i think there's a toxic mix in san francisco today. you have a bunch of new people who have very fast cars and very fancy cars and like to go very fast. and then you have a bunch of new cyclists. [bell]. >> public: and they are all together and that's causing enormous problems. so, i think there's no question in my mind that we have to make things really different and we have to make cycling safe in this city. >> chairman peskin: thank you. next speaker please. and if there are anymore speakers, line up, otherwise this will be the last speaker. >> public: hi. thanks for listening today. i moved here recently over the summer and i have been biking for a long time before i moved here. i was in seattle most recently and there i was also involved in a lot of bicycle activism. it took people dying in order to get protected bike lanes there and i really don't want to see that happen here. i would rather move faster, put up posts like has been mention-ed before in areas where there are bike corrals and make temporary prevent tifr changes fast -- preventtive changes faster. i have seen bikes and cars and pedestrians co-existing. it is possible. it happens in a lot of places all over the world. ty don't see why we can't -- i don't see why we can't have that here. we can have cars and pick-up spots for uber and lifts out of the bike lanes and we can have protected bike lanes. all it is going to take is working for it and i think that we can do that. so, i just want to strongly encourage everyone to keep fighting for these protected bike lanes because i know we can. thank you. >> chairman peskin: public comment is closed. commissioner ronen. >> supervisor ronen: yes. i want to thank everyone who came out. it was very eye-opening. not that we don't know what is going on. but to hear that bikers are using the red lanes for the buses as a safer alternative to what was supposed to be the bike corridor is just insane. and the crazy thing about it is it makes perfect sense. that's how dangerous valencia has become. i have asked the mta several times to increase enforcement of double parking on valencia. i know supervisor sheehy has done the same. i see dillon in the audience. i think we need to have that meeting again because while we will continue to prioritize and fight for protected bike lanes, that's going to take some time. i share the urgency of all the public speakers today. i'm very fearful that someone is going to get severely injured or killed if we just wait to get those protected bike lanes installed. we need to act urgently right now and that means we need to triple, quadruple enforcement and make it known that if you double park on valencia, you are going to get a ticket. and in addition, we need to push these companies especially uber and lift. i know the problem is beyond them. but those companies are a lot to blame for the fact that the corridor in the mission that is supposed to be the bike corridor has become the one to most avoid for bikers. that just makes no sense. it has thrown the entire scheme of how transportation is supposed to work in the mission up in chaos. and we have to do something about it urgently. so, i'm looking at dillon and would like to schedule that meeting in an emergency fashion. >> chairman peskin: commissioner sheehy. >> supervisor sheehy: it is really an urgent situation. having stood out there, i have personally seen how dangerous it is. what i have is a question maybe for the director and maybe even for mta. having looked at this -- been talking about moving on this, i'm wondering as we get the data from the study, are there things that we can implement because i look at this as really -- there seems to be some really low-hanging fruit, putting barriers up around the bike corrals, the parklets. that seems like a no-brainer. and from my discussions from mta it seems from 19th to san jose is a place where the amount of work that you need to do in order to move towards that -- there's a lower level of complexity. that's before we get all the overhead wires and the street narrows, it seems like that's something that could move a bit faster. i do know that last stretch as you get closer to market that's more challenging. but is there a way we can think about doing this in phases because every bit that we do will make it safer? and the faster that we can improve -- if we could just get 19th to san jose which is also bike protected all the way around san jose with concrete barriers and get that as soon as possible. i recognize the challenges that exist once we start having the overhead wires. but if we wait to solve for that before we do these other things, we approach this in phases and take it as we show -- as we start studying. to wait a whole year to start any of this seems -- i'm not sure i understand the necessity there. >> jamie parks with mta. overseeing bicycle capital prompts. absolutely, we want to look at what we can do now to improve safety. part of the plan is coming up with a phase implementation structure towards how we move towards a safer valencia street. and if we identify something everyone can agree on, we can move right away. that's part of our study. >> supervisor sheehy: great. let's be in contact on this, please. thank you. >> chairman peskin: commissioner kim. >> supervisor kim: i want to thank supervisor sheehy and ronen for seeking improvements on valencia street. having looked at the south of market and the tenderloin with sfmta we have protected parking on folsom street. i doesn't go as far as we would like it to. but just having that from division through 4th street really is making a big difference and was just installed last week. but i have to agree, i always assumed that valencia was one of the safer streets to bike down and i don't bike down to the mission very often. but my few experiences biking down there as left me deciding not to bike down valencia as a beginner biker anymore. in fact, i feel safer on some of our corridors in the south of market now because we do have parking protected bike lanes on seventh and 8th and division as well as now folsom street. so, i just want to thank all the members of the public for coming out today. i think this is a corridor that is often viewed as one that should be the most biker friendly. so, i really look forward to us being able to continue those extensions into the neighborhood and also want to make sure, listening to the members of what the public said, it did take a fatality for us to move forward on protected bike lanes on seventh street and on folsom as well. we certainly don't want that to be the impetus for any near term improvements going to the ground. you know how quickly mta can act when that happens and how the near term improvements happened on folsom street was almost shocking to me after the fatality we had. within a month we were painting a green stripe down folsom. i encourage the city to continue to act on these major kor dors -- corridors the way we do when these tragedies occur. >> chairman peskin: thank you. commissioner breed. >> thank you. i have some questions about the bike to work day. maybe someone can answer the questions. i'm not sure who. i missed the presentation since i wasn't here early. >> chairman peskin: we will see what ms. la fort says. >> specifically for the bicycle education classes, is this the first time this program has happened? >> this is not the first time. how many years it has been conducted, i would need to check. we funded it about 18 months ago for one of the semesters. how long has this be in effect? about six years. >> first of all, i think i'm confused about the allocation of expenses. it specifies construction and then it goals into detail -- goes into details about bike equipment and helmets. if the program existed, i'm trying to runs these things that get funded every single time that we support this program? >> yes. >> so, we buy new helmets and bikes every year? is that how it works? >> yes. there's a helmet allocation -- >> could you identify yourself? >> i'm the planning program manager. and we do buy new helmets every year just from a health perspective. the low-cost helmets we provide are given to the students at the end of each class so they have the safety protection. there were concerns about sharing helmets and passing that along to the classes. we don't buy new bicycles every year. the bikes being proposed are the property of sfmta. we would be able to use the bikes year after year. >> the other question i had is what's the outreach process? i know i have heard about these programs being done before and i think the implication that because they are being done at a specific school would be that the participants come from those schools and i don't think that's entirely accurate. i just want to understand what -- with some of the past classes that have been taught, whether or not the students in that particular school have been outreached to and for the participants, what are the percentages of the number of students from the particular schools that they have done it in the past have participated in the program? >> a hundred percent of the students in each class and each school would be from that school because these classes are actually held within the pe class. >> got it. so they are not after school or weekends? >> no. this is in the middle of this is a partnership with the school district as well. >> okay. and just a little bit more information. can you talk about the feedback for this program from the high schools specifically? >> sorry. can you help me understand, the feedback -- >> the feedback from the students that participate in the high school program. >> it has a very high appreciation. we collect data related to students comfort and knowledge of bicycling before and after they take the class. we produce an annual report with a school by school breakdown of how those numbers change and how the kids have responded to the classes and any feedback that we receive to the class. we could make that available to you later today. >> okay. and so, the expenses for staffing like a program director, p.e. coordinator, program lead one and two, all these people are needed to coordinate a class for -- >> absolutely, yes. so, the way this program is organized, we work with the ymca, the why bike program, and they coordinate with the school districts p.e. coordinators and with each p.e. teacher, they come in for two weeks. they provide training to the teachers and then also depending on where the school is, let me step back. there's a three-year kind of program in which the first year my bike comes in and shows the p.e. teacher at a school how to offer the class. the second year it is more of a co-led and the third year there are there for support. there are teachers in classes that are now providing their own bikes and their own instruction with no prop k or sfmta support because the program has gone through. so, it depends on where each school is and where the teachers are. so, yes, each one of these people has to -- there's a lot of coordination that goes into making sure the bikes get on campus and are stored. that the teachers are prepared and ready, et cetera. and then we meet a couple of people on site for the two-week period as well. >> so, why is there no line item for transportation? of the bikes. >> i'm sorry. of all the things i didn't bring. there is a line item that is related to the transportation that we do pay for essentially the gas. why bike owns the van and the trailers so we don't have to pay for those. however we pay for the time spent transporting them from school to school. >> okay. thank you. can someone answer the questions i have specifically about bike to work day? >> that is also me. >> okay. do you have a breakdown of the budget? because for the sponsorship, the bike to work someday, the $38,547, there's a list of items specifically but there's no breakdown of those items. i just would like to see a budget specifically for those particular items. this seems like a lot of money. i know in the bigger scheme of things it is not a lot of money. but it is a lot of money for one day. and i wanted to -- this has been going on for many years, every year. and so, i just wanted a breakdown of what those numbers actually look like. i didn't see a reason why those couldn't be provided in the report that we got. there's just a generalization of what it pays for. >> this is literally just a sponsorship. we are one of many sponsors for this. we are the biggest. >> but it is reimbursed. so, it is implying -- >> it is not reimbursed. prop k reimburses the mta for this. but the agreement that is signed with the bike to work day is for us to -- we simply sponsor it for that amount. >> so, it is a sponsorship. >> yeah. >> not -- because, for example it lists staffing and support and then it is listed again as construction and then it has all these things. then it says sponsorship and it outlines what the sponsorship pays for but not specific dollar amounts attached to it. then it says it is on a reimbursement basis. item lees we are award -- it implies that we are awarding -- the impression i'm getting is somehow it is a grant but you are saying it is a sponsorship. >> it is a sponsorship. >> which is contradictory to what i think we have in our packets. i think that's where some of my contusion -- >> i understand. i think what the staff report was trying to say is we sponsor this. where the sponsorship money goes from us from mtc is to funds the staff time and the activities. both the ta and the mta logos are located on the materials. we are listed alongside all the key sponsors. but there is -- >> why not just call it a sponsorship and take out the line items at not attribute it to construction which i think is confusing? >> the construction, my understanding, moniker is just a part of the art process for prop k. i would ask anna to exmra inthat. -- explain that. >> this is the phase that it fits best under. i suppose it could go under a planning phase. but we have certain phases that we fund with prop k planning design construction. >> we are funding a -- we are a sponsor for this event. we are giving money for a sponsorship and that's just what it is. that doesn't fit in any other category for prop k funding? >> the only other category is operations and the only operations project is paratransit. >> okay. it is confusing. so, that's why i was asking the question. >> okay. if i could also point out there is some material in the enclosure to the prop k request item that gives an overview of the classes that were conducted at each of the schools last year. >> i saw that. thank you. >> okay. >> i just wanted to understand the responses of the students. >> and there's additional surveying we can provide to your office. >> thank you. >> chairman peskin: commissioner ronen. >> supervisor ronen: i just wanted to request the ta and the chair bring back a report on sort of a near term progress on valencia street and if mta can report as well. in perhaps three months. is that enough time to come and give a progress report? march 1st? >> that makes sense. >> supervisor ronen: sure. okay. that would be great. thank you. >> chairman peskin: okay. it shall be. if there are no other questions or comments from members, can we have a roll call on item number eight? i would need a motion made by commissioner sheehy, seconded by commissioner ronen. >> clerk: commissioner breed, aye. commissioner cohen, aye. commissioner farrell, aye. fewer aye. commissioner kim, aye. commissioner peskin, aye. commissioner ronen, aye. commissioner sheehy, aye. commissioner tang, aye. commissioner yee. aye. the item is first approved. >> chairman peskin: next item. >> clerk: item ten. award three-year professional services contracts with an option to extend for two additional one-year periods to not to exceed $400,000. >> good morning. i'm here to seek approval to award professional service contracts for modeling as much ass to two teams. the contracts would be for a three-year period. these would commence after the current on call expires at the end of the year. it would be funded through the other projects they support. the two teams are led by wsp and rsg or are on our current on call. transportation analytics. additional sub consultants include the university of kentucky and bowman research. representatives from wsp, rsg are here in attendance and available to answer questions. the target 5% for both contracts individually. now about the process. staff issued an rfq in september. a selection panel evaluated and made a recommendation to award contracts to two of the three teams. the current on call has spent about $500,000 in the period between 2013 and 2017. the slide shows what we have used the money for. and for the new agreements we expect to use the projects for sftp and other modeling improvements and applications as needed by work program projects. thank you. >> chairman peskin: any questions from members? seeing none. is there any public comment on item number nine? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion to award the three-year professional services contracts made by commissioner cohen. seconded by commissioner farrell. and do we have the same house? >> clerk: we do. >> chairman peskin: same house. came call. thank you. next item please. >> clerk: item ten. presentation on the san francisco municipal transportation agent 2017 facilities framework. this is an information item. >> ms. la fort. >> i would like to introduce jonathan from the mta. thanks. >> good morning commissioners. jonathan ruers here to talk about the building progress program and facilities framework. i want to start off very quickly to note the importance of this infrastructure. if you ride the 14 mission here in san francisco or the gary rapid network, you should know that a lot of our services start at the various facilities that we have throughout san francisco where we maintain, where we store and where we upkeep the fleet. this is where the majority of our 6,000 employees work day-to-day, where they change into their uniforms and take their showers. it is an important foundational infrastructure service here. i think everybody is florida with our muni forward with regard to getting a rubber fire fleet. that will go into service this week. and also following through with our 10% service increase around san francisco. now we need to focus on the next step and that is modern sizing our facility -- modernizing our facility and we have started our community outreach. so, a component of that is our 2017 facilities framework. what we wanted to do is we knew our facilities throughout san francisco which i will show shortly, were in need of reconstruction, renovation and modernization. but what we wanted to do was develop a plan that was both dynamic, allowed us to make continuous immovements across san francisco and our campus and realistically costed out year over year and we were continuously able to make improvements throughout san francisco. you will see our facilities. we do have a number and i do believe still we have more facilities than any other city department in the city and county of san francisco, minus fire stations and police stations. but significant facilities. so, 20 plus. nine major maintenance yards. this began with the 2013 vision report and when we looked at it as a baseline, what we found was it gave one option for the mta to pursue with regard to the growth of the muni fleet here in san francisco. if years passed or situations change, that plan didn't work for us as well as we would have anticipated which is why we wanted to move to something more flexible. it didn't consider all the operations of the sfmta which didn't include traffic operations. it includes all the operations and sets three important goals. one to modernize our facilities for new and more modern operations. second to slowly move the mta off of leases. so, if we have a permanent operation, we want to make sure to have that operation in a permanent facility, not a leased facility. and to prepare for growth and maintain our facilities in a state of good repair. so, with that, the first thing we did was go to the next level of state of good repair. i know all of you as commissioners are familiar with that term when we look at the age of an asset and the year it needed to be replaced. but we took our state of good repair to another level in which we actually sent out a team of consultants to do an inspection of all the systems in all of our building. while something might last a certain period of time, we reset that date and now we can tell you year over year the investment we need in our building up to windows, doors, air compressors. things needed to run our day-to-day operations through 2036 that averages to about a $7.5 million per year investment. we have been slowly moving forward with developing a full program to do that. but we do start off with about a $60 million backlog. second come poeptd was just -- component was just the growth of our fleet. as you are all familiar with, we have executed the agreements. both trolley coach and motor coach fleet. we have executed agreements for replacement of the light rail fleet. we have six numbers of delivery and we know over a certain period of time physically with regard to space, we will return out of room at our existing yards throughout san francisco. you will see the number 77 vehicles by 2025. about 130 by 2030 and 46 light rail vehicles in the 2040 period. again, this is based on current capacity of the yards as we were designed and this is based on the delivery schedules that we anticipate. we have two options we are currently working off of. one assumes that the mta is successful at securing a new facility. a brand new facility to store and maintain its vehicles. in that case, we would expand the four acres that the mta has at the east facility for the growth of the light rail fleet. we would modern size the presidio yard both for motor coach, hybrid electric fleet, trolley coach and 40 and 60-foot vehicles. moving towards the convergence of both technology and the convergence of the types of fleet that we have here in san francisco, we would also renovate the kirk land yard to allow for running repair so we don't have to do as much dead heading as we currently do. the second option assumes that the mta might not be successful at getting a new facility. in that case, we would use the four acres currently undeveloped east for a temporary trolley coach division and facility. that makes sense because a lot of electrical infrastructure we would need for future light rail operations there we would put in phase. we would shut down presidio and po ter ro -- potrero and the back end of the program would include the reconstruction of the kirkland yard. just as a highlight because i don't want to completely focus this on all our transit operations, we are also working to eventually inshert the animal care facility. we have been working with commissioner ronen's office on different housing options and joint development options. we will continue to look at joint development at all of our facilities throughout san francisco to maximize the opportunity for both policy goals at the city and county of san francisco has and both goals we have for our transportation system. we have looked at different uses of the building and now we are looking at expanding the use of that property to see how we can maximize it. here is the overall schedule. i think what i want to stress with regard to this schedule, typically with major programs such as this in san francisco, we work through a very steady planning outreach environmental funding and construction type schedule. in this case, we have a back end deadline. we thought that the fleet is going to be coming and we thought we need to be able to maintain these new vehicles that are being delivered. we have to meet certain time points and deadlines. we have developed a full schedule for this. we have had a workshop with the department of public works in august to come up with a project delivery methodology. we have our environmental team. shortly ready to execute on an agreement early in 2018 and we have got a joint development consultant contract that will be moving towards the mta board later this month. general next steps. we just began outreach last week. just overall program wide. we will go site specific with regard to potrero in both december and january. we will refine those two options with the hope we will have finalized which option we will proceed with sometime in january or february. we have done a second set of cost estimates and we have confirmed the costs. i will get to that in a second. in 2018 we do want to have all the technical teams together to begin the design outreach. we hope to begin on 1200, 15th street. we would have hoped to complete 1200, 15th street in 2023 with housing plus the permanent headquarters for our enforcement staff that are currently in a leased facility. and we would begin the reconstruction program. we have developed at least a cost estimate for the overall program. between the state of good repair work and the general redevelopment work, it is in the $1 billion range, if you consider all costs are in the 1.$3 billion range. the critical path and cost estimates for these three projects have remained steady. muni east 3 million. assuming joint development are just redevelopment of that building 12 oh -- the future regional measure three and we are looking forward to the san fran transportation task force. in preparation for that, we have developed a detailed cash flow and all of you were experts in funding. i know you know the difference between an actual cash flow. this is the most consecutive form. actual cash payments that would have to occur on a quarterly basis. means the last point in time in which we could receive a dollar. you will see that we are completing a significant number of projects this year. our burke warehouse is being reconstructed with the support of the prop k sales tax to include our overhead lines operations. we will maintain the amount of storage that we have always had at the burke warehouse. plus added operations crating a more efficient use of the facility. fast track is adding storage track for the lrv's that will be arriving and continue to work on operator facilities. the cash flow builds up for design work. promote 1200, 15th street and potrero and you will see it build up for presidio. we are working with the transportation authority staff and city and county of san francisco staff and mayor's office on a full funding plan for this program. i appreciate the time all you commissioners gave to both me and my team to help us prepare for the public outreach. thank you. >> chairman peskin: thank you. and thank you for all of the briefings that you have given each of us offline. with regard to the new facility in scenario one, which obviously is preferable in terms of timing, what is the status of the new facility discussion? >> so, we are continuing to work on negotiation and scoping. over the summer we worked with a consul stand to get performance criteria. meaning any any facility in we were to enter into an agreement needs to meet with our core transportation needs. part of the reason we did the second set of coast estimates in the sum -- cost estimates in the summer was to see if the city went it alone and we decided to go into negotiations with a developer, how far we could go. i think with that information in place, we are continuing to see what is out there in the markets. and hopefully we will have more news on that towards the end of this calendar year. >> chairman peskin: thank you. any questions from members? seeing none, is there any public comment on this informational item that is going to cost a lot of money over time? at least we are planning for the future. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for that. and we look forward to future updates. next item, please. >> clerk: item 11, introduction of new items. >> chairman peskin: are there any new items? i do, colleagues, want to voice some concern i have relative to a proposal that has just surfaced to stop the california cable car, line an hour and a half early. as our city grows and becomes more late night, i'm not sure why we would want to shut down a cable car that is not only used by visitors but is a source of transportation in east and west directions. so, i would like to ask staff to work with the mta and figure out why they are doing that. unless there's a good reason, we will use our purse strings to figure out how not to make that happen. are there any other items for introduction? seeing none, is there general public comment? mr. yip. >> public: good morning. the duties of political leaders will be making well being for our people. national character should return to true morality in culture. the true principle will make unity for our nation. [indiscernible] >> public: we have to cultivate justice for civil rights to have well balanced adjustment in our political system. our protection of the common good for our people will secure the stability for well managed nation. [indiscernible] >> public: a livelihood for our people. they are to take pathway of kindness and wealthiness. [indiscernible] >> public: obtaining social prosperity we have to take the right path for holiness and morality for all that matters to be truthful and righteous for a democratic system. >> chairman peskin: thank you. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed and the cta is adjourned. closed and the cta is adjourned. >> all right, good morning everyone, what an exciting day in san francisco. let me begin by introduction myself, i am the san francisco public works director muhammad. we're here today to break grounds on the second street improvement project and project that will change the look and feel of this busy corridor in the south of market area. it's not every day that we get to rethink a street, to figure out how it can better serve the people who use it and most importantly, make it safer for everybody. through smart planning, strong partnerships among multiple city agencies and funding from the federal and local sales tax revenue, and community support, we're able to move forward with the second street improvement project. it will turn in to a stretch that better serves our city for the 21st september -- century. at the end of the construction of this project we will have upgraded sewers thank to our san francisco p.u.c. and a smoother road and most importantly a safer and more attractive neighborhood. but before we get started, and we'll hear from all the several agencies that are involved in this project i want to take a moment to thank the project team who worked on this project together so this point, first i would like that thank project led by our city engineer john thomas sitting out in the crowd there. [applause] we are a number of project managers, christina o'neil, mike rigor and richard from engineer ing and we have steve lee, jackie ying, michael smith and jane ko and from our last division who had work to do with the trees and street furniture and the designs that will come john dennis and david folig and robin welter and from streets and highway kim chang and from our communications rachel gordon , the very best. now i'd like to bring up our mayor ed lee. mayor lee is someone who knows the importance of improving our neighborhoods and making our streets safe. he has been a big supporter and champion of street scape improvement throughout the city and we are very, very pleased to have him here today to help us kickoff the second street project. please welcome our mayor ed lee. [applause] >> well thank you, good morning giant's fans! we're here on second street that's probably one of my favorite corridors to walk down and get to the giant's game and if we were reminded what this street is all about probably a couple of days ago when the water main broke right there at second and harrison it was a good reminder of the fragile infrastructure that we have particularly when pipes that have been touched for over 150 years and so when you saw that water, those are the exactly the water system that muhammad would mention with that the p.c. will replace for this corridor going north and south. i want to sank supervise or kim foreign inviting us to her district it's the eastern soma neighborhood and also a neighborhood that i know that has been working with public works and all our transit or m. t.a. is here, county, transportational authority and all of the different agencies including planning and others for probably over five years and working together they've been able to really plan out what will be a two-year project and i know muhammad was celebrating a vision for its finish but for the next two years i want the media to know. please don't blame me for everything that goes on for the next two years we've broken this up in to four phases trying to mitigate all of the construction that will happen but we have the walking folks that are advocates , we have the coalition working with us and we have pedestrian avenue vow kits that ultimately want to embrace all of the goals here along with the small businesses that are willing to suffer a little bit with everything from reduced parking because they're going to ultimately gain a safer street, a street that is hundreds of thousands of people use not just during giant's games but if you notice even during the offseason as a well traveled corridor and so it's an effort to make it safer and to make it more pedestrian friendly and make it more bicycle friendly and make it more walking friendly and to allow more people to use this in the safeer way including cars and trucks. soy want to thank all the agencies for working together on this and there will be an effort to mitigate all of this by breaking it up in to segments so that it doesn't interrupt everybody who wants to get to the giant's games or also the next concert here but also to frequent all of the wonderful restaurants and bars and entertainment that's what makes this street so popular and all the businesses as well so we all as a city have to understand that construction does interrupt a little bit in order to gain something more valuable and it's both beneath as well as above and on the streets and in fact, someone to figure out how to underground all the utilities all along this way that's another maiming or contribution that the residents and the businesses have strived for in this detailed collaborative effort so i want to thank everybody for their years of working together and getting everybody's goals in to this project and making sure we did it and that it's all not going to happen overnight but will happen in segments to respect as much as we can the activities going on here so, that is my way of saying thank you to everybody for your patients and as we go on and please be safe when you are traverseing this corridor because i don't think any of this is going to stop people from use particular but we just have to be more safe and appreciative that the end goal will be beautiful trees, sidewalks that are widens, bike lanes that are protected, street and traffic signals that are respective for a higher level of vision zero or safety for everybody and less breakage of the water system that's beneath that's over 150-years-old. with all of that i say thank you to everybody let's get on with this project and i'll blame you if anything gets delayed. thank you! [applause] thank you, mayor lee. give him another big hand for his leadership under his leadership we're doing so much great work. next we've the supervisor from the south market and other neighborhoods here in the south of market area and jane has been a huge champion of the second street project and she's been there with us at all the community meetings zester years ago she attended them and she helped us secure funding and has made sure that we have met the community needs and particularly safety for people who walk and bike in this area and that all those needs will be met and she was also welcome jane kim. [applause] >> interview: when i first got here someone thanked me for coming to the ground breaking and i had said i would not have missed this for the world and for those of thaw have been working on this project, this is something that i have been working on almost since the beginning when i started in office and end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 and this was probably the first major vision zero project victory that we had in our district and i really worked with a lot of people in the community and public works and all of our agencies to fight to make this a reality and it's a big project and it's a complicated project and i'm so proud that we're able to make it here today and i want to thank a lot of people that were involved in the years of planning and community out reach that it took the south market hasn't always been a residential neighborhood, it was commercial and production and manufacturing and as the people in the neighborhood change our streets didn't and the sidewalks are narrow, we have multiple lanes made for big trucks and cars that are commute ing from their offices downtown and to their homes all around the bay area and many of our residents were unfortunately the victims of the neighborhood that we have been building and second street was really the corridor that we had intended to be our neighborhood corridor and one that our residents could bike and walk down safety. like first street and third and fourth that are meant for cars and second street was the corridor that was for our residents and our small business owners and it's exciting to be here today as we work ok protected bike lanes on follow com -- follow so many street so we have streets dedicate for our pedestrians and psyche lists and i want to thank public works in particular christine and you really ran some of the best out reach meetings i have seen with door-to-door knocking and really large turnouts which is very difficult to do by the way and also i want to thank michael rig or as well for your work, many years of planning but of course, to our neighborhood residents because as much as we need a corridor for us this is still a major change for our residents and katie liedel who heads our south beach rincon mission bay association and alice rogers who is part of our south park improvement association who hads fought for it finally this year we were able to cut the ribbon on the beautiful new playground and park at south park and bruce part of our trance bay committee and patrick valentino who often came and were maybe the only voices or were minority voice saying we need wider sidewalks and protected bike lanes even if that meant loosing parking spots and loosing lanes of traffic onto the bridge and i'm excite inside is finally happening and this is the corridor that our neighborhood deserves and millions of dollars have gone to this both from the san francisco county transportation authority as well as other granting authorities so i want to thank them for working to make sure that we were able to make this again this promise a reality for our neighborhoods so congratulations and i look forward to working with everyone during the construction process and i know the construction process is often the toughest part so we want to make sure we support our small business owners during this time but it's going to be a fabulous corridor and i have to recognize of course the san francisco bike coalition brian we'dmire is here and also to leah sheaham who is here during the time we were advocating for this. thank you for sticking with us and being strong making sure we got the core dough we wanted, thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. next we have the sfmta who is a key partner in the remaking the second street this project is part of the city's san francisco bicycle plan and the vision zero initiative to make the streets safer for all of us. let's welcome district or race kin from the sfmta. [applause] >> thank you. good morning everyone, it's great to be here because second street is such an important part of the city's transportation network and it's a unique street in some ways and it connects from the ballpark to market street and it has proximity to the freeways because of its ta possible ra fee it's a street -- topography it's good for taking the bus, it gets a lot of car and truck traffic and because of the vibrancy and the great mix of increasingly residentss but a great number of small businesses , and larger businesses it's a very vibrant street so it attracts a lot of people on foot and it also has the dubious distinction of being part of the city's high injury network which means it's one of the 12% of the streets that are responsible for more than 70% of the city's serious and fatal traffic collisions. as muhammad said, this is a vision zero effort, vision zero being our goal in san francisco to eliminate traffic deaths by 2024 and by redesigning streets such as this one that are host to a dis purchase -- disproportionate amount and it has been a very long and challenging process redesigning completely transforming really a street is very challenging and so it's been a great partnership between tractor-trailer -- our partner agencies and our neighborhood partners the residents, the neighborhood association, the local business association, working together got us the point where when we brought this forward for the sfm ta board of directors lead by our chair to legislate these changes we were able to do so with the support of the local community with the support of the supervisor with the support of the mayor and that is what is necessary to get these projects done and i want to acknowledge a couple of our folks from the agency worked on this project but i want to acknowledge specifically ellen robertson and matt lasskey working with jamie parks on on the leadership of louise montoya in concert with ricardo ola working together with all of our agency and community partners to make this happen but, also, i want to finally again thank the leadership that makes this happen and when i sit down with mayor lee, he is always asking me how can we get these projects done better and faster and supervise supervisor kim we dragged muhammad and i in our office and said we need to get this project on track and get it done because it's important to the people that she service and our chair who ultimately are those who have to make these tough trade off calls of parking versus safety versus all the other things and always leading with safety and putting safety first to make this project happen and i want to acknowledge the disability community which was an important partner. part of the trade offs making sure this would work for the small businesses in terms of parking and loading making sure it will work with people with disabilitys as we're doing new and different designs it's a important consideration and working together to make the street better and fix the instruct under and above to make sure it will be last and something we can enjoy for generations to thank you to everybody who has been working on it and we're starting the next difficult phase and we have work with the mayor and to do what best we can to minimize disruption so we can all be smileing and just as happy when we're at the prib on cutting a few years out so thank you and congratulations to everyone. >> interview: thank you, as you heard this project is a huge project and it's from king street all the way to market street that is about eight city blocks it is over $20 million that will be spent to make it safe for everyone as part of our partnership in securing funding, the san francisco county transportation authority provided tax funding in the range of $1.5 million for the project which was needed to match some of our federal grants we had to support this project let's hear from tilley chan the director from that agency. [applause] >> interview: thank you so much, good morning everyone and thank you. to all my name is tilley chang and on behalf of the 11 members of the transport agency led by supervisor kim we want to congratulate the community, public works, the city family and all the neighborhoods who had the vision and stuck with that vision for second street to make today a a lot. they were pleased to provide matching funds in the form of our half cent transportation sales tax but importantly to program federal funds that are nine or ten million dollars of one bay area grant fund programs that are allocate by by the metropolitan transportation commission when kim serves as a commissioner so we're very grateful to the region for providing key fund withing our legal matching funds one-third of the project in recognition there are many folks here who had already been living here customers visitors, families as well as many more people who are coming new workers, new families coming to this area this rapidly growing part of our city and the purpose of the one bay area grant program funds and when they passed prop k was to provide community serving infrastructure to help make sure our streets are serving all users and safer liability way throughout the city and in fact when we programmed the second street project, many years ago, it was together with a few other vision zero and transit first projects i'll mention where we had a wonderful ground breaking earlier this year and still to come broadway street scape so let's keep it going and congratulations to everyone thank you all for the partnership and there's an honor to help deliver this project let's keep improving san francisco one street at a time. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, tilley. tilley talked about those great projects in the works all over town and those projects do not happen without the involvement of our planning department and our planning department is at forefront of a lot of these projects they conduct public out reach and they shape the concepts of what these designs should look like and they were heavily involved in the second street redesign and making sure we dove tail to the other projects especially those in the east and let's hear from our planning director john ram. [applause] >> good morning, everyone, it's great to be here on this beautiful day and you know, we've been an advocate in the planning department for a while looking differently how we operate and design our streets and it's important this project is a perfect example of how with all the agencies working together we can make sure it works for everyone and i want to reinforce a couple of things the mayor and supervisor said it's important to remember one is that this is a classic example of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts it's not just a bike lane project and water line replacement project it's not just a sidewalk widen ing project all those things could have happened independently and it would have been disruptive in the end and thanks to the leadership of the mayor the supervisor and some of the neighborhood residents we realized that by combining efforts we get a better project in the end it takes a little longer to organize and for that collaboration but in the end we end up with a much better and safer and importantly a safer street and secondly i think supervisor kim's comments they are changing dramatically and the land uses here it's a mixed use neighborhood than it used to be and many more residents and businesses many more office jobs and so on and it has forced us to think differently how we operate and design our streets and these streets were designed to drive through as opposed to being a neighborhood street so it's important for us to look holisticly at that and as t