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Registrars office where they will be counting votes today. This is a crowded field. Were talking about 15 candidates running for oakland mayor. Five have separated from the pack. Jean quan looks to fend off Current City Council members libby schaaf and rebecca kaplan. Professor joe tuman and businessman bryan parker. A recent poll found any one of the five frontrunners could win thanks to the citys rank Choice Voting system. That system allows voters to select up to three candidates in order of ...

Rejoicing rise, with the San Francisco Transportation Authority here to try to talk about the pilot in context of the boarder set of strategies that we have to management changing the problems of Traffic Congestions thought the city particularly in selma so to start i want to just through up a couple of pictures i took this was on opening day of giants season of Traffic Congestion there it is and also the impact it has to muni to supervisor cohen sdrusz discussed in her opening rangers and pedes...

More recent times in a year and a half weve spent an incredible amount of resources for the Market Street corridor for the effectiveness project now muni forward both cases there issues are the same intersections with gridlock and because those historically those locations have had more so like fulsome street vs. First and harveys on ramps they lead into a tunnel on the freeway and have been historically a major problem for us weve been out at first and harrison for several years now and roadway...

What they should do and their rights resulting from the pilot certainly improvement recognizes the need for increased pco support at the intersections or at key intersections what we would like to do is initially establish for the p. M. Periods and again, we want to focus an thursday and fridays because historically those have been the worst days not to say theyre the worse but historically so we would like to use our deploy of small pcos for thursdays and fridays between the peak period of 3 30...

The code Pricing System thats been study by the sfmta as well as the category of Transportation Demand Management Strategies that can include things like working with the Flexibility Work schedules so we should do all of those things to manage congestion i dont think theres a Silver Bullet by to work at all the pieces to look at the challenging issue the Transportation Authority cletd completed our Transportation Plan and some of the things anywhere that and it is not only at the among other thi...

San francisco is a congested city we cant add more lanes to roads so theres a few other things on the supply side that includes the type of enforcement were discussing as well as signal timing and another one in context of mission bay reconnecting street lights their resilient things on the demand side there is a whole lost things we can think of one set of things increasing or improving more focusing efficient options like in terms of how much space they took place on the rise and more effectiv...

Effective amenities and more options for carpoolers and getting the right incentives to include everything from the sf parks crisis flaw in the city the code Pricing System thats been study by the sfmta as well as the category of Transportation Demand Management Strategies that can include things like working with the Flexibility Work schedules so we should do all of those things to manage congestion i dont think theres a Silver Bullet by to work at all the pieces to look at the challenging issu...

And pedestrians trying to cross with the crosswalk is blocked and also for cyclists and Truck Drivers its hard to navigate a transacting truck through the gridlock and bicyclists that went to the other side of the street i wanted to introduce it in this way this problem of all the cars on the street is one that i dont think is going to be revolved but dont block the box the reality a lot of people want to go home by crossing the bay bridge how quickly a car can get on the bridge not to mitigate ...

Dont think theres a Silver Bullet by to work at all the pieces to look at the challenging issue the Transportation Authority cletd completed our Transportation Plan and some of the things anywhere that and it is not only at the among other things but the sfmta Strategy Plan echo the importance of those strategies that being said the the devil is in the details we should do all of those things but how do we get to where we want to be i want to talk about how this relates to one component of the w...

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