To get to and from the passenger load zone. So each of the three block faces has this configuration with very generous load zone, 8 foot wide. It accommodates all types of vehicles, multiple vehicles. Ill flip over this flier just to show the proximity of the metered parking to the Market Street corridor, so you can see that and those are the red with the metered spots proposed. The yellow lines with the corridors that are affected by the bike way, and we are also having to relocate a blue zone that was part of our previous proposal, but again, locating it directly adjacent to the institution that it serves. So with that, i will keep my remarks brief and available for any questions. Thank you very much. Directors, do i have any comments for mr. Hill docto doctors hildredge . This project was approved on may 2nd, as you know, including protected bike lanes, a landscaped median, and Pedestrian Safety islands. These two blocks from octavia to the duboce parkway are not only on the high injury network, they also provide a route to the popular bike route known as the wiggle. This will calm traffic and address the issue of double parking in the bike lanes, a problem that we hear about time and again from our members. The project has seen an outpouring of support from the community with over 300 letters of support collects, as well as many people sharing their experiences of biking on the road. While the delay and drawn out process to reach this point has been frustrating, we believe this is a Critical Design for the street and for vision zero. I urge the mta board to approve these curb changes today for a protected bike lane on upper Market Street. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Mr. Wen here . My names matt brezina. I live a block and a half of upper market. My two children, my wife and sisterinlaw. My mothers 62, learning to bike. She just moved into our house as well, and my father who moved in gets around in a wheelchair. Upper market is a dangerous sphere through our neighborhood. I support these changes for lower upper market, and i will be back here, advocating again for protected bike lanes the rest of the way on upper market. If i can just use the overhead. Im also the organizer of the people protected bike lane. In early december, we had between 70 and 100 members of our community who biked this route, standing on the line, defending the safety of cyclists on this very dangerous road. These changes are going to make this stretch safer, but for the rest of upper market all the way to castro, what i encourage the department to do as a temporary measure is to change the speed limit to 20 miles an hour on that street. It is unsafe that bike lane is unsafe for any users. We are forced by double parking into the road. Cars travel on that road at 35 miles an hour. We shouldnt encourage people to ride on it until you change the speed limit to 20 miles an hour or until you make it parking protected. Thank you. Thank you for your work. Next speaker, please. Jessica jenkins. Hi. My name is jessica jenkins. I bike home with my kid every day on Market Street. Its a vital bike route connector filled with people of all ages and ability, but it also has frequently speeding traffic, people dangerously veering into the bike lane to stay and unload, or just veering into the biking lane, even without checking even though theres 20 bicyclists going by on every light cycle. Thanks to upper market, ding ding, please move out of the bike lane is one of my threeyearolds catch phrases. I was so happy when protected bike lanes seemed imminent last july, and then, they failed to materialize. I saw how really great biking structure can be implemented when 17th street was implemented, and irreleva realk you for that, and i encourage and implore you to do the same with upper market. Thank you very much, miss jenkins. Thank you ne. Next, speaker, please. My name is ewan, and i want to give my support to the upper market protected bike lanes. As a bicycle rider, i feel safe and comfortable when i am separated from vehicle traffic on upper Market Street because i can ride faster, and i dont have to deal with the heavy traffic all the time. However when im not protected on upper market, it can be extremely scary and dangerous. Im afraid of being hit by doors or cars, and i feel bad for slowing down the vehicle traffic sometimes. As a driver, i also feel safe driving when i dont need to interact with people who are biking. However without separation it is really dangerous, especially when i need to change lanes or make turns. I have to look around very often, being worried about hitting someone or blocking the traffic. At peak hours or at night or when it rains, this becomes the most challenging part of my day. Therefore, if we want to make it safe for all the people driving and biking, building protected bike lanes is the best option. I believe that many people share the same experience as i do. In fact, there are thousands of people biking and driving every day on upper market, and they all want to have a safe and pleasant commute, so please do it. Please build a protected bike lane on upper market for all those people. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. David philhouse, and philip marconi. As opposed to the Bike Coalition or possibly others, i received no outreach, no briefing on the changes to this project, and the revised scope. I did speak at this board in december, and asked for an update. I was the person who filed the ceqa appeal with the board of supervisors, and i received a commitment from mta staff at that time that there would be more work on this project and i would be consulted. That did not happen. Im very sorry about that. I want not able to pull down the staff report and attachments on this, so i dont know what the net parking loss is with these changes. I think i heard the staff person just say there would be some extension of the residential parking permit area here. I dont see that on a through f, so maybe thats not part of this approval, but its in a subsequent approval, i thought i heard in the december meeting, and i think i saw it in the minutes, that this item was going to come back to this board in february. Were in january , so somehow, that moved up. And finally, i cant tell if these changes to project design and scope are within the scope of the prior ceqa exemption or not. I dont want to prolong this process anymore. I dont want to litigate this matter. I did want to be consulted and as opposed to the next item, where i did appreciate staff on this item, you know, and their other items where staff has reached out to me, on this one, they did not. Again, in terms of relationships, we should try to avoid that. Im around. People know how to find me. I just wanted to know what the changes were to this project, and i dont know right now, and i wish i did so i could comment more intelligently on this item. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Michael hillhoni. Im a little confused because i thought this was about taking away parking in that area. I thought a separate bike line had been approved. You are skbl well, then why are you letting all of these speakers in, and no ones interjecting. Ive got an email from reiskin because i had emailed aaron peskin who wants to split the muni up. This is another issue. You guys have a lot on your plate, and i appreciate theest are, but this is going to impact i live on hermann street, right in the middle of this. Youve got 12 spaces in front of the lgbt gone, 12 in front of the laundromat, eight motorcycle spaces, and eight in front ofities tops. When you take away all of this, obviously, its a harmonic zone. I have a small business. I utilize my van. A lot of times, i have to park it on Market Street when theyre street sweeping. All ive heard today is this anticar sentiment. I appreciate this, but if you allow 45,000 uber vehicles that these milennials are using now, youve not solved the problem. I didnt hear anybody talk about taking more buses. A lot of even with the teacher issue, there are other issues. I was like im sort of confused. Those people are complaining about, you know, having parking, but with permits. Were talking about losing parking, and this could be a precedent for the future because theyre going to want to go all the way to castro. Im for the separated lanes. Theres room for parking. You can have the parking, you can have loading, and you can have the separated bike lane. Consider that, please. Thank you. Do i have anymore Public Commenters on this item in if so, please standup. No . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Directors, questions, comments . Yes. So one question i have theres noticeably no input from the Fire Department. Does this mean were all squared away with the Fire Department . Mr. Monday ttoya . Yes. We did work with the Fire Department for a number of months, and as recently as december, we were hitting with the chief herself, looking at the inches and feet of what this would mean for Fire Department operations, and we got there. Let me just say thank you, because when we put this in place, the group of us here, me personally put ourselves on the line with the Fire Department to address that. Youre not here boasting about that, but ill say thank you. We take the Fire Departments concerns very seriously, and they obviously know you worked with them, and i hope you know that we wanted that, and so im glad that that worked out, and im confirming that. Thank you. Director allen . Yes. I ju director ramos . Yes. I got access to my smart phone, and could see the attachments. The question i had for staff, and this might be something that might be a little lit more also direct to th less direct to this project, but might still apply, in some intersections where we have bike lanes, i notice they paint lanes just we would a crosswalk, and its my understanding that was not happening. Is that true or not, and what was the rationale in either way. We do it sparg sparingly we want it to be highlighted. We try to reserve it for really high impact locations. Intersections other intersections of Market Street are complicated because of their length, because of the multiple streets intersecting, and in our opinion, it hasnt necessarily been the right tlin thing, but its something theres been no Industry Standard on, but we kind of have to iterrate. I think that it from my perspective, it feels like the way other cities are doing it simply because it is an Effective Practice to prevent people from turning into front of bicyclists in whatever capacity they might see a pedestrians or crosswalk thats clear but not looking for bicyclists. If youre thinking about applying this where possible and in every intersection, i dont know why we would need to be conservative, because its i would imagine that the impact is it might just be more philosophical. I support this idea, but im glad you guys are thinking about it for other locations. I dont think that its only effective because its only narrowly used, but i hope we would consider it in the future on other projects. Thank you. Thank you ramos. Any other comments . Yes, director rubke . Im just wondering, is that coming back to us in the near future, and what does this look like as far as timeline, and then, i have a second thing, but if that could be answered first. Weve had multiple phases for the project. This bike way, if approved with these changes would move forward quickly. We have other most of the elements from that package that was approved in may is still in the Detailed Design phase, and so theres ongoing work with that. And then, we do have a couple other ideas that have been in the hopper all along around some additional circulation changes, mostly for the corridor to the west from duboce to castro, some turn restrictions, some new turns that would be protected. Those have been included environmentally, but still want to do some additional outreach before those come back to before this board. So we have an open house thats tentatively scheduled for next month to discuss those potential changes, have some input on those landscaping projects, and then were hoping therell be some comment on the bike way if were able to implement it before that open house. Thank you so much for meeting with the accessiblity community for these changes. I encourage you to continue to meet with those folks and that community. I know you appreciate the special concerns there with folks needing access to the curbs and crossing in the bike way, so thank you very much for that. Thank you. Thank you, director rubke. Any other comments . Then, mr. Hilldredge, ill just thank you very much for that. Thisll be a great safety stretch. We appreciate very much, and again, to the Fire Department as well, and to your staff for working with the Fire Department, mr. Montoya. Do i have a motion to approve . Yes. Second . Yes. All approved . All opposed . Item 13, bicycle parking modification associated with the turk street projects, and again, i wont read all the specifications as noted in your agenda. Thank you, miss boomer. Goveod afternoon, directors. My name is adrian land. Brief personal note, project turk street is really why i got into transportation planning. I always look forward to fielding getting philosophical feedback from the board. Its really a privilege to be working with this community to help make their homes safer and to add more mobility options. Ive prepared a slide today. Okay. So a bit of background. Turk street is a very vibrant street in the tenderloin. You see all types of folks there, from seniors, parent with children, shoppers, tourists. It has a wide range of venues density. It has older Historic Buildings to new buildings. Turk is also home to a number of Service Providers like the Salvation Army and the Senior Center. It is completely teeming with frisk li San Francisco life and energy. It has significant vehicle traffic, starting with two lanes at market, going up to three at leavenworth and back down to two at gauff. The 7x, noriega to sunset. Turk has a lot of pedestrians including folks who use the sidewalk as public space, and for a street that has no bicycle facilities, you see bicycli bicyclists all the time. Turk is busy with loading. Theres lots of delivery trucks, and you see a lot of double parking in its current condition. So really to just start at the beginning, why turk street . The project came out of several initiatives. First, its a high Energy Corridor on the high energy network. You may remember it is thats the 13 of streets that are the setting of 75 of our traffic injuries, severe and fatal injuries. Turk is also part of the mta bicycle strategy. Once this project is approved, itll be the first westbound bike lane in the tender lane, and with a 2016 directive from our mayor ed lee. Digging deeper into the inclusion analysis, this is where the project began when we looked for potential solution does. We found 174 collisions in a five year period. 67 of them involved pedestrians or bicyclists. Thats a pretty high number. So with those effects, we also wanted to address speed as a leading factor generally to the severity of injuries. So the solutions we started to look at on the street really wanted to address making it a consistent and predictable kind of street and also create better adviciblity and separation between vehicles and other modes. Along with this analysis, we also took the time to reach out to the community on turk street with the help of district 6, supervisor kim, we worked closely with tenant organizing groups like the ccso collaborative collective, along with low Housing Providers like tmdc. Walk San Francisco, the Advocacy Group walksf helped the project by organizing a walkthrough, including ccdc and the tenderloin ymca as well as the cray center. This all helped to collect a vast amount of onthestreet knowledge on turk street. The project felt like we received a big boost of insider understanding from insiders and other people who were generous in sharing their experiences with us. Improvements to our hard infrastructure like streets only following improvements in the softer infrastructure. I hope the relationships weve built in this project are already helping other efforts like eddy and taylor streets. Moving onto other design details you have a a vision in front of you. This is kind of the existing block. We have either three lanes of travel or two wide lanes in some early blocks, accompanied with the overhead trolley system, the overhead contact system for the trolley buses in the right lane. This is to point out that we had a multitude of design considerations when we started reaching for the highest achievable net for safety. Separation, we decided to try for a protected bike way. We implemented the golden gate before this, and i think the community was ready for something more robust, given that golden gate was simply a buffer bike lane. At the same time, we collaborated closely with the Fire Department. Director rubke said something about not boasting about our collaboration. We went out to the street two or three times with the Fire Department as well as supervisor kim, and we really tried to nail down kind of what their specific needs were related to both their clear operational needs as well as their positioning away from the overhead contact wires. And for loading on the street, we needed something that could still be used for quick commercial and passenger loading. So to look at the final design, you can see the road diagram here, you can see weve removed and narrowed the travel lanes. Weve got a protected bike way on the left side of the street, with posted similar to Market Street, and weve also provided the clear width and space away from the contact system that the emergency vehicles needed and finally we established a wide buffer system that will be assigned for no parking any time where vehicles can still actively load. To provide