Away restriction there, so they are not able to load even today because its tow away. Other times of day what were looking to do is now that we have fulltime parking on the other side of the street, were going to look at relocating loading spaces to the other side of the street or as close as possible. Part of the process will be working with merchants to identify loading needs. We have done our best job to identify relocated spaces for now, but we are going to be looking at merchant by merchant by merchant is this meeting your needs, and we rapidly get out there and find an alternative solution if we need it, including potentially even this might open the opportunity for Outdoor Dining and other things that wouldnt have been possible before because of the tow away restrictions. [indiscernible] Market Street was we looked at all of the cross streets and rearranged most of the parking for the first half block of the cross streets to make sure that there was adequate loading Space Availa
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That bill is in the Transportation Committee this afternoon. I will be racing staff back to the committee to be there to help make sure that that bill moves. It looks to be in very good shape so we expect that bill to move on. In addition, with regard to the state budget, overall the transportation budget was very, very boring, both houses simply were adopted with what the governor proposed in the number of different categories. There was very little in conference committee. But it i will just point out that with respect to. Chairman brinkman , resources, 2 billion was provided for state and local road maintenance, so that was maintained. Caltrain was fully funded, and most significantly, even though it is not a huge amount of money , he was 85 million, was devoted to project initiation documents for the coming years. It is the first step in getting a project off of a long lead time planning list into motion and will potentially be deliverable in the next five to six years. The housing
We have a quorum. Thank you. Colleagues, a couple of pieces of the house cleaning. One is that commissioner stefani his not with us today, so can we have a motion to excuse her . Made by commissioner mandelman, seconded by commissioner brown. We will take that by without objection. At 11 00 a. M. Were going to have to recess for a press conference on the steps of this building and we will reconvene when that press conference is done. With that, please call you next item. Item citizen advisory report. Good morning. Good morning commissioners. I am john larson, chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee and im here to report on the june 26th meeting of the,. Beginning with items five and six and the Fund Exchange, milliondollar Fund Exchange to effectuate that project, we recommended approval of the Fund Exchange and inquired about certain aspects of better Market Street. One continuing concern voiced is the current design of the ventilation grates and bicyclists getting their tires caught
So for the pieces that are around the turn restrictions, when will those happen . You will see those in early 2020, either january or february , depending on when we get our clearance, and then m. T. A. Will be ready to submit all the work orders to install the signs and the striping changes. And what are the clearances that are required for that that require us to wait for six months . It is part of our Environmental Impact report from ceqa. We need ceqa clearance. It is part of the project description in the federal clearance, so that is why we need that clearance. And we need the project approval from the director of public works and the m. T. A. Board. Those are the four things we need in order to implement any of the better Market Street improvements. Right. Will there be other shortterm improvements before 2020 . You mentioned this short area of a pilot around some of the changes around bikes. Yes. The bikeway pilot is between on market between franklin and goss it is where we ha