None well close Public Comment and the motion to approve the minutes a roll call vote. Commissioner avenue avenue. Aye. Commissioner breed . Chiu absent. Commissioner cohen. Kim aye. Wiener aye. Commissioner ye the item passes. Chair report this is an information item. Good morning colleagues it has been another busy and productive year at the Transportation Authority. In particular i wish to thank vice chair scott wiener for your partnership and leadership on transportation issues and eric mar for plans and programs and on behalf of my colleagues i wish to thank all of our aids to help with the large work we have here and the transportation staff. During the Selection Process i would like to thank you maria for your great work keeping the Organization Running smoothly and helped to keep all of our projects on track during the transition period. As you know colleagues after a vetting process we appointed tilly cheng to her executive director position. And i look forward to discussing l
Bikes then i think will make people more aware of the importance of bike safety and i know that for myself riding on Second Street has changed how i think about what Second Street should look like what folsom street should look like and also been discussed accessibility for all its an inexpensive form of transit and thats what i have for you. Thank you. Peter from his office is here so if you want to speak on behalf of supervisor mar, that would be great. Thank you chair. Supervisors my name is peter lauderbo r. N. E the supervisor wanted me to come and reiterate the strong support for the project and also as a director of the bay Area Management district to make sure its in the highest use areas and is interested to find a sponsor so thank you all for having this hearing and thanks to the Bicycle Coalition that helped bring it forward thank you. Thank you very much. Okay well now go back to Public Comment. Hi madeline i wanted to say that i was not able im a member because i would be
Mr. Farrell farrell present. Commissioner kim. Tang present. Commissioner wiener. Wiener present. We have quorum. . M. Any comments or questions on the minutes . Okay we can do comment on item number 2 seeing none well close Public Comment and the motion to approve the minutes a roll call vote. Commissioner avenue avenue. Aye. Commissioner breed . Chiu absent. Commissioner cohen. Kim aye. Wiener aye. Commissioner ye the item passes. Chair report this is an information item. Good morning colleagues it has been another busy and productive year at the Transportation Authority. In particular i wish to thank vice chair scott wiener for your partnership and leadership on transportation issues and eric mar for plans and programs and on behalf of my colleagues i wish to thank all of our aids to help with the large work we have here and the transportation staff. During the Selection Process i would like to thank you maria for your great work keeping the Organization Running smoothly and helped
Work. I also want to recognize great staff work on innovative tools such as my street sf. Com easy tools to find out where transportation projects are happening and weigh in on priorities. To congestion management and neighborhood access together were tackling important issues. The agency also kept the funds flowing this year helping with our economic recovery and addressing pressing needs in every neighborhood across the city. This year the Transportation Authority passed the one billion mark for our Sales Tax Program allocating funds for projects to improve the safety and accessibility of our Transportation System citywide. Weve moved a strong group of projects forward. The brt program moved ahead and the major Capital Projects of the prop k plan are all under construction. To the. Our impact extends beyond the investments on the ground. Were Engaging Community based organizations in our outreach to communities of concern and increasing the involvement of neighborhood groups in the d
And the fact that we can see a similar similar trajectory here. But the other things that we care about thinking about expansion are geographic equity and social equity we care about jobs this system has the Great Potential to create a lot of great jobs for San Francisco ans and we care about universal design to continue to improve the design of the system so that it really is accessible to everyone and blends into the public right of way and in a way that doesnt create obstructions for people. They all approach them in a slightly different way so for us these things are critical when we think about expansion. We want it to create local jobs and we want to achieve equity and we want the design to be the best that it can possibly be and it all hinges on getting the right fund er as quickly as possible and how that all plays out is a little bit uncertain at this time but were continuing to talk about it and we have a high degree of urge see in terms of expansion because were trying to do