Network, which operates seamlessly so we dont have nine different counties and a bunch of j. P. A. S operating their express Lane Networks with their own rules and everything, having a gapless express lane network, forms the basis for a sort of a sort of a truly seamlesslyrun express bus network around the region, which integrates with an upgraded rail network, also operates seamlessly could be the sort of one of the foundations and express lanes could be one of the drivers, one of the demand sort of producers. We are also thinking that on one of the ideas that we are exploring with our Business Partners and others are looking at kind of the regional scale t. D. M. Program. Thats something that the last time this was tried was in the early 1990s, coming out of some federal Clean Air Act and then implemented by the bay area Quality Management district and others. But at the time it was not really possible to do it, but the time was not right, basically, and not possible to do it in a way which was flexible and easy to administer. And so there was a revolving in the legislature and 1996 the legislature stopped the programs like the one we are considering. But we think the combination of Major Investments in transit, which kind of provide an alternative to a lot of employees for driving alone, will be sort of whats necessary to get employers to the table and to provide their own incentives for people to get out of their cars driving alone. And i think some of that will lead to more people taking transit, especially if its, you know, if it can get them to work and a lot will end up in carpooling and van pooling as well. At the regional scale, many people who carpool to work to take transit, put that in context. But i think we have more work to do there. But this would be a transformational start to put Something Like this t. D. M. Program in place if it makes its way. Other directors . Thank you. Thank you, all of you for the presentation. Its fascinating. My first thought is i wish we had done this five years ago, ten years ago, i wish we were already well on our way to these solutions that are outlined here. At first i wanted to say im a little bit agnostic on how we get to that funding. I do understand the regressive nature of the sales tax. I think the low income sales tax credit could help address that, its a serious issue. Do you know off the top of your head briefly, los angeles was sales taxbased, correct . Yes, 0. 01 sales tax. And seattle . Combination of different measure, including if im not mistaken, and off the top of my head, probably also a senior moment, a sales, a vehicle license fee, and peter parcel tax and sales tax. Combination in the measure. And go ahead. Im saying, i feel like i dont have the knowledge to say where the Funding Source should come from. Others probably have better knowledge to say we need this so badly that im at the point where i will, i will support it, i will support it almost wherever the funding comes from. I would love it to be as aggressive as possible but i think the idea we can make this transformative will speak for the region, people are tired sitting in traffic, putting on my caltrain board member hat, we are topped out on passengers because we are overcrowded. We cant take more cars off the freeway, we cannot fit them on the trains right now. So we need these type of projects to switch people to cars on to this, so i understand there are serious reservations, but boy, we have to try it. We have to, we have to do something, otherwise we are going to be drowning in the same traffic and the same pollution that we have right now. So, thank you for support on this. For your work on this. You can count on my personal support and hopefully well be able to get the region on board and get something passed because we need to. Thank you, director. Director eaken. Thank you for being here, for the presentation. I was actually a little surprised when i read the briefing materials last night this was going to happen so quickly, ambitious and clearly a smart moment to go. I am a little bit concerned that some of the folks who have spoken up today should be your natural allies, they should be right there with you Holding Hands in the coalition and they are not there yet, and a chance when you want to go fast and be inclusive always, double down on the efforts to be inclusive of equity, environmental, health, social justice organizations. To be honest you need them to get through the legislature and this measure to pass. I know you have initiated, reached out to my organization but i just, it seems to me very clear theres more work to be done to build a broader winning coalition. I think thats absolutely true and we appreciate all the work that the voices have done and i think we are sort of working our way together, and i dont want to speak for them, hopefully they feel we are working our way together, and i think that we, you know, have enormous amount of respect for the coalition they put together and the work they have done. And i think this is part of the process. And this looks a little more like it kind of a, the type of outreach process that a state legislative bill goes through, rather than sort of a county sales tax, and i think thats one of the challenges because at the start it is a legislative bill that has to go through the state legislature and then its going to be sort of, if this passed, a whole other level of outreach and kind of Community Engagement that would happen before there was an expenditure plan and on and on, so i think we are trying to, the best intentions inherent to this and trying to work our way through them and really appreciate kind of, you know, everybodys availability to work with us and try and get through. Director. Add on to that. I think its important at this early stage understanding that you need to get to the legislature to engage with the Disability Community in particular, you said a lot of really good things, the presentation addressed the universal Design Principles and all that stuff and im sure some of the coalitions that exist of Community Organizations include people with disabilities but specifically in the certain San Francisco disability is a Key Organization and regionally and nationally, defense fund, transportation expertise and policy expertise that would be really, you know, very relevant to the discussion here. I think its crucial that they are at the table early because people with disabilities and seniors are so transitdependent compared to the rest of the population. They are often, obviously they overlap with low income populations as well, and what we are seeing in our transportation network, especially with shared mobility and technology, those populations are being left behind. Bike Share Program does not address people with a disabilities. So it needs to be picked up in this transformative thinking. So, engage with those folks often. Very, a point very well taken, and ive had the pleasure of working with some of those folks with my other hats on as a director and others, point very well taken. Absolutely. Ive just close up the comments by saying please do work more with public transportation. I think we need to have allies and come together and make sure there are building plans for future. And i think we cant under score the issues of around housing and the transit connections and the tradeoffs to make investment in major Rail Infrastructure specifically, they have to build the necessary housing so that we can, so that works, right, we dont want the investments for rail that goes out to the middle of nowhere where nobody lives because people say they want rail. So, you know, those fights, my point is i think that that is the key thing. You saw, you might have seen the capital plan, 30 billion plus dollars that we could easily take from this pot if we are able to, so we are making the commitments here in San Francisco and i want to make sure we dont also get other jurisdictions dont always make the necessary commitments that they need and making sure that everyone is equally accountable. I think that is something we are conscious of as well, how can we use this measure to kind of sort of help support communities creating equitable, and its a big incentive pot to help with that, and something we are conscious of, and complimentary policies are worked on at m. T. C. And elsewhere, revamping the Regions Development policy, a process ongoing, and at m. T. C. , and appreciate your engagement in, especially director heminger. But yeah, i think its absolutely spot on. Final comments . I wanted to sort of thank m. T. A. Staff for their engagement in the coalition, as broed a coalition as possible, enormous amount as a transformational potential for lots of different agencies. So, thank you very much for your deepen gaugement, directors. Thank you. With that, the next item. 15, approving various parking and traffic modifications from Mission Street, trum bull to geneva, and geneva avenue to Mission Street and Mission Street excelsior safety project. Victoria weiss, i am very excited, actually to bring you two projects today, todays hearing on our high injury network. The first one, Mission Street excelsior safety project, going to deliver some critical safety improvements, not just on Mission Street but geneva avenue as well. Talking about new traffic signals, targeted bus relocation and comprehensive merchant approach to curb management. Some of the key aspects of the project but spend a couple minutes about the community jut reach we have done. Its been long, frankly, but a very extensive one, so what we are bringing you today is reflective of what the community wanted and of their concerns, and we included all kinds of outreach, everything from door to door to actually doing transit rider surveys and so on. Transit reliability improvements, not a future red lane on the street. And direction from you and the mayor, london breed, executing a quick build providing you all approve it today. We do anticipate doing it over the winter and 2020. With that, ask my colleague matt to come up and share more detail with you, all aspects of the project. Supervisor safai, he came up from his meeting downstairs to give briefly some remarks. Thank you, thank you commissioners, thank you for indulging me. Im trying not to be disresuspectful to Public Comment downstairs but wanted the opportunity to commend your staff, done a phenomenal job with the community outreach. They have done an extensive amount of conversations, flyer, put information out in multiple languages, they have talked to merchants, we have had a number of different town halls and community meetings, worked with my office extensively. We have had a lot of back and forth. Had some followup with different merchants and different organizations that would be impacted by this. Overall, i think this is a phenomenal plan. We are super excited to see this. I came here to say, if theres any way to accelerate the timeline we were really looking forward to that. I know it takes a lot of time to put the document, you know, once the document is finalized to put it into construction documents and put it out to bid and then receive bids and go through all that process. But every day that goes by there is theres new issues, we get emails all the time with Pedestrian Safety issues, with vehicular traffic issues, with, i mean, theres areas of this district where people just unilaterally cross the street where there is going to be a crosswalk as part of the plan but do it anyway because distance between the crosswalks and certain intersections are so far apart. But i think there is a lot of sensitivity paid to existing businesses, the type of uses, the type of design that can happen on top of that, we took the time to work with the Planning Department along with department of public works and fast forwarding a conversation about a better streets plan. That is already in the makings. We are trying to have this be the launching point for future investment but about a 15 Million Investment is a significant, i mean, i think thats around the price tag, is a significant investment. I think there was one last little tweak, i think staff is going to make that recommendation today. But other than that, i wanted to thank you for making this a priority in a part of town that has not received this level of investment and attention in a very long time. And commissioner brinkman, we are 100 committed to making sure that muni is prioritized and committed to that. I think what we decided collectively was that we would put this phase of the project forward first, would deal with a lot of the pedestrian and other issues and some of the improvements and take the next step to have the conversation about muni. So just wanted to thank you all for the opportunity to speak and thank staff and commend them on the phenomenal job they did on this project. And if you have anything you want to ask me quickly before i go back downstairs. Nothing to ask, but thank you for your cooperation on this, i know you have done a lot of hard work in the community to support this part of the project, and i know you will continue to do hard work. Thank you. Ill end with this, we use the large plan and safety and Improvement Project to build off of that. Used the neighborhood trainings improvement money. We did over 600,000 from my pool and additional money from your pool to do traffic calming around the district. So much so, people are emailing me on a daily basis asking for their street to have street cushions, raised sidewalk, so we are doing wonderful work with your team. We are going to continue that work now on alameni, its a dangerous corridor people are using as alternative to the freeway and alternative to Mission Street and the accidents are piling up. We just authorized 100,000, we might not need to use that full amount if we shrink the time, the Community Planning time. My only point is we have used that for conversation about r. P. P. , for traffic calming, for a larger districtwide conversation. So, appreciate the attention and thank you very much for your support and guidance. Good afternoon, follow with that. Name and title. Matt lasski, livable streets, to talk about the Mission Street safety, excelsior safety project. Excited to be here to present this project. I have a power point here, please. Thank you. As part of this project, implementing quick build projects and longer term streetscape project, which is great. On sections of Mission Street and geneva avenue, in the excelsior neighborhood. Sfmta staff and sustainable streets and transit worked really hard on this project. Since at least since 2017 and we worked a lot as well with the community as youve heard, ill touch on that as well. So the project area is, its an lshape, and approximately a mile long, focussed on Mission Street between geneva and trumbull, four travel lanes and on street parking. The 1414r, 14x, 49 and 52 all operate along this business corridor. On geneva avenue, concentrating on the area between mission and prague, also four lanes, with on street parking. And the 8bx, 53 and 54 lines operate here, equity routes. Additionally, all the areas around the project area, neighboring communities are communities are concern. So the stakeholders involved, you know, really are wide ranging. Its been a long planning process, like i said. Theres been many opportunities for Community Input, and we hope to implement quick build project starting this winter and then coordinate with public works on detailed designs and construction drawings for implementation of streetscape elements starting in 2021. And they actually have a paving project that we are working with them to leverage. There is definitely a need here in the area. Help us achieve our goal of vision 0. Both these corridors are on the high injury network, 323 injury crashes between 2011 and 2017. Five fatales of pedestrians as well. And of the 325 injury crashes, approximately 100 were bicyclists and pedestrians. So, definitely a need here. I think it speaks for itself. Mission and geneva also had during this time period, 43 collisions, seventh as the highest pedestrian, highest injury intersection for pedestrians in the city. So, since 2017, we have conducted a range of input on the proposed improvements and generally there is a strong desire from the community for safety improvements, primarily focussing on Pedestrian Safety. We had diverse inclusive process, we heard from stakeholders and Community Members and various opinions on the project. But some of our highlights included talking to commercial businesses as the supervisor stated. We spoke, we spoke to about 175 businesses once, getting their input on loading and commercial and parking needs, and shared with them our recommendations. And then we also conducted 400 multilingual muni surveys on board and at stops along the way. And again, the most prominent thing we heard was Pedestrian Safety, specifically pedestrian crossings on Mission Street and the dangers of those. As part of this process we held stakeholder workshops. Met with 11 stakeholder groups in the area, met with them three times and facilitated workshops. Again, diverse group. Various interests and so together we developed a collective challenge statement, which is here, ill just read it out loud. How do we increase safety for pedestrian and other fragile modes of transportation while improving the quality of muni service for local trips, commuters and special needs. So, we relayed the project proposals to this group, got feedback and again, if there was competing interests we always went back to this, this collective challenge statement, discussed how aspect of the project may or may not meet the statement, and compromise and got to the project before you today. As a result of the Community Input with feedback and guidance provided by staff, Capital Improvements are included in the resolution, and they include pedestrian transit and parking loading changes. For pedestrians i mean not just specific to pedestrians, but to help pedestrians cross the street, proposing four new signals on Mission Street and 2 on geneva avenue. These are locations with existing marked uncontrolled crossings, and so people are crossing there, and they are getting hurt, so we are looking to implement these. Additionally, proposing over 20 pedestrian bulbs to decrease the crossing distance. In terms of muni, improvements to muni, we have four transit bulbs proposed, one transit island, and three transit stops that are moved from near side to far side, as well as two locations where we are consolidating stops to one stop. And again, these improvements would not preclude other transit improvements, like red lanes in the future. For parking and loading needs, prioritize needs of merchants and local commercial businesses. We are recommending an increase in yellow, blue, green and as well as metered Parking Spaces to help with turnover and access to parking along the corridor. Bike lanes will be continuous on four blocks of geneva, existing bike route, with broken, noncontinuous bike lanes. From london to prague, continuous lanes, and the transit bulbs and bulbouts, working with public works through their paving program and coordinate that aspect. So lastly, with your recommendation today and the proposal approval, we will implement quick build aspects of this project and that can occur as early as this winter. Looking at painted safety zones at about 20 intersections, implementing the color curb changes, doing some signal timing changes to benefit pedestrians as well as help muni move through the corridor. And thats it. So, i think after two years, again, to bring this in front of you, and look forward to any questions you or the public may have. Thank you. I think we have an amendment to the resolution. Thank you, madam chair. Supervisor safai mentioned one change to the board staff is recommending, and at this point to not move the bus stop at mission, keep it where it is, that would require the board to remove language in item f and cc to remove reference to moving this stop. Ok. And give the background on that location, a Healthcare Center is . Yeah, there is a Childcare Center, a Muslim Community center and concern by moving it far side, it could be more dangerous situation for people young and old crossing the street. Thank you. You are welcome. And no impact to the project, still do everything else. Yes. That does not preclude that in the future when red transit lanes roll out, that direction, that can be reconsidered again. An definitely. I think in the future, a possibility for other, yeah, other transit stop, looking at other transit stop changes as well. Great. Any other questions of staff before we open it to Public Comment . Ok. Public comment . Charles defare, cat carter, and jodie mediros. Bicycle coalition. This item states that the Mission Street excelsior safety project is a project that will contribute to Traffic Safety and achieving vision 0. We agree that people who live, walk, bike and visit this neighborhood deserve better, especially given busy Outer Mission corridor and the nearby parks, mclaren, crocker amazon, so we do support this before you today but it does not go far enough. And to me that means we are not making the street as safe as possible with all the tools that we as a city and you as a board have at your disposal. Frustrating given years of outreach that went into the project. I understand the board can only approve or reject street changes. But its clear political influence, and concern around the loss of parking spots did in fact water down the project. Nip shall proposal, a twoway connected bicycle between amazon and seneca, and more robust bike lanes on geneva, in our eyes a good candidate for fully protected bike lanes. We are going to encourage more people to bike and make our streets more welcoming for walking and taking transit, we need to be more aggressive with design, especially in our outer neighborhoods. Right after item you are set to approve yet another protected bike lane and yet the proposal for geneva, an existing bike route and jury corridor, only looks to fill a couple blocks of gap in the unprotected bike lane. Its a lost opportunity. Hope the board continues to take vision 0 seriously and do it more and do it faster. Thank you. Cat carter, and cat carter, San Francisco transit riders. We are happy to see a lot of the bus stop changes, the bulbs out and allowed some parking removal. And overall, support the project but similarly we dont think it goes nearly far enough. When we talk about safe streets, we need to be clear of the crucial role that muni and transit priority play in making streets safer. Where there is clear transit priority, streets are safer and incidents and conflicts decrease. And Service Improves and ridership increases, fewer cars equal safer streets. A big overlap, obviously between high injury corridors and the streets identified for transit improvements. Excelsior safety project should include transit only lanes and was considered years ago. We think transit only lanes will be safer streets, decrease travel time, make muni more attractive option. Staff report even shows that safety improvements actually slow muni in the project, all the more reason to put in transit only lanes. It did take too long for outreach, during which time people died in traffic incidents. We know there is never enough outreach. We cant wait for the right amount to be done. A Climate Crisis and a Street Safety crisis. Further, there was a shelter at geneva and mission removed with basically no outreach, rather than improving lighting and streetscraping for more welcoming for riders this was taken away. We love pilot projects like west portal and think they should become outreach. So we would love to see as soon as the curbs are done, put some transit only lanes in as a sixmonth pilot and evaluate in realtime. Riders are not waiting for years for the bus to improve and the streets to be safer. An good afternoon, jodie madiras, walk San Francisco. We have seen two fatalities and 48 severe pedestrian injuries the last five years since vision 0 started. In 2018, asked you to start it again after years of stalling. We are asking to approve the desperately needed changes along the corridor and pleased an see the changes. In favor of the muni improvements and the pedestrian bulbouts, standard along the project, and the intersection of mission and geneva, where we have seen the greatest number of crashes happen and at least dedicated left turn signal. Since the spring, outreach and gotten six new signal light crossings, three new crosswalks and thank the m. T. A. Staff for getting there. However, advocating for better treatments near locations where children and seniors are, the library, and no changes there at all, particularly mid block crossings and tintersections. And i want to say thank you to director brinkman for asking for really great projects. This is a not so great project where a neighborhood that really deserves a great project. But we are not really there yet, and we are hoping some changes can be done. Walk San Francisco believes streets and neighborhoods for seniors, families and children travel frequently thinking about schools, libraries, parks, recreation and Senior Centers should be priority locations for Pedestrian Safety, like a plus priority locations for safety, and hope this is something we can include in the project in the future and be mindful for all the Pedestrian Safety projects going forward. Thank you. Madam chair, antoine james. Last speaker. Antoine james. What i wanted to say was, is i wanted to talk about the bus stop in front of the Childcare Center and youve already addressed it, appreciate that very much. Even though a lot of these changes, the m. T. A. Wants to make a neighborhood are needed. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning, sorry i did in the put in a speaker card, i was not originally planning to speak on the item. I have been up here before talking about how projects have gotten watered down and another program was introduced and a problem in district 6 and 5, a number of projects in 6, user quick build, and a project in 5 i think will come before the board in the next month or so, that is looking really good and strengthened recently. But its evident from the story we have heard today that its not yet working in other areas, more car centric, and phrasing in the staff report where i will give kudos to the, to you all and the political environment has clearly changed to the m. T. A. Staff they have to upfront why they did not put in a bus lane, i did not expect two years ago but its not there, and phrasing in the staff report basically like well, if we put in a bus lane then we have to take away space for cars or take away a lane, and its time to become more convinced that we need to do that, take away more parking, take away more lanes for cars, make more space for bicycles and more space for muni. And apparently even a lane reduction from four lanes to 3 on Mission Street was felt to be infeasible because it would slow down muni too much. Fourlane streets are not streets by any stretch of the imagination on other continents. Its a disease of the mind we have in north america that we think that something with four lanes for motorized vehicles is a neighborhood street. Its not. Its a road. And its time we start to recognize that. Thank you. Thank you. Additional Public Comments on this item . Seeing non, Public Comment is closed. Directors . Mr. Lasski, thank you so much for the presentation and acknowledge, yes im the one who has probably been yelling the most loudly about this project. Im absolutely going to support this, because this is the right thing to do. We need to make the safety projects out there, and i know that the outreach has been long and hard, and i feel like youve had to go back to square one, at least once to start again and getting to this point i just want to remind everybody looking at the we are removing 56 Parking Spaces and have not had a Single Person here to complain about it. This is progress. This is big progress. Just a couple years ago this would have taken hours of Public Comment with people upset about losing Parking Spaces. So, we have shifted the narrative. People realize that we need to do these safety improvements even if we do need to take away some parking spots to make the streets safer. Its not enough but we are not going to stop here. I have every confidence the muni forward project will continue to roll out in this neighborhood and we will get there. When people see the improvements on the street, it will help build trusts with the agency, that we are out there to make the neighborhood safer. I spend a fair bit of time riding my bike on alameni, to get to a volunteer school gig, and im not sure its safe to bike out there and i think how can we expect the neighbors out here to bike if this is what cycling is like, with cars and trucks zooming along, inches from the handlebars. We need the neighborhoods to participate in that, and this is the first step to get the neighbors to participate in big transformative changes for their streets. So, im going to support the amendment, and this, and thank you for the work youve done out there. And this is not the last time we will touch that street, that obvious and will continue. On that note, what is the plan for the rollout of the project and when . I mean, i would like to see this project im kind of on the same page, this is awesome and i understand the constraints you are dealing with. I would support a bolder project, i would support transit only lanes, and all the, you know, get the cars off all together, i understand we are not there yet. Im just wondering, are you going to come back at a certain time after the project has been implemented . I understand a quick build and then construction. A timeline and maybe give your best estimate when would be a good time to talk to us about followup for some of the other added safety improvements . So, regarding muni, muni planning, my understanding from muni colleagues are several years. Other higher priority projects, higher demand and higher need closer to downtown. But i yeah, my best guess. Ok. So we are going to do three things i guess. Quick build right away, then the Capital Project after that, i believe thats probably 2021, and the meantime, muni, matt is right, trying to figure out how to do additional transit improvements, whether transit only lanes or what have you, probably after that. That is the plan, as i currently understand it. Those are the phases. So in the next 2 to 3 years, thats what we are going to see delivered on mission and geneva. Ok. Certainly im always, like lets do it faster and i understand maybe we cant. And then following up on that, could you address the safety issues that walk s. F. Brought up, some tintersections they brought up that they a head shake, and then maybe particularly the library ok. And intersection where they felt they had raised issue of more Pedestrian Safety issues, challenges around that. Im totally available to follow up with walk s. F. We have a pedestrianspecific signal between leo and rushville, i believe is where the library is. But i dont have the fine details on that. In terms of mission and geneva, there was an issue there with a shelter, and my understanding, that was a personal safety issue, and that was the shelter was switched out quickly after a Community Forum in which there was a shooting in the area. And so with this project actually we are looking to extend, or widen that sidewalk area so there will be more opportunities for passenger waiting areas. Jump here. The shelter is an issue that came up over the course of the planning of the project. Thats right, a serious crime issue that popped up at that location and had to do with the fact the existing shelter was very close to the building and the hope here is the larger bulb, creates more real estate, can create a shelter with more visibility and a situation that doesnt repeat itself once we get it built. But thats 2021 time frame. One last question. For the new signals going in, will those all have audible yes. Thank you. Anything else . Quick followup question. We heard some talk about a desire for bus only lanes, talk for protected bike lanes. Just wondering if you consider these two corridors, how do you decide when it merits a bus only lane, how do you decide whether its part of a protected bike lane network thats a critical network, and we are not going to put those interventions on every single street but kind of like hear your process, is this part of a key bike network that we should be while we are in the process leveraging the efficiency and putting in protected bike lanes at the same time, or less important at this time . With the red transit lanes, so, based on our analysis, the the signals implemented, and the, some of the bus stop changes and boarding islands, or boarding, the bus bulbs, there will be it will be less than a minute increase in time to the, to muni, both directions. And it did not rise to the surface and as much as we, staff believe the red transit lanes and or protected bike lanes, like we have to work with the community and we have to, you know, we bring recommendations to them, and have to listen to them. So i think as director brinkman said, its this is like getting our shoe in the door and maybe theres potential for improvements soon thereafter. Okay. I just want to point out, two different things. Lack of Community Support for something as opposed to m. T. A. Staff expert advice based on data and analysis whether its a street that should have a protected bike lane and transit lane based on our its a good process question, but its kind of, kind of i can easier to answer it now, but the evolution going back to 2017 was working with the incoming supervisor and pledging to him that we would do a communitybased planning process on Mission Street and excelsior that did that was that leveraged technical at the m. T. A. Staff and the input of the stakeholders and that is what you are seeing here, and there were other considerations, and stakeholders said every time, Pedestrian Safety, Pedestrian Safety is the priority, do that first, do that first. Director heminger. I was not going to say anything, but this conversation sort of taken a turn. I do not want to contest what director brinkman said about the bad old days and how far we have come. Reading this conversation together with the one we had at the last meeting with vision 0, and about how poorly we are doing, i wonder whether we out to have more people in the room mad at us than we do now, and its a crazy thing to say in a way, but this is not a popularity contest, number one. Number two, and look, this is trouble ive encountered in my career. Just because the road goes by your house does not mean you own the road. And the people who use that road, or bike lane, or railroad, whatever it is, the people would us an it live all over the city because transportation is a network. And you shouldnt let somebody who resides at part of the network to tell you how the whole network works, just because they accidentally live near it. And people move all the time, too, and their attitudes move with them, and we are seeing a demographic change in the city, younger folks, and younger than me, they think biking biking is the primary mode for them, not what you do when you know you are not in the car. And i think we still have not oriented ourselves to that way of thinking. [please stand by bravk ] i think we have to talk this out, i worry our goals are so lofty we may not be oriented toward success, not pushing hard enough. [please stand by] a lot of the Mission Activists are angry and wondering when the lanes are going to go away. We have a cultural crisis, those people most often lower income individuals, as a matter of fact, who feel they got to the place in life that they can afford a car and its taken away from them. Its something psychological at that we cannot overcome, but what we can do, though, is perform well. Have the busses run on time, not have them bunch up. Do the things, do the pedestrian improvements. By showing them the Service Works and works effectively, theyll want it. People love the 14r, busses and you wont be able to get on the 14r and 14 will pass and people will not get on it, because its much better. As people start to see that and we can perform better, i think youll start to see that transition and this will get easier and easier, but we are still in the space, particularly on some of these outer neighborhoods, where you do have language and other sort of barriers, far from where we are and where we are thinking, and the best approach, especially is to try to figure out how through a process we can get them further from where they are, but on our end, share the success, have them go to other parts of the city where its working well and then coming to our meetings demanding they get that, too. So i think if we were able to introduce more express busses and things like that in that corridor, where people could see some of the differences, the 14x does very well, and the 9r, those are making a difference but again, i think thats just the reality that i see living in the neighborhood, my bank is there, Grocery Shopping there, my brother and his brothers live there, they are all mexican, a different thought process than what we are dealing with when we try to make technical changes to the network and we need to make the changes and should make the changes but i also think we do fail and that gives them the permission to question whether or not, you know, we have the right solution. So, thats thats kind of like, thats the thats the, you know, Million Dollar question in the long run but a step forward even if its not big enough step forward. So with that, you made a motion. A second . Second. On the motion to amend the resolution to keep the bus stop. Second the motion to amend. All those in favor . Now the original motion. Second. All in favor . That passes. Move on to the next item. Thank you for all your work, staff. Approving parking problem ekt ted bike lanes along 5th street between Market Street and townsend Street Associated with the 5th street Improvement Project. And the 5th street Improvement Project, we have been moving down from 7th street, and 6th street as we speak, and looking forward to hopefully your approval of the 5th Street Project today. Have a protected bike lane, safety treatments at intersections, new transit boarding islands and relocation and expansion of the very important loading zones for businesses on the corridor. Aside from being a really important safety project, it is important for a couple other reasons. First of all, its going to close some of the gaps that we have in our bicycle network, so connect basically to mission bay, to caltrain, some of the ongoing projects we have going on, recent projects on howard, folsom, and closing the gap on the network and most of you know, the central soma plan is coming, we are going to see over 5 million square feet of new development on 5th street alone. And so its imperative that we approve this project, build this project to serve not just the existing community but also all the new development on this street in particular. So, just the same as with the Mission Excelsior safety project, engaged residents, employees and businesses on this corridor, and of course, needless to say, we will be implementing a quick build version of the project right away. With that, ask my colleague to come up and give you the details on the project and answer any questions you may have. Hi, everyone, talia lange, thanks for hanging in there and listening to me today. Im here today to talk about the proposed changes between fifth and townsend streets in the core of central soma. The 5th Street Project is not a new effort. First came about as part of a 2000 the bike plan, designated a major bicycle route. It was halted down to the central subway construction and the temporary placement of 4th street transit lines to 5th street. The busses have been moved off 5th street, goals of the project include improve safety for all roadway users, address the future transportation demands of the neighborhood, to bridge a north south gap in the bicycle network. 5th street is one of the last missing links and builds on the systematic process, of folsom, howard and other corridors. Outreach has continued throughout the duration of the project since 2017. Moved into design late 2018 through this summer and hope to Start Construction of the quick build or near term project this fall. The quick books go, in front of you today, generally include paint, vertical posts, transit boarding islands and curb ramps. Work committeed by city crews. As i just mentioned, timing is, the timing is in part due to transit changes, but other important reasons. Safety is an issue on 5th street, and they are committed. 5th street is also seeing a vast amount of development to the corridor and must accommodate and protect the existing users and also future users of the street. In looking at collision data, we can see that safety is a critical problem on 5th street, especially for the most vulnerable users of the road. From 2016 to 2017, intersection of fifth and market had the highest number of pedestrian collisions in the city and one of the top ten highest number of bicycle collisions in the city. From 2011 to 2016, a total of 351 reported collisions, including 320 injury collisions. This translates to on average, one Person Injured on 5th street. A vital step towards changing the statistic. This slide show some of the Key Development sites in the proebt area, or the boxes in blue. Total over 5 million square feet of new development. We must create a street with balanced modes of transportation to accommodate this growth. The 8, 30 and 45 lines have moved to other streets, including the 27 bryant and van ness. 27 bryant will continue the existing route. 47 van ness, will run in coordination of the townsend project. Clear reasons proposing changes to 5th street, the outreach process started in october of 2017 and the last major outreach event in april of 2019. Total, six major events, Informal Community events, door to door, and over 40 meetings with stakeholders. Not done yet. We will keep communication open through evaluation process, so we can understand concerns and make tweaks in the field to the quick build project. The slide has a lot of text on it, but the goal is to look at the feedback for the project and ultimately gain support for the changes. The initial outreach included a survey to understand public desire for changes. Received over 300 survey responses, we heard improving Bicycle Safety was critical to improving 5th street. And a strong desire for Pedestrian Safety improvements. We asked people to be specific about ranking their entired changes, understanding the street has limited horizontal real estate and cannot fit everything. Protected bike lanes, and Pedestrian Safety improvements, and better lighting for pedestrians. During the first year outreach events, took information from the survey and other feedback to create alternatives. Third, a preferred alternative. It has since been refined and reflected in todays agenda. And two southbound lanes and two lanes in both directions near the freeway ramps. New turning lanes at high volume turn locations, protected bike lanes for the length of the corridor, sidewalk lighting and landscape built by the developers at the time of the construction of both projects. Pedestrian improvements at intersections, a raised crosswalk, and transit boarding islands for the 27 bryant and 47 van ness. This is the existing Cross Section and typical proposed Cross Section. There are new bike facilities protected by either buffers and loading on both sides of the corridor. In summary, this important project brings major benefits to the corridor, traffic calming, transit boarding islands, sidewalk and urban rail improvements at the development sites. Tradeoffs, including some parking lots, and some impact to traffic flow during peak hours. We worked for over two years to minimize the impacts, proposing turn lanes and signal changes and other small changes to accommodate the use along the streets. A thoughtful design that prioritizes to address critical safety needs, also taking into account unique character and needs of 5th street and the community. Lastly, i would like to end by touching on the next steps for the corridor. Following todays meeting if approve, preconstruction outreach prior to starting restriping in the fall and work with the shops to be cognizant. Concrete work will then take place in the winter of 2020. We are collecting preproject data now and post project Data Collection in the fall of 2020, and publish the findings soon after. And looking towards making the quick build design more permanent. We see that in the fall of 2021. Thanks very much for your i am too. Happy to answer questions