Mandelman and we will take that without objection, even though it might upset council. With that, can we go to the Citizens Advisory Committee. Mr. Larsen, good morning. Turn your microphone on, john, and go ahead. Good morning. Im the care of the Citizens Advisory Committee and im here to report on the most recent meeting of the cac. Beginning with item 5, allocation and appropriations of prop k funds for 6. 5 million, cac members expressed concerns of tacs used the express lane by the doorpool and express lane project request. The main issue was t n cs adding to congestion in similar ways to add congestion on city streets. There was also keen interest in the equity study and how it would be structured and conducted. They were to free up regular lanes from slower moving heavy vehicles there and thereby speed up regular requests. The members were surprised even though the station predated the add, there was little to provide accessibility in the ensuing years. The longterm plan is to move the station with the tunnel realignment, that is so way off, staff were urged to think about technology and Infrastructure Solutions that could be deployed to make the 22nd street station accessible now and for the foreseeable future. Moving to item 6 on your agenda, the amended programme of projects for the 2020 art tip funds, they asked about the communicationcased Train Technology that would be the subject of the tip funds. The biggest concern was how to avoid the mun imeltdown in the metro. Sfta staff noted the new system will be side by side with the system in a series of phases and if there were to any problems, the new system could revert to the existing system to avoid delays and system break downs. The cac received an update on the geneva san jose study carried over from a previous meeting. It was encouraged to see that pedestrianfocused improvements were addressed at this complex intersection with a number of transit, traffic and transportation conflicts. Especially with regard to the mline midblock, dropoff and boarding areas that result in passengerring walking on san jose avenue in the middle of the street. The popup meetings during commute hours with met with favorable response as a way to obtain public input. During Public Comment, the cac was reminded the balboa park station is the se second largest transit hub in the city. We were encouraged to link better transit lines and take note of the comparative left of investment in this outer naked neighborhood in the city versus downtown. Lastly, there was an update on a regional measure and the faster freedom affordability speed transparenctransparency equity. The branding strategy might be met with public skepticism given the recent history of delays in big transportation projects and relatively small gains in transit speed people have experienced over time. The consensus is that any additional regional measure request should move transit forward in big ways. And that completes my report. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Larsen. Any questions for mr. Larsen . Seeing none, my members who would like to comment on the cac report . Seeing no members on this site, Public Comment is closed and thank you for that presentation and advice. Mr. Clerk, could you please read the Consent Agenda . Items 3 and 4 comprise of Consent Agenda, approved octobed considered for final approval. Staff is planning to present on this item but prepared to present if desired. Any items may be considered separately. So because this is a Consent Agenda, we only take Public Comment on the approval which is item number 3, but i have a request to speak on item number 4 from an individual who spoke on item number 4 when it was presented on the first reading. I will provide with your concurrence that individual the opportunity to speak to this at general Public Comment. Any Public Comment on item number 3, approval of the minutes of october 22nd . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion for the Consent Agenda . Moved by commissioner mandelman, seconded by commissioner yi and can we have a role call. role call . If we can start the role call over. Well truncate this vote because commission hainey did not vote and commission yi voted for commissioner hainey. Please start the role call. role call . We have final approval. Allocate 870,000 with conditions and athappropriate 5. 7 million. Miss laforte. Good morning. Good morning. If i could ask jen to come and help me with the technical aspects of bringing up my presentation but ill get started, if its ok with the board. Dont spill your coffee. Ok. So there are six requests in front of you today and ill just dive right in. The first is four allocation requests that relate to the downtown programme. The pennsylvania lineman is one of the key recommendations that came out of the rail alignment benefit study in 2018 and its known as the rab study and this alignment for pennsylvania avenue has been endorsed by this body and also by mayor breed. Thanks, jen. And so, this is the preferred route to go south from fourth and king via tunnel along pennsylvania and this allows the infrastructure to avoid at grade crossings at 16th street and a major eastwest corridor serving mission bay and Mission Bay Drive. The recommendation to advance the preenvironmental work is consistent wit the recommendations from the Peer Review Panel youve heard about recently and this project and funding request will be done within two years and this is for the scoping work that will eventually lead to project initiation document to establish a basis for project development. So the participation authority will lead this effort but we will do so in close coordination with our partners and with the related projects that are stemming from the recommendations of the Peer Review Panel. So this is a visual graphic of the alignment for the pennsylvania avenue alignment. It is shown in orange and you can also see in the lower part of the green where it touches the wrong, where the grade separations are. These are the two grade separations along the cal train corridor in San Francisco. The next request is for the 22nd street ada study. And this is a request from caltrain to explore the feasibility of potential improvements to the 22n 22nd street station which was constructed prior to the ada passage and this is really essentially going to assess what is possible, what are some improvements that could be made in light of in recognising there have been landscaping work done but also that theres a 22nd street station study, that the Planning Department is doing right now, but if the station should move or the location be impacted by the findings of that study, there was no plan for implementation of moving the station any time in the near future. So this is to assess what could be done in the near future to potentially improve the accessibility of the station. And at this is done at the request of commissioner walton and commissioner waltons office will definitely be involved in convening a Stakeholder Group to put key milestones in the study as far as input on the goals and conceptual designs and draft recommendations that are outcomes of it. These next two requests includes scopes of work that advance recommendations in the caltrain business plan. Cowaso one is adopting a longre service vision, like the number of trains and how often they run and that will be further defined over the next year and a half as this proposed study which is for stations and terminal planning is conducted. So consistent with a longrange service vision, this particular project will look at the longterm maintenance systemwide at both lines, north and south. Considering the existing sites, new sites, considering potential supplemental facilities. In particular, we know theres a lot going on or considered at fourth and king and what size footprint is needed and various objectives including the maximum potential at the site, so all things taken into consideration. And ultimately, caltrain will be working to produce a final report by december of 2021. There are 42 atgrade crossings along the caltrade alignment. The two in sanfrancisco, at 16th street and Mission Bay Drive will be addressed through the pennsylvania avenue alignment work that we will be conducting. But this effort is, you know, the work that well be doing will be done in parallel. It will this particular project will lead to development of a policy and it will help caltrain to establish goals and objectives and priorization criteria to manufacture the investments that caltrain will be making to potentially, you know, either enhance the existing facilities and what to do, where the trains and the cars have potential conflicts at grade. Next request is from sfmta for the hyde Street Safety project and this is a funding request to match a caltrain grant awarded to the mta to do planning and engagement on hyde street between grove and ofarrell. They have Different Community organizations to figure out some conceptionual designs and some recommended improvements to really enhance the street, enhancing Pedestrian Safety and also really just transforming the street into a complete street effort and so final report would be expected in about two years. And the last request is an appropriation request from the Transportation Authority for the carpool and express lane environmental phase one. And a bit of background on this request. In late 2018, the board approved the Corridor Study report and a prop k senator b one Partnership Fund exchange for this project. This Fund Exchange approved 6 million in sb1 Partnership Funds for street resurfacing exexchange for 4. 1k for the props. We didnt programme them because of the uncertainty of prop six which would have funded the fund program. Prop 6 was defeated and in now this project is ready to start the environmental phase and were seeking approval to advance the 4. 1 million in prop k in the street resurfacing category to allocate it in this current year. This work will include preliminary engineering and various different environmental and detai technical studies thal form a draft document. It will fund at the board request, a robust equity study informing project decisions and ultimately advance social justice is one of the goals. So that will be done as a part of the funding request and in your packet of materials for the Powerpoint Presentation and for folks watching at home. , there are additional slides after mitive slide thamythank you slis interested and in would ultimately be to create an express and or carpool lane from san matteo to fifth and king street to create a continuous facility. Im here to answer any questions as are various project managers. Colleagues, i know weve been individually briefed on this item and are there any questions from members . If not, there are members of the public who would like to testify on this item number 5 . Please come forward. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is closed and can we have a motion to move item number 5 made by commissioner walsowalton and seconded by commissioner ronan and on that item, i think we have the same house. Item is passed on the first read. Improve the 2020 Improvement Program and this is an action approvement program. Im joined by the San Francisco national agencies, dan howard who will give a longer presentation after my brief introduction. So we did last month we came to you regarding the 2020 Regional Transportation Program but as a reminder, this is a fiveyear Investment Plan for state transportation money and as the Congestion Management Agency for sanfrancisco, we recommend the projects. So last month, you approved a list of programming that is included on page 65 of your packet, as well as therevisions today. In the 2018, this body was 18 million for light rail lines ax el counters project. These are devices to identify the location of the trains within the munimetro subway. However that technology is outdated and mr. Howard will get a little bit more into that in a minute. Since the sfta is moving forward with a communicationsbased control approach. Since the new train control system, the a axel counters are folded into that and we are refunding that to the new train project. And i know chair peskin and chair mandelman have heard about this in detail from the performanceworking group. It has been fascinating. Youll hear more in a second. But the first two phases would be the phases that are covered or contributing the 2018 ourtip funds which covers the first two phases of the seven covering the entire metro subway and the t third down to 23rd street. The second part of the action is to revise the 2020 ourtip reports. Since you acted last month, we identified a discrepancy in the amount of funding available. So we have another 778,000 that we are recommending putting towards the new flyer overhaul phase three project and that will result in increasing the scope of work from 13 to 14 vehicles. The next steps, in november, well submit the request for the amendments to the metropolitan Transportation Commission and that will consider the item in december and forward it to the california Transportation Commission for approval in march. And with that, i will turn it over to dan howard. Mr. Howard. I gave a version of this presentation at the muniworking group last month. First couple of slides to give you a primer on what automatic train control is, its a Safety System that prevents traintotrain collisions and thats important to recognise as we consider upgrading the project, is that the primary mission is to prevent trains from colliding into each other and if that, its done an exceptional job. Currently, the train control system operating in the marketway subway between west portal stations. And that traincontrol system essentially brings the trains in automatic mode from the portugalportalon to the subway , there have been a number of issues with that system that have lead to subway delays that im sure many of you and the public has experienced. Currently the way the system operates, a train will ping the central Computer System and does a handshake at the portal which is essentially the train internally checking the ability to determine its position and also checking the Communication Systems on board the train. Once it does that, it then is able to proceed in automatic mode and handshake is source of many delays weve been able to experience and thats because some of the issues with the age of the system. The system, one it is able to communicate with the train, it then controls the use and activation throughout vehicles through the subway only. Operators open and close the doors but other movements are automated. On the surface, the system is very manual. Its first come, first serve when a train arrives at an intersection or junction, it basically requests a route through that system or through that junction immediately without consideration to which train gets priority or any other operational considerations. As a result, we see that trains on the surface tend to arrive at the subway bunched and that results in congestion subway arrive vanesse station and congestion inbound at the embarcadaro, as well as west portal. Those are caused by trains entering into a fashion and in an unplanned based on the service operations. As i mentioned, the three portals multiply that handshake multiple flies system failures. Each system provides an opportunity for the systems to not communicate. In other metro major systems, chicago, d. C. , atlanta, those handshakes at portals are typically performed once from when the train leaves the yard. When we do it in San Francisco, we perform that handshake every time a train goes into the sub subwasubway and back out. So were multiplying the amount of times for that delicate procedure to take place and that, in turn, multiplies the amount of failures. The system is 20 years old and probably closer to 30 by the time we replace it with the new system. Every morning or traincontrol operators load the system on a series of three floppy discs. In the age of the internet and usb sticks, we can understand how that might not be acceptable and there are more modern systems were able to present. The system is designed in a fairly rigid and unforgiving manner where all of the subway lines converge and so if theres a problem in the tunnel, that problem usually spreads out to the remainder of the system. The result, therefore, is congestion. This graft shows the capacity and congestion. Essentially, as i mentioned, you have six lines in the Market Street tunnel and you have the red line is what we have scheduled to operate in the tunnel. So at the peaks, were looking at 41 to 42 trains per hour. Then the orange line, at the bottom, its showing what were able to deliver through the Market Street tunnel at embarcadaro and thats closer to 30 and 35. The gap between the two lines basically indicates the congestion present in the system and thats experienced by riders everyday when theyre stopped in the tunnel between stations. Another issue we have is were slow to recover from failures. So as an example, once a train