Scene of the at that intersection and there there will no longer be uncontrolled left turns at broadway. We added a second turn lane there to deal with the extra capacity. Thank you. Interesting. One question on page 4 we note that theres 16 thousand daily passenger boardings within the passenger limit but i also notice golden gate transit using those lanes do we have any sense of id imagine with golden gate transit it takes that number of people who arent necessarily getting on the bus but are travelling through so were impacting so many people in a positive way on those buses. I dont have any numbers at hand right now for golden gate transit but i can say the 47, 49 lines which will benefit over all from this project not just in the corridor but the project will help speed up service and improve reliability along those lines and between 35 and 40 thousand passengers a day so it will have this project is a regional project as as caltrans continues to remind us when we meet with them.
Reduce dwell time. This slide shows a planned view of the configuration that was approved as part of the environmental report. It will be be right side boarding so that we can use our standard trolley and motorcoaches in the corridor. The buses will run with a planted median along most of the corridor separating the 2 bus lanes when we reach a place where we have transit boarding islands that median will taper down to a textured barrier between the two lanes to keep the buses separated and make room for the transit boarding islands. This selection of the section that shows the fully planted median at the positions where there are no boarding islands and the buses running on either side and the area where there are boarding islands that median disappears and also one of the one of the things that weve given up at the areas where we have boarding islands is parking on one side of the street to provide the physical space for constructing the boarding island. Another feature of bus Rapid T
Service improvement north terminal and the proposed parking legislation requires no further Environmental Review and in the interest of my throat and your time i will not read through all of the traffic. Do you have a recommendation before we start . Yes, there is. This, as you know, is a a project that you and the Planning Commission and the board of supervisors approved. At the time of your approval we told you that we would come back for the legislation of the parking and traffic changes which me need in order to finalize the design and keep the project moving so thats whats before you today and we do have a presentation from staff. Good. Good afternoon chairman nolan and directors. You have to speak from that one, sorry. Is this better . Yeah. Thank you. Im the project manager on the van ness and Rapid Transit project and im here to give everyone a little bit of background on the project and where we are on the legislation thats before you today. As im sure everyone is aware van ne
At city hall an officer actually doing Traffic Control protecting pedestrians why did that disappear and i think its very expensive to have a traffic light there and also make a lot of traffic backups but if you are not going to hire a Police Officer i think this is the next best thing unfortunately i think the officer should have been there on on that day when that woman crossed the crosswalk. Thank you. Second . Second. All in favor say aye. Before we do that a little break we have 3 fairly lengthy items well be back in ladies a board will resume our meeting. Members of the public, please find a seat. Well resume with item number 11. Approving various on van ness to bay street 19th Avenue Service improvement north terminal and the proposed parking legislation requires no further Environmental Review and in the interest of my throat and your time i will not read through all of the traffic. Do you have a recommendation before we start . Yes, there is. This, as you know, is a a project