Decisions on the station at north beach we dont preclude that option and make it flexible enough to so that it could be added on in the future thats an area it is greatly underserved my business is there i enjoy the walk to get to north beach but adversities not the easiest thing to do the busses take longer than so i think that thats something we have to consider too i want to really study this go to the sites to find a way to hold onto the project the project sponsor can build it but a way to have the land available to the future station that goes underneath columbus thats a big benefit other sites the triangle block in front of the Washington Square bar and grill and powell street and that site is a possibility for future entry of boring machines or entry into the station itself or the Asian Pacific islander green site when our looking at Washington Square not a lot of possibility as far as raising money the kicking land yard presents an opportunity we have to analyze the buses exto
Construction through the information a method that is less disruptive to the method and costs more another method slightly less but more disruptive the yellow t open the side that has another spur those are areas under the most disruptive Design Method youll have to open up the street called cut and cover construction to put a station and tunnel and continual north the less disruptive will produce that by half the more disruptive is 400,000 and the less is still not cheap at 350 million that is i have issues this station is build by itself youll need the turn around facility and at the end of columbus avenue youll have a turn around facility the cost estimates is a turn around and plus you have to fully utility i utilize the tunnel they have no track to mta still holds an active lease on the property to remove. The t and the owner is prepared to go forward with construction on 19 unit at some point after the lease is over or it is removed early at this point our director ed reiskin sai
Interface better with the existing bus system i think if the subway is going to go through im the middle child between julie and paul this would be the adaptation of the survey and the duplex e adaptation of that survey and the respect for the Historic Resources that exist in the area will go a long way towards revolving some of the issues that all of the lower buildings that came in after the earthquake will go away the neighborhood will be up to 65 feet or more and the quality we love about that part of the city that draw people from all over the world will be lost we can do both. We can do both the less we spend open digging the subway the more well have for the other muni lines thank you very much. Thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment okay seeing none, Public Comment is closed i want to thank all the staff for their presentation i also agree that the project sponsor between 3 organizations is important it remind me of commissioner johnson request for a joint hearing th
Twoway extension along columbus avenue is 500 million for a parking lot surface configuration but 900 million for an underground option we took the option to e see how it compleets with other options it ranges in the cost effectiveness as defined by the sfmta thats using the fatah funding the first pathway the new starts program is a natural fit that does well, the land use will attribute some of the money and well expect to be using local like a prop c successor or some other will transportation revenue and theres room for other outdoors idea like a Violent Development where that he partner with other agents to help to pay for the projects. With that, let me rupture it to paul to talk about the issues we have in our full report. One of the key issues is the north beach station and the palace sites and so there were people that said bore ahead and dont go take the machines out and what we found early on the vial that was done for the phase one and 2 wouldnt i couldnt be stretched to ma
Department in transit planning we think with this body and the Planning Department and the city thats a wonderful thing i got involved in the project initially to try to mitigate the negative impacts of the t line i believe the extension of the t line is a way to preserve the northeast neighborhoods i believe the reduction and congestion the benefits to pedestrians and the surface transit users are numerous and a lot of good can come from this weve seen the negative impacts of the bus stop in the middle of the cafe door or the bulb outs put without regards to the design of the beveled weve looked at the bart entrances along moiths and weve seen open parkland as open space to be used for station entrances from the transit side there are t line stops in chinatown and union square that are blocks off the oil because of surface conditions we have an opportunity in advance to plan for to necessary extension that benefits the effectiveed neighborhood and showing you shows you what a San Fran