Outreach, popup open houses at stops and a range of other Outreach Strategies to stay connected. After over a year of thorough community outreach, we brought a proposal to the board last year that delivers big safety and transit reliability improvements to taraval street. The key features that the board approved are boarding islands and pedestrian bulbs to make taraval a safer place for riding and transit. We have train prioritis to help all taraval riders to get where theyre going faster. Twice as many key stops. So, Wheelchair Accessible stops on the route as there were before to make it more accessible for people using ago a wheelchair. As well as Parking Management improvement throughout the corridor to help customers find parking on a growing commercial street. We wanted to get the safety improvements on the ground as quickly as possible so many riders dont get hit. Starting in january of this year, we installed temporary clear zones at most stops to give people a safe place to st
Park and ride downtown. We support the idea to allow parking for residents in the time restricted zones advised to put in. We strongly support revisiting the angled parking idea, once the full impact of all these changes is complete and the need for parking changes. The opening of ocean beach p. T. In its Current Location was based on the amount of parking available in the area. And this was never disclosed to us before acquiring the space, all the changes that were going to come about as a result of the muni changes. All we can hope for is the m. T. A. Board take into account all involved and open to the ideas while taking into account the merchants, residents and the muni riders. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Harriman, next speaker, please. Paula katz, followed by peggy deets and lynn miller. Hello. Im paula katz with safe our l taraval stops. I hope you have taken the time to read the many emails you have received because many l riders who cant make it here today have poured their heart
After over a year of thorough community outreach, we brought a proposal to the board last year that delivers big safety and transit reliability improvements to taraval street. The key features that the board approved are boarding islands and pedestrian bulbs to make taraval a safer place for riding and transit. We have train prioritis to help all taraval riders to get where theyre going faster. Twice as many key stops. So, Wheelchair Accessible stops on the route as there were before to make it more accessible for people using ago a wheelchair. As well as Parking Management improvement throughout the corridor to help customers find parking on a growing commercial street. We wanted to get the safety improvements on the ground as quickly as possible so many riders dont get hit. Starting in january of this year, we installed temporary clear zones at most stops to give people a safe place to step off the train until boarding islands can be installed and that is in the top left photograph t
Parking for residents in the time restricted zones advised to put in. We strongly support revisiting the angled parking idea, once the full impact of all these changes is complete and the need for parking changes. The opening of ocean beach p. T. In its Current Location was based on the amount of parking available in the area. And this was never disclosed to us before acquiring the space, all the changes that were going to come about as a result of the muni changes. All we can hope for is the m. T. A. Board take into account all involved and open to the ideas while taking into account the merchants, residents and the muni riders. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Harriman, next speaker, please. Paula katz, followed by peggy deets and lynn miller. Hello. Im paula katz with safe our l taraval stops. I hope you have taken the time to read the many emails you have received because many l riders who cant make it here today have poured their hearts out explaining losing their stops will hurt them. I
And we wanted to come here in support of fair mitigation of the issues brought about by the taraval muni. Changes that take into account the residents, the muni riders and the merchants. We are just one of Many Community businesses that are affected by the changes happening as a result of the muni island implementation project. There are many variables to consider. One of them is there are parking needs in the lower taraval zone that have not been completely seen at this point. There are four new businesses that have not opened yet. And many that are just recently opened. All of these will require parking and will benefit from the many muni riders that come to the area. One of the businesses is also quite large who spoke earlier, the northeast medical services. Also, the entire block of parking along taraval between 45th and 46th will soon be removed. Thats in addition to whats already been removed. Any parking studies at this point are not a true representation of what is to come. The