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That we need to address and adding more service. Or whether we can bring back a new route. Those are the things that we have. Two other factors are geographic distribution. From the beginning we only had 17 routes. We made sure that every single neighborhood was within a mile of a transit. We are now getting closer to half a mile i. In normal times we have a standard of quarter mile. The last factor is essential destination. Making sure each neighborhood, especially neighborhoods where people are less likely to have other options are connected to hospitals, Grocery Stores and other essential business. Thank you, i will open up now for questions. Just to remind participants who are listening, the council has chance to ask questions. We will open it up to people who are in this meeting. I will start off. Sandra, when you were talking about how you approached your decisionmaking for where the routes are going, was that a decisionmaking base on traffic prior to covid or during covid . I wo
While we know all of those Parking Spaces and we are addressing making sure people have information to drive to all those spaces. The main focus of what weve been working on recently is the music concourse area. Especially because museums reopened and academy of science will be reopening. [please stand by] were going to add tour bus parking area and six more accessible spaces on Martin Luther king drive and four more on nancy pelosi so that would get us to the 18 faces that were losing with the j. F. K. Closure. Were having people with knowing where they can drive and where they can go to drop someone off and park or with their paratransit can drop them off. So the other thing that were addressing is the communication to ensure that theres clear Information Available in multiple formats. So, we are going to be providing maps and detailed directions on our website and to the Disability Community and every way that we can and to make sure that people have access to that information. Were
Supervisor safai present. Supervisor stefani present. Supervisor walton present. Yee absent, we have quorum. I would like to make an announcement about Public Comment. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda, via telephone by calling 14156550001 and when prompted entering access code, 146 226 7339. Once you join, you will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. To make Public Comment on the item when the item is called, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. The operator will advise that you will be allowed two minutes to speak. When the two minutes are up, well move on to the next caller. Calls are taken in the order which they are received. Best practices is to speak slowly, clearly and turn down audio around you. That concludes my announcement. Supervisor peskin thank you. Could you read the next item. Item 2, chairs report. This is information item. Supervisor peskin ill be brief. By congratulating our Regional Transit partners at bart on winning
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority board for todays meeting of tuesday october 20, 2020. Im the chair, aaron peskin and our clerk is ms. Brittany milton. Please call the roll. [roll call] supervisor ronen this is commissioner ronen, im here, i might have to jump off. Clerk thank you commissioner ronen present. Commissioner yee . We have a quorum. Supervisor peskin Commission Er ronen when you need to leave, just let me know. Well excuse you until you come back. Well go to our Citizens Advisory Committee report. Mr. Larson, the floor is yours. Good morning chair peskin. Vice chair mandelman im reporting on our september 23rd c. A. C. Meeting. There was extensive discussion among c. A. C. Members regarding Program Guidelines, programming and allocation request concerning the Traffic Congestion mitigation tax or t. N. C. Tax. Given it was the first time a request related to this new source of funds, this come before the committee, c. A. C. Member