come from and as a way to maybe use students data to help develop the right system as well i want us to be more creativity with our outreach efforts to have a Diverse Group of opinions to develop the right plan i want to put that out there and thank you so much this is you know the first time weve gotten to this point we really have a better understanding of the challenges are and sometimes it is really hard to quantify that and this is the first step in the right direction thank you commissioner avalos for helping to lead this effort as well. Thank you commissioner breed. And just a couple of more questions because i know that as were leaking introduce an equity lens a few things to look at i know for example, in the west side and the sunset you dont necessarily quality but we have a high population of senior riders; right . Many of whom are low income families so how did you look at maybe the community such senior populations through that lens and again which may not necessarily in other ways that the community is concerned because you know when i go to meal site where seniors go monday through friday free meals with an elderly site i was shocked 60 to 70 raised their hands they got to the site by the terryville and maybe four projects that will help the populations overall are you looking at factors like the age and population so maybe well speak to the senior issue first. We did we had 0 apply a citywide lens one of the kind of benefits of having so many people with disabilities and seniors on the discount passes were getting much better data where their riding and the routes the most and proportionately the most in addition to identifying routes in the neighborhood we focused on we identified the route that are heavy ooutsdz used by seniors and preponderance and came up with additional recommendations and we will continue to reevaluate those roulettes to make sure that as the population ages and the demographics shift were focusing on the right information. And ill followup with that directly because i think that sometimes, the goals expedite with each and everyone and were trying to provide assess but focuses on the jobs seniors have complained about i dont know how to reconcile those different interests but you know again, id be interested in following up offline and the last question i have is in terms of i think you kind of touched on that earlier with any other question how are you determining whether the performance is compared to the overall line with the it worse or better how is it when you implement improvements that will help to improve the part for the community. Data like on time performance we measure the on time performance do ourselves no favors the gps on the buses change to the schedule about every hall mile to a quarters of a mile when we look at on time performance were looking at millions of examples per day it allows us to look at how on time the route is in the neighborhood, versus how on time the route is on average versus how on time the category so we started micro go looking at you know is the 14 mission on time at 14 and 16th street and throughout the route and t how it compares to other routes every 10 minutes and carrying you know 50 to one hundred people okay. All right. Any other questions or comments on this marry okay. Thank you for your presentation and again ill look forward to following up on this with you so with that, this is an information item but ill open up for Public Comment wish to comment on item seeing none, Public Comment is closed Public Comment is closed. And if we can move on to item 10 introduction of new items this is an informational item. Any new introductions seeing none, Public Comment. Oh, im sorry commissioner avalos. We have a presentation on bargaining i like to get a point of presentation from the Transportation Authority or the mta on the whole biking network how this disbars with the Bike Sharing Program it is time were seeing phases a phase approach for bike sharing how we are accommodating it on our streets. Thank you commissioner avalos now this is Public Comment for introduction of new items item 10 seeing none, Public Comment is closed now item 11. Item 11 general Public Comment. Thank you. 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