an chair peskin: good morning and welcome to the transportation meeting for december 5, 2017. our clerk is alberto quintanilla. if you could please call the roll. (roll call) we have a quorum. chair peskin: after we hear from the cac and pass the consent agenda i would like to take item 13, the report for the vanness bus rapid transit out of order to accommodate the schedule of mr. ris ken who is here with us this morning. if you could call the next item. clerk: information item number two. chair peskin: mr. larson. good morning. i am john larson representing district 7. i will present the cac report today. item 67 on the again item 7-up date on the san francisco management study brought concerns about the use of the hov lanes. they questioned the issuians of the clean air stickers on the use of the lanes giving increasing popularity of the vehicles in the bay area. there was concern that private shuttle buses would reduce the lanes effectiveness. this concer
through the chair, we are monitoring the traffic flow carefully that we didden game significantly with our open traffic engineers as well as caltrans in identifying and approving the road configurations and communication plan, signs for them. as needs if we need resources such a pco or police officer at any particular location that is something we will moptor and put monitor and put in place. i am not aware of plans to do so. if there are areas that you see are concerning we would welcome that feedback. would you explain how you monitor and make decisions around those kinds of issues for this particular project? the decisions around those issues we have a group of folks within our traffic engineering group that focus exclusively on these changes that relate to construction. they will analyze what the contractor is proposing. they informed development of the specs and they review the traffic management plans the contractors submit. there is a lot of it involved because
we have a quorum. chair peskin: after we hear from the cac and pass the consent agenda i would like to take item 13, the report for the vanness bus rapid transit out of order to accommodate the schedule of mr. ris ken who is here with us this morning. if you could call the next item. clerk: information item number two. chair peskin: mr. larson. good morning. i am john larson representing district 7. i will present the cac report today. item 67 on the again item 7-up date on the san francisco management study brought concerns about the use of the hov lanes. they questioned the issuians of the clean air stickers on the use of the lanes giving increasing popularity of the vehicles in the bay area. there was concern that private shuttle buses would reduce the lanes effectiveness. this concern was more voiced during the public comment when private commuters buses were held up for the transportation not open to everyone. starting with number 8. the cac recommended approval
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