Talking about how different that service would be from the Caltrain Service today. We really are talking about migrating from something thats a traditional Commuter Rail service, where you have a few trains an hour, you have to remember your train number. To something that is for most stations in the system going to be much more of a showupand go service. By directional, allday, really an urban transittype service, where we would have express trains running all day. Express trains by directionally from gilroy all the way to downtown San Francisco. Faster, more frequent service, show up and go at most stations. Something that would have the capacity to triple our ridership and remove more than five freeway lanes worth of traffic from the system. Where we are in the process, we laid this draft vision out to our board in great detail in august. Weve been out taking input. And the t. A. Board is one of our last stops before we kind of go back and really try to distill everything we heard t
[gavel] good morning and welcome to San Francisco county Transportation Authority Board Meeting for today, september 24th, 2019. Our clerk is mr. Alberto quintanilla. Could you please call the roll. Clerk item 1 roll call. Brown i. Commissioner fewer . Present. Commissioner haney . Haney present. Commissioner mandelman . Mandelman absent. Commissioner mar . Mar present. Commissioner . Present. Commissioner safai . Safai absent. Commissioner stefani . Present. Clerk commissioner walton . Walton present. Commissioner yee. Yee absent. We have quorum. Chair thank you. Colleagues, if you will indulge me, because of caltrains general managers schedule, i would like to take a few things out of order this morning and start with well, the chairs report, which would be inappropriate. Next item. So with that, i will give the chairs report. This month we focus our attention on regional transportation and the future of caltrain, with a presentation on the longawaited caltrain Business Plan and serv
Commissioner . Present. Commissioner safai . Safai absent. Commissioner stefani . Present. Clerk commissioner walton . Walton present. Commissioner yee. Yee absent. We have quorum. Chair thank you. Colleagues, if you will indulge me, because of caltrains general managers schedule, i would like to take a few things out of order this morning and start with well, the chairs report, which would be inappropriate. Next item. So with that, i will give the chairs report. This month we focus our attention on regional transportation and the future of caltrain, with a presentation on the longawaited caltrain Business Plan and service. I want to thank mr. Hartnet for being here with members of his staff to present this update. Youve seen him before here at previous meetings. And i want to thank jim and his staff for working with our staff and the city on this important effort for transportation up and down the peninsula. And with the Electrification Program that we all fought so hard for to get th
Continue to move towards the implementation of the projects the major driver was the cultivates their repaving 19 avenue and right now the schedule is the summer ever 2018 all the work has to be done before they repave obviously the curb work and any of the underground work walk sewers and the water work is done first with the were trying to meet their schedules and miss an opportunity we tried a number of outreach methods along 19 and directed people went day to day for peoples in the eir you didnt go and lincoln area and contacted 11 schools working with the supervisors wanted to make sure that we talked with each the schools in the surrounding areas and held public hearing as well as Public Meeting and did a survey an electronic and paper survey we hadnt out an updated email to get feedback to what they thought about the proposals and for the most part positive one change ill talk about in a minute related to the rapid stops but the for the most part for the major pedestrian improve
Implementation of the projects the major driver was the cultivates their repaving 19 avenue and right now the schedule is the summer ever 2018 all the work has to be done before they repave obviously the curb work and any of the underground work walk sewers and the water work is done first with the were trying to meet their schedules and miss an opportunity we tried a number of outreach methods along 19 and directed people went day to day for peoples in the eir you didnt go and lincoln area and contacted 11 schools working with the supervisors wanted to make sure that we talked with each the schools in the surrounding areas and held public hearing as well as Public Meeting and did a survey an electronic and paper survey we hadnt out an updated email to get feedback to what they thought about the proposals and for the most part positive one change ill talk about in a minute related to the rapid stops but the for the most part for the major pedestrian improvements todays legislation spea