Understand how people who suffered at her hands feel about it. It is like opening a scar and keeping it forever exposed. That is what we want you to know. Rose pack. Good afternoon. Im speaking on behalf of the c. M. A. We object just to the stop to include rose paks name. Supervisor peskin did not reach out to everyone in the community before making this decision of the naming of the stop. We did not receive any notice from his office. And he started familiar with our organization because we produce the auto moon festival and he attends it regularly. They cannot attend these hearing because they need to stay at their stores. A lot of them just want chinatown stop. Simple and clear. As you know, from all the testimonies that rose pak is not very well liked and shes a bully and we dont feel like a bully should be honored in this way. Chinatown has a long history and built by our ancestors and awful us in the community. The central subway should not be named after one person particularly someone like rose pak, the name chinatown stands for all of us, past and present in the community who made it what it is today. The city leaders should move not to divide the community but unite them to be inclusive, not exclusive. Therefore, i ask m. T. A. Follow their policy of not putting anyones name on a public federally funded transportation. We appreciate your listening to our position. Thank you, very much. Next speaker. I need translation. I would be translating. Good afternoon, chairman and board directors. I would like to respond to supervisor peskins aid comments at the m. T. A. Board meeting two weeks ago about the majority of the opposition not coming from actual San Francisco residents but from falon gung practitioners. Such statements are misleading. Over 8,000 San Francisco residents signed their names to the petition against the rose pak naming proposal. Many of them from district 3. We have sent you the online version of the petition. Opposition also comes from the Chinatown Merchant Association and a Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association who represent 09 of the chinatown family association. Among many other communities groups. In the meantime, not a single resident the chinatown or San Francisco came forward to supervisor meetings to support the naming in four weeks. If there is so much support for the naming, there should be people who are willing to take some time off their schedules and come to the city hall to speak. As we are doing now. So, this supervisor peskin speak out the truth or does he even know the truth . Falon gung practitioners are part of the San Francisco community. Rose pak had a mandate from beijing to suppress falon gung in San Francisco. Thats why shes been so hostile against this group and its why falon gung feels so strongly about the naming. Its a persecution continued overseas in america. The root of this opposition runs deep and spreads wide. Please listen to the publics voice not the one of politicians. Our political system is still one of the people by the people and for the people. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Final speaker is stewart. Just because she didnt turn in the card you can still speak but lineup on that side so we know you are coming up. Thanks. Just very briefly, this week the San Francisco weekly magazine published an article on the taxicabs. I hope all of you are reading it. Its very simple thing to note here though. It said you are not trying to remove medallions bought before dr. Bought before 78. I just would like to point out the contradiction of what is going on. You are not taking away the 78 medallions, all you are doing is charging twice as much to row knerenewthem. Thats 12. 67 versus 6. 14. Do you think it wont stop people from renewing their medallions. I would really love to hear an explanation of the dinnerren shall. 12. 27 versus 6. 14 what i would have to pay and it doesnt mean anything to you. Some of us have worked hard in the industry and tried to create some reason for it. I hope theres a specific of reality. Followed up by this kind of action. Thank you. Thank you. There is a member of the public, peter loud. Is that for some item or 11. You are the last person who submitted a card. Would you lineup on this side because its a fire hazard to lineup by the door. Thank you. Good afternoon. Board of directors. My name is peter lou. The resident of San Francisco for over 40 years. I am here to again name San Francisco chinatown subway station against rose pak. Let me remind everyone how long rose pak registered Chinese Communist party agent has been bullying San Francisco chinatown residents and San Francisco chinatown merchants. 30 years ago, october 17th, 1989, when the world series about to begin, between San Francisco giants and oakland as. At 5 00 or 4 00 p. M. The earthquake struck San Francisco with 6. 9 magnitude. Since then, whatever the political reason, the 480 highway was not usable and the beginning of chinatown projects. Rose pak has bullied San Francisco for 30 years. So i strongly recommend not naming rose pak subway station. Thank you. Thank you. Any final Public Comments . This is for general Public Comment. Things in the subject matter jurisdiction of the sfmta but not on todays agenda. Are there any other people that want to make a comment. The public is closed. Well move on to our consent calender. Item 10, all matters here are considered to be routine and acted on by a single vote. There will be no separate discussions unless a member of the board or public requests. I have received no indication to severe or remove the items from staff. Great. Motion to approve. Second. All in favor. Aye. That motion passes. Weve move on to item 11. Amending the transportation Code Division 2 section 601 to transit only lane on folsom street from tenth street making the Environmental Review findings and approving the proposed bike ways and traffic modifications associated with the full sub as follows i will not address all of them but there are many. Thank you, very much. Great. Good afternoon, vicechair borden, members of the board, my name is paul and im very excited to be the project manager and to present the folsom and Howard Street skate e project. It will implement bike transit and curb Side Management to 2 soma street, folsom and howard. Just to provide a little bit of context in the area, this say two streets that ive had the pleasure to present to the board. Within the past 18 months and just to provide a little reminder on why were here. These two streets are very interesting in the context of soma. They have a lot of diffuses. In the last year like i mentioned we have installed nearterm projects that provide a lot of safety benefits for pedestrians and psychists while were planning a much larger much more robust street scape project. Really these streets kind of tell the tale of bike infrastructure in San Francisco. There was a Industrial Area that focused on moving vehicles and heavy trucks to the area. Over the pfaff few decades, a lot more people have moved to soma and the street hasnt really kept up. Now were redesigning the streets with a less emphasis on vehicles and redesigning the streets for people. There are some guiding considerations. Just providing a little more context we are proposing these changes to folsom and howard. For anyone who has walked along these two streets in the past few years, it can be uncomfortable. If you are riding a bike, you are well aware that the bike lanes and people traveling is often double parking by vehicles and by trucks loading and unloading passengers and goods and if you are a cycle list, it can be tricky between cars and psychcyclists. This is the 13th city streets that account for 75 of our severe ansevere and fatal crash. 116 people have been injured on howard including a Pedestrian Fatality and psyche lists fatalities and on folsom street between 11th and second, 169 people have been injured on folsom including one cyclist. Its frustrating and sad of our work in San Francisco. I just wanted to acknowledge some of the people who have passed away on these streets over the past five years. Kate slat re, seth ross steen and emily lamaluck. A big corner stone of this project has been our work with the community. Up here you can see somewhat weve gone to understand the Community Needs and preferences and understand their vision for their neighborhood street. We have met with over 20 Community Groups over the process of this project. Some of them have included the united players, south of Market Community action network, the independent Living Resource Center, folsom street fair and San FranciscoFire Department, Betsy Carmichael and so one of the great things about these streets is theyre diverse in nature. We wanted to capture that and understand how the diverse residents and the businesses of these two streets wanted to see their ideals and how they can get their finger prints on this project. Since it is a really long corridor, nearly thro three mile had to implement nearterm projects and thats what weve done over the past few years and that has allowed us to bring forward the safety improvements a lot quicker. And also learn from them. So understanding the perspective of different people and how they use the street and really use that knowledge to inform the final design. And working with people who use wheelchairs and on the independent Living Resource Center and how they get from the loading lane to the sidewalk and what it feels like to get from the loading area to the sidewalk and having psyche lists somewhat riding quickly and what weve done is designed that from the working groups. In project team and members of the community we developed four project goals. The first one was to improve safety for all users of folsom and howard. The second one was to make biking and walking and somewhat more comfortable and pleasant experience and the third was to make changes to improve Transit Services along folsom street and the last one was to prepare for future growth in the neighborhood. Tying our project with the central soma program. So get nothing a little bit of the specifics from a different mode perspective, the first one is the Bicycle Safety improvement and what were proposing is a twoway protected bike way on both streets. Toe pro sect psyche lists and at intersections and so this sin includes to have dedicated and separate turning vehicles and psyche lists traveling through and example of this and implemented a year ago and we have received a lot of positive feedback on separating out and removing that conflict between turning vehicles and psyche lists and Something Else that we learned through the near term project are specific locations where we feel that raised crosswalks and there are few locations where psyche lists thg a quick turn trying to take a short cut and get to the freeway and were recommending a raised crosswalk in a few locations. In terms of safety, for pedestrians, were recommending six new signalized mid block crossings and this augments compliments some existing mid block crossings that we have in the area. This really cuts down object the lanes that people have to track during one side of the street or the other and it helps with connecting Education Centers and schools to after School Programs and soma and just providing safer channels for kids and their chapper owns to get between the two. Were proposing raised pedestrian crossings. Recommending corner to shorten distances for people were also recommending Traffic Signals with dedicated phases to protect evidences and turning vehicles. In terms of transit improvements, were recommending a in terms of loading improvements with all these trade offs the community has been aware of from the beginning, balancing the need for parking and Transportation Safety improvements for psyche s and pedestrians we will remove 27 of Parking Spaces along the two corridors and this is something that we havent done and weve gone out and met with hundreds of businesses to understand their loading needs and to talk to them about what the project is proposing and also hearing from them exactly what they need to make their businesses function a little bit better. Weve heard theres a real need more commercial loading on the two corridors and an increase in commercial yellow zones. So what were doing through this project and weve done to some extent to the near term project is doubled the number of commercial loading zones on folsom and howard. Something we heard talking with merchants owners in the community is that implementing parking meeters on folsom between sixth street and 11th street would increase turnover and increase turnover and provide a little bit more parking availability for customers in the area. And while we have done amount of outreach with merchants and residents in the area that outreach is going to continue as we go through the Detailed Design phase. Weve had a good experience working with folsom street fair and understanding their needs through this process. And tweaking our design based on their feedback. Something else that we have gained a lot of in sight working is working with John Elberling hearing how the building at 801 howard functions in terms of their loading needs and that is something well continue to do through the Detailed Design phase is work with these Different Community members and tweak our their needs and their loading concerns. In terms of project timeline, weve had a lot of planning process and a lot of preliminary engineering for the past three years and weve had eight open houses and the and well be in detail design for the next two years with public works going back to process and working with different groups and they have concerns about concrete median or whatever else it might be. And finally well have construction at the end of 2021 and we expect it to last two to two and a half years. So with that, if there are any questions . Public comment . Director torres. Yes. We have heard about raised sidewalks in the past, which i had supported because of the safety issues for pedestrians. Do we have a history or an awareness of what happened with those raised sidewalks . Have they been put no place and whats the result of their effectiveness. Specifically on this project . Previous projects. Sure, so we have them in many places around the city. Weve seen they slow vehicles traveling through an intersection. And they prioritize pedestrians and just makes them a little bit more visible in certain locations. Have you noticed less pedestrian accidents in those areas where these praised sidewalks have been pleased . Pl. Certain conditions theyre more applicable than others. Usually a onelane approach is where we like to see them. We wouldnt put them on the street like on market, or on folsom or on howard because its a wide street. Thank you. I noticed this plan doesnt go past fourth street. Are we looking at that . Is that in the future . Just out of curiosity if. On folsom theres the transbay folsom project picking up a design at Second Street carrying it to the embarcadero and it should Start Construction this summer. As far as Howard Street from fourth to the embarcadero its a phase 2 for this. As detail design starts for this project, thats going to be our job is to go back and do this process for howard from embarcadero. I really think, i think i mentioned this before this idea of a Center Alignment for the blocks with all the traffic if that could be something we can look at . I know its really unusual. Because of the loading needs, particularly in front of months conemocsoni tosee how it would u have a Center Alignment. Sure. Any other questions . Thank you. Good presentation. Im so excite beside this project. When i was doing my reading this weekend you may have heard my screech when i realized that it was a twoway bike way. This is the first one that weve done of kind of any length on a busy street like this, correct . Right, especially in soma. Im totally supportive and i think it will work well. I think the loading outside adding more loading zones in the loading outside the protected bike lanes and the buffer like baines can work really well. Where does it switch being twoway or do we anticipate have that being ultimately two way the entire length of folsom and howard . Howard is two way from 11th street to the embarcadero. On folsom, theres a twoway section at Second Street going to the embarcadero. The design for that is to have a protected bike lane on each side of the threw a combination of marking signal timing and signage, we feel pretty confident we can do that. Thats exciting. It will be great. I would just say lets be sort of as aggressive and cautious as we can when it comes to anything that is an intersection that is a mixing zone although i really like the improved folsom and howard. The mixing zone still continues t